Great Britain

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 6 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

"STRAIGHT HINT TO THE SLACKERS." BLOCKADING GERMANY. COST LOWER THAN EXPECTED. London, January 4. The loss of the Formidable was received by the public witi unruffled feelings. The cost of annihilating German trade by bottling up the fleet has been lower than the most sanguine anticipated. Military experts who earlier in the campaign expected that the Germans would be expelled from Belgium by March now anticipate that it will require a summer campaign. Preparations for the campaign in the spring which will stagger humanity arc now nearing i >::ipletion. Italy's constant preparation for any emergency is regarded l>y Engfifnd and France with the greatest satisfaction, i neither is there any uneasiness with regard to the reports of activities in Bulgaria, Roumania and Greece. It is generally predicted that neutrals in proximity to Austria and Turkey regard the time as almost ripe for adjusting old scores and helping themselves gen- ] erously to the territories of the tottering and dissolving empires. The Athens correspondent of the Daily Express reports that there is a panic in Constantinople, and that the holy relics have been removed to Brusa (Asia Minor). The Sultan and the Porte (Foreign Office) arc preparing to follow. The attack on Egypt has b«en definitely abandoned, and the troops recalled to the Asiatic side of the Straits and Brusa.

All records have been br. -;en by the merchandise stored and waiting to be stored in the dock warehouses of the , Port • London. There are twenty-1 it liners at Gravesend, carrying] every kind of cargo, waiting to berth.; One warehouse alone contains 650,W0 ; tous of goods and 80,000 tons of sugar. The congestion is caused by the lack of labor. Tho British Medical Journal ftates that there is a tendency to restrict the search for and extraction of bullets and fragments of shell", the wounded human body having a remarkable toleration of foreign substances. The Indian sick and wounded at Brighton are cheerful patients. One cavalry officer said, "The Germans are not good soldiers. They are not men of faith. Surely God won't give them the victory. They have big guns, but when we get near, they kneel and fold their hands/' He added thoughtfully and with manifest regret, "The Sahibs told us to spare a few." Mr Macnamara, in a speech at the Browning Settlement, :-aid that if the thousands of young nun who had not answered the country's <;'. l! thought thev were going to enjoy freedom anil immunity at other fi-"owv exrv th -v would not enjoy it long.

ENROLLING the new army. A TASK OF fJHFAT MAI.IXITUDK. COXSCEIIT lON S C'JG I>T ED. Times and Sydnt-y l-'un Serv:ce-. Received ■'3.20 ?.m. Ixr.don, Janir'-v The Time?, in a Fader, -ay- tie t i-k of raising the army »>y the ■-< <oml million is one of great magnitude and «c perplexity. While «e hope that voluntary service will continue to supply our needs, we hold that the huifeiie-s of the undertaking should not tan- - rtl't* t.»-* * to consider tin- po-i'd- nectary alt-r----nativ,. of conscription. We have b.-en at war for five months, and are only bethe ta-k. W. nm-t not fa!t'-r. hut face the is-iu- with CHl:nne-> and foresight.

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the Daily Chronicle savs: "By every con pill.-ration of honour and sentiment Ir#laud is heart anil soul with the Allieg against the Germans. There are not many people in Ireland who have bo friends in Australia, New Zealand, Can- | ada, or elsewhere. They have been our I friends for thirty years, have helped us to win our reforms, and we can never ! remain indifferent and neutral when we =ee their free lands menaced and enI GERMAN* ATTENTION:-? AT GIBRALTAR. A MOORISH SPY ARRESTED. Gibraltar, January 4. A Moor is charged with spying within the fortress. A second Moor gave evidence that the prisoner was former- | ly f in ployed at Rid by Mannesmanns, a Centum firm. * A "SCARE" SENTENCE. Received fi, 12.55 a.m. London, January 5. The Morning Post's Berne correspondent states that tile death sentence on Lonsdale is not to be carried out. It was passed with the object of terrifying the English prisoners, who are often refractorv.