General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1915, Page 5

General News

RESULT OF RECRUITING. TIMM AND 8?DN«« BUH BUBVIOM. London, January 21. The Immigrants' Information Office has announced that, owing to recruiting for the war, assisted passages to Australasia have been practically suspended. THE FINANCIAL ASPECT. TXMM AND SYDNEY SUN SBBVIOW. The Times, in a leader, says that when six hundred millions have been spent on the war alone in a year, it is. only the merest prudence for the Government to lay down restrictions on the outflow of capital in other channels. Its action at this moment consequently caused no particular surprise in financial circles, and was very calmly received in the city and on the Stock Exchange.

SOCIALIST PEACE CONGRESS. T"--"j and Sydney Sun Sibvjom. Tho net result of the Copenhagen conference was a resolution, directing the attention of workers, particularly of the belligerent countries, to the principles of international solidarity and the proletarian sense of justice as to stopping a war caused by capitalisms The conference protests against the violation of Belgium, and expects all Social Democrats vehemently to oppose its forcible annexation.

"NOT EQUAL TO THE SIKHS." Timbj and Bydnky Sun Bihviom. A Sikh wrote bomo: "The bombs first broke clown our mud-walls in front, destroying many trenches. The Germans came in great numbers, hut we slew them till the dead lay so high that we could not see for corpses. At night they came again, filling the sky with lightning, a kind of magic secret they possess. Again wo slew them all. They have too many machines, and these are too cunningly contrived, otherwise thev arc not equal to the Sikhs."

THE SNIPERS' JOB. Timei and Sydney Sun-Bbbviom. A transport officer writes: "A lot of snipers have been caught—fellows in plain clothes, who get behind outlines and shoot from the tree-tops and houses. Twelve were captured last week,, some right behind our trenches. Their sniping days are over!" BREAD FOR BELGIANS. United Press (Association. Amsterdam, January 21. A German proclamation forbids the population of Belgium to purchase broad atfter 2nd February. They must attend at the Town Hall, and receive a voucher according to the number in the family.

THE SILENCE OF BRITAIN. London, January 21. The Times, in a leader, says: "We have strongly expressed the opinion that the silence of the Administration upon the unparalleled efforts Britain is making to prosecute the war on the Continent is unjustifiably dangerous. The nation wants to know what the Government is doing to ensure necessary reinforcements. If this desire is general here, how much stronger must it be in France, whose people have been suffered to hear more regarding the efforts we are making for the .common cause, and when these efforts are likely to bear fruit in their deliverance."