EFFECT OF DRILL

Press, Volume L, Issue 15158, 23 December 1914, Page 7

EFFECT OF DRILL

SHRINKAGE m WAIST MEASUREMENT.

("Time*" end "Srdne- Sun" Semcee.) (Received December 52nd, -5.13) p.m.) LONDOx'pecember 22. A London tailor detects a remarkable, shrinkage offfi e o r inches in the past three months in * nG coat measurement of elderly andmid-

Enquiries p.lsetdjere confirm tho wonderful effects cf drills and route marches. In tbo "old boys" sprint for trains, ivho have not run ten yards iin f, n they ceased playing cricket. In their top-hate they jump into motor-buw.s with tho motion- and agility of Thrr «ru growing contemptuous oF umbrellas. They iiavc taken twenty years off their livee. GEE3TAXS IX BELGIUM. A SO-CALLED. PARLLVMENT. (Reccired December -2nd, 10.20 p.m.) I/OXDOX. December 22. Router's Amsterdam correspondent states that under German pressure, nine Belgian provincial representatives met at Brussels and held a so-called Landtag session. Asserting that they'wpre tho IMet, they agreed to issuo Treasury bonds. A group of bankers imclertook to advance nineteen million sterling, payable- in twelve, monthly instalments. The German ■Governor promised that all roods would bo paid for in cash if these instalments were promptly forthcoming. HUXGER RIOTS IN BRUSSELS. (Received December 23rd, 12.20 a.m.) LOXDOX, December 22. Hunger riots havo commenced in Brussels.