GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1818, 25 April 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

FRENCHWOMEN’S PRISONERS. Three peasant women of the neighbourhood of Pau, meeting four escaped German prisoners, stopped them and held them until the arrival of reinforcements. The prisoners were then taken to the gendarmerie. * BRIGADIER-GENERAL ASQUITH. Mr Asquith took back from France at the end of January an encouraging report of the progress made by his son, Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, who suffered amputation of the foot. The symptoms 1 of fever had subsided, and the patient was progressing as satisfactorily as could be expected. THE NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL. Mr Munro, Secretary for Scotland, said recently that the question of a national war memorial in Scot-* land had been brought before the Government in connection with a, larger scheme for the creation of an Imperial War Museum in London. The War Cabinet had indicated general approval of the proposal to dedicate Edinburgh Castle to the purpose. FATHER AND SON D.S.O. Among the recipients of the D.S.O. at a recent investiture by the King at Buckingham Palace were Lieutenant-Colonel William Oates, Sherwood Forresters, attached to the Royal Sussex Regiment, and his son, Major John Oates, also of the Sherwood Foresters. The King av-< ranged that father and son should be admitted and decorated together. FUTURE OF DISCHARGED FIGHTERS. Captain Towse, V.C.J&in a talk to the Winded soldiers at St. Dunstan’s, explained the main objects of the Comrades of the Great War. The War Office has selected Captain Towse to be chairman of this society, and Captain Buchanan, V.C., blinded in Mesopotamia, at present in the officers’ quarters attached to St. Dnnstan’s, is a member of (he general committee. It was in the South African War, when performing an act of selfsacrificing heroism that won him his V.C., that Captain Towse lost his sight. Knowing how badly it had fared with the discharged soldiers after that war, he states that he and his fellow-workers in the new organisation mean to see that discharged soldiers and sailors get their rights after the present war.. THE CAMOUFLAGED CARROT. These are the days of camouflage, and nothing looks like what it is, or •is what it looks like. Corrols and is what it looks like. Carrots and “camouflaged" out of all recognition, and they are posing as substitutes for sultanas, raisins, currants, candied peel, and glace jellies! All these fruits are difficult to get at present, and some are quite unoW tainable, so the humble carrot and beetroot have been pressed into the service to take their place, and several big firms are making quite a feature of them. When they arc boiled, cut in chunks and glared, it is difficult to. distinguish them from glace cherries or candied peel, and they certainly make an agreeable and ornamental addition to the war cake.