General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 36, 29 September 1914, Page 5

General

DISTRIBUTION OF CERMANISED NEWS IN BRITAIN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 28. Th<s Times, in a leader describing how Germany influenced opinion in Great Britain through a section of the Press, asks: Did the Ileuter Agency take any precautions, when communicating to the Press its telegrams from Berlin, to give warning that those telegrams were of German official or semiofficial origin, or to enable the public to distinguish between such telegrams and those despatched by Reuter's own correspondents ?

EMPIRE "SPORT."

London, September 28

The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on the absence of football in the Gazette, says it ik expected that things will go worse in cricket. The goal scored at Frederick Wilhelmshaven and the runs made at Herbertshohe are sport (enough for the Australasians just now.

SHOT LIKE A DOC.

London, September 28.'"**"^

A German officer, approached a miner in the street at Valenciennes, and, saying, "I don't like your face," shot him in the head with a revolver. A brother workman drew a revolver, and, with the same remark, shot the officer.

ILLNESS OF THE KAISER. London, September 28. A Geneva paper, which* is generally well informed, publishes a telegram 'that the Kaiser is ill with inflammation of the lungs, the result of falling into a trench full of water.

WHO ARRANCED THE WAR? London, September. 28. Mr Andrew Carnegie has declared that the Kaiser is the most sorrowful and pitiful man in Europe, for the military caste arranged the war while the Kaiser was away_ yachting, and when he returned the mischief had been done.

DIRECT WIRELESS WITH GERMANY. [United Press Association.] Washington, September 27. The wireless station at Sayville, on Long Island, the only one capable of direct communication with Germany, has been officially authorised to operate regularly for commercial communications until January. '

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Geneva, September 27,

The International Red Cross Society has founded an agency to enab'o prisoners of war to communicate with their families, and to receive replies.