GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1881, 24 September 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GERMANS IN JERUSALEM.

Germans in Jerusalem have been allowed to remain in their houses and the German schools continue their work unhampered. 510 LOCOMOTIVES ORDERED. The U.S.A. War Department has ordered 510 locomotives for military railroads in France from the Baldwin Locomotive Works at a total cost of 1 about £5,000,000. About 10,000 freight cars for service in France, costing about £3,600,000, will be ordered shortly. “LET DOWN THE BARS." Says the New York Herald, referring (o'the recruiting problem in the United Slates: —“Men who are lit and ready to fight at fifty are better men than those who tremble in the twenties! Let down the bars, Mr President, and win the war!” NEW SERUM FOR GAS GANGRENE. Professor Vincent has submitted to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, a paper in which he announced that he has discovered a new serum to cure gas gangrene. The serum was injected in 13 soldiers in a desperate condition, including four who were dying. As a result, eleven of these soldiers recovered. GREEDY WAR PRISONERS. North Herts farmers, puzzled because German (land workers) prisoners had no food with them, have been officially informed the prisoners eat their full day’s ration before starting out to work. RIGHT-HAND SALUTES. The following new instructions as to saluting appear in the Army Orders: —“The left-hand salute by warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men is abolished. The salute will be given by till ranks with the right hand. When saluting to the side the head will be turned towards the person sainted. In cases where from physical incapacity a right-hand salute is impossible, the salute will be given with the left hand.” The maple leaf, while being recognised as the emblem of Canada, is only a leaf and not a blossom, and it is realised that Canada has no officially recognised flower. The Dominion has got along for many years without one, but the question of selecting such an emblem is arousing much attention at the present time. The sense of need has arisen through a desire to plant upon (he graves of (hose who have fallen in France and Flanders a flower which shall portray the country for which (hey sacrificed their lives. DOGS FOR THE ARMY. While dog-owners are trembling about the provision of food for their pets, the War Office is making renewed appeals for gifts of large dogs for array purposes. It wants especially Danes, Mastiffs, St. Bernards, Newfoundlands, Bull-mas-tiffs, Retrievers, Collies, sheepdogs, large curs, Dalmatians, Lurchers. Airedales, crossbred shepherds. No dogs smaller than Airedale terriers are required, and they must be between 18 months and five years of age.