GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 15 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

THE EFFECT ON TKALE. ' " XOT VERY .SERIOUS YET. ! ' London, September 13. Enquiries by the Board of Trade from "the principal manufacturers show that 75 per cent, are .little affected by the war and the total reduction of staffs since the middle of July is only 1.5 per cent, Twenty-five per cent, of the employers reduced their staffs by 27 per cent. The cotton industry is chiefly affected. Owing to the scarcity of khaki recruits are receiving blue serge uniforms until they go on active service. Russia has placed an order for 100,000 Munich reds. The Government has accepted Saskatchewan's offer of 1500 horses, costing a quarter of a million dollars. Twenty thousand Belgian and French refugees have" landed at Folkestone during tic week. ALLEGED PAPAL SYMPATHY. WITH GREAT BRITAIN'. SIGNIFICANT PRUSSIAN" REBUFF. Rom/:, September 13. The newspaper Stampa states that Cardinal Bourne hears the Pope's letter to the King expressing sympathy with Britain as the guardian of peace and master of justice. The Stampa adds that Austrian and Prussian Ministers refused a safe passage to Cardinal Mercier, who was proceeding to Belgium. The Pope declared that he would remember the unpleasant refusal. London, September 13. Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, has arrived in London, en route for Antwerp. He wa3 accorded a warm reception. He addressed an Irishmen's demonstration, at which Messrs Redmond, Dillon and O'Connor spoke. The King gave an audience to Cardinal Merrier. WINTER SETTING IN'. A WARNING TO COLONIALS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 14, <LIS p.m. "London, September 14There has been a sodden fall in tirf temperature on th? Continent. Women arc busily making warm winter clothing for the troops. The hope is expressed that the Australasians reuli«J that their expeditionary forces will be plunging ' into a winter campaign.