LOCAL RECRUIT BONUSES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 7

LOCAL RECRUIT BONUSES.

HAVE A BAD EFFECT. LONDON, Sept. 5 (a.m.). Tlie Press Bureau requests wealthy residents to discontinue isolated encouragements in the form of money bounties for recruits, as likely to cause discontent among those enlisting where no bounties are provided. The London police are investigating suspicious cases daily. Seven hundred Germans from London are being sent to a concentration camp. A Prize Court has been, opened. Mr Justice Evans ordered eight GernSSa vessels to be confiscated and sold. An American women's fund for a British Red Cross hospital is now over £21,000. South Africans have inaugurated' a movement to offer the Government a completely horsed and equipped contingent of five hundred s with maxim and aviation motor detachments. The Prince of "Wales fund is now £2,189,000, including Glasgow's £IOO,000. Licensed houses in London will close at eleven after Monday. The War Office is appealing for 250 motor drivel's for motor ambulances at the front. The Press Bureau states that Lord Roberts has appealed to British sportsmen to lend their racefield and starting glasses to soldiers going to the front. v AEROPLANE BOMBS. ESPECIALLY VICIOUS. LONDON. August 4. The bombs which aeroplanes arc throwing are said to be filled witli special bullets capable of inflicting terrible wounds. "Times" ana Sydney "Sun" Services Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 5.15 p.m., Sept. sth. LONDON, Sept; 4. The Trades Union Congress carried a resolution in favour of conscription if volunteering fails. The Archbishop of Canterbury declares that it is incompatible with the position of the clergy to become combatants. The New Zealand authorities in London are training 250 out of hundreds of applicants to replace the New Zealand Contingenters dropping out through illness or otherwise. The censorship on British outgoing news has caused much delay in .transmission, but the Government until recently failed to take steps to ensure official news being sent with al] despatch to neutral countries. It is contended that no time should be lost in remedying this regrettable and danger, ous situation. It is reported that the Germans, after being allowed to bring their wounded into Douai fired a volley upon, three hundred British 6tretcher bearers. The American impression regarding Turkey's preparations is reflected in a "New York World" cartoon, showing the Sultan grinding a scimitar and saying: "I too must do something for culture." Services are permitted in the British church at Dresden, but no prayeir for the success of Britishers is allowed. The bravery of the Jews in the Russian Army is revolutionising opinion there. A Jewish medical.studctat saved the coloui's of the regiment in the last extremity during the terrible fighting in East Prussia.