WAR ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1916, Page 8

WAR ITEMS.

USING HORSE HIDES. As an instance of Gorman thrift and thoroughness, the Germans remove the hides from dead army horses. WHAT WE MAY EXPECT. A child 'has just been given the name (among others) of Gallipoli. There may yet bo a "Kut el Amara Jones." and.' as we push the Huns back, a ''Wacht Am Rliein Smith." 'BUSWOMAN" KILLED. The first woman omnibus conductor to lose her life was killed at Catl'ord. Her name was Louisa Rushen, and she was aged 22. She ■ was walking round the front of her omnibus when a motor-car knocked her down. THE HEIGHT OF A ZErPELTX. Here is a short and easy way of determining Hie height of a Zeppelin. A piece of wood, 2in long, and a-quarter of an inch wide, would completely blot out a Zeppelin if it were 7000ft'away and the piece of wood held about 2ft from the eye. PAPERS FEEL PINCH, two hundred newspaper proprietors met in Berlin recently to discuss the serious scarcity of paper in Germany and adopt n resolution reequeesting the Government to regulate the consumption of paper and to fix a sale price for it. SEVEN* BROTHERS KILLED. Writing to a friend at Ashford (Kent) Trooper .lack Moulding, of the 4tb Canadian Mounted Rifles, cxnre=se s sorrow that his two particular' chums (brothers) were killed in a Gevmnn bombardment of the British trenches, making seven brothers killed in the one family. SOLD FOR "A FEW SHTLLIKGS.'' The Gazette de Lausanne states that young Armenian girls sold recently hi the market place at 'Constantinople only realised a few shillings each. The Young Turks are congratulating themselves now that the Armenian nation has been massacred, on the accomplishment oi a •'great national achievement." GERMAN RECUPERATIVE POWERS. Even to-day there are British merchants who talk as amateurs, declaring that Germany will be paralysed by the war, and therefore unable to reassert herself in the world's affairs. . Bismarck iiad the same false idea when he crushed France in JS'Q-71. A virile 'State never fails to. .reak.e a rapid recuperation, and Germany,i,s,not only virile, but docile, and strenuously patient. There is nothing in her history to suggest that her sixty-five millions, will face defeat with less resourcefulness than was shown by the twenty-nine million French who recovered from the loss of AlsaceLorraine.