JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 21 October 1914, Page 2

JOTTINGS.

In the House of Representatives last night, replying to Hr Bradnoy, the Minister for Defence said it was <t rather large order to ask the Government to compel all foreigners in the Dominion to report themselves at regular intervals. A careful watch was being preserved, but it was not considered wise to take steps that might seem harsh where, there was no reason for J suspicion. Reports were constantly (joining in to him, and any suspicious cases would bo dealt with.—The Premier, discussing the question, said that if any suspicious circumstances were discovered the suspects would-lie handed over to the military authorities, and if found guilty by court-martial everyone knew what the consequences would be.

A correspondent of the Church Family Newspaper writes thus:—l was told in 1895 .by an Alsatian of the following prophecy by a monk who lived in Saxony 600 years ago. My informant said that it was a Well-known prediction, and expressed surprise that I had never heard of it:—“There will be a king in Germany under whom the nation will be greater and more powerful than ever before. He will be followed by a king (uncrowned), who will pass as a shadow across the throne. A onearmed King will succeed him, and in the end of this reign, or, maybe, early in the nest, the German armies will go forth to conquer the world, but those w,ho return will shelter under the pear trees of the nation.’ In Prussia the pear tree does not grow.

One of the curious touches of the present war, which involves so many royal relations throughout Europe, is the fact that Queen Alexandra is an Honorary Colonel of the Prussian Royal Dragoons. Her portrait hangs :n the regiment’s messroorn and her health has been drunk by the officers ifter that of the Kaiser and the, Kaiserin. Queen Mary is also an hdniry German Colonel-in-Chiof, and is .aid to look very well in the gorgeous ihako and jacket of the sth Regiment hf Prussian Hussars. It is safe to .ay that little thought was given to these Royal ladies when their reginents honoured the toast to “DeiLag.”