ENTERESTING NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 16 August 1915, Page 2

ENTERESTING NEWS

A BATTLE 0? GIANTS. An English correspondent says: —A big fight is in progress between a Press giant ami a military Goliath. T.okl NortheiiA owns the balk of the London newspapers, from the Daily hlr.il to the Snips Bits, which enters for the mental cavities of Britain’s bey pope.- 1 lation. Lorn Kitchener controls our men and munition supplies, and Northdiir is seeding to prove that there has been a shell and recruiting muddle, a naval hiatus, and several other villainies which have been kept dark Aei cording to the Daily Mail. Kitchener is the party responsible for the shell muddle, and the nation is being urged in Northelifi!’s fifty odd papers to demolish K., and set up someone who would pay a, little more attenti n to the war policy'of the Daily Mail. Kitchener may or may not be the strong person he is represented. He certainly possesses all the silence which is supposed to lurk in the bosom of that hefty person. He mot the atj tack of Northeliff’s combined Press I with a silence about the size of a pyniI mid, while the country yelped and dej manded the head of the Press giant. ! The Northeliff newspapers were burnt in public, and the good old family Englishman, who loves and stands by his favourite General, lias refused to take in these papers at any price, or wrap his meat in them when he is going home from the office. Also, a stern PubMc Prosecutor, with unlimited supplies of horsehair at his disposal lias instituted procedings against The Times (another of the Northeliff pups), , and there is every possibility of fur- ” tlior burnings and imprisonments tor the man of many newspapers. ITALIAN WOMEN AT THE FRONT. Enthusiasm for war is intense among all. classes, in Italy, and the Italian authorities have had much trouble with th ,©numbers of women who have endeavoured to find their way to the, firing line disguised as men. The prac- | ties of assuming military uniform with the object of going to the war has become-, s.c common among women that i *h,r, m Titary authorities are employing special detectives at all the principal centres, whose duty it is to scrutinise, carefully all the soldiers, with a view ot detecting, by gait, manner, or behaviour any women who may be masquerading among them. The most, interesting case of this mis. cuided enthusiasm occurred at Genoa. wher e a tlal, handsome “soldier,” noe among a thousand just about to depart to the front, aroused suspicion, Crossexamined closely, the confession that Die “soldier” was a woman was eventually extracted, a confession coupled with the explanation that she was noxious “to do something for Italy.” Bhe explained that, sweet away in the wave of enthusiasm she had volun-mr.-ed for sermon a « a Red Cross nurse. ->nd' ha i bo mi told to "-ait a little x-h'po. Tmuatient at th P thought of in--.-’f-iivtv. she bought a uniform, sacrificed hei" abundant black tresses,, asmured a martial air, and insinuated herself among the troops at the railway station. “Why do you prvent an Italian woman doing her duty?” she askde, indignantly, as she quitted the railway station undejr escort. INGENIOUS FRAUDS BY A GIRL FROM NEW YORK. Considerable daring was alleged to have been displayed by an attractive and smartly dressed young woman named Margaret Gray (alias Green, Black, and Blair) in the commission of a number of frauds with which she was charged before the Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate. Dete'ctive-Sergeant Allan explained that accused was charged with obtaining various articles from shopkeepers. Her method was to book rooms at houses where apartments were to le.t, an <3 then she would go cut shopping. After ordering goods she would intimate that she would pay on delivery and when the articles were brought round to the house where she stayed she; absconded with them, making her escape from the window at the rear. In doing so, it was stated, she had jumped distances which many burglars would not attempt. Allan added that Gray had told him sh e had been in New York, and that she was “put away” for shooting a lawyer. A remand was granted to enable the.police to recover some of the alleged stolen property.