GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

DEATH OF A BRITISH GENERAL. 1 C " lIEALTHY TONE IX ENGLAND. I Received 19, 3.10 pjn. London, August 18. Xeariy ten thousand recruits have been enrolled in Lord Kitchener's second .army at the week-end. The Government war insurance rate on cargoes is 3 per cent. London, August 17. Ten thousand special constables have .been sworn in in London. The Prince of Wales' Fund has rcaeh«d £1,200.000. I There will be no Lord Mayor's show or 1 banquet this year. The death m reported of General Sir J. if. Grierson, of heart disease. He was fl .intended to hold a high command. \\ [General Sir -T. M. Grierson was a .j most successful British officer, and bad I Ac survived should have' done good r work. He had fought in the Egyptian c • campaigns of 1882 and 1885, and in a South Africa, and had held many apt pointments of importance. He was 55 t years of age.] e Justices have ordered the closin|' of a public houses in the chief towns of Northunilxrland and Durham at nine 1 o'clock. There i, no resentment being t shown l»y the working classes, the < miners strongly supporting the Govern- '< ment, though 50,000 colliers are idle in t Northumberland alone. Many are as- ' listing fanners t<> gather in the harvest. ( Armstrong College, ' is organising leaeou* on simple agrical- ' ture. The masters and men have closed "' existing controversies, the, masters not ' pressing for the reduction of wages * which the Conciliation Board has given them, and the miners submitting to the three-shift system. ' The export of Russian butter and eggq I to England is being arranged via Arch- ' ; angel. London, August 18 (morning). ! The weather in the Xorth Sea con- ( tinnes beautifully fine, and the atmospnere clear. WARSHIPS' KKKIGHT OF GOU). ; i FOR AMERICAN'S STRAXDKD IX i EUROPE. . i i Times and Sydney Sun Services. i Received 18, 5.10 p.m. London, August IS. The battleships Tennessee and Xorth ' Carolina brought to Falmouth a million dollars to relieve stranded Americans. ,— | WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF GERMANS. Received 18. 5.10 p.m. London. August IS. ' The Norwegian ship Obidense. arriy- I ing from Jamaica, announces that the i whole of the. German residents in tit West Indies hav:i hern arrested. NEWS WILL DECREASE. WAR CORRK's ,, O\DEXTS BAKRED. NOT AU/i'vVIOJ AT THE FRONT. iini-sels. August 18. At Sir Edward GrevS, requot. active English wa. - correspondents at the front are being aske<Mo keep awav or to return to England, as any indiscretion .may injure tii* interests of the. Allies. The latter htve .igrecd not to ,-llow.anv ,orre«pondents i.u go to the front r.l present. PKOHIBI■f'.'iX IN" GERMANV. Rectiv:'i 18. 11.10 p.m. Copenhagen. August IS. Tho German general staff has refused to allow wac • .rrespondents with the army.