News from England
[ GERMAN AEROPLANES IN LI ESSEX. BOMBS dropped in three towns. NO CASUALTIES. " Received 22, 5.40 p.m. London. February 22. Ormin aeroplanes dropped thrive "bombs at Braintree, one at Colchester, amd one at Coggeahall. The aeroplanes -were moving towards Harwich. According to present reports no casualties occurred. [Colchester is a market-town and seaport '(population, 34.000) in Essex. Has iron foundries, clothing and boot factories, breweries and flour mills, and considerable shipping track-. Infantry and cavalry "barracks are located here, and it is understood that the place has been fortified since the announcement of the war. Coggcshall. also in Essex, on the river Blackwaten has a population of 2COO. Braintree, on the river Bra~n, in Essex, Is 40 miles N.E. of London, six miles srom CoggeshalL Population, 5,500.]
' THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. ■SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED. 1 London. February 21. The March number of the Round Talil" Beview strongly advocates an Imperial j Conference "before peace is declared. Mr ■ Hareonrt's postponement is perfect'.;.' reasonable. It would b:' absurd for Ministers to leave their war, responsibilities to discuss uniformity of patents «nd the principles of Imperial naval •o«peration. but it is essential that the Dominion Ministers should have the whole ■foreign situation described in camera as in 1911 by the Foreign Secretary, who Irfmself may learn the hopes and expeciations entertain;*d by the public of the Dominions. The Review fears that Misunderstanding and alienation is inevitable if there is not a full discussion of common liabilities in <rhich all jnay endorse the Imperial policy. The Government has released the Birkenfels, which is at Capetown, for Australia. It is.hoped to release tit? Hamm and Apolda. DAMAGE TO PRIVArE PROPERTY. Received 22, 9.40 p.m. 1 London, February 22. An aeroplane appeared over Essex at 8.30 at night, travelling at a great height It could not be seen, but the noise of the propellora was plainly heard. The special constabulary in the district were Immediately mobilised. Tlie bomb at Coggeshall made a hole bight feet in diameter, and two feet deep. Another burst in a garden at Colchester, shattering the windows of a residence and damaging the furniture. Bc eenat Robjohns, who was in the house, says there was a terriffic explosion, and the room was swept by tahrapnel bullets. He rushed upstairs to rescue his sleeping baby, who wm unharmed. The house and furniture were riddled, and the windows of adjoining houses broken.
' SOLDIER'S COTTAGE DAMAGED. "* Received 23, 12.30 a.m. London. February 22. The aeroplane appeared at Braintre.? from the direction of London and proceeded to Colchester where it dropped a bomb close to a soldier's cottage near the barracks. The explosive gave off Bense fumes and fragments wrecked the kitchen, and made a hole five feet in diameter. Pieces of shrapnel were found 250 yards away J FOOD SUPPLY. - SUFFICIENT FOR A YEAR. NATIONAL WHEAT RESERVE SCHEME. Received 22. 10.20 p.m. London, February 22. ' The Board of Agriculture estimates there is sufficient wheat and flour in the United Kingdom to maintain the nomr.l bread consumption for over four monthand that the present supplies of foodstuffs, if properly distributed, will provide food for a" year without further supplies. A movement is afoot to provide a national wheat reserve. The scheme provides for the formation of a Chartered Corporation issuing grain warrrants against supplies ri-ceived. which will ->e legalised tender to banks, and Government warrants saleable to wheat pn •- chasers at current market prices, the Government to have the power in v. ir time, or other emergency, to commandeer the Corporation's wheat stock, payins for the warrants in gold at the prices the Government shall fix for foodstuffs.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 23 February 1915, Page 5
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