NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1938, 11 February 1919, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

720 boys from the homes of the London Police Court Mission have been lighting at the front. Two have gained V.C.’s and many others have gained distinct ions.

During the inspection of paper aliout to be sold for pulping, 143 documents of historical value were discovered by the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society last year. The London “Safety First” Council has instituted a Meritorious Service award, consisting of badge diplomas, and honorarium, for the prevention of traffic accidents.

The British Army Council stales that discharged soldiers entitled to wear the gold braid wound distinction may continue to do so on plain clothes after discharge. Ilia Ivopine, whose portraits of Tolstoy and Mussorgsky, in the Moscow (lallery, brought him fame, has died of hunger in a hut at llukhawa, on the road from Petrograd to Finland.

It is reported that Orville Wright is experimenting on a small aeroplane that is designed to occupy the same pla.ee among aircraft that certain low-priced ears do among automobiles.

A Psalter printed by command of Henry Vll., recently fetched £llO (not more limn three others known), and the first edition of Pierre Cringoire’s Honrs of the Virgin, in French verse, £54.

“Sweethearts” Monument, creeled in Camp Dovens, Muss,, from small stones brought from all over the United States hy wives, sisters, sweethearts, and mothers of soldiers, is to he made permanent. A rat and vermin destroyer, who asked Southwark Tribunal to exempt (wo men, 45 and 4fi, tirade 11.,

said he had to refuse to cleanse a number of ships because ol bis short staff. Last year they killed over 2,000,000 rats. Some remarkable figures as to the health of the American Army are given officially. The annual deathrate from disease was reduced for one week in duly below two per 1,000, whereas the rate for men of the same age in civilian life is (i. 7 per 1,000.