WAR MISCELLANY

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1917, Page 7

WAR MISCELLANY

A NEW MILITARY BADGE (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) : LONDON, 21st August. A new badge for military service is ito be issued by the War Office. Though the details of the scheme are not yet definitely fixed,. the proposal is to give ,a chevron to be worn on the sleeve for each year of service on any front. A minimum aggregate time limit of service—say six months—will be required to obtain the chevron for each year. Mr. Maepherson, the Under-Secretary for War, said that the matter had been under consideration by a committee, which had come to the conclusion that H was impossible to differentiate between the first few divisions of the Expeditionary Force and those which succeeded them shortly afterwards. He added that he was open to receive suggestions on the subject. I PROTECTING HOSPITAL SHIPS. Lord Robert Cecil officially confirms j the report that the Government have agreed that every British hospital ship shall carry *a neutral commissioner appointed by the Spanish Government. He expresses a hope that this may put •an end to enemy attacks on these ships, though he says no definite assurance to this effect had been received from the enemy Governments. STANDARD CLOTHS. ■ In order that officers may buy their uniforms at a more moderate figure, and also in order to conserve wool supplies, a scheme has been prepared by a War Office Department, in consultation with representatives of the trades affected, for the production of standard cloths for ofneers' wear. There will, in all, be some fifteen or so different kinds of material, for breeches, tunics, and greatcoats, and the prices will be controlled from the raw wool stage to the com- | pleted garments. The cloth will be sup- | plied by the woollen merchants to the tailor at a fixed rate, and the latter j wjll not be allowed to charge his officer j customers more than a certain maxii.mum sum for each garment. All the details,have now been settled, even to 1 the yellow and white stripe on the \ selvage, which will distinguish these new standard cloths. . No restrictions, however, will be placed on the prices he may ask for uniforms made from cloths already in stock, theee materials being unaffected by the new proposal. A SAGACIOUS HORSE. An interesting story of how a. soldier's life was saved by the sagacity of his i horse has been told by Bdr. H. Wood, R.F.A., who lias been serving on the Salonika.front. Wood says ': " I was out on a mounted patrol one very dark and j wet night and got lost in the mountains, bud-denly I came to a deep ravine, -but did; not know until my horse snorted and came to a halt. I coaxed her, but she would go no further. I found 1 was on the precipice of a deep ravine, iUOft deep. The worst of it was, as soon as I showed a light the enemy started blazing a-way with machine guns. I could hear the hullets striking the rocks just down the cliffs. If they had had a little more elevation I should not have been writing this letter. When 1 reached my battery next morning I gave ! my faithful mare an extra bag of corn." I . THE FUTuiiToF EMPIRE. Lord Levenshulme, High ' Sheriff of Lancashire, describes German impudence as "colossal." He told a meeting that the Kaiser had staked his empire against other empires, and had practically put down a shilling to win a sovereign. When ne saw he could not win he said " Give us everything back again, and we will I d,. oY er what -we-' wrongfully took " All distinctions of rank could only lead to two great, classes—the class'that did their duty and the class that did not The future of the Emprie would rest i with the former class. We should determine that every house should be fit tor habitation and have a reasonable amount of garden attached to - it, and tnat tfte conditions of work for the watfe-eai-ner of either sex should be such°as to give them better opportunity. The horizon created must give a better outrace than the world had ever seen