Delayed Cables.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 21 December 1918, Page 6 (Supplement)

Delayed Cables.

. » SOLDIERS FOR THE PUTiriT. London, Dec. 1. The, Bishop of Hull stated recently"' l that the Church had received the names of nearly two thousand men at * tlie front who desired to enter the ministry and dedicate themselves to the service of their follow-men. "The Church," lie added, "will make itself responsible for the education and training of suitable men. The cost will be about £500.000." SAMMIES MARRY FRENCH GIRLS. New York, Dec. '1. , A Washington mesage states that it is officially estimated that 10,000 American soldiers have married French girls since the war began. PRIESTS AS AVIATORS. Paris. .Dev. 1. Roman Catholic priests, who, like all Frenchmen of military use. had to, join the army, distinguished themselves in the aviation service. -* Father Maori bail becomes an observer wit'hi the Hawk Eseadrille, and lie was always the first to volunteer for any perilous mission. The day of the great raid on Karlsruhe, after which the enemy admitted 257 victims and damage amounting to £100,000, the machine which carried Father Mirabail ancl his pilot-, Sergt. Seitz, did not return. The Legion of Honour was awarded to the plucky observation officer, | who had already earned two citations, 1 and the statement accompanying the 1 award read: "Forced to land by motor trouble he succeeded in burning ibis machine and the papers oil board." Seitz lias since escaped to France, and Cardinal Hartmann, the German Bis/hop of Cologne, excommunicated I Father Mirabail. Father Bourjade, second-lieutenant of aviation, was a specialist in destroying observation balloons. He, too, won the Legion of Honour. FOOH'S - GREAT SACRIFICE. 10 DAYS OFF GREATEST VICTORY. London, Dec l . 1. Mr James Campbell (the Times correspondent witln the French armies) states that before the armistice was signed, although he was aware that another ten days would see the surrender of the wliolle German army, Marshal Foch deliberately renounced the greatest victory in li'istory because Tlis conscience would not permit 'him to sacrifice a single life among the allied soldiers when it was within ibis power to make a victorious peace. MTN'E SWEEPERS' WORST. FLOTTLL.A LEAVES GREAT BASE. London, Nov. 25. ■ To-day an advanced unit of the Britist fleet set out for Kiel from mine-sweeping; ancl Q boat base at Granton, Edinburgh l . It consisted of a flotilla of "the Hunt class" of minesweepers,. comprising the flagship Muskerry, Cottesmore, Cotswold, Pytchley, Holderness, Tadworth, Garth, and Hay thorp. These vessels will sweep the passage at Elsinore Sound, and for bigger ships from the Baltic to Keil Bay. An inspection of the interned German armada showed that the ships arc generally in a poor state through neglect ami lack of paint. A year's rusts "disfigures the nicies, and the. funnels, niastw and bridges are blackened with soot. The German sailors presented an unseamanlike appearance, their clothes being dirty and nondescript. X! 10 only ship in decent trim was the Dei'fFlinger. To the inspecting Britiisl* officers German lieutenants attempted to be affable. One smart fellow who keenly felt his position said: "The deplorable surrender will ruin the German navy for all time. It had no sea traditions to live up to, like the British fleet. Now we have only a dishonourable record, and no man will want to serve in a disgraced service." The internal state of the battleships was oii a par with! the external stopstate. Tliev smelt mouldy owing to tlio stoppage of the electric ventilation. THE CAPTAIN'S CAT. London, Nov. 23. A correspondent who visited the "U----boat Avenue," off Harwich, where the surrendered submarines are lying, states that tlie avenue is over a mile long. The submarines were towed on either side in batches of threes -and fours. The officers, when asked whereabouts were the flags, said that their, flae was the Red one. Tlio correspondent on one of the Deutschland type saw a blood-stained cat-o'-nine-tails. which a British sailor found under the captain's bunk. JACK'S WTFE SEES GREAT SURRENDER. London, Nov. 25. A request was made to Admiral Beatty to- provide a. vessel to enable the officers' wives and families to see the surrender of the ships. He thought for awhile, and replied, "Yes, they drowned our women and children. Let the women and children see them.'