GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1794, 26 February 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

A UNIQUE CONCERT. A description of a unique concert, given in a German paper, deserves to be rescued from oblivion. In one of the prisoners’ camps are a number of Russian musicians, who have formed a chorus and an orchestra, which are apparently so good that (he inhabitants of the nearest town were anxious to hear them. The commander of the camp accordingly agreed to allow them to give a concert of Russian sacred music in the principal church of the town. Germany always has an eye to business nowadays, and the takings, which were' considerable, were devoted to the benefit—not of the Russian prisoners—but of German prisoners in Russia. Among the singers were two who have appeared with the Russian Opera Company at Drury Lane. RED CROSS HUSTLE.

Kir Arthur Stanley, M.P., Rays that on one occasion there was a sudden demand on the Red Cross for 4,000 hot-water bottles, and he. was asked if they could he supplied the following week. “Being new to the job, I undertook to do it at once. I afterwards found, by extraordinary good fortune, that a, gentleman had been to the office the day before and given us 2,000 hot'water bottles, and I was able to state that the 4,000 would be sent the next morning.” Referring to the splendid nursing work done by the Red Cross, Sir Arthur remarks: —“One rooming I went k> a the office and found there an officer, who said there was an .urgent need for a hospital at Paris. By five o’clock that afternoon the whole personnel of a hospital for 100 patients, with equipment and a number of cases of stores, steamed out of Victoria.