GENERAL WAR NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1850, 9 July 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS

£33 FOR A SECOND-HAND SUIT

A person who has arrived in Geneva from Budapest declares that he recently sold a suit of clothes which he had worn for two years for 800 kroner (rather more than £33). The suit originally cost him £4.

AMERICA’S OUTPUT OF STEEL

America is turning out steel at the rate of 33 million tons per annum for her Government and other essential requirements. Great Britain is furnished with 300,000 tons of steel plate, and Japan with 200,000 tons, and Italy with 00,000 tons. A MIRACLE BITIP. The Tuckahoe, launched 27 days after the keel was laid, in America, was pronounced ready for service after a period of only 37 days had elapsed between the first stroke of actual construction and the completion of what can, without any exaggeration, be pronounced a marvel without precedent in the realm of shipbuilding. „ GASSED TANKS. The poison gas used by the combatants on the Western front not only gassesHmmans, but machines as well—-the internal combustion engines “choke.” It is whispered that this is why we lost the tanks at Cambrai —the motive power was gassed. In future all tanks will be rendered gas tight, we expect, to obviate a recurrence of such a disaster. MAN-POWER. A trivial dispute .about whitewashing a ceiling occupied for two hours three justices of the Middlesex sessions, three court clerks, two counsel, two solicitors and their clerks, a doctor, an official shorthand writer, and live public officials. DISCARDS HONOUR RIBBON. Jean Leymarie, formerly director of the'Ministry of (lie Interior, who was sentenced to (wo years in prison and lined 1,00(1 francs at the end of fhe Bonnet Rouge trial, tore from, his buttonhole (he red ribbon of the Legion of Honour and threw it away with a gesture of despair as he was leaving the Court of Justice. LESS MEDICINAL GLYCERINE. The British Ministry for Munitions has announced that owing to additional demands for glycerine for war purposes, it has become necessary to place further restrictions on the issue of medicinal glycerine, and that supplies in future will.be reserved for the manufacture of the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia and for such uses of special importance as may be sanctioned by the Ministry for Munitions. These supplies will, however, be small, and must be used with the greatest eeonomv.