GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1804, 21 March 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GLASGOW FOOD CHARGE. Mr Edward Watson, a member of the Glasgow City Council, and himself a member of one of the subcommittees of tha. Glasgow Feed Control Committee, was charged in the Glasgow Sheriff Court with having, on two occasions, sold meat at higher than the maximum figures laid down by the committee. He pleaded not guilty. Sheriff Lyell said it had been admitted by respondent that he was guilty of the charges libelled. It had been an open, considered, and, he was sorry to say, a defiant disobedience persistently followed. From his evidence it appeared that the respondent was perfectly willing to obey the law only in so far as he could make the lay’ suit himself. His Lordship imposed a fine of £SO, with the alternative of sixty days’ imprisonment. | Respondent’s counsel intimated that he desired a stated ease.

WHAT’S L\ T A NAME? A strange tale is in circulation at clubs where men from the East foregather. It is said that, apart from General Allenby’s unquestioned success, his name has had a remarkable effect on the Turks. For Allenby is by them interpreted as Allah Nabi, which means the man from Allah, or the emissary of Allah. Therefore, his triumph has been accepted as a direct divine interposition. This was a stroke of luck which never entered the minds of the war authorities when they wisely gave him Hits command. BASUTO CHIEFS AT THE FRONT. At the invitation of the allies, two prominent African chiefs are now making a tour of the front. They are visiting the African labour battalions, as it is one of their chief objects to see how the coloured labourers are treated. No doubt they will witness one of the wonderful war dances of the Basutos. When they return they will be able to make an interesting report to the chiefs and tribes on the wonders and terrors of’ scientific warfare.

A MYSTERIOUS SYMBOL. There are in the army many men in the ranks who are quite adepts at deciphering codes and symbols, but the other day there came along a puzzle which mystified not a few in the unit, A number of animals arrived in camp from a remount depot, among them a Mexican mule. Each animal bore a tag and certain marks, but the mule alone had a red patch just above the tail. What $d it signify? White some of the drivers were considering what the mysterious symbol meant, one of them accidentally touched the mule’s hindquarters. Immediately its heels shot out, and the man lay oh his back. The mystery ‘ was solved. Red/ is the symbol of danger!

KHAKI COLLEGE. A school of universal civil learning within an Army Command — such is “Khaki College,” which within the last three or four months has taken form and substance at Witley Camp, in Surrey, the headquarters of a division of the Canadian Army. With its chancellor, its senate, its professional staff, its facuk’es, its “Bodleian,” its classrooms, its large number of enrolled students, it is, indeed, a veritable university in an army. The teaching staffs are recruited from within the Canadian Army, and consist of distinguished university professors and others. The course of lectures cover classics, history, modern language and literature, mathematics and engineering, business, and agriculture.

TENDING HORSES AT THE FRONT. When an army horse is wounded about the face or jaw, it is not sent, down to the veterinary lines,'-but is kept to be tended by its driver. Then, it is that a good driver’s care comes ■in, for the men tend them most carefully, feeding them by hand, boiling them oats, making them maches, and spending most of the day with their charges, until they can feed in comfort again. It is this personal care of the man for his horse that has been the cause of (he new order that all horses have to be .returned from hospital to their own units again; for a man’s care is by no means transferred to the same extent to a new team of horses.