SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4

SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Tlio Prince of Wales's war relics aw '.-'•-.tc stored for him in Windsor Oa:-t!o.

A G-?rl)ian mo3sayo suy a :—'' 011 tlio western front tliore i* no cJiaufie. ,J You never wiJl get miy out of uk, William.—'' Loudon Opinion."

A well-known British journalist who tr'-i to reach "the lir.es ;is tho bearer of a letter to Uonoral Joffre wi;.h uJ fc.ar'd its rt ypy and nearly shot.

There arc .-■• heady, thank's to William the BJr.ttuv. in Europe, more than S.COO.OOl) '-orpses and nearly 7,000.000 wounded. What will the Victorious nations 1 <!<> to ibis man?—" Lo Matin/''

The Arehbi-=hop of York has been visiting the Gr<r.'\'i Fleet at various bases. Ho told n .-inhering at Bishcp-tii-rpe Palace that his tour bad been move stirring:, more, striking, than nnytbine; before experienced in bis life.

The "Intransigeant," stater, that the French Government is now providing Sfteol helmet" for the. solders at the frent with all possible rapidity. Threo hundred thousand of them, have been rlrcr.dy distributed, and others r*ro beirg supplied at the rate of 25.000 daily. "THE OTHER WAY." At a military parade in Birmingham the Rev Arnold Pinehard said the time for imploring men to do their duty had come to an end. The other way might bo d ; stasteful, but the neonar it was adopted the better for the national welfare. " FRANZ JOSEPH SHAF.EN/' News received from Trieste says that the Austrians are making «. last desperate effort to remove the Italian character from the city. They have a plan to rename it Franzjosephshafen. Of the 370 teachers in Trieste, only 30 aro left, the remainder having been exiled, imprisoned, or sent to concentration camps. a fatalTSjendship. At Ballinasloe, in Ireland, a thir-teen-year-old hoy named Johnston lost his life through playing with a sentry's rifle. Since th© outbreak of war a bridge near the railway station and spanning the Suck has been under poke© guard. This portion of the river is freely used for fishing. Johnston and hi? brother went there one Sunday evening, and having made friends with the sentry one boy commenced to handle his rifle. He put his right eye to the muzzle of the barrel, and in some at present unaccountable way discharged the weapon. The bullet entered thei eye, pierced the skull, an* the boy died almost immediately. AN IH>rr(>R'S~HOLIDAY." Maximilian Harden, editor of the German paper " Die Zukunft." passed through Copenhagen recently incognito, on an enforced holiday of indefinite duration in northern Seanadinsuia. His recent article virtually commending Italy's attack on her archenemy, Austria, is reported to have aroused the wrath of official Germany. £IO,OOO FOR ZEPPELINS. Lord Miohelham has e>red a prize of £IOOO to every Britisi airman who destroys a Zeppelin whilst it is in the air. The reward is open both branches of the service, and in the event of more than one airman destroying the saino Zeppelin the prize will be divided. The number of £IOOO prizes is, however, limited to ten. a germalTbutoher. Several attempts have been made to trace the German butcher referred to by a private In the West Surreys when he wrote: "My rifle was ready to pop off. In an instant I recognised the German, He waa an old neighbour of mine. ' For God's sake, Mr ——,' said he. 'don't shoot/ 'Well, I'm Mowed!' Baid I, 'it's Wagner, of the Old Kent Tioad.' Then we talked about the sausage shop and a little back debt I hadn't paid." So tar, however, no one can be found m the Old Kent Road who knows him. BROTHERS IN ARMS. The Secretary of State for India, forwards the following notice for publica-tion:—-"A senior officer of the Indian Army, who is in a position to know, writes to say that he has been much impressed by the camaraderie and good feeling existing in the Dardanelles between the Australian troops and the soldiers of the Indian mountain batteries. These men fought side by side in the famous landing at Gaba lepe, and the batteries did so well and gallantly that the Australians have metaphorically taken them to their hearts, and all are the greatest pals imaginable. The political effect of this entente cordiafe should be good both in India and in Australia. POET PROPHESIES LONG WAR, A telegram from Turin to the "Petit Parisien" says that, questioned by an American journalist as to the probable durat ; on of the war, Gabriel© S'Annmuio replied: " The war wi be a long one, and for Italians it will *efc harder and harder as time goes on Germany's equivocal attitude would lead one to suspect that she contemplates concluding peace at the expense of her ally by giving away Austrian territory in compensation tor what she wTll be obl ; ged to cede or abandon, but peace which would leave the cohesion and power of Germany intact would bo very dangerous tor all other nations. I behove we cannot have & satisfactory peaco before the autumn of 1916."