CABLE BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES

LONDON, January 1. A second, list of orders of the British Empire will bo *. issued shortly, The ‘ Daily Chronicle ’ says the first* list was disappointing, and hopes.for a hotter selection tho next. It predicts that sailors and engineers of tho Merchant Service will be included. A Now York report says Mr Roosevelt is going to Washington to advocate universal training. President Wilson has requisitioned the electric power-house at Niagara Falls in order to speed up war industries in Buffalo City. An Amsterdam message says ‘ Vorwarts ’ suggests tlrat Germany should Like the British taxation policy as a model on which, to solve the lax problems. It is officially stated that at tho request of Mr Lloyd George, Alice Wheeldon, aged 51, who last March was sentenced to 1C years’ penal servitude for conspirin'to poison Sir Lloyd George and Mr •Arthur Henderson, has been released. Mrs Lloyd George, t>-*s Duchess* of Marlborough, Lady Rhondda, Mis.i Alto,, Terry, and other well-known women have inaugurated a Children’s Jewel Fund in connection with the National Baby Week in order to open 5000 ante-natal and postnatal welfare centres. They are asking every woman to give a jewel to assist the cause. The British headquarters in. Franco report that a certain air squadron has brought down 99 enemy machines. The leader of tho squadron is responsible for 30. He is 22 years of age, and has been flyinv 54 months. His method is to hover at a height of 15,000 feet and wait for the German airmen; then to mancouvre so as to cut off tho German from homo, thus mailing him fight. His favourite trick is to pretend to make mistakes in the air, and then miraculously to recover. This youth recently brought down two Bodies before lunch, and two after.