GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 14 August 1917, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GERMAN FILMS IN RUSSIA. German propaganda in Russia is being extensively carried on by means of cinema films. Only a few weeks ago a single deal was made by which £120,000 worth of German films was bought for exhibition throughout Russia. DRASTIC PENALTY ON HOTEL. In consequence of the conviction of the landlord and barmaid for permitting treating, the Liquor Control Board has ordered the Yorkshire Grey Hotel, Portsmouth, to be (dosed from June 4th till the Brewster Sessions next April. £24,000 FROM CONDEMNED BOOTS. Condemned army boots sold by auction have realised £24,000, against £14,000 which would have been realised on tins same sales at the prices fixed under the old contracts, states Mr Foster. It is estimated that (under the new system by which boots arc graded before being sold) about' £350,000 a year is being saved in the re-issue of boots prematurely condemned. TITLED NURSE’S TRAGIC DEATH. Lady Lever, wife of Major Sir Arthur Levy Lever, Bt., of Hans Crescent, Chelsea, and Barron Green Court, Oxford, has died from septic poisoning, contracted while nursing wounded soldiers. The poison first affected one of her hands. Sir A. L. Lever was M.P. for Harwich Division from 1900 to 1910. He is now in the Royal Fusiliers. Lady Lever was before marriage Miss Beatrice Falk. HARLEQUINS OF THE AIR. German aeroplanes are now painted according to the taste of the pilots. Their gaudy dress lias offended the artistic sensibilities of more than one British (lying man, who succeeded in obliterating these specimens of tiie linn’s decorative skill. “When I see a Boehe with a yellow and red nose, blue wings, and a green tail,” said one youthful pilot, “1 want to kill it. It is not so much a question of war as of common decency. They spoil the sky.” “HELP US TO LIE.” In all the third class railway carriages on the German lines at the time of the last; war loan there were placards pasted up showing a stoclhehncled soldier behind a barbedwire entanglement at the Somme front. “Tclft uns siegen!” (Help us to win!) he was saying. On many of the placards, however, the word “siegen” had been crossed out by some cryptic band and the word “Ingen” scribbled ferociously above it. “Help us to lie!” HERO OF THE BLAST FURNACE. It the V.G. were awarded to civilians it would perhaps bo given to George Wolford, of Loft us, Cleveland, Yorkshire, who recently jumped into the mouth of a blast furnace lo rescue n fellow-workman. The story of his bravery was told at an inquest. A man fell from the top of the furnace and was tying unconscious on. (he “bell” on which the iron ore is lipped before it is discharged into tin* furnace. George Wolford, who is a ehargeman, at once sprang a distance of live feet into the midst of deadly gas fumes and intense heat, at (lie peril of his own life. He lifted the unconscious man —who was so badly burned Unit lie died afterwards —to (he top of the furnace, and then scrambled out, almost overcome by the heat and fumes. NO .MORE SPOILT DARLINGS. A friend of mine, father of a young pilot, who had done splendidly in the war, was remarking to 1110 the other day (says the Evening Standard) on the quaintness of the changes the war brings about. “My boy,” said lie, “used to be what 1 suppose you’d ca.ll a mother’s darling, more or less wrapped up, in cotton wool, only son, and so on. 1 remember the anxious discussions his mother and I had when he wanted a motor-bicycle, and the terror wo endured whenever he went out on it. Now wo know that he’s risking bis life in Iho air every day, and we never seem to think of it as anything unnatural.” He paused, and then .added, “But his mother still frets herself, into a lever if he has a cold!” There was real human nature in that last touch. SIX-MONTHS-OLD BOY CALLED UP. Calling-up papers having been is-

“THE BRISTOL” EG it MUSIC. Buy at “The Bristol” is sound advice to everyone requiring Sheet or Boole Music, a Granuxphoue or a dependable, high-grade Band Instrument. The newest songs and instrumental pieces are on sale at “The Bristol” soon after their first hearing in London. In “The Bristol's”' Gramaphone Parlours at Lambton Quay, Wellington, one can enjoy without charge a demonstration of that wonderful instrument, “His-Mas-ter’s Voice.” The stock of Records numbers many thousands. The noted double-sided “Zonophone” Records constitute remarkable value at the new prices. The ten-inch sell at 2s 9d, and the twelve-inch at ss. The double “Plum-labels” have been reduced to 4s 6d and 6s 6d. The Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., Wellington. M. J. Brookes, North Island Manager,

sued at Hull for Herbert C. Rimmington, the sou of a discharged soldier, Mrs Rimmington presented herself at the recruiting office with a baby in her arms, and quickly satisfied the authorities that the papers referred to her son, who was born in December last. BADGES FOR PRESSMEN. “Newspaper work is war work,” said a. military representative at one of the tribunals recently. It is an opinion which is held by most working newspaper men (says the Globe); and there is a feeling that’ members of (he profession should be entitled to wear a badge in order to show that they are helping things along. Some emblem would, at any rate, show that the wearer is not a slacker or a shirker. SETTLING THE CANADIAN WEST. Despite the fact that Canada has nearly .500,000 men under arms at the present time, and that emigration from Europe to the Dominion lias practically ceased, there were no fewer than 525 applicants for tree land grants of 100 acres each in the month of March in the four 'Western provinces. These represent an aggregate of 84,000 acres. The United States headed the nationalities, apart from Canadians, with 44 applications. The British Isles came next with 2G. WAS IT A PREMONITION ? Some new stories of Lord Kitchener are told by the Yorkshire lady who, under the name of “A Woman of No Importance,” has just published a racy volume of “Memories: Discreet and Indiscreet." She says that Lord Kitchcned always kept a couple of cars standing outside the War Office day and night in readiness to be jumped into at a moment’s notice. The day before his last fateful journey, he saw one of his cha (fours standing near. lie stopped and spoke to the man, saying, “You arc married, are you not?” The reply being in the affirmative, Lord Kitchener replied, “Then I will not take you with me to-mor-row. I will take Broome instead.” Ho Broome and his car went with their master —and will be seen no more until the sea gives up her (toad.