GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1858, 30 July 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

KEEP BREAD KNIVES SHARP. In the great army camp in Mississippi (he officer in charge of the school for cooks and bakers inaugurated the “Cut It Thin” campaign. He had the bread knives sharpened, had (be bread sliced carefully, and <-iil down the bread consumption in that camp for two weeks, finriiig \yhieh careful cheek was kept, by (11.266 pounds, making an avirage daily saving of 4,085 lounds of bread. It not only saved (lie Government 8,500 dollars in those two weeks, buf it meant a great saving of Hour for the allies. Needless |o say, tin 1 bread knives nave been kept in the best of eondil ion ever since over there. MFD GLACIERS, Extract from letter from an officer of engineers in Soul hern Macedonia, dated Mlb April, 1018; “I had a two-day’s trip into Hie bills some days ago. but not so far as I will be going later on. It is very 'ideresting eoiinlry —steep bills up to 10,000 feet in height, narrow valleys, with fast (lowing rivers, but strange to say, no rocks anywhere. The bills are of earth and clay, with the result that the rivers change their courses and bring down masses of hillside as you watch. Landslides are common, and I saw from the distance a tiling I will make a closer examination of later on —a mud glacier. Small glaciers are unite common, but Hie one in question is of quite a respectable size, ■uid progresses down Hie valley chiefly in wet weather. If you throw a big stone on to any of the small mud slides it goes in with a ‘plop,’ and disappears. They are, of course, impassable for ordinary purposes. Some of the valleys arc just notches with cliff sides of clay, ready to come down in big lumps, and block and divert the rivers.