INDIA'S WONDERFUL RESPONSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9895, 10 September 1914, Page 5

INDIA'S WONDERFUL RESPONSE.

EVERY NATIVE RULER OFFERS HIS SERVICES. Received September 10, 2.45 p m. LONDON, Sept. 9 (evening). In the Commons, Mr Asquith read Lord Hardinge's intensely interesting account of how the Princes and people of India offered their services. The House was deeply moved and cheered. All the seven hundred rulers offered their services and resources, besides men and money. Some are equipping a hospital ship, and others are providing a thousand horses. As showing the extent of the offers, the Dalai Lama of Tibet offered a thousand Tibetans. Mr Asquith announced that Lord Hardinge's message would be circulated throughout the world. Mr Will Thorne: "Send a copy to the Kaiser!" THE BRITISH ARMY. MORE MEN WANTED. Received September 10 2.45 p.m „ t , LONDON, Sept. 9. Mr Asquith a&k*> the Commons tomorrow for additional men for the army. INDIAN GOVERNMENT GIVES A MILLION STERLING. Received September 10, 1.35 p.m. DELHI, Sept. 9. lhe Government has. contributed a million sterling towards the cost of the Indian contingent. CANADIAN MUNIFICENCE. Received September 10, 1.35 p.m OTTAWA, Sept. 9. A meeting of the Patriotic Association raised 175,000 dollars including the City Corporation's 50,000. Several wealthy residents have contributed 300,000 dollars to equip a battery of ten machine guns mounted on motor trucks. THE WORK OF THE TRAWLERS. Received September 10, 1.35 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 9 (evening.) A British gunboat captured a trawler with 200 mines aboara purporting to belong to Grimsby. ( Nayy List contains the names of 27 large liners that have been commissioned and also 100 trawlers. GERMANS CAPTURE BRITISH TRAWLERS. AND USE THEM~AS MINE-LAYERS. LONDON, Sept, 9 (evening). The German plan has been to capture British trawlers and use them as mine-layers. THE REDCROSS. AMERICAN HOSPITAL SHIP. Received September 10. 1.35 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. The American Red Cross Society's ship Red Cross, formerly the HamburgAmerica liner Hamburg, carrying a dozen hospital units, was about to sail when she was unexpectedly held up. It aopears that Sir C. A. Spring Rice, the British Ambassador, objected to the departure because the majority of the crew were Germans. Later the Red Cross was allowed to sail, the crew being made up of neutrals.