GENERAL WAR NEWS.

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

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

BONES FOR SHELLS, People have to learn dial bones, lish and vegetable refuse, slaughterhouse waste, scrap metal, particularly old tins, rags, waste paper, ami broken glass are all very valuable to the country just now. Eighteen pounds of bones, for example, will provide the glycerine (o propel an 18-pounder shell. Two things are necessary, instructions in saving, and a perfected system of collection. A BOOM IN MASCOTS. Xenelle and Rinlinlin —Hie famous Parisian mascots who safeguard their wearers from the shells of La Grosse Bertha and the bomb' of raiding Golhas —arc (hiding considerable favour among the fighting men in France. Exaggerated stories are being related of the power of these liny grotesque woollen dolls to avert danger, illogical (hough it be, there certainly have been some remarkable escapes lately amongst the possessors of the quaint couple. Neuelte, particularly, seems a potent charm against air raids. Astute villagers in Picardy are buying stocks of red, white, and blue wool, and are busily engaged manufacturing stocks of mascots for retailing to the troops. SUNDAY GAMES, “It is just as right to play games on Sunday as on Monday,” said Father Aderley, preaching at St. Paul’s London. “The modern method of education teaches a child that Sunday is the stupidest and dullest day in the week. If Christians Avant to bring about a better state of things, let them leave off saying that playing games on Sunday is wicked.”