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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13549, 17 August 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

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the commando system in South Africa. Lord Kitchener proposes that the foreign service units shall receive continuous training and be employed abroad until they reach a standard of efficiency which will enable them to do credit to the British Army on foreign

service

The plan indicates preparation for a long war, necessitating possibly half a million additional men. The scheme allows the Territorials to retain their present character, and yet be able to thrown off divisions for service abroad.

Probably the first Territorial division will be ready months before the second army is trained. It is expected that the latter's enrolment will be completed in a fortnight.

The Government cargo insurance rate is still four per cent, but there is much private business at Lloyds at a slightly .lower rate. '

A meeting of New Zealanders formed a War Contingent Association with a view to promote the welfare of the New Zealand contingent on its arrival in England. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Lord Plunket, the Horn W. P. Reeves, Sir James Mills, and Sir Joshua Williams attended. Lord Islington announced the Government'& encouragement.

The Canadians have formed a similar association.

Lord Dunraven has chartered a yacht for Lady Dudley's hospital, and he will personally command it and defray the expenses.

The, Treasury announce that fifteen million six months' Treasury Bills will be tendered on Wednesday.

An official report states that the Nyassaland Government steamer captured the German Government steamer Sphindthaven on Nyassa Lake, and took the crew prisoners.

The' Government is sending Count Mensdorff and his family home by a special steamer from Falrnouth.

The building dispute has been completely settled.

The Press Bureau states that a large number of graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin Universities ha,ve been given commissions in the Indian Army, the Royal Artillery, etc. ..The" Press Bureau says Jhefe are indicatitins tnWt the Germans1 will endeavour to envelop the allies' extreme left.

The official news continues to indicate that titer French and Belgian artillery is superior to the German, and also that the German infantry do not determinedly face- the bayonet.

The Government has started a war prisoners' information bureau under the Hague" Conventi6n;

London was remarkably g.uiet to-day. There was no Privy Council, and only a brief Cabinet. The Premier spent th« afternoon in tho country, Mr. Lloyd George early left for Walton, and the other "Ministers propose spending the week-end' away from London.

Lord Kitchener has authorised the

National Rifie Association to organise a corps of expert marksmen to rapidly 'instruct recruits in the United Kingdom. Many legal notices ar£ appearing in the newspapers relating to Germans Anglicising their surnames.