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GENERAL WAR NEWS.

NEW-BORN BABIES’ SUGARCARDS.

Whilst in normal times the majority of parents generally let a month or six weeks elapse before registering births, since sugar rationing the registrar in Lancashire reports fresh arrivals are registered often a few hours after birth. A soldier returned to France from leave informed the padre that during the previous fourteen days he had got married. “Oh, what church did you go to?” asked the .interested padre. “Oh, we didn’t go to no church,” was the reply; “we got spliced at one of those offlicense places.” 179,000 HUN PROFITEERS. In Zurich has been received a Berlin communication which shows that in October, 1916, alone, the number of persons in Prussia who were indicted for violating the law relating to illicit war profits was 17,220. In January, 1917, this number had increased for the month to 22,4j69, in June to 33,646, in July [ to 43,225, and in August to 62,462. Only 6 per cent, of the persons tried were acquitted. A HUN’S “UNKNOWN DARLING.” Florence Mayos, a member of the W.A.C., who, it was stated, is engaged to a British soldier in France, was lined £5 at Sheffield for sending letters to a German prisoner of war. The girl, who was employed near an internment camp, was detected sending a love-letter to a prisoner, who enclosed a reply in a matchbox, addressed to “My unknown darling.” A FAMOUS SCHOONER. It is now learnt that the Casco, (he little schooned immortalised in the romances of Robert Louis Stevenson, is to be employed for commercial purposes. In 1890, when he arrived at San Francisco in search of health, he spied the yacht lying 'in the harbour, and immediately took a fancy to, her. On board the Casco he, in fact, spent his honeymoon tour, which eventually extended over a year, among the many island groups of the South Pacific. FOUR SOLDIER BROTHERS KILLED.

By the death of Lieutenant E. M. Hutton, R.E., Mr L. G. Sutton, of Reading, a member of the well-., known seed linn, has lost his fourth son in the war. Lieut. Sutton fell in the present battle in France. One of his brothers was killed last November in Palestine. There now remains one other brother serving—also an officer. Their father, who is Deputy-Mayor of Reading, himself raised in the early days of the war the company of the Royal Engineers to which Lieut, E. M. Sutton belonged. KAISER’S HYPOCRISY. Describing the Kaiser’s visit to the battlefield near Queant, in the Lokalanzieger, Herr Karl Rosner says: “His Majesty’s silence was only once broken, when he remarked to an officer by his side, AYhal have I not done to preserve the world from these horrors?’” BEDSIDE TRAGEDY. A distriessing shooting affair is orported from Leith. An officer returned from France to his home, .and was sitting at the bedside talking to his wife, when an automatic pistol which he held was accidentally discharged. The bullet passed through his wife’s body and wounded their child. The wife died almost immediately. The child was conveyed to hospital. ESCAPED PRISONERS’ CLUB. A dozen British prisoners of war who had escaped from Germany met at a dinner given in London to celebrate their escape. At this dinner it was decided to form a club, mem-, bership of which was to be confined to those who have succeeded in making their way out of a prisoners of war or internment camp in Germany. The site of the. club premises has not yet been settled, but the club will certainly be the most novel thing of its kind in London. HOME GUNNERS UP TO 50. It is intimated in England that men of 43-50 are urgently wanted for the home Garrison Artillery or A.S.C. Mechanical Transport. They will be posted, as far as possible, near their homes.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1838, 11 June 1918, Page 1

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GENERAL WAR NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1838, 11 June 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1838, 11 June 1918, Page 1

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