GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1839, 13 June 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

WASTE OF GOOD RICE. At Porpoint (Cornwall) Police Court, five women were charged with wasting rice. The inspector under the Food Control Committee was at Kingsand when a wedding was taking place. He saw a number of women throwing rice from a window on to the crowd, and when the wedding Carriage* was passing they threw more rice. The women said they did not know that what they did was contrary to law. They had always been, accustomed to throw rice at weddings, and they did not think any harm was done on this occasion. The magistrate said it was time people knew foodstuffs must not be wasted under any circumstances. Each defendant was fined ss, NO MORE DANISH BACON. The Times Copenhagen correspondent writes: —“Before the war there were about 2,500,000 pigs in Denmark. Now the number has fallen to about 500,000, and will be far fewer by July, when the remaining bacon pigs have been killed off. On February 22nd it was decided that no further killing for export could be allowed, the stock being no more than required for home consumption. NEW FOOD FOR DOGS. Chemists working under the French Ministry for Agriculture have contrived a food for dogs, so as to avoid the use of bread. It consists of a mixture of steamcooked potatoes and beetroot combined with wheat and barley offal. This mixture is pressed, dried, and cut into cakes. It contains 10 per cent, of water and 80 per cent, of nutritive elements. Ten ounces of it will provide a day’s food for a 301 b. dog. 30 CHOP SUEY RAIDS. The New York police raided 30 Chop Suey establishments in the Tenderloin district of New York. One hundred and eighty-eight men and women were taken to the police station for cross-examination. Fifteen hundred others were allowed to go free after an uncomfortable quarter of an hour. Huge crowds followed the police as they travelled from one Chop Suey place (or “joints,” as they are called) to another. The discovery was made that whisky was being served to soldiers in teacups. GERMAN SCHOOLBOYS. A futile attempt was made by the War farming Department to attract Berlin secondary schoolboys to agricultural work. At a meeting attended by over 2,000, the district commissioner, Yon Meyer, made a* speech. The boys, getting up in masses, showed their thorough objection to the admonitions addressed to them, interrupted the speaker several times, and spoiled bis speech by shouting sallies; in fact, according to Voss’ Gazette, Beilin, “they acted in a manner quite unworthy of secondary schoolboys.” FURY OF A GERMAN OFFICER. At nightfall on April 9th a German aeroplane that had lost its way was about to descend in a meadow in the region of Fismes, France. The propeller continued to revolve, the pilot remaining at his post, and the observer officer descended from the machine, map in hand, and scrutinised the horizon, seeking to determine his whereabouts. Suddenly four old territorials guarding a pigeon-house levelled their rifles at the aviators and compelled them to surrender. The Junker officer was mad.with rage, SPY “ SPIRITS” IN ITALY. The secret of pro-German organisation in Italy has achieved a mas-, terpiece of cunning in its labours to undermine the moral of the nation. So-called “occulist circles” have been formed by enemy agents in the largest Italian towns, which influential people of the district are induced to join. The German agents who organise these reunions receive secret information of coming enemy moves, and duly spell the news out by table-rapping in the guise of a spirit message. When events a few days later confirm the apparent prophecy confidence in the supposed occult agencies is naturally increased, and the German instruments use this to spread by the same means alarming reports about the weakness and defects of the allies, the alleged faithlessness of England, and the inevitable triumph of Germany in the war.