N.Z. AND THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 279, 4 May 1915, Page 8

N.Z. AND THE WAR.

THE TREXTIIAM CAMP. DETACHMENTS STILL ARIUVIXCI. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) (Special Correspondent Daily : -) Wellington, Last Night. The number of men in the Trentham camp is growing steadily. Detachments are continuing to arrive from various districts. Leave has not been granted as generously during the last few days as it was in recent months, aid uniforms have not been quite as plemiful iilirul. the st.e.ts of Wellington, but the change is one that makes for increased elliciency and the Defence authorities are determined that the troops now in camp shall be the best trained men who have left New Zealand. The instructional stall' has grown more eapable with the passing of each siucessivc draft, and there has la-en no falling oil' in the quality of the raw material, indeed the latter bodies of recruits appear to contain fewer ''haruni scarunis" and a larger proportion of keen, earnest workers than earlier groups did. The new artillery section is a particularly good body of men. Work ia proceeding rapidly on rhe huts at the camp and with ordinary good fortune most of the men will be housed comfortably before the first spell of real wintry weather arrives. At present the tents are comfortable enough and grumblers get no hearings.

GIFTS FOR AUCKLANDKKS, Auckland, Last Night. The Mayoress a fortnight ago appealed for 0000 pairs of socks and for handkerchiefs for Auckland soldiers. The period during which contributions could be accepted closed today, and to-night Mrs. l'arr announced that she lias received live thousand pairs of socks and cash suflicient to buy four thousand more pairs, while the school children of the province have sent in between ten and twelve thousand handkerchiefs. DEATH OF A TROOPER. Dunedin, 'May 3. A wireless message lias been received that Private Dan Bardsley, of the second reinforcements, who had lieen invalided home, died at sea on April 29,

LIQUOR 1\ T CAMP. Wellington, May 3. Herbert Homes, a man employed about the Trentham camp, was fined fj for taking a'-coholic liouor into camp. FAILURE TO JOIN TRANSPORTS. Wellington, Last Night. Ten members of the fourth reinforcements, who failed to join their ships, were tried by court martial and sentenced to a term of detention and also ordered to forfeit a certain amount of pay.

WAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN ITALY. A striking letter on the war feeling in Italy was received recently by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin (the well-known publisher) from the Duke Litta Yisconti Arose (author of the novels "The Soul of a Priest" and "Monsignor Villarosa," and editor of Jesse White Mario's "Modern Italy"). The duke writes:— "There has been a great pro-war demonstration in Milan, to which 20,000 citizens of all classes, from the aristocracy to anarchists, have taken enthusiastic part; yesterday a great pro-war student demonstration was held in Padua; and in Piazzo San Marco three days ago a great Austrian flag was publcly burnt and the ashes trampled upon by over 500 young men. "Old Monarchists are beginning to declare publicly in great numbers that if the war does not come they will pass to the Republican Party. That is very, significant. But I firmly believe that now it is a question of weeks, if not of days, and that we will soon be s.t Austria's throat. "The most active and important factor which has fostered the national Italian element iii Trcnto, Trieste, Istria, and Dalmatia is the Lega Nationale, a federation which unites the defence, conservation, and diffusion of the mother language of all the 900,000 Italians still groaning under the iron heel of Austria. "Every town and village, be it on the coast, the valleys, or the mountains, has a 'grnppo locale' directing and managing the schools, libraries, and institutions. "The Nationale League founds and keeps up these schools, as Austria has ever refused to found Italian schools for the Italians. The league has over 250 schools in building, mostly owned and built by its own means, and on which it spends yearly more than £20,000. It has 350 circulating libraries; it subsidises 70 musical bands and spends yearly over £I2OO for scholarships in normal schools and universities to those young men who intend to become teachers and professors. "Its income is derived from the subscription fee (minimum 5d a year) and above all from voluntary gifts, which amounted in 1014, from the city of Trieste alone, to £10,400. Every school provides meals for the children, and shoes and clothing a-« distributed to the poor." THE DRINK THAT GINGERS YOU UP. That's Camroo Dry Ginger Ale! It is warming in winter and cooling in summer. Its healthfulnesg and pun*,, id guaranteed—even the water is first carefnlly purified. Drink Camroo Dry Ginger Ale— always! At all hotels aad sines.