GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1742, 31 July 1917, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

LONDON-ROME FLIGHT. Sir Rcnuell Rodd, the British Ambassador at Rome, gave a reception in honour of the British aviators who arrived there recently from London by aeroplane, stopping at Paris, Turin, and Pisa. The British aviator continued his journey at four o’clock the next day. BABY-KILLER REWARDED. London, June 25. —An Amsterdam despatch to the Times says that Captain Brandenburg, who conducted the German air raid on London, June 12, in which a large number of persons were killed and injured, has received (he Order Pour la Mcrite from the German Government. BRITISH OFFICERS STABBED. Athens, May 31.—Last; night: Lieutenants Campbell and Burns, R.N.V.A., were stabbed when leaving the Aktaion Hotel, New Phaleron. Commander Rogers, R.N.V.R., siieceddcd in knocking down and arresting the aggressor, who is a Peloponnesian. Lieutenant Burns’ condition is critical. Reuter’s Athens correspondent stales that both officers were in uniform, and consecjuenfly their assailant cannot plead I hat he did not know what they were. A judicial inquiry is proceeding, and strong action by Sir F. E. H. Eliot, the British Minister, is anticipated. The assailant is described as a tailor by trade, HUSTLING AIRMEN. One morning just before the present phase of the western advance opened a flying squadron set out for France from an inland aerodrome (says the Evening Standard). They took exactly two and a-half hours to complete the journey, and sat, down to lunch behind the British lines at 1.30. Every machine completed the journey without a single landing. The following day another complement of learners occupied the aerodrome, and within 72 hours of leaving England the squadron commander, who possesses the double distinction of being an intrepid flier and a first-class instructor, was back at the (lying school, and ready to take his new pupils in hand. In the meantime, however, he had, single-handed, accounted for three German machines. FROZEN POTATOES' RATABLE. Frozen potatoes are eatable! The potato distribution office in Warsaw lias tested the following procedure in a large number of cases, and found it entirely adequate: Put potatoes which are frozen like stones into water 10 or 15 degrees Reaumur for 24 hours, and then cook them in their skins 'immediately in the aforesaid water. GOLF CHAMPIONS KILLED. Two famous British golfers have made their sacrifices for the allied cause. David Watt, holder of'the Scottish professional championship, died in a London hospital following the amputation of a leg, which was shattered by shrapnel at Vimy Ridge. Frank Carr, (he English amateur internationalist, is reported missing. TAMPERING WfTII PASSES. Samuel Cohen, a well-known tradesman of Westminster, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for tampering with a military pass, by moans of a chemical ink eradicator. The magistrate refused to alter the sen!cnee to a fine. Cohen’s shop, it was slated, was near the colonial headquarters, and it having become known that a preparation used to remove dates from soldiers’ passes was sold there, members of the military police in uniform went in and asked for some “stuff” to take the dates off a pass. Cohen said ho would show them how to use it, and applied to a document some liquid which left a blank space where the date had been. Cohen said he had not sold many bottles of it. A NEW EXPLOSIVE. Dr. D. B. De Waltoff, vice-presi-dent of the American Medico-Phar-maceutical League, has announced that he is the discoverer of a new explosive many times more powerful than dynamite, trinitrotoluol, or any other known explosive, which he has named “Terrorall.” The new compound, which was discovered by accident in the course of chemical experiments, is said to be so powerfuUthat five grains, its inventor claims, would blow the largest building in the world to pieces, and it can be quickly and cheaply produced from domestic products. He is now woi-king to find a means to make “Terrorall’ safe in handling, and hopes to be successful in time for it to be used by the first American Division in France,