BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1915, Page 3

BRITAIN.

IjORD DERBY'S RECRUITS 2V 2 MILLION AVAILABLE. London, December 23. Mr. O'Grady, Labor member for East Leeds, has written to the Daily Sketch Btating that until the end of November the response to Lord Derby's recruiting scheme was unsatisfactory. Then the authorities resolved on a great rally and as the result the figures jumped from 74,000 in one day to 336,000 on the next. During the last week 1,539,000 men attested. During the whole campaign 2'/ 2 million men attested. The House of Lords has passed the Government's Trading with the Enemy Bill. In the House of Commons, Mr. Tennan said that for every man at the front we ought to have a reserve of 1.8 men. The wastage is 15 per cent, monthly. BRITISH FINANCES. London, December 23. The Daily Telegraph publishes a manifesto, signed by the principal bankers. It expresses no doubt that the Allies' financial resources, when fully moDilised, will be vastly greater than tl -n enemy's The colossal task of finding the bulk of the immense sums needed falls on the British.

Mr. McKenna estimated the expenditure for the current financial year at 1590 millions, the raising of which will try the mettle of the nation more than anything else for the past hundred years. The nation's energies must be completely concentrated on the production of real essentials, while the production of nonessentials must be wholly stopped. Only by all classes supplementing and husbanding their incomes, by selling foreign credits, will it be possible to provide the vast sums needed. THE UNMARRIED SHIRKERS. London, December 23. The Daily News admits that the Cabinet is on the horns of a dilemma with regard to Lord Derby's scheme. The unmarried men who ~rr VirMir~ n. l " ;; ■■ not negligible in the gross, but possibly negligible if the unfit and those indispensable in munition work are eliminated. GERMAN INTRIGUES. Times and Sydney Sun Service?. London, December 23. Tientsin states that a wave of German literature, printed in Japanese, is overflowing Japan in an attempt poisoning Anglo-Japanese relations and accusing England of breach of faith concerning Japan's interests in China.