GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 73, 15 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

BRITISH FORCES OVERSEAS. FIRST OFFICIAL NEWS. OUR MEN IN BELGIUM. Sydney, August 14. Sis George Reid's bulletin contains *'.;■ first official intimation that British toon are acting in conjunction withj t' French and Belgians against Germany. ; OUU AND FINANCE RESOURCES. CAN GERMANY HOLDOUT? EXPERTS DIFFER. Received 15, 12.40 a.m. London, August 14. A prominent European commander considers the Continental war may last , lor three years. Economic, and financial | experts, (however, maintain that (limine ; and financial stringency will crush < :«r- . saany within six months unless she accomplishes some strikingly divisive military victories. RAIDS ON BRITAIN DISCUSSED. EXPERT RIDICULES THE IDEA. RAIDERS WOULD SOON BE ACCOUNTED FOR. Received 15, 12.40 p..m London, August 14. Mr. Archibald S. H ird, naval oxpert, iB the Daily Telegraoh, express-s the view that no tremendous invading force <ould be landed in Britain. He says it is difficult to perceive what object could •e served in landing a few thousand troops in a country having more than half a million rnetf under arm-. Such advents would not cause mure than a temporary panic in the district directly affected, and this feeling would speedily give place to one that the invaders must be captured or shot in the shortcat possible time. Nevertheless, it is possible that such raids might be attempted, because many Germans believed that if one or more successful panics were created it would have an appreciable effect both in England and on the Continent.

FROM THE CONTINENT. JHE RED CROSS ARMY GROWING. \ , Times and Sidney Sun Services. Received 14, 5.15 p.m. London, August 14. The Austrian steamer Mediterrano. With a cargo of barley, has arrived at Plymouth in charge of a naval crew. - Crowds of Americans are still arriving in London from the Continent. Mrs. Otto Kaun was in Paris when (tar was declared. Her luggage filled Sixty-five trucks. She chartered three last motors, reached Calais, and brought her baggage to London. Reginald Vanderbilt, the millionaire, .*•* compelled to borrow a sovereign from a hotel clerk in the Strand upon bis arrival. Fifty-five thousard nurses have been enrolled in the Red Cross Society. The- police have arrested all Germans terving in hotels at Dublin. COLONIAL FOUCES. CORPS ORGANISED IX ENGLAND. Received 14, 8.25 pju. London, August 13 (evening). Lord Roberts has been appointed Col-OBel-in-Chief of the Imperial Foree. Major-Gencral Bethune, of the Horse Guards, inspected the colonial corps of five hundred men for war service. The ■ men's expenses are beins defrayed by Lords Lonsdale, Murray an.i others. SPIK- -HOT i.'OUN. )>pi<ixai;e problem in ENGLAND. Lon-lnn. Anifiut I.'.'. Two German< v.ho wi re caught liberating pipern, carrying menage? to Germany were shot down. PRINCE OF WALES' FT^T). London, August 13. The Prince of WaV-,' Fund lias feached £863,000. The Prince personally bears the cost of organising. The (Sty of London Corporation contributed «0,000, al?o £1001) to the Belgian fond.