DELAYED CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 22 December 1917, Page 2

DELAYED CABLES.

"THE KINGDOM OF HUNGER." London, December 8. Mr Phillips Price (correspondent of the Manchester Guardian ;vt Petrograd), describing a v '.-it ho »). id "» Kazan, 430 miles east ol Moscow, said that a disorderly majority was everywhere hostile to the bourgeois. The Red Guards eject any well-dress-' ccl people from the trains. Starving half-naked peasants monopolise the first and second cabins of steamers, and pile their luggage in the third class. Russia is the kingdom el hunger which is ignorantly attributed in every instance to exploiters and para, sites. The people demand the permanent. fixing of wages, price*, and profits.

BRITISH ZEPPELIN. BIG AS ATLANTIC LINER. London, December 8. Londoners had their first view of a British Zeppelin yesterday. It was as large as an Atlantic liner, and construet->.!ally it resembles the German ship. It has gondolas beneath its ribbed body, and its i'our-bladed tail is painted red, white, and blue. It made a circuit of the metropolis at a low altitude, perfectly responsive t<> its helm. It uas a most impressive spectacle. EX-KING CONSTANTINE. ALLOWANCE NOT BEING PAID. London, December 7. The Times' correspondent at Athens states that the Government's allown ce of £20,000 a year to the former King Constantine has not been paid snice his abdication and departure for Switzerland. It has not boen settled whether the sum will be deducted from Alexandra's civil list or included i>! the budget. Const-ntine did not pledge himself not to attempt to regain the throne, ji Hi is continuing to serve the interiPita of Germany, to the detriment of Greece.

GERMANY'S MOKALS. SECONDARY WIVES ADVOCATED. London, December 8. Constable and Co., publishers, have applied to the Patents Office for permission to publish the translation o) Uevr Torge's pamphlet entitled "Complementary Marriages, the Only Sur* Means of' Building up a New and Powerful Army and Enobling Humani v." It has been published broadcist in Germany. Tt advocates the taking of a second wife with the consent of the legal wife. The Controller of Patents and Copyrights is considering the question of the advisability of the pubfication of the translation. GERMAN BOY SOLDIERS. London, December 5. Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Essen General Anzciger contains an appeal by the Landwher Inspectorate, urging the formation of a Youths, Women and. Juvenile Corps immediately, because hoys of from 16 to "17 must he called up in the near future.