GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 4 December 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

; "ABANDON HOPE." : DN THE EASTERN FRONTIER. BDEZ STILL SAFE. Received 4, 1 ftJn. London, December 3. The Times, in a leader, says the Rus- • aiftTi -victory is maturing in Poland, and -■with it the last hopes of Germany on the eastern frontier should vanish. Ger- . man newspapers, having ceased to taKe any further interest in Calais, arc now professing the deepest prc-occupation m the Suez Canal. Wo can well understand that neither Flanders nor Poiaud are '.-Attractive topics for German writers at this juncture. The German public has leen led to hclievc that the Turks have ..already crossed the Canal The facts . we that our mail steamers continue -o traverse the waterway with tiie utmost indifference, our defeasing forces have leen strongly reinforced, and that from «nd to end of the Canal there :3 not a JTurk in sight.

AWARDS FOR I".I!AVERY. ■ LYDDITE FACTORY EXPLODES. f GERMANY PROVED THE AGGRESSOR. •Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 2. The Times, in a leader, says the Yellov ''-ok shows Germany throughout as -t;,r ?my of European peace, determined to finish with France, fasten a <iui.-- on Russia, and pursue her inor3'".si--- imbitions reckless of but tiic !? of tEe strongest. ""> • "°rince of Wales' Fund has Teat : £4,001,000. ■p- •.(■ Drain, who volunteered and gav. ,' * |,e guns at Le Cateaux when the •Cm- • i were only 100 yards away, and lii-c.'-C rporal Fuller, who carried Cap--taiii ;. T - :ird to cover, who have been •aviu-tlrd Victoria Crosses, are both pubTic f/ : boys.' The former was edu--cuuii ■■ "althamstow and the latter • v .\ • killed and many injured at Wh'Ma 1 ' lite manufactory, Gomersal, Buiilings v.'ere shaken in Bradford, ■whi'ii; mm l ; alarm was felt. The ex•ploaion oct-rred in the picric acid maga■nin.., which was blown into the air. The yhula wori s were destroyed. ALIENS EXCLUDED FROM TRAWLERS. "» OIL STEAMERS DISCHARGED. Received 3, 8 pan. London, December 3. The Daily Telegraph states that the iA'l""'ralty has forbidden Grimbsy "tr:i\v!era' t/- employ aliens after 100, -«l.ie£y Nnr gi&ns, Danes, Swedes, and •tUTecied nH". -i were found among the crews. The oil s'--liners attached to the Admiralty's " mtile fleet auxiliary have been "arged.