MISCELLANEOUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, Jan. 12. Generals on active" service, while cautions in expressing; opinions, believe, that with the return of good weather a decisive phase of the°war. will be speedily reached. The new army of the Belgians is numerically equal to the original army. it is training in Normandy, and will shortly be ready to take the field.

It is reported in Berlin that General yon Hindenberg is assembling a million men for a decisive attack on Warsaw.

Athens newspapers report that panic and terrorisation are increasing in Constantinople. Christians are closely watched, and extreme exactions are enforced in. the shape of military taxes.

The Ottoman leaders in Syria,' inspired by Germans, seem decided to

attempt an advance on the Suez Canal. They are massing great forces and immense supplies, but the projected movement westward is very slow.

LONDON, Jan. 13. The Government is considering-how to dispose of about one hundred captured guns now in England. Some have already been exhibited in (the provinces to assist in recruiting. Jiapan is sending Red Gross contingents to England and France.