JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 42, 20 February 1915, Page 8

JOTTINGS.

Mine, Michel, the wife of the exMilitary Governor of Paris, is described as lull of initiative energy, and enthusiasm. She it was who started tin* soup kitchen for the poor, ami site has many interesting anecdotes to tell |of her experiences when inspecting! them. One day a grey-haired, poorlydressed old lady who had come ior her naily pitance, and had nine sons at the war, was pointed out to her. “Yes,” she said in reply to Mine. Michel’s question, “it is quite true that 'my nine sons are at the front. 1 well remember 1870. 1 was, a young girl then, and the German savages trampled on me. This time my last word to each of my hoys has been, ‘Go and avenge your mother!’ During the week ended February 20th, a number of cases of alleged offences were dealt with by the authorities at Trentbam camp. From the lists it would seem (states the Press Association) that the majority of the offences were committed by the third reinforcement, the record of the D. Company, with fifty-two cases, being specially bad, comprising as it did one fourth of the whole. Advice has been received from London that Captains A. C. Robinson and N. C. Hamilton have been gazetted as Majors. Both are members of the British Army Service Corps, and have been engaged in New Zealand for the past year or two organising the New Zealand Army Service Corps.