NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

BRITISH WOUNDED. MOSTLY SLIGHT INJURIES. Received 5.25 p.m., Sept. 7tli." LONDON, Sept. 0 (p.m.). Tl<o Pruss Bur-e.au btatcs that 800 sick .and wounded have arrived at Netley. Shrapnel was responsible for tlio majority of the wounds. Bullet

wounds are few, confirming statements that the German infantry aim badly. Loss of limbs is very uncommon. The vast majority of the wounded will make I good recoveries and regain their regiments. FURTHER. CASUALTIES. A list completing the casualties to j September Ist shows: — i Killed—9 officers and 33 of other ranks. Wounded—27 officers and 120 of other ranks. Missing—49 officers and 4558 of other ranks. GERMANS WANT MORE GUNS. Received 9.50 p.m., Sept. 7th. LONDON, Sept. 6 (p!m.). The "Clironicle : s" Amsterdam correspondent states that the Germans are feverishly reorganising their famous and gigantic Belgian gun-factory and ironworks at Ccokerill, near Serai'ng. They offered to increase the Belgian artisans' wages by 50 per cent, .with the alternative of starvation. THE TWO IRELANDS. UNITED BY THE WAR. Received 1.50 -a.m., Sept". Bth. ! LONDON, Sept. ?. i Belfast correspondents mention the extraordinarily stimulating spectacle of Protestants joining the National Volanteers, and also reservists leaving Ulster towns for the front, headed by the bands of the two Volunteer forces. Thus the two Ireland s are united by a common aim, as they never were\ before.