THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WAR TIME.
♦— ——— No fewer than 23 members of the family of Mr H. G. Dagleish, of Bobber's Mill, Nottingham, are serving with the colours. Tlie Austro-Hungarian army authorities condemned 75,000 pairs ,of boots destined for the troops, the soles being found to consist of paper. Bibles decorated Avith a portrait of Marshal yon Hindenburg are being sold throughout Germany, the proceeds being devoted toAvards the Red Cross, M. Gaston Rousseau, one of the Coav remaining descendants of Jean Jacques Rousseau, lias been killed Avhile fighting AA-ith his regiment, the 132 nd French Infantry. According to statistics furnished by the German Ministry of Commerce, 14,674 commercial and industrial houses belonging to the Allies have / been sequestrated in Gonnany. A Avounded English soldier Avho lvas being tended by a Belgian sister of charity in a convent near Mons has been arrested and taken prisoner by tlio Germans, Avith hi.s nurse. A number of German families from Bremen have arrived in a semi-desti-tute condition at, Groningcn, Holland, Avhcre they claim similar hospitality to that offered to tho Belgian refugees. The LoiiA-ain Communal Council has placarded the toivii with notices informing those inhabitants ivhose houses wero burned that they avi'll be alloAved to employ men at a dairy Avage of 2s 3d to clear away the ruins. M. Paul Deschanel, presiding at a meeting of the Teachers' Leagu". in Paris recently, paid an eloquent tribute to tho 30,000 French teachers uoav serving Avith the colours. Their devotion, he said, would never be forgotten. Private McDowell, of the 2nd Border Regiment, who Avas killed at Neuve Chapelie, went out twice under a perpetual hail of fire to bandage wounded comrades, and returned safe to cover. Then, from a position further advanced, he lvent to another wounded comrade and bandaged him. returned, and took him a drink of water, for which he Avas craving, and had almost got back to shelter when he AA-as shot dead.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2734, 4 June 1915, Page 4
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