NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1894, 24 October 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

During 1917, 32 prominent German airmen, for whom a total of 551 victories had been claimed, were killed. . At a recent murder trial in New York one witness confessed to having made murder his trade at £3 a week. America may form a flying unit of deaf mutes, as army experts have found them to lack all sense of motion. Only one man out of 3,000 enrolled has been found to be physically unlit at Plattslmrg (U.S.A.) Officers’ Training Camp. Up to the end of April, 1918, about £1(1,000,000 had been spent by the American Red Cross! for various war relief purposes. The residential population of the City of London —as distinct from, the County of London —has decreased from 19,057 in 1911 to 11,720 to-day. The supplementary war pay received by railway clerical staffs in England is estimated at between six and seven million pounds sterling per annum. In ten days from May 271 h. liie Pennsylvania Railroad took on 1,545 women employees, ..although only 900 men bad left, for war or oilier causes. Inst after sunrise is said to be the (-oldest period of the day, owing to the evaporation of a cold moisture from the earth under the sun’s rays. The frog has, like the came!, the power of storing up moisture, which enables it to pass through times of drought which would otherwise prove fatal. To prevent heavy emigration after the war. Germany has passed a law taxing all those leaving Germany 29 per cent, of their capital or property holdings. Under the Military Service Act the number of men raised in the Toronto military district is more than the share of 100.900 authorised by Parliament. A young Vicenza girl, left in Friuli at tin 1 time of (be Austrian invasion, has succeeded in escaping through the Austrian lines by wad-, ing through the Piave. The patriotic feature at the wedding of a prominent New York society girl was the carrying of the American Hag by a choir boy at the bead of the bridal procession. Of (1,000 Ford tractors ordered by the British Government, 3,000 have arrived, and also the complete parts for a furl her .1,200, and the hulk of the parts of the remainder. The bridge thrown across the Zambesi at the Victoria Falls is 050 ft. long, 30ft. wide, and 420 ft. ahove low-water mark, which is higher than any other bridge in (he world. The New York Bible Society has just given an order for a third 100,000 New Testaments for soldiers and sailors, and has also ordered 300,000 Gospels for general distribution. A new edict in Germany has proclaimed that hair combings must be saved. This order frightens the women, who fear that the hair bands of (he little girls will next he commandeered. Mr John Dillon, replying to a deputation of County of Dublin farmers, said I lie power of the Irish parly had been practically paralysed by Sinn Reiners, who were powerless to influence the policy of the Government.