INTERESTING ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 180, 6 April 1915, Page 5

INTERESTING ITEMS

HOLY WAR FIASCO. The Paris newspapers publish tlie following telegram from Boar"; ‘'Advices from Saloniea state that the Porte is very perturbed at the complete failure of the Holy War. In Persia the head of the Mussulman clergy has published a fetva in opposition to that of the Sultan, in Arabia the Mussulmans are becoming aroused and are taking up arms against the Turks, and at Mecca enthusiasm for the Holy War is totally absent' ’

"DADDY’S BEEN WOUNDED.’’ A Dundee child’s dream of her soldier father’s death at the front has Had a painful sequel. "Oh, Daddy’s been wounded by the Germans," cried the four-year.-old daughter of Private Robert Henderson, of the 2nd Royal Scots, through her sleep one morning, she, woke .up.under the stress of her dreamy .and though her mother tried to calm her, the child piteously repeated the sentence.. Withi'H y a*f£w days of the Incident, the mother, who resides at 33, Whorterbank, Locheg, received a letter from a French - chapli in, .stating that Private Henderson had., died of wounds on the night previous to His little girl’s strange dream. The letter also states that the dead soldier was buried by the French minister at Locre, in Flanders,'about 'three miles from Ypres, and that a wooden cross, with Private Henderson’s name on it, marks the grave. Private Henderson was one of six brothers who have all served or are serving with the colours.