BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15398, 15 July 1914, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

BRITrSH ARMY. SHORT OF RECRUITS. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" serv!o«. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 23. A deficit of 25,000 in the number of recruits in five years justifies the criticism that more money and. a thorough reform of the recruiting service is necessary. The neglect and slackness of the past feAV years have had disastrous consequences. THE RED PLAGUE. Before the Venereal Diseases Commission, tlie headmasters of Eton and Harrow gave evidence that the ideal of sex instruction Avas that it should be gi\-en by parents, and school instruction ought to be the special responsibility of the headmaster, exercising the greatest caiition. LABOUR AND SOCIALISM. 'The Catholic Congress at Cardiff declared that Labotir could succeed without Socialism, and demanded that Messrs Ramsay Mac Donald and Philip Snowden should clearly and unmistakeably define Socialism. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. CALCUTTA, July 13. The neAvspapers consider the South African Bill dealing with immigration of Indians as disappointing, and the concessions not cordially made. 'PUBLIC HEALTH. The Sanitary Conference, discussing public) health, disclosed general agreement that the workers cannot get nrach fiirther forAvard unt'il the people are filled with a personal desire for health. The appointment of a' Minister of Public Health was adA'ocated. PICTURES BY WIRE. PARIS, July 13: Mj Georges Rignaux, at the Academy soj Science, exhibited an apparatus called the telepbote, which solves for vision the problems that the telephone has solved for the ear, by transmitting pictures in light and shade along Avires. A HUGE HOLD-UP. ". NEW YORK, July 13. Ninety-nine thousand excursionists were marooned for hours at Coney Island on Sunday night, by a breakdoAvn of % electric power. CroAvds stormed the cars and peremptorily demanded transportation, but Avere compelled to Avait till the poAver Avas 'restored, c.

SELECTIVE EMIGRATION. WOMEN FOB, CANADA. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 13. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, interviewed after a visit to Canada, declared that Canada needed farmers and farm hands and a hundred thousand women. Co-operation between existing committees in Canada and Britain might lead to tho establishment- of an enormous matrimonial agency greatly both. If superfluous women were sent to Canada the Motherland might keep the farm hands for herself.