GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2040, 11 October 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A goose made a savage attack on a chili! at Tipton (Staffs). A policeman arrived when the child appeared likely to be killed, and the goose was driven away. Mrs Bridger, Coshain, Hants, lias .just been married to Air Williams, of Copnur, Portsmouth. She is <-I years of age, and the bridegroom is himself a septuagenarian. Mr Williams is the fifth husband of Mrs Bridger. Warning notices were recently served by the Ilford Urban Council on the owner of certain houses requiring him to make them “reasonably lit for human habitation.” The ■council, have now received a letter from the owner, stating that if the notices arc insisted on the houses will he closed.

BcTevring to some cabalistic sip’ris in his letters to Mrs Morton, Captain Hanson, the co-respondent in an Irish divorce case, translated “[ \V. I. W. A. H. W, IV as “I wish 1 was at home with you.” There was no foundation fur the construction “J wish I were an hour with you.” C. Y. K.” meant “Consider yourself kissed,” and “S. \\, A. K.’’ “Sealed with a kiss.” Marshal Koch never J'orgcls. Some time ago ho was preset!ling French decorations to Canadian officers of the famous First Canadian Division. Ho discussed with them the second battle of Ypres, and especially the battle of St. Julien, where the. German iirsl used gas, and where the Canadians held the line after the troops on their flanks had been suffocated or retired. Foeh was in command of that portion of I lie front at the t ime. He fold the Canadian officers that, had their troops given way, nothing could have stopped the Germans marching to Calais, and added:—“l think the finest act in the wav was the coun-ter-attack of the 10th and Kith Battalions of Canadians after their divisions had been frightfully punished by the German gas.” This counter-attack so amazed the enemy, who counted on their gas demoralising or killing the Canadians, that they slowed down their advance to the- coast, and Calais was saved. That was in the fateful spring of 1915, hut t4*e great marshal of France remembered every detail of the long battle and the actual Canadian battalions.