GENERAL WAR NEWS.
“ONE TOUCH—ETC ”
A London policewoman arrested a young girl and handed her over to a constable. After telling him the charge, the policewoman turned round and kissed the delinquent 1 FOR WOMEN ARCHITECTS. The Architectural Association has acquired the leases of two houses in Bedford Square, where its educational work will in future be carried on. It is now opening its schools to women students. NAILS FOR BUTTONS. While Hugh McLaughlin, of Kilmarnock, was at work at a certain factory he lost a button when stooping, so he tied a piece of string to two iron nails by way of trouserholder. But it was an offence to have iron nails in his possession at the factory, and he was called upon to pay £5. GERMAN WAR BOOTY. The Taeglische Rundschau sums up the German booty in the war up to July 26th as follows: —12,156 cannon, 5,000,000 cartridges, 10,640 munition and other carriages, 3,216 bombs, 1,655,805 rifles, 155,829 pistols and revolvers, 8,352 machineguns, 2,298 aeroplanes, ISO balloons, and three airships. These figures, according to the paper, include booty immediately re-employ-ed in action. VIENNA MILK SHORTAGE. With the exception of the sick and young children, the population of Vienna is without milk, the daily supply of'this commodity having fallen to 285,000 litres, as compared with 900,000 litres in normal times. Die Zcit points out in this connection that 70 per cent, of the milk now received is sour, owing to the heat and the delay in transportation. As the milk cards of children and sick persons have to be satisfied first, there is scarcely any milk left for anyone else. GIRL LIEUTENANTS. The Tagliche Rundschau, Amsterdam, reports that among the Russian officers captured before Czernowilz were two lieutenants who, when ordered by the German military to enter the disinfecting establishment, refused to be disinfected with other men. An inquiry showed that the two lieutenants were girls who had joined the Russian Army since the - revolution. They were sisters, belonging to a wealthy Moscow family. £4 TO £4,000,000. Lord Henry Bentinck, speaking at Hampstead Garden Suburb, said that 26 years ago West Africa exported one bag of cocoa, value £4. The export now was valued at £4,000,000. Nigeria sent out palm oil and kernels to the amount of 240,000 tons, value £8,000,000. Germany’s colonial export of palm oil averaged 11b. per acre, ours 141 b. an acre, an advantage due to the humanitarian and statesmanlike system of organising and treating native labour. GOULD’S SON CLAIMS EXEMPTION. Mr Kingdon Gould, eldest son of the multi-millionaire, Mr George Gould, was recently the target of widespread newspaper publicity, owing to his action in claiming exemption from military service on the ground that he has a wife to support, Mr Kingdon Gould married on July 2 an Italian artist, Miss Annunziata Lucci. He was carefully,, examined by physicians in New Jersey and pronounced in excellent physical health. After filling his exemption claim,. Mr Gould motored to Lakewood, and refused to be interviewed, ARMY WAITRESSES. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps is a thing in being, but more women arc wanted. At the present time in 200 camps over 6,000 cooks and waitresses are now busy in officers’ sergeants’ and cadets’ messes, and some 7,700 women are employed at four areas in the war zone. All women joining are required to sign a form of enrolment for a year or the duration of the war, and the minimum age for service at home is 18 years: Very appropriately the rose and the fluer-cle-Iys have been chosen as the emblem of the corps. WOMEN RAT-CATCHERS. Women at a training centre in Norfolk are now experts in catching vermin, such as rabbits, rats, and moles, and, according to a West Suffolk farmer, there will be a great demand for their services on the farms.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1742, 18 October 1917, Page 1
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637GENERAL WAR NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1742, 18 October 1917, Page 1
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