GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1816, 20 April 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

A QUEEN BESS WANTED.

Miss Christabel Pankhurst, speaking in London, said that the average woman bad ten thousand times more statesmanship in her than Lord Lausdowuc. Women would have to be consulted on the management of the war and the terms of peace. “Sometimes,” said Miss Pankhurst, “I wish that Queen Elizabeth could come back to earth and be included in the War Cabinet. She might even have proved a valuable accession to the War Council at Versailles.” GOING TO BED IN THE DARK. A domestic servant was summoned at Scarborough for failing to screen a candle light in a bedroom. The defence was that her mistress bad hot put blinds up. The Mayor, dismissing the .-aid the magistrates thought it unreasonable to

expect anybody to go to bed in the dark, and suggested that the mistress should be summoned. The chief constable said many people went to bed in the dark, and he had done so since the war began. OFFICER’S TRAGIC END. A wing occupied by officers at Kinrael Park, England, was burned to the ground. Among the debris were found the charred remains of. Lieut. Arthur Lloyd, of Birkenhead, attached to the 53rd Battalion'Manchester's. By his side were the remains of a little dog, the regimental mascot. Lieut. Lloyd was 29 years of age. He was the first to discover the fire, and escaped. Then, remembering that the dog was behind, he returned into the burning hut, and was overcome. Several' officers had narrow escapes. AMERICANS AROUSED. Reports from various parts of America show that the sinking of the Tuscania and the loss of American troops had the immediate effect of increasing recruitment, especially naval enlistments. The general sentiment of the applicants is to exact stern reparation for the submarine outrages. On being accepted, the volunteers almost to a man inquired: “How soon can we go across?”