GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

MINERS' PATRIOTISM DOWNS THEIR SOCIALISM. THEY WILL ASSIST TUB ADMIRALTY. CHANNEL TRAFFIC RESUMED. London. August 24. t Mr. Barnes, Labor M.P., speaking in ! London, said Britain had to participate ; in the war to maintain her international reputation. She must punish Kaiser4om and all it meant. The democratic •elf-governing people would and must form a league to keep the peace, on the basis of right-doing. Mr. Balfour, on behalf of thj> Govern- ■ ment. is meeting Lord Joicey and Sir Alfred Haslam, who were arrested ii Geimany and escaped with difficulty, and discussing the possibility of exchanging mon-combatants for British similarly interned in Germany. The South Wales miners have repudiated their Socialist leaders and agreed to the Government's request to work Bine hours daily and on certain Sundays. Since the declaration of war me British Red Cross has received £50.00G, including £2OO from the Empress Eagenie. Forty food steamer* are running between Denmark and England. Traffic fc&s been resumed from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to England. The Southampton cross-channel traffic has also been resumed. Amsterdam, August 24. A telegram from Berlin states that the trustees of Sir Ernest Cassel's foundation for necessitous Englishmen have agreed to help all now in distress in Germany, and hope that the English foundations will similarly -uccor distressed Germans.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND. SUPPLY Hi-' GOLD. WAR STOCK. ISSUE INEVITABLE. Received 25. S p.m. London. August 35. The Evening New, states that the Government placed 50 million Treasury bills last week, and will i--u<' another 15 millions on Wednesday. The pregent war expenditure, together with t e loan to Belgium, have been met in this temporary manner, but the i-=ue 0 war itock will have to W made sooner or later.