BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

SREAT RECRUITING. ALL RECORDS BROKEN.' MEN FOR ARMY AND ARSENALS. Received Dec. 12, 6.5 p.m. London, Dec. 11. A rally for single men was the outfUnding feature of the close of Lord Derby's campaign. Some of the recruittag officers did not take off their clothes for four days. Many recruits have gone straight to the umy. Several officers announce they have beaten all record*. Apart from Lorg. Derby's group scheme 8 per cent, enlisted at the White City. They were, under 30 years and apparently not married. : Nine hundred night-shifters at the Woolwich Arsenal were sworn in. On Friday night there were left a thousand gathered at the Lambeth Town Ball at midnight, waiting to be signed on. There were similar scenes is the pro*igcia| centres.

TBE DARDANELLES ENEMY: OFFENSIVE COMING. ASSISTANCE FROM GERMANY. * Received Dec. 12, 5.5 pjn. Turin, Dec. 11. a correspondent of La Stamp* at flflnnfttt says the powerful concentraiionof Germans makes an offensive at Gallipoli probable. A large number of submarines In sections from Germany have passed through. Bulgaria by special tifilis towards Turkey,

A TURKISH ATTACK. REPULSED by NEWi KWAT.AOTffIiRg Received Dec. 12, &5 p.m. London, Dec. 11. The Daily News' Athena correspondent *»y« the New on Friday repulsed a Turkish attack at Krithia. TROUBLE at constatinople. GERMAN POLICE TO QUELL ET. ReeCived Dec. 12, o^.pjn. Athens, Dec. 13. General yon Mackensen has arrived at Constantinople with two Bavarian infantry regiments and several batteries; •Jao German police, who are to assist the Turks in suppressing the anti-Ger-man demonstrations.

A "HEAVY" STORY. Received Dec. 12, 5.5 pjn. ■ Vienna, Dec. 12. The Austro-Hungarian Si-centimetre And 30-centimetre mortars and howitzers, which met with such success at -,Liege and Antwerp, and in the Carpathians, have reached Gallipoli.

IN THE WEST. FRENCH ADVANCE IN CHAMPAGNE. _ _ Wellington, Dec. 11. The High Commissioner caWea from London, December 10, 4.55 p.m., as follows: South of St. Souplet yesterday the enemy was driven beyond the crest. (St. Souplet is on the north side of the Bazancourt-Challerange railway, which has been of great value to the German forces as a means of supply and of transferring troops rapidly to any threatened point. When a big offensive was undertaken at the end of September the French managed to T each within two miles of this railway at Tahure Butte, which is a few miles further east than St! Souplet. Now they must be very close to the line, close enough to stop the traffic, if not actually to capture it.)

PERSIA. ' TURKS CLAIM SUCCESS. * Received Dec. 12, 5.5 p.m. Constantinople, Dec. 11. 4 communique says: "We inflicted great losses on the enemy near Kutelamara and compelled a division on the right bank of the Tigris to retreat to KnttUunaro,"