GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

! NOTES FROM THE TIMES. BRISK RECRUITING. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Nov. 4, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 3. In the Divorce Court, Mr. Justice Deane declared that actions against soldiers at the front should stand over' till the end of the war. It was undesirable, in the interests of the nation, that men fchould be served with papers and their minds diverted from fighting. Recruiting is exceptionally good in all centres. The machinery of Lord Derby's .scheme is Hearing .completion. Two hundred thousand men and women canvassers arc fast enrolling recruits, and there are also 4ft3 recruiting committees. Nearly one thousand postmen in Birmingham, who have joined the army, will be replaced bv women. The Times' correspondent at Tokio says that the press is genuinely pleased at Japan's participation in the Allies' compact not to conclude peace separately. Leading writers pay much attention to the results of the war, as to how it will nffect Japan, and the character of Japanese representation at the peace conference. Baron Shloadzu, who recently returned from the South Seas, emphasises that the islands won from Germany represent additions to the Empire.