JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 3 November 1914, Page 6

JOTTINGS.

Canterbury farmers have given to the defence authorities' over £3OOO worth of fodder in response to the recent appeal.

A Gordon Highlander, writing Home sa y s; _On Tuesday the Gordons moved out to attack some German infantry, A few rounds soon gave them cold feet, and they retired. As we were returning through a turnip field I twisted my ankle. The 130th Battery 11. If. A. gave me a lift on their guns; and I’m damned they didn’t go into action ten minutes after with me. I was the reverse of cheerful, but I made the best of it. A few rounds were handed over on each side, and our chaps retired, with me still on the gun, to Cambrai.

A news agency (says an English exchange) circularised a report to the Pi •ess. a few weeks ago to the- effect that the proprietors and managers of Cinema houses have been informed that no pictures dealing with the war in any shape or form are to he permitted on the screen. A violation of this order will mean Instant cancelling of a license. We communicated with the British Board of Film Censors, and were informed, after making inquiries at the Home Office, the War Office and the Censor Board, that they Avere enabled to say no such • order had been issued, and that the report would he contradicted.

Theodosia, recently, bombarded by the Turks, now known as Kaffa, lias superseded Sevastopol as the commercial port of the Crimea. It stands in a bay on the east side of the Crimea, 62 miles north-east-of Simferopol. It is defended by walls and a citadel, nearby which stands the ruined palace of the Khans of -the Crimea. The damaged cathedral was a fine building, dedicated to the Greek faith. The breakwater was only recently constructed. In Theodosia, soap, ■ caviare, camelhair carpets and sheepskin rugs are manufactured, while the port contains the,.only oyster-fishery in Russia. The population of the town is 30,000.

“If only there had been enough Christianity in the world, no man, prince,. potentate, nor private citizen could have hated or envied or overreached or dreaded his neighbors enough to bring war to pass.” r ihis is part of a strong indictment brought against the Christian Church by the “Continent,” the organ of the Presbyterian Church of America. “The world is at war- to-day because it is a wicked world,” the paper also says. “Jesus Christ sent His Church into the world to teach men to love. It failed to do it in time to prevent this terrible catastrophe. It has never yet put forth all its might in one consummate and consuming vow of endeavour to try u'hetber it could be done. There is just one thing for Christians to care about; the world must be saved from its iniquity.”