GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1792, 21 February 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

KISMET. While out seeing “the sights of London” at night, a New Zealand soldier, Robert Purcell, aged 43, who had been wounded in Prance, was run over and-killed by a motoromnibus in Tottenham Court Road. KRUPP’S KEIL PLANT QUADRUPLED. The. Knapps have recently quadrupled their naval plant near Keil, according to a despatch from Berlin by way of Berne to La Suisse. This was done at the request of the German Government for the purpose of making up losses in submarines, which, the despatch asserts, have been heavier than the German Admiralty admits. ENGLAND’S TEA SUPPLIES. The principal beverages of the people of England are tea, coffee, and cocoa. Before the new order restricting imports came into operation, through the shortage of boats, something like 170,000 tons of tea w r ere imported a year at a cost of £20,000,000, as well as some 80,000 tons of coffee and fl7„000 tons of cocoa, paying between £13,000,000 and £14,000,000 'for thelatter commodities. Just now only Empire-grown tea is being import-