News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 1 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

INTERVIEW U'lTn MR LLOYD GEORGE. TWO AXI) A HALF MILLION SOLDIERS. Rceived i\ 8.20 p.m. London, February 27. Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of ai interview, said the violation i,f Belgiun turned British opinion from the desir« for peace to insistence on war. Even on the Saturday after war was deelarn! powerful city financiers earnestly hop---i that Britain would keep out o. the Wi»r. but on Tuesday they favored war. Ninety-nine per cent, of the electors would then have voted for war. If Germany had not invaded Belgium Hie Government .would not have intervened "and I, certainly, would not have been * Party to war, - '" he added. vSinee Aug-t ust we had assembled }>/, million , Soulier-), and there would shortly be 2','. millions. Before the spring ?iaif a million would jom their comrades in France.

Manufacture of war material. TO SECURE.UTMOST OUTPUT. ' Received 28. 5.30 p.m. London, February 27The Government Committee recommends employers and employees engaged in war work to endeavor to stop strikes immediately, go as to secure the full output, to abolish restrictive trade rules nul customs, and employ women, if necessary, in making shells and fuses, in order to speed up the production: also to refer to all disputes promptly to a Government tribunal to avert stoppages, and to guarantee the workers and trade anions that nothing will be done to prejudice them after the war. "MADE IX GERMANY." London. Fehnurv 2t>. The Daily Telegraph states t! at Mr Penefathcr, in the of Cummons, drew the attention of the (Jovernn-.cnt to a pamphlet circuited in Germany . utitled "Facts about Germany and the war"; -"Responsibility of Sir Edward Gr.'v," bv Ramsay MeDonaM in whir.: it is ."fserU'd that i>i. vr.r w.u a dij/lomists war. n: hv dozen; men, and that the evil happened hecause Sir Edward Grey guided the foreign policy. It was his short-sighted-ness and blunders that had brought this Mpon us.

GERMANY LIKE A CAGED ANIMAL. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 2S, C p.m. London, February 20. The Tinv's. in a leader, says" that when a great military power like Germany is reduced to nmd hull rushes alternately in the east and west, wlii'ii may be impressive while they progr-sn but which never reach anywhere, we can only think of one parallel—something in a cage. The bars may sometimes bend under pressure, hut the cage remains unbroken. A BERLIN" STORY. Times and Svdney Sun Services. London, February 2(1. A Berlin official sttJcment says: "< reports indicate that the English flag has disappeared from the North Sea. Fngliah sailors arc refusing to sail." THE COST OF THE WAR. London, Feb. 20. Tho Government asks for a general rote of credit of millions for th« year ending March, 1910, for agisting food supply, trade and commerce, facilitating raising funds by the Dominion*, and other measures for national security. The proposed vote of 200 millions H apart from ordinary grants arising out of war. Th Government also a-ks for a supplementary vote of 37 millions for the war, for the year ending next month, making the current year's totai 302 millions.

Mr. Asquith. in reply to a question a? to whether he would enable the ISritish Broken Hill Company to cancel eontracts, said the matter wa; under consideration.

GERMAN" AVIATOR* I:!>'('!'KI). Received 2S, 8.2.") p.m. London. IYl.niar; z". A trawler landed two German aviators at Lowestoft. They left Ostend on Sunday and 'el! into the North >m. '■!-"/ clung to their machine for i'f.i (I.)}=, and were .<rribly exhausted.

.SHIPYARD DI.SPI'TE VXSETTLED. London. Feb. 2G. The Clyde engineers bv a large majority rejected the employers' ofler of an advance of three farthings per hour. The dispute affects a 'nindred thousand men. Another hundred thousand Tyre? engineers are demanding an extra six shillings weekly. The masters offer t' A ' shillings. Sir George A'kwith lies written to the unions concerned in tha Clyde strike, stating that he is instructed bv the Government that it i-' important tnat munitions urgently refjuirl by tie; arinv and navy be a-eipplied and tli.it hmust call for a resumption "f work on .Monday morning. Received Fell. 2S, ;i.5 p.m. Iv.mdi.il. Kebrunrv 2s. The A=kwith conference fai'ed H settle the shipyard dispute. All the unions affected confer cn Tncsdnj. Mr Ward, member of the House of Common;. organising a battalion of mvv'.e. for spad? work.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 28, 5.5 p.m. London, February 2G. Four Germans interned on -i transport at Southend have been allowecl to marry Englishwomen whom they nu-t in London before the war. Attended by an armed guard, they met their brides at the registry office. After breakfast at a restaurant, with the [ guards as guests, the bridegrooms were ) escorted back to the ship. Experts predict that the African maize crop will be so enormous that neither railways nor shipping will he able to handle it. Seven million bags will be available for export. ° Received 2S, 3 '-.n. London, February 27. Xeufial leprcsentatives of the' International Red Cross who haw toure 1 the war camp in Britain repoit t ; at the tr ,t mmt of the prisoners is exo.dient, an l c.at greater fairness is : m: os.-;blc. N ■.'iV'i'r ■'iic Gcnnan Govermier.t ii.t the fj.ji:,.eo of the men need V.\e any I ani'i ty.

The Army Council has aut'.oriscd the British Empire league to raise a divisional Ammunition column. Places anreserved for a hundred Australians and Xew Zealanders. They must be good horsemen and arrive in England as earlj- as possible. In the House of Commons, the Oovernment's appointment of Mr Montague Meyer, as sole timber buyer for the War Office, was hotly criticised. Meyer re reives 2} per pent on the value of hi? purchases, and his commission already amounts to .Clii.OOfi. Members stated that other timber firms had offered to undertake the purchases at lesser remuneration, and several denounced the appointment as a terrible scandal. Mr Beck, in hip reply en behalf of the Works Ollice, declared that the country was saving money by employing Mr Meyer. The natter dropped. London, Feb. 2d. Thr> Germans are spreading false news in Xigeria. and declare the-,' have captured four Emr'i-h towns and sent the Englishmen to Germany with chains on their ncc-J,=.