MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 21 October 1916, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

GERMAN ECONOMIES

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20. Germany has applied th.c ticket system to men's and women's clothing.

HUN CRIME IN EAST AFRICA

LONDON, Oct. 20, . The Colonial Office reports that in German East Africa a trooper of the South African Rifles, who had been captured, was tied to, a gun wheel, beaten by a native under a European's orders, and then shot seven, times. He died two days later. Captain Count Falkenstein commanded the GermansJ The prisoners captured by the British, it is believed, include the trooper's mui--derer, and also thirteen missionaries, who have been' fighting or doing supply transport «work.