AMUSING MILITARY ORDER

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14745, 26 October 1915, Page 4

AMUSING MILITARY ORDER

SCARECROWS BANNED. The military authorities at Breslau had already made a name for themselves owing to tho curious orders which arc the result of their amicrhmuan efforts to do some service, but’ their latest decree is hailed in Hungary as a most enjoyable piece of humour, says the Morning lost. It is direr ted that all scarecrows in Prussian Silesia must he removed from the fields and vineyards, as it has been frequently found that Russian prisoners who escape from tho concentration campa make good use cf tho suits on scarecrows, which facilitate their escape. A Russian major was captur.d not long ago dressed in the shabby suit of a scarecrow A -onng Russian count also resorted to this means of obtaining civilian costume after escaping from tho camp. These mcidonS have hr light about the expulsion of scarecrows from Prussian Silesia.