JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

Ono of the latest:—Why has the Kaiser been reduced to drinking, laager beer from a bucket Because, all the mugs have gone to the wan.

King Carol of Roumania is a Prinoi of the German House of Hohenzollern Sigmaringcn. He was electee “Donm,” or Lord of Roumania, in 1866, and was proclaimed King m 1881. The Queen (Carmen Sylva) is also a German princess.

The sum of £3OO lias been cabled from Southland to the High Commissioner in London for the relief of distress in Belgium. It is understood that this is the first amount sent away from the Dominion for this purpose. Further sums will be cabled later.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, preaching,, in Westminster Abbey, asked: “What did it all mean? Did it moan that the hopes once cherished of the battle-flag being furled were a crazy delusion, and that war was so inveterate and essential a habit of the peoples of the earth that to look for peace was a fanatical and a baseless dream; To think so would, as it seemed to him, lie to belie the Christian faith, Christian promises, Christian hope. The tiling which was now astir in Ibirope was not the work of God, but of the devil. It was not the develop ment of God’s purposes, it was the marring of them by the self-will, the sheer wrongness of man. They had to set themselves, slowly it might he. hut determinedly as the generations passed, to eradicate and make unendurable the temper among men from which such things sprang, to ‘shrivel the falsehood from the souls of men, in the name of the Prince of Peace.