News From England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 299, 27 May 1915, Page 5

News From England

THE ATTACK ON KITCHENER, j WIIONU TYPE OK SHELLS. THE PROBLEM OF RKCRUTINC!. Received May -!>, 7.30 p.m. Pcrtli, -May 2(1. The Daily News has published a cable received from a private! source, giving the substance of the attack oil Lord Kitchener by the London Daily Mail, which provoked such widespread indignation in Britain. Alter blaming the Cabinet firstly, and Lord Kitchener secondly, for not adopting compulsory service, the Daily .Mail proceeds: "We and t l ie public never liked Lord Kitchener to use his own name instead of the King's for these volunteer armies which have been raised. The public, too, disliked some or the advertising methods which were adopted in order to gain recruits. We ourselves know Lord Kitchener starved the army in France of high explosive shells. The fact is he ordered the wrong kind of shell. The kind lie ordered was the same as was used against the Boers. He persisted in sending shrapnel, which is useless for trench warfare, although warned repeatedly that the kind of shell required was a violent explosive 'bomb which would dynamite its way through trenches and entanglements. The class of shells Lord Kitchener has persisted in sending has caused death to thousands of our poor soldiers. "The new advertisement urging the enlistiiHT'. of men of forty years of age in our volunteer armies ivs regret having printed and must decline to print it again. Men of forty should not be used in this war until the recruiting powers of the country have been exhausted. The record of Lord Kitchener in Africa as a fighting general is not brilliant, and his life in India and Egypt has made him unacquainted with British conditions.'' EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE. Received May 20, 8.5 p.m. London, May 20. Lord Kitchener is receiving numerous re-olutions of confidence from public bodies in all parts of the country. He replied that he much appreciated the expressions of confidence.

COMPULSORY SERVICE FAVORED. THE si'HAIX OX THE TROOPS. Lon don, Miiy 25. The Bishop of Pretoria, in a letter to the Times, after a month's visit to tin.*, armv in unit hern Km nee and I'landers, 11 ]ijii'ii Is to the nation to adopt compulsory service. The troops thing the nation is not backing them up as it could and should. They think that ignorance and apathy; at home is needlessly increasing their danger and losses. After fighting desperately night and day for weeks with frightful loss the men are dog-tired, yet they arc sent tack into the firing line after three days' rest. They naturally conclude that there are not enough troops available. Battalion after battalion in theYpres salient hud to sit in the trenches and be pounded with German high explosives, with no guns capable of keeping down the German fire, and naturally conclude that the nation has failed to provide sufficient ammunition. Similarly they find the German < ready to answer every British bomb with five or ten bombs. The troops know it is little short of murder to ask men, however full of t:ie right spirit, to face an enemy amply equipped with big guns and the right ammunition unless equipped with equally effective munitions. Mr. Asquith, in a sympathetic letter, informs Sir Edgar Speyer that the lvinis not prepared to withdraw distinctions conferred in recognition of public services and philanthropy. A Taube fell in tha North Pea from engine trouble. A destroyer sank the machine anil brought a German sublieutenant and pilot to Harwich.