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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 7

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London, August 11. King„,Gveorge has offered Balmoral Castle as a hospital for wounded soldiers. Earl Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War, to-day notified the press that any newspaper publishing news of naval or military movements except that issued hy the official bureau would be suspended.

If, as some authorities now declare, the German Krupp gun is proving inferior to the French Creusot, there will be consternation in many quarters. Three thousand Krupp guns were recently bought by fifty different governments, including eighteen American.. States and twenty-three European States, "About 150 of the passengers and crew of the Austrian Lloyd steamship Baron Bautsch were killed or drowned when the vessel was blown up to-day by a mine off the Island of Lnssin, on the Dalmatian coast, according to a Renter despatch from Trieste. She carried about 300 passengers and crew, of whom 50 were rescued. •

Englishmen are beginning to substitute the word." Prussian" for the word German in discussing the war. it is the Prussian spirit, dominated by tho Kaiser, Crown Prince, and military -caste"-ivhich ''has""made-the mischief, not the German people, whoso music, literature, science, philosophy, and home-loving qualities have established many warm ties with Englishmen. An Italian military correspondent records the prophesy of General Nogi, made in his hearing at the time of the siege of Port Arthur, when he said: "The world will yet see two great wars, equally terrible. in tho first, which will have all Europe for a batleground, France will beat Germany on land, and England will crush Germany at sea. This will be the last war in Europe for many days, perhaps forever. The second war will see Japan against the United States in the Pacific, and Japan will win." Paris, August 12. Sarah Bernhardt, the septuagenarian actress, says that the European conflict is a holy war, tho holiest war from which man ever suffered. "The soldiers," she says, "will fall not for the Hag, but for all humanity—for the end of all wars, for universal pence." She adds that when die hea'-d the French flag was floating.

over Alsace she fainted. Mmo. Bernhardt regrets not being'.a man in order to fight the barbarians who 100 long have plagued the whole world."

San Francisco, August 12

The police yesterday closed a moving picture house and arrested the proprietor on a charge of inciting a riot, because pictures were shown purporting to represent the FrancoPrussian Avar.

Hotel managers throughout the city have ordered their' orchestras to play no national or patriotic airs, not even Hungarian dance music. Ropoated clashes among offended guests taught the managers that absolute and 'impartial suppression was the course of wisdom.