GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1734, 5 July 1917, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Throughout, the war the German press has taken particular umbrage at the “callous British habit” of taking a sporting view of this or that phase of the war. It has, for instance, never forgiven Mr Lloyd George for saying that the allies are determined to deliver Germany a “knock-out blow.” The Frankfort Gazette is now upset over news from Washington that Mr Balfour and President Wilson are going to play a golf match. “Political anxieties,” Mammon’s organ in South Germany, solemnly observes, “appear to leave the two gentlemen who are engaged' in solving the problems and ideals of humanity leisure enough to play childish games.” A SOLDIER WHO MADE GOOD. Referring to the opportunities offered by the war to men who have lost their characters to make a fresh start, Sir W. Middlcbrook, M.P., speaking in Leeds, told how quite recently he learnt from the lips of one of His Majesty’s judges of the case of a young man 'who, coming up for trial for a serious offence, was-given the chance of enlisting so that he might retrieve his position. The judge who dealt with the case had since learnt, that among a number of soldiers called to the presence of the King, and upon whoso breasts were pinned marks of honour, was the young man who two years before had stood in the dock as a criminal. ' A CADET SCHOOL. “I am staying in the country near a large cadet school,” writes a correspondent of the .British Weekly. “The young men, who were being trained to be officers, wear white bands round their caps, and look very lit. They appear to enjoy their life in the big park of a country house, where (hey sleep, eat, and hear lectures in'long brown huts. There are waitresses (o servo their meals, who also live in the cam]), and are under the control of a brisk lady in khaki. The little village hard by lets out all its parlour* to cadets for evening study; the one shop is making its fortune; the farms for miles around are full of,cadets’ relations, and houses are at a premium.” KAISER’S GILT MOTOR CUP. The Turin paper Stamps published a statement that the gold cup given by the Kaiser some years before the war for a famous international motor race won'by a F.I.A.T. car was offered by the F.I.A.T. Company to the Slate to be melted as a patriotic contribution to the Italian gold reserve. When it was assayed it was found not to be gold. This has now been proved to tliesatisfaction of the F.L.A.T, firm, which was naturally disappointed on learning how it .had been duped by the Imperial donor. The cup, supposed to be wolh about £I,OOO, is not of gold, but of silver heavily gilt. As compensation the F.I.A.T. (inn has decided to make up the difference. in value by adding a sum of 30,000 f. to its gift. FATIGUE AFTER BATTLE. It is commonly said that the surgeon in war has the advantage over his peace colleagues in that his subjects are healthy young , adults. This, of course, is true, but still, a well-known surgeon writes in the Lancet, there is the strain caused by days of watching and alertness, and of nights'when sleep is difficult, interrupted, or impossible to obtain. •Just before an action, very likely both artillery and trench mortar bombardment increases to their maximum. Then there is the exertion of battle coming on the top of days of constant strain. The excitement of battle, for the time being at any rate, obliterates all sense of fatigue, so that many men do not know how tired they sire until some wound is received which prevents them going furl her. DIVED ON TOP OF SUBMARINE. London, June 2. —The report published in the Rreinische Wcstfalische Zcitung of Essen, that a German submarine, while submerged, rammed a British'submarine in the Channel on April 191 h, has been gossiped about: here for some time, the British submarine having returned undamaged. Tins was*"the second incident of the Lind this spring. In (he previous case a British submarine- dived for a rest on the bottom of the sea, and landed squarely on top of a German subTRIED AND APPROVED. Mr A.,Do Bavay, the eminent analytical chemist of Melbourne, testified at the Supreme Court of Victoria that SANDERS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT compares with other eucalyptus products as well-refined and matured brandy compares with raw spirit. He stated that SANDER’S EXTRACT contains antiseptic and healing ingredients which are not contained in other eucalyptus preparations, and this is why SANDER’S EXTRACT has such superior and unique curative powers. It prevents meningitis, typhoid, diphtheria, throat --troubles, etc. Colds, bronchitis, lung disease, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney and bladder troubles are banished by it. Inhaled, applied locally, taken on sugar or in water internally, SANDER’S EXTRACT asserts its sanative virtues. If you insist on the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT you will have the tried and approved article, which benefits and does not harm the most delicate constitution. There is no experimenting with SANDER’S EXTRACT.—Ad,

marine similarly at rest, smashing in the German’s conning tower. The British craft, undamaged, remained on the helpless German for seA'eral ho/nrs in order to make certain that it was put out of commission, The British boat finally rose to the surface and dropped a number of bombs to clinch the fate of the Germans. WOULD HAVE THROTTLED HIM. One of the voluntary drivers of the British Red Cross unit in Italy avus bringing doAvn, over an especially difficult piece of ground, an ambulance full of Avounded from a lofty sector of the Alpine front, Avften he encountered a soldier in a desperate condition from a gaping bul-let-Avonnd in* the throat. Realising that the man avus in imminent danger of bleeding to death, the driver lifted the inert body to his seat, propping it np the best lie could next' to Avhere he sat behind the steeringwheel. Driving Avitli his right hand, while with a finger of his loft he maintained a linn pressure on the severed carotid artery, he steered his ambulance- doAvn the slippery, Avoiding mountain road to the clearing station at the foot of the pass. The, laconic comment of the astonished but highly pleased Italian doctor on the incident Avas direct but comprehensive: “Well, young man,” ho said, as he took hasty measures further to staunch (he gushes of blood, “you've saved bis life, but in five minutes more you would have throttled him.” SION OF GERMAN BANKRUPTCY. London, May 31. —A sign of'German consciousness of financial ruin is provided in a decree of Ihe German Governor-General of Poland. By it Hie Russian rouble is to cease (o be legal tender in Poland and the Polish mark is to be substituted for it. Tim new Polish mark is to be the equivalent of the German mark, and the exchange, for the rouble is lixed at 2.1(> marks. That is (o say, liie roubles in existence there will be AvillnlraAvn, and Germany will lake them in payment for marks. The announcement has clearly a twofold interest. The German authorities aiv trying to repeal in Poland Avhal they have done in Belgium. Just as they took possession of all the available Belgian currency there in exchange for marks, so they are doing in Poland in order to secure another stock of allied currency, namely, roubles. They see (hal fhe time is coming when (heir oAvn coin will not be negotiable in foreign markets, and Avben as large a slock as possible of troubles, or of francs, or of British treasury notes, if they can gel them, Avill be better worth having. NEW RULES FOR RUSSIAN ARMY. An order of the new Russian Minister for War, M. Gulehkoff, prescribes the use of the form “soldier” instead of “loAver grade” for privates in (he army. Officers will be styled “Mister,” from “Mr General” to “Mr Cornet,” and the ierms “Mr. Non-eominissioned Officer,” “Mr Paymaster,” and “Mr Official,” will also be employed. Soldiers Avill have to be addressed as “you,” instead of “thou” both on and off duty. They avi 11 be alloAved to smoke in the street and public places', travel inside (rams, visit clubs, attend meetings, and join various Anikins, political societies, etc. TRAPS THAT FAILED. A constant feature of (he British advance is the extraordinary number of so-called booby traps among the ruins and in the dug-outs on which (he Germans " expended endless futile ingenuity and labour. Any loose article lying about in dng-uul, trench, or ruined house and any plunk or duck-board, may have connection with a hidden mine, and everywhere Ave are linding eontriA’auces Avhere wires submerged, in acid, are being slowly ealen through to explode in due course. The thing is so universal that it defeats itself. Altogether these contrivances must ha\ T e numbered many hundreds, and I am sincere in saying (writes the Times’ correspondent) that they have not cost us ten lives, and have given a vast amount of entertainment.