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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 April 1917, Page 4

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Margaret’s is to be held in the Parish Hall on Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m. It was stated at the East Sussex County Council meeting that the work on the roads of conscientious objectors was “very unsatisfactory.”

A week or two ago a parcel containing garments made by members of the Red Cross Branch, and which were all marked, “Taihape Red Cross Branch,” was taken from the Utiku Railway Station. As every article was marked it was thought that when the mistake was discovered the parcel would be left at the Red Cross Shop. Up to the present, however, the Taihape branch is minus of garments to the value of £4 10s. The parcel is advertised for.

A message from Timaru states that \ the waterside workers there have de- 1 cided to accept the terms of the employers by 33 votes to 4.

British prisoners in Ruhieben (near Berlin) have built a loom of chairs, bits of tin, and other odd material. The construction occupied 800 hours.

Another new career for women since the outbreak of war is indicated by a Milwaukee advertisement for a good girl circus clown, who “must look funny, stand funny, walk funny, and act funny.”

Mr. J. R. Cunninghame, in our advertising columns, courteously draws the attention of electors to the fact that he is again a candidate for a seat on the Borough Council, in which he tersely points out that the ratepayers’ interests aite his interests.

Intense irritation has been caused in Switzerland by the discovery that for some time one of the German soldiers interned in Switzerland had been emhployed as the custodian of the Chapel of William Tell, on the banks of the lake of Lucerne.

The United States’ entry into the competitive field with German dyes and drugs is indicated by the fact that last year America sold abroad more than £24,800,000 worth of drugs dyes, and chemicals, as’compared with £5,400,000 worth in 1913.

A further proof that Germany was actively engaged in hostilities against Italy long before the two countries were officially at war is shown by the log of a German submarine sunk in laying mines at the entrance of an Italian port, and recently salvaged.

The Crown Point, which the Germans torpedoed recently, was the steamer the officers of which gallantly saved the'German barque Planet some years ago when she was in distress, with most of her crew down with scurvy.

A native witness in the Supreme Court at Hamilton made the following reply to a question put by the Crown Prosecutor: “It is quite right for thcpolice to say that they had not seen me, for my face was veiled in blood. They must have taken me for a spirit or ghost.”

The Westport News says: From coalminer to Brigadier-General! Charlie B'rown, who formerly worked in the Westport Coal Company’s mines at Denniston, later developed his military genius in various grades of military services, took part in the campaign at Gallipoli, and in France is now a Brigadier-General.

Brazilian “coastwise vigilance” against German raiders was greatly stimulated since Germany’s latest threat, among the reasons being the fact that Germany owes Brazil £5,000,000 for coffee illegally seized at Habmurg and £50,000 paid three i years ago on account of a lightship which has never been delivered.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in an article in the London Daily Chronicle in support of the contention that British soldiers have completely gained supremacy over the Germans, shows that while Germany holds 34,000 British prisoners, Britain holds 70,900 Germans. The B'ritish guns captured by Germans do not exceed 70, while the British have captured over 400 of theirs.

Says the London Weekly Despatch: After a fortnight’s strenuous labour the London County Council has boldly determined to put 12 acres of land under allotments —to solve the ' food problem of London’s millions! At that rate it will take about forty years to bring under cultivation the 18,000 acres or so of waste land in Loudon and its suburbs. Even the war may be over by then!

A French girl of 21, Josephine Barthelmy, who was shamefully assaulted by German soldiers in a German military hospital at Chambley, in December, 1915, and who subsequently gave birth to a child, stood her trial on a charge of infanticide. The girl’s plea was that she killeft her baby because its father was a German. Slie was acquitted (says the London Chrcnicle’s Paris correspondent).

Coming down the Wanganui river last week was a party of travellers which included a South African tourist. A Feilding farmer who was of the party relates that they had reached the boathouse between Taumarunui and Pipiriki, and had camped there for the night. Rain had been falling all day and it continued'. The river rose, and logs commenced to float down. About 4 o’clock in the morning a big log struck the heathouse, knocking a hole in it, and the water commenced to flow in. The sleeping tourists were awakened aim urged to fly for their lives. Cold, wet, and more or less scared, they crosses over a narrow gangway and reached the bank. “The man who travels on this river for pleasure,” grumbled the South African, “would go to hell for pastime.” . ; u; CfT

Captain Walker stated at the Military Service Board meeting this morning that he was beginning to think that rheumatic gout was as big an enemy as the Germans.

An advertisement of particular interest to all who wish to store explosives in the borough of Taihape, appears in another column, from the Town Clerk.

“The dairy farmer is a worker, not a striker,” said Mr. J. A. McLeavey, President of the Palmerston branch of the Farmers’ Union at the annual meeting on Saturday.

An appellant at the Military Service P-oard who appealed on religious grounds f tated that he joined the Brethren on November 1915. 1 ‘Then my lad, ’ ’ said Chairman Cooper, "You are out of Court,” and the appeal was dismissed. If a man has a multiplcity of farms ho is inclined to think he should not be compelled to go and fight for them At least that is the impression on e is likely to get attending the sittings of the Military Service Board.

The official North German Gazette expresses disquietude at the fact that during the past year Japan has increased her shipping building by 150 per cent., and “is on the high road to becoming the leading ship-building country of the world.”

The Fire Brigade received a call at 1.15 this afternoon, the locale of the fire being at the Taihap e Foundry and Engineering Works. The .outbreak, which was not of a very serious nature, was quickly dealt with, and the damage done was trifling.

The estimated out-turn of motor vehicles by American manufacturers during 1917 includes: Ford 750,000, Willy-Overland 300,000, General Motor Company 137,000, Studebaker 120,000, Maxwell 120,000. The total outturn is expected to exceed 2,250,000 vehicles.

A Memorial Service in commemoration of Anzac Day will be held in the Taihape Town Hall to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. It is a duty that every citizen owes to the memory of those departed heroes who made the never-to-be-forgotten landing at Gallipoli to attend and pay homage to their gallantry.

On page 3 of this issue Messrs Collinson and Gifford have a notice of particular interest to ladies. They have two big parcels of ladies’ heavy tweed coats, bought at the commencement of the season, which they are selling at quite exceptional prices. The goods will be offered on Thursday morning, and we cannot do better than respect the advice given; “B'e one of the first,” as the supply is very limited.

A distinguished American who has just reached England from Holland states that there has been an extraordinary number of deserters from the German army within the last few weeks. “The German soldiers,” he declared, “complain bitterly of the' lack of food and the fresh hardships and privations which they are called on to bear. They make no secret of their desire for peace, and state, among other things, that disaffection is rapidly spreading among the rank and file of the German army on the western front. I gathered that the Germans greatly fear a debacle when the British start a new offensive.” It has started!

Says the Post editorially on the strike: “If he is forced to walk for lack of train or tramcar, and if he finds that he cannot ship his goods for want of coal, the ordinary citizen will take notice. Such deprivations the average New Zealander will cheerfully bear because of the war, but will it not be a shame and a disgrace if the public are penalised, and essential industries crippled, because the leaders of a section engaged in coalmining wish to point a pistol at the head of Parliament? That is what the latest Red Flag movement amounts to; and those who do not yet see it but may feel it, should direct to the subject some hard thinking. The issue is an-ti-compulsion strikers v. the Parliament and the people of New Zealand. There can only be one answer.”

The German’s fire weapon has led to a new method of healing the burns caused, says a contemporary. The method was evolved by a French physician, Dr. Barthe, and consists in painting or spraying the wound with “ambrine,” a wad of substance composed of paraffin, with which the essence of amber is mixed. It soothes the pain immediately, and beneath its waxy surface Nature is able to reform the tissues. This use of amber is simply a reversion to previous times, for the ancients believed it te be a sovereign remedy for insanity, fever, and agues, and as equally potent whether imbibed or worn about the neck as an amulet. The Greeks regarded it with superstitious reverence, believing its origin and properties to be equally mysterious.

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