GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 2 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

f| TAKING NO RISKS. LORD KITCHENER AND THE TERRITORIALS. , ' Received 2, 12.20 a.m. 1 London, September 1. Lord, Kitchener, addressing Territorials about, to depart for foreign service, •aid it was quite true that the Germans irere getting short of food. The w*r ought not to last long, but he was not taking risks. He wanted every man that he could possibly get, so that if he wanted them about December they would be •ready- to go. :'<» PERFIDY IN TRADE. ■GERMAN INDEBTEDNESS TO ENGi-. . LAND. fl' iND UNDUE EMPLOYMENT. . 60,000 WELSH SOLDIERS WANTED. |* London, September 30. German firms owing money to Bradford exporters have intimated that they *re investing the amounts in the German war loan and sending the scrip to i Bradford in payment of trade debts. lis Bradford exporters require £1,850,1 HMO from Germany and Austria, the intimation has caused dismay. The Germans have intimated that they will not respect contracts made prior to the war. The Bradford Chanrber of Commerce passed, a resolution that the Government should relieve export merchants by making advances against approved for«ign trade debts to the extent of 75 per cent. The total debts owing to the Bradford district, including American, are now estimated at six millions sterling.

London, September 30. The Income of charities is decreasing in consequence of public support to tne war funds. Tile ordinary income of the §alvation Aimy Headquarters has almost ceased and officers arc working on reduced salary. Ten thousand Salvationists are serving with the colors. The percentage of unemployed in Britain, because of tho war, is very small. Recruiting greatly relieved the -congestion in the labor market, while the demands of the Government for 1 war material and the invasion of German markets necessitated tho engagement of extra hands in many factories. Mr. Ooyd George, s-jpeaking at Cardiff, said the Empire had declared war on the barbarous and brutal doctrines cynically avowed by the Germans that na'tions had no rights unless they were •powerful enough to enforce them. It was incumbent on Wales to raise .fifty thousand men for the new army. This war, to be successfully waged, must be -« national one.

Leading theologians of all the Protestant denominations have issued a reply tto the German appeal to evangelical -Christians, especially to members of the ' World's Missionary Conference in Edin- ' burgh, reciting the German view oTthe -political causes of the war. I V ENEMY BANKS. Times and Sydney Sun crvices. Received" 1, 6.30 p.m. London, Scpte-nibe.- 30. Sir William l'lender, reporting upon the German and Austrian banks in London, state* that the astets if collected would probably recompense lie • collectors in full, but he specially htates that holders of cheques "issued "by customers of the" banks are not ri,g.irucd . Ji creditors. , THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM. • _ VAST BUT INEFFECTIVE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. j, Received 1,6.30 p.m. London, October 1. A military correspondent, while admitting the apparent thoroughness of the G*nnan spy system, has not a Irirh opinion of its "usefulness. The failure "to ascertain until August 21 that the British army was in France was proof -of its incapacity. NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME. Received 1, 11.5 p.m. London, September 30. The New Zealanders who have volunteered for service to fill gaps in the New •Zealand force are mostly picked men from tho universities and medical - schools. Some came from posts in South America and South Africa, eager to iinish their training before the New Zealand contingent arrives.