NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1317, 29 October 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Under the appropriate heading, “ He never will be missed,” the Daily Express of~Xondon has the following message: Stockholm, September 3 —The name of the German Emperor, who had been proposed two months ago as the next winner of the Nobel peace prize, has been removed from the list of possible laureates by the Prize Committee now in session here,”

“We gave ’em coffee an’ biscuits, and then some of us gave ’em smokes, an’ the pore blighters blubbered. They thought they were rescued to be shot, What do they take us for ?“ was the remark of a badly damaged British tar, when the subject of the German prisoners was broached to him. And another said, “It ain’t

so easy to Move your enemies’ as some people seem to think, but to see the poor devils in the water struggling for life, and leave ’em to it is—-well, show me the man who can do it, and you’ll show me a dirty coward unfit to live on a British ship.”

“A Wayfarer,” iu the Loudon “Nation” writes thus of Lord Kitchener’s first speech in the House of Lords .‘—-“Nervousness is the last quality one would associate with Lord Kitchener, yet iu his first speech in the House of Lords, when he ‘ found himself among the politicians, the famous soldier seemed distinctly ill at ease. It was delightful to see his colleagues in the Ministry coaxing and pressing their big military comrade to take his place iu the firing line, or, at any rate, in that much-coveted position at the table, from which our more familiar political artillerists have been accustomed to take floor and galleries for generations. As an orator, Lord Kitchener is himself something of a quick-firer. He has a galloping, not to say a breathless, delivery, rather flat in tone, except when the inflections become a sort of sing-song, but with a general effect of decision and soldierliness entirely suited to his present position and aims. Very characteristically he had dropped no hint of his intention of speaking, and consequently was spared the crush of sightseers which would have been brought together by any such advertisement. Probably most of those who heard the speech, drew from it the impression that its author was looking forward to a long war. I believe this has been Lord Kitchener’s view from the beginning.”