WAR NOTES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

WAR NOTES.

London is 716 miles from Berlin by maij route.

A single projectile from a 15in. naval gun weighs ySOlb.

"Sunfish" is the name the Canadians give to a loafer who doesn't enlist.

Every time a loin, gun is fired a bale of cotton weighing 5001 h. is blown away.

So many horses have ben commandeered in Germany that oxen are being used for ploughing.

AH the parks, gardens, and avilable open spaces of Vienna are to be laid out as vegetable gardens.

Khaki of the regulation texture and colour is being turned out in England at the rate of over 200 miles a week.

A special boot repairers' company is being formed by the Army authorities. Its duties will be to repair the boots of soliders at the Front.

The sting of a submarine lies in her head or tail, because there are her tor-pedo-tubes. She cannot sink an enemy ship while broadside on to it.

The latest thing in articles of destruction is the "trench knife," which has a blade ol about 15in., and whicli is used tor fighting in the trenches where there is no room to swing a ■word or bayonet.

A considerable share of labour on farms is taken by tne Serbian iwomen, who also weave the homely material lor their clothes. The women are valued highly for their services, so much so that parent not infrequently are unwilling to see their daughters marry

The Turkish prisoners captured by the Allied troops and concentrated on one of the Aegean islands have obtained permision to write to their tamilies, and the "French military authorities have found an ingenious method of overcoming the difficulties of delivery. The Turkish population is now receiving news from its own people by aero post. The mailt have to be thrown from a height of about 2,000 yards in special mail-bags lined with several thicknesses of aeroplane canvas.

The Troitsk Monastery, near Moscow, which has given its extensive workshops for munition making, might be termed a city rather than a monastery, for its walls have a circumference of two-thirds of a mile, and it comprises two cathedrals and eleven lesser churches, in addition to colleges, hospitals, and the dwelling-houses and factories of the monks. Founded in 133", it has warlike memories, for it was captured and burned by the Tartars in 1422", and in 1609 successfully withstood a sixteen months' siege by the Poles.