News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

LORD ROSEBERY ON SPORT. NO NEED TO STOP. Received 5, 11.15 p.m. > London, March 5. Lord Rosebery, in a letter, to the newspapers, protests against the suggestion to stop racing. "If it ceases altogether the thoroughbred horses which are essential to the army, will disappear. Our Allies know that Englishmen do not think it necessary to put up the shutters because they are engaged at war. Enftom and Ascot were held throughout the Napoleonic wars, and the winner of the Derby announced In general orders in the Crimea." BRITAIN SECURING WHEAT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 5, 5.15 p.m. London, March 5. Geneva has been informed that Britain has bought the whole of the Argentine wheat harvest of 1916. THE WELSH REGIMENT. Received 5, 5.25 p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 5. The Press Bureau states that the King has approved of the Leek being the badge of the Welsh Guards, and the motto "Cymruambyth" cr "Wales for ever!" A dragoon is emblazoned on the colors.

A NEW DOCTRINE. Received 5, 10.20 p.m Sydney, March 5. Lord Selbourne, presiding at the meeting of the Tcleerach Construction C<mcnfi.Sl'red Hut t!"' G : an I P'-ps ..nrthr . • l-iv too favorab!e a color to war rews. *f responsible people understood the characteristics of the race tliey would minimise the good news and feature the bad.

"BLOCKS OF MUD."

A NEAR VIEW OF TOMMY ATKINS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. * r»-.. . Received 5, 5.35 p.m. ' • London, March S. ' A Frenchman living near La Bassee writes: "We are beginning to understand the spirit of your Tommies. One day th£v lose several trenches. It doesn't upset them, or us. We know they keep their pledged word to re-take them. I met a British company returning after four days in the trenches. Thcv didn't look like human beings. There was no trace of uniform—they wmv merely walking bloeks of mud, and I'iey could hardly walk. Poor fellows, we can never over-estimate what they are doing W for us. Despite the discomforts they never complain, hut are just as keen as on the first day they came."

THE SINGAPORE MUTINY. REFERRED TO IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Delhi, March 4. A communique states that only half the regiment of the sth Indian Infantry at Singapore was implicated in tlw riot. The trouble was due to certain promotions in the Indian ranks of the 4 regiment owing to its impending departure. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 4. In the House of Lords, Lord Crewe said the lamentable outbreak at Singapore was a painful contrast to the loyalty of the Indian troops in the present war in many parts of thr- world. It was due to some internal jealousy amo-jg recruits of different classes. It "was important to understand that it was not connected with sympathy with the Holy m War, which true. Mahomiredans depounced. Fifty rioters were killed and wounded, and the remainder interned. A *»• court-martial was proceeding. There was no suggestion that it was a religious rising against the British Government. The British Trade Defence Association, in a manifesto on the conduct of licensed premises since the war, declares that a substantial reduction in offences due to drunkenness was recorded in th? majority of districts. In several big cities, where wages were high, drunkenness had increased. London, March 4. 4 Dr Weinburg, of the Pasteur Institute, declares that he has discovered a serum to prevent and cure gaseous gan- „ grene. [Gangrene is a local death which results in a portion of the body, generally a limb or part of a limb undergoing mortification, with subsequent separation from the healthy tissues. It results from the action of bacilli on tissues whose vitality have previously been lo vered. Before the days of a septic treatment it was one of the commonest troubles in surgical cases, and in tli-'

present war, where the wounded ire ** sometimes untreated for days, they generally suffer from gangrene, which necessitates amputations which otherwise could be avoided.] London, March 4.

Mr Harcourt. replying Tn the House of Commons to Mr Outhwaite. stated th.it his attention had been drawn to Mr Fisher's condemnation of a speech by Jvr H. L. Galway, Governor of South Australia, on the "White Australia" policy. He (ifr Harcourt) denied writing to any

Governorg of the self-governing State; r suggesting that they should endeavour to secure the remission of the 'estrictions against Indians in view of the services of the Indian troop*.