MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15502, 12 November 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

WAR NEWS DELAYED. Received 1.30 a.m.„ Nov. 12th. / SYDNEY, Nov. 11. _ is great delay on the Easternl Jines, and war news is held up. CLEVER FEMALE SPY. SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS. "Tlme»" and Sydney "Bun" Servloe*. Ptess Association—By Tel.—Copyrights LONDON, Nov. 10. A clever and accomplished woman, speaking fluent English, and dressed as a. Red Cross nurso, mot some British wounded at Garo du Nord (Northern Railway Station, Paris), and invited tho officers to dine. Whilst under the influence of her cha4*m and hospitality, she tried to wheedle military information from them. She also visited hospitals and attempted io discourage tho men. She was discovered to be the divoroed wife of a German offioor, of British-Russian descent. She was tried and sentenced at Paris to two years. GERMAN AND MOSLEM. Tho "Novoe Vremya./' dealing withl tho Kaiser's efforts to investigate a Jehad (holy war) against Christendom, says tho Mussulmans have forestalled Wilhelm's criminal designs, and are flocking to the standards of the Allies. LOYALTY OF INDIA. " "The Times" Bombay correspondent! states that India is able and willing to double her contingent and can furnish an army locally for all requirements of service. Tho most remarkable feature was the support of the educated middle class, who in normal times are most critical of Government measures. SOLDIERS' JOKES. In the neighbourhood of Vially tho trenches are so close that constant jokes are played by the rival armies. One of the latest was that Germans left their lines and searched for milk at a farmhouse. In mistake they wandered into French trenches, and were captured and detained all night, and sent back dressed in women's clothes, but without milk.