GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 141, 9 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

J WHOLESALE GERMAN SPYING. RECRUITING RiiCEIVES'A CHECK. OOTTOX MARKET RE-OJ^ENED. GERMAN PRISONERS CONCENTRATED IN BRITAIN.

London, November 6. Hie Kaiser and L'rince Henry of Prussia have been r- moved from the naTj list. On Monday the metal exchange will re-open, in the mornings only. Owing to a check in recruiting during the last three weeks and the wear and tear in the army in Flanders newspapers are prominently dUcusßing compulsory service. Leading journals show some anxiety.

Lord Skiborne, speaking at Chiswick, said that the voluntary response had been wonderful, but young men who did not enlist, though ao one was wholly dependent upon them, were shirkers and should be compelled to serve if, they not come voluntarily, because the existence of the nation was at stake.

The heigiit ior recruits has been lowered to sft 3in-

Busk, aviator at an aircraft factory, was testing a biplane at Aldershot, when the machine burst into flames and glided a mile to the earth. Busk was burned to death.

Tile Liverpool cotton market has re opened on restricted lines.

The Earl of Harewood, Lord-Lieutei:-juit of Yorkshire, reports widespread spying on the East Coast, inclduing flashlights from motor-cars on the Yorkshire cliffs. Fishing boats supply the link between England and the enemy. Major Maidlow, formerly assistant director of artillery in New Zealand, has been killed in action.

An Edinburgh merchant has been sentenced to *sve years' imprisonment for attempting to secure orders fer cargoes of coal for Germany.

Nine thousai.d German and Austrian seamen from British ships have been removed to camps in Britain, which are mostly under the control of the Sailors' and Firemen's Union. A suggestion has been made that the navigation laws be amended to require that a certain proportion of British seamen be employed on British ships.

■The State roach will not be used at the opening of Parliament, because eighty-nine of the Royal servants are serving at the front.

TINNED ' 1 FATS FOR THE FORCES. I BRITISH WAi' OFFICE CONTRACTS. Received 8. 3 p.m. London. No-cmbcr 7. The War Oil'iee ji inviting tenders by the 6th for live, million 12-ounec tins o!" preserved beef and mutton for delivery at London in January, February, and March. Cable tenders will be accepted. Visooant Criohton is a prisoner iul

Germany. (Viscount Cricht-on, a captain in the Boyal Her .e Guards, saw service in the .South African war.)