BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

THE NEED FOR RECRUITS. 3,000,000 MORE MEN WANTED. > BEFORE' NEXT SPRING. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 18. General Eric Swayne, speaking at a meeting at Hull, said that Britain needed three million more men before the spring. He estimated that Germany has still between nine and ten million men, of ages ranging from 18 to 45. It was useless to talk about wearing out Germany, but if Britain raised an additional three million men the German numbers would be counterbalanced, and the enemy would recognise that it would be fruitless to continue the war. Britain did not want conscription, but unless the three million men were recruited by next spring the military authorities could not 'be held responsible for the result, \THE CABINET.

SIR E. CARSON RESIGNS. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 18. Sir Edward Carson, Attorney-General, has resigned. THE AIR RAID. FURTHER DETAILS OF INQUEST. London, Oct, 18. An inquest was held on 23 more victims of the Zeppelin raid, who were all killed in one London area.

An employee, in a railway goods department was killed while entering a restaurant. He had both thighs broken. His wife, who was 'beside him, was unhurt. Another man, outside the same house, was cut through the neck by broken glass and killed. A woman near by had the lower part of her spine smashed. Another bomb struck a motor-bus, killing the driver, conductor and a special constable. A house decorator who was badly injured was taken to a hospital and insisted on the doctor first attending the man next to him. Both succumbed in a few hours. The coroner, ■ summing up, suggested that the jury should refrain from expressing their indignant feelings in the verdict. The father of one victim protested that his son had been killed by the Kaiser's order. "J summon the Kaiser," said he, "to theet me before the judgment seat of God and answer for the death of my son and of those other twenty-two poor 'people." The verdict was that the deaths were the result of an air raid. BRITISH RECRUITS. OVER A .MILLION AVAILABLE. London, Oct. 18. The Daily Chronicle says that the National register shows that there are 1,900,000 men of military age in Britain not engaged in munition work, productive industries, or the railways. Allowing for tiie physically unfit, the number available for the army is 1,250,000. NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME. London, Oct. 18. New Zealand convalescent soldiers are generally satisfied with the hospital treatment, hut many complain of the poor quality of the uniforms supplied on discharge as not suitable if they have to spend a winter in the trenches. The War Contingent Association is supplying the men with warm underclothes. The Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg visited and chatted with wounded New Zealanders at Walton-on-Thames Hospital. Mr. (Mackenzie, Lord Ranl'ui'ly and Major livers were present.