GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 21 October 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE NEED FOR MEN. THREE MILLIONS WANTED BEFORE NEXT SPRING. LONDON, October 19. GeGneral Eric Swayne, speaking at Hull, said Britain needed three million more.men before the spring. It was. estimated that Germany has still be- „ -en nine and ten million men of c o i>s ranging from 18 to 45. It was useless to talk of wearing out Germany, but if Britain raised an additional three million, the German numbers would be counterbalanced, and the enemy recognise that it would be fruitless to continue the war. Britain did not want conscription, but, unless tjhree million men were recruited by the spring, the military authorities could net be held responsible for the result.

STORM-RIDDEN GALLIPOLI

TURKISH MORALE IMPROVED.

PRESS EYES ON EGYPT

(Times and Sydney Sun Services) LONDON, October 19.

A German wireless from Constantinople reports that the autumn equinoctial gales have begun with the utmost violence at Gallipoli. If they continue the landing of troops will be rendered impossible.

A correspondent reports that t|he morale of the population of Constantinople has greatly improved. All kinds of food are arriving from Bulgaria, reducing the prices. The Turkish Press is now preaching the conquest of Egypt in the hope of reawakening the Mussulmans of India.