News From England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 309, 8 June 1915, Page 5

News From England

THE UNION OF EMPiftE.

POSITION OF THE DOMINIONS,

WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRIXG.

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Beccived June 7, 6 p.m.

London, June 6. The Times, in a leader, says the Dominions' viewpoint frequently warned the people of Britain against a tendency? to assume that because the Dominions were with us heart and soul in the "war, they were also content with the present Imperial system and did not desire a change. Dominion leaders are thinking earnestly on future problem 3 of Imperial Organisation. The Hon. Sir Robert Borden (Premier of Canada) and Mr. A. Fisher (Premier of Australia) had opined that nothing short of organic union would solve the problem. Their hopes and ideals may be difficult to realise, I)ut they cannot be ignored without incomparable mischief to the Empire. The new Secretary foi the Colonies (Mr. A. Bonar Lnv)" was Canadian born and may be trusted to listen with understanding sympathy.

ALL GOING WELL. ' LLOYD GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN. Received June 7, 11.30 .p.m. London, June 7. Mr. Lloyd George stated to a correspondent: "I believe things are going all right. I feel the machine beginning to move." Mr. Lloyd George has been consulting leaders regarding the scope of the powers of the new Ministry. Huge new contracts for high explosive shells have already been placed. A plan is afoot in Manchester to mobilise 500 superannuated engineers, who were formerly shellluakers, and also to utilise another 500 skilled mechanics who are pursuing other occupations. A Glasgow citizen force is provfidSng night b'tifts mjaking shell* after the ordinary dayfe work is finished.

MR. CHURCHILL'S SPEECH

THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN.

London, June 0.

Mr. Churchill, in his ipeech aV Dundee, added that fiir lan Hamilton's army and Admiral de Robeck's fleet were separated by only a few miles from a victory such as this war had not seen. When speaking of victory he was not referring to those victories that crowd the daily placards and newspapers. He was speaking of victory in the sense of a formidable fact, shaping the destinies of nations and shortening the duration of the war. Beyond those few miles of ridge and scrub our French comrades and our gallant Australians and New Zealand fellow subjects were fighting for their life and the destruction of the enemy's fleet and army, the fall of a, worldfamous capital, and the probable accession of powerful allies to the struggle. There would be heavy risks and enormous and cruel losses, but victory would make amends.

Never was there audi a great subsidiary operation in which a more com-1 plete harmony of strategic, political, and economic advantages were combined or which stood in a truer relation to the main decision, which was in the central theatre. Through the Narrows and across the ridges of the Gallipoli Peninsula lay soiuo of the shortest paths to triumph and peace. We were confronted by a foe who without the slightest scruple would exterminate us to a man, woman or child by any method open to him. To fall was to be enslaved or destroyed, and not to win decisively was to have fie misery all over again after an uneasy truce and to fight under U.o favorable circumstances, perhaps alone. .After what had happened there could not be peace until the German military system was shattered, torn and trampled so that it was unable to resist the will and decision of the conquering Power. Mr Churchill concluded: "Above all lens be of good cheer. The loyalty of our dominions and colonies vindicates our civilisation, and our enemy's hate proves the effectiveness of our warfare If we are anxious or depressed we =hould watch Australia or New Zealand in this last and finest crusade for the smiting down of the combined barbarisms of the and Turks. We should see General Botha holding South Africa for the Kmg or Canada defending to the death the last few miles of shattered Belgium. Then, across the smoke and carnage of th, immense battlefield «-e should look forward to the vision of a united British Empire on the calm background of a liberated Europe."

BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Received June 7, 11.30 p.m.

London, June 7. Record week-end lists include 5500 casualties in the ranks, of which 21t>!) were at the Dardanelles, where 111 Ist Lancashire Fusiliers were killed, 184 wounded, 53 missing; 157 Ist Dublin '.Fusiliers killed, 43 wounded. The Ist Scottish Borderers, the 2nd South Wales Borderers, and the 4th IWoreesters also 'suffered severely.

LLOYD GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN,

THE JIAXIICESTER SPEECH.

London, June C.

Tin- Times, in a leader, says that Mr. Lloyd George struck the right note at .Manchester. He did not flinch from stating the dangers confronting us, and treated his audience in the 'Way Englishmen love and expect. He described the German success as entirely due to superior equipment with a bluntness almost regarded as treasonable in certain quarters. The speed with which he progresses will be an event in our history, and will doubtless provoke bitter complaints in some circles.

The .Manchester Guardian -writes: — 'Will the Government give the needful push? There is no time to be lost, and the season for discussion or argument has gone by. This is the hour of action. Here the church will find a new and unique opportunity. The Government was reconstructed in consequence of a telegram from Colonel Ktpington (tM Times military correspondent) on the scarcity of high explosives. The Bishop of Pretoria's letter brought home the necessity for the mobilisation of the nation. These are the two most important events outside the actual battlefield since the war began. The duty of the church is now plain. Ministers from their pulpits must drill into the peopfc a clear sense of the part they have to play in the colossal epic. The Church of England has got to justify the national name she bears. Every one of her pulpits ought to ring the call to service."

GENERAL ITEMS. London, June. 6. A correspondent in Manchester says there is a growing feeling that Britain (should follow France's lead and prohibit trading with the enemy in China. Before the outbreak of war a large section of the business in cotton goods from Manchester to China was done 'through German firms. Certain firms are reluctant to discontinue this, and it will only be stopped by stiffening the British regulations. Arrangements are proceeding to hold a service in St. Paul's in memory of Australasians killed in the war. London, June 4. Of 2310 old Etonians in the Army and Navy, 341 have been killed, 403 wounded, and 2fil mentioned in despatches. The Re-election of Ministers' 'Bill passed the Lords and lias received the Royal assent. the Pres3 Bureau states that at the trial at the Old Bailey, in camera, before the Chief Justice and Justices Avory and Lush, Muller, a German spy was sentenced to death by shooting, and Hahn was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.