GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1785, 5 February 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

At a public presentation, Mr H, Pike Pease, M.P. (Assistant Post-master-General), mentioned that 10,000,000 letters were sent weekly to France, and that the total number of letters despatched by the French and English post offices to the troops in Franco is at the rate of 1,250 millions a year. SICKLY SENTIMENT. £SO was the amount of a fine - imposed upon a taxicab driver at Huntington Police Court, for conveying the coffin containing the remains of a dead pet dog, from London to Molesworth, the bench maintaining that the taximan had connived with the owner of the dog: — Lady Anderson —in putting sickly sentiment before patriotism. The charge was brought under the Motor Restriction Order, and Lady Anderson paid the fine.

A PALESTINE OFFICER’S LETTER,

“Allenby is a certainty/' writes an officer. “With military genius he seems to combine that amazingly cool mathematical deliberation that convinces you that he knows absolutely what he is doing, what the result will be, and.what the other fellow will d 6 afterwards. And he seems always ready with the nest move. He is never elated and never depressed, his mood is even, and his manner soldier-like. Kindly and genial, his satisfaction .only finds vent in praise of his splendid troops. The feeling here is one of the greatest respect and admiration for our splep(iis leader/'