GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1858, 27 July 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

SPEEDING UP THE WAGON

There was once an ammunition wagon which went up the track' to the gunpits a) a great rate past every kind of obstacle, down into and up out of shell-holes, the horses stretching tothe pace like track racers, and the driver standing like a mad thing on the traces roaring and tugging like a man possessed. He landed in great time, and came to a halt in a bog hole up over the axles in mud. A captain came along and congratulated the driver on his pluck and daring. “Don’t praise me,” said the driver. “It’s them ponies you’ve gotta praise. They got so scared I couldn’t hold them. And I was so scared at their being scared that I couldn’t hold myself. If it hadn’t been for tha mud hole I guess we would have been away beyond the front line by this time. We were going some.”

A WOMAN LABOUR CANDIDATE. Miss Mary Macarthur, who has been adopted as prospective candidate for Stourbridge by the local Labour party, is the first woman candidate to be adopted by any political party. All the men’s trade unions in the district voted for her as prospective candidate, and she will stand, not primarily as a representative of women’s organisations, but as a member of the Labour Party, now representing men and women. Her adoption may be regarded as the first outcome of the affiliation of the women’s organisation with (he Labour Parly. Miss Macarthur is in private life Mrs W. C. Anderson, wife of the member for A Kerch lie.

FOR WORK ON THE GROUND

Mr Hamilton Fyfe tolls a story of one of our pilots, who was disgusted by the refusal of the German pilots to accept combat. He (lew over an aerodrome quite low, and dropped a parcel. Then he flew up into (he clouds. A few minutes later he swooped down and, as he expected, saw a number of Germans examining the parcel. He let two bombs fall and tired 100 cartridges into them before he (lew away. What (hey found in ihe parcel was a pair of loots, and with (hem this note — “If yon won’t come up here to light, herewith one pair of bools for work on I he ground."

RAGING SCENES IN BERLIN

Twenty thousand people fought their way into the (rains to and from (he Grunewald racecourse, Berlin, on Ascension Day, May !)th. The newspapers declare (hat the scramble’not only for places in the trains, but also for admission to the course, and the queues leading to the belling machines, can' only be described at a “bloody battle." Those who succeeded in forcing (heir way into Ihe trains reached (here bruised and dishevelled. Others waited for hours. The newspapers bitterly criticise the railway authorities as well as (he Jockey Club, asserting that as long as racing is permitted accommodation somehow must be provided. Some of the wildest hand-to-hand lighting raged round the race-card sellers, the number of cards available having been about one to every ten persons on the course.