NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1819, 27 April 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Ist Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment is the proud possessor of a remarkable silver-headed drummajor’s stick, which was presented to it by the Nawab of Arcot for its gallantry at the Battle of Plassey. The Journal de Geneve publishes an article by M. W. Martin, in which he says that the son of a vice-pre-sident of the Reichstag has been arrested on a charge of high treason, and imprisoned in a fortress. Travellers have recently reported that California’s active volcano, Lassen Peak, apparently is becoming extinct, for its crater, once a seething cauldron emitting jets of steam, is now mildly active, and is freezing over. Football was invented by the Chinese many hundred years ago. This game was cultivated as an exercise suitable for the training of soldiers. It was introduced into Japan, where il became very, popular. From these two countries it spread over the entire world. An officer in the Medical Reserve Corps recently stated that he has found light andSheat, combined, alleviate pain belter than heat alone. Hence he prefers an incandescent bulb and reflector to a hot-water bottle as a means of temporarily relieving suffering. An interesting gift has been made to the ancient Norman church of Danbury, in Essex, in the shape of two beautifully-carved pew-ends from Ihe Dorsetshire and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments, who had their camps in the parish some time ago. Each pew-end is carved with the regimental badge and mol - to.

The extraordinarily heavy looses which burglary insurance companies in Chicago have sutiered in recent months have induced the majority of these concerns to join an association which is now investigating various burglar alarms, and urging policy-holders to install some form of protective apparatus that has been found practical. The Greek Government, through its Tiogation at Washington, has authorised Greeks resident in the United States to enlist in the United States army or navy. This step has aroused great interest at Washington as seeming to foreshadow a more active participation in the war hy Greece. Sawdust dressings for wounds are being extensively list'd in Roumania owing to the great scarcity of medical supplies in that country. When bread becomes stale it is not merely because it gets dry, hut: because the start'll grains become harder anti less absorbent. Cigarettes have been barred at the Great Lakes, Illionis, U.S.A., naval training station, although other forms of smoking are allowed. In the first year of the war we lost 80 guns and took 25; in 1900 we took 169 and the Germans none; last year we took 380 and lost none. An extensive asylum for the orphans of physicians Ims just been founded by the Government of Spain, to be supported by special taxation. Andrew Moor, a prosperous Atblone merchant, who started work as a railway employee, has left, among other bequests, £IO,OOO to the Pope. A one horse-power engine means that it, will raise 14 tons per minute through a height of 12in. This is twelve times as much as a man could do. Men of the London Scottish to the number of 1,650 have to date been granted commissions from the ranks in the Regular Army and Territorial Force.