THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WAR TIME.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12541, 12 May 1915, Page 7

THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WAR TIME.

Two bombs wen; thrown wi a. passing funeral procession ;it Dampierre-les-liois, Franco, recently, by a German Tuube aviator, but happily no one was injured. The Berlin military authorities hare promised to eonter the Iron Cross (third class) on all schoolmasters who induce a hundred schoolchildren to subscribe to the new war loan. .More than two hundredweight of tinned meat and preserved fruits were carried in the cradle of a German aeroplane which was brought down by the Ilussians at Pr/.emysl. Frank Houvenughcl. a Dutchman, one of the crew of th'e Wilson liner Castro, who has just arrived in Hull i'rnm Germany, says the constitutions of maiiv of tiie British prisoners have, been undermined by bad and insufficient food.

The Censor added the following .footnote to a humorous letter received by the editor from a. Yarmouth soldier at the Irout: "The Censor passes this letter, but hopes that the editor will find a safe place to put the writer when he returns to his native town." In view of the favorable state ot the labor market, particularly in reference to shipyard work, there are now only verv few calls on the war relief fund at Sunderland. The bulk of the money .subscribed'has been deposited with the corporation, and is bearing interest. I p to date, it is recorded that Durham and Northumberland have contributed .34.000 miners to the colors, the larger proportion being from the former county. It is stated that quite » third of the total are married .men. A telegram received in Home Irom Constantinople says the newspapers reproduce a proclamation, by Djemal Pasha, announcing that Turkey is preparing f.o advance on Kgy.pt "with good hopes'" of entering Cairo at an early, date." Tim ■■popular- ncruiting poster asking for "plavers" for .the ''!nteniational is taken quite literally by the Yossische Zeitim.g o : . Berlin, which declares that "the .English are now bidding for recruits by the offer of special; spring sportinu- facilities in Gi rniany !" The Berlin Al.edical Association, having issued a statement to the effect that the consumption of "K" bread tends to aggravate certain forms of diabetes and gastritis, it has been decided to petition the Government iii favor of the sale bv chemists of. wheaten and oaten bread." . / ...

A captain on the. Suez, writing to a. little ;}irl at Barconibo, Lewes, aeknowlcdgum a gift of a scarf concludes Ins letter:—"l could tell yon more.' but this letter has to pass a horrid old man called the Censor." The Censor wrote his owji comment to the letter: —''The Censor, is not as lilack as'he's painted." The German military authorities have just suppressed a pamphlet written bv -Fran Frida Pe;rli.n, president of the German Women's Peace Society, in which she attaclced.'.inilitai-isiii and called on the. women, of Europe: tq begin a "stop the war" agitation.. Meetings; whir-h the peace society had organised against- the war have been prohibited.' Mr nnd Mis W. L. Barclay, of Chelmsford, have had. forty relatives servini'- in. the Armv or .Navy. Mr Rarclav was in the 2nd West Yorks. his ■j'a-thef'" in- the 100 th -Royal. Canadians, and lvs four brothers in the East or W"si Yorks. Wis two sisters married soldiers, and he lias seven nephews with the colors. Mrs Barclay's grandfather was in the 17th Lancers and her'father in-the Duke of, Corn-wall's Light Infantry. Her two brothers are in the .Armv, and her thre- sisters married service men. Her lincle and his. two sons were also soldiers. Her niatprnal grandfather 'was in the Duke of Cornwall's and his seven sons in the RiG.A. and infantry regiments. Her a'init'married a. .Royal Engineer, while five cousins :ire in the Army and one in the Naw.