News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 9 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

CHEERFULNESS PREVAILS THANKS TO THE NAVY. Heceived 8, G p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 8. Tlie market for all war risks has wid_ aped. Business is easy ,and a cheerful feeling prevails. The impression is that never since the start of the war has the watch of the Navy been keener or more effective. Tlie Times, in a leader, declares that witli the definite and permanent withdrawal of the Ship Purchase Bill the:e disappears the potent possibility of friction between the United States and the Allies.

NEW TROOPS COMPARED. f. - TO OUR ADVANTAGE. LABOR TROUBLES CONTINUE. Times and Sydnev Sun Services. London, March T. The Times' military eorresiiinil-'at Contrasts the treatment of Br'tWi ;:n.I German new troops. The l.itW attacked bravely and stupidly, suffer!™; immense losses and tlie new formation dissolve rapidly. Experience has s!;o-.v;; that new troops cannot advantageous!v' be used in this msnw-, ex-rr.t" for ~,i single blow. The British liv'thinl is lietter. not hurrying the troops, but bringing them from small to great things, completing the training behind the lines and gradu" *Uy letting them replace the regulars. . The War Office announces in connection with typhoid in the British Army that of 35!) inoculated men there were 48 deaths, and of 11 fully inoculated there wag one death.

The use of bath tubs in the trenches has led to opening public subscriptions for the. purpose, also to sterilise soldiers clothing. It was stated at the Bible Society's birthday meeting that three hundred thousand German versions of the Bible bad been distributed in Germany since the commencement of the war. A conference of representatives of emplpyere and workers at Sheffield did not arrive at an agreement. The Clyde dispute has been referred to Government arbitration. Workers at the Southampton shipyards ask for an increase of 6s per week and 10 per cent, on piecework from March 13. The employers will confer on Tuesday.

Mr John Dillon, addressing Nationalist volunteers in Belfast, said the Nationalists were fighting at England's Bide in the war for liberty and justice. Irish Nationalists who returned from the front would add strength to the volunteer ranks and make them an irresistible power behind the Irish far r.n the road to conciliation if the other parties came part of the way, but would consent to divide Ireland.

LABOR DISCONTENT. A NATIONAL CONFERENCE. Received 9, 1.45 a.m. London, March 8. Dissatisfied with the Government's atlji:;de in regard to food prices, the Labor Party's War Emergency Committee has summoned a national conference on Friday to discuss it. Although there are no strikes in London, there is widespread discontent owing to the dearness of food.