General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 27 October 1914, Page 5

General News

St*»RTS‘FOR THE TROOPS

Ottawa, October 26. The British War Office has ordered LV million shirts from Canada. Tlv-' order ■will keep every lactory busy lor several months. The War Office has also given orders for 50,000 saddles. The orders, together with the equipment, have greatly improved business conditions in Canada. SETTLING BELGIAN FARMERS'. i London, October 25. ,Au organised movement has been started in Regina to induce Belgian farmers to settle in Saskatchewan. SCARCITY OF PETROLEUM. , Paris, October 26. Petroleum is scarce at Brussels, where 10s a gallon has been paid. PRISONERS AT WARSAW. London, October 25. • The Figaro states that large convoys iof German prisoners are arriving at [Warsaw. Amongst them is a German General, who brought his troops as gifts sent by the Kaiser.

“COO HELP THE KAISER!” , London, October 25. George Edwards, of the Gaiety Tbe!atre, has arrived from Rotterdam. Be says:—“We had an awful time. No sooner was war declared than English visitors to Germany were insulted, jeered at, and abused, not only by residents, but even by waiters in the hotels, who refused ,to speak a word of English. Germany is being deceived by rumours. When the people’s eyes are opjned it will be God help the Kaiser.” The Petit Pa rid or states that Madam Thebes, prophetess, predicts that the Kaiser will end bis days as a physical wreck, and on the verge of lunacy, while the Crown Prince will be assassinated. , THE (SS?OWN PRINCE. Palls, October 26. [ It is stated that the Crown Prince inarrow!v escaped a Ereiteh airman s bomb at Revigny. Fifteen wore killled and 22 wounded within 15 yards of the Prince. GERMAN PRISONERS DESCRIBED | _ London, October 26. | Vr Cibbes describes the German I prisoners, many of whom are wounded, as being “famished and terror|stricke,u, *ui i looking like hunted ; boasts.” , I, - . GENERAL L F *'•" AN F. London, October 25. Berlin reports the discovery that General Lemann, the heroic defender Liege' is a German alleged in he , identical with Private Hermann Leli- ; mann. who deserted from the Germans at Metis in 1870.