THE WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9928, 10 November 1914, Page 6

THE WAR.

* ■\ ■ $x i, VARIOUS ITEMS. ( (Times and Sidney Sun Besvicis.) ! Received November 10. 9.0 a.m. , LONDON, Nov. 9. At the inquest on General Kekcwich it < fas utMed* that lie suffered from great ; vaves of depression owing- to his inability < c serve his country A verdict of suicide 1 j while temporarily insane "Was returned. < MELBOURNE, Nov. 9. The meat. Reporters intend to tender for ,1m five million tins of preserved moat wantjd by tit© Imperial Government. thus re- i wring the blockage in the cold storage , ;rnde. * i LONDON, Nov. 8. Mr Bernard Shaw, in an open letter in tho journal Nation, suggests that President Wilson be petitioned to ask America to invite tho neutral Powers to a conference for tho purpose of requesting Britain, Franco, and Germany to withdraw from j innocent Belgium and fight, on tJieir own territories. SYDNEY, Nov. 9. The Ceramic reports that after leaving Liverpool, one of tho saloon passengers j iroused suspicion and was arreted and • identified as a German spjr resident in' German South-West Africa, who participated j in inciting the rebellion in the Union colony. I He was handed to the authorities at Cape-' town. ■ t Terrific storms possibly account for the •c a reify of war news. A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. A remarkable experience befell Sergeant F, W Turner, of tlie Roval West Kent Reg iineflt, who, writing from the Cojivent j Nomy, Belgium, to his fiancee, describes }»ow ho was seriously wounded at Mons, a bullet entering his rufht b least and coming out of his left breast. He says.: —"Tho l>ullet tiuit wounded, me went into one brwst pocket and came out of tho other, and ih Its "COurso it passed through your ( photo, mnfeinf -a hole in the breast. What' a 6tr&nge crnncidence! It, then passed" through* fay Watch and strticl; a lafge claspknife, smashing it, to and driving it 1 through my pocki-1." Sergeant Turner received hw wound an 1 ur and a half after tllH Opfjillg of lilt: 1 attic. MANAWATU PATRIOTIC FUND. | Amount previously acknowledged 1197 1 11 Mr S. Jickell ' 110 Oj £ll9B 11 l! "STANDARD" RELIEF FUND. In view of the cistros# that it certain to ue a resuh ot* the war, the "Manawaiu Standard" haa opened a relief fund, tho proowds from wnioh wdl be devoted to alleviating, so ftr as possible, that distress. The money suiaoribed to this fund wiil bft devoted (1) to the assistance of thoea going from this distriot who, on their return, may require it, and their dependents, (2) to provide for the relief of members of the expeditionary force going from parts of New Zealand who, on their rot v.7i, may require assistance, and their dependents , and v 3) the reliAsf, so far aa possible, of distress in Great Bi itaiu The amounts lubforibed to dal* are --

£ 9. d. Amount, previously acknowledged 241 15 5 "K.M.0." (2nd instalment) ...0 4 0 Marifiwatu Rugby Fooiball Union 3 3 0 Bunnvthorpe Relief Committee 100 0 0 Pflrnrrfton N. Orchestral Society 6 9 0 "P.}!(!.'" (tliinl instalment) 10 C