Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 18 September 1939, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Russian evacuation of East Prussia was completed on September IS, 1914.

The Western Front battle continued on the whole length of the Oise and Meuse.

Mr Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty, in a recruiting message, said there would be no peace until Prussian militarism urns pulverised and the truculent German abased.

Mr Redmond, in a manifesto to the Irish people, said he was confident Ireland would willingly share the burdens and sacrifices of a just war undertaken in defence of the sacred rights and liberties of the nation. He suggested recruits s hould be formed into an Irish Brigade.

Piiblic feeling in Italy was becoming decidedly in favour of England. Democratic, Nationalist, Reform, Socialist, and Republican parties passed a resolution in favour of immediate hostilities. In New Zealand, only 69 persons set up objections to military service on religious grounds. The Minister of Defence presented to the House a paper containing the suggestions of local bodies as to how religious and conscientious objectors could render alternative service.

' Inhabitants of Papeete were j | thrown into a state of intense ex- • > citement by the news of the Eurof pean War. French soldiery i patrolled the streets with fixed • i bayonets in an exuberance of \ [ patriotic enthusiasm.