NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1881, 24 September 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The price paid by Lord Leverluilme for the 437,000 acres ot the island of Lewis, Hebrides, avus £'143,(100. It has a population of about 28,000.

Over 2(5,000,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and fruit have been supplied (o (he British Fleet through the Vegetable Products Committee since August, 11)14.

Hundreds of roses were showered by American aeroplanes, dropping one by one from the clouds, upon the grave of Major Fufbery, the famous American “aec.” Members of flic East Surrey Regiment have Avon six V.C.’s, ninetylive M.C.’s, eiglity-six D.C.M.’s, and numerous foreign decorations during the war. * Women’s boots arc taken from their feet by robbers in lonely streets of several German towns, according j.o reports appearing in the newspapers of the Fatherland. An Oklahoma Congressman has asked the Government )o pay fanners £(50,1)00,000 protits claimed to ha\ r e been lost through the regulation of wheat prices.

A West Midland soldier, writing home, ■ enclosed a (ivc-mark note, which he said Avas given to him hy a big Bavarian, avlio ran toAvards him with his hands up begging for mercy.

Probably no other lighter has figured in the casualty lists move times than Brigadier-General A. Carton de Wiart, V.C., D. 5.0., who is reported Avounded for the tenth time.

Butter is 6s Gd a pound in Vienna, and margarine 3s Ifd. and the Aveekly ration of these is lloz. per head. In addition a small number of the poorest people are allowed Ijoz. of bacon fat. Russia’s national Mag henceforth “ Rossiskay Sotzialyitichcskaya Federal ivivnaya Sovietskaya Kespnblika” (Russian Socialistic Fedwill he red, with the inscription, erativc Soviet Republic).