NOTES FROM LONDON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144850, 30 November 1915, Page 3

NOTES FROM LONDON.

IMPROVING ORGANISATION. ■ NEED FOR GENERAL STAFF. BT EtSCTBIO TELEGBAPK.—COPrEIGP.I. LONDON, Nov. 29. The Government has transferred from the Army Council to the Ministry of Munitions the responsibility of testing the arms and the examining of munitions and inventions. The Munitions Board now controls the research department at Woolwich, the experimental department at Shocburyness, and the War Office inventions branch. Major-General Duncano has been transterred to the. Munitions Department to control this work. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent states that the Entente Powers are beginning to realise the need of an International Grand General Staff. The organisation of the Entente is steadily tightening up, but it is felt that something more is required. There have been' irregular meetings to deal with pressing matters, and it is believed that burlier conferences have been arranged, while a scheme for permanent consultation is being considered. , ~ The councils will probably be hold in Paris. It is considered that three representatives from each of the four Powers will be. sufficient. The Foreign Offices of England and France have never been more intimate. The munitions departments are on a perfect understanding, and the military staffs are working in perfect unison.

THE "WAR AND THE EMPIRE. LONDON, Nov. 29. Percy and Archibald Hurd, in a book entitled “A New Empire Partnership, point out that there must be a single navy for the British Empire. They oppose separate Canadian, Australian and other colonial,fleets as being fatal to maritime efficiency. Mr. Sidney Low, reviewing the book, says it follows that there _must be an Imperial executive for de&nce, and a foreign' policy representing the entire community of States. Mr. Low asks; “Is the English governing committee a party of politicians to be regularly supplemented by representatives of corresponding committees in the Dominions, or are we to have a ‘distinct Imperial Cabinet? I think presently that there will be a revival of the Iniperial federation idea. The Empire most cease to be an association of detached units, and must become a real partnership.”

A CHALLENGE TO PACIFICISTS. (Received Nov. 29, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. Colonel Jameson, who commands the 24th London Regiment, in a recruiting rally, challenged Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. C. P. Trevelyan to resign, and stated that he would contest the seats on tho conscription ticket. EGYPT AND THE SBNUSSI. RELATIONS GOOD. (Received Nov. 30, 8 a.m.) CAIRO, Nov. 29. Official.—The Shcrif-el-Senussi continues to maintain a friendly attitude towards the Government, but certain hostile agencies have induced some western Arabs to commit minor acts of aggression against frontier posts. Wo are therefore concentrating the smaller frontier posts at Matruh. [The Senussi are a powerful Moslem sect who occupy the country west of Egypt.] THE CAMEROONS. ALLIES MAKE PROGRESS. (Received Nov. 30, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. The British, in the have reached the Page River. The French occupied Makondo with heavy losses to tho Germans. FURTHER DETAILS. (Received Nov, SO, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. The Press Bureau states that General Dobell’s Franco-British forces are gradually drawing a ring around the Germans in the Cameroons. The Allies have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, whose centre of resistance is the high ground around Jaunde, while the Germans in the north of the Cameroons are now broken up into small parties which Brigadier Cunliff is pursuing. The French approaching Jaunde accomplished a remarkable feat in African warfare, fighting their way across the German Cameroons from.-French (Equatorial Africa,