RECEPTION OF WAR NEWS IN INDIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11111, 28 November 1914, Page 5

RECEPTION OF WAR NEWS IN INDIA.

ALL COMMUNITIES ABSORBED IN ST. ' GENERAL ANXIETY TO GO TO THE FRONT. Delhi, Nov. 37. The war news continues to absorb the entire interest of all the community in India. The whole country is engaged in furthering schemes of every kind for assisting in ultimate victory. : > Practically every English woman in India is working for the-comfort of the troops. Daily telegrams containing news of victories and reverses are received throughout the country with quiet but supreme confidence in the result of the struggle. Recruiting for the native army continues in an extraordinary manner among the fighting races, whose martial instincts are whetted by accounts of Indian feats at the front. In consequence the number of applications received by the Commander-iu-Ohief are ro great that he is obliged to forbid officers forwarding requests to proceed to service. THE SOUTH AFRICAN WaR. Pretoria, Nov. 27. Official: The rebels made numerous unsuccessful attempts to derail an armoured train on the ReitzPrankfort line. There have been brisk engagements and a number of rebels have been killed and wounded. Of De Wet’s three Generals only Rautenbich remains, Rooco and De Yiliiers having surrendered.