WAR TALK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 179, 3 April 1915, Page 8

WAR TALK.

[ Owing to tli 3 bread famine in Gerjinany, even star actors have to be content with small roles. The Germans consider the arrest of Cardinal Mercier as a trivial matter. Merely a “clerical error,” in fact. Several factories for the manufacture of toys, hitherto imported from jGermany, are beii-fg established in i Swansea. The tramways in Brussels are now compelled to pay 30 per cent of their receipts to the German authorities. I A Kent county council advertisement | for a temporary clerk requests candidates to state, among other partleu lax's their resistn s for not. taking up military service. The “Libra Parole” says that M Millerand, the French War Minister, has received an anonymous letter, enclosing 4,000,000 francs to be used for the purchase of war material for the Prenc h a rnty.—E xchange. The Germans have posted placards in Led:.; inviting the Poles to enrol in the German army to fight for the kv-edem of Poland. The proclamations arc sir)red ‘‘Wilhelm and Francis JoC p h. Dr Ernest Noah, discussing in the Berlin journal “Die Metallborse” the famine in copper, urges the authorities o seize all the electric tramway and oLephoife wires in those portions of France and Belgium which are in Gernan occupation. At the Hull Centra! recruiting - de pot a poster prepared shows that 75 K-r cent of married men and only 2" >er cent cf single mien have enlisted locally. Lord Kitchener i s depicted with scales at his side, unevenly balanced and beneath is the word “Shairie.” “The Gazette da Hollande,” cementing on the recent German air raid, -D's it is clearly demonstrated that Appel ins can cros s the North Ssa, 'rut “the Germans will be greatly disppcintf d by the fact that their Air Dreacnc-iigats can only accomplish inch s!i,.ht damage.” • Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Vv imbledon, said the best message he '■•ld re" ■ ? thof- our -.un,, / and our Empire were united as one man. This was not a war amongst nations; it was a rebellion by onle nation against,civilisation, and against the whole development of international law. A new form of currency, says the “Berliner Zeitung,” has been introduced into th'e German army. Ordinary coin has lost its value now that it is impossible to buy anything in the villages at the base, ana ciaigrs take' tbo place of money. A piece of sausage ! as big as a hand costs four cigars; a pair of warm gloves or a bask of cog-t mac thirty cigars. Muddy boots are cleaned for two cigars.