WAR TIT-BITS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 1 (Supplement)

WAR TIT-BITS.

Heligoland was at one time the Gret na Green of North Europe.

Three Devonshire brothers who went to the front returned (wounded) by the same tra'n.

The small village of Bulwick Northamptonshire, gave Lord Kitchener s Army ten of its eleven eligible men Every member of the family ot Sir Roper Lethbridge has gone off to the war or to training for it—the men to fight, the women to nuree.

Mr. E. Now Lan, the bandmaster of the Chobham (Surrey) village band, his father grandfather, and gieat-giand father'ail served in the 2nd Welsh Regiment. in which he now has a son.

When a Russian air scout near Kroanik was shot at the bullet l>^^ d the oil-tans of his macnnie. bui , P- • „ u.„ t oo t against the hole, he 6topp « !'«.<! »nd regauml

Even in the Loudon suburbs the. war is brought home to one. In a outside &n ironmonger s s P ~, Bwmh» sharpened.

It is" rigorously forbidden tor any „<Jnm to owl "Morons Kid French of a proclamation which has t by the military governor of Stuttgart.

dd are not allo^ o1 ° n3 w ho offered to Prince army has been adBritish forces.

':S?SLSS "'those dW>M mac 5' tion. _

| The last time British troai« l^ed ii the Confine* was m the B ieatofNapo.«on at Waterloo.

Tbe report having bwn^spre Marseilles that the ° e J lc * te > llk t h e Wave'iKStfiii «v----i&es of the coast to the ery milch g° at „ , it been hippopotaGerman bnes IBad )t d b^ rted JoVhave £t?t for them somehow.

By placing in thelS cooks wanted fo Wai - Office of Mr. C. Herman SemtM Atkins „ baa made certain tftat i properly, will have his £P Kitchen er of for Mr. Sean to the r^ erent times the culinary A rs the Board the Prisons Commoner* Educa . of Admiralty, and the Bo^rd.o^ t : on have called whs twking the Senn knows 300 *ajb " humble potato.

Mrs. strange, stewardess Mitcham< Princes Ladies twentv-one (Eng.), has no J c "?[ ve se rvice with the near relations on actives ionor , 18 Fleet. Her captain-steward a a fl o at, two brothS y im « hjX 3, tot musim-ers-inlaw, and twei e s j pensionEight of Rees. of Pevers. Her fat j£:^ ean veteran, and one krlndfc .to served through the Crimean War.

Godalmmg has sU Pjl ie J h o Lord Kitchener's army wno JSneof Julius Caesar.

London last time of Charles"nwhen the Dutch made havbavoc of our defences.

n»?n. towards prisoners Russian tolerance _ ;ii us trated at of war is a^ to ° 1S „ |" K m ber of Austria ns Kostroma where a numbe t0

The war service retold has j^'^ n g. i_ « T/niiPJUshlT© v 1 ° SKkWSKSS

ho. »*,»-ss , l }!i em army use. • German and til after the war hat the w d--000°cartridges; for field artillery 362,000 rounds.

« U at short season tickets rates utili D u ' rind the light railway and elecsasisf '" ato " °f""-' thing in this country.

■""» it oonies to > <l«": more anj moro coomloraWo.

The Lord Mavor has been asked to have tho name of the Herman Emperor SSd from Ih. roll of men of the City of London. TT. h. s h nlied that the name eanno.e . ■ ,„ r tho ,*,o ; t »faitt«l to tbA OitT, a« thev are unable t 0 declar jU«gUn<* to tie Sovereign.