NEWS AND NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 149, 26 February 1915, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

Sheep - droving pays some people. One Dannevirke resident last month says (imports the News) that he made £42 in wages for this class of work alone. The hours were long, but the pay was good.

I The following are the principal j camps in which prisoners of war in | Germany are interned: Cassel, Crefeld, | Dcberitz, Erfurt, Gottingen (Hanover), j Gustrow (Mecklenburg), Halle, Hamj burg, Hammerstein, Hameln am Wej ser (Hanover), Lubcek, Munster-lager, I Schiessplatz and Wahn (Koln), Sen- ! nelager be Paderborn, Wunsdorf-lager, I Tossen (Brandenburg).

j When the Germans entered Kutno, : in Poland, they desecrated th;e jirin- | cipal church of the town during mass ! by singing a music hall ditty with j their helmets on their heads and pipes ; in their mouths. They drove out the | worshippers, shouting, “Get out. you j cattle, the show is over.” In response | to protests by the local authorities, a | German ofTicfer said, “I cannot prevent j my men amusing themselves. A good ; laugh is the best thing for keeping up | their spirits.”

There is a place in Russian Poland called Szqebrzesryn Fortunately for the average newspaper, whose supply of “z’s” is rather scanty, this town has not, so far, come within the znnof warlike operations. My sympathies may yiet have to go forth to newspaper readers who may feel impelled to attempt the pronunciation of the name. In advance, I advise them to follow the example of some canny Scots who always pronounce Przemysl “Paisley,” cr of certain smart Cockneys who call it “Primrose Hill!”

The People of Berlin have been

“rigorously forbidden” by the authori- , ties to throw away “kitchen refuse,” which is to be collected and sold at a nominal price to the military administration for use as horse fodder, of which there is great scarcity. 'Mr Thomas A. Edison is said to have discovered a means by which a .submarine could stay one month under the surface if necessary, without reI plenishming its air provision, which would renew it self whilst under the water. The apparatus, which would extract oxygien from the sea, is similar to the gills of a fish.