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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 7

The King has sent Lady Roper Parkington" £100 lor the Montenegrin Red Cross Relief Fund.

A telegram to the Amsterdam "Telograaf" says:—A refugee from Zonhoven reports that a British prisoner of war, on his way to Aix-la-chapelle, overpowered his guard, seized his revolver, and fled. He was, however, arrested later, and shot.

A well-to-do French refugee, whose home is close to Itheims, tells an amusing little story of the war. When the Germans broke through into the Champagne country recently some of the officers and men marched to the wine cellars of the well-known firm of Laucon and Co., and demanded wine. "It is the fortune of war," said the manager, who was powerless. "How much do you want?" "Four hundred dozen." The wine was handed over courteously and with a smile. The Germans were pleased, and even paid' a .small price for the wine. Sympathy Mas extended later to the manager, but he repeated "It is the fortune of war," and smiled refteetively. Then, very slowly: "I might tell you that, the wine was ordered by a German firm before the war and paid/for in advance f"