Sidelights on the War

Levin Daily Chronicle, 19 March 1918, Page 4

Sidelights on the War

GERMANS ROB BELGIAN DEAD. Bronze statues in Belgian cemeteries luiye" been taken for war purposes by the Germans. A semi-official estimate of tlie economic depredations of German invaders in Belgium places the damage at more than 8,000,000,000 francs, of which 1,-1-10,000,000 was in cash up to inst August. father and son. The Earl of Denbigh told a good war story during a lecture ho delivered m London. A friend of his, he said, took prisoner an elderly German officer, who was very nasty about it, and remarked that lie could console himself by_ the thought that his officer son was killing '' twciiv pigs of Englishmen a day. W r hen the captain arrived at Southampton a cheery voice came from tho quay, "llullo, father! Have they got you, SHIP'S 90 PER CENT DIVIDEND. ! The German newspaper "Forward which is fond of tilting at war profiteers tells of the fabulous profits earned by a 992-ton Baltic vessel, Minna Cords, of Eostock. Purchased at. £24,500 the steamer was auctioned on December 8 for £122,500. In I'.UO the Minna Cords made enough money to warrant a 90 per cent, dividend to her shareholders. She has been engaged incessantly in bringin <-r food from Scandinavian ports. THE "FLOATING POPULATION. Oil some of the great- inland industrial towns of England the war is having a singular effect. Until then they were essentially English, and without what is known as a "floating population'.'; but they are becoming more and more cosmopolitan.. 'Rapidly arc colonies of friendly " -aliens being formed. Li Birmingham the number of Chinese jri otciU iy advtuioingj while the ranks of the Belgians, Serbians, and Italians show a steady increase. A number of the Chinese are said to be Protestants, and Incumbents and Nonconformists, and atcrs are confronted v.ith great difficulties from the fact that the former '•'speak .varying Oriental dialects. Retired foreign missionaries are being fished out "to do their bit."