INTERESTING ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 161, 22 April 1915, Page 8

INTERESTING ITEMS

WHAT CANADA WILL DO. Private Caillie in a "letter from Winnipeg to his father in- Liverpool, says that the second Canadian, contingent will surprise England and Germany. Most ot ' t!lfc including Mexicans and Americans, are 6ft high. The third contingent i- iuil up, and a fourtii has just starter. Canada alone can send enough men to defeat the Germans. DOING HER LITTLE BIT. Mr Will Crooks, M.P., recently waiting on Sheffield station, saw a number of recruist entrain. Afterwards notinga woman apparently crying, ha wont up to her and said, "Well, mother, cheer up! Don't cry!"' "I'm not crying," was the response. "I'm not sorry for the lad. I'm ;?lad he's going. At last I've got a share in putting that monster the German Emperor in his place." "FRIGHTENED OF NOTHING." Mr Maurice Pellet, of th e French Army, who has' been badiy wounded, ' pays a deep compliment to the fifiglitivfe qualities of the British soldfor,and -cmarks: "I have a friend who is a .lieutenant in the artillery He was at- I tached to the British soldiers, and he

'old me all about them. He told me they ar e frightened of nothing, and tha only thing wrong with them is that they don't hide themselves sufficiently, and they don't like to dig trehches.and so many are killed and wounded fool-', islily." SAVED BY A CAT. ' Sir Marteine Lloyd, Bart, at the close of a lecture delivered recently at Llangynllo. in aid of the Belgian Refugees' Fund, told how his son, Lieutenant Lloyd, of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, narrowly escaped death jfrcm exposure and fatigue After a ! desperate fight: near the French frbnI tier Lieutenant Lloyd got detached from his regiment. At night he found refuge in an outhouse, where he remained in an exhausted condition for two or three days. When h e was found jit was discovered that loosely curled round his neck, was a cat, and it was the conviction of his rescuers that but for this cat Lieutenant Lloyd would have perished. A PEACE PROPHECY. The New York cprrespondent cf the I "Daily Express" is responsible for the | following.- statement: jin Jbrpmticiv I reached m e from a high "ofilcifil Gcr' man scurc? that the German representaiiv33 iv:-?-- kr 0 convinced t?o war ! i.i pruotrsily 'ovev, , sml th?.t "or-.e h ill ■•• dorlarH wiHrin ;.;-? months. I h -tako -hi- tc mean that ' Vwl : !.i st <!•: :o-;,;-,o;l tk'ht. ho flushed his j !,.. ''?"■ ■ • . I Uis sfer:- v,.:,.r: o h'-VI thro,:.';]', thtf j "K: s ;.e : .hf r?s' /<>:-.-;' ye cooi.-lo thoic; I V'.wo ditli nv cowld ve'll jrot i"r j '■ sTiui-o! '' ' t'orno! jnirryi-'honie, ye hu-f-sick pr.ir. I : Ami both take Woods' Great Pepper ; j ■ -Tpri'it: C'.'ib ' '