NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1950, 11 March 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Conscientious objectors in Britain number 1,382. Scotland Yard finger-print record now contains 283,000 impressions. Dog’s wool is being spun and manufactured into garments in England.

The London County Council has lent nearly £10,000,000 to the nation.

An American chaplain says that 10,000 Americans have married French girls. During four days: of armistice celebrations, London ambulances had 371 calls.

.The last ship sunk by a U-boat was on November 2nd, 1918, in the Mediterranean. Trials with the electrification of crops are to be made in France, America and Japan. To put out two tires in London, 370 firemen and 35 motor fii'c engines were employed. In America is a newspaper —the Atlantic City Evening Union —mu entirely bv women.

Since its formation in August, 1017, the Air Inventions Commit 1 cl* considered 4,000 inventions.

It is estimated that over 100,000 limbs were amputated in military hospitals during the war. A free pass for parents to visit their soldiers’ graves in Franco latexon is being considered. The Germans left on the quay at, Antwex-p more than 20,000 tons of coal and 50 steam lugs. Silk-hat prices in Paris went up 100 per cent, in a week before the opening of the Peace Conference. 300,000,000 untouched- rubber trees arc calculated to exist in Brazil in regions off the beaten track. Police interpreters wore stationed in the principal streets of Paris to assist Allied soldiers during the war. During (he war the Isle of Thanet underwent IP.) German air raids, and bombardments from the sea. From December, 1914, to March, 1916, Portugal was governed by no fewer than six separate administrations. An American aviator recently shot a deer from an aeroplane, and brought the carcase home on his machine. The possibilities of cattle raising on I lie savannah lands of British Guiana is engaging attention in (hat colony. During the war the British and Foreign Bible Society printed parts of (he Bible in 33 fresh languages and dialects. Portugal is the largest tungsten ore producer in Europe, and contributes about, eight per cent, of (he world's output. Lady Bathurst advertised her thanks iu a London paper to “whosoever sent her the ring she lost 17 years ago.” Large quantities of sprats caught on the Scottish coast have been sold fur manure owing to the difficulty of iransporting them. The French are considering the const met ion of 19,900 miles of new railway line in Xorlh Africa in (lie next fifteen years. In Sweden Ihe public-houses are closed on Sal unlay, which is payday, while the savings-banks are kept open until midnight. Old Etonians on active service numbered 5,610, of whom 772 were killed, 217 died Of wounds, 135 died, and 1,068 were wounded. The President of China has burned 300 chests of Indian opium worth £5,000,000, as a proof of China's determination to suppress the opium traffic. Measured by pedometer, the distance (ravelled by .Miss Violet Lorainc during each performance at the Alhambra Theatre, London, is live miles. The population of Moscow, formerly 1,100,000. is now little more than 500,000, everyone who could having (led from (he. Bolshevik reign of murder. Going to France in uniform in place of his brother-in-law, whose bride was ill, a 17-year-old hoy w as discovered, and ai Southafnpton was lined £5.