MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

THE ELECTIONS, feTOEMOUS BDOt FEIN POLLING. ROWDYISM AT WATERFORD. Received Dec. 18, 3.35 p.m. London, Dec. 17. Times' Dublin correspondent J*tec tint enormous Sinn Fein polling I* reported in all districts, and he Mjttvsts that the Nationalists will be WTwith, only eight or ten seats. Numerous shinorics have occurred. Hundreds of Sinn Feiners were import•4 to Waterford and Toted. They compiled the police to charge with fiied lyQweta, several being wounded. Mr. ttpovd, Nationalist candidate for BaityIMte, was atoned and badly injured. Lite Times, in an editorial, points out the absentee votes will Imperil I ■*ay of the confident candidates. A Wge soldiers' vote is likely to be retgtd«fL—•Times Service. GALLIPOLI OPERATIONS. A MOURNFUL SPLENDOUR *OTURE WILL JUSTIFY THE" EXPEDITION. London, Dec. 17. , (Sir James Mills presided at the Atßcheon of the Australian and New Ztaland Clubs to General Bird wood, and 1 ifr. Churchill was present. The 'former, responding to the toast at his health, nod the future would do (ill justice to the Mediterranean ezpedi- ' ttta. . Although the Dardanelles cam- (&* was sot' successful it accomplished I tfe annihilation of the flower of the Turkish •army. No name was higher in tlw world than that of the Australian •id New soldiers, while in the Vfcote amy there was not any better WpttiiWd or more efficient division than It! New Zealanders. -Ib. Chnichill said that a mournful nfetfdoar played about the great operatNß'at Qallitrali. It was launched witfeAllied help. There were Mihaly uj graves in the whole battleMd on which they could better write J m words "Wot in vain" than on those I taax graces at Gallipoli Sir laa Hamilton was set a task which no hubong could have adiieved with the noaiats left' after the needs of France lid beta met. It now became the duty «f statesmen to preserve the unity of tk* Satpire and to carry the Imperial •pulsation a step forward. We must ttpeet tlw overseas Dominions to be in lifcser tooch with the march of events Mdfronting them in the future.—Aus. Gable Assoe. and Reuter. UNSUNG HEROES.

THU POISON GAS EXPERTS. London, See. 17. mUloticed war heroes are A» poison gas expert*, whose duty it m to teat the Various gases and masks. Tktrj wero-daily shut in sealed chamMveßetajning the gases and inevitably abaorted the poison into their system. They were, sometimes ahut m for hours atattme. The experts looked far abefcl .tad antidotes aad protectsMtgaiftst any poasible gases, in addHM to those actually employed by thftGttmana. Phosgene was Germany's deadliest gal, bat a. protective helmet was devised four months before it waa reqnirtd, and tiEa start was never kxt. Twisty itffllob amall box respirators Tha head of the anti-gas department, Ookmel Harrißon, who died of inflnenia recently, was warned that he could not h*e iaothtr year if be persevered with ftfii Work. He swiftly soeenmbed to inliMßia.—Ana. KJZ. Oshli Assoe. HONORING THE DOMINIONS. IMPERIAL TOUR BY PRINCE OF WALES. Received Dec. 18, 7.55 pjn. London, Dec. 17. Om of the latest battleships is now tejgg re-fitted for the purpose of the Ptfajce of Wale* making an Imperial toor, which 'is regarded as a fitting way 'whereby hie Majesty can express to the Dominions hia deep oonaeioosmm of their gwat aarfloea rendered in tka war to the wlrtU Empire.—Scoter. COTTON OPERATIVES. APfSOVS SETTLEMENT. - \ ■> a]3»-wv;2-3 ; London, Dee. 17. A meeting -of eottM operatives at unanimously approved the liilHeiimrit The 'operator ea received an •dVMea of SO per cent, on the standard plsss Trrrlr price list, which is about 10 oar flint. Wow, the foil claim, but more ""Pl'TT* offered.—Ana. MX