THE WAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 243, 13 October 1917, Page 6

THE WAR.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11. In the course of a debate in tho Reichstag Dr Michaelis admitted a Socialist statement that sentences aggregating two hundred years' hard labor had been passed on sailors for Socialist propaganda in the navy. A Socialist named Vogtherr warned the Chancellor that hundreds of thousands of men and women, including men at. the front, were behind the Socialist party, and the Chancellor's policy was bound to fail. Herr Haase said that tho Government and its tether were trying to unite other parties to its support by waving tho red flag. The Rhenische Westfelische Zeitung ur«es the criminal prosecution of the SoSalist BeP"^^ Od , n . Tli3 Military Cross has been awarded to Lieut. W. W. Cock, of the New Zealand forces and Flying Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and skill m attacking a Zeppelin. He ascended in a strong wind and thick mist, and low clouds, but eventually gave up the attack when sixty miles out at sea. The return journey was hazardous; btit he Pa.fely landed, after being 5£ hours, in the air. LONDON, Oct. 11.

Mr Lloyd George, in receiving agri- ' cultural representatives, appealed to farmers to inci-er.se enormously t<he food suppU.-Js, not because he was afraid of submarines —as he could stato definitely that the submarine menace was rapidly diminishing—but because the world'a stock of food was tho smillest for years. The diminution of tho French and Italian cereal production had thrown France and Italy on to tho markets of the world. He deprecated as unfair abuse of the farmer, which was duo to ignorance of the prec iriousr.ess of his business. Ho was convinced tihat the majority of the people we:*e grateful to the farmers for their ■ achievement last spring in adding 700,'OCQ acres to •cuitivafciw* in alone. He asked farmers now to improve that achievement. "We do not want to go to the American market. Such food is for the mouths of our Allies." PETROGRAD, Oct. 11. A Government manifesto says tliat the convocation of the Constituent Assembly must not be delayed. Meanwhile the Provisional Government will indefatigably work for universal peace, which is essential to Russia's reconstruction. Tae* Russian delegates at! the Inter-Allied Conference at Paris will seek an understanding with the' Allies cm the subject of the principles proclaimed by the Russian, revolution. They include a special delegate enjoying the confidence ot Democratic organisations. The Government will exert its whole strength to support the Allied cause, to eject the enemy from Russia, and to restore the fighting strength of the army. A punitive expedition arrived at Tashkent^ and arrested the revolutionary committee and Governor, whom the local council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates appointed.