GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1755, 4 September 1917, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE AIRMAN’S CALLING. According to the statistics of war losses received from the allied governments, it appears that there are other duties more dangcroim in the present war than that of aviator. It is said that the records of allied losses place the air service fourth in the percentage of losses. Thojncdical corps has sustained the hcaviset losses, followed by the infantry, with the artillery arm in third place. TO PLEASE THE KING. Mr Pott Ridge, speaking in London on the work of women in munition factories, told an amusing story of the recent Royal tour. The day after His Majesty’s visit one of the girls announced her intention of returning to skirts. The supervisor remonstrated, but the girl was obstinate. “I put on trousers yesterday to please the King,” she said, “and I’m not going to put them on for anybody else.” A RECORD DRINK OF OIL. The destroyers, says a writer in the Yorkshire Post, lie in an enclosed harbour which has been entirely constructed in ii year. The water of the harbour is covered with a film of oil, iridescent, and bright in the sun, .for it is here that they are fed with the fuel that takes them dashing through the water at such a terrific speed. Every day sees improvements in the manner of taking in oil, and the commodore of the dockyard, states triumphantly that he made a “record” recently. Ten destroyers concurrently took on board five tons of oil in two and a-half minutes!