NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1918, Page 7

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

HELMETS FOlt FIGiiTEKS 5 EYES. Fighting' is becoming safer each 1 day. Just now it is the shrapnelproof helmet which is being improved upon so as to servo the further purpose of protecting the wearer's eves and face, as well as i the head.' The Belgians have J taken the well-known French casque and added a visor member extending well down over the face. This visor is provided with two openings or windows, each < protected by steel bars running < across, so that there is small t chance of a shell splinter reach- j ing the wearer's face. It will be recalled that the newly-designed Swiss helmet is also provided with a visor. As likely as not, the visor will soon he a feaure of r.;ost j helmets. i "A MTEACULOFS CATCH." One pf the latest bombs dropped by the German avions fell into the 1 Seine, harming no one except the fish- 'ike'latter, "sh- -.-Mio/kid" , as if by a charge of dynamic floated on the surface of the water by hundreds. Of course, the f'2">t to notice the happy accident was one of those street boys of Paris who fear nothing, who had stayed on the quay to "enjoy the sight." He spread the good news eagerly, and soon you could see the owners of the barges that fetch coal and barrels of wine to the great city. putting out in little boats to gather the material for a dish of "whitebait." The aerial bombardment had not yet stopped. ,- Nevertheless a great number of peoole left the cellars where they had taken refuge, and grouped themselves —■most imprudently—on the bridges to watch this miraculous catch ,