MARRIED RECRUITS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 55, 4 March 1916, Page 6

MARRIED RECRUITS.

A BENT MORATORIUM. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Walter Long (President of the Local Government Board) is considering - moratorium for rent and other liabilities of married recruits called up hncer X-crd Derby’s enlistment scheme. BALLOONS BREAK AWAY. LONDON, March 1. Two German balloons broke from their moorings in Flanders, and dropped into the sea. The aeron'auts were made prisoners. RECRUITING AT HOME. LONDON, March 1. The Hon Tennant said the Governernment was trying to replace unmarried men employed in reserved occupations by married men before calling up attested married. Britain could not win unless she had enough men. A SCROLL OF SHAME. LONDON, March 1. The Admiralty reports that the Germans in 1915 sank forty British and fourteen neutral unarmed merchantmen without warning. ENVER PASHA’S CHANCE. TO WIPE OUT ENEMIES. THE MURDERED PRINCE. LONDON. March 1. The war correspondent Mr Jeffries says the conditions at Constantinople arg becoming wars’. There is no fish, as fishermen are' not allowed to go out for fear that they will communicate with the enemy submarines. The correspondent avas informed by a diplomatic source that Enver Pasha (Minister of War) had demanded that Germany should send 100,000 men to save the situation in Asia Minor. Odessa reports state that the secretary of Yussuf (the Turkish Crown Prince) was arrested at Constantinople in possession of documents implicating the dead prince in a consU aey against the Germans and against Enver Pasha. Enver is taking advantage of the opportunity to remov e all his enemies. ; |P PRENCH TROOPS’ EAGERNESS. LONDON, March 1. Describing the French counter-at-tack, a. wounded French colonel Hardily had th e command -En Avant! ’ been uttered, than the man, throw themselves forward with terrible dasn.