WHAT THE BRITISH PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 137, 12 February 1915, Page 2

WHAT THE BRITISH PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW.

Press Associat ion—Copyright. LONDON, Feb 10.

Mr Long urged the Government to take the country into its confidence regarding recruiting. The one risk was in telling the enemy something he does not know; the other risk was in discouraging our own people. Personally he preferred the first risk. He believed we would get as many men is we wanted, provided we made it clear that we really wanted them. In the House of Commons, Mr Tovnscn Hicks complained that the Turks captured Tabriz on January 6th and it was not announced in the press until January 13th. Britishers did not mind knowing the truth, however bad. Lord Robert Cecil hoped the Wav -Office would publish widely our treatment of the German prisoners. He ngged that letters from wounded soldiers be carried post free. *Mr Byles asked whether any misfortunes or disasters were concealed ; from the nation. The nation ought to be told whether it had lost or not lost oc the coast cf Ireland. Highly qualified and experienced journalists were not permitted to approach the trenches, but amateur journalists were allowed to send trivial, belated and inadequate accounts of events, reports of which the nation was thirsting.