No Longer Afloat

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

No Longer Afloat

[GERMAN COMMEROE SWEPT FROM i THE SEAS. NO FOOD CARGOES FOR GERMANY. THE SITUATION CAREFULLY j SUMMED UP. NO DECISIVE BATTLE FOil DAYS YET. OMINOUS OUTLOOK FOR THE ALLIANCE. AIXJXG THE EASTERN FRONTIERS. London, August 17. It is difficult to determine the value of the aeroplane in war operations. Tl.: Belgian airmen are spoiling the scanting of the Uhlans., but the guns luv.; brought nwny to the ground. The airmen have weird audi uncanny experiences. Air waves created bv concussion caused hv the firing of guns rock the aircraft like cockleshells, causing them to dive, rush upwards or stop and shiver anil perform other nervo-racking acrobatics. The Times naval correspondeir. writ's that the seas are frea to British nicr-ch-vntmen and the commercial Hag of Germany is no longer afloat. It is~we!l .he nation should realise the tremendous signilicunce of these facts. Meanwhile the Iket exercises pressure tiooii the vitals of the enemy without Germany is thus deprived not only uf food products, but of a hundred oilier •requirements. If it becomes intcssarv to feed the army at'the expense of the civil population history teaches us that the results should he disastrous. The Times military correspondent says that the public ought not to expect: news of the impending battle for a Week or eicn longer. The first lie.ivv fighting may he expected at Ramillie's or between Charleroi and Gemb'.oux. The decisive moment is approaching in the eastern theatre of war, where the Russian and southern armies have entered Galicia and are converging upon Lemburg along three railways easteri" ; by Brody and northerly by Sokal, thus hindering the. Austrian attack on Warsaw from Cracow. The Austrian fleet jluw retired to its headquarters at Tola j and secured itself behind mine fields and a destroyer flotilla. The Frcinco- : British fleet "will probably be content ; to maintain a close watch on tfcc enemy. i The Government is insuring vessels during the war risk period for !U days at 2% per cent.; if vessels ere at sea i on the expiration of the policy an uddij tional thirty days will be allowed, pro rata.

Hoehman, a German, and an exemployee of Yiekers. llarland ami Wolff, has been arresced at Belfast docks. Territorials ami Boy Scout« arc prottcting ths railways, tclegraiihs ant waterworks. The" largely increased-' police have been ordered to enforce tinregistration of Germans. Owing 10 the enormous nrmbev of Kills tender-', 1 ,, for discount at the l!an : ; O' England under the ar-angement cabled on August lit. the directors hav: Ixen compMlt-d to i-suo a notice satin;.' that the staff are physica'!)- unable t-> accept n-ire until to-morrow. [The cablegram referred to says ;hat, the Bank if England announces that it lis prepared, upon apii'icatiou bv tV holder of any approved bill of c\diangc orcf-pted before August 4. to di-(oimt .: at bank rate without recourse on such holder, and upon maturity, the bank will give tin; acceptor opportunity, until further notice, of postponing p.iyment, interest belli}," pavab'e at ■£ .per cent. •vex the bank rate. The Bank of England is pr.'-par-'d ftp approve »rcb bil's of exchange as hev cu-tomarily di-e-mint, also good trade bills and accept: Kr.ces of sirh foreign and colonial linns flnd bank agencies as are established in Gieat Britain.] ■SWI-: INTERESTING FIGURES. U--.-iv.-d is. !<>--> p.m. , I'aris, Auga-t IS. : li ',< "-Umi'fcil lliiit on Align-I 1 Germmv ■■.-', «::».""» iner-hant. s-earners, aggregating (hrc mill'iin tons, and value- 1 ' at -Ji)l> mi!l ; ..r,. -teliing -Of i!(>! | have aircadv 1 n canturcd. and the n.uaiwh.- ar- practical!..,- on; of .-.,. ion.