GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Items from the i.Midon Jewish Chronicle of .August 7: —After the war I.rolce out, the Child llaktii wrote a- prayer for tihe restoration of .peace, to be rnul the Synagogue services during the <*mlinuance of the war. According to the special correspond™.!, of the Dailv a battalion of .Jewish volunteers offered its services to the Minister of War. it was sent to tlie front. . .

Aanong ihe mcai-.vi is of parliament failed to the color-, were :»'ir IMi.il i;> Maston, Air J.ionel du KoUschiid, and Air I'Tank <!olds:nith. '.ihe. Hon. N. Charles Ko'thsehild joined his regiment, ami Messrs Evelyn de Ko. I'.-vliUd and Anthony d» .CutiiH-li.Ul j-.ia.tl the .llu-nurs.

. . . The call to aril'.* has found the Jews faitiiful to ili.■ e respective .Governments, not cxvui.jnig llussia, which in time of peace is never tired of making, war on our co-re. .gioniiils. There ara no I'e'.ver than u) Jewish soldiers in the standing army in l-lussia, and the Jewish-reserves of fuity-tr.iinud noldierH of the last ten jcar.s alone furnish «nOlher lfilUK.O .men. r'j these figures we n.ay add large muni.. of iinperfectlytiained riwrvitts.

Kew Zealand's \ <nu.;: .soldiers who arc oil' to the wat* itr« V>;iu« .much more generously treated in the matter of pay than were the on i..;.. roups scut O'.ei'u 1.,- Ihe 1 M*ilii ii tioi.-'..a to iipUt the colony's battici ,i.:.:n ' lErtevnal foes. J u-t iifiy years a ii. ; .vee.k a. i!o: tiler. t ne.w,-.e;!:), r in ri"oro'Ust lan-

f»ua'gy the disgust of fiia regular noli.icv with the "]iar, ? ;in'i!iious miserable iiiiKT-i'it. of pay I .. him by the 10.-.i.-Ji (lovenimen.. ' A.l thai Te'iiainkl to Hie "Toniiii'y" of -iie sixties, called up to li<;hf the .' i.t<r>n, after he tiad

[aid' f«,r In* ration*. was llireraiwico per day. Th« Vi au."t>> ;nilit.ia-ißkia who fo'.i »lit l.y hw siil!' ,* ;ui more fortunate, icy ]i*i l-i reived i !:•■ of 11 half a ci'u«;i |h'«* <|uy I'r, c i;t>m al dedwtions* The colonial c, wam not to blame for thei intper.a.] man's very low \va"v. for it p.-iiil to the iii-itish aitihoritii'.n £f> per head per annum, or 2s per wi i.k. for each man si-mng in New Zealand. Thin money, i. seemed, 'the Jsritish Government plan a tu>vardi-> its genual army expenditure, ins.tea.il of givin<r it ay e\Ara pay !._> the poor soldier who was unaware of al! tihi«, ami iiuagitu-d that th«. X<-w Zealand (Iwmmeat (lid nothing for li.m. There, must have been Kome. extremely eoiiiimeivial•liiinca'd person,; at tin- I'Md of the War Office, in those days. I'ortniratviy. the I'vitis'.i soldier's lot. h".s vastly changed for tin l better di:;'ii\z the. past, half ecu tn.ry. in f.'enera.l I re,'! fin-art. an well as in .pay. for trilling oflWos lie was tied v.p ami llop,awK and the triangles at which the l.Sth and Mie 07t-h or the o.rt.h took his two dozen lashes, were familiar institutions in every military camp in the Wit ilea to and IWanaki. Tom:-iv Atkins's statna has improved considerably since -lltnae "good old! daw" of the catt anil thrcepencu a <tiy. '