GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1746, 30 October 1917, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

“BATTLE FOR U-BOAT BASE.!’ An official narrative supplied to late German papers by the Berlin General Staff on the recent fighting in Flanders describes it as “the first battle for the Flanders U-boat base.” PUTTING IT IN A NUTSHELL. The officer was lecturing the new recruits on the preventive measures for gas attacks, and the necessity for the smart adjustment of gas' helmets. “Remember,” ho said, “there are only two classes when the gas alarm is sounded —the quick and the dead!” LORD NAPIER AS A PRIVATE. After being fined £2 at Ayr as an absentee, Lord Napier, of Ettriek, arrived at Berwick Barracks and entered the army-.as an ordinary sol - dier. Ho is 40 years old. As an escort did not arrive at Ayr, the sheriff said Lord Napier would bo trusted to go by himself to Berwick. He did so, arriving late in the evening, and was allowed to spend the night in an hotel before joining up, HUN OFFICER’S DISGUISE. The authorities have arrested at the village of Garolds, in Laconia, an individual dressed as a peasant and possessing a considerable sura of monelv, who turns; out to be a German marine officer, who has been the organiser of a submarine supply depot on the ICalidamyh coast. Ho was aided by two deputies of the former Greek regime. BULLET-PROOF. One of the most distinguished Russians at present in London is Captain Oshinansky, one of the brilliant band of officers trained under General Korniloff. Captain Oshniansky defied all medical etiquette by refusing to lie killed when he was shot through the heart at the battle of Kolomea. He is working hard at as member of the Russian Government Committee in London, STANDARD BOOTS. After standard ships we are now likely to have standard boots at an early date. During the last three years close on fifty million pairs of boots have been turned out for the army alone, and now the supplies are running so very low —all the surplus stock at the beginning of the war having been exhausted —that the Government is considering the question of supplying only boots of a, uniform pattern to the general public as well. TOYMAKER’S GIFT TO THE QUEEN. The Queen has accepted the gift of three toy crocodiles from Norwich toy-makers. Toymaking has been zealously taken up in the city with a view to capturing a trade which the Genua ns and Austrians formerly claimed so much their own. Her Majesty, in a letter aeknow-’ ledging the gift, expresses her appreciation of the specimens of Norwich, toy-makers’ work, considering the toys to be well executed.