NEWS FROM LONDON.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 16 June 1915, Page 3

NEWS FROM LONDON.

(From a London Correspondent.) TRANSPORT OP WAR SUPPLIES. The (other day I saw a ship loaded with pickaxes leaving Southampton for France. An hour later she was followed by a ten-thousand ton vessel carrying a mountainous cargo of army tents —hundreds and thousands packed below and on deck. There is the beef and jam boat, the boot liner that carries nothing but lofts or rights for fear of pairs being stolon by hundreds before they reach the commissariat. One hears very little of horse transports these days. The aeroplane has supplanted the scout; and to-day the mo-tor-lorry drives over the bones of cavalry mounts on the battlefields of France and Belgium. It is an unforgettable sight to watch the NewhavcnDieppe transports passing and repasaing from this side laden with food, clothing and munitions of war. A long, black lane of torpedo destroyers guards the route, and has proved the utter inability of the German submarine to Interfere with transports. DISLOCATION OF TRADE. ,„. The ordinary trade of Great Britain has become inert. Every factory and workshop capable of running a lathe is engaged In the manufacture of ammunition, The country has become a vast arsenal, to the neglect of other life-giv-ing industries. This is where America and Japan come in. Eeconty n big' Midland firm of cabinetmakers were asked to supply a South Coast municipality with ten thousand chairs and tables for the use of/ summer visitors. The Midland firm wrote saying that it was too busy making huts for soldiers to attend such orders. The South Const municipality promptly wired a United States firm of chair and table makers, who arc now delivering the goods at lightning speed. So pleased is the United States firm with this order that it. is prepared to sever the throat of any other firm that ever attempts to quote seaside tables and chairs in the future. A LEGACY OF HATE, A wave, of emigration from those war-ridden lands is inevitable, tip tn date the alleged civilisation of Europe has been a blank and horrible failure. For the last fifteen years it has nursed in idleness 10 millions of armed irrosponsibles, ready at the word of secret diplomacy to, destroy and murder its nearest neighbour. The feeling that exists between 250 millions of its people is one of loathing and hatred of each other. Since 1870 the Frenchman has loathed the Teuton. And the hatred that is being piled up between the English and the Germans will be as incur-, able as the Frenchman’s, For years to corns there will be a boycott on Ger-man-made goods.. The question, of ab , lowing - Gormans to return to this country is being seriously debuted by publicists and politicians.

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Also Japan Is snowing us under with khaki, canvas, rifles, military buttons, anj leather stuffs. Ann or lean bagman are swarming over these islands, stealing orders from firms that used to assail them with prize bulldogs a ye»tr ago. Birmingham lias practically ceased to manufacture the necessary Vreitstead and garden implement; it. has cast out its plant for making pearl buttons and buckets and lias “gone nap - ’ on armaments. When the war is over hundreds of these little workshops that scrapped their button plant for a gunmaking outfit will dose down, because United States firms have collared the pearl button and brass hook market;. EUROPE’S DEADLY DISEASE. - Kb man wilt a red corpuscle in his body will ever want to reside within 2,000 miles of Berlin, the Balkans, Brussels, or places inhabited by wildcat Bulgarians and mad militarists. No man will ever make Europe sane. Jt will always have the Balance of Power disease, and the six or seven criminal ctegonrates, in the guiso of Emperors, to direct its affairs. Europe will never be rid of these Emperors. It may gaol or deport a Wilhelm or. a Josef, but .it will replace them by a Ferdinand or it Peter. It is hinted even now that Germany is contemplating peace, so that she may bend herself more thoroughly to the subjugation of Europe or any place that is short of a goose-step and the proper kind of knitur. GLOOMY CONCLUSIONS. The foregoing remarks are not the result of bad dinners or the inclement weather. They have been arrived at a£ter some labour and thought. Behind the glowing newspaper reports of the huge armies Britain is about to launch at the Germans one reads a note of uncertainty between the lines. The muvly revealed money strength of Germany and the almost lunatic desire of her people, to fight on to the bitter end make for ruin and disaster to aii concerned. Also Germany is fighting the cheap. Her armies and ammunition cost 50 per cent, less to prod ae* than those of Britain and France. Fhc is rich enough to outstay Russia, unkse Bull is prepared to finance the armies of the Czar,