SEVERAL MORE VESSELS SUNK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144671, 4 May 1915, Page 3

SEVERAL MORE VESSELS SUNK.

FIRST LIST OF IIEW ZEALAND LOSSES. EIGHT OFFICERS KILLED. 107 IEN WOUNDED, NUMBER KILLED NOT AVAILABLE.

• The rumours of some big naval engagement in the North ■ Sea have proved false,* and the only novelty is the renewed activity.of the German submarines. These vessels arc devoting their attention to British trawlers, which are presumedly engaged in mine-sweeping or some other form of service, of value to the navy. The casualty list from the Dardanelles, which is published today, is heavy, but the losses are not so serious as might have been expected. The list of officers killed does nnt include the names of any Taranaki men. No further official details have been received of the work being done at the Dardanelles, though an Athens cablegram reports heavy fighting at Maidos, a point which one would hardly expect the invaders to,have reached yet. NOTES FROM LONDON. STRIKE 0F ch 4^vqrkers.

(Received May 4. 10..55 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. Seven hundred and fifty chainworkers at Old Hill engaged on Government work have struck in connection with the war bonus question.

THE DRINK PROBLEM. EVIDENCE PROM VARIOUS DISTRICTS. BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 3. A White Paper has been issued on which Mr. Lloyd George based the drink crusade. Tho reports of tho-naval authorities of various shipbuilding areas indicated thaGpartial measures were useless, and that total prohibition was the only remedy, outside martial law. Early morning drinking was chiefly responsible for the. slackness. The Admiralty’s superintendent on the Clyde reported that some repairs to warships were so bad as to suggest that sober men could not have done them. He would like to see the whole of Glasgow and down to Dumbarton placed within the drink question area. The naval director at the Tyne stated that the whole of the labour was deplorable, uncertain, and not dependable. The extra wages paid accentuated the difficulty. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe wrote that labo.nr difficulties delayed destroyers in docking for'refits. .. .The. ..Home. .Office. inquiries showed that the main reasons for stalehess and fatigue were long hours and unusually . high ‘ wages, leading to loafing and drinking, but drink was the chief reason. VISIT FROM AN AEROPLANE (.Received’ May 4, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, May ,3. A German aeroplane was • driven off from Dover. THE END OF THE AVAR. NOT IN SIGHT YET. LONDON, May 3. The Times’ military correspondent says the end of the war is hot clear, except that it means tho slow* exhaustion of one side or tbo other. The exhaustion of Germany, Austria and Turkey, with 136 millions of population anti immense resources, will necessarily he a long process. It is practically impossible to fix the limits of the enemy s endurance. Therefore is exceedingly probable that we are in for a long war. WOMEN’S PEACE CONFERENCE. BELGIAN DELEGATES WELCOMED TIMES AND SYDNEY SON SERVICES. (Received May 4, 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. There was a thrilling moment at the Women’s Peace Conference at Tho Hague when the Belgian delegates, who crossed tbe frontier on foot, entered, and they wer.e loudly cheered. The British delegates declared that suffragists were anxious to go to the front and’ fight. The Belgians protested against peace without justice, and the conference sympathetically listened to the heartrending story of the injustice done to Belgium. A resolution was carried in favour °f peace on just principle.-, and no transfetehoe of territory without the consent of tho inhabitants. A STORMY ENDING. (Received May 4, 9.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, May 3. The Womenjs Peace Congress ended in'uproar. The Gorman delegates controlled the gathering and rode roughshod over the. protests of two English delegates against resolutions favourable to Germany. The congress adopted a resolution demanding immediate peace.