News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 8 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

A NEW WAR LOAN. INDIA SENDS MAGXIFICENT HELP. London, March 5. Tenders are about to bo invited for a loan of £so,ooo,<Wft, for flvi years, at three per cent., Exchequer bonds. In the House of Commons Mr Ah quith, interrogated regarding British air (aids in Belgium, in reply said that the attacks were directed only against points of military significance, and every precaution was taken to avoid damage which was not necessary for the object in ▼Jew. Delhi, March 5. The total relief fund in India has reached ninety lacs of rupees (CfiflO,000) exclusive of twenty-four lacs frou Madras and thirty-five lac 3 from Bom- j liay, equalling a million sterling. Chiefs and noblemen continue to donate valuable gifts of every description for the relief and war funds, including the Nizam of Hyderabad, who has (riven ing a hospital with fifty beds, the Nawnb of Dujana fiftv camels. tlie chief of Aharampur a million pounds of lay, the Raja of Bilaspur, th • remission of soldiers' land. NEW ZEALAXDER KILLED. Received 7, 6 •p.m. London, March 5. Lieutenant Kenneth Thompson, of the India Cavalry, lately of Geraldine, New 'Zealand, was killed in the Persian Gulf. London builders' unions are demanding 2d. an hour increase. 3rr»R"E oerma.n fiction-. Times and Sydney Sun Sprvic". Received 7. •" '■> p.m. London. C-. Tl'.e TaceWatt declare-. tlirt Fnsrb.nd ig liasten'ns to cff" 11 .' f''.in t "<*"';iioo!e. in order to prevent !?••«% petti"? there. Switzerland ftates that Gennany is Hooding ncut ai countrcs with reports of serious strikes in Britain, pointing the moral or British degeneracy, and contrasting it with German unity.