GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 2 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

GEBttAX SPY OOURT-MARTIALLED. A DANGEROCS CUSTOMER, OUR SECRETS REPORTED TQ BERLIN. i Received 1, 2.30 p.m. London, October 30. A court-martial has opened in the HiddlcMX tii.d He!, to hear a charge 9t espionage, the charge court consisting of Lord and' eight officers. Carl Lody, alias Charles Inglis, of New York. w,i U was arrested at Killarney, W» charged with attempting to convey niilitsi —erets to Germany.' A similar trial is unknown in England in the history of modern war, guilt being punishable by death. The prisoner was guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets. Mr Matthias Bodkin, K.C., is prosecuting. • The accused travelled extensively i» Britain under an American pa'ssport, clausing to be an 'American subject. After arrest he admitted that he was a German subject. Lody sent several reports to Germany, giving much correct information. He also investigated the steps taken to guard public buildings. He mentioned that Parliament Buildings and the Bank of England were guarded by wire-netting against Zeppelin attacks. At one stage the Court was clearer! will." the prisoner's niesss :es were read out.

Received 1. 1(1 ;JA pm.. London! October ::1. A spectator has been arrested at tlm Lody '.-ourt-martial. He bad b"cn present through the trial, and remained a:the V'iv Office bench after the court had been cleared. ROYAL PRINCE'S DEATH. KILLED BY SILKAPNEL. Reeeiv»d 1, 2.30 p.m. London. October 30. Prince Maurice of Battenburg was leading a rotnnan? attack when he wa3 ■truck by « shrapnel, arid died almost inrmcdia'ely. He was buried at Yprea to-dav.

LADY'JELLIOOE ASSISTS SAILORS' WOMENFOLK. CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR ALIENS. GERMANY CORDIALLY HATED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, October 30. Lady Jellicoe has opened club room* at Hammersmith for women dependents of soldiers and sailors, the objeot being to afford companionship and to counteract the temptations of publichouses. Arrangements have been completed for permitting German and Austrian women and men not of military age to return to their own countries. Since the outbreak of war there hare been ten thousand applications lor naturalisation, of which twenty hare beea granted. Nearly eight thousand Germans and 'Austrians have been arrested in Greater London and placed in a concentration camp. Twenty-nine thousand enemy aliens have registered themselves with the police.

Every member of the Stock Exchange using a safe is searched for explosive*. because many German firms use strongrooms.

The Times, in a leader, says that the war has fanned the hatred white-hot which has been secretly glowing for years and ready to burst into flame. Englishnei were slow to believe and were deluded by personal friendliness for indiridual Germans.

The newspaper Jujrmd, of Munich, publishes a poem dealing with the katred of the English, which concludes: "We love as one, we hate as one, we save one foe, and one alone—England." Sydney, October 31.

Mr. J. R. Smith, a New Zealand journalist, has arrived from London. In referring to the type of Lord Kitchener's recruits he said he was told that one lot of 50,000 reminded people of Cromwell's Ironsides. They were selected from Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, and were filled with religious terror). They prayed nightly for God to strengthen their hands to break Prussian militarism. Their fervor was backed by splendid physical powers.

A NEW TRADE ROUTE. Received 1, 4.30 p.m. London. October 31. ' A steamer brought eight and a half million eggs from Archangel to Cardiff.

rFOI APPRECIATION OF PRIiJCB i LOUIS OF HATTENBURG. HI3 OBSIGNATION AND THE) ACCEPTANCE. LITTERS WHICH MAKE HISTORY. Wellington, Last Night. The Premier has received the following from the High Commissioner:— Prince Louis of Battenberg's resignation was as follows: ' "Dear Mr. Churchill,-1 have latterly been driven to the painful coneTusloik that at this juncture my birth an.i parentage have the effect of impairing in some respects my usefulness on the Board of the Admiralty. In these circumstances I feel it my duty, as ?. l,>yal subject of His Majesty, to resign the office of First Sea Lord, hoping thereby to facilitate the administration of the great service to which I have devoted my life, and to ease the burden laid on Ministers."

MR. CHURCHILL'S REPLY. Mr. Churchill replied:— "Dear Prince Louis,—This is no ordinary war, but a struggle between nations for life and death. It raises passions between races of the most terriDlc kind, effaces old landmiul.s, and the frontiers of our civilisation. I cannot further oppose the \vi»;i you have during the last few weeks expree-Hd to me to be released from the bur .en of responsibility which you have borne thus far with so much honour sjid mvicss. The anxieties and toils wliiclT rest upon the naval administration of our country are in themselves enough v<> U'y a mail's spirit. When to tlt.-m is added the ineradicable difficulties 0 ; which you speak, I could not at this juncture, in fairness, ask you to support them. The Navy of to-morrow bears the. imprint of your work. The enormous Impending influx of capital ships, and the score of 30-knot cruisers, destroyers, and submarines unequalled in inod"rn construction, which are coming now to hand, are the results af labours which we have had in common, and in which the Board of the Admiralty ov.. s. much to your aid. The step whid- secured the timely concentration of tV Tlcet was taken by you. I must «'r,iress publicly my deep indebtedness to you, and the pain I feci at the severance of our three years' official association. In ali the circumstances you are right in your decision. The spirit in which you have acted is the same in which Prince 'Maurice of Battcnberg has given his life for our cause, and in which your gallant son is now serving in the Fleet. I beg you to accept my profound respect, and that of your colleagues on the Hoard."

ANOTHER TREASURY ISSUE. Received 1, 2.40 p.m. London, October 31. Tenders will be invited on the 4th November for fifteen millions' worth of six months' British Treasury bills. A NEW ZEALANDER KILLED IN ACTION. Received 1. 2.40 p.m. London, October 31. Captain Walter Russell, of the Northamptonshire Regiment, son of the late Captain Sir William Russell, of New Zealand, was killed in action. AT LAST. Received ]. 10.20 p.m! London, October 31 levpning). The names-of the German and "Austrian Bmperors, and the Duke of SaxeCobur," have been remove! from the army list.