JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1915, Page 7

JOTTINGS.

Lieutenant K. Munro is no " 111 comma ml ot the platoon in B Coinpnnv, Fourth Regiment (at Trontlnun camp) raised in the Xlth Regiment district.

Details of a curious family complication come from St. Call. Switzerland. A naturalised Swiss citizen, German by birth, is married to a Hungarian. His brother-in-law is lighting against the Servians, and the husband of his sister-in-law is lighting against the Austrians. Of the man’s two brothers. one is in a Prussian regiment, and the other is serving France under General Gallieni.

It is notified hy the Postal Department that as it is improbable that the foreign postal administration concerned will accept registered correspondence for British prisoners of war mtor’od abroad, correspondence for such prisoners is not now to be accepted "m registration. Letters for British prisoners of war interned abroad must not contain articles which are not in the ordinary course transmissible by letter post. Such articles include hosiery, tobacco, etc. If posted as letter packets they will be returned to the senders. They may be sent only by parcel post.

Some five weeks ago, states the New Zealand War Cry, Lord Fisher, instructed hy the King, visited several local committees in connection with the Prince of Wales’s hind to see how things were being worked. He called upon the chairman of the Tottenham distress committee, and among other questions asked what was being done to cheer up the wives of sailors and soldiers. The chairman explained that h d'ore the committee was formed a S dration Army adjutant had suggested that the Army should undertake this particular work, and he had set twenty women to do it. Lord Fisher, on hearing this, said, “Splendid; this i j the best arrangement 1 have heard of yet. I will tell the King about it.”

A Canterbury trooper, writing to his father in Christchurch, indicates that he and his mates had a good time at Colombo. He says: “The party I was with wont in rickshaws to the market. The nrice of a rickshaw is eightpence per hour, and the coolie trots all the time. It was great to see one of our chaps weighing thirteen stone being pulled about hy a coolie about seven stone. Everywhere we went the natives ran alongside us trying to sell goods. They would start trying to sell ns three packets of cigarettes for a shilling, and finish by offering five or six packets for a shilling. Light cotton singlets were offered for 2s and 2s fid per pair, and you could always heat them down to Is per pair, the same as we pay 2s fid or 3s fid for in Christchurch. Cigars were cheap, too. from Is to 3s for a box of fifty, and 2s to ,4s fid for 100. Fruit was very cheap, too. and yon can guess we got plenty, as the heat is awful in the trnuics. T shall he glad when we are out of it. . . When the Sydney came alongside of us at Colombo, aft<jr sinking the Frnden, you would not know she had been in action. Not a scratch on her; only there was no point on her guns. They looked as if they had been red-hot. . . I am sorrv 7 cannot toll you much about our trip. All our letters are read and censored to ensure onr safety.”