SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1915, Page 4

SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

CAPTAIN'S WIFE AS CONDUCTOR. A colonel's daughter and a captain's wife are serving as conductors on the Portsmouth Corporation tramway ears, to release two men for Army duty. SAVING OF AN IKON. A ship's ikon, "Nicholas the Wonderworker," which has been brought to Petrograd, says Reuter, was the only object found on the surface after the sinking of the transport Yanissey. TAIL LIGHTS FOR THE ARMV. So many soldiers have been injured inscattered into ditches by vehicles charging into them when marching on dark nights that a lamp showing a red light is now being carried on the back o( the last man CHUIROH LUXURIES. The Bishop of Bangor at Bangor recently urged a meeting of clergymen not to spend money on church luxuries. Xu one had a right to order an organ for hi* church during war time, and nothing should be spent in church decorations. All clergy wished to beautify their churches, but money -honk] W nived just now.

NEEDN'T ASK THE IT! WIVKs The regulation under which married men in Canada had to get their wives' consent, ami minors their parents consent before enlisting has been rescinded, PUSSY PAVS. Some while back the Kaiser talked about arming eats and dog-. Xow the German eat has been called on to take part in the war by (laying her way. The town council 01 Zehlendiiii ha* decided to impose a tax on eats of all ages, and a commission lias been Set up to draw up a scale of taxes. RUSSTA AKD TCOI'MAKIA. Once again a whi>pcr i* going tinrounds in diplomatic circle-, to the effect that tiie engagement of the Cut'* eldest daughter to the Crown T-rinee of Roumania will shortly be announced. From an unimpeachable source c oni r, the statement that so prepared was fiermany for the war that she went into it with live rifles for every man she expected to put n uniform on. and four times as many machine-guns per thou* sand infantrymen as any of the Allies. JULIET'S TOMB. Juliet's tomb at Verona, which li reported to be in danger from bombs, has known evil days before now. An old historian, vouching for the actual existence of Shakespeare's lovers, says that he had many a time seen their tomb tnen in use as a washing trough, This is not Verona's only relic of (he great love story, In the Via Capello a tablet duly marks the house in which Juliet's parents are said to have