ENGLISH NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13815, 9 July 1915, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS.

FRANCE'S SACRIFICES

WAR LOAN APPLICATIONS FROM AUSTRALASIA. CLAIM'S BY LUSITANIA SURVIVOPvS. London, July 7. Lord Curzon, speaking on France 1 Day, at a garden party, said that : France had lost hundreds of thousands !of the flower of her population, and was persisting bravely in the struggle, which, he believed, was Hearing its supreme climax. The Allies were resolved to endure to the end. . Lord Kitchener will address a great recruiting meeting at the Guildhall on' Friday. , ,

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Among the applications for the war loan are the Australian Mutual Provi r dent Society for £150,000, and the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, £50,000.

Mr. McKenna, speaking in the House of Commons, said that the Government could not compensate survivors from the. Lusitania. They might, however, register their claims with the Foreign Office.

Replying to the suggestion that women jurors should release men for war service, Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, said he did not propose to introduce legislation on such contentious subjects.

An Order-in-Council applies the State control of the liquor supply in Bristol, Newhaven, Southampton, Newport, Cardiff, Barry, Barrow-in-Furness, Dartford, Liverpool, Birkenhead, New-castle-on-Tyne, Hartlepool, Darlington., Jarrow, Wallsend.