News From England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 4 June 1915, Page 5

News From England

NATIONAL SERVICE. BOUND TO COME. WOMEN REGISTERING FOR WAR SERVICE. : Times and Sydney Sun Services. . London, June 3. Sir Oliver Lodge believes that registration for national service is bound to ' come. The present emergency was more serious than the people Em- ?, ployere and employed ought to be en- ; couraged to sufimit willingly to nation- ; al organisation. Seventy thousand British women have registered for War service. Fourteen hundred have been engaged, mostly in v - S| e ai] d ammunition trades. The majority of women belong to the better classes, offering their services for \ patriotic reasons. Positions have been given to the neediest. The Government permits twenty per centum of the eligible men in these trades to enlist, and apparently believes that women cannot replace men earning three hundred a year. Women's new occupations are j paymasters, ticket collectors, gardeners, bus-drivers, bailiffs, telegraph messengers, etc. Six hundred are employed in making munitions at the workshops of Vickers, Maxim and Co. J Received June 3, 10.30 p.m. |i London, June 3. . The Westminster Gazette supports the scheme for a national register of the • population, and advocates conscription, which it considers is the first step towards national service. The Manchester •'Guardian strongly qp--1 poses conscription as being undemoi cratic, and contends that it will create an England on a Prussian model. It admits, however that no general objection can hold against proved necessity and the moment it is shown that without compulsion we cannot raise the armies ■ necessary.to win. The dhronicle deplores the whole con- . troversy, and regrets that instead of having a united nation we should have a " divided- one, with, for thj first time, a dangerous growing anti-war agitation. ENORMOUS STEEL INGOTS. ' MADE AT KRUPPS. A PROFESSOR'S STATEMENT. STRENGTH "OF GERMANY'S FORCES. Received June 3, 5.50 p.m. London, June 2. Professor Arnold, addressing at Sheffield a meeting of the Royal Institution, said he was sorry to confess that shortly before the war, Herr Dureen, the managing director of Krupps, told him he ' was making steel ingots of 110 tons for guns by a crucible process evolved by an Englishman and an American, who had returned to Germany. He states it is estimated that at present there are seven million men in the German army, and that another three million are in training. The 1915 class of boys of seventeen have not yet been called up. ZEPPELIN RAID VICTIMS. VERDICT OF MURDER. London, June 2. ' *"At the inquest on a man and his wife, who were lulled by the Zeppelin raid, a verdict of murdered bji some agent of a hostile force was returned. ' A doctor said that death was due to ** suffocation. Two flashes of light were seen, and the house was afire immediate- • ly, also the wooden blocks of paving in 1 the street. Remnants of bombs and a metal framework bound with tarred rope were found. The coroner said the composition of which they were made had caused .them to give an enormous heat, said to be five thousand degrees. 1 The man and his wife were found with their night clothes burned off, kneeling at the bedside in an attitude of prayer. They had been suffocated. Two bombs were found in the basement. One of these, which had not exploded, was filled with themite. A second inquest was held on a gill of three years of age. who was burned to death. The evidence showed that a * bomb had crashed into the children's bed. Four other children were rescued, but the fifth was left, the father believing that all had been saved. NEW ZEALAND NURSES, FAREWELLED BY HIGH COMMISSIONER. London. June 2. Hon. T. Mackenzie farewclled the £ New Zealand nurses going to t'ue Dar- ; danelles.

| CASUALTY TOTALS. Wellington, Last Night. The High Commissioner reports:— London, June 2, 9.50 a.m. Army officers killed 29, wounded 83, gassed >7, missing 16, prisoners 3; mei killed 304, wounded 945, gas killed 7, gas injured 147, missing 2fi9. ' j GENERAL ITEMS. I London, June 3. Mr. Lloyd George and the Govemoi of the Bank of England met the Italian Finance Minister at Nice this week to discuss financial questions arising from Italy's entrance into the war. Mr. T. Mackenzie handed to the Bo]- ( gian Committee £24,280, whereof £15,000 represented the Government's May contribution. The balance was from other relief funds. Received June 3, 10.104). m. London, June 3. Mr, McKenna, not Mr. Lloyd George visited Nice. ° ' Received June 3, 10.10 p.m. London, June 3. 31e export of wheat, flour and oats has been prohibited for all destinations.