NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15455, 18 September 1914, Page 7

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

KAISER'S CHALLENGE. ACCEPTED BY BRITAIN. Received 122.10 a.mm., Sept. 18th. LONDON, Sept. 16. Mr Churchill sent the following messago to -a great recruiting meeting at Chatham:—"The Kaiser urged his soldiers to exterminate tho . treacherous English and to walk over Sir John French's contemptible army. Britain will know how to answer this. There will bo no peace until Prussian militarism is pulverised and German truculence abased." INDIAN GOVERNMENT. BEARS COST OF CONTINGENTS. Received 5.10 p.m., Sept. 17th. LONDON, Sept. 16. Both Houses of Parliament passed a resolution empowering tho Indian 'Government to defray tho cast of despatcliing troops out of its own revenue, thus complying with India's wishes to assist the Empire. BRITISH HONOURS. HELD BY ENEMIES. The Kaiser, and tho Crown Prince, tho Emperor Francis Josef and tho Duko of Saxe-Coburg, are members of tho Order of the Garter. The officials

are now considering tho question of depriving them of their honours.

GERMANS NOT CROWING SO LOUDLY. A modified tone is apparent in. Berlin. An official statement in to-day's bulletin admits that on some portions of tho wido battlefields tho Germans have been [only] partially successful. DESPITE HOME RULE DIFFERENCES. • BRITAIN IS UNITED. AGAINST A COMMON FOE. Received 10.45 p.m.. Sept. 17th. LONDON, Sept. 17 (a.m.). Tho Right Hon. F. E. Smith, interviewed, said that although the Unionists justly 'resented the Government's action, all parties were showing a firm determination to make every endeavour to defeat Britain's common enemy. Until that had been accomplished all domestic differences would be laid aside. German diplomacy would doubtless detect evidences of a divided nation in Tuesdays speeches. It had shown a remarkable aptitudo for mistating our temper and purposes, but if tho Gorman authorities would rightly understand what happened in the Houso of Commons they should road Mr Bonar Law's and Sir Edward Carson's declarations in tho debate, showing that ouv country comes first.

Mr Smith added that such utterances

represented tho deep conviction of tho Unionists that :i united front would persist as long as there was peril for Britain on lnnd or sea. GERMANY'S AVAILABLE EXPORT. Mr Macalluin Scott in the House of Commons asked whether Germany was attempting to realise on her sugar crop by exportation of a surplus, valued at forty millions sterling, through Holland. }lr llunciinan replied that he was unaware of any siei>s ihat could he taken to prevent export to neutral countries in neutral ships.