GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 9 January 1915, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS.

The, Ihv of Plenty Times understand* that a sawmilling company which contemplates erecting an extensive plant in Tnuranga has acquired a large area of land in the northern portion of the town in proximitv to the harhor. and will commence operations in connection with ; ts scheme in the near future. Belgian refugees have in instances none "through terrible experiences and tell weird tales of German atrocities. Writing to a friend in Palmerston North, an English ladv says that a certain refugee 'family in Leeds were amongst those who at one time were made to march in front of a German regiment so that the Trench would not fire IM another time thev had to live in packing cases in a cellar for three, days, and only had a crust of bread each. When the Germans went into the cellars the parents had to put their hands over the children's mouths to prevent them from screaming. The little ones have not forgotten the shelling of houses by the Germans and when they heard some Leeds hi)vs setting oh" crackers they screamed,'thinking the German had come.

A British aviator said to a London Standard correspondent: "The most trying part of our work is something that would never occur to you. We don't mind the chances of a Millet hitting iijj. A fight with an enemy's aeroplane * fine sport, and the Germans cannot lick us at that. But when they get thejr high-angle guns at work on us the disturbance of the air is so great that it is as much as ever you can do to control your machine It plunges up and down and rolls sideways so that, do what you will it nearly turns over. Yon hardly know whether you're upside down or net. I've b»en in plenty of bad weather as sea, and it's worse than anything T ever suffered in a boat. It makes me. downright sick —just like a bad attack of seasickness."