General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 274, 17 November 1914, Page 5

General News

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] United Press Association. Loudon, November lb. Horst Vondergotte, alias Bridgmann Taylor, claiming to be an officer of the Mexican army, was arrested for failing to register. Counsel prosecuting stated that the Foreign Office and Admiralty had the gravest suspicion that accused was a German spy. Vickers, Sou, and Maxim are erecting a factory so as to capture the German sewing machine trade. British marines interned at Holland subscribed to purchase a cinematograph, which is nightly used for- their amusement. With a view of enabling the Liverpool cotton market to re-open, the Government, the Liverpool Cotton Association, and the Liverpool banks will jointly guarantee bank advances made to merchant's to meet the market differences within certain limits. The Government is taking 50 per cent, of the risk, and the other guarantors 2b per cent. each. The Board of Trade has issued regulations governing applications for the export of wool and woollens. Licenses for export of raw material and worsted to British territory and allied countries will bo considered when the material is deemed unsuitable for army purposes. The export of khaki cloth is absolutely prohibited, except for military purposes in the Dominions.

Amiens was terror-stricken at the arrival of a Taube, which was greeted with a shower of rifle bullets. The inhabitants took refuge in the cellars. The French infantry blazed away with impotent fury at the Taube, which commenced to gracefully volplane. The mystified soldiers lowered their rifles and approached for the purpose of arresting the German, instead of which Garrps stepped out and explained that he was reconnoitring, when his engine failed, and he was chased by a Taube. Garros descended, pretending he was the victim- of a disaster, and, awaiting the Taube, rose up and shot the pilot with a revolver. He gave his own I machine in the care of a friendly tarmer, mounted the Taube, and returned.

I Precautions have been taken against spying, Germans being forbidden to enter the churches in Flanders, as a peal of hells might he used for secret signals. or to prevent hearing the approach of hostile aircraft. Paris, November Id. A story is told in Paris that when M. Poincaire recently went to the front, he did so in the hope of seenring General Von Klnck’s snrrendjer. Yon Klnck, being hard pressed, asked the terms of surrender, pre-

tending that he would accept prac-, ideally unconditional terms. He managed to spend the whole day iu parleying, but finally said ho ■ must have Berlin’s authority to conclude terms. He was given another day to secure authority. I The two days, however, were utilised in rushing up reinforcements and resting his exhausted troops. The negotiations were suddenly broken off. Ihe story adds that next time Von Kluek seeks terms he will he given aii hour to come in. , 1•- ( Washington, November 15. The steamer Jason, laden with Christmas gilts for children of all the belligerent countries, has beon despatched to Europe by American children, who subscribed the entire cost. London, November 15. T’he Frankfurter Zeitnng alleges that the treatment of German war prisoners iu England is so bad that ■ls out of 700 died of pneumonia and typhoid in a week, whereas the truth is that only five died, one from heart disease, one from dropsy, one from a fractured skull as the result of an accident, and two from aneurism of the aorta. Officers declare that the Kaiser is determined to inatal eight 24-inch guns as a preliminary to the invasion of England. - . m An official message from Berlin says that the insignificant progress on-the right wing is due to the unfavorable weather, and the fighting on the East Prussian frontier and in Russian Poland is indecisive. .... Rotterdam, November 16. Newspapers announce that many" trainloads of wounded are passing towards Germany from the Western front.

It is reported that' the German' medical corps lias broken down under the strain. An appeal has beon made to Dutch doctors to attend to seven hundred patients in a frontier town, where there was only one doctor and a student.