Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 283, 27 November 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

GERMAN EDITORS WARNED. United Press Association. London, November 25. The Westminster Gazette publishes an open letter by Mr Justice Chapman, of New Zealand, to German editors. He warns them that, although their tyrannical Government does not allow them to tell the truth regarding the Germans’ appalling disasters, a day of reckoning will come between the Sovereign and the people. He adds; “The free unanimity of the oversea Britons supporting the Motherland is due to their hatred of tyranny in every form.”

OFFICERS’ INCREASED PAY.

London, November 25

Under a scheme for a general increase of array officers pay, which has been approved, a second lieutenant will receive a minimum of 7s 6d per day, and those promoted from the 'faults a minimum of eleven shillings. THE SPY PERIL.

London, November 26. The House of Lords debated the spy peril. Lord Haldane said there was no doubt that Germany had organised an extraordinary intelligence system in Britain long before the war. The most dangerous people were not aliens, but suborned Britishers. A hundred and fourteen officers were now detecting espionage. They had searched 6000 houses, and interned 342 suspects. TP COMMAND AUSTRALIANS, (Receiver! 9.20 a.m.) London, November 26. General William Birdwood has been specially selected to command the Australian forces at the front. A PARADOX. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, ! November 25. The Times, in a leader, commenting on the British occupation of Herm Island, in the Channel, says: We oust German companies from the Islands of the Persian Gulf, and give them Crown leases in the heart of the English Channel within sight of the coast of France, seventy miles from Portland and forty from Cherbourg, for £2BO yearly.