JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 6

JOTTINGS.

A cable message to the Sydney Sun states that there \yas a great gathering in the Baltic Roorris in London when some of the enemy’s captured ships were sold at auction. The Ulla Boog fetched £23,750, the Marie Glaeser £18,252, the Frahz Horn £ll,600, the Natua £12,550, and the Schlessien £65,290. People in shipping circles consider that high prices ruled.

During a journey in the Wairarapa train, the secretary of the Veterans’ Association mentioned, in answer to a question, that he had two sons who had joined the Expeditionary Force. .An elderly tatooed’Maori wahine said, “I, too, got three sons going to* the war. I no tangi, am glad.” These few words spoke eloquently of her thoughts, sorrow suppressed, of the joy to think they .could fight side by side with the British. A resident of Musselburgh (Dunedin) has privately received information from an old schoolfellow, who is now one of the war correspondents'of a prominent tendon daily, emphatically confirming the stories of German atrocities in Belgium. The correspondent, who went through the Balkan war, stated thfit what he has seeh is' absolutely unprintable, and if he could only adequately describe what lie had 'seen regarding the outrages on women and children there would not be an able-bodied man in the Empire who would not seize a gun. The atrocities of the Balkjm war were child’s play in comparison.