News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 244, 24 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

y:• * THE GERMAN IDEAL.

P AN INTOLERANT POSITION. & London, March 22. Sir E. Grey, in a speech in London, ■aid that the German ideal was that Ae .Germans were a superior people, to jAom all things were lawful and to whom all nations must be subservient. to would rather ptrish or leave the Conjtment than submit to such conditions. Other European nations must be free to livo without the supreme War Lord's Interference. y?e had given Cermany every assuriSnce that we would not support aggression against her and only withheld en unconditional promise to stand aside if Germany was the aggressor. Germany refused all proposals for a set'ikment and must bear the responsibility of the war. We know now that the 'German Government had prepared for war. as she was the only people ■who conld plan and prepare.' This was the fourth time in living memory that Prussia had made war. and we were de-: termincd that it should be the last. The j 'Allies' ideal was that the nations ofi Europe should bo free to work out their I 'awn national development in full lib-j arty, whether great or small States, i The war might have been avoided by K conference wherever and in whatever form Germany wished. France. Italy, and Russia had agreed on a conference, and the dispute would have been far. easier to settle than the Balkan crisis.. •Germanv knew from her experience at j the London Balkan conference that she. 'could count on our goodwill. We_ sought j -ao diplomatic triumph and participated j ia no intrigue in 1013 and were ready j to do the same last July. |

BRITAIN'S GREAT ARMY.

INTERESTING COMPARISON.

London, March 22.

" The Times' military correspondent ■ays, with regard to the working nn to the three million men standard, that we ahall have one million men in the decisive theatre before the campaign is much Slder. This is 110 times the number fbat fought at Agincourt, 33 times greater than those in the Crimean war, 2"> times the number in the Peninsular war. 14 times those in the second Afghan and four times as many as in the jgouth African war.

WORK. MUST OBE DONE.

, LORD KITCHENER'S STATEMENT.

MEN WILL BE PROTECTED AGAINST

INJUSTICE.

i' London, March 23. Lord Kitchener met the Liverpool Trade Union representatives. He said he did not want to interfere with their 'affaire, and wanted to see their or•ganisation kept up; but work must not be delayed. Idling at Liverpool made ■Utters more difficult elsewhere. He Mked them to tell British workmen thU if they did their duty now theji would be protected against injustice by any employer.

NEWS FROM INDIA.

Delhi, March 22.

The Legislative Council passed a resolution moved to prohibit the export of •wheat until the price fell to the equivalent of 171b for 16d.

Mr. W. H. Clarke, member of the Viceroy's Council, announced that the Government proposed ,to assume control of the export trade on the following lines: Jfo wheat will be experred save on Government account from April 1 next to March 31, 1916. A leading export wheat firm will be employed as agents to buy on commission at prices indicated. The Government will take a profit which will represent the difference between the •world and Indian prices, the latter being kept up artificially. The price at which the Government will commence buying has not Hjoen announced but it will be relatively high as compared with the pricts tliat will be offered later. The Government hopes in this way to bring prices steadily but surely down. Prices in effect v-ill bo regulated through the export trade in the interests of the consumer.

THE TIMES' OPINION.

IMMENSITY OF OPERATIONS AT DARDANELLES.

GERMANY'S BURDENS TOO HEAVY FOR HER. Received March 23. 5.30 p.m. London. March 23. The London Times, in a leader on the Dardanelles, says the operation resembles a came of draughts. Many pieces may disappear from the hoard before the game was won. The prie-s were high, but there would be no cheap victories in this war. Forcing the Dardanelles was perhaps the most formidable operation wer undertaken in naval warfare.

The military correspondent writes: The German eastern otTi-nsive fail'-d badly. Their losses were immense. The Prussian and Austrian armies are still formidable and unbroken. The Turks had done no good, and trembled for their capital. There had been no decision in German favor. Her burdens were too heavy for her shoulders. ner sea schemes had failed and her flag would be driven from the ocean, and would shortly vanish, together with all her colonies.

AVIATOR KILLED.

London, March 23. Captain Kane, a military aviator, w-i killed while flying at Brooklands,