GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 44, 26 May 1916, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

COLONIALS AT SPORT. CHOPPING COMPETITIONS. NEW ZEALANDERS TO THE FORE. i United Peess Association.! London, May 24. Special correspondents at tlie Western front forward long descriptive ac- , counts of a tree-felling competition " held on the 21st. Tlie novelty of the. ; idea caused them to wax enthusiastic, describing long processions of motor lorries conveying French, Australian. New Zealand and Canadian partisans and scores of competitors.-.. >. • ■ ■ ■ Generid Birdwood, referring to the animating spirit of the meeting, in pre-' senting the prizes, emphasised the physical ahcFmoral value of the sportsmanship shoivn..- .The results, of .the tree felling, were as follow: 1 Teams of three: New Zealand (including three Maoris) 1, Australia 2. v Log chopping: Australia 1, New Zealand 2. Cross-cut sawing: Canada 1, New Zealand 2. Best axenianship: A Maori 1, a Canadian 2. BIG LOAN LOOMING. Amsterdam, May 25. The Vossiche Zeitung states that ~ tho Reichstag will shqi^tly;be; as^pt] f J'<jV: , a credit; of n,«e I ?pndr^d-niii|ip^. %i e \n , ling. Ijtitfe'l' &^f ? jb)t§J?^^ 7 ' A FANTASTIC Mty London/May 21; "• The, P»W, lished a 'fantastic story of the meeting in 1911 between a German'traveller in South Africa and General Townshend, who confided 'Lord Roberts' plan of an Anglof-FrenelV invasion of Germany and otheir similar'nonsense. ■ ■Tho-' journal adds: "This is further proofs of the Allies' plots against Germany." QUEEN OF BELGIUM DECORATED. London, l\Tay 21.'

M. Poincare personally presented the War Cross to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, who said that she was proud to wear the same decoration as the French veterans.