GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 21 October 1919, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

THE SACRED ARCH. Orders iiave been issued by the Military Governor of Paris, on the instructions of M. Clemencean, that in future troops must march round the Arc tie Triomphe, and not through it. The chains barring the way through the arch are to be replaced. A WORLD PEACE ST AMT. Under the patronage of Princess Margaret a Danish committee has now" sent out the first -100,000,000 world peace stamps. These stamps may be purchased all over tne world, and the money thus collected will go to a fund for the rebuilding of the ruined Cathedral of Rheirus. “DANDY’S” TWO "WARS. Dandy, the charger of Colonel Snider, 37th Battalion Canadian Infantry, is returning to the home farm at Portage le Prairie. He went through the South African War with his master, and until mobilisation in 1914 worked on the laud. Dandy has been in France since 1914. "He was never hit. KITTEN SAVES MASTER. “White Paws,” a kitten, saved the life of H. G. Mills, of Colorado. The kitten, which follows its owner as constantly as a dog, was riding with Mills in his automobile when engine trouble developed. Mills crawled under the car to investigate, and found himself within striking distance of a giant rattlesnake coiled. The kitten leaped from the car and sank its teeth into the rattler’s head, killing it. The snake, which measured 9ft. in length and had 13 rattlers, was sent to a taxidermist for mounting. Pioneers declared it to he the largest rattler ever seen in the district.