Great Britain

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 27 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ZEPPELIN RAIDS. CHURCHES DARKENED AT NIGHT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 26, 5.5 pan. London, January 26. Further restrictions are being imposed in towns on the east coast. Many churches are beiqg fitted with blinds, > and others will not hold evensong, sub- j stituting an afternoon service. [ CONGESTION OF SHIPPING. CAUSED BY THE WAR. Received 27, 1 245 a.m. London. January 26. Representatives of the shipping industry have furnished a statement to the Board of Trade, showing that while the relation of tonnage to trade is not deficient, they attribute the increase in freight chiefly to the abnormal distribution of tonnage by the dislocation of oversea traffic doe to the war, the Admiralty employing about a fifth of the British tonnage. While the United Kingdom oversea trade has been reduced to 30 per cent., the oversea trade cf Germany, Austria, and Belgium, representing 22 per cent., has vanished. and; the Baltic and Black Sea trailo has CFMed. There is an accumulation of tonnage where it is not wanted, and a paucity elsewhere. Increased working coats have affix-tod freights. i SHOT BY A SENTRY. Received 27, 12.45 a.m. London, January 26. Two officers at Torquay refused to allowed a sentry to -'arch their motorcar. The sentry's rifle went off, and the bullet killed both officers.