ENEMIES IN ENGLAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 5

ENEMIES IN ENGLAND

TROOP TRAINS FIRED ON. GERMANS TAMPERING WITH BRIDGES. WOMAN SPY ARRESTED. OFFICIAL RECOGNITION FOR BOY SCOUTS. INCREASED LIFE INSURANCE RATI-] Received 11, 8.5 p.m. London, August 10 (evening). Sixty German reservists embarking at Folkestone were arrested to-day. Received 11, ft.35 p.m. London, August 10. The Bishop of London, at an intercession service, suggested that nobody ought to exceed two meals daily. Crystal Palace has been offered the War Office as a temporary hospital. One hundred and twenty Germans, presumably reservists, have arrived at Portsmouth, and were imprisoned. Sixty are detained at Swansea. A woman, believed to be a German sp-. ' as arrested at the Mililiouse gun-pc-.vd. r works. I London, August 10. Troop trains were fired on from both sides at Crowhurst, Surrey, and the windows broken. The police are searching. Motor-cars were seen near-by. Germans in several parts of the country have ibeen arrested or disturbed while apparently tampering with railway bridges. The Boy Scout force is doing useful work, including -guarding the cables. The Sea Scouts are assisting the Coast Guards. Eight thousand London Boy Scouts, of whom half are cyclists, have volunteered for local service. Already 2500 have been requisitioned by the post office and other public departments, the Red Gross and other societies. Scouts were equipped with blankets on Tuesday and rations, and left the city in batches of eighty to scour .the outlying districts. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Westminster have donated £15,000 to the Relief Fund, Lady Strathcona, the Eastern Railway Company, and six others, £SOOO apiece. Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received 11, 5.25 p.m. London, August 10. A steamer picked up and arrested four Germans in a rowboat in tie Mersey who were endeavoring to elude arret t. Two hundred and nineteen German reservists at Folkestone, en route to Flushing, were arrested by the Irish Fusiliers. They appeared delighted that their journey had been interrupted. In consequence of their excellent service in patrolling roads, guarding cables and telegraphs, and assisting coastguards, the War Office will probablv give the Boy Scouts officio] recognition. Germans long resident in Britain have unanimously expressed their bitterness towards the Kaiser's war spirit and their friendliness towards England. The n.ajor'ny of Germans remaining in Britain are peaceful and innocent. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London. August 10. The Times, in a leader, says that Americans are beginning to appreciate that the rise of Germany to the power and influence hitherto enjoyed liy Britain would be a development inimical to American interests in the Oarribean Sea, South America and the Pacific, also a menace to the position and freedom of the United States as a world power. At a meeting at Belfast. Captain Craig announced that 100,000 Ulster volunteers had offered their services to the Government. The Army Council announces that if the war lasts under three years men enlisted for the regular army will be discharged with all speed. Life insurance offices are charging an extra rate of five guineas on existing policies for the navy and seven guineas for the new policies, and three and five guineas for the army. West End actors are offering as special police, preferring duty from midnight to four o'clock in the morning. German banks which discontinued business liave applied to the Government for a license empowering them to reopen. Father Ross, in an address at Westminster Catihedral, said Catholics were I satisfied that Britain had never waged a j uster waT.