GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1884, 1 October 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

CHIEF OF TAMMYWAACS. One of the women. lost in the torpedoing of the ambulance transport Marilda was Mrs Yiolot Long, chief controller of the British women’s army auxiliary corps, Do)ter known as the “Tammy Waacs,” who, with her sister, Airs Long, started the work of the corps early in the Avar. PARENTS AND THE STATE. Father Bernard Vaughan, at a London meeting, said it avus not I lie business of the Slate to feed and clothe the children. It avus the duty of the parents, and on (hat account he demanded a living wage. Every man in the Empire should he able to tind not merely a shelter or a shake-’ down, but a little home in Avhieb lie might bring up ins offspring as worthy children of God and members of (he greatest Empire the world has ever seen. THE AVAR HORSE, Despite (he vast numbers of motor vehicles used ou the European battle fronts, (lie horse is still important as an engine of war. The armies in the Held have already used 1,500,000 horses, and America’s ncAV army will refinin' .1,500,000 more. Wounded horses are easily handled. They seem to know that (he surgeons are trying to help litem, and they submit to having their hurts dressed with Avonderful fortitude. LITTLE METAL IN HUN STATUES. The search by military authorities for copper and brass to be used in making munitions have disclosed that most of (he supposedly statues in Berlin are nothing but extremely (bin metal .shells, similar to some of the trophies presented in prewar days by the Emperor. It lias been decided that if Avill not be worth while to dismantle the statues, because of the small amount of metal to he obtained. DANGER OF PROPHECY. America will not he able to save France from tin 1 terrible fate Germany has prepared for her,,, says the Essen Gazelle. It says; — “AA"hence could otir enemies obtain the means for anoiher offensive? From America, perhaps? Have avc not already shown in Ihcsc columns that the aid from that quarter cannot Iml he of flic slenderest and most insignificant for onr enemies, and notably the French, for Avhom all is a Intake and for avlkuii a terrible time is in store. In all probability they will defend themselves to (he last man. Thai, however, will help them nothing. The inheritance which Poincare and Oleiueuccan will leuvc to their successors will he a fearful one indeed. Both these men have sowed the Avind; both, and Franco Avilh (hem, Avill gather the Avhirhvind. WHAT FRITZ SMOKES. AAHuil the German soldier thinks of the Ersatz-tobacco which Hie Government i - now form'd to supply to the troops is reflected in aIdler published in a German paper. The corrcspondciil Avriles /—“Reading in your paper so much in praise of Eratz-tohacco, I sent a small packet to a brother in the Held. 1 have just received from him the following Idler: —‘One more request; For God’s sake don’t send any more Eratz-tohacco. All the tlcas, Hies, lice, mice, and rates came out of their hiding-place when 1 lit a trial pipe. Most of them fell doAvn dead. AA’e have survived, hut only because we clapped on our gas-masks. If the Government supply any more of this stuff to the troops they Avill poison the lot of us.’ ”