NEW ZEALANDERS FEELING THE COLD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS FEELING THE COLD.

nays league manifesto. effect of big german guns described. GERMAN OFFICERS COMMANDING AUSTRIAN ARMIES. (Received Oct.. 23, 10.30 a.m.) . LONDON, Oct. 22.

Owing to'the perishing cold at Bulford camp, Captain Lampen applied for cardigan jackets. The New Zealanders'. Association ransacked the city ernporjoiims Imd warehouses, ..whose supplies had been depleted by the War Office, and managed to purchase two hundred.

•The Navy League, in a Trafalgar Dayr manifesto, declares that the strength, fighting capacity and general efficiency of the British, fleet stand on a higher level than ever previously achieved. Our naval administration in all its complex and elaborate detail is boing conducted with a vigor, skill arid foresight that leaves nothing to he desired. The League congratulates the Government on the appointment to supreme command of Admiral Jellicoe, whose name is an inspiration of hope and confidence to officers and men. The League is determined to oppose premature and ill-advised peace, and will exhort the nation that nothing less than the destruction of the menace of German sea power can secure the future peace of the world.

A correspondent, of the Vossische Zeitung thus describes the action of the German forty-five centimetre guns. "Two Krupps are ready after three days' work. Their mouths are lowered so that shells can be placed in them with greatei* ease, and", then stand erect, proudly looking to the sky. The distance has been determined and the great moment lias arrived. Carefully the fuse is brought. The trigger is pulled by two men when the officer calls 'fire.' A gigantic ball of fire, forty feet in diameter, is formed at the mouth, and a- deafening crash resounds. Strong air pressure* is felt, and window panes in a house 350 feet from the front of the gun are all shattered, and a roof is partially carried off. A little round body appears above the mouth of the barrel, rises straight in a steep. line, and disappears after a second in the clouds. It is driven upwards with the ease of a child's ball. The impression on the atmosphere is gigantic, even at a great distance. Our quarters are 850 yards removed from the guns, but the house, gets a shock at every shot.'.'

German officers have assumed the commands in the Austrian army. Austrian troops are mixed with Gei*man soldiers, and all-armies are conTmanded by German generals.