GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1841, 18 June 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

BOY’S ARMY ROMANCE. The 13-year-old Ilford may, Henry Albert Stevens, who was charged at Folkstone recently with impersonating his brother and going through the recent lighting on the Somme, is to remain in the army. The youth has now joined the R.F.C. at Folkstone. KEEL PLATE IN SEVEN MINUTES. At the Hebburn (Tyne) shipyard of the Palmer Company, the workmen have established a record by laying the keel plate of a new ship on a berth from which a vessel had been. launched only seven minutes previously. HEAVY MOTOR DAMAGE. One of the problems which the war has brought to the fore is that of the upkeep of through roads. Motor 1 raffle had already made this a national rather than a county affair, and the war traffic has redoubled (he irouble and forced it into prominence. The executive of the Count\ Council"’ Association is urging (lie British Government Departments to come to an understanding to restrict the speed of motors carrying heavy loads.

THE ZEEBRUGGE SUBMARINES

Two old submarines took part in the. exploit at Zeebrugge. The mystery as to the fate of the second has been cleared up by one of the volunteers, who in an interview with the South Wales Daily News, said; “We found the submarine that was not blown up. She was stranded near the viaduct, and we towed her back to Dover. She had about 18 tons of T.N.T. on board. Her (-row was saved.” STORY OF A DEFLECTED TORPEDO. A. remarkable story is (old of the narrow escape from a submarine attack of (lie {full steamer Flixton,

owned by Messrs Siiumen and Co., dining a cross-channel voyage. A torpedo was discharged at the vessel 1)V an enemy submarine, Imt luckily the torpedo broke surface, and was deflected hack again, and coming in contact with the submarine, it exploded, causing a terrific report and upheaval 150 yards away. “DO MAKE ME LAUGH.” A curious little story was related at a Mansion House meeting by Mrs Florence Barclay. During a Zeppelin raid some bombs fell on a village which she knew well, ami one woman was paralysed and lost her speech. She was very poor, her sons were lighting, and her friends stood round her with sad and anxious eyes. Someone thought of handing her a slate, that she might write down her needs, and the first thing she wrote was, “Do say something to make me laugh.”

THE NEW BARRED ZONE.

The Kolnische Zeitung, commenting on the news regarding the new British barred zone in the North Sea, calls it “a new brutal act,” constituting “ a new violation of all free shipping which does not serve English purposes.” Nevertheless, the Cologne paper admits that this new British measure is exclusively directed’ against •Germany’s military enterprises, including submarine warfare and the action of commerce raiders, such as the Wolf and the Moewe.