General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 6

General News

United' Press 'Association. London. November 22. All Danish and ‘Swedish reservists in Canada hare been ordered home. Amsterdam, November 21. The Norddeutsche Allegmeine Zeitnhg protests against the German newspapers demanding the death of

M, Delca'sse’s son and others unless the treatment of Germans abroad is amelU » orated, and-adds:: “This war is waged by Governments, and not by ind nduals, and the'Christian law of ‘love your enemies' still exists." A telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser’s son August sustained a complicated'fracture of the thigh in a motor-car- accident during a military tour.

Paris, November 22. * The arrival; of the Prince of Wales at the front caused the liveliest satisfaction iit France. The newspapers pay eulogistic tributes. London, November 21. Four pieces of heavy calibre and two mortars captured by the Allies were taken from emplacements prepared before the war. Two were discovered in the village of Saint Georges, near Kamscapelle, having been sent there many months back, Germany paying for the lodging of eight of the gunners. The hosts were immediately shot. The Prussian Guards suffered so severely in the attacks against the British that they have been withdrawn from the fighting line, and sent to recuperatein the ' ~ In the House of Commons, Mr Tennant assured members who mentioned ugly rumoours in connection with army contracts that the reports were baseless.

The Press Bureau has issued the Belgian Commission’s third report, which states that no other town has seen ,so many scenes of atrocity and cruelty as Ardonne; where three hundred men were masascred in tlie presence of their wives and children. Three hundred houses were burned at Ardonne and Seilles. They were ordered to gather the bodies of the dead, and to wash the'blood from the streets and houses. The Daily Telegraph says it is a moot point whether the War Office would not best serve the national interest by releasing a dozen transports, to allow them to bring cargoes of Xew Zealand crossbred wool, the shortage of which is seriously hampering the manufacture of military clothing. Mr Asquith, Mr Balfour, and Lord Rosebery have signed an appeal in support of the central committee for national patriotic organisations intended to educate public opinion regarding the causes and issues of the war, also for placing before neutral countries a clear

statement of Britain’s case. The appeal declares that “come what may,' 'there must be no weakening, no wavering, no patched truce, exposing our children to a revival of the German menace.’’ Germany has appointed nine military governors for the Belgium provinces. A German official wireless circulates a story that fifteen thousand British were drowned in a canal at Bixschoote. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Colonel Flyler, military correspondent of Le-Matin, says that none of the British volunteers at the front have had less than three months’ instruction., The colonial contingents were certainly better stuff than the young German sojdiors. In the House of Commons, Sir TT. C. W. Yerney, in reply to a question, said he was glad of the opportunity of contradicting rumors that the Government was fixing the price of wheat solely in the interests of consumers. The Times, in a leader, says:—- “The Government has exercised its control of the Press with singular incompetence and a great lack of judgment. If wrong impressions are prevalent, critics ought to address their complaints to the Government, and not to the newspaper.” Mr H. P. Tennant, TJnder-Secrctary for War, in the House of Commons, speaking in reply to a question, stated the official view was that the million men now being raised would Insufficient to ensure success. All demands for reinforcements for the front had been fully and promptly met.