ANGLO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2784, 31 May 1916, Page 5

ANGLO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE

"BORN OF WAR AND CEMENTED BY COMMON INTERESTS " By Telegraph—Pres6 Association—Copyright ( Times' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Eec. May 30, 5.5 p.m.) ,r « « „ Pstrograd, May 29. M. bazanoff, Russian Foreign Minister, interviewed, said that lie- was gratified with Mr. Asquith's recognition of a complete Anrfo-Rnssian Eastern agreement. "Our Alliance, which was born of the war, becomes a permanent Alliance based upon our common interests, mutual understanding, and popular sentiment. Russia is not aggressive towards Sweden, and is determined to fulfils her promise of Polish autonomy." , HARVESTING IN WAR TIME GREAT RUSH OF WOMEN TO THE COUNTRY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 29. There has been a great rush of women applicants for tho May harvest, beginning this week. . In a fortnight ten thousand applied at the National Land League f° r work. School teachers, Girton and Newnham girl students are assisting the authorities, who have placed hundreds of women in six months at 13s. (kl. per week. WHY SHOULD WAR PRISONERS NOT WORK? [ THE FARMING CRISIS IN BRITAIN. , ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) | London, May 2D. In view of the dearth of agricultural and other labour, it is suggested that it would be expedient to employ the 15,000' German war prisoners, and the 32,000 alien civilians now held in England. Germany is employing about a million priI soners, "while the sole German prisoners working under British control' are a few relieving the congestion at French ports. Lord Newton, Chairman of the War Prisoners' Committee, feels that the prisoners should be employed on a large scale. He recently induced the Home Office to agree to nn experiment by which Cheshire and Shropshire farmers could engage intorned aliens upon agriculture at current rates of pay. Hitherto there had been no response.

3000 INTERNED PRISONER? AT ALEXANDRA PALACE. London, May 29. Tho average of interned prisoners at Alexandra Palace is over 3000, and the official report is one death per year. The newspapers contrast this condition of affairs -with those at Wittenberg.