INTERESTING NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 261, 22 July 1915, Page 2

INTERESTING NEWS.

WORKERS REFUSE WAR BONUS. Admiral Sir Robert Lo:w(ry, ComV raander of the Fleet on the coast of Scotland, in opening a rifle range Provided by Messrs Easton Gibb and Son, for the use of their workers at Rosyth Dockyard, said events had conclusively proved that the Germans’ deliberate object was to strike a blow at a time when their opponents were unable effectively to counter it. Every German man and woman had still the unshakable determination to conquer, and a remarkable proof of that spirit was shown by the men employed in Krupps’ yards, who were working 80 hours weekly, and who were refusing to take their overtime wages or war bonuses.

TRENCH DIGGING MACHINE. An American digging machine for quick trench construction, which has recently been invented, may prov© a real factor in bringing war to a speedy close. A Maryland contractor undertook to dig a sewer for a small municipality, and immediately installed one of the new machines, which was said to be able-to dig a thousand feet a day of ditch required depth and width. After the machine got well at work somebody saw it, and wondered why the soldiers in th e field should dig trenches when one of these monsters could, in a day, scoop out enough to ’protect a regiment. It is said that the entire output of the manufactory making these machines has been engaged by one of th© warring Powers in Europe.

DROP “WAR” IN LETTERS FOR SOLDIERS.

If ever th e art of letter-writing should be spelt with a big A it is now, says a writer in the London Star; everyone is writing long letters, either to t!ie men at the front or to the folks at home. But not everyone is a natural genius in this art, as some of the replies hom e from our soldiers testify, One man 1 heard of, who has been in the firing line, says: “When you write, drop War. We have all we want of it out here, and when the home letters are half-filled with it, it seems waste of space. To hear that The Kid did two horn's weeding in the garden so that h e might earn a swimming lesson the next day, and that Marjorie is move been on riding the donkey than going in the cart, is the sort of stuff we like in our letters. We can get. the war news from the papers.”

DEVASTATION OF WAR. A moving description of the sacrifices made in war by the non-combat-ant. is contributed by D. Cambanis to “T.P.’s Journal of Great Deeds.” He tells of the terrors that come upon the women and the children when the tide of war surges towards them, and paints with th e pen of knowledge the picture of their sufferings. Somehow material things become hopelessly linked with personal—tears, despair, hunger, madness, mixed with mutilated human forms, with rags, broken walls, smoking ruins, burning crops, or scattered, shattered property of every kind. “I try to remember, but in ray mind ther e is only a blurred impression of the gathering storm, the flight of women carrying babes, of old women bent beneath their loads, of children dragging in th e mud enormous bundles, of old men, carts, cattle, sheep, dogs —a mixture of humanity, animals, and things forming an endi less -stream fleeing in an opposite di- , rect-ion, and in striking contrast to 'the military mass moving onward to the fray; a wave of the hand, a sigh, a cheer, a tear as the streams pass each other endlessly and continuously.” . ,

GERMAN FOOD SUPPLY. The question of food shortage was recently much discussed in the German Press, and a very outspoken article appeared in the “Vossische Zeitung,” from the pen of Dr Kuczynski, bead of the Schonberg statistical department and a very well-known economist. After careful inquiry Dr Kuczuski came to the conclusion that Germany’s potato supply would peter out at the end of May or .of June. On December 1, 1914, Germany had—2,ooo,ooo calves under Three months, 1.000,000 bulls and oxen,. 11,000,000 cows, 6,000,000 calved ' under six months to two years, with a total dead weight, of 4,000,000 tons. ' *’4Tfe average yearly consumption in Germany is 1.250,000 tons, but of course, if the cows ar e sacrificed there will be no milk. Furthermore, the oxen are needed now in the country to do the work of horses, so that they cannot possibly h e spared for food purposes. So far as swine are concerned the situation is much more serious. Germany possessed on December Ist 12.000,090 pies under six months old, and 5,000.000 over that age—a total deadweight of 500.000 tons, while the yearly consumption was 2,250,000 tons so that if every pig were killde today Um meat would only last three mon+hs. Th a Professor is very'" pessimistic about the outlook, and his only "urges Mon is to economist) on meat and still more on potatoes until the Tor*- 'potato harvest '

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