GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

; , RECRUITING IN IRELAND. BRITAIN' S PREMIER'S SPEECH AT DUBLIN. \ A STIRRING APPEAL FOR HEX. IRELAND WILL BEAK HER SHARE Received 27, 5.15 pjn. '» London, September 26.

Mr Asquith, speaking at the Dublin Mansion House recruiting meeting, said bad come to summon Ireland to take Iter place lor the defence of the comnon cause. Germany had been preparing for this for a generation past. Sb* had taught her youth to seek the supremacy of German power. There was aothing in the Austro-Servian quarrel that could not nave been settled pacifically, only in the judgment of those {aiding the German policy, the hour had com* to strike. In their hands lay the choice between peace and war, and they elected war. The ground must now be cleared of militarism, so that small nations might have independent existence and a place is the urn. The Germans had made two miscalculations —the first, that Belgium would not resist; and the aecoad a more capital blunder in regard to England. The invasion of Belgium and France contribntes some of the blackest pages to the sombre anmals ef war. Rarely have noncombatants suffered more severely, and rareiy had monuments to piety and learning been so shamefully and cynically desecrated. Great is our responsibility in allowing our country to be drawn into anch a welter, but it was worse than to take such responsibility than it was to chirk it. How could Ireland, with the cry <jf the smaller nations ringing in her cars, delay to help them in the struggle for freedom! The Empire had always keen jroud of its Irish regiments. He Bow asked them for their best. There were two things which had become unthinkable ; first, that one section of Irishmen was going to fight another section j and second, that Britain was going to fight either. (Cheers.) He appealed to the nation for volunteers to contribute a worthy contingent to the pectpd army of half a million. He wanted to see aa Irish Brigade, or, better, ha army corps. The old animosities between us were dead and scattered like autumn leaves. We are a united nation, enjoying that liberty which we are now fighting to give others. Mr Bedmond followed Mr Asquith, laying that Ireland was in heartfelt ■ympathy with the war, and would bear her share of the burdens of suffering. Having been conceded autonomy, Ireland was ia honor bound to take her place with the other autonomous portions of the -mpire. He said to the people of England: "You have kept faith with Ireland; Ireland will keep faith with you." The meeting concluded with the National Anthem for the first time in a generation.

IXnSTER SEXDS 10,000 MEX. ■ BADEN-POWELL IX COMMAND. Beeeived 27, 4 pjn. London, Beptember 21. Tha Dlsier foreign service army numfcera VtfiU. Major -General Baden-Pou.il commands, and Captain Craig, M.P., act- «« iie'utant adjutant-genera!. BRITAIN WILL SEE IT TIIKOUGH. ' MK LLOYD GEORGE PREDICTS. Beeeived 27, 520 pan. ' London, September i. '' Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Cri.--cieth, eaid thai 1* years ago he :i- i atood en the same platform and oppo-' 1 the foutn African war, but Britain !■- day was engaged in a righteous war. It took 15 years to break Napoleon. t "would not take ao long* to vanquish t!>itaSßa, tat Britaia was going to sec it Jbrougb.

THE COURSE OF EVENTS. MR CHURCHILL SATISFIED. BRILLIANT WORK OF TIIB AVIATORS. London. September 25.

Mr Churchill, in his interview with the Gioniale d'ltalia, said iie had always regarded the first nlonth as the most i-ritical for the S&tj. lie had nothing to complain of as to the way the month had gone, lie was satisfied the German army had done its worst. "In less than half a year," he added,, "we shall hare a million men at the front equipped with everything science can invent or money buy. We want this war to 6ettle Europe on national lines in accordance irtih the wishes of the peoples of the disputed area*."

British carga ia German ports at the outbreak of war is now being sold by order of the German Government. Reprisals arc therefore on foot in England. Hitherto a distinction Ims been made between such cargo and that captured. It is proposed to establish a clearing-house to receive the money German cargo is sold for, and make payments to merchants whose cargo is sold in Germany.

The Board of Trade's exhibition of Germaa-made toys was a great success. Unemployed women and girls are being taught similar toy-making, aild manufacturers in the potteries are entering the toy trade. The Times, in a leader, says the naval wing of the flying corps accomplished the most brilliant feat of airmanship yet seen in the war. There are 37 churehes in Duioddorf, and all are still intact. Cologne Cathedral is only a few miles away, and it remains untouched. The aircraft sally was meant as an admonition. Its value lies in it) moral effeat. The British censorship -has been made more drastic, and prohibits obtaining first-hand narratives close to the front.

THE FALL OP LONDON. "AT THE KAISER',S DISCRETION!" Times and Sydney Sun Service*. Received 27, 8.45 p.m. London, September 2G. The impression prevails in Gcrmaay that the fall of London is entirely at tile Khiser's discretion. Britishers at Dresde* suffered annoyance frem the jeering populace.

AN IVPKItIAL All! FLEET, CANADA'S CI FT SUITS. Tines aid Sydney Sun Servitea. Received 27, 6.45 p.m. IjOldoa, September SC. The Imperial Air Fleet Committee hM christened the machine shortly to be pnKnted to Australia "Liverpool.'' Later similar machines will be presented to Canada and South Africa. The committee hope these will form the nuclaas of an Imperial fleet for thg whole Empire, 'flic Sr\r y#rk World states that the airship America bat been sold to Canada, and is going t« England. Four duplicates are being constructed for the ttmi I 'vtinatioo.

BRITAIN'S FOOD. hiNOIiMOTS SUPPLIES OF GRAIN". ' Times a»<l Sydney Sua Services. Received 27, 5.45 p.m. London, September 26. The remaval of Russian prohibition :: cunj til at an enormous supply of grain < now in sight. The vast stookj In Vr.gtaad have been augmented by car■rocs diverted from Germany. Grain eritinaes to arrive in large (juantities fiom ifae Atlantic luid Pacific coast?. CARE FOR THK WOUXDUI). Received 27, 5.5 p.m. IjonJoi, September 2fi. Fourteen hundred British wounded a'rivei at Boathampton yesterday. Tne I'-: iiiaii Red Crou is sending 39 surgeons esj 15# nuraei to ParU, also 100 motor .uj.Ljlancea. '