News from Everywhere

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 August 1918, Page 1

News from Everywhere

LADY WARWICK'S "SOCIAL SUICIDE." Owning "80,000 acrcs of land in her own right, irrespective of what her marriage might have brought her, the Countess of Warwick yet admitted at a conference on land nationalisation j u London that she was heart and eoul in favour of the nationalisation of the lund of Britain. In the eyes of her family and friend* she was, so as to speak, committing social and moral hari-kari in belonging to the socicty, Lady Warwick added. A resolution favouring- the public ownership of land, whigh-Tras carried • was seconded by the Countess. AN AMERICAN DITTY. Has our "silent Navy" a popular battle song asks a writer in the "Daily Chronicle." We have not hoard one chorussed in any gathering. The' boys in blue of our Amoriean Allies have a very catchy ditty which we shall possibly here in extenso later on. The refrain goes:— We're on our way to Heligoland to get the Kaisor's goat, In a good old Yankee boat up the Kiel Canal we'll float. I'm a son-of-a-gun, if I see a"Hun I'll make him understand, We'll knock the Heligo into Heligo, out of Hel-i-go-land. Yip! MAYOR DIVIDES A HOME. i When a man, who is separated from his wife, summoned her at Kingston for dotaining furniture, the Mayor helped to divide the goods. He first asked about the saucepans. The wife replied that there were only two—"one at them runs, and he can have 'cm.'" Pudding basins?— Ain't got none. Eggs spoonsf—Don't possess any. Brush?—He can have it. Fender and fire irons?— They're not worth keeping . He only gave '6d for them. Cruet?—He got that from the rag and bone man. Washstandf—l want that. Two tablespoons —Oh, let him have one, and I'll have the other. WOMAN FORGES SOLDIERS WILL. Alice Parker was charged at Westminster with attempting to obtain £20, the estate of Private Arthur Armstrong, Cheshire Regiment, who died of wounds.

It was stated that she is the wife of a soldier, without separation allowance. She sent the War Office a genuine letter to her from Armstrong, . to which she had added, ''Well, oM dear, if anything should happen to i;ic I leave my money and other things all to you.'' This amounted to forge, vof a will. Armstrongs father is to the money. Mr Francis sentencing her to six months' hard labour, said she was liable to penal servitude. NEW ALADDIN'S CAVE. - Business instincts will come uppers most among certain classes even in time of dire peril. A good illustration is fjirnished by a correspondent of the "New Witness," who sends to thatperiodical a photographic fascimile of the following letter: — h. ROSEN AND CO. Branch of the Eussian Trust and Finance Co., Ltd., Mincing Lane, London, April, 4. 1913. To the Occupier,—Aberdare Gardens, Hampstead, N.W. C. Dear Sir or Madam,—l am the tenant at 198, Goldhurst Terrace, and beg to inform you that I am building in my garden a dug-out to accomodate about twenty people, twelve to sixtoen feet underground, with about three feet of reinforced concrete which I think will make it absolutely bombproof. The expense of building it would run to approximately £20 per parson, and I should be glad to hear whether you would be willing to participate in the cost and in the use of the dug-out. Your reply by Teturn to 198, Goldhurst Terrace, will oblige yours faithfully.—L. Boson. "THE BO AD TO INDIA." Herr Julius Gut, representative in India of a large German dye works, loctured in- Berlin last month before the '' League of India's Friends.'' He said: "The line Central Europe-Bagh-dad-India has brought us "advantages, as regards England, which cannot be too highly estimated. The coming pcace will set before us problems so grave that we can only solve them if i we do our utmost. One of our main objectives must bo to open up tho road to India. Let us Germans hope, in this critical hour that we shall find ourselves in possession of tho statesmen who will be strong enough against England at the Peace Conference to secure for us that which is one of our most important requirements." TT.S.A. WAY WITH PRO-HUNS. Tho district court at Newark, Now Jersey, has revoked tho naturalisation papers of Frederick W. Wursterbarth, formerly postmaster of Pasaic County, New Jersey. Wursterbarth was naturalised 35 years ago. Witness testified that he had frequently expressed the hope that Germany would win the war. The verdict of the Court, which reconverts him to German citizenship, was based on the established fact that he obtained American citizenship under false pretences by swearing that he would be loyal to the United States. Using this case as a precedent, the Government proposes to revoke the citizenship of all persons born in Germany and other enemy countries who do not respect their oath of allegiance. TELLING GERMANY THE TRUTH. Every once in a while Captain Persius, naval correspondent of the Radi-cal-Democratic "Berliner Tageblatt," tells Germans the truth, about the Üboat campaign. On May 14 he declared flat-footodly that it was now absolutely impossible to forecast even approximately when submarine warfare would have "accomplished its purpose"— the defeat of Britain. Thus the Huns' eandid friend:—

"In Germany the view is advanced every now and-then - that our U-boats by destruction of onemy ' and neutral tonnage will so magnify tho shortage of raw materials and foodstnfTs in England that the Government will ' soon ' be compelled to make peace. No one, however, in his right mind will dare to guarantee this. One thing is beyond doubt—that if this object is to be achieved, we shall still havo to exerriss muek patience, for it must never bo forgotten that America, will do everything to keep England going. The Land of Unlimited Possibilities has enormous dormant strength, which,

though perhaps slowly, can be mobilised 111 time. 'We, for the most part, calculate on a very uncertain basis when we reckon up the tonnage at the disposal of our enemies. I have always warned:against too rosy prognostications on -this score."