GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 127, 22 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

SEXTRY'S POOR MARKSMANSHIP. • A SPY ESCAPES. CANADIAN INVASION OF HNGLAX!). BIGGEST FORCE LAXDBD IN NIN'K CENTURIba. IRISHMEN UKITED. Loadom, Oetober 2(. A sentry at Pembroke Dock challeßg«i a man who was creeping towards th-J guns. The man escaped, but .the sentry fired aad killed a soldier whs was sleeping in a tent, besides wounding another. The sight of a gun was missing, but was discovered on the track of the strangers ftg'ut. The new Army recruit* caw lumber 750.000. Atlantic war risk rates kave beem <"■ duced to 7 s 6d.

The authorities are satisfied as to the , bona fides of the oocupaats of the Ediaimgh factory, where thick concrete foundations were discovered. The Imperial Institute has opened a bureau to deal with commercial enquiries from. all. parts of the Empire in connection with the capture af the enemy' 3 trade. ' The Times, oommeatiag on the Kaiser's words ;to his troops, "Well, boys, before the leaves fall we shall all b* back in our dear Fatherlaad," says, S; ■ really looks like it. We are glad i■■ think that the General Staff is tellut;: tlie War God exactly what is hap;.c;iwg." The Canadians lost oaly eleven hors»-» OB the voyage. The men possess a:i extraordinary assortment of mascot ammala. There has been nothing like ti:e Canadian force landed in Britaim since the days of William the Coaqueror.

; Judges are permitting barristers to appear 'before them in uniform instead •f in the time-honored wig and gown. The Admiralty is supplying the Navy with swimming collars capable of rapid inflation.

A great Nationalist meeting at Westminster, at which Mr. T. P. O'Connor presided, passed a resolution in favor of cohesion with Mr. Redmond's policy and calling on the Irish people to cotoperate wtih. the Allies in their efforts_for th« defence of the liberties >of Europe 'against Prussian militarism.

The police ire interning Austrian? and Germans 01 military age at •th» rate of a hundred a day. Additional hotels are announcing tiat no Germans or Aastrians are employed. The Daily Express describes Steinhauer as the Kaiser's master spy, whs acted in close cooperation with -tao Potsdam military bureaucracy and established a vast network of naval and military espionage ia Britain. He wis supplied with abundant money and thousands of Germans is every walk of life acted as subsidiaries to Steinhauer'a agents. When the Kaiser visited England in 1911, Steinhauer was a member of his suite and stayed at Buckingham Palace. The Admiralty and War Office became aware ot Steinhauer's to'.j At the end of Kit and heneeforth he was ehadowed and largely thwarted in Ms plans. It is reported that a house at Kingsborn, commanding a view of the Firth ef Forth, has been raided and a wireless installation discovered.

• REMOVING CABLR RESTRICTIONS. Received 21, 8.3* pjn. London, October 20. The will shortly permit a limited number of telegraphic business codes between Britaut and extra-Euro-pean countries. UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASING. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 61, 8 p.m. London, October 20. The Board e£,Tradd announces a marked contraction in the percentage of unemployment in insured and uninsured trades. ORDERED TO QUIT AT LAST . (Received 08, 1255 ajn) . .. (jMafoa, Octotoiar 21. Bvery Genua* a"A Austriam resident of Brighton has been ordered to quit f witam* tew days. '.;"

DELAYED PUBLICATION OF NEWS. THE TIMES COMPLAINING. THE NATION SATISFIED WITH THE TRUTH. Received 21, 0 p.m. London, October 20. The Times, in a leader, says: "After weeks of weary waiting the nation has had the satisfaction of reading two immensely interesting despatches from General French. We see no reason why the first, dated September 17, should, not have been published earlier. The Government must remember more constantly the millions who watch and wait. While puzzled by the unwonted silence, and apt to misunderstand it, they will bear any strain with calmness and fortitude so long as they know that in due season they will always be told the truth. The whole country will be inspirited and nerved afresh, by thesa despatches."

KNOWS TOO MUCH.A GERMAN 'ARRESTED. Received 21, 10.30 p.m. London, October 21. Karl Finek, a Gorman, charged under the Official Secrets Act, was remanded. A detective Jiad heard the defendant discussing plans of a land mine described as being capable of annihilating the British Army. , REPLY TO GERMAN' PROFESSORS' MANIFESTO. "LET THEM READ THEIR 'H:STOEY." GERMAN TACTICS DEPLORED. Received 22. 1255 a.m. London, October 2fl. Over a hundred dififcinguislied British scientists have i«wn<vl a reply to the German professors' manifesto. The reply advises the Germans to obtain the full text of the diplomatic dociimmtx. From these tbey will learn that G-cir-inany was th,; one power t'hat did not strive for peace "Germany's one grievance is that we did not allow her to subdue the EuToiean powers, and thus -liable her to deal witlh Britain:"

The reply s'ronglv condemns the destruction of Louvain, Rheims and Malines.

MOKE FOUNDATIONS FOUNT 3. COMMANDING TORBAY. Received 22. 12.25 a.m. "London, Octo-Vr 2ft. The Hveninjj Nmvs Tenor's .flie flnseoverv of heaw eow.r<»*<> foundations m a Cicrman factory dominating To/Day.