News From England

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1915, Page 5

News From England

GERMAN AIR RAID. BOMBS DROPPED ON HARWICH. Received July 5, 8.36 p.m. Amsterdam, July 5. A Berlin official report says: German aircraft dropped bombs on the Languard fort at Harwich and upon a flotilla of English destroyers. BRITAIN'S' PROBLEMS. Haw GERMANY VIEWS THEM. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received July 5, 5$ p.m. ■ London, July 4. The German press is intensely interested in the English war loan and the munitions problem. It predicts no good results from the gigantic experiment in socialism, because the inherent British selfishness will undermine the effects sought. MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS. ASSISTANCE FROM INDIA. Received July 6, 12.10 a.m. Calcutta, July 5. The Government; of India is employing all the available resources of the country for manufacturing munitions. Mr. Victor Bay Icy, late assistant secretary of railway stores, has been appointed superintendent of munitions, a task analagous to that of Mr. Lloyd Georgo. THE WAR LOAN. NEW 'ZEALAND HELP. Wellington, Last Night. In answer to a question on the subject to-day, the Minister of Finance (the Hon. Jas. Allen) informed a pressman that he was still in communication with the Imperial authorities with regard to the war loan. A portion of the loan would be raised locally, but he could not say what the amount or the terms would bo until he had secured further information from London. "There is one question that we want the Imperial Government to answer," said the Minister, "and they have not answered it yet. It relates to Consols." ,'fhe Minister added that ho did not anticipate any difficulty in securing what money the dominion required in London, but tho Imperial authorities evidently wished that local people should be asked to provide some part of the funds that were needed to pay for New Zealand's military effort. He did not desire to raise tho whole amount of the loan authorisd by Parliament (£10,000,000) at once if sound arrangements could he made for getting the money in monthly instalments as it was wanted. The Imperial authorities had been advancing money in monthly drafts up to the present time, and the system had proved convenient and economical. HAGUE CONVENTION BROKEN. Received July 6, 12.5 a.m. London, July 5. The Foreip Office announces that letters bearing the German censorship label received in England have established the f::~t that when the mail steamers Bioru and Shorstcn were captured the close mail bags from Russia to Sweden were open, contrary to the first article of the Hague Convention,