GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

TRAITORS. PRO-GERMAN WRITERS, London, Nor. T. v Thc Observer's New York corrrespondent draws attention to the pro-German crusade of Mr. Zangvvill, the wellknown novelist, in America, especially his disgraceful articles in the proflcrinuu Sunday American, in which he sneeringly says aboiit recruiting: "Christ was in the army and Macedonia made munitions." The correspondent adds that this speech about England convinced him that foulness was the eat and drink of Germany's supporters. Frank Harris, late editor of Vanity Fair, the Fortnightly and Saturday .Reviews, is uhio participating in the antiBritish propaganda. The writings of these and other Englishmen are making pro-Entente feeling fidgety.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES.

MATTERS IN GERMANY. A HINT TO PESSIMISTS. Times and Sydney Sun Service!. London, Nov. 7. The German people have been asked to send jewels and gold coins to the Imperial bank, owing io the scarcity of gold. The German press is disappointed aft the firmness of Mr. Asquith's speech. It expected some reference to the posi sibility of a peace compromise. I'ertograd, Nov. 7. A neutral resident of Turkey who has arrived in Copenhagen says that Mr. Asquith underestimated the number of Turks at the Dardanelles, which •was nearly half a million. They had had terrible losses of killed and wounded. Constantinople needed help very much. Supplies and ammunition were lacking. The city was warming with Germans. General lirusiloff told a representative of the Bourse Gazette, who was visiting the front, that he waß disgusted with the pusillanimity displayed in Petrograd and the stupid rumors. He said that there was no doubt if the enemy was brought to a halt he would not possess sufficient strength to overthrow the Russians, who will advance at tlie proper time and drive the Germans forth. It is essential that the public remain calm and that the troops be amply supplied with ammunition and well clad, fed and shod. Germany was sending to the war cripples and old men. Disgrace and death was the portion of those who were dreaming of peace, it was better to die than even [to think of failure.