GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1885, 3 October 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

AFTER THE WAR IN BELGIUM. Attention is' on lied to (be fact that in (lie district of Leigo after the war the enal mines of the basin of Liege will reorganise in stilt greater proportions the food service wbicli they bad created for the miners, but which the food shortage forced them to suspend, says the Belgian Bulletin. The syndicated coal mines in question will open establishments to furnish to the workers food, clothing, shoes, etc., at the cost. 7,000 FOOD SUBSTITUTES, There were 7,000 substitute foods known to the authorities at the end of last October, says the Berliner Tageblatt. A few are described, e.g., a “stretching flour” of powdered hay, “jams” of essence-flavour-ed gelatine and water, and “meat cubes” of similar origin to the jams.

GERMAN FOG DETECTOR

German scientists have perfected an instrument known as a “fog delector, ” according to a correspondent of Reynold’s newspaper. The inslrument, which is said to be already in use in (ho German naval and aviation services, indicates the gathering of a fog, its density and duration, about ten hours before it settles down. TOMMY’S CHIVALRY. A pretty story is told by a correspondent. Ho writes: —“You will like to know that some Austrian prisoners taken on the Uiave, who were being sent to the big camps in Southern France, travelled for a considerable part of the journey with some British troops. On arriving at Nice they sent for an English interpreter, and stated that (hey wished the English to know how splendidly they had been treated. They added that they could never have believed an enemy could have been so chivalrous, and, as they had read in (he German papers, of such tales of cruelty, they made this protest with their grateful thanks.”