GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 31 August 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GERMANY AND AMERICA. , GERMANS' CHANGE OF FRONT. S WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The general opinion regarding the change of front in Germany's attitude regarding the submarinings is eloscly allied to the British Admiralty's avow- "' ■ ' f important German losses, and ■'•vl Selborne's declaration that the British Navy has the submarine racni ace well in hand. It is also considered | possible that the fear of the moral effect of a rupture with America and the delicate Balkan situation is the reason why the German-American Press has only honeyed words for the United States. CONTROVERSY TO BE CLEARED UP. LONDON, August 28. Reuter's Washington correspondent says the United States is pressing for a clearing up of the entire submarine controversy before considering the Lusitania and Arabic incidents closed. FRANCE IN WAR TIME. t KIPLING IMPRESSED WITH OUR GREAT ALLY GIVING BRITAIN THE LEAD. Mr Rudyard Kipling, after a visit to the west front, writing in title "Daily Telegraph," says: France j s not merely fighting this war; she is living it, and with a ga'iety and high heart that does not hide her cold, deadly earnestness and tenacity of purpose. The wJhole of France is working at the utmost pressure, soaked with strong determination. We will reach that stage in time. It is not realised how France is' living the war. We must be made to understand. Have we conceived that in France every man is assigned a duty by the military I and every woman is engaged in the war duties? There is no time for anything else. It is marvellous to sea the readiness, endurance and ligfat-heart-edness of the Frenchmen, All agree J that the only good Bosch e is a dead one." i ~' m > ' l-"--**l-r''' l»: -» ■ Kipling saw a parade of forty thousand. There was no ceremonial, which made it all the more impressive, because it was s'imply the passing of hard-bitten fighting men. He watdhed the efficiency cf the 75's, officers working to thirty yards' clearance over their own infantry. Nothing England can do is enough to keep abreast of such an ally. AND WHAT HAS BRITAIN DONE? SIR H. BORDEN'S TRIBUTE. j . I Sir H. Borden, on leaving England. in a farewell message said that a discussion with members of the Cabinet had convinced him all possible steps had been taken to ensure the triumph of the sjrmy. They had advanced in .12 months from an utter lack of preparation to organisation and training firming and equipping unprecedented forces.