WAR JOTTINGS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 201, 3 May 1915, Page 8

WAR JOTTINGS.

Seven Yorkshire Territorials were drowned"' aT'GainsDo'rugii through the collapse of, 1 pontoons they were'constructing over the Trent*The life of Private-H.-.-"Catling, of the 4th Suffolks, was savied by his watch. . A German bullet penetrated pocketbook, and was found inside his watch in the pocket of his cardigan jacket. NO LUXURIES FOR GERMANS. ~.Our, French contemporaries are unanimous la .expires sing satisfaction at the decision taken by the French authorities to accord to German prisbhers' in, France a purely reciprocal treatment. For instance, since ,it has been ascertained that French,prisoners ni Germany were inadequately provided with food and bedding and compelled to work in the fields and on fortifications, the dietary of the German prisoners stationed at'Brest jhas been correspondingly abridged. Boards have taken the place of mattresses, and "hard labour" is being found for them in the outskirts of the great naval fortress. Will British Ministers not take a hint and apply this wholesome reciprocity to. the pampered inmates of.Donnington Hall? HUNS ARE SELF-CONDEMNED. Dr Hans Wejhberg, of Dusseldorf, recently in a work on "The Rights of Warfare at Sea," condemned, in anticipation, the measures which Germany took on March 18. On pages 257-8 of his book he states: "According to the old common law, a warship must summon a merchant vessel before attacking it, for the former being more powerful, the latter could as a rule not think of resisting. The result''of a forcible attack might also lead to the destruction of neutral goods on board the merchant vessel, although such goods are, according to the Declarntion of Paris, inviolable. Furthermore, the vessel could belong to the category of ships which are excluded from the right of capture. Indeed, the merchant vessel could truly possess neutral qualities. These 1 are the grounds which make detaining and search necessary. ... A warship which meets an enemy merchant vessel has, therefore, the duty to summon the ship to stop, ,in order to find out if it is really liable to attack." A CHESSMAN'S CUMBERLAND QTJS.EY. Private Kirkpatrick, a reservist, belonging to the Whitehaven district, relates that while escorting p. column of prisoner?", in France he svus suddenly accosted by a voice from the ranks of the captives:—"Hullo, .Tuck' how's all going on in How's the ;'ris'"ner revealed hinisf'f ss n for•iiPT ■•■ ; t*v -'- the Wen «'.: n.iberinml C'h'b. Mr. '■ tter. : t :u.v/ bo oxphiinod, \? , ~,-.■;r v.rv'fi- W.'.--i- nv.fl, und r '•:e"n patron <t. ::i] classes of