THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WARTIME.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 4

THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WARTIME.

Macropodia Hindenlmrgi is_ -the name bestowed on a now species or fossil lobster discovered by the dir.eetor of the Finnic Biological Institute. Among a trainload of some .300 wounded Germans sent to Cologne from th« eastern theatre of war were 26 men whose feet, had been amputated owing to frostbite. . A number of ladies driving thenown cars have volunteered to act as honorary chauffeurs to staff officers and others whose duties compel them to travel in and around London every The Berlin City Council has ordered the Imperial Union of German Dressmakers to convene a congress of dressmakers and millinel-s with the view of establishing and popularising German fashions for women. According to the Amsterdam JLele.'.•raafi the latest German war articles ■u-0 briquettes marked on one s,ide, "God punish England," and on the other, ""God help Germany. ,, They are in the form of coffins. The foneral commanding the lUtli German Army Corps at Hanover has been compelled, according to the German newspapers, to' adopt drastic measures to check the drunkenness that prevails among the troops. Large detachments of German prison ers "have been set by the French Government to drain the. marshes or -Yuvorgne. Those under 25 years are described as "full of insubordination." while the old men are completely demoralised and profoundly melancholy. . . t• i t The King of Bavaria has decided that all members of the Royal Family and thoir households shall be given the same bread tickets as ordinary citizens. The King has forbidden the consumption by his family of white broad or any kind of cakes until the end" of the war.