General Items

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 120, 14 October 1914, Page 5

General Items

. INDIANS POPULAR IN* FRANCE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, October 12. The Indians are generally popular in France. They- stow great eageracrss to teach the front. Features of their equipment are ,the great niucnber of i their batteries of mountain guns and -Jlaxims carriadl on tie backs of mules, and the hundreds of goats in the Sikh lines in camp. Each race ihas its own customs. Their food wag brought from India. INDOLENT MEN. I .r; • Paris, October 12. General Joffre has circularised prefects in the war- zone stressing the. neglect of 'harvest operations. He says Oiat ne " is struck by tfhe numbers of strong men from 3fi years of age chattering and loitering in villages whilst a considerable <fuantity of the crops are ungarner- * ed. It is not admissible that foodstuffs needed for ,Ilhe continuation of war ihould be allowed to rot in the fields. PAPER CLOTHING. .** a London, October 12. The Japanese Government has offered to pirovido the British and French armies with a special kind of pa/por convert- ' 4ble into warm winter clohhing, which -was worn by Japanese soldiers with ■eatiafsic'Jary results. ' '', > WELCOME SOCKS. V .. , London, October 12. ' .-,' It is hoped that the soldiera at the 'C?imttt wp receive at the end of the .-month a pair of woollen socks and a -woollen 'body belt, gifts from .the Queen ' iuAyrmea »f % Empire, %'■&.■■■■ ■