GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1381, 1 April 1915, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

7,000,000 RUSSIAN BABIES

It is Russia’s hordes which will give Germany her deathblow. Russia has a population equal to that of Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy combined! Every year no fewer than 7,675,000 new subjects of the Tsar see the light. As during that time only 4,887,000 pass away, there are almost 3,000,000 more Russians in the world every year. . NO FASTING AMONG SOLDIERS. The Bishop of London states that churchmen of the London diocese who are at the front or in training during Lent may consider themselves dispensed from the rule of fasting during the war. In view of the scarcity of fish, it will suffice if others observe the Friday fast only and that iu such manner as may be found necessary, RUSSIAN AEROPLANES. A French authority, who is in touch with the subject, states that, while there are not many private aviators in Russia the military authorities of that country have within the last two years trained a very large number of men, and, as a result, have many more skilled aviators in its service than any other nation. It is also stated that the number has been greatly increased since the war began.

TO BLOW UP LINER. The liner Champagne, of the Cotnpagne General Transatlantic que, tivhich recently arrived at Corunna, reports, according to Madrid newspapers, that on 13th January, during her voyage from Mexico, a wireless message was received warning the captain that among the passengers was a German who bad been commissioned to blow up the ship. Prompt measures were taken, and the German was discovered and placed in irons. In his trunk were found five dynamite bombs.

GUIDED BY A BULLET. Corporal E. Washer, of Lewes, who is with the second Scottish regiment at the front, has just been put in touch with a long-lost friend in a remarkable way. Washer was reading a Lewes weekly in the trenches when a German bullet penetrated the paper. While examining the bole Washer noticed the bullet bad passed through a paragiapb relating to the wedding of an old chum in Canada, Private Stanley Killick, Winnipeg, whom he had lost sight of for some years. He is now corresponding with him.