Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

“MADE IN SHEFFIELD.”

greatest naval armoury in THE WORLD. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received S.O a.m.) London, February 23.

The Times’ correspondent writes: fhe speed of Sheffield in furnishing material for the maintenance of the Navy and Army is unprecedented. Pile flames, steam, and smoke leaving ■lie chimneys of the huge works are all that’s visible of the greatest naval irmoury in the woiTd, comporting A ith the reflection that England has i far larger capacity and better equipment for this high task than Germany. Sheffield is tired of swaggering bluster and panegyrics: Essen, 'Charlottenburg and Krupps have never been and can > never hope to be equal to Sheffield craft as an naval armou-

miscellaneous. London, February 23. Corporal Large and Private Goodall placed a stick through a ring on,the Braintree bomb, and carried it flaming until they immersed it in the river. The military Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant McLean, 4th Fusiliers, who was wounded at Ypres. He ,vos formerly a clergyman in Auckand, -7 Four Yorkshire collieries, with an mnual output of 4,000,000 tons, have 'ixed the price of coal at 15s, to prevent the inflation of prices. London, February 23. Sir Everard Im Thurn, lecturing at the Geological Society, described the grim delight of Australia at the sudden and unexpected arrival of the opportunity to prove her .loyalty, and wipe out thoroughly every trace of the invader from the Pacific, whose intrusion she always eyed with deep distrust and dislike. He hoped the result would he a friendly re-adjustment with the French allies as to the assignment of the New Hebrides to one or other of the Powerfe, so as to bring about a, settlement of the problem of the Government of the Pacific Islands