WAR TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1871, 31 August 1918, Page 4

WAR TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Hemp for traitors and spies would not be giving them any too much rope. —Los Angeles Times. The worst thing about our War o(life's big announcements is that Germany believed them and got busy. —Boston Herald. Whatever may be the Kaiser’s ultimate aim in this war, wo are pretty well convinced that it is not popularity he “is a,tier. —Houston Post. The Kaiser has raised 20(1,000,000 dollars to build merchant ships. Where is he going to sail them — up and down the Rhine? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A number of good reasons why Germany will be defeated in the end are advanced, but the main one is that there’s a God in heaven. —Ohio State Journal. Having struck a church and iv foundling asylum, the German longrange gun will now presumably be decorated with an iron cross. —Indianapolis News. The German report says the British attack on Zeebrugge was a failure, which is probably the reason Berlin is removing the admiral in command of the port. —Detroit free Press. Photographs of those British cruisers sunk at. Zeebrugge will probably be displayed in (be German papers as ocular evidence of another great naval victory. Nashville Southern Lumberman. The only yellow peri! we know of is the follow who won't fight for America. —San Antonio Light. It looks* to the Columbia Missourian as if the draft lias developed into a regular gale. —Kansas City Times. Imaginary interview. —“Papa’s armies art* adding daily to our glorv, so why such a fuss over the casualties ?” — The Kaiser s six sones. —Dallas News. If they are both alive when the war is over. John Barleycorn and the Kaiser will be in the proper frame of mind to sympathise with, each other. —Kansas City Star. The Germans shot a priest and a nun. —Detroit Free Press. British opponents of Lloyd George argued that a French Generalissimo might sacrifice British troops. The last stand of the French regiment sent to hold Ml. Kemmel is the answer. —Springlield Republican. Now is the lime to defeat Prussia’s next war. —Wall Street Journal. One of the Kaiser’s long-rango guns exploded and killed live of its crew. The first German gun with a conscience. —E.A.8.”, “here is one sinner who repenleth. Detroit News. Another pleasing aspect of this time change is the tact that it "ill result in the Germans being licked an hour earlier than they otherwise would have been.—Savannah News. Those who object to military training in the schools should remember that one of the first principles of public-schooling is to leach the young idea how to shoot. —lndianapolis News. Austria’s War Minister has promised von Hindenburg that while he attacks France and England on the West, “Austrian armies will guard the Eastern front..” Ga'llaut Austria! Denver Rocky Mountain News. When Germany doesn’t care how many Gorman lives it wastes, why should we be so solicitous of the lives of the German spies over here. —Detroit Free Press. If Wilhelm is not careful he will not have enough men to send back to the East to consolidate his Russian victories. —San Francisco Chronicle. A Cologne newspaper asserts thatbad went Iter, not the Allies, halted the German drive. It took quite a severe .storm, however, to cause a. casnall v list of between 400,000 and 500.000—New York World. Holland's indignation over the commandeering of her ships by the Allies seems to be under a good deal less control than her indignation over their sinking by German torpedoes.—Philadelphia North American.