THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1915, Page 8

THE WAR.

EARLIER NEWS. NOTES FROM BRITAIN. COLuNIAL WOUNDED Ai HOME. London, Nov. 19. Large numbers of Australian and New Zealand wounded recently arrived in England. Several prominent officers state that the arrangements for the transport of the wounded have greatly improved. Many dysentery and enteric eases have been brought to England, also scores of operation cases. All are anxious for speedy recovery to enable them to return as soon as possible to the front. They are determined to hold on to Gallipoli if necessary, despite the rigorous winter and the possibilities of pneumonia. They emphasise that they cannot have overmuch warm clothing, although there is no shortage. Officers deplored the tendency to send more wounded to Egypt now there is cooler weather, because the constant arrival of wounded is bound to have a 'bad effect on the natives. They ought to send most to Lemnos, Malta, and England.

The following New Zealanders are in the Wandsworth Hospital: Colonel Hughes, suffering from lumbago, slowly improving; Captain .Tory, of the Medical Corps, who has been suffering from enteric, is convalescent; and Captain ■ Junes (Dunedin), suffering from dysentery and an operation, is in a satisfactory condition. RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. London, Nov. 19. The Press Bureau says that Lord Derby, in a letter to Mr. Asquith, endeavors to clear up the uncertainty of the .Ministerial statement respecting recruiting. He understands that married men will not be called upon before young unmarried men. If the latter do not offer voluntarily the married men will be released from their pledge, or a Bill wil] be introduced compelling young men to serve. If the Bill is not passed the married men will be automatically released. Lord Derby interprets the words "young unmarried men" to mean the vast majority who are not engaged in munition manufacture or other essential national work. Mr. Asquith replied that the letter correctly expresses the Government's intentions. It is assumed that the correspondence is the result of a serious set-back in recruiting, due to contradictory interpretations of Mr. Asquith's guarantees. Recruiting officers state that Mr. Asquith killed the goose that was laying the recruiting eggs. Lord Derby'has extended the voluntary recruiting period till December 11.

INDIA'S LOYALTY London, Nov. 19. The Secretary for India contradicts as absolutely groundless reports the German press allegations of rebellion and disturbances in India. GENERAL ITEMS. NEWS FROM THE TIMES. TIRED OF IT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Lonilon, Nov. 19, A semi-official newspaper at Petrograd states that German prisoners taken recently differ from those taken earlier in the war. They now talk freely of their woes. A prisoner from Posen was asked by one of our men why their men were surrendering daily. He attempted to justify himself by saying: "In the beginning we were not tired, but the war lias lasted too long. At the beginning we were told that we would not have to fight more than two or three months. Our fathers were accustomed to ending their wars quickly. You are probably tired also." The Russian pleasantly retaliated: "Our experience in the Crimean, Turkish and Japanese wars does not lead us to anticipate early decisions." AL'IEX BUSINESS. The Council o f Ministers iu IVliv grad lias decided to sirspcn.) tne b.isi ness of enemy subjects in Russia, numbering 1100, employing :t'2,HOO persons and having a turnover of ten millions sterling annually. GOODS FOR ROU.MAXI4. According to a cable from Copenhagen the Exchange Telegraph Company asserts that the Roumanian Government has sent a railway commission to Petrograd to discuss tiie possibility of trimporting supplies from England to Ronmania by way of Scandinavia and Russia, on account of the route through Nish being in the hands of the Germans.

OFFER FROM JAMAICA. Tlie Press Bureau says tliat Jamaica lias offered more men, and proposed to defray the cost by the payment of £OO,OOO pel- annum for forty years. BERLIN TO CONSTANTINOPLE. The Tagcs Zeitung asserts that free railway communication between Berlin and Constantinople is open. ANOTHER GERMAN LIE. A French wireless message states that German agencies circulate the astonishing figure of ti,150,7.30 Russians out of action, which is a million above the total mobilised. TEMPORAL POWER. It is understood that at the approaching Consistory the Pope intends substantially "to declare his renunciation of the temporal power in return for international guarantees of liberty for spiritual work with Italy's conseiit in the presence of a European conference. GAS ADVOCATED. The Army Committee of the French Senate passed a resolution in favor of the unrestricted use of asphyxiating gas.