WAR IN ALE ASPECTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15886, 6 April 1915, Page 9

WAR IN ALE ASPECTS.

BAVARIANS' WARNING.

ILL-WILL TO PRUSSIANS.

"HIVE THEM IT HOT." An incident reported by an officer at the front shows that the old bad feeling between Bavarians and Prussians has net been extinguished by the war. The in<ident referred to took place al a point on the British lines where the enemv's trenches were less than 50yds away. These trenches were occupied by Bavarian troops. One morning it was noticed that the Bavarians had put up a hoard with some writing in chalk upon it. 'Hie entice read as follows: — " We are being relieved in two day.-' time by the Prussian Guard. See and give them it hot. We will fir« three salvoes when we leave, flood link "' The three salvoes were Hulv fired, the Prussians arrived, and received a reception which would doubtless have pleased the Bavarians did they hear of it. STOKER'S DEATH AT SEA. WIDOW CLAIM Foil INSI'RANTF.. An insurance issn.- of sonic importance came licfoie the Belfa.-l magistrate in an r.ction against the Scottish 1.-gal Life As-sm-aiite Society by Isabella Martin. widow of a stoke" who went down with the cruiser Altonkir. when that vessel was torpedoed in I'm- North Sea. I'tici- r the P'.b'cv Mrs. Martin at the time of her l.ush.iml'., death was titled to half hen. fit iii the i a.v of his death from natural caiiM's, or full benefit in the event of hit death i>\ accident. Ihe company had paid half hen.lit. and the point at issue was whether or not death was accidental. The magistrate .-aid laud Loreburn had express! stated that a soldier killed in battle did not die by accident. In this case lliev must draw a distinction between the civilian and the belligerent- He was glad to he.i.' that whatever his derision. the case would lie taken to the King's Bench. Hi- dis Hissed the claim, and had pleasure ii. staling a case. OFFICIALLY DEAD." KILLED BY RED TAPE. Private George Hadley. a reservist of the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment, who was wounded at Vines, was reported by the War Office as Head, and his paystopped. Hadley was sent out with Corporal Wilson, of a Scottish Regiment, to I discover the German lines, and they sin ceeded in capturing a Maxim gun in the face of heavy fire. Wilson was awarded the Y.C., but Hadley. by an error, was reported as killed. The next day he "'as injured and sent to hospital, and later was invalided borne to Halesowen, to recuperate. While there his pay was stopped, and in spite of repeated applications, he was refused it, and was told that Private Hadley had been reported killed in action. Hadley reported himself to the local headquarters. His former employer, and others, interested themselves in his behalf, and the mistake has at length been realised by the War Office, who have nowinstructed Hadley to rejoin his regiment. While at home he read his obituary notice from the War Office, and an account of his gallantry. Corporal Wilson has since, been killed." Hadley had been convalescent six weeks before he was ordered back again.

" SEVENTY-FIVE" DAY IN PARIS.

EFFECT OF FRENCH SHELLS.

Even the German soldiers admit the superiority of the French 75-gun. 'lu I commemorate this success a day was I devoted in Paris recently for the sale of medals, and the money collected went towards the fund for sending presents to soldiers at tiie front. The effect of th.a gun may he imagined from the following letter :—" German trenches were filled w.ili bodies, many torn to bits by the '75.' When the position seemed to them untenable, it was even worse. On leaving the trendies, pursued by our guns, am* overwhelmed by our machine gun 6 and! rifle fire, they dropped rifles, knapsacks, and equipment to escape the quicker to' the woods. Very few reached there, and they were caught the same evening or nest morning still terrified by our shells. It was the same in their batteries. The guns' one by one were dismantled by our shell*, which smashed them completely and almost mathematically without a chance of resistance. Once unmasked, the German' artillery was silenced in 20 minutes, and' of 40 pieces, only 18 remained on tile' ground, the remainder having bolted at a ! gallop. . . . We have had hitherto a. i crushing superiority through our artillery. Our guns, explosives, and personnel are all superior to what the Germans have, reducing the strength of their resistance and making the strongest position at once untenable." GERMANISING METHODS, "DOX'TS" FOR ALSATIANS. The commanders of the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 21st German Army Corps, whose headquarters are in Alsace-Lorraine, have | issued another of their childish ordinances I intended to check the growth of French sympathies. The penalty for disobedience is imprisonment for twelve months. Throughout Alsace and Lorraine no uni- | form, livery, or other dress is to be worn I in public or in private, which are recognised as French, or support the supposition that the wearer entertains French proclivities. The ordinance goes so far as to prohibit clothes to be cut in a fashion wihch is unmistakably French. Further, merchants and traders arc informed that in future all their books must bo kept in German, and that the only currency to be entered in them is to ho that of' the empire. No notices in French, are to appear in shops or offices, eithcinside or in windows, and in hotels and lodging-houses the servants are instructed I to communicate with the guests only in I German. From January i 5 all accounts, I invoices, and similar business documents | were to ho written in German, and the | culminating absurdity is the prohibition of I the use of the French signalling trumpet, j the well-known and popular clarion. I ! ONLY A "TERRIER." j Private Wanders, of the loth, 'Kensington, Battalion London Regime:iV «riling from the front on January 27 to a friend in the Isle of Wight, says*:— " We out here often wonder it the folic jat home still take the Germans cheaply. Jl think they must, otherwise recruiting • would Iv much brisker. As a matter of 'fact the Germans are still perfectly ci nIfident of victory, are extraordinarily well equipped, and .ire a crafty, brave people. (The first thing the general did when we came to the front was to give us a warning against taking the enemy cheaply. We verv soon found that what lie said was perfectly correct. I was recently recommended 'for a commission for services lin the field, and 1 am anxiously waiting 'to hear v. hat regiment. 1 urn being gazetted to Like all the rest of this regiment I am a 'terrier.' and. indeed, only joined on August 26.- but we have been Editing side liv side for the past two months will) the finest regiments in the 1 Hlitish Annv and the regulars themselves have complimented us over and over again. So one does not mind being ■inly a "terrier in such circumstances." SAILORS' BODIES EXHUMED. Bv a deplorable emu- of judgment the authorities in the North of Ireland allowed the bodies of two of the sailors killed on dutv in the navv to be interred as paupers, at Lame. Major McCalmont, M.P., took up the matter of the burial with the Admiralty, and secured the c.<- | humation of the 'bodies for reinterment with full military honours. A body of coastguards acted' as pall-beavers and men of the 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles provided a firing party. The ceremony, which was Aery impressive, was attended ~ by the public. . '*JS| | . .- L ■ .1