NEWS BY MAIL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14774, 30 November 1915, Page 5

NEWS BY MAIL.

FORTUNE IN POVERTY’S CLOTHES. NEW YORK, September 22. A plainly—almost poorly—dressed woman, clad in dingy black, fell dear! in a Sixth Avenue tramway car here this afternoon, and was taken to tha nearest police station for identification. The police matron, after half an hour’* search, discovered more than 20 chamoisleather and silk hags pinned to the woman’s underclothing, but no means oi identifying her. The bags, when opened, disclosed a sum of no less than ,£2437 Is in American currency, and jewels estimated to be worth £IO,OOO. The deepening mystery was solved completely later in the afternoon when Congressman Henry W. Watson, financie. and railway president, walked into Ihi police station to inquire about his wife, who had failed to keep an appointment. A single glance was sufficient to identify the dead woman. “SPIRIT LOOSED FROM HELL.” BISHOP REBUKES THE PEACE CRANKS. The Bisiiop of Bristol, in the diocesan magazine recently issued, deprecates "well-meant but mischievous efforts by some earnest people to press for peace now, when there can be no question of fellowship or reconciliation.” He writes: "What we are fighting—and the sooner we ajl recognise it the better—i; a system and spirit which mean death to every nobler trait of humanity, and destruction of all that we value as Christians, let alone as citizens of a free country. “Don’t let us lose sight of this. Wo are up against the forces of evil and a spirit loosed from hell. “Ii is the height of folly to suppose that to stop recruiting now will bring peace all the sooner. To secure a peace while the vile and unhallowed spirit still hold? sway will not inaugurate a new and untroubled era of Christian love and brotherhood. That is the vainest §f dreams and the most fatuous of delusions- Stay recruiting, hinder munition making, strike for higher pay, squee/.e out profits from the nation, and our brave lads at the front will be decimated and discouraged.” UNABLE TO WARN OF ZEPPELINS’ APPROACH. EFFECT OF DUTCH NEUTRALITY. LONDON, October 16. How the regulations in the Nether lands prevent England from getting timely warning of the approach of Zeppelin airships is explainer! by the Times' Amsterdam correspondent, win' also refers to the "insolent violation oi Dutch neutrality perpetrated by Zeppelins returning from a raid on Great Britain.” "The Dutch Government’s regulations,” says the correspondent, “forbid the telegraphing to England of an.' warning unless the Zeppelins actually pass over Dutch territory or territorial waters. When they are only seen from the coast over the high seas all telegrams are detained six hours—sufficient time to make a friendly warning to England impossible. “Therefore, when going west, the Zeppelins are careful to keep outside of Dutch limits, showing plainly that they can do so if they wish. But in returning no penalty attaches to a violatioi of Dutch neutrality. Therefore, home ward bound airships exhibit a total disregard of territorial limits. To-day the; flew inside the Dutch northern islands The Netherlands Government wisely avoids anything likelv to provoke a rupture with Germany, hut the feeling of the Dutch people is intensely bitter, i suggest that the British press and pub lie should insist on an abrogation of the rule preventing telegraphic warnings.”