General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 3 November 1914, Page 5

General News

INDIA'S LOYALTY.

Calcutta, November 1.

The Viceroy has published a communique, announcing throughout I»dia Turkey's unfriendly attitude, ami deploring the endeavor of the Chauvinistic element tp drive Tursey into the war for the benefit of Gertnttiy and Austria, Turkey's secular enemy. The reception, of the comnnmiq'ie ia the outlying districts will not be known for some days, but responsible Mohammedan leaders are already holding meetings in support of Britain, and prayers are being offered in tb« mosques for British success.

MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT VALONA. Rome, November 1.

A mysterious big fire occurred m the bazaar at Valona, near the magazine, where quantities of ammunition began to explode. Two humired Italian marines landed and extinjfaisted the outbreak.

ENEMIES DEPORTED FROM EGYPT.

Cairo, November 1.

Five hundred Austrians' and Germans have left Alexandria, to be interned at Malta.

GENERAL.

London, November 1

. In connection with thf t-anpdign-started by the German newspapers against England's.treatmenkiif prisajt? ers, a Dutch editor, who visited several camps in England, reported satisfactorily. The Cologne Gazette* reproduced the article in English. Visitors, as well as many prisoners, their gratitude for recent Gerinaa newpaper complaints. . : ,

I The Times, in a leader diseuwsi.ti|| H. G. Wells' article on the invasion 'of England, endorses .111* statements that every possible rtvaa ought to be serit to the decisive area in France and Belgium; and,, in the event of invasion, every man remalaing in Britain could fight. The Government should tell them what they ought to do without further si.-rkm*-The New Zealand wax fund has reached £5200.

Cook and Sons, soft goodsmek, ,St. Paul's Churchyard, have lent New Zealand a wing of a convalescej&ts home in Kent, with thirteen beds, and excellent accommodation.

The Treasury has arranged for the Bank of England, with a view of avoiding the realisations on a large scale of securities held as cover for account to account loans on the Stock Exchange, to provide advances to certain classes of lenders to enable them to continue their loans until the end of the war. All the banks of which currency facilties are open, hate agreed not to press for the repayment of loans or to require deposit of further margins for a year after the conclusion of the war. The arrangements provide for an advance up to w per cent, of the value of securities. Interest is fixed at one per ceAt. above the bank rate, with a minimum of five per cent.

It is understood that Germany has advised Great Britain that she intends treating all Englishmen in Germany, between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five, as prisoners of war, unless the able-bodied Germans in England are liberated. A correspondent at the front says- “ Everywhere I hear the same story that the German foot-soldier cannot shoot, and won’t stop to fight when attacked, but runs away, fires over his shoulder, or throws down his arms and surrenders, but the superior German gun-fire makes havoc in our trenches. Without it the enemy would not have a chance at all. Referring to recent fighting in Belgium, he declares that the last road to the coast has been finally closed against the Germans. Herr Bethmann-Hollweg, the Ger* man Chancellor, has reported to the Vatican that a French observation post has again been installed in the tower of Rheims Cathedral, which will justify any further bombardment.