New from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 10 March 1915, Page 5

New from England

ARTILLERY ALL-IMPORTANT. UNDER THE PRUSSIAN HEEL. ' OUR SOLDIERS WELL TREATED. London, March 8. "Eye Witness" at headquarters says that a great matiy attacks at the present stage aim at capturing rising ground. It is of the utmost importance to gain a position from which the enemy'* trenches, batteries, and ccmmunications are observable. The effect of artillery fire is now so great that it is almost true to say that the infantry are used more as a screen for the gun§ than anything else. All offensive action is dependent on artillery fire. The report adds that a captured German states that the population behind the German lines live in abject servitude. They are compelled to mend roads, di a ' trenches and thresh corn, and are paid in, army rations, without which they would starve, as all foodstuffs arc commandeered.

The Times' correspondent at headquarters says that the campaign is oeing run on the principle of generosity. If the men want anything for fighting or eomfort they get it. The result is a happy, healthy army. A most striking instance is the convalescent home at headquarters, where men with trifliag ailments, who otherwise would be sent to the base, arc turned out in a fortnight physically repaired. The trench diggers are working with a keenness that wou d make the Clyde strikers wish to toil for forty-eight hours a day, if only out of -professional admiration of the almost perfect machine. , SHPYARDERS WILL STRIKE. .Employers reap rich harvest. Received March 9, 11.50 p.m. ! London. March 0. Fifteen thousand laiioreri in Civil l •hipyard* wiil str'ke on Saturday mile** * penny an 'iour increase is granted. j A hundred and fifty thousand postal servants in Britain have asked for an Increase of pay. . The secretary of the Liverpool Railwayman's Vigilance Committee states that the labor unrest is entirely due to the Government not facing the abnormal «ost of living, partly caused unnaturally by employers, who arc generally reaping a rich harvest. SHOULD RACING CONTINUE? London, March 8. Lord Dunraven, in a letter to the press, supports the stoppage of the Ascot and Epsom festivals, l.ord Rosebery's Napoleonic comparison was not to the point, for then they had only themsetlves to consider, now' they had neighbours whose feelings might be wounded. They should not amuse themselves while the Belgians' aun was clouded. London, March 8. The British Red Cross Society diverted five hundred cases of Australian gifts for the use of the Australian medical ser--vice in Egypt.