News from England.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 265, 19 April 1915, Page 5

News from England.

REGULATING THE LIQUOR TRADE. DRASTIC CONTROL OF PUBLIC HOUSES. LIGHT LIQUORS ENCOURAGED. Received April 18, 3.30 pan. London, April 17. It is understood that the Government liquor nolicy now consists of more drastic control of public-houses, With partial prohibition of spirits, with compensation, and the encouragement of lu/ht beers. There will be no legislation in respect of wines, except heavier taxation, with discrimination in favor of Australian and French lig*it wines. A GERMAN OUTRAGE. ■' '• - * " • BRITISHER SHOT IN GERMANY. 1 Received April 18, 3.30 p.m. London, April 17. Official: The American Embassy at Berlin, at Britain's request, inquired • into the death of Henry Hadley, a Britisher travelling in Germany for 'England ' on August 3rd. A German officer at Nicolay prevented Hadley from leaving the train, and shot Hadley on the ground that Hadley was about to attack him. A court-martial was opened, hut waß abandoned. Britain is now informed that Germany considers Hadley was murdered. t._. . '-»*»._■ FURTHER DETAILS, AN UNPROVOKED ATTAOK. THE MURDERER PROMOTED.

' Received April 19, 12.5 a.m. London, April 17. Hadley was a rich and clever artist and student of literature. Fearing the outbreak of war he secured his passports to return to England with his housekeeper, Mrs. Fratley. The latter emphatically denies the suggested altercation with the conductor of the train. It was preposterous to say that Hadley used offensive remarks about German officers. Mrs. Fratley says that angrily approached, pulled out his rerolver, and fired into Hadlcy's abdomen, and he fell and was carried to the hospital, though the German official account states that onlookers thrust Hadley to the platform, resisting with all his might. Nothing was heard of his fate fov weeks. The Foreign Office repeatedly inquired, and all the concentration camps were searched. Finally the "German Government admitted that he had been killed. Mrs. Fratley was imprisoned until November 21st, and is now broken in health. Nicolay; was promoted to captain. THE TIMES ON WAR [ DESPATCHES. MORE "COLORING" NEEDED. London, April 10. The Times, in a leader on Sir John French's despatch, says the public will regret that it is deprived of the vivid and picturesque narratives of other wars, which fired the imagination and enlightened the judgment. If the Government wants people to put their whole strength into this life and death struggle it must bring home the realities to them. This can only be done by allowing a corps of skilled correspondents to tell the nation day by day what they have seen at the front.

LAVISH INDIAN GIFTS. Received April 18, 5.i p.m. Delhi, April 17. The chiefs of Kathiwar have given £IO,OOO to the War Office for the purchase of motor ambulances. The Ma!urajah of Datia has given an armored motor ear, with a machine-gun unit. THE MUNITIONS QUESTION LOCAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED. ' Eeceived April 18, 3.30 pan. ; London, April 17. Lord Kitchener's committee is establishing local committees at important 1 manufacturing' centres, with full power to organise the munitions output Bir- ' mingham firms have been notified tha-t they must not accept private orders.

A BRITISH TRANSPORT ATTACKED. .! _ I BY TURKISH TORPEDOER. ' DESTROYERS TURN THE TABLES. I THE 2URK DRIVEN- ASHORE AND DESTROYED. Received April 10, 12.'5 a.m. London, April 18. Official: A Turkish torpedoer attacked jthe transport Maniton, carrying British Jroops in the Aegean Sea. She fired Pthree torepdoes withoui doing ally damage. ' The Minerva and d'stroyerg chased the torpedoer, -which ran ashore and was destroyed in Kalammut Bay on Chios Island. The crew were taken prisoners. It is reported that a hundred aboard the transport were drowned. A BREAK-AWAY TURK. SOON MEETS DESTRUCTION. ; Received April lty 12.451 aJB. Athens, April 18. A torpedoer left the Gulf of Smyrna cluring a storm, and eluded the warships "until she attacked . the Maniton, when 'she was chased and tried to dodge ' <among the small islands, aided by the Knowledge of the depth'of the channels. Realising that th e game waß up, the captain ran her on s,, rocky ehore. Five officers and twenty-five Turks wers captured. n ,..