GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 115, 8 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

UNIVERSITY FIXTURES CANCELLED ' UNDERGRADUATES JOIN THE . ARMY. Received 7, 11.15 pjn. London, October 6. The University Rugby match has been and probably the boat race will not be held, as seven of tie 19U •Cambridge crew, about half of the Rugby team, and 60 per cent, of the undergraduates at Cambridge have joined th« Mmj, ... ! «u. 1 ' • 'A COUNT'S TRIALS. L LIFE IN THE TRENCHES. ' (CYCLIST RIDER'S EXPERIENCES. h- . X London, October 6. ' Tie Press Bureau described a former J French Count, now chauffeur on the Gen-1 «ral St»ff, making his toilet in the open, washing his face in a saucepan, brushing bis hair with an old nail brush, «nd using the window of the car, in frhich be slept, for a looking-glass. ■ A British aviator returned to Deal lor a fourth machine. Three had been disabled by German bullets. Earl Kingston, describing the life in the trenches, says:—"The Germans keep >np a terrific fire but do little damage. They have a gun tihat throws a shell 92 iadhes long and makes a hole sufficient to bury eighteen men. The fireworks at night would he lovely if it tirere not for death." A British cyclist dispatch-rider says: «One gets absolutely dehumanised. It ii the only alternative to going mad. 4 counted six hunjlred shells falling in in small space in 45 minutes without kill•jnganyone. . We are ordered not to expose ourselves, but become obsessed with the gassion to see what is being done." • j- BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY.

London, October 6.

Nearly mf hundred thousand men Slave joined the new army, of whom London has contributed 85,000 men. The Board of Trade returns reveal a fcteady reqval of employment. Mr Walter Marks, of Sydney, has offered the Admiralty to secure a hun•jftred expert Australian and New Zealand for the Royal Naval Reserve. JSe Admiralty, in an appreciative letter, states that an opportunity has not arrived at present to utilise their service*.

,: AUSTRALIAN MAIL. ; London, October 6. .The Malwa's mail has been delivered.