GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 104, 25 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

\ EMPIRE'S FOOD S! i'PLIES. ■ " CORN" FROM EGYPT. L>V. '{ ■ Received 24, 7.50 p.m. Cairo, September 23. Tho Ministry for Agriculture has decided to reduce the cotton area Dy a Billion acres, and devote that area to •orealf.

"VERY NEAR DAMNATION"." THE TREND OF GERMAN PRINCIPLES. \ SPEECH BY LORD ROSEBERY. • Received 25, 12.30 a.m. London, September 23.

Cord Rosebery, speaking at Midlothian, said: "We are fighting against the Prussian military caste, whose policy of aggression is un-Gennan. If the principle that might is right, wheh treats treaties as scraps of paper, is allowed to become the principle governing Europe, the world will get very near datamation. Louvaine, Halincs, and Senlis a'l attest that German culture, which is spread By the bayonet."

; TO ASSIST BUSINESS FIRMS-. v""" V' »• ■ Received 24, 7.50 pjn. ■ ' ' London, September 23. Th« Government is considering a scheme for advancing money to businesses temporarily embarrassed by the

*- * GENERAL ITEMS. ; Times and Sydney Sun Services. Beceived 24, 5.30 p.m. ' London, September 23. Ten per cent, of the British wounded are guttering from rheumatism, bronchitis, and over-strain, due to exceeiiT* ■ULTChOL Lester, eon of Mr T. E. Donne, of the New Zealand High Commissioner's office, baa joined the New Zealand London contingent Factories at Leeds, Bradford, and Huddectfield are working overtime to supply Goremment requirements, otherwiw trade jf quiet. Beceived 24, 10.15 p.m. 'A message from Malta, delayed by the eeneoir, deacribes the landing of a force of London territorials on the Hth.

BBipSH "WOMEN EXCHANGED. I Received 2f, 12.25 a.m. Amsterdam, September 23. 'A Mflbnd batch of 400 British women Aid children has arrived from Germany, en rout* to England.