ABOUT THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 5

ABOUT THE WAR.

TREATED,AS LEPERS*

"Young men who are ab!.\ Inu do not go to the war should b? treated as lepers," said the Rev. fl. F. at a patriotic meeting at Otaki. lie added that young ladies who did not give such shirkers the "cold Kiirm'.di.'r"! were almost as bad themselves. A GOOD STORY A good slorv i s told of the brofherlU ness of the Xevv Zealandera and th® Australians. In a hospital at Alexandria there was only one X'ew Zeaiander in a ward full of Australians, while in another ward there was one Austm* lian in a ward full of X'ew Zeahmders. It was proposed' to transfer the two men, but the Australians would not hear of if. ''\y P nro Aneacs now >» called out one Australian.

|A.\ IXQL'ISITIVK CORRESPONDENT. ! A returned .\V-w mentions that on one occasion ho saw Mr \sli* mead Bartlett, the war correspondent, wsiting the -trenches i n companv with some of the military heads. He used to "poke about all over the show," altvaVß with Ins camera with liiin. One <kv ha visited Quinn's Post with some officers, and, in order to secure a snapthot of some dead Turks, made to get up on one of the benches in the trench. The Turks were about fifteen yards distant. He wa 3 immediately pulled down by some of the oHicers, who asked him if he wished to j;et shot. The narrator remarked that if one put a finger abova the trench it would have been hit.

SOMETHING IN A NAME. "Territorial" writes to the New" Zealand Times:—"l see the highly-patriotic New Zealand Government has appointed a Mr. Schmitt as recruiting officer for the Auckland district. Where is this sort of thing to end! We are told there is nothing in a name, but for i*. cruithig purposes this proposition would have been more appropriately and acceptably filled by a Smith or a Smrthe. Mr. A. Schmitt may be a very ioyii individual, and quite eager to racrnit troops to light againstXlUfcerVtat T confess to a British abhorrence for the extraordinary preference diaplayod' for persons of foreign blood or demiti & HWHTW V