NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 9

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

LONDON "TIMES." - STATES GERMAN DESIGN. TO ATTACK ENGLAND. "Times" and Sydney "8un ,r 'S6rvlofl*. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 3. The "Times," in a leading article, says "Tho Germans propose making Belgium. an appanage to their Empire, seizing tho French channel ports, and I then, while letting loose their waiting navy at our fleet, attempt a raid upon England. The plan looks very pretty on paper., but Austria has sustained an immense defeat and tho Russians are' advancing." OFF HELIGOLAND. GEEMAN GUNS INEFFECTIVE. | Received 5.30 p.m., Sept. 4th. LONDON, Sept. 3. A midshipman who was in the Northern battle, writes: "Of course the German guns had about the same erffect on us as a Daisy rifle. They fought awfully well and bravely, but the poor beggars had not a dog's chance of living through it." TAMPERING WITH WAR NEWSI Germans are trying, not altogether I unsuccessfully, •to tamper with war i news sent to London. Their-chief object is to prevent the dissemination of : news of the Allies' successes. TWO PROTESTS. ABOUT LOU VAIN. LONDON, Sc-pt. 3. Tho Senate of tho National University of Ireland has appealed to tho Universities of all nations to protest ngainst the destruction of Louva'in and its illustrious university. l't is reported that President Wilson has informed the Kaiser that if the destruction of property continued the United States will increase the taxes on Gorman residents and institutions in order to provide an indemnity for Bel-, i;ium.

TRADES "UNIONS, SUPPORT RECRUITING. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 8.30 p.m., Sept. 4th. The Parliamentary Committee of Trades Union Congress in a manifesto strongly supports recruiting, and expresses gratification that the Labour Party is co-operating with other parties. The manifesto concluded "Long Life to Free Institutions and all Democratically Governed Countries/ 1 /