ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 8

ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.

FOR FOREIGN SERVICE. LONDON, Sept. ! (p.m.) Seven hundred of the North Belfast regiment- of Visit r Volunteers, to-day enlisted in Kitchener's army. They paraded the ;-t reels amid great enthusiasm. Sir Edward Carson in addressing tliem said he knew' they would acquit themselves as Irishmen and Vlstermen. { TO REDUCE DISTRESS. EMPLOYMENT. NOT CHARITY. Meetings hare been arranged all over London for preventing distress by giving employment nuher than charity. A Queen's Work for Women Fund has been inaugurated to secure funds wherewith women will he provided with employment. Lady Crewe is chairwoman, and Mtsdames Asquith and Austin ChamWHain, Ladies Bryce, Derby and llche.-ter are assisting. Tho money raised will be spent in schemes devised by the central committee for women s employment. Tho commercial advisers include many leading business men. NATAL FEELS CALLED UPON TO HELP. The Durban Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution regretting that hitherto South Africa had not given much support to the British Navy, and urging that special taxation he imposed in support of the navy. SIR OLIVER LODGE. OF THE SAME OPINION. SYDNEY. Sept. .1. Sir Oliver Lodge in an interview declared that the war «a? an abominable piece of wickedness, out when there is a hull ying domineering power among tho nations for humanity's sake it was necessary to smash it wi:h such vigour that it would not iv:;r its head acain. He hoped the attitude of ihe British for fairness and humanitarian scruples would be pursued u> she uttermost whatever her foes nsav d'v

COMPLAINT FROM ITALY.

I.ONDOX, Sept. t/ The Italian Pros romplains of delay in receipt of London telegrams. Tlic sending of German telegrams is expedited. mill the fact of the German version oi" events always preceding the English has an influence on Italian opinion. GERMAN BRIBES. TO FOREIGN PRESS. A White Paper which has boon issued describes the German Gfa-ernnient's recent active support of a secret organisation ior tlio distribution of news in other continental countries with a view to popularising Germany and German manufacturers. Attempts were made to bribe foreign newspapers by offering business .advertisements to newspapers publishing such news, sent specially bv reduced cable rates.