YEAR OF WAR

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 5

YEAR OF WAR

ANNIVERSARY SERVICE. AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. London, August 3. An anniversary service will be held in St. Paul's at noon 011 Wednesday. TIIO King and Queen will attend without a military display, the route being kept by police. The Artillery Band will play sacred selections outside the Cathedral an hour before the King's arrival. MESSAGE FROM RUSSIA. CONFIDENCE UNSHAKEN. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, August 3. The Daily Mail publishes messages to the British people from M. Uoremykin, the Russian Premier, who says: "After a year of war we can say with certainty that we are twelve months nearer the liberation of the world, since we are all determined to complete that liberation." General PolLvanofF, Minister of (War, says: "W5 shall continue to fight with all the strength which lies in the inexhaustible resources of the Russian Empire, with unshakeable confidence in ultimate victory and with the volume of munitions increasing daily."

RUSSIA UNITED. RESOLUTION IN THE DUMA. Petrograd, August 3. I The Duma passed the following resolution:— •'The military trials of the past year have fortified among the whole population of the Empire the unshakeable and unanimous . resolution to continue the struggle, with the help of our faithful Allies, till final success is attained, and not to conclude peace till victory is complete. The nearest way to victory is the willing assistance ef the whole population for the creation of fresh means of continuing the struggle, which demands the strengthening of internal peace, and the forgetting of all political quarrels." M. I'rodmiranko was re-elected President. He said the war had caused the disappearance of all divisions, and reunited in a solid mass all the representatives of greater Russia with the sole aim of victory. AMERICAN OPINION. ADVANTAGE \MTII THE ALLIES, Received August 4. 8.40 p.lll. New York, August 4. American opinion, after a year's war, is restrained, owing to President Wilson's exhortations for the strictest neutrality. It is admitted that nothing else could have shown the unity of the ]iriti>h Empire, which was a composite democracy of Governments existing for the people, not vi e versa, as revealed by Prussian militarism, which is repugnant to Americans. Strategic ant tactical authorities are of the opinion that the net result of tl'.e y>ar is that the Aliiei have the advantage cj h.ivinr; avoided a decisive action, converting the strugsie into a test of endurance, enabling them to make preparations from their potential resources. .America appreciates Britain's unlimited powers of money and men.

FOREIGN STATESMEN. COXCI!ATI" LATE BRITAIX. Receive J August 3, 12.45 a.m. London, August 4. Leading foreign statesmen have telegraphed to London newspapers, paying tributes to Britain's share in the war. M. l'ichou states that the British army has added a million men to the Trench, apart from the fleet securing the freedom of the sea l . M. SazanolT's message says: 'We admire the way the British Empire responded to their country's call. The Russians are impre-sed with the tremendous power of the Uritish navy, so remarkably exemplified in the complete vftacenient of tin; enemy's fleet.