TWINS DIE TOGETHER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1371, 9 March 1915, Page 4

TWINS DIE TOGETHER.

The tragic fate of the twin sous of Mrs Russell, of Crewe, was revealed iu a communication which reached Crewe recently. The boys volunteered for serice immediately war broke out, and were attached to the sick berth division ot the unfortunate battleship Formidable. They were 30 years of age. Only a few hours before the disaster to the Formidable they both sent letters to their Iriends. Their bodies have been recovered linked together, and the two coffins arrived at Crewe and were conveyed to the church, almost opposite their homes, where they remained until interment.

"TIPPERARY” IN GERMAN. There is already a French version of "Tipperary,” and now there is a German translation. It runs as follows: — Es Ist sehr weit zu Tipperary, Es Ist sehr weit zu geh’n ; Es ist sehr weit zu Tipperary, Um den lieben Schaltzjzu sehm. B’hut Golt Piccadilly, Adieu Leicester square. Es isi sehr, sehr weit zu Tipperary, Und mein Herz Ist, so schwer (oder ‘‘hehr/’)

The translator, in sending a copy to a Dutch newspaper, adds : “I hope those who sing this delightful song will be able to forget the terrible war, and that in the end a four fold friendship will spring up, or, better still a European or world friendship. This is not alone my wish, but the wish ot millions of others. ARMY DOCTOR'S SKILL. The French have published some statistics, which prove that either the fire weapons of to-day are extraordinarily hum.me, cr that the army doctoi possesses remarkable skill in the treatment ot wounds. Taking any hundred of the French wounded, we find from the figures published that over 54 per cent are able to return to the firing line practically as soon as their wounds are dressed, that scarcely per cent die from their wounds, and that something less than i>z per cent have to be discharged as unfit to seive again. These are very comforting figures to us, who have seen day alter day the appallingly long lists of casualties, and who are uow able to assure ourselves what a very large percentage of the injured recover from their wounds.

EAGER TO GET AT ’EM. The Loudon correspondent ol the Despatch says: "It Is, ol course, quite true that there have been a lew desertions from the new armies and the territorials now and again. But you must not run away with the impression that a soldier deserts in these fateful times because his heart tails him. Far Uom it. The general character of some desertions that have taken place is very well illustrated by the following story of an officer whose battalion will now soon be going over: One of the men in his company joined in August and deserted in September. High and low they hunted for him, but without success. Then one day recently they had a letter from him. He wrote from the front. He explained that, seeing no chance of getting out to the front till the New Year, be had deserted in order to join a regular battalion, which gave him the opportunity of getting at the Germans without any loss of time.” RUBBER "SAUSAGES” FOR GERMANY. " The possibility of German transport being handicapped by lack of fuel is fairly generally recognised, says a writer in Country Life, but it now appears at least equally probable that difficulties will arise owing to the failure of supplies of raw rubber. Very stringent regulations have been issued, forbidding raauufacturers to supply dealers with rubber tyres and forbidding supply by manufacturers or dealers to the public unless express permission sion has beeu granted. Such permission can, it is stated, only be obtained when the tyres are required for vehicles on Government service, for cars the operation of which is essential to the maintenance of industry or for doctors whose practices are such as to make motors a necessity. Another indication of shortage is that, in spite of the very severe penalties which follow upon detection, various efforts are being made to get consignments of raw rubber into Germany through neutral countries. For example, a quantity of supposed sausages, while being loaded for shipment to Germany at a Danish station near the frontier, was discovered, in fact, to consist cf raw rubbet, carefully shaped and uca up to conceal its real character.