GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 130, 26 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

XL '■: FAR EXPENDITURE OVER A MILLION DAILY. 1., JT .QERMAN SPY IN A DOCKYARD. ; ' WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF '. ENEMIES IN ENGLAND. Times and Sydney Sun Service*. London, October 23. Britain's war cost for the first le» ■reeks was s>/j millions per week. Last Hreek it was S'/s millions. An increase is expected in view of the large additional forces in the field. The Custonia receipts, which hare hitherto been maintained despite the jror, have declined nearly 50 per cent. The Navy League manifesto urged the Government to establish safeguards for Britain's food supply in war time, also to support the training of British boys for the navy and give prominence to |UTaI history in schools. Amongst the Trafalgar Day wreaths aras one from the Wanganui Collegiate School. Lord Kitchener is arranging for a library of 50,000 books for the ovemea contingent at Salisbury. A German, who bad charge of the teiejlhone switchboard at Rosyth Dockyard, has been arrested for espionage. Several thousand* of German* .tvA Jiustrians were arrested in the United Kingdom yesterday, including over one (thousand in London. The Duke of lioviurgh ha* bt-n Wounded, and is in hospital in London. Lord Joha Cavendish was killed in France. Amsterdam advise? that 4000 r.nti-li prisoners are at Dordrecht, of wliicii ii are being medically treated. The Marconi Company has presected fche Government with two complete wireless equipments, with operators. CERUAN .SPY GAOLED. AN INCRIMINATING LETTER. Received 25, 3.30 p.m. London, October U. George Dullet. a German, wai sentenced to six months' imprisonment »t Liverpool for representing himself as a free man. He possessed a letter from u General in Poland, acknowledging information, and adding: "I thought you would hare gone to the war, and have been paid for voir service in Poland.'

KEWFOUXDLAXD CONTINGENT ARRIVES IX URITAIN. Received 25, 3.15 p.m. London, October 2". The Xewfoumliand contingent lias armed. Over 500 motor ambulances hive be-u presented to the Red Cross. CODK CABLE ADDRESSES. < i. A SUSPECTED CLUE. C.T.IXF.D. a Received 20, 12.5 a.m. i. London. O'tober .'I. ' Code cable addn-sr.es will b ■ -i.r■itted after the 2(lth Oetober. Tie Committee h.n closed Ike Athenaeum Aristocratic Club, in P.ill Mill. : :,.,.