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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1915
Page
7
In a village tale from January 9, 1915, Jerry, Mops, and Maisie worry as they fear the little hens and their eggs will be taken. The giant’s daughter Bisnanteoas suffers over eggshells while her father plans meals, and a twist ends with a breakfast order and a need for balance in feeding livestock.
Nellie contends with Joe Wyburn over an engagement as Dudley Van Tyle courts her with a grand team. After a dramatic carriage ride ends with Joe saving Nellie’s life, she learns true love from the loyal suitor, and a doctors’ intervention leads to reconciliation.
In a forest home, the massive giantess Jacka, urged on by her father Bandy-legs, demands fifty eggs daily. Jerry, Mops, and Maisie trick her by sending hollow eggshells, revealing Jacka’s stubborn hunger and pride as she endures empty shells while plotting ever more eggs.
Agricultural guidance discusses selecting fertilisers by hay type and land use. It details per acre mixtures for rotation, clover-rich, and permanent hay lands, prioritising nitrate of soda, superphosphate, basic slag, and high-grade sulphate of potash with suggested quantities and timing.
An early 20th century discussion warns that profits in dairy farming hinge on feed quality and cost. It argues that high protein concentrates can boost milk but may disrupt digestion, reduce feed efficiency, or harm herd condition if not used wisely.
An experiment on a meadow shows even soil rich in plant foods benefits from phosphate of lime and potash. Plot results with no dressing yielded 8.25 percent albuminoid substances, while plots using slag and kainit reached 13.68 percent, with acids and lime balanced.
A farm experiment tested two groups of pigs from the same litter fed barley meal with mangolds versus barley alone, and a second set with maize meal. Pigs fed roots showed much faster daily gain and healthier digestion, with mangolds boosting weight gain and bacon quality. Reduced expenses and careful accounting urged, along with cautions on proper cattle care and humane handling.
Lemberg, capital of Galicia, hosts a Catholic bishop and Armenian and United Greek bishops, with a university and strong trade links to Russia and Turkey. Ostend, a Belgian seaside resort, is a rail and ferry hub serving England with butter and seafood. Noyon in the Oise valley is noted for sugar plants and iron and chemical works, with Notre Dame Cathedral dating to about 1150.
A historical explanation details how English soldiers are identified. It contrasts Army Form H2067 with a metal identity disc worn on a cord under the tunic, stamped with denomination, regimental details, and battalion. The system relies on the disc and related pay and service documents carried by the soldier.
A London astrologer analyzes royal and national horoscopes amid World War I. George V, Kaiser Wilhelm, the Czar, Francis Joseph, Poincaré and others are linked to planetary positions suggesting British and Allied triumph, with warnings of potential peril for the Kaiser and shifts in power, eclipse effects, and eventual success for the Allies after hardship.
A historic note recalls Namur’s role in the Bank of England’s founding. Michael Godfrey, a London merchant, died in the trenches near Namur during the siege while working to supply the King. The piece also discusses cavalry horses’ war losses and a famed Arab horse from Lord Roberts in the Kabul-Kandahar campaigns.
Readers with missing relatives at the front may find solace in the International Red Cross Agency for Prisoners of War at Geneva. A fifty person staff works gratis to forward information and letters to prisoners, urging detailed identifiers and locations to speed replies, though large prisoner numbers delay responses.
A retired colonel of Hussars explains cavalry horses’ eagerness and bravery in battle, noting how they charge with speed and fury, often saving riders. They are intelligent, sometimes correcting misorders, and training begins with tolerance to firearm noises, advancing to mounting with curb-bit control.
The Nautical Magazine notes younger leaders at sea with admirals in their fifties commanding major battle squadrons. Sir Lewis Bayly is fifty six, Sir George Warrander fifty four, Bradford fifty five, Gamble fifty seven, making the group comparatively youthful yet not at peak efficiency for command.
An Irish source notes Servia has 575 centenarians, about one per 2,260 people. Ireland follows with 578 total centenarians, one in 5,180. Spain shows one per 43,000. Norway about one per 96,000. England and Scotland total 192, one per 177,000. France has 2,130, Sweden 20, Germany 76, Denmark 2, Switzerland none.
British regiment the Black Watch boasts a long record of valor from Fontenoy to the Nile and Gaza campaigns. The article notes 10 VCs and many medals, recounting losses at Mayersfontein and overall South African casualties and honors.
The article compares death and wound rates across wars. It cites Franco Prussian, Russo Japanese, and Turko Balkan conflicts, noting low death percentages among wounded and high shrapnel involvement. It reports about 2/3 of wounded recover enough to return to front lines and a mortality rate never exceeding 9 percent.
The article notes about 8,500 land forces and 940,000 sailors, estimating mobilized cost at 10s a day per man. This yields roughly £4.4 million daily and £132 million monthly, not counting army and fleet maintenance. Even at the lowest estimate, sustaining a long, arduous war seems financially impossible for Europe.
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