GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 62, 12 November 1914, Page 4

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

HARDSHIPS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS, TOLD BY CAPTURED NON-COM LONDON, November 11. A German non-com. captured in Ea:-. Prussia relates that tney lay in ths trenches for six days, living solely cm coffee, because the camp kitchen were destroyed and transport wa:-: wholly impossible, owiDg to the Russian heavy artillery incessantly shelling the roads They were unable even to transport "ammunition. By an. order from the Kaiser they were enjoined to attack as often a s possible, and not to permit the Russians to advance.—Times and Sydney Sun i cables.

AN UNLUCKY BOTANIST.

LONDON, November 11.

Among the prisoners at Warsaw is an elderly Prussian who, blinking under his Cossack's huge busby, explained that he was a professor of botany in Berlin. While inarching he saw a rare plant m the marshes, and Celt that he must have a specimen of the plant. Struggling in the marsh, he lost his eyeglasses, and stumbled along into the Cossack's arms. THE LIGHTER SIDE. ; JOKES BETWEEN ENEMIES, v j LONDON, Nov. 11. In the neighbourhood of Vailly the trenches were so close that constant jokes were played by the rival armies. One of the latest was the case o.f * German, who left the lines t 3 search for milk at a farmhouse. In mistake he wandered in:o the French irCJTjcht'S., He was captured detained all night, and returned dressed in woman's clothes, minus the milk. Times and Sydney Sun Services. GERMAN WOMAN SPY. ■ t CLEVER AND ACCOMPLISHED. «'

LONDON, Nov. 11.

A clever accomplished woman, speaking fluent English, dressed as a Bed Cross nurse, met some British wounded at Gard-du-Nord. She invited officers to dine, and while they were under the influence of her charms and hospitality, tried to wheedle from them military information. She also visited the hospi» tab? and attempted to discourage the men. She was discovered to be th.o divorced wife of a German officer, of British-Russian descent. Sho was tried, .and sentenced at Paris to two years. She is the first woman spy captured.—• (Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

active cruiser s to guard our shores and trade routes. He again ackno\v> ledged the protection that New Zea* land had lately received from the Australian navy, particularly the flagship Australia, the fear of which, he was confident, had prevented the enemy's cruisers coming into New Zealand waters.

PAYMENT IN ADVANCE. PREMIER ON SHIPPING COM- • SANIES' ACTION. 5 The action of the! shipping] com* panies in insisting on freights on exported New Zealand produce: being paid at this end was referred to by the Premier in his Howick speech last evening. He said that this appeared to be an unfair act, and he intended to look into the matter when he returned to Wellington. He was sorry, he said, that the shipping companies had seen fit to give this extra turn of the screw —an action which would be remembered after the war was. over. There was an impression that the companies were trying to make money out of the war. He hoped this was not a fact, but there was no doubt that the impression existed.