GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE GERMAN METHOD. A waitress in a Stuttgart cafe was sent to prison for six weeks for adding water to the tea or coffee served to customers and'converling a single portion into two, pocketing the difference in money paid. MARKING JEWISH GRAVES. A double triangle will bo placed above the grave of every American Jewish soldier who falls in France instead of a cross, as the result of a recommendation of Colonel Harry Catuer to the War Department. General Pershing has been cabled to make the substitution. LUDENDORFF FAMILY MOTTO. The Ludondorff family tomb, just opened in -Berlin Cemetery, bears the motto, “Fearless and faithful.” The legend requires only a slight alteration to make it appropriate to Germany under Junkerdom: “Fearful and faithless.” SOME TEUTONIC JIUMOVR. Bismarck was the author of the famous German saying, “We fear God above, but nothing else in the world.” The German soldiers have changed it to “We fear nothing but God and our own artillery.” This sign was posted on a dug-out captured in the recent offensive. 3,000 TYPES OF SHIPS, Sir Martyu Conway, DirectorGeneral of the Imperial War Museum, speaking in Manchester, said upwards of 3,000 types of ships have been employed by the navy dialing the war, and we" over 300 types of aeroplanes have been used. SEA-GOING CONCRETE BARGES. The first concrete sea-going barge by the Williams system of construction was launched recently at Poole shipyard. Its deadweight capacity was over 1,000 tons, with a length of 190 ft., and 38ft. beam. Further similar barges are nearing completion, as well as concrete tugs. BARON SCHROEDER’S SECRETARY. A further list of persons interned on the recommendation, in most cases, of the Aliens 4 Advisory Committee includes the names of Paul F. 11. Joachim,’ of Oxford, nephew of the well-known, violinist, and Edward Aulike, 45, of Richmond, 21 years’ resident, with British-born wife, private secretary to Baron Sehroeder, the London banker. HARVEST HUSTLE. A field of 16 acres on the farm of Mr William Parkes, at Little Stretton, near Leicester, has been reaped, carried, and ploughed in the same day. Thirty-seven workers, including German prisoners, with two elevators, three horse-rakes, and four wagons, were responsible for the performance. Steam {doughs followed a few yards behind the rakes, and by the time the grain had been carried, ploughing was also practically complcted. DEAF AVIATORS. According to the Mew York correspondent of Reuter, American army officers believe that they have discovered the ideal air-fighter in the deaf mule. As a result of aviation tests made with recent graduates of a local institution for the deaf and dumb, it is thought possible that (he War Department may authorise the enrolment of deaf mules in the Hying service, and that a now field of war endeavour will be opened to thousands of young men, throughout the country.