News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 1 February 1915, Page 5

News from England

OUR ARMY IN FRANCE. A GENERAL REVIEW. I I Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 30, 8 p.m. London, January 30. The Times' military correspondent, reviewing the ar:ny in France, states tint guns of all calibres have joined the trenches. Telephones make a strong frame work of.defence. T!v fisiitin? at tLe front is largely between sniper-; end men at the saphcads. Ov.r sniper organisation is making progress anil cventually will beat the Germans at their own game. The flying corps has maintained its supremacy. It has only' missed six days in the u'.r tine- August The army lately has !>e-n through a process of organisation. Ma:;y changes have occurred in the higher commands, the stalls and the genera! stall at headquarter?. The soldiers trust Lord Kitchener to apportion troops fairly be-" tween the armies abroad and for home 1 defence. Nobody is doing more than Lord Kitchener to win success. He is intiispensible i n his present position, as Sir John French is indispensible in the field. The two Field Marshals complete each other, each doing the work he does best. The main needs of the army arc infantry and heavy guns, high explosives being more than enough. i AIDING RECRUITING. PARLIAMENTARIANS AT THE FRONT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 29. Mr Budyard Kilpling, speaking at the meeting at the Mansion House to provide bands to aid recruiting, said that drums and fifes alone meant at least five extra miles on a route march. We were of tongue-tied blood at best, hands could declare on our behalf, without shame or sliyness, something of what all felt and help us to reach out a hand towards the men who have risen up to save us. When Parliament re-assembles on Tuesday over two hundred members will be absent on military duties. These include forty-four Liberals. The reminder are Unionists. There will be 180 absent from the House of Lords.

NEED FOR INOCULATION. LETTER TQ THE TIMES. Received 31, 3 p.m. London, January 30. Sir William Osier (Regiuni Professor of Medicine at Oxford University) is urging the vital importance of inoculating all the troops against typhoid. Dr. Williams lias also written a letter u> the Times, wherein he points out that the Australasians were inoculated during the voyage, and were also vaccinated. 1