GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1910, 3 December 1918, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

FRENCH CIVIL SERVANTS. Tin* French Cabinet has approved a scheme for giving an additional dear-living allowance of about .CIO a ye*i’ K all Civil Sonants and public functionaries receiving less than £-iSO per year. This will cost £2(1,000,000 annually. RIFLES IN DISUSFR VAULT, A part;,' of American sailors, while visiting the graves of their countrymen who are buried among the Lusitania's victims at the Queenstown cemetery, found in a disused vault in a secluded portion of the graveyard three loaded ritles stolen from the reservoir over which they were, keeping guard by a party of Simi Reiners. KAISER AS A FRESCO. The following is an extract from a letter from the officer commanding an Indian infantry regiment, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, to his daughter in England: —“i. paid a jiving visit u> .Jerusalem a couple of (toys ago. and stayed at r.n hotel just inside the Jaffa gate, at the bottom of David Street, whore the German Emperor had a Jude cut in the wall so that ho might ride in on a donkey, I went to the German

hospice on the Mount of Olives. The chapel is a very line one, Ims a big organ and a painted roof; one fresco is of Christ, and another of the German Emperor and his wife." TRAGEDY OF THE AIR. While carrying out an aerial manoeuvre on the Kentish coast, two machines collided and crashed to the ground. The aeroplanes were manned by four officers of the Royal Air Force, three of whom were killed instantly, and the fourth terribly injured, was to a military hospital, where he died next morning. . CROWD STONE A HOUSE. Newquay, in Cornwall, was the scene of a display of public feeling against residents who were alleged to be of enemy origin. A large crowd of inhabitants ami visitors, assembled on the Island Estate, whore speeches were made and patriotic songs sung. Afterwards stones were thrown at a house, nearly all the windows being broken. When (he crowd appointed a deputation to search the house, it was reported to them that the people concerned had been conveyed to St. Colomh police station for their own safely. There have been many protests to (be police regarding the residence of alleged aliens on the sea front at Newquay.