GENERAL WAR NEWS

Levin Daily Chronicle, 26 March 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS

They inay t)e anywhere ; these snipers. That wood pile thirty feet ahead of you, though you think you can distinguish every seperate piece in it, may contain a sniper with his rifle accurately sighted at your head. And these discarded sandbags and gunny Backs at your feet, what danger, inay they not conceal? Grass, foliage, unevenness of earth, ragged parapet lines, and many other things may cover a brave man who waits without actual protection from enemy bullets either to watch or to kill. BIGAMY IN GERMANY. SeveTal South German newspapers raise a cry of alarm over tne increase of bigamy in Germany during 1917. They say the many acquittals and the lenient sentences imposed indicate that the authorities are condoning the offence. Among the excuses pleaded by the men accused are loss of memory because of shell shock. Some have gone so far as to declare boldly that plural marriages are good for the nation's future. A corporal told a Munich court that he got married every time he obtained leave fronl the have few misgivings. Both recall the fact that German arms have had the worst of it in the West in every notable action since the opening of the great battles on the Somme. Britons and Frenchmen know their Teutonic adversary, and are ready for anything he may attempt. EXPERT OPINIONS. After a very careful study of the views of Mr Bottomley, Sir A. Yapp, Lord Northcliffe, Winston Churchill, Mrs Pankhurst, General Smuts, Sir Edward Carson, Hillaire Belloc, and Lloyd George, we have arrived at the following emphatic conclusions: — 1. We may be starved out any day. 2. If the w&r lasts for ever aud ever we shall never be starved out. 3. That the war is won. .4. That the war is only jtfst beginning 5. That we ought to get flags ready. 6. That we ought to get the crape ready. 7. That, owing to the tightness of our blockade, the Germans are living solely on straw and corpse-fat. 8. That, owing to the slackness of our blockade, thousands of Germans are dying eaeh w*,ak of over-eating. 9. That we ought to start getting ready for the next war. 10. That we haven't finished getting ready for this one yet. 11. That Gorman man-power came to a definite end in 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917.

12. That the longer the war goes on the more millions of Germans there are.