SHRAPNEL!

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 261, 31 December 1914, Page 1 (Supplement)

SHRAPNEL!

BKIGHT TRUTHS MAKING ON TO-DAY'S E\E.\lS. Naval canon existed over live hundred years ago. __ Some lti.ooo English postal servant* liavo gouo off to the war. ~ J Dutch, if threatened, could floos JOO square milt's of land. Throo and :i quarter yards of nniirx-l will make a soldier's sh:rt. Sweden, though neutral, intends to spend nearly JW.UOU.UKJ on defence. _ Kis.'s in tlic price of drugs ar-s seriously handirap])ing hospitals. rood and drink imports into Germany amount to iIOL'.IKHJ.U'U i..r »n----aiuu. ' The total cost of this vir io;:<s cu* at twelve million pounds a dn\. Austria's naval hasp, l'ola. dates 1 nek as a naval sation to the Roman period. When a sentry cries "Halt! Who Rocs there:'''' tho rorrsct reply is "Friend.'' Many people with foreign-sounding names art) changing them to British ones. In Belgium tho peasant women provide gifts of bread and beer lor tin soldiers. For tin* eomnion cause certain Weisll miner* have agreed to work on Sunday* In tho suburhs of the nam? " Liege Cottage" has already appcar.vl. Fish merchants in Great Britain Imvo agreed not to make any cornerj in I'cll supplies. Belgian priests have taicen the fin few xious of dying men on the aeUtil field of battle. In order to avoid wa*»le, nul pheasant shoot'ng is beii)<» tnrMTra«'.'d in England. Sufficient oil fuel for n cnv;.i:: ia !m«i of 2,000 mile.? is carried en iruGerman submarine* Bradford is badly hit n consequent of its largo trade in worsted gout* with Germany and Austria. To hoiiM'wives: One tab! 'spn,r,f,il of ordinary honey will go as far an six tablespoonfuls of sugar. Brandon, in Suffolk, has confronted soventy-fivo to th<> Army oiii of iM t inall population of 2.(1(10.