GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1894, 24 October 1918, Page 4

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ONE V.C. RIBAND FOR ALL. The King has approved ol' the colour of the ribbon of the Victoria Cross being', in future, Hie same for all services, and the red ribbon of the armv Victoria Cross is to be universal for the navy—instead of the blue ribbon hitherto used the army, and Royal Air force. JUDGE’S WIFE AS SWINDLER. Berlin has a new Mine. Humbert sensation in miniature. Frau Dr. Lepa, the wife of a Privy Councillor and High Court Judge, is under arrest on a charge of conspiring with two other women (<yie a noblewoman) to swindle various persons at a net profit to the trio of £150,000. FKANKFORT’S AIR-RAID NERVES. A little straw that shows how the wind is blowing is the demand of the Frankfort Gazette that the German Imperial Government no longei delav in providing the people with State insurance against air-raid damage. A. leading arliele pretends that “it is the absence of this protection that is causing such a widespread feeling of insecurity. A FLIGHT OF 0,000 AIILES. For the purpose of qualifying American and Allied airmen in this country (says the Times) for the eontempiat ed Transatlantic (light, and to demonstrate incidentally to the Centra! Stales , the immense strides made in aeronautics, the United Slates military aeronautical division has arranged for a great cross-eountry flight over a distance of 3,000 miles. The Might will start from Dayton, Ohio, on August 15th. Eleven American airmen will parti- ( ipale in it, and they will be accompanied by English, airmen. The Americans will use Curais machines of the “H” type. ‘■IHTCHEXF.R’S MURDER.” Mr Arnold White, speaking at a British Empire I nhm meeting in Hyde Park, told a startling story in connection with (lie sinking of the Hampshire. “Kitchener’s murder,’ he said, “is one of the great proofof the existence of a vast, ably-or-ganised, and wonderful machine m our mid.-l for the purpose of downing England. Twenty-four hours before the voyage it was decided to alter the course of the Hampshire to enable a veil to be made to the Grand Fleet. On that day a cablegram was sent to Holland expressed il, clear English. It staled: ‘Shall Herbert enter the legal academy next December F The lir.-t censor, a young man, passed it, but the secand censor, not quite so young, wondered why the sender had gone (o the expense of cabling the word ‘the.’ The answer to his query is this; The initials of the words in the cable spell ‘Shetland,’ and il was off the Orkneys that Kitchener met lii> death. That was what he (Mr 'White) meant by the ‘hidden hand.’ ” DREAD BY AEROPLANE. A French battalion, engaged near Poursy, between the Marne and Rheims, was isolated by the enemy. The Frenchmen fought on steadily, and il being impossible to send them provision bv road, il was decided to send Ibem by aeroplane. Accord- * ingiy, a number of aeroplanes were sent out, carrying 200 big loaves, numerous sacks ot biscuits, and 200 tins of bully, all of which were dropped within the lines of (he besieged battalion. Next day their ammunition haying ran out, supplies were renewed from the air ni the same way. Thanks to the enterprise of the airmen, the battalion was able to hold out till reliei. came. WHY SHE RELEASED HIM. “I'll sign a release for him to join the army,’ hut not the navy. It is too sale,” said Mrs John Dendthson, when she appeared against her husband, arraigned in a Pittsburg police court for non-support. The judge had suggested that she permit the defendant to serve his country on the seas. After a long argument Mrs Dendllisoii was convinced that life aboard the fighting ships entailed as many perils as duly in the trendies, and she consented to permit her husband |o sign on as a seaman, adding that if she had her way in making the arrangements be would be stationed midway between the German and allied front-line trenches during barrage lire from both sides.