The War

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 8

The War

IN PAPEETE. THE FRENCH TERRIBLY EXCITED. Auckland, last night. The Talune, which arrived from the Eastern Pacific to-day, reports that the inhabitants of Papeete have been thrown into an intense state of excitement by ( the news of war. The French soldiery are patrolling the streets with fixed bayonets in un exuberance of patriotic enthusiasm. Newspapers from New Zealand aro at a premium, while the native will go to great lengths to secure anythink that looks like a war picture.

READY TO MOVE OFF. Auckland, Last Night. The final inspection of all the soldiery gear that the members of the expeditionary force are allowed to take away with tihem on active Bervice in the chief concern of the troops now concentrated at Epsom. T!ie infantry men have bad their kits checked and completed, and to-day the same examina- | lion was carried out in respect i&f the mounted men and the field ambulance company. Extras not allowed by regulation were ptft on one side-, and the stipulated quantity of clo'thmg and other personal equipment was ctwvfui'iy checked in every detail. The force is ready to move off at an 'hour'is notice, lot-ving behind full returns and personal ■histiny tlhat have been •prepared by a special staff that has been detailed for 'thiut duty since the establishment of the camp. EFFECT ON AMERICA.

A resident of Atlanta, writing to an Inglewood relative, says that America is going to be the richest country in the world, and will also be thj controlling power of finance instead of London and Paris. A big boom is expected; wheat is piling up in New York, but the shipping of cotton had practically stopped, and as the 'United States business in cotton amounts to 000,000,000 dollars a year (the greater part biing shipped to England) the effect on the market is very great. There was some proposal of the Government to fix the price, meanwhile t!ie growers are advised not to sell. It is considered that the American mills will get a large portion of the German trade with South America. As to the trend of public opinion, it is pleasing to note that American sympathy is wholly British, the papers without exception adopting a friendly attitude towards Great Britain. The wheat crop is said to be enormous, and the fruit crop so plentiful that peaches of three and four inches in diameter are Selling for 25 cents a peck. The Frenen Canadians are intensely patriotic. They used to say that their heads were with England, tut their hearts were, with France. Now they arc loud in praise of England.