THE WAR.

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

THE WAR.

The following was issued as an “extra” last evening:—

CEMENTING THE ALLIES.

PEACE NOT TO BE AGREED TO SEPARATELY." The High Commissioner reports ns follows under date London, September sth; OFFICIAL. The following declaration was issued this afternoon by the British Foreign Office:— The undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, declared as follows: The British, French, and Russian Governments mutually engage not to conclude 'peace separately during the present war. These three Governments agree that when terms of peace are discussed, no one of •lire Allies will demand conditions of peace without a previous agreement of each of the other Allies. (Signed) SIR EDWARD GREY (British Foreign Secretary. M. PAUL CAMBOiN, (French Ambassador in London.) COUNT BENCKENDORFF, (Russian Ambassador in London.) GERMAN SQUADRON SINKS FISHING BOATS. IN THE NORTH SEA. FISHERMEN TAKEN PRISONERS. Official.—The Admiralty announces that a German Squadron, consisting of two cruisers and four destroyers, succeeded in sinking fifteen British fishing boats in the North Sea. A quantity of fish was captured, and the crew of fishermen taken to Wilkelmshaven as prisoners of war. (Wilhelrnsharen is the naval sta- ‘ tiou of the German Empire in the North Sea. It was inaugurated by King William I. in 1869, and has since been developed and defended * until it forms a fortress of the first . order.) POSITION OF THE ALLIES. £ £ SIGNS OF GERMAN MOVEMENT. £ j STATESMANLIKE UTTERANCES. The High Commissioner reports under date, London, September sth: j Official.—The situation of the French theatre of war has not undergone a substantial change. The position of the Allies is well .. maintained.

There are indications of a German movement developing in an eastward and south-eastward direction.

Mr Asquith, at a monster meeting at Guildhall, said: “There is abundant ground for pride and confidence. Mr Churchill; 1 “We may look with quiet confidence upon the strength and efficiency of the naval defence. We have only to endure and conquer.”

BRITISH CRUISER PATHFINDER STBUUK MINE. J AND FOUNDERED RAPIDLY. ! London, September 6. ■ Official.—The cruiser Pathfinder i struck a mine on Saturday when twenty miles oil' the east coast and ito under ed rapidly. The loss of life 1 will probably be heavy. (The Pathfinder is a cruiser scout of -iUUU tons, and is one of the fast.st in the British Navy.) SOCIETY LADIES RECRUITING. Times and Sydney Sun Sejb vices. London, Setember 5. Society ladies in their motor cars are bringing their personal servants to the recruiting offices. A MILLION FIGHTERS REQUIRED. Lord Charles Beresford declares that England requires a million lighters. THE EVACUATION OF BOULOGNE. The Military Governor, leaving Boulogne, announced that the Minister ordered disarmament owing to the antiquated defences. The garrison is distributed between Paris and Dunkirk, none capable of bearing arms being left. BOMB-THROWING PROTEST. The American Ambassador at Paris, after examining the bomb* thrown by the German airships, decided to ask the United States Government while adhering to her neutrality, to energetically protest to Germany. THE REFUGEES AT OSTEND. Crowds of refugees are congregated at Ostend, where the rich are poor, and the poor are destitute. Many are living in bathing vans, and women are without stockings. INTERNATIONAL LAW. A statement which has been issued at Tokio reciting the treatment of Japanese in Germany and Austria, denounces as a violation of international law, the insults offered to the Japanese Ambassador when leaving Vienna. It declares that such treatment will raise doubts as to the quality of their civilisation in permitting such acts. PREACHING THE GERMAN GOSPEL.

—ll— aeroplanes arc showering pamphlets over Poland, inciting the ] inhabitants to rise against the hated t

ilussians, and adding; ‘‘Away with Oriental barbarism.. The Poles, having iiad experience of German culcure, repudiate community with savagery.” MINING THE AIR. The Army staff at Washington consider it possible to mine tiie air like cue sea. It will only be uecessax-y to send aloft in the evening ,a large numoer of small captive balloons to varying altitudes, containing sufficient explosives to destroy aeroplanes, and they could be taken down in the mornmg.