Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 16 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

THE SICK AND WOUNDED.

[Uniteo Press Association.] London, December 15

The. National Council of Trained Nurses alleges that sick and wounded soldiers at auxiliary hospitals are endangered by the interference of unskilled and untrained nurses. Lord Kitchener has asked the Council to submit evidence in support of the complaint. Members of the Council declare that women of social influence have been placed in positions of responsibility, while experienced matrons have been ignored.

"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL!"

London, December 15.

Lord Halsbury, in a speech at Westminster on the eighth commandment and its universal application, protested that it was blasphemous cant for any -man thinking himself appointed by God to seize another's property. Any Emperor wanting to possess a world empire by seizing countries smaller than his own was a dirty thief, and ought to be hanged. He trusted the war would result in a general agreement that peoples established in their own countries shall not be disturbed unless interference is fully justified.

FASHION'S FANTASIES.

London, December 15V

The bird of fashion is flying with a broken wing just now. The Parisienne walks demurely in skirts of reasonable width, and shoes of less perilous structure. The war has installed a seriousness into fashion's former caprices. Paris is discussing the wearing "Of mourning for the fallen. The upper classes are prepared to modify their dress as an outer expression of their grief, but the middle class do not favor the proposal. '* THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. BRITAIN SURE OF WHAT SHE NEEDS. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Loudon, Decerning 15 Mr Bonar Law, at a Unionist meeting in London, said never m the world's history, had" an armv such as required, enlisted on the voluntary system failed. Such an army in tiie American civil war had not faiio.l, and here he was sine they would get all the men needed.

THE EMPIRE SPIRIT.

PATRIOTIC PRISONERS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 15. Patriotism by the inmates of the prisons is being shown and prisoners at Kingston enthusiastically worked overtime making coal sacks for the Navy when the British Admiralty notified they were urgently needed.