SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1916, Page 8

SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

GERMAN OFFICERS ESCAPE. IJwo German officers have escaped from the internment camps at Tikmaar, Holland, namely, the commander of the aeroplane which recently landed in the Freisian Islands and the commander of the submarine which a fortnight ago was brought to Terschelling. LORD ROBERTS' PROPHECY. "Only give him the chance, and he will prove himself a great general," was Lord Roberts' comment years ago on General Haig. "I believe," added the veteran, "the war with Germany will come well within his time." ONE-LEGGED RECRUIT,. After having served through the South African war, Mr. H. Ridler, a grocer, of Marrow, Surrey, who has only one leg, wrote to the War Office offering his services in any useful capacity, and lias now been gWen a position in the Army Ordnance Corps. AUSTRIA'S YELLOW ARMLET. r Civil servants, merchants, manufacturers, teachers and prefessional men genially under arms in Austria are now all/wed to wear a yellow armlet to distinguish them from soldier* of inferior social position. Those wearing the yellow armlet are entitled to live outside barracks, and arc exempted from menial tasks, THE HUN'S WIDOW;' The Berliner Tagoblaitt, in an article on German losses, declares that from the time of a soldier's death to. the moment of its notification to. his family two months elapse. The same paper remarks that domestic troubles are caused fey widows being too eager to re-marry hfcfsre making sure that their first husbands nav e really b,een killed. The German courts declare that in such cases the secend marriage is not valid. g J»» H ' J MM.*