GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 18 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

PRAYERS TOII VICTORY. London, August 16. There were great congregations at the churches and chapels.Collect-ons were made for the Prince of Wales' Fund, and in some instances for the Belgian Fund. The clergy urged many congregations to observe the Chaplain-Gener-al's siigges;i'on that everybody should momentarily engage in siieiit prayer fo r victory at noon daily. LORD KITCHENER'S PLANS. PREPARING FOR EVENTUALITIES. London,, August IG. Newspaper comments suggest that Lord Kitchener's big .scheme is intended to provide a great anmy to meet needs when the French reserves are exhausted. "THE GERMANS ARE MAGNIFICENT!" A SCHOOLGIRL'S STORY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 17,' G. 20 p.m. London, August 17. The diary of an English schoolgirl at Fouron, near Vise, says: "The Germans are magnificent. The meanest soldier is .perfectly equipped. Everything is new and spiendid, and the horses are like a theatre. The soldiers are so perfect. They arc- awfully nice." Next (Lav she writes: "The Germans are very nice if they arc given what they want, but if you refuse the pistol conies out." Entries in the diary on tlie three following days: "The Germans are funious at losing so many men. Prowling bands are destroying houses and gardens, their pockets bulging with! bottles of wine and other loot. The nuns asked the invaders to spare the convent. They •laughed, an.l said they would make it a cemetery for their dead. We fled." ALIENS AT OUR DINNER TABLES. BRITISH WAITERS PROTEST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 17, 6.20 p.m. London, August 17. Ten thousand German and Austrian waiters arc still in London. English waiters are placing placards in the hotels and restaurants calling upon British citizens to refuse to be served by their alien enemies. THROUGH MOBILISED -EUROPE. AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRIP. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 17. (i.20 p.m. London, August 17. Prince Aage has arrived in Copenhagen after an tineoniforlible journey from Milan, through mobilised Europe. Aa soon as he crossed the German frontier lie was stripped naked and his clothing scrupulously searched. He travelled in a cattle train through France, eating dry bread. The Prince embarked at Havre on a ireight steamer, in company with hundreds of Russian and Scandinavian refugees. THE COEBEN AND BRESLAU. 1!;»W THEY ESCAPED. BRITISH HAD OTHER WORK ON HAND.. Received 17, 5.5 p.m. Malta, August 10. i 1 British ships' guarding the French | army corps from Algeria give accounts of the escape of the Coeben and Breslau. They state that when the transport was completed, the Britishers hunted and searched among the Cydades ) and Sporades for the big ships, but failed to locate them, though the cruiser Gloucester and some destroyers got into touch and attempted to bring them into action. The Germans, evidently thinking that the whole fleet was at their heels, (led to the Dardanelles. A .SENTRY SHOT. Received 17, 5.50 p.m. London, August 17 (morning). Robertson, a sentry at the Brooklands aerodrome, thrice challenged a Kiiroiosod spy and then fired. The spy returned the shot, wounding the sentry, and escaped to the neighboring wood. Forty thousand men have been recruited for Lord Kitchener's second army in a week. Seven thousand daily are now being recruited. THE QUEEN'S ACTIVITIES. Received 18, 12.10 a.m. London. August 17. Queen Mary is inaugurating a scheme to wee-lire work for women who arc unemployed owing to the war.