WAR NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5356, 14 February 1916, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

, I RIDER HAGGARD’S MISSION. I i

Electric Telearaph—Press Association. Copyright. London, Last Night. Before Sir Rider Haggard Bailed he received the following telegram from Ehrl Grey: “Sorry that certain newspaper critics object to your mission. If the Empire is to continue there must be great intermigration between England and the .Dotmiiuons). Thdf settlement of vacant Dominion lands with Britons will add to the strength and safety of tile Empire.”

INDIA’S LOYALTY. KING GEORGE’S MESSAGE. London, Last Night. The King, in an address to Indian officers, said : “I am glad to receive in person Indian officers who have faithfully borne their share in the conflict to uphold the honour of Indians in the world-wide war. I welcome your presence as a symbol of tlio unity of the Empire and as setting a seal upon the heroic efforts of all other forces overseas and at home. I am deeply touched by your declaration of loyalty and gratitude in your generous recognition of brotherly feeling as fellow subjects of the Empire, which India has consecrated afresh by the blood her sons have shed far from home, in a quarrel which, while the might of the* Empire protects India’s shores, does not come near her lives and fortunes. Your kith and kin and the liberties of the whole Empire have been put into the scale, and, please God. India will enjoy these in increasing measure as she advances on the patli of social improvement and., political experience.”

AMERICA AND PREPAREDNESS Washington, Last Night. Mr Lindley Garrison, American Secretary for War, resigned because President Wilson refused to adopt a sufficiently strong army to defend the United States President Wilson declares that he believes the present programme is all that is required. He complains bitterly of the misunderstanding of the Unitrd States’ posi. tion throughout the world. “1 am afraid to leave the verdict to history,” he says, “which will show that we took the right course in not allowing the world's quarrel to Ikwoiuc America’s quarrel.” He warns the nation that trouble is merely at arm’s length and that there is no knowing when it will actually involve them. Hence tin- necessity for preparedness.