GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 8

GENERAL.

CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET EASY

(■Received 8.30 a.m.) London, September 7. The Chicago wheat market is easy

BRITISH CASUALTIES TO SEP-

TEMBER 1.

London, September 6. The Press Bureau state* that the vast majority of the wounded at Netley Hospital will make good recoveries, and rejoin their regiments. A list of casualties completed to Septen\her 1 showed; Killed, 9 officers and 33 of other ranks; wounded, 27 officers and 120 of other ranks; missing, 49 officers and 4558 of other ranks. SWISS MOBILISATION HAS BEEN ORDERED. Berne, September 7. In order to maintain neutrality and prevent the violation of territory, mobilisation has been ordered, and Switzerland is recalling reserves from England.

SPANISH AMBASSADOR IN PARIS VIENNA ADMITS DEFEAT.

Paris, September 7

The Spanish Ambassador has been replaced, because he disagreed with the Government’s view that he ought to remain and not proceed to Bordeaux.

Vienna admits that ten days’ fighting has resulted in Austrian defeat.

JAPANESE STUDENTS IMPRISONED.

The Hague, September 7

Six hundred Japanese students from German universities were captured on the Dutch frontier andJmprisoned.

THE GERMAN PALATE.

Loudon, September 7

Travellers report that one butcher is doing a thriving business in Hamburg because his floor is covered with British flags, enabling his customers to tread on the Union Jack.

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.

Copenhagen, September 7

Lists of the losses of the 16th and 17th Regiments of the German army show that various Prussian Guard regiments, and also the 4th Bavarian Cavalry Brigade, lost nearly all their officers and men.

“A MODERN POMPEP *

ERUTAL TREATMENT OF PRISON-

r RS FROM LOUVarL

London, Sep : . > ahor 6

Whole columns of the newspapers are occupied with descriptions of the manner in which the turgssses of Louvain were thrust at the bayonet point into filthy wagons, ,vincn had been used for the transport of horses. The doors were shut, only fugitive rays of light filtering through the chinks.

After a journey in one case of fifty hours without food or drink, the prisoners were marched through jeering crowds in the exhibitin gardens at Cologne. Men and women joined in hurling vile epithets at_ them, and shouted “Kill them.” Even the children kicked the prisoners as they passed. For breakfast next morning they were each given a small portion of black bread, and then for some reason were sent back to Belgium. They arrived there ravenous, and when they were released they ate turnips and beetroots pulled from the fields.

Refugees describe Louvain as a modern Pompeii.