GENERAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 10 September 1914, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS

ALIENS TO DISARM , POLICE POWERS EXTENDED, (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SEUVIOBS.) (Received September 10, 9 n.m.) LONDON. Bth September. An order lms been issued ordering all aliens to surrender arms, and investing the police with powers of search without warrant. FOOTBALLERS AND THE WAR. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SI'S SBhVICBS.) LONDON, Bth September. Lord Stamfordhani, Private Secretary to the King, in response to a letter from a gentleman conducting a campaign ft£!A9st i99tball $Wwg during the jj»»»

said that the doings of tho Football Association Would be carefully followed, having regard to tho King's position as its patron. LONDON, 9th September. The Football Association has informed the War Office that it is prepared 'to request all ' its members to stop matches if the War Office considers this •will assist the recruiting. ITALIAN ENTHUSIASM FOR ENGLAND. (HUES AXD SYDNEY SVX SBRTICEB.) ' ROME, Bth September. Extracts from six Italian newspapers show enthusiasm for England and severe criticism of Germany's ineptitude in regard to the political situation, and sympathetic comments on the colonies' response to British s needs. ARRANGING A COMMERCIAL ALLIANCE. LONDON, 9th September. 'Big employers of labour in Italy and England aro arranging a commercial alliance in order to capture various foreign markets. GERMANY'S REAL OBJECTIVE. (TIMES ASD STOJiST SON BMVICM.) LONDON, Bth September. Mr. Rudyard Kipling," speaking at a recruiting meeting, said that Germany's jreal'objective was England, her wealth, trade, and possessions. Britishers must 'arm, to oppose the fate of becoming a second-rate Power. ; AMERICA'S WAR TAXES. ' ' : LONDON, Bth September. on the war taxes, the j New York World says that these are the price Americans have to pay for liv- ! ing contemporaneously with the Kaiser's autocracies. I GERMAN PROFESSORS RESIGN BRITISH HONOURS. (Pieceived September 10, 10.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM. 9th September. Thirty German* professors have surrendered all their degrees and honours conferred upon them by English univesities.