SUBMARINE WAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15742, 28 August 1915, Page 9

SUBMARINE WAR.

A WEEK'S LOSSES. LONDON, Aug. 27. For the week ended 25th inst., 1369vessels arrived and departed from England. Nineteen were sunk, aggregating 76,627 ton's; also three fishing boats. NEWS FEOM BRITAIN 'A YEAR'S PROGRESS. OUT OF "UNREADINESS. Received 8.10 p.m., August 27th. LONDON, August 27. Sir R. Borden on leaving England left as a farewell message a statement that discussion with members of the Cabinet had convinced him that all possible steps had been taken to ensure the Allies' triumph. They had advanced in twelve months from utter lack of preparation to the organisation, training, arming, and equipping of unprecedented forces. REGISTRATION NOT CONSCRIPTION. Lord Kitchener, replying to a Labour query, said there was no ground for the allegation that the. national register would be used indirectly to introduce conscription.

COALMINEES STRIKING. Received 7.55 p.m., August 27th. LONDON, August 27. Seven thousand Monmouthshire miners have decided to strike. AGRICULTURE AND THE WAR, AN AMAZING YEAR. Received 8.40 p.m., August 27th. LONDON, August 27. Continuing his address to Agricultural Societies Lord Selborne said he believed that German officers controlling the-Turkish army thought it impossible for our troops to effect a landing. That they did so, at Cape Helles and at Anzac, enabled us to take the measure of their heroism and indomitable spirit. The struggle is between British trade unionism and super capitalism and Krupps. Whether trade unionists win depends entirely on themselves. After the war the whole question of British economics policy and food production must be In the light of submarine experience the Advisory Agricultural Committee re- ] commended a guarantee to farmers of 45s per quarter for wheat for the harvests of 1916 to 1920. There are now nfty. thousand acres more in wheat than in 1913; cattle have increased 384,000, and these remarkable figures; coupled with the prospects of a superabundance from the Australian and Canadian harvests, the Government decided not to incur the additional liability involved in the guarantee. ' Ho had visited France and Belgium, and saw no able-bodied men in the fields, only old men, women and children. We would look back in amazement to this year of unparalleled difficulties, when the British farmer not only maintained but increased his food production.

MUNITIONS. Received 5.5 p.m., August 27th. LONDON., August- 27. Arrangements are completed to transfer all the Royal ordinance factories to tho Ministry of Munitions. SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS. The Stipendiary Magistrate at Salford ordered the restoration of seized copies of the "Labour Leader." Tho owners agreed to omit an advertisement dealing with conscription. Tho Magistrate the destruction of a number of pamphlets. WELSH GOAL MINERS. Mr Runcimaa, Mr Lloyd George and Mr Henderson hare written to the South Wales coal miners declining to receive another deputation and point-, ing out that Both parties must accept tho award as final. The miners' leaders liavo summoned a' meeting for Friday. The outloolc is . jjvave- . .. ~. " j