WAR NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 7

WAR NEWS BY MAIL.

"THE MORNING HATE. - ' TURKS' NEW ABM FOR ANZAC. The days here are long and hot, and the flies a torment," writes Siaff-Sergt. K. Little from Anzac Bay on July 14. '■' The sun climhs over the lulls about 4.30 a.m., works bard all day, and sinks reluctantly over the horizon at 8.30 p.m. We have witnessed some glorious sunsets—subjects for master artists, not for my poor pen. When the shadows gather in the valleys we go for &n evening swim. It is glorious after the heat of the day to dash into the luke warm waters of the Aegean Sea. We also bathe auout 5 a.m. regularly. During the day it is not safe in the water. The enemy have a detestable habit of shelling the beach periodically. At first they used to pour light shrapnel over the iitach, but everybody gradually got used to it—the callousness of the men was truly remarkable. Can you imagine yourself standing on the beach and laughing at shrapnel bursting near by. Well, that's exactly what the men did every day until one day "morning hate" arrived—a Bin. pommon high-explosive shell. With the arrival of the 'hate' it was settled-without argument that discretion was the better part of valor, and it's now a race for cover whenever the 'hate' begins to spit along the beach and explodes with a roar like thunder. The worst of the 'hate' is that you cannot hear the shell coming until it bursts right over you. The small 18-pounder shrapnei one can always hear. It shrieks aB it cleaves the air, and there is generally time to make temporary cover if you think it is bound your Vl'." *Our position hero is considered to •"/impregnable. We hold quite a large area of rough, mountainous country, and the homes of those holding it a«re a net work of trenches. On the day of the eight-hour armistice all through the trenches and out on to a narrow strip of land running between our trenches and those of the enemy. After ii climb up mountains and down valleys wc came to a road winding away inland at the foot of a valley known as Monash Valley. After walking along this road for some distance we came upon a flight of rough hewn steps which led to th« top of a rather steep cliff. We wlimbed the steps, and on reaching the top found ourselves in a position commanding a view of all the trenches. North and south was nothing but a network of trenches. We went there with the object of witnessing the burial of the enemy dead—a ghastly sight, but with .'ultivated callousness the men, both ours and the enemy went about their work as though it was ordinary work. The eaemy Red Cross people were there in large numbers, and the whole of the grim business was carried through as though we were all the best of friends. It was aa experience I will never forget.

CANADIAN AID WITH MEN AND> MONEY. Toronto, July 21. A ;<iMit meeting was held in Toronto and was addressed by Sir G. Foster, the Minister of Commerce, Sir Herbert Ames, secretary of the Canadian Patriotic League, Mr. Hanna, a member of the Ontario Government, and Mr. Pardee, a member of the House of Commons and whip to the Liberal Party. Mr. Hanna, amid extraordinary enthusiasm, announced that the Ontario Government had set aside £IOO,OOO with which to provide 600 machine-guns for Canadian soldiers, regardless of the contingent or province to which they might belong. He also announced that the Government had appropriated £SOOO to assist recruiting in such ways as consultation | with the military authorities might suggest. Another feature of the meeting was the announcement, made on behalf of Toronto ministers of all denominations, that besides sending a statement to all the churches of the Dominion that it was urgent for men to join the colors they had raised money for the purchase of machine-guns. At the close of the meeting a recruiting league was formed, and a resolution was adopted urging employers to give a preference after the war to men who had served the country in battle.

DEAR FOOD IN GERMANY. BITTER PROTESTS MADE IN THE NEWSPAPERS. Amsterdam, August 30. Under the heading ''Dearer and Dearer and no End," the Cologne Volkszeitung says:— "There is no lack of foodstuffs, yet prices are already hardly within one's means. A number of important necessaries of life have risen two and threefold. "Prices of vegetables, too, are exceedingly high, although imports from abroad are in normal times quite small. If the cause of these rises in. prices is sought, no one will accept the responsibility. Everyone puts the blame on somebody else, but the public has to pay. "Just fancy putting forward the idea that, on account of the war, a man is entitled to higher gains than in normal times—while at the same time millions, of women and children are starving. "A deep-seated feeling of bitterness is spreading far and wide because the burden of the War is so unequally distributed." The article ends with the words: "Things simply cannot go on as they are. The governing elements bear the responsibility, and they must realise their duty to its full extent." The same anxiety is apparent in an article in the Berlin Lokalanzeiger: "We have to reckon with an average increase in the family budget of between SO and 60 per cent, as compared with this time last year, "It is true that in some districts the workmen getting higher wages number hundred s of thousands, but what is that compared with the millions we have to deal with? "Moreover, the savings which German thrift had put aside in economically hapDier days, are to a great extent exhausted."