INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1916, Page 5

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

ON AHD OFF THE FIRING LINE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDOX, September 11. Norwegian Steamer Sank. The Norwegian vessel Lindborg hae been torpedoed. Mr Aaqvith at the Front. Mr Asquith (Prime Minister), wbo has been on a tour of inspection on the Somme front, inquired closely into the supply and quality of munitions. Blessing the Air. The ceremony of blessing the air lias just been carried out for the first time on • the French Atlantic coast, with the obiect of placing aviators under the protection lof the Virgin Mary. From a point ! dominating the sea, priests blessed the air over land and sea. iPrlaceu la tfce^Treaclieg. P^™ r^ nt i C disco Y c jr ie "ported from Petrosrad. A wounded soldier in hospital v i T *"*>*** to be the lOmk l- " g6d ~' wb( > se heband, father, and brother were killed early in the war. The princess cut her tresses offand enlisted. She fought for months on the soutb-trest front, bnt was d)scorered and aent to Kieff. She, hetr?Y er ' e ' ude d her guards and returned to Hip fighting line, ■where she was wounded.