GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 28 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

LORD KITCHENER'S OPINION. GERMANS MADE NO ADVANCE. VALUABLE CAPTURE OF METAL. SUSPECTED SPY SENTENCED. ' London, November 26. Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Kitchener emphasised the fact that the Germans had not made any advance since he last addressed the House. The arrival of the Indians had been of the greatest assistance. Our losses naturally were heavy,, but slight compared with those of the enemy. We were in <touch with the Turkish forces thirty* miles east of the Suez Canal. Thirty thousand recruits were being enrolled weekly besides the regiments formed locally. The time was coming when he would require more recruits.

A meeting of the leading fruitbrokers and merchants discussed the market prospects of Australian fruit and expressed the unanimous opinion that the British markets would be able to absorb the usual quantify of Australian fruit in the coming season at fair prices. The Sorfarrem, from New Caledonia for Rotterdam, with nickel ore, is unloading at after having been captured. Von der Goltz, £lias Bridgman Taylor, who claimed to be an officer in the Mexican army, but was suspected oi being a German spy, was charged with having failed to register, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Australian voluntary hospital fund has received £IOOO from master builders, brickmakera and auicd trades ia Sydney, for ;i:e piuchaae f a motor an.bulance. CHRISTMAS FOR OUH SOLIER3. PRINCESS MARY'S SCHEME. London, November 27. Princess Mary's schcinj for Christmas presents for the soldiers has been extended to include the British, Coloi.ial and Indian troops grh(jng overseas. MAORIS IN THE LIMELIGHT. NOT INTENDED FOR EAST AFRICA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 27, 5.15 p.m. London, November 26. In the House of Commons, Mr H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, interrogated, said there was no intention at present of sending Maoris to East Africa. He was unaware whether they had yet left New Zealand. A NATURALISATION QUERY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' Received 27, 5.15 p.m. London, November 26. In the House of Commons, Mr R. Hunt asked why the Lord Chief Justice's Gerir&n chauffeur was being granted n ituralisation, and subsequently allowed to leave Great Britain. "" fr McKenna replied that extreme care w.3 exercised in every case. Out of ten u.usand applications less than a hundred naturalisations had been granted. The chauffeur had temporarily gone to Switzerland, j WAR AGAINST FOOTBALL. IT "DRUGS THE CONSCIENCE OF MANHOOD." Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' Received 27, 5.15 p.m. London, November 26. The Pall Mall Gazette is taking part in the campaign against football until the demand for recruits has been satisfied. The Gazette announces that it will not publish the result of matches, as it considers football a direct impediment to the raising of the new armies which the Nation requires. Football is an agency for drugging the conscience of manhood, and a huge, susceptible portion of the public. The only true sport to-day is to found at the front.