GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1756, 6 September 1917, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

EX-CONSUL’S FATE. The Manchester City News says a circumstantial message has been received that Captain Theodore Sehlagintweit, formerly German Consul in Manchester, has been kill-' ed in action while lighting against the French. The last definite news of the captain was that he was engaged in drilling Bavarian corps. On being ordered to take part in the hostilities he requested that he should be sent against the French, and not the English, and that request was granted. PARIS WELCOMES AMERICANS “The sincerity and depth of French gratitude to America was evident everywhere,” said MajorGeneral Pershing, the American commander, in speaking of the reception given to the American troops which paraded in Paris on July 4th. “It was affecting to see women, children, and French soldiers marching along with our men. I feel that our presence in France is appreciated deeply, and that it is having an admirable effect, as our welcome in Franco will have among our people at home. It was the most impressive thing I ever saw.” “FRUITS OF LONG LABOUR.” Sir Douglas Haig made a mistake in his stirring message of congratulation to the Second British Army on the victory of Messines. He spoke of the Germans having been preparing their defences “for nearly three years.” But the Kaiser supplied the correction. In an address to the troops commanded by his son, Prince Eitel Friedrich, he referred lo “the many years we worked in the training camps in order to develop ourselves militarily,” and spoke of “reaping the fruits of long labour.” MORE lUNDENBURG NAILS. The veterans of the Third Regiment of the Prussian Guards have arranged with (ho active members of the regiment now at the front to erect a memorial to General von llindcnburg in front of the regimental building. Von' llindcnburg was attached to the regiment as a young officer in 186(1, and later in the Franco-Prussian war. He now wears the uniform of the regiment. The memorial will lie in the form of a massive gate of German oak, with steel ornamentation, and will be christened “The llindcnburg Gate,” with the inscription “Victory.” For the benelit of the Red Cross of the regiment the public will have the privilege of driving nails in the gate, paying a certain sum for each nail. FIRST AID IN TRENCH. A. first-aid booklet •lo make smooth the conversational path of American soldiers and marines in France has been written for distribution among the American forces as they leave’ for abroad. The book is intended lo serve as a silent interpreter between non-French-speaking Americans and non-Bhg-lish-speaking Frenchmen in the trenches. Only a single phrase has to be memorised lo make the book fulfil its mission. That is, “Trouvez le livre dans ma poche," which moans, “Find the book in my pocket.” This a disabled American soldier would say to a Frenchman who came to his aid. To express questions and tell his wants all the American has to do is (o'point to the appropriate French phrase, ART VERSUS ARMY. On the grounds of national interest, the Law Society Tribunal granted three months’ exemption, with leave to appeal again, to Mr Jacob Epstein, 36, the sculptor, passed for general service. Mr Newbolt, K.C., said his client’s work in regard to national memorials was of extreme value, and he occupied an exceptional place in the world of art. He hotted to be commissioned to design the Kitchener memorial in St. Paul's. His exemption was originally sought by-the British Museum, the National Art Collections Fund, the Wallace collection, and other art museums, as a matter of national importance. If he were crippled or lost an eye, he would never.be able to do any further' work, which perhaps only two or TRIED AND APPROVED. Mr A. De Bavay, the eminent analytical chemist of Melbourne, testified at the Supremo 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.

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three people in the world could do. He was Ameriean : bom and naturalised in 1910. TO OPPOSE RAMSAY MAC- • DONALD. Mr J. F, Green, .chairman of the executive ' of the British Workers’. League, the secretary of the International Arbitration Association, and of the Friends of Russia and Freedom, has been selected by a conference of Leicester Labour men as an electoral opponent to Mr Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. Mr Green, who was for years treasurer of tlfe Social Democratic Federation, will stand as a National Labour candidate, under the auspices of the British Workers’ League. MAY LEAD TO BUSINESS. “In the event of’ an air raid,” runs a notice posted on the doors of a big Regent Street shop in London, “we can accommodate several hundred people in the basement of this building”; and the public is urged to note that if they seek the proffered shelter they will be protected by “seven -floors of reinforced concrete.” CARRYING ON. “There is a town close by which has been under bombardment for some two years, and still has shells thrown into it (says a writer at the front). Yet one hotel has never dosed its doors, although it has put up- its shutters, because there is practically not a whole pane of glass in any window. The women in charge have continued to run the place without a break. Upstairs there are groat holes in (he walls where shells have come through and exploded, and there are no workmen to repair the ruin, but. the hotel continues to servo meals, and good meals at that.” Bft. 2in. CANADIAN. A giant who holds the British height record for the last 120 years is at present a patient in the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, W.C., whore he has been accommodated in a bed improvised from two ordinary bedsteads. Ills name is Frederick Kempster, he'is Bft. 2in. in height, and 25 years old,, and ho is suffering from Giant’s Disease, known officially as acrimagale, or inaction of the nerve centre which controls growth. His size in bools is about 20. Kempster is a Canadian, who was taken to the colonies as a baity. But quite a normal baby,.for the nerve responsible for the trouble did not cease work until Kempster was 12 years old, when he began to shoot, rapidly beyond his brothers, and-then beyond his father and mother, who are all of normal size. He told a Daily Chronicle representative that three of his brothers are serving with the Canadian contingent. In a voice which is descrived as being “like a sweet-toned ’cello played into a megaphone,” Kempster told how ho had tried Jo join the army in England, where he had come from Canada for treatment of one of his legs, which was damaged during his work in a lumber camp. But, with a large sigh, he said there was “nothing, doing,” and finally he became the star exhibit of a show in Tottenham Court Road. In the next bed to Kempster is a small boy who lias never ceased to be astonished since the giant arrived. His admiration for the feat with which Kempster celebrated his entry is especially great. Seeing a pile of bread and butler, which ho look to be his own share, the giant ate the lot. It was not till later that he learned he had eaten the whole ward’s war-time breakfast allowance..