GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 11 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

INDIA'S MAGNIFICENT LOYALTY. CKEAT GIFTS FROM PRINCES AND PEOPLE. BIG FORCES OF MEN* OFFERED. ENTHUSIASM AROUSED IX BRITISH PARLIAMENT. London, September 9. Mr Asquith will ask the House of Com - auras to-morrow for additional men for the Army. Sir George Scott-Robertson, K.C.5.1., read Viscount Hardinge's intensely interesting account of bow the princes mnd people of India bad offered their •err ices.

The House was deeply moved, and cheered the Indians. In all, the report ■aid, 700 rulers had offered their services and resources. Besides men and money, some were equipping a hospital •hip. Others were providing a thousand norses. As showing the extent of the offers, the Dalai Lama had offered. 1000 Tibetans. . Q, £ Mr .Asquith announced that LofW Hardinge's message would ba circulated throughout the world. Mr Will Thornc (Labor): "Send a copy to the Kais*r." The Indian Government contributed £1,000,000 to the cost of "the contingent

>". INDIAN" TROOPS ARRIVE. ' " A FORCE OF 70,000 MEN T . IX COMMAND OF NOTABLES. London, September O. The Indian contingents are 70,000 men. The first arrived this weclr. Delhi, September 0. Accompanying the expeditionary fores are Sir Pertab Singh, the Maharajahs of Bikanir, Patiala, Butlam, Uishengart and Jodpur, the Nabobs of Pagora. Sachin and Bhopal, also the Malik of Umar. ALLIES CALL THE TIME.

BUT GERMANY MUST PAY THE PIPER. ' DIFFICULTIES CROWD ON" THE KAISER. ', Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 6 p.m. London, September 0. The Times' correspondent at Petrognd says that the Germans must now dance to the Allies* music. Two millions of Russians on the Austro-<Jerman frontiers present an awful menace. If th« AusJLrians quail, the Germans will be forced to modify their plan.-. owing t» the necessity for dividing the armies to protect 300 miles of frontier, from Danzig southwards. This mean, that the position is becoming more favorable to the Allies, and daily more difficult for the Germans.

MRS PAXKHIRST ALARMED.

Times and Sydney Sin Services. Received 9, fi p.m. London, September 0. Mrs Pankhurst, at a mass meeting at the Opera Hon»e, said the defeat of Great Britain would be calamitous. From a woman's point of view, enfranchisement depended upon tbe preservation of the Empire,

NEW ZEALAXDERS IN TROUBLE. DETAINED DC GERMANY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 6 p.m. London, September 9. Mr and Mrs U. J. King, of Napier, who were touring from Vladivostok to rlurope, were detained at Berlin, and were dependent on German charity, being given the poorest rations. Mrs King was seized with appendicitis, and the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie is endeavoring to send money to them.

ARRESTS OF SUSPECTED SPIES. ! London, Septeniebr Si Mr McKenna, in reply to a question, said 6500 persons had been arrested im Britain as spies since the declaration or war, but only 90 had been detained. There was no evidence of combination amongst aliens iu England to commit hostile acts. _ , ~-i, ~ "SILVER BULLETS." MONEY -MAY WI.V THE WAR. "' BRITAIN'S IMMENSE RESOURCES ' MUST BE HUSBANDED. London, September 3. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a municipal deputation in regard to a loan for provisions to meet distress in France, said money was going to play a great part in the war, and Britain ■must husband her resources. The laet few hundred millions might win the war. Our enemies could stand the first hundred millions as well as but the last hundred millions they could not. Therefore money was going to count. We had won with a silver bullet before. He expressed, on behalf of the Government, gratitude to Sir John French, for the work he hud already accomplished. Lord Charles Beresford, addressing a recruiting meeting at Sheffield, said that Germany would have to pay dearly for her savagery in causing the destruction of innocents, and indiscriminate mine-laying. The Germans did not possess tin: chivalry of the old-time buccaneers and filibusters, who respected women and children and did not fire on tlw lied Cross.

PRIXCK AUiEIiT. TO RELIEVE DISTRESS. London, September 0. An operation was performed on Prince Albert, second son of the King, this morning, and his condition is satisfactory. The Belgian Minister advises that he particularly requires flour in "lb bags and tinned meat in 61b tins.

RALLY OF THE EMPIRE.

GLAD, JOYOUS RESPONSE TO THE CALL. Received 11, 12.30 a.m. London, September 10. The Times, in a leader on '"The rally of the Empire," says:—"Gladly and joyously the Empire is responding to the King's call. History has never recorded so splendid and universal a rally. Gifts are pouring in. Men will soon be pouring in, and the stream of help will flow unceasingly until world-ambitious Germany is crushed and the soil of France and Belgium freed of the invader." COUNTER-ACTING GERMAN LIES. HOME GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION. Received 10. 8.35 p.m. London, September 9. Sir Edward Grey's statements were published in Copenhagen as the first step in a campaign to counteract Gorman lies. The Government is investigating the exact state of affairs in neutral countries, and immediately contradicting tions daily. ENORMOUS REFUGEE PROBLEM. Received 10, 10.15 p.m. London, September' 9. ! Thousands of refugees, mostly from , Belgium, continue to arrive rn England. THAT TOUCHES THE POCKET. Received 11, 12,50 a.m. London, Sept. 10 (morning). . Instead of waiting for the auetioii sales, certain Australian firms have decided to sell to the mills immediately certain kinds of wool which are required for the manufacture of khaki. 'The descriptions specially cover Xe.w Zealand slipes and scoured crossbreds. London merchants realise that if they held they might conceivably secure higher pries later, but, appreciating tin; loyalty of New Zealanders, are confident that they ar c justified in offering tlie wools immediate! v.

A FINE SPIRIT. j! London, Sept. 0. All parlies have agreed tliu-t there ! sliali be no contested''by-elections ilur(111™ the war, allowing 'each party to retain its Beats. A GERMAN SENTENCED. London, Sept. 0. ! Maximilian Dimz, a Gennan eifjarett* manufacturer, has been sentenced to six months? imprisonment and ordered to 'be deported afterwards for failing to register, masquerading as aai -Englishman, and eiiPGilling as a special'constable.