GENERAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 June 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

A NOVELIST AND TELE WAR. (Rec. Juno- 12,-"8:45 a.m.) LONDON, June 11. Mr H. G. Wells, the novelist, m a letter to the newspapers says ithat war is essentially a straggle ofinvention, andi perpetually outwitting an opponent, Britishers* -now' show - great individual courage, but there -was; an insufficient number of aviators and an -inadequate supply of seaplanes. We should. nave produced l an aeroplane, capable of overtaking a Zeppelin and, some counterstroke to the'submarine and Germany s unpr ed torpedoes; The- troops - still want- armoured protection ; during - advances against machine guns. £ ; the Dardanelles throughout b(»n; unforesoeing, and; Aindnventi've. W recruiting millions of . infantry, -while (the realised that for ' poses one well 1 protected and. skilled ma-

chine gunner was superior to s- row of riflemen,. . Wo want, not politicians, .but self-government and scientific., technically competent men to wage the war. "A MARTYR." (Rec. June! 12, 10.5 a.m..) -LONDON, June 11. . ! ' Fifteen hundred. children celebrated Enjpiro 'Dav at the 'Guildhall.: Sir Qeo. Reid said .that the British soldier who die'd ill battle was a martyr b©6auso he was a, volunteer, • That martyr s blood woxxld dement' the* people of the United Kingdom to the Dominions as no prosperity could do. -