NEWS IN BRIEF.

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

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A cigarette is the best gas detector in the trenches, according to a French officer. The gas is invisible, he said, and the best way he has found to sense its coining is in the changed taste of his smoke.

A Dutch auctioneer has called attention to the fact that a large proportion of the porcelain and other antiques now being offered in the Dutch sale rooms is the proceeds of German looting in Belgium and France.

It is estimated that at least 3,250,000 egg-producing liens have been saved in New York, Chicago, and Boston markets alone by the recent American Food Administration, order forbidding hens being killed before April 20. A surprising statement as to the value of poultry was made by Mr Toni Barron at a meeting of the National Utility Poultry Society, London. He said a hen was a little thing, but 25 hens would produce more value in money than a eow. The famous statue of Joan of Arc in front of Reims Cathedral has been removed to safely in a motorwaggon, covered with flowers: The only damage it had received during the bombardments was the breaking of the maid’s uplifted sword.