GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1834, 1 June 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

HONOURS FROM JAPAN,

The Emperor of Japan has decorated 158 French officers for gallantry and their assistance to Japenese officers when visiting the French armies. AUSTRIA’S SCANTY MENU. Discussing the Austrian food problem, the Arbeiter Zeitung says; “Bread is made of maize-meal, and is the colour of yellow ochre. There are no potatoes, meat is vanishing, there are no vegetables and no fruit, and milk is barely sufficient for infants and sick persons.” “SOLDIER-MAD GIRLS.” A magistrate, speaking at a meeting at. St.‘Martin’s Vestry, of the London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality, said that girls to-day became “soldier-mad.” He had girls brought before him, and their parents had said: “I have lost my girl for the last six months. She went ‘soldier-mad,’ and 1 could not keep her at home.”

WOMEN’S NAVAL RESERVE

Selection boards are now at work all over Britain enrolling women into the Women’s Royal Naval Reserve, In a number of districts the sight is already familiar of these trim gold-and-blue girl sailors swinging down the roads on their five miles march drill. Married women who enrol for the duration of the war will, it is stated, find a sympathetic- hearing should home ties necessitate their release. The problem of the husband on leave or in hospital is in 1 he minds of (he organisers.

GREEK AIRMAN’S FEAT

In a fight between a Greek aeroplane and three German machines at Salonika, at a height of 15,000 ft. above the enemy lines, the Greek airman put two of the enemy aeroplanes (o flight, and brought down the third, which was smashed to pieces by the fall. JUGOSLAVS’ ASPIRATIONS. Dr. Ante Trumbic, president of the Jugoslav Committee in London, explained fully to Mr Balfour the aspirations of (he Austrian Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes for union with Servia and Montenegro in one independent State. Mr Balfour warmly expressed the sympathy of Great Britain for the subject nationalities. IRON FIST IN BELGIUM. In connection with the escape of some young Belgians over the frontier, the Abbe Moens and Brother Dens.de Schcpper, directors of the schools at St. Luc de Molenheek. Belgium, were condemned to death by Germans (another report, says executed), and other priests and civilians to several years’ imprisonment.

THE BREST-LITOVSK TRUCE. Germany’s former' Colonial Secretary, Dernburg, has said that “the Brcst-Litovsk peace treaty is above all only a truce. It is to be hoped, •however, that peace will issue therefrom.” In the Baltic lands, he said, only 5 per cent, of the population was German.

THE TELL-TALE HAT

French correspondents record that when M. Clemenceau returned from London recenly, Paris knew • at a glance the Allied Conference lie had atendecl had been successful. He was wearing bis bat tilled at a jaunty angle over the right ear. This is a habit with the lighting French Premier whenever he is particularly pleased with himself. . SIX DAYS IN A CELLAR. How an award of; the Military j Cross was won by Lieutenant S. S. McLean, Canadian Infantry, is told in the London Gazette. His men were falling as he dashed into a house to attack a garrison. He was knocked out by a bomb, but bis men got him into a cellar, and for six days bo remained there with nothing to oat but iron rations. Three nights be attempted to re-cross the enemy front line, and when rescued by British attacking troops, although wounded, assisted in getting out other wounded men.