GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 4 October 1917, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

“PASSING WITH HONOUR.” Men who arc meeting Americans at the front express surprise at the absence of what wc call the Yankee twang from the speech of the soldiers. Can the diffierenee arise from these Americans being of English and not of Irish descent? There is an extraordinary resemblance between the speech of the native of County Clare and that of the average middle-class American one meets. An Irish lady who is warworking in London is always mistaken for an American. “American English is ' just West of Ireland English, so I.pass with honour,” sho boasts. THE POISONOUS BOMBPOWDER. It is now stated, upon the authority of a medical man, that the skin inllammation caused by touching the German air-bomb powder is due to explosive chemicals and not to a poison placed in, the bomb. Inflammation of the hands is not dangerous so long as they are kept clean and covered with a bandage. If any of the powder gets on the hands, it is recommended that they should be washed thoroughly and then covered with starch. This will not remove the yellow stain, but will almost certainly prevent inllammation. No poison enters the system from touching the powder.