NATIONAL SERVICE MOVEMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2734, 4 June 1915, Page 4

NATIONAL SERVICE MOVEMENT.

London, June 2. Fifteen heads of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges favour universal service. They have formulated a scheme . for enrolling students unable to join ' the colours to assist in chemical and industrial work. TERROR FOR TERROR. A French memorandum to foreign Power s on the German use of gas quotes a- German headquarters order regarding a new weapon to squirt inflammable liquid 20 metres, causing mortal injury. The memorandum remarks: No Government could allow the troops to bo without protection against such refinements of barbarity j consequently Franco intends to uso fitting moaiia to prevent the Germans committing further murders. CANADIAN CASUALTY LIST. To-day's Canadian casualties list is: 236 dead, 229 wounded, 560 miss--lU g" A HERO KILLED. - Goneral Morissy has beon killed in i action. _ j He commanded the brigade which was inserted in tho British lines at Ypres in tho critical days of October, and he led a miscellaneous force of cooks and gunners, who fought like heroes. THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE. Tho naval correspondent of tho Times, in commenting on the German blockade, says it is still operating. Tho fewer successes aro due to the inability of the submarines to continue their earlier achievements, not to tho desire to suspend attacks to placate America. -British anti-sub-marine measures aro increasingly effective with time and experience. Germany may possibly find it expedient and necessary to announce the suspension of the policy. Germany is unquestionably briskly building submarines. INSURANCE COMPANIES HIT. English insurance offices have already paid £100,000 sterling on 350 of the Lusitania victims. Many more claims are expected. PATRIOTIC SOUTH AFRICANS, South African reports show that soldiers everywhere are eager for foreign service and are pressing tho Government to despatch troops to Europe. Capetown, June 2. A'iscount Buxton,, the GovernorGeneral, said that a definite statement regarding a South African contingent for Europe, would be premature, for though we occupy the capital and the greater part'of German South AA'est Africa, a German army lias not yet been engaged.

A STARTLING SUGGESTION. Mr F. T. Jane, the naval expert, suggests that the Princess Irene was blown up by a German wireless device. He points out that the Bulwark was blown to atoms at the same place, which is a curious coincidence, and shows, as Italian experiments have proved, that it is possible to oxplode a properly attuned charge by wireless. GERMAN SOCIALIST MANIFESTO A Berne report states that a manifesto from German Socialists, circulated widely among the German working classes, accuses Austria of being the cause of the war and complains of the ignorance iv which tho Austrians are kept. It also- denounces the German Avar policy as the work of Imperialist secret diplomats, who aro tho arch-enemies of the Germans. It is asserted that peace was possible in March, but the greedy Imperialists refused to accept the chance.

RIFLES FOR GERMANY. Copenhagen, Juno 2. The Swedish steamer Pan, with a cargo of rifles, ostensibly for Bulgaria, wa s seized by a German torpedoboat off Falsterbo. The Bulgarian Legation in Berlin- gave the Danish Government <a guarantee that the vessel would sail direct for Dedcagatch, but the vessel, instead of going north, sneaked towards the Baltic, whore she met the German topedoer. THE GERMAN REVIEW. Amsterdam, Juno 2. A German communique- states: As reprisals for the Ludwigshafen raid wo last night threw "'numerous bombs on the whafves and docks of London. The enemy airmen last night bombarded Ostend, damaging some of the houses. The Bavarians stormed forts 10, 11, and 12, west of Dunkowiiczki, on the Przemysl front. We captured 1400 of the garrison and 18 heavy guns, and five light guns. The Russians attacked in masses our nositions east of Jaroslav, but failed, leaving an enormous number of dead. THK RUSSIANS REPORT. Perograd, June 2. Official.—Tho enemy iv Galicia attacked forts 7 to 11 westward and north-westward of Przeniysl. They approached on Sunday night to within 200 paces .and gained a footing in the precincts; of,, ljor't 7. There was an obstinate battle until the afternoon of Monday, when thoy were repulsed with enormous losses. Twenty-three 'officer* and 600 men who entered the fort were made prisoners. . l-ODCED TO FLY FROM ITALY. i London, Juno 2. A message from Berlin says that the Krouz Zeitung states that Signor Giolitti (leader of the anti-war party) has been forced to fly from Italy, as a plot is afoot to murder him. THE RECENT AIR RAH). At an inquest on victims by the recent Zeppelin raid, it was stated in evidence that a man and his wife had been found, with their nightclothes burned off, kneeling beside their bed in an attitudo of prayer. They had been suffocated. Two bombs had been found in a basement. Ono had not exploded. It-was filled with them ite. At the second inquest, regarding tlie death of a girl of three, who had been burnt to doath, ovidonco was given that a bomb crashed into the children's bed. Four other children wero rescued, badly burned, but. tho fifth was left, the father believing that all had been saved.