NEWS IN BRIEF.
Glasgow has 47,000 unemployed. France spent £1,040,000,000 on munitions during the war.
The Royal Air Force estimates for 1919-20 amount to £60,500,000.
More than half the French army has now been restored to civilian life.
About 100 submarine mines per day are being swept up in the North Sea. Seamen the world over entertain the belief that re-named ships are unluckv.
Only 38 French prisoners—too ill o move —are left in German hospi:nls. Canada now has about 90 mills ‘or making pulp and paper products 'roin wood.
The United States Army will not lie reduced to less Ilian 51.0,000 officers and men. At Amerongen, the ex-Kaiser recently began sawing a large beech, his I,oolst tree.
A shoal of herring is often five or six miles in .length, and (wo or three in breadth. The word “Czechs” should be pronounced as though it were spelled “Choks.” Fine deeds of French airmen are to be commemorated in a “Golden Book of the Squadrons.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1985, 3 June 1919, Page 1
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164NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1985, 3 June 1919, Page 1
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