General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 17, 7 September 1914, Page 6

General.

SUSPECTS IN THE COURT.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, September 6.

Lord Alfred' Douglas was arrested at Folkstone, charged at Marylebone and remanded.

Captain Von Herbert, author of “The Defence of Plevna,” who served with the British army in -South Africa and is well-known in the Islo of Wight, where he was frequently visited by Germans, was fined £25 for failing to register.

THOUSANDS OF ARMED CER-

MANS.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, September 6

Further reports from South Africa indicate energetic preparations to deal with 30,000 armed Germans in German South-west Africa. THE DUTY OF THE VICTORS. (Received 10.50 a.rn.) Melbourne, September 7. The Age suggests that now the Cook Government is defeated, the duty of the Labour Party while tho war continues is for a non-partisan national administration.

FOUNDERING OF THE RONO.

Keceivod 1.35 p.m.) Lofidon, September 6,

The Press Bureau confirms the foundering of the llono, and states that twenty Russian emigrants wore lost.

FORBIDDEN ZONE IN THE BOSPHORUS.

(Received 1.35 p.m.) '(Constantinople, September 0

The forbidden zone in the Bosphorus has been considerably enlarged, and* now extends for ten kilometres.

AUSTRIANS AGAIN REPULSED.

Petrograd, September 6,

sanguinary fighting continues along the front from Lublin to Kholm,where the tenth Austrian army corps attempted to break the Russian lines, but wore heavily repulsed. Five thousand prisoners, numerous cannon, and machine-guns were captured.

BOMBS DROPPED' IN GHENT DID LITTLE DAMAGE.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, September 6

An aeroplane threw two bombs into Ghent on Sunday, little damage being, done.

(Received 1.10 p.m.) Tokio, September 6

Two Japanese Zeppelins attacked the barracks at Tsing-tao. One had her planes riddled with shots, but returned safely. The result of the attack is unknown.

Paris, September 5

An English trainer relates that in the British retreat from Compeigne to Chantilly, first came motor-vans and motor-’buses, like an avalanche racing down the road, tooting, and the deafening noise echoing in the forest. The drivers seemed to know the, roads as if they travel over them every day. Then came the soldiers, who had blown up the railway lines and bridges behind them. The, peasants in all the villages made a great fuss of the Britishers, offering them eggs, blitter, milk, cheese, fruit, meat, and fowls. The public-houses offered them drinks for nothing. By Tuesday evening Chantilly was empty. The trainers had got all their horses away. The English residents went to Maisons Lafitte, or to Paris, every kind of vehicle being utilised. Four hundred English stable lads were taken away by train.

London, September 5

There is a great exodus from Havre to England, including many refugees.

(Received 9 a.m.) Fremantle, September 7

Owing to the fact of German cruisers being in the Mediterranean the Otway did not call at Taranto and brought no mails or manifests.