GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 128, 23 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

UM. < FORTY SPIES DISCOVERED. London, October 21. Forty German spies were found at Dover disguised as Belgian refugees. ' THI DOMINIONS' LOYALTY. London, October 21. Tka Times, in a leader, says that whatever spot the Imperial contingents toaeh on British shores all are thrilled M tiougk they had come Home. It is * little world, but bears such a world meaning that all men and women of our blood are ready to fight for it and all 16 repreaeate. It is the deep conviction witk which they realise this truth that gives anal incalculable value to their support. la all parts of the Empire the saMe aaka is struck, and rings full and true. TJHEAISAB DAY CELEBRATIONS. London, October 21. Tier* was a» enthusiastic celebration •f Tralalgar Day in Britain. Many wreatka were placed on Nelson's rnonumeat, aamiag the warships recently lost, Ueladiag -the Australian submarine, aad aba the mine-sweepers. THB VODKA PROCLAMATION. OGSTB BUSSIA NINETY MILLIONS. Beoeived 22, 'lO p.m. 'London, October 21. Tfcera is much comment at aacrifioe of ninety millions sterling obtaiaea from the spirit inonopoly, owing to tke Aimiaution in crime following t!ie temporary prohibition. Th« Wtsbniastcr gazette pays that amfc airramstaßtes could hardly happen except ia Russia. Tka Pall Mall Gazette says: ''The war baa its viotary elsewhere thaa oa tke battlofcM." A NEW GUM. TO WEAK BARB-WffiE ENTANGLEMENTS.

Eecerred 23, 12:5 a.m. London, October 21. A light gun is oeing employed to break wire cktasghMnents. H approximates the life-saving cable carrier used by the coastguard, and throws a grapnel resembling a bundle of fishhooks. A hundred of tkese are fired over tie eitangleaeftts, and then the whole is jHiHsd *waj e» bloc.