GENERAL WAR NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1779, 22 January 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS

THE VALUE OF GOOD OLD OAK.

' A single oak tree realised £l3O at a recent sale of standing timber in Northamptonshire.

“DEVIL FROM HEAVEN.”

A peasant woman, 85 years old, who travelled from an adjoining village to see the fallen Zeppelin near Sisterou, which she referred to as “the devil fallen from heaven,” would not believe that the airship was an engine of war used by the Germans.

STANDARD SHIPS AFLOAT. Sir Chiozza Money stated in the House of Commons recently that five standard ships of 5,200 tons each had been built and put into service up to October 24th, By December 31st, 18 would be completed, Hi of 5,200 tons, one of 3,000 tons, and one of 2,000,

THE DANGEROUS WORD,

In the judgment of the Third Chamber of (he Paris Civil Court the use of the word “Boche” in marital quarrels is a sufficient ground for divorce. The offending word was hurled by a wife at. her husband who bore a Germanic name and was of Alsatian origin. He took it, so much to heart that he instituted an action for divorce, and succeeded.

RAEMAEKERS AT BATH,

Mr Louis Raemaekers, the Belgian artist who has made a worldwide reputation by his war cartoons, has gone to live at Bath.

NEWSPAPER OFFICES WRECK-

The concussion of the groat explosion at Halifax shattered one of the big gasometers, and thousands of feet of gas escaped. All the power plants in the city arc out; of business, and the newspapers have been so badly wrecked that publication of papers is impossible.

OUR MEN IN GERMANY. British prisoners of war in the hands of the enemy have been very badly off for clothes, and the War Office has arranged with the Army Clothing Department to supply new suits to all requiring them. With the object of providing warm, serviceable clothing as economically as possible, a black cloth has been chosen, and (his will he made up into uniforms- with khaki facings.

KILLED IN THE RANKS

Ever since August 4th, 11-910, Percy Beauchamp Asiley Cooper, private ip the Buffs, has been missing. But his death is now established as having occurred on that date on aetive service. “Private Cooper” was in reality a retired Lieutenant-Conimander, R.N., (he eldest son of Major Lewis Astley Cooper, 40 years of age. He entered the navy as a cadet in 1890, and retired with the rank of lieutenant in 1908.