ENGLISH NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS.

GERMAN PRISONERS AT SOUTH-

HAMPTON

FIVE THOUSAND IN FOUR DAYS

BRITISH WAR OUTPUT

London, March 18

Five thousand German prisoners have arrived at Southampton in four days.

Professor Pollard state* that since October Britishers in France have been using up .rifles at the rate of one per man monthly. •

The executive of the Miners^ Federation recommends the districts tc> take the shortest possible holidays in order to prevent the curtailment of output.

GABLE NEWS.

[Press Association—Copyright.]

The Paris "Matin" says that Sir William Ramsay has informed M. Millefand, Minister for War, that it would be greatly to France's interest to treat cotton as contraband, ultimately forcing Germany to resort to ordinary gunpowder ,which does not suit modern guns.

A member of the Potaro's crew who was a prisoner for six weeks on board the Kronprinz Wilhelm states that six of the Kronprinz's crew were shot for disobej'ing orders.