BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

HOSPITALS FOR COLONIALS. irVOUNDED MSN IN COMFORT. London, Oct. 6. If the friends of the Australian and New Zealand wounded officers in London could see where they are quartered they would feel no anxiety on their account. The majority are now in the Wandsworth 3rd London General Hospital, ie% in beautiful open grounds, in which flew huts have been erected, some of iron and others of stucco. They are lined with fibro-cement and have bright. and attractive interiors. The inmates read or walk in the grounds and are taken in motors to three concerts and other entertainments weekly. The outside wards are connected with the hosfUal by long glass-enclosed corridors. There are many captains and lieutenants from each State in the ward at the extreme end of the corridors. It has ibeen christened "Tipperary," because the Australians said it was a long way to go. Dotted around the! hospital grounds are revotoing huts for open-air treatment, turned according to the direction of the wind and rain. Most of the wounded New Zealand officers are progressing well. Major Dawson is able to do temporary duties j at Weymouth, Major Schofield (shrap- | nel wound) is still in hospital, Major 1 Luxford, chaplain, has lost a leg, Cap- j tain Hardham, V.C. (injured lung), is convalescent. j Seven thousand wounded Australians' are now in England. ' Many have lost ] a limb or two. Artificial limb makers have been brought from Victoria and are at work at Hareßeld. Twenty soldiers at Harefield alone have lost a leg. Artificial limbs will be made from Government material at, it is estimated, •ne-third of the usual cost.

TRADE WITH THE ENEMY, f PRIZE COURT DECISION. *..}_ London, Gew €. i3r Samuel Evang, president of the Prize Court, delivering judgment in the steamer BDbster case, said the sole questions for decision related to the •hipowners' (Gunn and Co.) claims for freight, and Mcrton's for the return of £SOOO paid to the resptet of freight The President held that Merton's could not be a receiver against the shipowners, who had discharged their obligation irt giving up a lien on the goods. For whomsoever the £SOOO vols paid it was intended to preserve the goods for the owners whom Merton's knew to be enemies, and to gain an advantage for themselves or their co-adventurers, the Metallgesellschaft. They thus did nob hesitate to engage in commercial intercourse with the country's enemies. The claim was without foundation, and ifc required much assurance to launch the claim and to persevere. It showed a, reckless want of appreciation of the possible consequences. The judgment of the court was that the cargo was condemned as a prize*; that out of the proceeds £2546, the balance of the 'sum awarded, be paid to the shipowners,'and that Morton's claims against the shipowners and the Crown be disallowed.

"IN THE HOLLOW OF OUR HANDS." STATEMENT BY LORD KITCHEXEE.. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, Oct. (i. The Manchester Guardian reports that t member of the Labor Congress, addressing a recruiting meeting, said that Lord Kitchener told the congress:;! "There is no room for pessimism-. GiveJ me the men and munitions I want ami I will guarantee my personal reputation: that we hold the .var in the hollow of! our hands. We know how many men.,; we want for the army and the factories." .