GENERAL WAR ITEMS.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5726, 1 October 1914, Page 3

GENERAL WAR ITEMS.

Received 12.40 a.m., Ist. Ottawa, September 30,

Ihe women of Canada have given £37,000 to the Admiralty to establish a hospital in Portsmouth, and £20,000 to be placed at Earl Kitchener's disposal. London, September 29. Wheat is dull, and prices tend in buyers' favour. A subaltern writes from the front: —"I do hope we shall wipe out the fellows in the front. Then, perhaps, we shall get a little sleep. All our people, especially the infantry, are very tired. 1 don't suppose we have averaged more than four hours' sleep nightly for three weeks, and all in th'e open. It is wonderful how accustomed one grows to little sleep and food and very little washing. There is no time for washing or shaving. Most of us have grown beards."

An officer in the Coldstreams tells how he and three other officers were sheltering under a hayrick which was hit by eight shells in three minutes. The rick caught fire, and they had to run for 300 yaids across artillery-swept ground The London Times, in a leader on soldiers'songs, states.—"None can tell why 'lt's a Long Way to Tipperary' should wait the taste of the soldier?, unless because it is entirely irrelevant to the matter in hand. Soldiers prefer a joke reminding them of home to a song telling them they are heroes. To our mind a joke in face of death is finer than an heroic attitude."

The exhibition of the first captured German gun in the courtyard of the War Office drew a big, admiring crowd. It was captured by the First Battalion of Lincolns.

Copenhagen reports state that a violent quarrel exists between the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, the former considering the campaign in France a fiasco. The Kaiser is inconsolable.

An Italian war correspondent, who accompanied the Austrians to Lemberg, confirms the statement that the Austrians lost 60,000 killed and 150,000 wounded.

Boys and girls are employed in completing the fortifications in Trentino. Meanwhile, the grape harvest has not been picked, because the promised Russian prisoners have not arrived. London, September 29, The Admiralty has prohibited trawlers using the East Coast porte as fishing bases. The sum of £IOOO has been subscribed in Lisbon for the relief of the British wounded. Received 11 p.m., 30th. Ostend, September 29. At Alost, in Belgium, the Germans arrested 26 civilians and forced them to sign a confession that the inhabitants iired on the Germans. During the fighting Germans compelled 40 civilians to walk ahead of the troops. Several were killed by the Belgians. Santiago, September 29. The Chilian Government has prohibited two German steamcis sailing with coal intended for cruisers on the Pacific coast. New York, September 29. The Tribune denounces the Zeppelins dropping bombs upon open towns as an outrage to humanity and against all notions of civilised combat. Germany has only a narrow chance of being absolved by the United States for this action. Ottawa, September 29. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is employing 6000 extra men for the purpose of relieving distress. Geneva, Spetember 29. Half a million men and half a million women are unemployed in Germany. Un°mployment is daily inleasing owing to the lack of raw materials.