From Various Sources

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 107, 29 September 1914, Page 5

From Various Sources

GERMAN UNIFORMS INVISIBLE. " Times and SyHney Sun Services. Received 28, 6.30 p.m. London, September 2". A chaplain at the front says that the Germans' greyish-green uniforms at a distance look like moving firs, and are udisccniable until well within rifle range. SERIOUS "SPORT." Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 28, 6.30 p.m. London, September - 2S. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on the absence of football in the Gazette, ■ays ii is expected that things will go worse in cricket. The goal scored by Frederitk at WiTnelmshaven and the rana made at Herbertshohe are sport enough for the Australasians just now. A STREET TRAGEDY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 28, 8.30 pjn. London, September 23. A German officer approached a miner in the street at Valenciennes, and, saving, "I don't like your face," shot him in the head with a revolver. A brother workman drew a revolver, and, with the same remark, shot the officer. JAUNDICED GERMAN VIEWS. ' London, September 27. Among tho German professors who aro incijlica.tLW» the doctrine that England la the culprit are Profwsars Haoeekel and Wundt. . Tho latter declares that the war is a lon«-p!anncd conspiracy of the Entente bandita. King Edward, with his [to!icy of hemming Germany in, was its originator and Sir E. Grey is his testamentary executor. FECI fiPIRIT OF INDIAN PRINCE. Delhi, September 27. The Vicerov has accepted the Nizam •f Hyderabad's gift of sixty lacs of ropeaa (£250,000) to defray the expenses expenses «f the Ist Hyderabad Imperial Lancers and the 20th Agra Horse. _ HELPING PRISONERS OF WAR. /" Received 23, 10.30 p.m. , Geneva, September 57. The Interna!i< nal R- 1 Cro== 5V h.ir has founded an ajreney t<> ''nah'o pri-'.n-ers of war to <:ommun'c.it<- with their families, and to receive replies.