GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1822, 4 May 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

MALTA FEVER SERUM. Professor Vincent, of Paris, whose work in connection with antityphoid vaccination is universally known, lias made a valuable discovery in connection with Mediterranean, or Malta, fever, which is transmitted to man through the milk ol goals. Applying to its microbe, the Micrococcus Meiitensis, which was isolated by Bruce, in 1887, his researches on cultures treated with ether, the professor has produced a vaccine whose curative and preventive qualities both as regards goats and men are stated to be of the highest value. “BOY’S CROWDED LIFE. The career of a boy who at 12 could neither road nor write, and was placed in a special school for backward hoys, was told by Councillor Riask at a meeting of the Brighton Education Committee. The hoy, whose name is Munnery, turned out to he one of the first hoys in the practical class, and on leaving school at 14 he Joined the trainingship Arelhusa. Here he became the champion swimmer in the ship, and was next; professional boxer in the Impregnable. In August, 1914, ho was sent to a submarine lender, transferred to the Glory, and went through the fighting at Gallipoli. He had been on continuous sorvlbe throughout the war, and is Just If) now. CHAPLAIN’S WAR RECORD. In (he Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury the Archbishop announced that 2,422 Church of England chaplains, had been fully commissioned, of whom 21 had been killed and 90. wounded. Some of the leading men had specially asked not to be mentioned in despatches, but 100 had received decorations. Special arrangements were being made to send out regular supplies of men to meet wastage, the requirements being 350 a year.