BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN.

MORE IN FORMATION WANTED. LARKIX IN" TnE LiMELlmllT. AI'MV COXTIJACT SCANDAL. London, January S. Tin' Times, in a leader, says that Lord Kitchener lias called armies, as it were, out of the gnuir.il, and our towns are filled with tlie unwonted bustle of preparations for active .service. : 'J lie nation is deeply grateful to Lord Kitchener and feels lie is solidly fulfilling the pledges he gave when he entered the Cabinet. At the same time they would like to know a little more of what is being done. Following the suppression of seditious newspapers in Dublin, Larkin has ail edition of the Worker printed ill Glasgow, full of the same pestilential stuff. British shipowners are seeking to eliarter Cerman steamers detained at British ports during the war. to he exchangeable for captured British ships after the war. The (iovern'.nent is considering the question.

FINANCING IN ENGLAND. London, January S. The Bank of England, with the Imperial Government's approval, receives 'applications for C1n,000,000 five per cent French treasury hills. recruiting in Ireland. QUITE SATISFACTORY. London, January S. The House of Lords lias adjourned till •2nd February. Lord Donnell said that 11.1,(11)0 Irishmen had enlisted in the last few months in the United Kingdom. Lord Crewe declared that recruiting was proceeding in Ireland to the War Office's satisfaction. THE PERSIAN* GULF. LOYALTY OF THE SHEIKHS. Delhi, January S. In reply to letters announcing the outbreak of war with Turkey and the British occupation of Basra, the political agent in the Persian Gulf lias received the most cordial expressions of lovulty irom the Sheikhs of Bahrein, ti.i- Siiii khs of Kuwait, the Sultan of Musket, the Chief of Kolir. and other chiefs. The news has caused unqualified joy among the, Gulf Arabs generally. London, -lanuary S. Correspondents writing to Australian-; who are interm-d in <!er:naiiy, are ad-vi-'-il to send postcards, not letters. The hearing of the summonses charging J. Lyons and Co., with selling unsound meat as food for the troops quartered at the White City, for whom the firm was catering, was adjourned for a fortnight After the preliminary evid> nee, counsel for the prosecution statd - at the charges nvolved a searching inquiry nto the conditions under which the defendants carried out their contract. The prohibition of the export of tea has been removed. The export of eocc<>. to certain European countries is prohibited.