GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1799, 9 March 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

t A HOSPITAL STORY, A pathetic story is being told in one of the big military hospitals, A girl who had her face horribly disfigured as the result of un explosion in the munition factory where she worked, learned that her fiance, diad arrived unexpectedly in England, and was lying wounded. Dreading the shock her altered appearance would give him, she, nevertheless, hurried to his side. Them she learned for the first time that he had been struck blind, and would never see her face again. VATICAN AND JERUSALEM. The first authoritative statement as to the attitude of the Holy See towards 'he quesion of Palestine is published in a long conversation which One of the leading Cardinals in the fßoman Curia granted to the editor of the Milan evening journal La Sera. The Cardinal declared that at the Papal Court, save for a small minority, the British occupation of Jerusalem is regarded very favourably. According to the official Catholic view, English dominion, on the score of its traditional broad, conciliatory policy, is thought to offer the best guarantee for the liberty of the. Church. FINED FOR BREWING TOO MUCH. Messrs Thomas and James Arkcll, of the Kingsdmvn Brewery, Swindon, were summoned at Swindon Police Court for brewing during the quarter ended June 30th more than the maximum barrelage allowed. The quantity brewed was 958 barrels, the allowed quantity being 850. The defendant pleaded guilty, but urged that there was an abnormal demand owing to the arrival at Swindon in. April of over 2,000 Irish workers, A fine of £SO was imposed.

LOWER DECK TO CADETSHIP. A noticeable success bus been achieved by a boy of the training ship Mercury, J, F. Stevenson, having passed in the Royal Navy as an able seaman, obtained permission to compete in an examination by special entry to cadetships, and passed successfully. He is now a cadet of the Royal Navy, and in a few months will be a midshipman. This is the first time in th'e history of the Royal Navy that a youth from the lower deck has competed successfully in this direction. TWO GRIBS’ DISCOVERY. Two girls who had always been great chums, discovered that each had been taking lessons in fencing, and that their instructor in each, ease had been a young officer invalided home for a couple of months and since returned to the front. Intense jealousy took the place of friendship, and a challenge was the result. The duel was about to come off when news came that the officer had been killed, and the affair ended in mutual tears and forgiveness. HID FOR TWO YEARS. An extraordinary case of endeavouring to evade military service was hoard at South Shields. It was slated in evidence that Charles Edward Millar, aged 27, a joiner, had for over two years been concealed in a small front room, which he had never left during the whole of that time. His parents, who were charged with aiding and abetting, pleaded that he was not strong enough to join the army. The young man was haVidcd over to the military authorities, and his parents were fined 50s.