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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14391, 1 September 1917, Page 6

A proposal ' for a. Parliamentary tpin* ■>f India, under the auspices of the British . branch of the Parlia.mcrtt.ary -A-s ; is to be considered at a meeting of the Isfew Zealand hi'anch to be held to-day. j Ait American named Washington B. ! Vand er lip has an idea which he claims; will win the war. He would place nets across the Straits- '.of Gibraltar, the Straits of Otrsinto^ and the. .-Dardanelles, j making the Mediterranean a lake. V ! Ho ! would have all supplies for Great Britain j and Franc© from the United States go, from Pacific ports, the ships to travel] via the Suez Canal. While such a trip;' might take ninety days, yet the ships! would arrive safely. He urges that the ( ' United States drop the plan of building wooden ships, and get busy building freight cars and locomotives. "Sixty miles of net, which can be placed in] ninety days, will win the war, he concludes. A Dunedin soldier writes as follows :— "We are m a rost camp at present, and are going from half-past .4 till dark, so it is like the rest camps we used, to have on the Peninsula-. We also get our fair issue of Turco bombs, as old Jacko conies over every day to have a look at us. Of course, ho does not bomb us every day, but we 'scoot' when we see him. In a way it is a bit better now than it used to be, as have a lot of..antiaircraft guns, which keep him well up— not like last year, when we only had machine, guns. Palestine is not so hot as Egypt. The only drawbacks at present are the dust 'and reptiles. There • nro all sorts of poisonous things kicking around, from snakea . to spiders as big as the palm of your hand. The spiders — some say they are tarantulas— are j great , fighters, and will go for nearly i anything. Tho old rumor has cropped up again, about the Main Body being rclioved, and apparently it is true th"s time. There ai v o not very many m Egypt They could easily go horn© on one boat. Thero are about ISO who have not .been ... on sick leave- to England or New SJealand, so it would not hurt them to bo given furlough. I went to a lecture the other night about Palestine. Tho place where we are now fighting was the haunt of Samson — where ho was twice "imprisoned, and pulled down the temnla. so it ia getting very romantic ! eh?" " ,