WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 28 October 1914, Page 6

WAR NOTES.

T WU.vlfc.s Til;; TItEKUIGS. "Sou cannoL ;;o a mil!'," wrule a."i * ju io hi., v.'iiV in .inn, "unli-i. :e ljur.sst.s in eiihiT a •MiuMivr.j ot suutii-iastui'.;,', or • Cusivrlv ii.ut>U»n wjiiiout. lindiiij; ail ■iiij mails guaidwl and' c.i .i'i ,n livd »u oiiln r oiil;-. \tum.n inidjrti aiw liiin'-, wiiJi lj;iski:L-s of pi'ovitiion-; luokiii"- l'or thi'ir husliamU, sous, ■i'.iil iirutiii r» l ! fl tilt? u-um-hes, and here ami iM r B >uu b.v family j<ari;jis .siUim: un the m:\vk-m riled oartli at the'bottom <;i 111v? tiviudk's--father, mother and "-.'t-v 1:1 arms, laKdnj; «amcHl,y to rach uihi'r and eating the' sum - ( >roM inJI.S lin_y i.a> C 'Ul'ullglll 10 tlll'il iai-11-theil' bi-luvud eountri". Then, a little further on, you will liml 1 V'o or 'ihi'to j-oidici's *;nit out hv thoir li I lu isy uud buy tu'b.U'i'd tor tU'ir cuiniMdi's in the some of whom have had no lovy.uvo for lour or mo suiil Ukirc nothing like tobacco x'or staving (til' mid eiihuiiijf the nerve? " "

TIIE ''.SCRAP OF PAPER." '■Thar, scrap of paper," suvs the New York 'VVoijd, "was the treaty ttinir-aiu-t- J imr liie n.-airality of Jh-lgbim. The ' whole Jiis'.ory of human liberty is written on just such scraps of paper. Magna ( Inula was a scrap o-f p.iuer. The 'Dili ' of Rights was a scrap of pap, r. The Deelaraitioji of Independence was a scrap of 'paper. li.cspee.ls for these scraps of paper measures a nation's honor no less than its freedom. Democracy itself is only, a scrap of paper, but 'it loosens forces 'that no autocracy can star. The German Aunty is the "most wonderful military machine every, constructed by the hand and ebrain of man, but in the dual reckoning of .history 'a scrap of paper' will prove more powerful than all the Kaiser's legions." THE UJIIQCITOCS KM Dm. It seems .tlnvt, besides being nn adventurous, navigator, the commander of the Herman eniiser Kniden s so'ancwl.at l of a practical joker. Acei.rding b,> advice received in Fremiin'tle ■last week from. Colombo, a liritish vcs-vl recently Lad a most unusual e.vp-ucnee. She was on her way to Colombo from Cali culta, and when, she got to tic SaudI banks indicated that she v.an'u'd a h>ih>t by showing a blue fight and furi'onsly sounding the horn. Presently a searchlight was thrown across the vessel, and the captain promptly shifted his course Howards the I Wit, 'Much do Vs | lons'ternation the vessel using th . s t arch light 'began to move in n cire'e. round his ship. Making f rol . „ s 0 f „., u . i tii-iil tennis, he asked'these using thBearchlight what they were 'playing at. Their •■ship, however/eoiftinuc-d' to circle lcund, the circle getting bigger and bigger every time, with the mereJlaulmeiii't still m hot pursuit. Then the mvsterioiis vessel ip-ut oW llic searciili'.jit ,-uid , -.isappeared. The *ki;mi.i- found' he had been pursuing fh-e Kmden! The captain id that, cruiser told his liltle joke to on,, the-skipp-rs of the five vessels he 'lnii! captured the day before.