GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1882, 26 September 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ARCHBISHOP’S STORY.

The Archbishop of York, giving his experiences in TJ.S.A. at the London Mansion House, said that when the largest ship Vaterhmd was launched the German chairman of the company said genially to a United States naval officer, “I can pul 10,000 men on board tins ship, and some day I shall bring them across to the United States.” ‘“Then,' said the naval officer, “if you do, I hope I may be there to meet them. Within a short time that very naval officer put 10,000 American troops into the Vaterhmd and sent them across to light the Germans.

54,000 DEFECTIVE SHELLS. At the Court of Criminal Appeal, Mr Purchase appeared before Mr Justice Lawrence and Mr Justice Shearman in support of the appeal of Bernard A. Kupferberg, who, after being acquitted of the charge of conspiracy was ordered a new trial and sentenced to three years’ penal servitude fur aiding and aj, citing James Samuel Reardon wrongfully to apply acceptance marks to war material. Mr Purchase contended that prejudice was imported against Kupferberg. The judge said something about enough defective shells to lose a battle. Mi Justice Lawrence; Isn't 54,000 shells enough to lose a battle? I 1 or the Crown it was contended that there cmiid be no excuse for stamping the broad arrow on material known to he inelleclive. fhe appeal was dismissed.

A FAMISHING BANK DIRECTOR.

Quite a sensation was caused in the Berlin Courts recently by the appearance of a hank director, Von P., summoned for having illicitly purchased two pounds of butter. The accused is a veritable giant, standing about eight feel, and weighing seventeen stone. He hiought several medical witnesses to state that he could not possibly subsist on las rations, and that he had, perforce, to buy surreptitiously. He had become so ill that one doctor had procured for him a special invalid allowance, of a little porridge and a quarter of a litre of milk tor breakfast. But even this was hopelessly inadequate tor a man of that build. The court expressed , its sympathy with the giant, but said that the law must he obeyed, and lined the hank director £3. The hitter left the court complaining that his only alternative to avoid death by starvation was to face the risk of perpetual prosecution.

STREET ORGAN DESERTS LONDON.

It is quite seldom that a street organ is seen or heard in London nowadays, and the \‘er\ tew about are not ground and trundled by an Italian or his wife, fhe Italians have left their organs and gone, to light their country’s battles; their Avomen folk trundled and ground the' family organ in London streets until air raids decided them to start'on country rounds. In consequence, the provinces have had, and are likely this slimmer again to have, more “music” than they ever bargained for.

GERMANS’ NEW USE FOR BERBER.

The Swiss sentries on the German frontier were recently Avilnesses of a dramatic flight of a German soldier from his native soil. The man kept the German sentries engaged in a long conversation, and

when he considered the opportune moment had arrived he suddenly gave one of the sentries a terrific blow in the face, and threw pepper in the faces of the others. By the time the men had gathered their scattered senses together the deserter was already on Swiss soil, whence he waved them a joyful adieu. ALLIES’ FOOD SUBPLY. As an indication of the volume of conservation effected by the American people, the shipments of meat, dairy, and fat products generally to the Allies for the Avliole (’seal year 1916 to 1917 Avere 2,16(5,000,00011)., but for the year ended 1917 to 1918, they Avere over 3,000,000,0001 b., or, roughly speaking, there avus an increase of: 800,000,0001 b. in the shipment of these vital products during a period when there was not a larger number of animals in the country limn in the previous year. That increase represents the efforts being made in America to economise, and is full of promise for the future.