A FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 3

A FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.

AS LONG AS THE HUN FLEET FLOATS. Lieut. H. T. C. Knox, tne Chief Lecturer for the Navy League, writing to the Wellington branch hon. secretary, says that "many people who prior to the war were unfriendly are now joining the organisation. An immense number of recruiting meetings have been organised by the League all over the country, and many new branches have b<rn- formed, including a very strong blanch at the Channel Islands. "You will hardly believe me," he continues, "when I tell you that we have at this moment a big strike of 200,000 South Wales coal-miners. The only charitable view to take of the action of these men is that they cannot possibly understand thit p.fter twelve months of war we are still fighting for our lives; and that statement will remain true so long as the Hun fleet floats. The existence of our armies in Flanders, the Dardanelles, etc., depends upon the supiemacy of the Britii-:-. Fleet; and' that Fleet, which is still our 'all in all,' depends upon an unlimited supply of the breath of Empire, coal. This is the moment that the Welsh miners have chosen to imperil the existence of the Enjpire.'' In connection with the above it is interesting to know that Lieut. Knox, at the risk of his life, spent half a day'at Wiihelrashaven dockyard in the attire of a German laborer, and during that time made good use of a pocket camera. At knock-off time the position became a little "sultry" especially when a German military guard looked him over, but he managed to affect the manners of the German labourer so veil that he got out with a crowd of genuine workers.