GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1849, 6 July 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

BE CAREFUL OF WOUNDED,

Berlin tramway cars and omnibuses are now used by such large numbers of wounded men that themanagement is displaying prominent placards reading: ‘‘Be careful of the wounded.”

GERMANY HAS 6,000,000 PIGS

The number of swine in Germany now is under 6,000.000, as compared with 13,000,000 a year ago, says the Koelnische Volks Zeitung. Although there are still 19,000,000 cattle, their slaughter weight is now only 136 kilograms, as compared with 210 a year ago, the newspaper adds.

GAOL FOR DANCE-GIVERS

At Schwaging, a suburb of Munich, an art students’ dance was recently held. Among the merry- 1 makers were high Bavarian officers, members of the South German nobility, and several princely personages. Prosecuted for holding a dancing festivity contrary to law, the organisers of the revel pleaded that they gave it for the purpose of buoying up the participants’ war spirits. The court was not impressed by this excuse, and sentenced the ringleaders to six weeks’ arrest.

HOLLAND AND GERMAN CHILDREN.

In all previous war years Germany has farmed out a large number of children in Holland for purposes of better nourishment. The organisation which has charge of the annual migration announces that it will he impossible to semi the children this year owing to Holland’s own food shortage.

MUSTARD GAS BOMBS. If is reported that a German airplane recently (lying over the American sector north-west of Toul, dropped rubber halls 18iu. in diameter, tilled with liquid mustard gas, on our positions. This is the first time, as far as is known, that air- . r planes have been employed in such an operation.

AUSTRIA'S PETTICOAT ARMY

Austrian .newspapers are exhibiting concern at what they’call the effeminisalion of the. annyi It appears 36,000 women and girls are now employed in the auxiliary services as clerks, servants, etc., and others are being enlisted at the rate of 150,000 a month. They are being enrolled at Vienna and sent into the field.

DISORGANISED TURK RAILWAYS.

Turkey is full of Germans, military and civilian, who depend on food supplies from Germany. It has not been possible for many weeks past to send parcels because of the demoralisation of the Turkish railways. A communique says that no improvement is to be expected for some time, and food parcels can therefore not yet be accepted at German post offices.

SCHOOL CHILDREN CALLED UP

The Berlin municipal authorities have decided to call up the school children for a useful form of national service. Teachers have been ordered to mobilise their pupils, according to their physical capacity and residential localities, into troops of helpers whose special duty it shall be to fetch coal, wood, and other household necessities for old people or invalids who are unable to do for themselves, or who, owing to the lack of labour, cannot, hire others to fetch and carrv for them.

A HATE EPISODE,

The racing season in Berlin opened on April 21st at the Grunewahl course. Many of the trainers and jockeys there are Englishmen who escaped internment at Ruhleben in order to he of service to the German horse-breeding industry. On the night, of April 20th the stable of a trainer named Campbell was broken into. The intruders poured a poisonous acid into the mouth of a three-year-old which was a “certain winner” of one of the main events on the opening day’s programme. The horse’s tongue and throat were so cruelly burnt that it could not start in the race.