General Items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 20 August 1914, Page 7

General Items

THE COMBINED ARMIES AND NAVIES. [By Electric Telegraph•—Copyright; Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, August 19. Military v,Tilers agree that 8.1 million men are under arms in Europe and 310,000 seamen. THE GOST OF MOB!USATSON. SOME FIGURES RELATING TO THE BALKAN WAR. (Received 8,0 a.m.) London, August 19. Balkan war mobilisation cost ten shillings per man daily, which means £4,400,000 daily, but this is short of the mark, because it does not account for the maintenance the armies and the fleets. THE KAISER AND SONS. JOURNEY TO MAVENGE, WOMEN AS COLLIERS. London, August 19. Three of his sons, including the Crown Prince, accompanied the Kaiser to AI .ayence. Women- are now employed as colliers in the Rhine and Westphalia provinces. ENORMOUS SHIPPING LOSSES. It is calculated that owing to tinwar the Hambnrg-Amerika line wiu lose 260 steamers, valued at 22 millions sterling. AMERICANS CHARTER A STEAMER.

Homo, August IQ. Four hundred wealthy Americanstranded at Genoa chartered the liner Prince Pessa Mala.lda for £-10,000 to return home. INTERRUPTION !N THE NEW CALEDONIA CABLE. Brisbane, August 19. The New Caledonia cable is interrupted. THE KAISER COMPLAINS OF MISREPRESENTATION. Wasbigton, August 19. The Kaiser has proto .ted to President Wilson, stating that German has been maligned, and her motives misconstrued and misrepresented in the campaign organised to foster antiGerman sentiment. The President is protesting against the allegations through the Ambassador. THE CREWS OF THE GOEBEN AND BRESLAU. Constantinople, August 19. The Goeben and Breslau have arrived, and received their Ottoman crews. The German crews declare that the German advance is just beginning, and that her opponents will realise that the army is well maintained and equipped for the advance.