GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1913, 10 December 1918, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GUERNSEY’S GIFT TO AMERICA.

As a token of appreciation for the American effort in the war, the people of the little islands of Guernsey and Jersey have volunteered to stock the American Red Cross hospital farm at Sarisbury Court, near Southampton, with 00 purebred dairy cows, OFFICIAL AVAR ON RATS. The British Food Controller has issued an order, termed the Rats Order, 1018, giving power to local authorities to take such measures with regard to rat destruction as may appear to them necessary, and requiring persons concerned to comply with any directions given under that order by such authorities. MULLER, OF THE EMDEN, FREE. According to the Hamburger Nachrichtcn, Captain von Muller, of Emden fame, hiss been released from internment in Holland owing to the stale of his health. He is slaying at Biankenburg, in the Harz; Mountains.

MERCHANT SERVICE MEDALS

The King has approved of a special medal being granted to masters, officers and seamen of the mercantile marine for services performed in the danger zone during (he war. The medal will be issued at 11)0 end of the war, and clasps will he awarded where conspicuous service has hccu rendered. His Majesty has also approved a standard uniform for the mercantile marine, and an Order in Council on this subject will be issued shortly.

BOLSHEVIK MURDERS APP LAUDED.

The German Press gave its full approval to (ho wholesale murders of the Russian terrorists. “In spile of their radical way of doing things, Lenin and Trotsky are men of high intellectual attainments and standing,” says one paper. “In giving the dreadful order to execute 500 of their opponents’ in cold blood they must therefore have felt that, they have to give an effective answer to a plot the nefarionsnoss of which justified any and every means of repression. Wo learn that -1.0 Englishmen were included among the 500 put to death. Although this news is as yet unconfirmed, wo think it must lie true, for justice cried aloud that the English, as instigators of the crime, should he the first to suffer for it.” IN CINDERS. London wastes half a million tons of coal a year by cinders thrown away in dustbins. In the whole country the waste is equivalent to 21 million tons of coal. Steps arc being tiiken to save these cinders by inducing local authorities, who arc at present: wastefully disposing of refuse, to screen it. Apart from other products of value, the recovery of cinders now going to waste, reckoning coal at 2fis a ton, means an annual saving of £2,804,000. On the basis of the 101(1 colliery output it would take 11.008 miners, working a whole year to raise, the amount op coal whieh in heat value equals (lie cinders annually dumped into London's refuse heaps.