GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1813, 13 April 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

DIRECTOR OF PESTS. There in to be a director of pests in England. He will organise a war on rats, sparrows, rabbits, and wood pigeons. Rats that are killed will have the glycerine extracted from their carcases for explosives, and will also be used as fertilisers. SMOKE SCREENS FOR ZEPPELINS. ’According to the Lausanne correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, more Zeppelin trial trips on Lake Constance are reported. A perfected system of gas emission to conceal the movements of the airships seems to be adopted. COLONEL’S APPEAL PAILS. An appeal by Colonel Frederick George Scott, who was found guilty at Newcastle Assizes of conspiracy and corruption, in company with Captain Moralee and Private Hyman Cohen, of the Royal Submarine 'Miners, in accepting bribes for the admission of recruits to the corps, and was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in the second division, was heard in the Court of Criminal Appeal and dismissed. THE SOLDIER’S GIFT. “You have lost your arm,” said a chaplain to a soldier. “No; I gave it,” was the reply. Telling this story at the Queen’s Hall, London, Sir Andrew Wingate said civilians should imitate that soldier’s spirit. SIR EDWARD CARSON. The resignation of Sir Edward Carson from the War Cabinet was wholly unexpected. Sir Edward Carson resigns to devote himself to the Irish situation, leaving the Government unembarrassed, thus, by the presence within it of an Irish leader bound to take a definite line on his own account. He is a strong man, quite fearless in his exposition of the case for Ulster, and quite contemptuous of the bitterness of his adversaries’ feelings against him. Also a man of principle, with a high sense of personal honour. The Government can ill afford the loss of him, even for the sake of the Irish problem. AMERICA’S SHIPYARD ARMY. Mr Charles Piez, general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in America, sent a telegram to the Government of all the States of the Union, urging their co-operation in enrolling 250,000 artisans and .skilled mechanics for service in the shipyards under the name of United States Shipyard Volunteers of the Public Service Reserve. MAHARAJA’S GENEROUS GIFT. The Maharaja Seindia of Gwalior, who has since the outbreak of war made so many large contributions to war funds and Avar charities, recently offered to the King and Queen a Ncav Year’s gift of £6,000 for the benefit of naval officers and men whose families require help. Their Majesties have accepted this noble gift of His Highness. The Queen of the Belgians has accepted a simultaneous gift from the Maharaja of £2,000 in aid of Belgian charities in which Her Majesty is specially interested.'