chimes, as the bells had been confiscated under a general order appropriating all German church bells to be melted into cannon. They joined in hymns which were played for the last time on the bells. The chimes have 43 and 50 bells each, and will provide about 30 tons of gun metal. Out of 2000 Belgians interned in a German camp near Lubeck who refused to work for the Boches, 500 died of starvation in three months and the survivors are in a pitiable condition. A new airplane motor has recently been perfected by a prominent Detroit engineer. It is said to be the most powerful combustible engine ever contrived. It is necessary for the men operating it to wear ear muffs to protect the ear drums. It is so constructed that its life is determined only by the life of the airplane itself. Coffins in Germany are made of cardboard and the covers are glued in place. Most of the uniforms of German soldiers are woven of various fibers, which prove useless in heavy weather. Water soaks into them and they shrink and crumble. The underclothing is of pulp paper. White shirts displayed in the Berlin shops look like linen, but one visit to the laundry reduces them to a soggy mass of paper. Arrangements are being made to add a Jewish regiment to the British army. Soldiers with a knowledge of the Yiddish or Russian language who are now serving in other units are to be transferred to it. It is proposed that a representation of King David's shield shall be the regimental badge. An English paper says that this war has put death in its place. It has tumbled down from that fearsome pinnacle it perched on before the war, that pinnacle supported by heart-rending wailings and gnashings of teeth, and it has made it-if one may use the words-homelier, commoner, more of a consummation and less of a cutting off of human life. An agreement has been arrived at between the British and German governments which provides for the return to their own countries of the more severely wounded and the more serious cases of ill-health