New Combination Head-gear for Troops.
"Service dress caps in wear and those in stock will be used up and worn side by side with the soft caps."—Army Council Instruction No. 824.
"To a school in Battersea to-day the High Commissioner for New Zealand presented an Australian flag sent by the school-children of Dunedin."—Evening News.
The children of Dunedin seem to have accepted in a very excellent spirit the annexation of New Zealand by Australia, of which this is the first news to reach us.
"The Germans wore absolutely dismayed at the promptness of President Wilson's rupture of relations. Then followed an amazing attempt to brow-beat Mr. Gerard into singing a revised version of the Prusso-American Treaty of 1799."—Planters' and Commercial Gazette (Mauritius).
Happily Mr. GERARD refused to oblige.
"The annual report of the Kneckenmueller Lunatic Asylum at Stettin states that a number of lunatics have been called up for military service at the front, adding: 'The asylums are proud that their inmates are allowed to serve the Fatherland.' It appears, however, that the results are not always satisfactory."—The Times.
We have heard of no complaints on our side.
"Meat, particularly mutton, is (says 'The Times') likely to remain dead this week-end."—Lancashire Daily Post.
But if the hot weather continues—