GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1865, 17 August 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

HIGH-PRICED OLD FURNITURE. Second-hand furniture in Germany now commands prices formerly paid for antiques. The equipment of the Hotel Westminster in Frankfort, which cost: £3,500 new, has just fetched £II,OOO. NEW JEWELLERY SHOPS. Attention has been called by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to the fact that Russians and Belgians since the war have been opening jewellery businesses in London, and, finding things satisfactory, are now starting new businesses in Birmingham. The Jewellers’ Association recommends that no aliens should be allowed to open a business without a license. AN AMERICAN’S RECOURSE.' A man from my company was eating his dinner, and a bunch of Bodies slipped up and pounced on him, like a hawk, and carried him off to their lines, writes an American ollieer. White the hunch of captors were arguing over their disposition of him, he spied two hand-contact bombs, and acting quickly, he grablied them, and threw them into the hunch of his captors. During the confusion following the explosion he jumped out of the German trenches and beat it hack to us, no worse for the experience.