SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11506, 30 September 1915, Page 4

SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

_ Soldi aro forbidden by international Ijvw tn to bo dead or wounded v.ill) the obj ct.of taking the enemy -at a disadvantage. " They call men who have gone to the Dardanelles heroes: f call them murderers.' 1 For this Charles Jackson, of Brisbane, received a sentence of three months. .For wearing a captain's uniform without authority. a man was fined £6O at St Ives, Cornwall. He said when arrested that lie wore it for "swank." A German resident of St Catherine's. Ontario, has been interned at Niagara Falls. Ho had in his possession a complete livfc of tho factories in the Niagara district which aro making shells for the Allies. E : ght companies of cyclists can carry 256,(300 rounds of ammunition, as against 72.000 carried by a whole cavalry division of nearly 2500 men. An officer acting as regimental censor came across thia gem (says the " World ") in a Tommy's letter apropos of the -lightness of French beer: "Tell Uncle Ned that beer here costs a p«imy a glas>, and it would cost him a sovereign to get drunk on it." By a curious coincidence the loth Hussars, quartered round an old chateau in Flanders, have tethered their horses to stout iron rings used for Ih© Kame purpose by the 15th Hussars a hundred years ago—after Waterloo. '•TOMMY'S" LATEST FAVOURITE, The latest marching song, that -has auite supplanted "Tipperary," rues:— Alary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. Hurrah for Mary! Hurrah for the lamb! Hurrah for the teacher who didn't car® a—little bit! A HURRIED CEREMONY. While a lieutenant was being married at Harle.'den Parish Church, a telegram, was handed him recalling him on active service. The marriage ceremony had to be hurried to enable tho bridegroom to catch his train. His bride went with him to the point of embarkation. DESTROYING GERMAN FLYERS. So far a,s accounts have been rendered to the public, thirty-five German flying machines, not including Zeppelins, have been brought to the earth and destroyed by French airmen. Roland Garros previously held the record with three machines to his credit, but lie has now been surpassed by another •French, lieutenant, who has brought down feur. REPLACE GUN COTTON. A new process has been developed by German, chemists for the utilisation of wood pulp in pjace of cotton in the manufacture of explosives. The nibstituto h already being used successfully at three large factories at Manheim. For some purposes the new explosive is even more effective t-hau that made with the cotton. 15UrnS' WARNING. A -soldier on leave, says the ''Pall Mall Gazette." tells how birds -nam the Allies of a gas attack. " Long before the hmell of the fumes can be detected in the trenches there is a. great clamouring of birds awakened from their nighi perche.s. The birds Hy beyond the reach of tho fnrnes. but in the meantime the, British .soldier is propared."