GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST AIR RAIDS. - TJNEMPLOYMENT DECREASED. HOBBLE SKIRTS FOR HIGHLANDERS. London, December 29. The naval and military authorities emphasise the danger from fragments of i hell or bullets fired against aircraft at ~ tempting to raid London. The inhabi- • tants are warned to keep under cover, in the basements, on hearing : sounds of firing or explosives. "• ' Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 20. The Times, in a leader, remarks on the satisfactory recovery from unemployment since the war. During the ' first three weeks of August thirty ; two v thousand threw themselves upon the State, but by the end of August the tide had turned, and the recovery has been continuous. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 29. The Highlands are ablaze with wrath because the authorities have decreed that in future Highland regiments shall be supplied with a khaki kilt, composed of two yards less cloth than is the case i now. Highland associations and politicians are urging the War Office not - to put the men in hobble skirts. The wettest December on record culminated in a terrific gale, snow, flood and enormous seas. Great damage was I done, and there were casualties on sea and land. The telegraphs and telephones are paralysed. j Delhi, December 29. ! ri In view of the abnormal price of '■* k n-h(jsi In India, the Government has dci idr d to restrict exports of wheit, including flour, to IOOjOOO tons from December 1 to March 31, 1915. and to eonfiai exports to British possessions from which strong demands continue. ALIENS ORDERED FROM THE L:, COAST. j * Received 20, 950 p.m. London, December 30. j The military authorities have ordered Germans and Austrians, including those [ n*turalised and also their British-bora ; descendants, including the second generation, from Sunderland and coast towns near the Tyne. HOW OUR ENEMIES ARE TREATED. Received 30, 9.25 p.m. London, December 30. Mr Chandler Hale, of the American Embassy, has forwarded a report to Washington eulogising the accommodation, food, and all other arrangements at the Douglas detention camp for enemies in Britain. ITHE RECEXT RIOTS. CAUSED BY AGITATORS. Received 31,12.55 a.m. London, December 30. Mr. Chandler Hale added that converlations with prisoners at Douglas had satisfied him that the recent riot was tie work of agitators. Prisoners admitted that only themselves were to blame. A NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. Received 31, 12.55 a.m. London, December 30. Captain Charles Harold Reynell Watts, a New Zealander, was killed in action. "For some weeks I suffered from stomch trouble which caused headaches and asaitude," says Mr Frederick E. White, «2 Clark street, Northcote, Vic. "I had feen Chamberlain's Tablets advertised for such complaints, and decided to try ;hat they would do for me. They are he best medicine I know of for stom- . eh troubles and they did me a great .eal of good." All chemists and NO COUGHING AT NIGHT. jtfWhen Dr. New Discovery" has Pteen taken before bedtufl&Jjut a deep, Pfrefrcahiflg youW anbtteaa