The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 1 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.)

Lord Rosebery, speaking at a recruiting meeting in Edinburgh, said: "We are asking for another 3.000,000 men.'' In another column, a choice little farm of over 350 acres, near Taihape, is advertised for sale, together with cow and horses.

Alexander Aberg, of Russia, the world's champion Graeeo-Roman wrestler threw Zbyszo in America after 64 minutes. One fall decided the match.

French troops defeated several rebel tribes in the extreme south of Tunis, restoring peace, and also confidence among tho inhabitants, who are acclaiming the French troops.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Outhwaite, Mr. Bonar Law declined to pay British troops six shillings per day, equalling the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian troops..

"As far as I am concerned," said Mr. Hugh Morrison at a recruiting meeting in Masterton, "I would be glad if every man in my employ were to leave for the front. I would get along somehow.''

The London Standard suggests whether Mr. Fisher might not retain an honorary position in the Cabinet. If the suggestion is followed by other Dominions it might furnish the nucleus of a Council of the Empire.

/ Of the soldiers who returned by the Tofua, many bear evidences of their experiences in Gallipoli, although, fortunately, only a few are permanently marked. " Only one man has lost an arm, while another is minus an eyt>. These are the most prominent disfigurements.

Japanese files state that negotiations are completed for a new line of steamers from Japan to New Zealand. It is proposed to utilise three vessels of 5,000 tons, starting at an early date. The chief idea is to cufcch the Dominion's wool season and the summer trade.

The Idea Nazionale declares that when the Bulgarian agreement was concluded on August 14th Eoumania a!so entered into an agreement with Germany. A crisis or an Entente triumph only meant breaking the existing understanding. Britain's offer of Cyprus had caused an unpleased impression in Eoumania, being regarded as an Entente confession of weakness.

The King's message to the French Army at the conclusion of his visit to the French front was as under: —"1 profoundly admire the heroic exploits, dash, and tenacity which are the proud heritage of the French Army. My Army is very proud to be fighting by your side. May the bonds uniting us endure, and bring the gigantic struggle to a victorious end."

A correspondent of the Echo de Paris has published a description of the battle of Loos, supplementing Mr. Buchan's censored despatch. He declares tliat advantage was not taken of the results achieved owing to the impetuous advance of the Scottish di vision, which was ordered to take Loot? Hill 70, but was exhausted after its a-i-eat efforts. If fresh troops had come up and a fresh attack had been delivered, the German front wouAl have been pieced like cardboard, lhc brigade made a path for reinforcements, which could have captured he whole of the Douai plain, but the day v,-ore on and there was no sign of the reserves, who were only reported at nightfall.

[-•dike cough mixture, "NAZOL" e es direct to the seat of trouble and quietly soothes and relieves. No cold is Nazol-proof.

Speaking in the -.Federal* House- of Representatives, Mr. Hughes stated that the Government had decided to allow asperin to bo manufactured and sold under that name pending the question of wiping out all German names.

Mr D. C. Bates' weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day is as follows: Westerly strong to gale and backing by west to south. The weather will probably prove squally with heavy skowrs. Indications for a temporary improvement; barometer unsteady.

Our readers are reminded that -J] cheques issued and receipts .given must, from to-day, bear a twopenny revenue stamp. To use up old cheques still in hand, it is necessary that -i one-penny adhesive stamp should be affixed in addition to that already impressed thereon.

A wireless message states that the Russian Socialist leaders have issued proclamations in Moscow and Petrograd urging workmen, peasants, and all wage-earners to abstain from anything which may directly or indirectly assist the enemy. Russian Socialst? are united in the belief that a German victory would mean the defeat of the Russian Socialists in their struggle for liberty.

Salonika, where Allied troops have landed, occupies tlic site of the ancient Thessalonica, which became famous in connection with the early history of Christianity through the two epistles addressed by St. Paul to the community which he founded there. Here the ancient civilisation of Greece made its stand against the inroads of the barbarians, and to-day the conflict of civilisation against barbarism is once more being waged there. It lias been successively in the hands of the Saracens, the Normans, of Sicily, the Turks, the Venetians, and the Turks again. Judging by the description given by Mr. H. W. Braisford, Salonika is not a very attractive city at the present day. He describes it, indeed, as having the moral squalor of the East.. " Picturesque it may be, with its beautiful Byzantine churches, .its '' Roman triumphal arch, and its castles, j and bastions which recall the brief Empire of the Crusaders. But the main impression is one of ugliness and materialism. The place seems oddly isolated, and when caged within its walls it becomes a scrt of puzzle by what magic one reached a place so different from the idyllic Macedonian valleys to the north, or the fairy Gulf of Volo to the south." The city is now largely occupied by Jews, who number some SO,OOO, and "monopolise the commerce, control the shipping, and eclipse the Greeks, not only in business, but in 'Society' as well." |