TIT-BTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 253, 4 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

TIT-BTS.

It costs approximately £3OO every time a big naval gun is fired.

Blue was the colour of the seaman's dress in the time of the Saxons.

' No presents of wine or spirits can be accepted by soldiers at the front.

The bavonets of Waterloo were about a foot longer than those used in the present war.

"Scotchman" is a naval term for a piece of wood, or hide, placed under a rope to prevent chafing.

More than one-third of the Germans in Great Britain failed to respond to the call to tho colours.

A large number of Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishermen have changed their occupation to mine-sweeping.

Doctors in Tiverton. Devon, have offered to provide free treatment tor dependants of those now at the front,

The cheapest gas in Great Britain is sold at Sheffield, where the price is Is. 2d. per 1000 cubic feet.

An average of eight hours per day is devoted in the infantry regiments to training the British volunteers.

The Russian Naval Budget totals £12.135,415, of which £4.0b2..)00 is to be devoted to new construction.

Anv male above sixteen who refuses to obey the High Sheriff's call tt.withstand the King's foes is guilty of felony. Firing at its highest speed, a French battery would take thirteen minutes to coVer every square yard withui range. The eallant defenders of Hastings are still in g the fighting line Fifty-four recruits from Battle, the scene of the Norman Conquest, w<ye enrolled in one day.

In honour of the heroic resistance of the Belgians at Liege, the French Government have brought out a new brand oTSSwtte. from "the State lactone., called 8 "La. Cigarette. L.egoise. Hey are cork-tipped, "liege in lienen meaning cork.

Uhlans, of whom we have heardl so be^SmwSih^SeS:

The Dutch Boy Scouts, frho for days have been parading the st,eets dAm£e t£ 20.0(1) cigars have been given in two hours.

A curious illustration of war enthusiasm which has Pressed al classes of her Lm- leaving behind a letter to the effect that she hid gone to jom the army.

Th Germans will ™H\S Stn «ave Posen toward, which the Kus '„f his Roval castles there. It is a Setbuilding, the Kaiser ha-g had his house-warming there only four y«Hs * [t is a huge place in the Roman clique style, and. cost a round qua. te. of a million sterlmg.

Every mobilised man cost, about 10s a day.

The expenses of the Austria., anjjr. on a war footing, work out at £SOO.WU a day.

There are about 535,000 horses. in Great Britain, and half a million cattle. In Liege all German proclamations appea,Simultaneously., m German French. Polish and Russian.

To raise money for the Prince's Fund frontier.

Army horses are given of corn, or its equivalent and from to ten gallons of water e\ei> (lav

I„ addition to daily rations, sold, r on active serv.ee cany f r tions. wlrch may only 1* used by oukr of a superior officer.

When one remember* thai.the diameter of a submarines P«»"J£ £ about the same a s that of o.dm.y soun plate, one realises the accuracy a pla?ed bv the naval guner who put out K ev« of the German submarine Uwith his first shot.

The Union Jack in its present form, was introduced in the year 1800.

Two ladies are serving as ,peciai constables at Saudgate, England. .

<;jxiv thousand elephants are annual y'slughtered in Africa to secure ivory

During the war French trains are not allowed to travel at more than fifteen miles per hour.

Every p : lot at the Hendon nerodrome volunteered lor active service as soon :ks war was declared.

It has been suggested that a national cemetery shall be instituted for thee, who die iu tb© war -