BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 4 March 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY

•EIGHTY THOUSAND WELSHMEN IN THE RANKS. London, March 8. Mr. Lloyd George inspected a section of the .Welsh Army Corps. He stated that eighty thousand Welshmen had joined the new Army. Mi. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, said !that six - thousand students from Oxford and Cambridge Universities joined the Army, and eighty out of..eighty-nine. "Blues." COSTLY RED FLAG TALK A NEW ZEALANDER PINED £2. (Rec. Mari& 3| 9.35 p.m.) i . Sydney,; March 3. William Stanley, a New Zealander, has been. fined £2 under the new traffio regulations, for singing in the Street, with members of the ''1.W.W.": "Free speech for the workers !"• "Hurrah for the Red Flag I"

INTERVENTION BY SPAIN URGED BY RADICAL REPTJBLI- .. CANS. , , ... .- (Reo. March 3, 5.35 p.m.) London, March 3. . At a meeting of Radical Republicans at Barcelona, intervention by Spain to end the war was strongly urged.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) [A similar plea for intervention by Spain was put. forward a few days ago by Count Romanones, who urged that Spain was peculiarly suited for the role of mediator. It was then pointed out, .however,- that the bitter partizanship displayed by the Spanish Press would b» a difficult factor, in situation.] - WOMAN SPY SENTENCED TWENTY YEARS' DETENTION. Paris, March 2. Madame Heyeux was court-martialied and sentenced to twenty years' detention on a charge of espionage. COPPER SMUGGLER SENT TO GAOL ILLICIT TRADING IN HOLLAND. ' Copenhagen, March 2. Albert Jensen, ringleader of the copper smuggling affair, was sentenced to sixty days' imprisonment. [The Dutch police discovered .fifty, tons of copper concealed in a vessel.at Rotterdam. Many persons were found to be buying up copper and sending it to a naturalised . 'German in tho city named.. Several arrests were made, and much copper was seized.]