LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

SOUTH WALES MINERS AT WORK

AGAIN

LOW RECOR© IN POOR RELIEF

THE WEEK'S SUBMAMNE TOLL..

LONDON, Sept. 3. All the South Wales miners have resumed work.

Copenhagen advises that *he Danish Government has prohibited the export of sugar.

At the end of July fewer people were in receipt of relief in England and Wales than ever recorded.

For the week ending September 1 there were 1353 arrivals and departures. Three vessels were sunk, aggregating 6757 tons. The steamers Whitefield and Savona have been submarined and sunk. 'Three of the latter's crew Derishe<L

The following significant words were found in the notebook of a Bavarian reservist, taken prisoner by the French: "Enthusiasm has fallen to zero. . . We have but one desire —to return to our families. At least there we oould have dry straw, decent nourishment, and some repose at.night. 1 . . . Ah!.My God! 'Why am I not an honest defender of my country instead of being, an infamous galleyslave! ... If this war lasts another three months, the most ardent patriot will return an anarchist and a revolutionary. We are so tired of this butc>err tliat we are filled with shame at having to take part m it."