News From England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 5

News From England

MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS. '. STRIKING SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE. AN'APPEAL TO SOUTH WALES. j Keceived June 13, 3.30 p.m. London. June 12. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a munitions conference at Cardiff, urged the recruiting of every lathe and every *rorkshop to turn out shells. He said that Great Britain having entered the war could not go hack without writing its name off the map as a great igower. ! (The Ministry of Munitions has all&Aj produced a beneficial eifect. Birmingham b infusing a new spirit of buoyancy and energy into the idea of K fentyitions industry and is entrusting a quantity of the work to a local body of practical men and will let them .00 it their own way. la Leeds the engineers arc concentrating on establishing a special shell fa.aoi / to turn out the complete article under the direction of an executive Committee of engineers not financially interested. The private employer will toils be eliminated. Mr Lloyd George emphasised that he wanted two or three war factories in •South Wales. (Patriotism had already been shown in Glamorganshire, where : there were 68,300 recruits, and in Mon-{ mouthshire, where there were 18,668 re- ' Bruits*. His appeal was not for more . 'men, but for support for those at the •front. There were too many valleys in -South Wales to become valleys of .ifi&dows. " We are sending more men, said Mr. jLloyd George, and we want them not •merely to win victory for us, but want • them to return and rejoice with the victory which their valor captured. Do -let us give them a fair chance and a fair fight. South Wales, might adopt the Yorkshire plan of establishing-two or three national shell factories in each 'area, requisitioning machinery for them 'from other workshops in the district, • or Lancashire's plan of utilising the ex•fating workshops with additional ma'ohinery, each shop producing all the 'sheila it can. Alternatively both methods might be combined. " Central na'tional arsenals are being created with 'machinery either taken voluntarily or louder the Defence of the Realm Act . from other works, while private shops .■Undertook the production of complete 'shells or incomplete for completion in '.(the national arsenals. He favored the (Utter plan. » Brerybody must contribute to this undertaking. He promised that no manu■f&cturer. who took up shUl-making should suffer by the competition of un- ■ (patriotic rivals who did no shell-making. ' I am asking you to plant the flag in 'poor worksops and convert the lathes Bud machinery into battalions which will .jjrive the foe from the lands thev have 'tortured, trampled and disgraced, and liberty wiR again be enthroned. ; HOW VICTORY WILL COME. ! A RAIN OF SHELLS. WANTED. ,'r. y Received June 13, 4 p.m. ,i London, June 12. I Mr. Lloyd George at Bristol addressed a great gathering of western industries Concerned in war munitions. He said the British engineering trade could not win the war; without them victory would be impossible. He understood Bristol was suffering from a scarcity ■of labor, and firms had been asked to ■furnish names of skilled laborers who ■Jrou'.d be more useful at home than ;n •she trenches. Lord Kitchener had instructed that they should be dug out and invited to return. He appealed to labor loaders to use their influence to secure the suspension jpf the regulations preventing unskilled fend girl labor during the war. Mr. IJoyd George added: "We have heard •of Nenv'e Chapclle, but we want a deluge of shells to rain for forty days and forty nights without ceasing. Then bball we hear the cranking of the German steel barrier and the cheer of the British infantry marching through the shattered entrenchments to victory." ' Mr. Lloyd George's speech was businesslike and not rhetorical. He pleaded for a sufficiency of high explosives to enable the soldiers to crash a way ithrough to victory. "You can supply them, and if you do fewer lives will be lost. We hardly like to use the words >sshort of shell,'" said Mr. Llovd ficor<y. Tcs, I will. That is a fact.' We want Jt, need it, and must get it. and you 'jean give it. Whatever you do. I hope you will do it quickly, as time here means lives. The more shells the surer and more speedy will be the victory.'' At the close of the meeting, Mr. Ly.Baght, the owner of large engineering .works at Newport, placed them at the disposal of the State. Mr. Lloyd George announced thai Specimens of shells needed would shortly 'Be exhibited at Cardiff, Newport, anil .'Swansea.

Advices from Glasgow state thai tight of Beardmores' workmen, with the Amalgamated Engineers organism;' dele gates, haw gone to the front for a week to see the soldiers' actual needs. The Visit is likely to be followed by others from the different centres, with a vi"\v to stimulating the output of munitions, THE QUESTION OF PEACE. STATEMENT Br MR. asquith. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received June 13, 0.15 p.m. London. June 11. in the House of Commons Mr. Asquith, replying to a statement that there was dissatisfaction among recruits at training for months without rifles, said ■ it was not of public interest to indicate the extent of the arming and equipment of the new troops. All delays were being made good and all men offering were wanted. No occasion had arisen for Parliament to sit behind closed doo^s. The Premier said the advocacy! of peace could not be treated a* an offence under the Defence of the Realm Act. He believed a desire for an honorable and lasting peace was" shaml In* all classes, and he saw no reason to receive a deputation urging the termination of the war. BEHAVIOUR OF SOLDIERS. PRAISE FROM BISHOP OT" LONDON. Received June 13, G. 15 p.m. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, June 11. The Bishop of London has repudiated with righteous indignation the suggestion that soldiers in training are behaving badly as a body. In many eases fchety were a remarkable example of jood behaviour to the people, where they were The ery of a war on babies raised 'by the newspapers had turned out a great delusiou, and the bubble had exploded. Women generally behaved well, though young and giddy jirls, excited by the presence of so Many khaki men, bad caused mischief ji some camps. The problem was serious at the commencement of the war. He did not agree with the suggestion of El scheme to prevent women from enlisting in patrols, for, he said, they act with tact, judgment and sypipathy. CONFESSIONS OF A SPY. A REMARKABLE CAREER. Received midnight. . London, June 13. The newspapers give prominence to ;he confessions to New York papers of [gnathia Tribich Lincoln, who was a nember of the House of Commons for Darlington in 1910. Tribich is the son >f a Hungarian Jewish shipowner, and icted as a Presbyterian missionary. Subsequently he was ordained in the Church of England in 1003. He became l naturalised Englishman in IWO, when le took the name of Lincoln. He assisted in electioneering as an anti-tariff reformer, who took parties of workingncn to Germany to gain experience of ife under protection. Tribich, who was lot again elected to Parliament, be:ame a bankrupt. He was then employed as Hungarian cen-or at the iWar Mice. On the outbreak of war, having ioneeived an abhorrence of England, awing to alleged cruelty to aliens, he letermined to act as a German spy. lie ivas able to give Austria and Germany important information, owing to having highly placed friends in England, but he wished to bring off a coup. He fruitlessly offered his services to Bir Edward Grey and Mr. 'Winston Churchill, and finally, by bringing useful information from Rotterdam obtained from the German Consul, he won the confidence of the British secret service. He propounded a scheme for luring part of the British fleet to a certain bay, where the Germans wen; within easy) striking distance, but the secret service refused to disclose the whereabouts of the British fieri, to anyone. Tribich describes the codes by which German spies transmitted messages to Germany giving particulars of the movements of the fleet. Finally t'le secret service discovered the fraud and Lincoln fled to America. FROM WAR TO AGRICULTURE. Received June 1", 0 p.m. London, .Tune 12. Owing to a possible shortage of labor the War Office has promised the Hoard of Agriculture to grant furlough to a limited number of soldiers to :i--M farmers in hay-making. TREATMENT <>F I'ITI^'NITA Re.eived Jun< 1:1. ! p.m. London. June 12. The Foreign Office ha> notified the American Ambassador that t-uhmarine prisoners released from naval eu-dodv have been transfer!'! to Ihe military authorities, as the liriti-h expects Germany to send thirty-nine 1.-ii-

tishers under barrack arrest baei to th« ordinary detention camps. The Foreign Office requests Mr. Page to convey the foregoing to the Ambassador ftt Berlin. GENERAL ITEMS. " London, June 11, A neutral correspondent sums up his impressions in a striking metaphor Germany is a huge centrifugal machini discharging energies at the periphery The machine will give out when the central store of energy is exhausted, but every effort will be made to con aerre and increase the store. In this r*sp*ot Germany is providing on in structure contrast to Britain. In the House of Commons Mr. Chiozzs Money protested against a recruiting poster addressed: "Young woman, is your best boy in khaki?" Mr. Tennant replied that unusual methods were sometimes desirable. o£ the appeals must meet the most varied tastes. Sir John Simon stated that 839 additional aliens had been interned and £274 repatriated. The accommodatior available had been filled. Hi? Advisory Committee considered 1409 appicationg for exemption and granted 159. Trade union officials who have leturied to Manchester from London port that the Government in viery plain terms intimated that there must not be ;t stoppage in the Lancashire cotton trale. The Hon. T. Mackenzie has hauled the Belgian Committee £IO,OOO from Canterbury, also £2OOO from Southland sc'ioo! children. The foniaiittee rce'hvjil £2?''o from West Australia an I f.'i'CO from northern Tasmania. If'. H. G, Wells, the noveli-';, In a letter to the newspapers, says that modern war is essentialy a struggle of gear and invention. We must perpetnp'llv be outwitting our opponent. Britishers have shown a great individ'iil ciurage. but there are insul-u.'iit aviators and an inadequate supply of aeroplanes. We should have produced .in ii'„rcp?fnc! capable of-overtaking a Z(»pelin, and also some counter-stroke to the submarine and Germany's imported torpedoes. Troops still want armored I protection during advances against ma- ; chine-guna. The exploits at the Dardanelles have been unforeseeing and un- ; inventive. i We have been recruiting millions of i infantry while the Germans realised that for defensive purposes one wellprotected and skilled machine-gunner is superior to a row of riflemen. We want not politicians but selfgovernment, with scientific and technically competent men to wage war.