GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1783, 31 January 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE LIMBLESS ARMY,

Speaking of the country’s debt to the limbless army, Sir Francis Lloyd said £IOO,OOO was wanted to extend the work done at Roehampton. A hundred men a week are fitted there With artificial limbs and 11,000 had passed through the institution. After training, 2,200 had found work, and 6,500 had returned to their old places. 43,000,000 MEN UNDER ARMS. Speaking at a meeting of the War Savings Association, held at the Army Ordnance Department, Woolwich Arsenal, Major R. Rigg referred to the enormous amount of money that is being spent at the present time, and said that altogether there were 43,000,000 men under arms. £50,000 DRINK OF WHISKY. Frank Laguiro, a foreman at the New York docks, had an attack of cramp a few weeks ago, and as! M permission to leave the pier to a drink of whisky. Permission was refused, and a dock strike followed, which cost the steamship companies, the New York World says, £40,000,and the strikers £IO,OOO r wages. 50.000 CABBAGES FOB FRANCE. Eight thousand fruit trees and 50.000 cabbage plants have been sent to France for the villages that were under German domination. THE TANK TERROR. Austrian officers captured on the Italian front say their men have heard so much about the British tanks that they live in daily terror of them. A short ' while ago an Austrian advanced detachment became so terror-stricken by a rumour that a British tank was advancing against them that they promptly surrendered. NOT RELISHED IN GERMANY. A message from Berlin refers to the order by the Emperor of Austria that words of foreign origin, such as telephone, automobile, instruction, terrain, etc., which had been excluded from the German language by a former decision, are again to be employed in official documents. The Lokal-Anzeiger expresses its discontent at this measure, which, it says, is strange, and will be very little relished in Germany, ANOTHER HUN TRICK. One officer, single-handed, stormed a machine-gun position and killed the crew. The Boche fought until surrounded, says a correspondent, in describing General Byng’s recent advance. Frequently our men gave no quarter, because Germans who were thick in this sector “kameraded’ and then threw bombs. One German officer had a bomb in each ' hand. When he “kameraded” he threw the bombs, wounding four men. lie was'promptly bayoneted.

AN OLD EASTERN PROPHECY,

There is an old Eastern prophecy that wonderful benefactions will happen to the Moslem world if the army of a Christian enter Jerusalem tin a Friday. What its origin is deponent cannot state. But the existence of this prophecy has been communicated by cable to General Allenby. Considering the enormous Moslem population within the Empire, it is of gerat importance to affect (heir imagination favourably.