JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 30 October 1914, Page 6

JOTTINGS.

| The brutality of the Germans is shown by the following story: When | the Teutonic hordes entered: Brussels 1 they approached the convent of the Sacred Heart order (which has a branch established at Remuera). Two of the sisters approached one of the windows of the convent to see if any damage was being wrought upon the convent ov grounds, when the Germans fired upon them, killing both sisters outright. They next invaded the convent, acting in an uproarious manner. Suddenly, they were addressed in their native tongue by several German sisters of the order, and the effect was magical; they became at once quite subdued. The Mother General of the order (Mother Janet Erskine Stuart), who belongs to a noted Scottish family, and who was in Auckland at the commencement of this year, was in the house at Brussels at the time of the raid, and was urgently pressed to go to England. She did so, but the shock | of the German raid was so great that: the Mother General died another victim to German brutality.

Australians are not narrow in the matter of proofs of their patriotism (writes the Post's Sydney correspondent). For evidence of this we can refer to an event in the week, on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. A farmer sent to Sydney saleyards on that day five "Trafalgar" pigs, to be sold for the benefit of the war fund. Each pig was adorned with a gailycolored ribbon-, on which was inscribed the name of one of Nelson's great fights-j Trafalgar, Aboukir, Copen. hagen.Nile,and Fsbant. The pigs seemed to bear ; themselves in a manner worthy of the occasion, though, if they knew anything at all, they must have aware that the butcher's knife was not far off. Doubtless they have died like brave' Australian baconers ready to be converted into something edible for the sake of the, Empire. They realised £-11 10s,and their ribbons were, sold for £8 10s. Mention of these pigs recalls the fact that some shops in Sydney which before the war boastingly advertised the quality of th6| Frankfurt sausages sold by them, have now quite cast away the name "Frankfurt." The same kind of sausage is still being sold, but if you want some you must ask for Birmingham_ sausages.