THE NAVY'S WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1915, Page 5

THE NAVY'S WORK

IT'S CEASELESS PATROL -V." ... 1 WIPING OUT THE TURK lIWEMTY-SEWEH THOUSAND IN THE LAST BATTLE hH ,t* ~c-. r BRITISH TRANSPORT SUHK. By Cable—Preu Association—Copyrigh?

ENGLAND. THE COAL TROUBLE. jbPEFGL PROSPECTS OF SETTLE- - MBNT. '■seis3red'i£o«Bt I#, M pJm. ' ' • • ' London, August 18. presided at the South " wiietf eoatofi&r 1 anil miners' conference. The -f&rtiet ire hopefol of reacli■og' a settlement. ■ The miners are op- - pMed tf the old procedure of settling dhpntee, averting that the cases which fcave not reached finality for months have piWUKed the greatest Irritation. They desire a more expeditious method of settlement. ''' Tb* conference adjourned.

JAPANESE AID. DISAPPOINTMENT at not doing MORE. - (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) : _ Received August 18, 8.30 p.m. London, August 18. . The Morning Post'* Pstrograd correspondent at Tokio states that Japan is ' doing »U s)»e can to Jielp tbe Allies to win. Unless they do, her hopes are dark, and she will lose all she has gained so far. Many people are disappointed . that the Japanese are not fighting on file battlefields in Europe, and there Is a general conviction among the people that their men would greatly hasten tile ■ conclusion of the struggle.

COTTON. i CHE QUESTION OP DECLARING IT CONTRABAND. Peceived August 18, 5.5 pjn. London, August 17. Hiaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Lord diaries Bercsford, Hall Caine, Admiral t lemantle, Earl Grey, Sir Chas. MacAra, Sir William Ramsay, and others have petitioned Mr. Asquith to declare cotton contraband.-allowing neutrals to import only their normal average purchases from Aihericft. The declaration of cotton as contraband.is not likely to cause a sertoU4 disturbanc? of the'market. A bearish tone may be expected, but not a slump. COMPULSORY ''SERVICE URGED. Lcnion, August 17. Mr. I.ee, a member oi tlie House of Cummsns, who was serving at the front and returned, addressing constituents a: Portsmouth, strongly advocated compulsory service. He siid'that it was ■ no use preten.ang that the present situation was at all like the one either Sritain or Germany e.\pected twelve mouths ago. While it was true the positou to-day threatened Germany with ruin and failure, it was also true that our position was one of deadly peril and danger. \\ lilt we hod to guard against was » stalemate brought about by universal exhaustion and bankruptcy, with nar breaking out again as soon as GerViattv v.n recuperated. MIXERS THREATEN MORE 'TROUBLE. •i London, August 17. Mr. llunciinaai lis endeavoring to :*vert tlie threatened trouble in South Wales, where the miners tkrea'.en to strike. They complain that the coal | owners are delai-ing in putting the new -' ttrrcement into operation. WORK; AT SHEFFIELD. London, August 17. Jaininell, Laird and Company, the Birkenhead shipbuilders, are erecting an engineering factory at Shef- - field for the Government. It will cost £'250,030 and employ 40C0 men. Mr. Lloyd George congratulated ' the corporation on leasing the sate rent 'free for half a year beyond the duration tof the war. SYLVIA PANKHURST A SHIRKER. London, August 17. Sylvia Pankliurst is again in the limelight. She declares she will refuse to register for national service, as it is a ruse to get more power out of the workera. She adds: "Not being a man, they cannot send me to the war, and they won't send me to a munitions factory because they know there would be trouble." WAVES OF OVERSEAS SOLDIERS. , London, August 17. Jhe Overseas Club has offered to plant the. graves of Australians with waitle, those of the New Zealanders with manuka, and those of the Canadians, with maple. The High Commissioners have approved the scheme and fabled for seed*

THE DARDANELLES HOPEFUL SIGNS. TURKISH POSITION MORE CRITICAL Received August 18, 5.5 p.m. P&rijs, August 17. A message to Le Temps from Dedeagateh states that the Turkish position at the Dardanelles is increasingly critical. The troops are getting very demoralised, and the population at Stambonl is pessimistic.

DIFFICULTIES OF THE TURKS. SUBMARINES SEVER SEA COMMUNICATION Received August 18, 10 p.m. Paris, August 18. Le Temps states that the action of the Allies' submarines in the, Sea of Marmora is completely severing all sea communication from Constantinople to the Straits, and constitutes a great difficulty to the defence, besides opening a new field of activity for the Allies. The transport of Turkish troops and the working of commissariat overland is extremely slow and difficult, inasmuch as the Allies dominate the position on the isthmus uniting the peninsula to Thrace. Two months have elapsed since the date thatt!Enver Pasha fixed in his order of the day, promising the Turks the peninsula witen the German army came to take their places. It is now daily becoming more difficult to think what he can have promised them in order to force them to continue their resistance.

COLD COMFORT. GERMANS' ADVICE TO THE TURKS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received August 18, 8.30 p.m. London. August 18. Captain Persus, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, on tlie operations at the Dardanelles, warns the Turks against supposing that they will be abandoned ■because of difficulties, and quotes the utterance of the Times: "We cannot draw tack, and nobody in authority dreams of drawing back." IPersus adds*: "Our sense tells us plainly that we require far more serious disappointments and losses before the English endurance gives way." He comments that the seriousness of the situation is a heavy task for tlie Turks, but hopes that they will continue to maintain themselves victoriously on both banks of the Dardanelles. PURPORT OF THE CAMPAIGN. TO RELIEVE RUSSIA. London, August 17. The British Ambassador at Petrograd stated that when Turkey declared war Russia appealed to Britain to make a demonstration in some quarter to draw off the Turkish forces in the Caucasus. With this purpose Britain sent a large number of troops and a great quantity of munitions to Gallipoli, \eakening the western front and delaying the advance. A TURKISH REPORT. Amsterdam, August 17. A Turkish official. message ' states:— Tlie enemy has landed fresh divisions at the Dardanelles front since August 0 and 7, and has attacked our men, but without result, thanks to our heroic resistance 1 . Our artillery hit 'a hostile tor pedo boat off Ari Burnti. We exploded a mine at Seddul Bahr and wrecked a hostile position with bomb throwers and wire obstacles. CANADIAN'S TOR GALLIPOLT. Ottawa, August 17. Tlie Postmaster-General lias announced that fifteen thousand Canadian troops in England have been ordered to the Gallipoli Peninsula. WHAT THE STATISTICS SHOW. Statistics show that there are more deaths from whooping cough than from scarlet fever, but we have yet to hear of a case proving fatal when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was used. It should le given at the first symptom repeating the dose frequently. The quick relief afforded by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy n'-akes it a favorite with mothers of young children. It liquifies (lie tough mucus, making it easier to expectorate, keeps the cough loose and counteracts any tend ncv towards pneumonia. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in many epidemics of whooping rough with perfect success. Sold by ail chemists and storekeepers.