GENERAL WAR NEWS.

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

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

CIGARETTE »CARDS. There is sad news for small boys. The Tobacco Control Committee is considering the advisability of stopping the practice of giving away pictures with ciragettes, and little doubt is entertained that the cigarette picture is doomed, says the Daily Express. DRS. “SUGAR” AND “MUSTARD.” A recent issue of the Gazette recorded military decorations awarded to surgeons named “Sugar and “Mustard.” These, however, are not the only condiments in the profession. A glance over the Medical Directory shows that the profession also has its “Salt,” its “Pepper” and its “Curry.” ONE DOG OFFERED PROM . BERLIN. The .Deutches Cnrier announces that the Prussian War Ministry’s appeal for the voluntary handing over of dogs for the army service has had shameful results. The appeal was made six months- ago, 'and in the whole of Berlin the response was one dog for the Fatherland. The offer was gratefully accepted, THE YEAST AND THE VEST. Two aliens met in the East End the other day. “Vy is der new war bread like der sun 1 ?” asked one. “Mo donta know,” replied his companion. “Veil, I’ll tell yer. It’s like der sun because it rises in der yeast, an’ settle.- in der vest!” HERMAN FARE. The quality of Ihe fare served to the German t coops at present is shown by the following scale of. rations of one regiment in the oth Bavarian Reserve At breakfast. —Coffee and dry bread. At mid-day. —One litre (1 : ; pints) of soup, with boiled or cold tinned moht. No vegetables. In the evening.—Dry bread and cheese, or bread and butter and jam. A drink of brandy now and then. A captured officer of the 221st Division thought our men more cheerful and “wide-awake” than the Gorman troops, who are “now very tired of the war, and have by no means the same enthusiasm that they had even a year ago.” ROMANTIC WAR WEDDING. A Clithcroe hero has just married a young French lady under romantic conditions. Trooper Smethurst won the D.C.M. by carrying important despatches under heavy shell fire while serving with the Hussars in Franco about two years ago. Subsequently he was sent to Attin, near Calais, to recuperate, and while there he was billeted at the home of Mdlle. Constance Reginer, whose father was a farmer. So attentively did the young lady look after the needs of Trooper Sraethurst that he fell in love with her, and they became engaged. The yonng'couplo were married in August at Ihe French village church by an English priest. WHAT IS A HYDRO-AERO-PLANE. Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an aeroplane designed to rise from and alight on the surface of water a hydroplane, which word indicates a motor-boat with a stepped flat bottom that enables it at high speeds to rise partly out of the water, skimming along on its planing surface only. In the early days of aviation aeroplanes used over the sea were generally termed hydroaeroplanes, Not infrequently the “aero” is dropped and the word hydroplane used loosely to indicate the sea-going aeroplane. At the present day the word seaplane is generally employed to indicate a hydro-aeroplane. The former word (seaplane) is now used as a collective noun, including both aeroplanes fitted with floats instead of wheels, and flying boats. MONS MAN SIMMS THE RHINE. Corporal H. Wilson, a Hull man, who had been prisoner of war in Germany since October, '1914, has escaped and reached Switzerland. Wilson, who belongs to the Coldstream Guards, states, in a message to his father: “I ran away from Germany on July 27th, swam across the Rhine, and arrived in Switzerland. I am now in service, and hope to return to England.” Wilson was in the Mons retreat,