NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15502, 12 November 1914, Page 7

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

SCALE OF ALLOWANCES. TO WIDOWS AND DISABLED MEN. Received 7,20 p.m., Nov. 11th. LONDON, Nov. 10. Under the Government's revised scheme the widow of a man in tho lowest grado in tho Army or' Navy, with four children, receives a minimum of £1 weekly; widow with three children' 17s Gd; widow with two children 15s ; widow .with one child 12s 6d; a childless widow 7s 6d. These allowances are to be increased in necessitous cases. A widow's full separation allowance will be. continued for twenty-six weeks after her husband's death. The Govern, ment will also-assist unmarried men's dependents. The allowances for partial disablement, apart from national insurance benefit, range from 3s 6d to 17s 6d, and for total disablement from J4s lor unmarried to 23s for married men with children. It is roughly estimated that the scheme will cost two hundred millions if the war lasts two years. » | A CLOSE INQUIRY. Received 10.00 p.m., Nov. 11th. LONDON, Nov. 10. Every voter im tho Parliamentary rolls has been circularised requesting information as to age, military efficiency, and household. Tho "Morning Post," representing the moderate militarists, disclaims conscription for service abroad, but advocates a systematic six months' training to create ample partly-trained reserves. It warns tho nations that conscription jnust come unless the friends of tho voluntary 6ystem put their shoulders to the wheel. It suggsts that military bands be used to stimulate rlbruiting, and says that the military display at the Lord Mayor's show produced aft immediate effect.

MOKE MEN WANTED. "Time#" and Sydney "Sun" Syvtaei. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright* LONDON, Nov. 10. A letter from nn officer at tho front eaye.—"Armchair people nt home, with their universal cry of peace, a small army, and little navyites, ought to bo out hero now, to seo tho miseries and horrors tho peasants endure, tho number of wounded, and a few other eights, villages and farms blazing in nil over tho country. If wo only had one, and a half million men of our present standard tho Germans would bo on tho Rhine by now, and tho war nearly over." GERMANY STILL STRONG. A letter from a prominent business man in Copenhagen, with no German sympathies, says, "There is no denying tho fact that, whon travelling in Germany and speaking to all kinds of people, including wounded soldiers, one gets to hear of a strength and determination that are somewhat appalling. Certainly it is a mistake to think that Germany is drawing near tlio end of her resources or men. A German shipowner offered to bet that tho Goto ana will be in London before Christmas, I took him up."