GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 77, 20 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

"TO THE BITTER END." DETERMINED SPIRIT U ENGLAND. LORD KITCHEN ICR'S SCHEME | POPULAR. Received 19, 10.55 p.m. London, August 19. Lord Kitchener's plan of replenishing the Army has won universal approval. founded on the possibility of a long and stubborn war. The scheme divides Britain's available man-power into whole and half-timers. The thousands of Territorials volunteering for foreign service .will become, like the overseas contingents, whole-timers, serving abroad immediately they reach a rigid standard of efficiency. Lord Kitchener's Boer war experience influenced him to have no half-baked soldiers to face the Germans and Austrians. The second army is for this war only, and will be discharged immediately the war is over. 'Britain is quietly resolved to go to the ; bitter end to ensure that the menace to ' the world's peace shall be destroyed beyond the risk of re-appearance. j NURSES FOR THE FRONT. Received 19, 5.35 p.m. London, August 19. The Red Cross has registered over two thousand trained nurses for the war. FALSE REPORTS. ENEMY AT WORK IN ENGLAND. ] SENSATIONAL STORIES IN CIRCULATION: Received 19, 7.50 p.m. J London, August 19. | The Press Bureau warns the public ' that the enemy is attempting to spread false reports of disasters, and adds that the censor has already stopped a canard that was being circulated abroad that i» distinguished Highland regiment had lost a whole battalion. Reports are also being spread to the effect that wounded have been smuggled Into 'hospitals in [Britain from the Continent, whereas it was a fact that there had been no casualties among the British, DANGEROUS ALIENS. NUMEROUS ARRESTS IN ENGLAND. Received 19, 6.5 p.m. London, August IS. Two German carrier-pigeon dealers were arrested. Many Austrians and Germans are daily arrested for failing to register. A German was fined £IOO at Bourne- j month for possessing a revolver and an I envelope containing information about naval telegraphs. Over six hundred Gerraan and Austrian prisoners are interned in the Bluecoat School at Horsham, which is in vacation. TURNED DOWN. AMERICA'S PEACE PROPOSALS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received U, 5.5 p.m. London, August 19. All -fcho European belligerents, with the exception of Russia, have declined President Wilson's offer for mediation. TUB RUSH TO DISCOUNT BILLS. London, August 18. The number of anti-moratorium bills presented to the Bank of England this morning again .reached the limits it was possible to deal with. The unemployed at Manchester have increased from 4000 to 14,000. The Board of Agriculture estimates that the hop crop in Kent is well above the average. ' The Daily News states that 800 of the I defenders of Liege retired at night in good order. Twelve hundred English and Americans are still unable io leave Italy and Switzerland. t London, August 19. ..The Prince of Wales' Fund totals £ I ■,230,000.

SEW ZEALAXDER STRANDED. Keceived 20, 12.20 a.m. London, August Ift. George Ellwood, of Greytown, New Zealand, who tias been studying the 'cello at Berlin, was compelled to be registered every four days. Subsequently he was allowed to leave, .but was not permitted to take his 'eello. He journeyed from Rotterdam to Edin'burg, where he is stranded. S'.W AM, THE OCEAN'S CLEAR. Received 20. 12.40 a.mL London, August 1!). The Admiralty, responding to a shipping enquiry, excludes the Pacific coast ports of North and Central America from the seas where voyages are safe.