GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1915, Page 8

GENERAL ITEMS.

A WONDERFUL WEAPON, "By Cable—Pre* Association—Copyright. Shanghai, Oct 22. The police seized thirteen revolvers and twenty thousand cartridges packed in tins and hidden in furniture. Three Chinamen who were arrested stated that a German agent engaged them to take the goods to India, explaining that the tins contained medicine. Washington, Oct. 22. President Wilson has approved a lengthy note to Great Britain complaining of interference with American trade. . Sydney, Oct. 23. Captain Brownell, of the Worcestershire Regiment, who was wounded in Flanders, has been appointed on the staff of the Duntroon College. He states that everyone on the eastern front is now armed with a three-Maded dagger, with a wooden grip like the top of a shovel. One blade protrudes between the fingers and on the other side m-otrudes another longer Wade. The frontil blade drives straight forward and the others stab backwards or uppercut. It is splendid for in-fighting. He describes a number of new types of inexpensive high explosives which are most destructive, and adds that Britain. is now the paramount power as far as r bombs and hand grenades are concerned. They also had a number of surprises in these lines up their sleeves, which they would shortly spring upon the foe.

GERMAN COTTON CROPS IN CHINA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Oct. 22. A Pekin report says that the Allies have discovered twenty-four cotton plantations in the interior of China which Germans had brought up, and who are sneaking the product through the blockade. I