WAR NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 41, 5 October 1914, Page 6

WAR NOTES.

,^R^^|iMEN. French newspapers show how light-. tyeprted Frenchmen went to the. war. Thus, a -hairdresser .sppijpoped tp the Colors put up, the following, notice on his. shop.:—“The business is transferred, to the 7,9 th Regiment at lSancy.” pn the first, day of, mobilisation .two writers of revues, Rip met ffft- tbs boulevard. “You’re not going to Deauville this year,” says Rip. “No,. J’nr, going eastward. It : ,that .y.erdun (thp, French l fortress. ; pai the;, .German (soppier)- is all the rage..this summer.” Dcanem, the Wilkie,, pai d of. pafis, is,, guarding a bridge at ,a.halfpenny a day. .Xherre. hlortj.er, editor of “Gil Bias,” is driving an omnibus. “NO QPARREL iWITH THE BELGIANS.” Amongst the wounded in Maastricht was a young German of 18, who be was a young German of 18, who believed that he had been fighting the French. Great was his surprise when he was told he had been fighting the Belgians. “The Belgians,” he said, “but we have no quarrel witty Jthq Belgians!” He was under the impression that he had a French bullet in him. A CRIMEAN MEMORY. A sister of three'Crimea and Mutiny heroes wrote to the National Relief Fund Committee in Sydney: “The enclosed byli'-crown was given to me the day peace was proclaimed after the Crimea War, and I have treasured it ever, since; but now I am old I think it cannot do better than go to the help your fund.” The coin is dated 1817.