News from England.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 270, 24 April 1915, Page 5

News from England.

LORD KITCHENER'S OPINION. RECRUITING VERY SATISFACTORY. CONFIDENCE IN THE NATION. THE MINERS DECLIN?f TO STRIKE. London, April 22. In the House of Commons Mr. Tennant made a statement that Lord Kitchener had authorised him to sayi that recruiting during the past few months had been very satisfactory, and. that the _ numbers were maintained with amazing regularity. He was confident that when be appealed to the nation for more • men tliey would come with the same readiness and promptness. A hundred thousand had been raised by individual efforts. The medical and sanitary arrangements were remarkable. The wounded men were often in England twenty-four bours after they were ■*' wounded. There had 'been no case of enteric since the commencement of the war. Lord Kitchener desired to re-emphasise the importance of a limitless supply of artillery ammunition. At the Miners' Conference, by 570,000 votes against 135,000, the resolution for a national Btrike was defeated. Sir Percy Girouard has resigned from the board of directors of Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., and been appointed a major-general. (Sir Percy Girouard was Lord Kitcli- - right-hand man in the .Soudan campaign, where he built the railway.) Mr. Asquith announced that Mr. Lloyu George on .Wednesday and Thursday * wonld, introduce proposals limiting drinking facilities, and the Budget would be '■'' delivered the week after next. In reply to Lord Charles Beresford, the Hon. Neil 'Primrose said that Britain had informed the United States that ' she was willing to allow Germany to inspect the treatment of the officers and men of German submarines if similar facilities were granted to a British representative. The Miners' Conference carried a rc- « . solution asking the Government to summon a national conference. Mr. Walter Runeiman, President of fie Board of Trade, met the coalowners at Whitehall to-day. Mr. J. M. Robertson, Under-Secretary ' of the Board of Trade, in tbe House of Commons, said fie German property in ' Britain was worth £84,000,000, and would remain available for future disposal as seemed proper. * Half a million signatures are. attached to a women's petition for the internment of alien enemies of military age, and the removal of the remainder from the sea coasts. THE MEAT SUPPLY. GOVERNMENTS CLEAN HANDS. "• ' London, April 22. In the House of Commons Mr. Will Thome, in a question, suggested that Borthwick and Sons had demanded an increased price owing to the war, though the meat was in the firm's possession . in Queensland before the declaration oi war. Mr. Baker, Financial Secretary to the War Office, replied that Borthwicks had supplied the full requirements as originaHy estimated at the contract price, but were allowed a slight increase on the meat in excess of the estimate. Mr. Gordon Campbell, of Weddels and Co., Ltd., had been giving valuable assistance to the Department in the purchase of meat, without commission orTcmunerr.tion. Mr. Baker denied that the War Offjce had been approached by the Incorporated' Society of Meat Importers, which Mr. Thome described as "a ring of Australasian importers, cornering the colonial meat." The prices paid by the War Office were never higher, but often * lower, than those quoted in the lists of the Incorporated Society.