GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

k, BATTLEFIELD STORIES. LITTLE SLEEP AND LITTLE FOOD _ FOR "TOMMY." f OFFICERS' NARROW ESCAPE. ! | ' Times v.v! Sydney Sun Services. Received 30, 5.40 p.m. London, September 30. A subaltern writes from the front: "I do hope that we will wipe out the tf 1lowb in fr<int, then perhaps we will get a little sleep. All our people, especially the infantry, are very tired. I don't j (appose we have averaged more than ! four hours' Bleep a night for three weeks, I •ad all in the open. It is wonderful | how accustomed one grows to little sleep | ' sod food, and very little washing. There j it no time for washing and shaving, and most of ui have grown beards." I An officer in th>' Coldstream Guards ! tells that he and three other officers were | sheltering in a hay-rick, which was hit by eight shells in three minutes and ' aet afire. They had to run for 300 yds 1 across artillery-swept ground. " 60LDIERS' SONGS. Times >• n-i S;.dney Sun Services. Received 30, 5.40 p.m. * London, September 29. | The Times has a leader on soldiers' songs. None can tell, says the paper, why "It's a 'ong way from Tipperary" suits the taste of the soldiers, unless it is because it is entirely irrevelant to the matter in hand. The soldiers prefer a joke reminding them of home to any song telling them they are heroes." To our mind, to joke in the face of death is finer than the heroic attitude." - : THE FIRST CAPTURED GUN. ON EXHIBITION IN ENGLAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.40 p.m. London, September '29. The exhibition of the first captured .German gun in !.Le courtyard of the War Office drew a big and admiring f crowd. The gun w:t3 captured by the first battalion of tl ■ Lincolns. AN IMPERIAL BOYCOTT. I, AGAINST GERMANY AND AUSTRM. r Received 1. 12.50 a.m. London, September 30. The suggestion in made that in order i' to protect Hritish iind colonial trade after the war, leading Australian merchants should agree with England, Can- ■ a da, and South Afneu to refuse to buy German or Austrian goods for five year-;. . THE IRISH QUESTION AGAIN. TRADE WITH GERMANY. ' " London, September 29. Mr Bonar Law, kI Belfast, said that if occasion arose 'he Unionists would support Ulster after the war in any steps deemed necessary tv iefend their rights. The pledge given in the Blenheim speech was conditional on behalf of the Unionists. He now removed it unconditionally, siore advantage had been taken of Ulster's patriotism to place Home Rule on the Statute liook. He did not believe that Tcrco would be necessary. f George Spencer, representing a shipping firm at Hamburg, has been remanded on a charge of trying to indu n e A. R. Houlder, of Houlder Bros., to trade with the enemy, by asking hirn to take over German shipping lyin» at ' a neutral port, whereon Houlders had mortgages. The Evening News states that estimate of German firms' debts is sixty r millions, and suggests that the bank, under Government guarantee, advance the money on account until the end of the war, v ! :'jn the German Government 4>onld be made responsible ior the collection and repayment of the debts. The Ulster Unionists Council adopted l a resolution on tn» lines of Sir E. Carson's address.