GENERAL WAR NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1778, 19 January 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS

THE PRINCE OP WALES,

The Paris correspondent of the Express states that the Prince of Wales recently arrived at the Italian front. 8,000,000 TONS OP POTATOES. Last year’s potato crop is expected to exceed 8,000,000 tons, as compared with 5,470,000 tons in the United Kingdom in 191 G.

SINN FEIN FOOD CONTROL-

LERS

A document issued by the Sinn Fein headquarters, calls on the clergy to organise parochial measures to prevent the Irish harvest leaving the country, and so prevent a famine.

OFFICER’S SUICIDE BY BOMB. One German officer, seeing his men giving themselves up, and realising that the position could no longer be held, held his own bomb in his hand until the explosion blew him to pieces, says Mr W, A. W ilson, a Canadian correspondent, describing the taking of Passehendaele.

FOOD AND ALCOHOL,

In the United States no foods or food materials are permitted to be used in the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes. NAVAL CHAPLAIN’S BADGES. Naval chaplains are shortly to wear a distinguishing badge instead of uniform, to indicate their connection with the naval service. INSTEAD OF BREAD. In Canada wheat substitutes such as oatcakes, potatoes, etc,, must be provided in public eating places at every meal at which white bread is served, HUN STOWAWAYS. Two German prisoners of war, who had escaped from France in a neutral vessel bound for New York, were recaptured at Plymouth. They were discovered hiding in the coal bunkers, and are now in military custody. SMUGGLERS’ RUBBER CIGARS. A smuggler was recently caught on the Swiss frontier with a consignment of some thousands of “cigars,” which he was trying to pass into Germany. On examination it was discovered that each “cigar” was a piece of rubber wrapped in tobacco leaf. BABY’S WAR RIBBON. A despatch from Dunkirk states that an infant, two days old, has just been admitted to the Dunkirk military hospital, a victim of the latest German air raid over that town. The baby, who was injured by shrapnel, is tenderly cared for by Red Cross nurses, who have pinned on its bib the French ribbon bestowed on soldiers wounded in battle. SINN FEIN IN CORK. The Cork City Corporation, by a vote of 20 to 7, gi’anted the application of the Sinn Feiners to use Black Castle for propaganda work. This action was a reversal tof the decision made a fortnight 'previously. The Cork Board of Guardians, by a vote of 20 to 1, elected a Sinn Feincr as chairman. BUILT BY GREAT NAPOLEON. Reuter’s special correspondent thus describes the Tagliamcnto:— The Tagliamcnto runs for about 120 miles, traversing the whole of Friuli Plain, During the dry season, despite its twenty tributaries, water is almost non-existent in the bed of the river, but now an impetuous current rushes foaming along. In onr retreat we crossed it between Codroipo and Pordcnonc on the same wooden bridge, nearly a mile long, which was built by Napoleon over a hundred years ago, when this region was the scene of the bloodiest battle between the French and Austrians.