NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15443, 4 September 1914, Page 7

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

"A LONG WAR. PREDICTED BY "THE TIMES.'' FRANCE WILL NOT YIELD. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" servFens Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 6.15 p.m., Sept. 3rd. LONDON, Sept. 2. "The Times," in a loading article, says:—"Hie war is going to be a long one. Should the Allies keep the enemies at bay, tho German army will still take a great amount of dislodging from France. Should the Germans make good their advance towards Paris, we and our Allies must doggedly enter upon the task of wearing them down. Franco knows full well that 'if she yielded' she will be crushed never to rise again. But slio will never yield." Optimism prevails in military circles in Paris. THE BRITISH BRAKE. ON GERMAN PROGRESS.

A British officer states that for every foot of ground the British have lost the Germans have paid hundreds of lives. A British division (19..000 men* lias'prov ed itself equal to a German, army corps (-10.000 men). • ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. WORK FOR THEIR RIFLES. Preaa Asfiociatton —By T<J.—Copyri£bV LONDON, Sept. 2. The War Office has approved of a scheme of employing Ulster Volunteers. BELGIAN THANKS. Belgian Ministers conveyed to the 1 King t-ho respectful and ardent gratitude of Belgium for England's resolute and immediate intervention. GERMANS IMPRISONED. FOR WAR"~OFFENCES. Received 11.5 u.m. ; Sept. 3rd. LONDON, Sept. i> (p.m.). A Magistrate imprisoned Petor Duhn for six months for releasing a carrier pigeon on Primrose Hill. Several German and Austrian waiters hate been imprisoned for failing to disclose that they were in' possession of revolvers. PROGRESS OF RECRUITING. Received 1.40 a.m., Sept. 4th. LONDON, Sept. 3. Since Monday sixty thousand men have joined awl Lord Kitchen's second hundred thousand is expected to be completed in a few (lavs. Hie Football Association proposes to pli'ce its grounds at the disposal of the Wm Office and to arrange for well known pub:o mtn to address players and spectators on match days, and to open recruiting stations on adjacent grounds. Two American engineers who were recently in Berlin and visited tho flying station, s&v fifty Zeppelins ready to start and li una reds of aeroplanes also ready.