GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1858, 27 July 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE NAVY’S RUM. From the principal naval victualling yard last year 1,060,000 gallons of rum were issued, part for the army use in the trenches. One vat in the yard contains 32,817 gallons. The allowance to each man over 20 in the navy is an eighth of a pint daily, hut a very large proportion of the men take “grog money’’ instead. TORPEDO AIMED TO KILL TWO MEN. While two men were coming down the falls of a steamer, which was recently sunk by a submarine, in order to join their comrades in one of the ship’s boats, a German submarine lying 200 yards away, discharged a torpedo at the ship. The torpedo struck the ship’s side, and exploded, killing both men in the falls, and must have been aimed with this object in view. GERMAN IMMORALITY. In the Main Committee of the Reichstag, says the Cologne Gazette, the deputy Struck said; “The Hood of crime (in Germany) is constantly rising. What can we say when we find children of 12 and 14 charged with offences against decency 1 '?” He might have added that recently a child of thirteen was tried in Berlin for strangling a girl of 11. Family ties are relaxing, and the Kreuz/.eitung lately wrote: “In four months 700 divorce; cases came before (he Berlin court alone. The evidence revealed an appalling condition of things. What a light is thrown by these few indications upon the moral condition of the German people!” THUNDER RESTORES SIGHT. Awakened by a terrific clap of thunder, Private Peter Sheridan, South Lancashire Regiment, of Ormskirk, who had been blind through shell shock for a year, has recovered his sight. The doctor says it is an effect of shock and that the recovery will be permanent. .THE (TTY OF DREADFUL NIGHT. The famine in Petrograd is such that the correspondent of the Times, writing from there, says; —Relatives and dependants rob one another of food without compunction. Hunger has no conscience. If a morsel of anything is left on the plate for later consumption it will disappear as soon as you turn your back. Every scrap has to be put under lock and key after each meal. Hares are sold at £2 10s a piece, hams at £4O to £OO each, butter 49s a lb., cheese 3(5s a lb., white flour 20s a lb., eggs 3s apiece, carrots 5s a lb., potatoes 6s a lb. With the exception of occasional limited sales, most of these articles can only be obtained privately.

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