Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 20 August 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

•TO THE BITTER END.” KITCHENER’S SCHEME UNIVERSALLY APPFSOVED OF.

London, August 19

Lord Kitchener’s plan of replenishing the Army has won universal approval, founded on the possibility of a long and stubborn war. The scheme divides Britain’s available man-power into whole and half-tim-ers. The thousands of Territorials volunteering for foreign service will become, like the overseas contingents, whole-timers, serving abroad immediately they reach a rigid standard of efficiency. Lord Kitchener s Loei war experience influenced him to have no half-baked soldiers to face the Germans and Austrians.

The second army is for this war only, and will be discharged immediately the war is over. Britain is quietly resolved to go to the bitter end to ensure that the menace to the world’s peace shall be destroyed beyond the risk of re-appear-ance. ENEMIES CIRCULATE FALSE REPORTS ! N ENGLAND.

London, August 19

The Press Bureau warns the public that the enemy is attempting to spread false reports of disasters, and adds that the censor has already stopped a canard that was being circulated abroad that a distinguished Highland regiment had lost a whole battalion.

Reports are also being spread to the effect that wounded have been smuggled into hospitals in Britain from the j .Continent,- whereas it was a fact that there had been no casualties the British. ?

DAILY ARRESTS IN ENGLAND. ... Ujh

London, August 18

j. ( carrier-pigeon dealers were arrested. Many Austrians and Germans are daily arrested for failing to register.’ A German was fined £IOO at Bournemouth for possessing a revolver and an on veiled containing information about naval telegraphs. ! * Over six hundred German and Austrian prisoners are interned in the Blue coat School at Horsham, which is in vacation.

GEORGE ELLWOOD STRANDED.

London, August 19

George Ellwood, of Grey town,. New Zealand, who has been studying, the ’cello at Berlin, was compelled to be registered every four days. Subsequently he was allowed to leave, but was not permitted to take his ’cello. He journeyed from Rotterdam to Edinburg, where he is stranded.

THE PACIFIC NOT TOO SAFE.

London, August 19

The Admiralty, responding to a shipping enquiry, excludes the Pacific coast ports of North and Central America from the seas where voyages are safe. NURSES FOR THE FRONT. London, August 19. The Red Cross has registered over two thousand trained nurses for the war. AMERICA’S PEACE PROPOSALS TURNED DOWN. London, August 19. All the European belligerents, with the exception of Russia, have declined President Wilson’s offer for mediation.

CONFIDENCE RETURNING.

MARKED RECOVERY IN TRADE.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.ra.) London, August 19. There lias been a marked recovery in British trade of all descriptions.

THE FUTURE OF KIAO-CHAU.

BRITAIN’S PRESTIGE AT STAKE.

Received 8.0 a.m.) London, August 19

Times and Sydney Sun Services

The Times’ correspondent says that Britain’s prestige demands that sho should be the dominant factor in determiaining the future of Kiao-ohau, and that she should be represented in the investing array and navv.

MEAT FOR THE ARMY.

A GOOD DEAL.

(Received 9.2 a.m.) London, August 19

The Financial Times declares that the holders of large stocks of frozen meat rejected speculators’ offers, and allowed the Government the first pick at a reasonable figure. The result, was that the . Government was

able to provide on satisfactory terms

for the maintenance of their huge territorial army for a considerable time, with the prospect of securing additional consignments as they arrive.

BRITISH CONSULS SUFFER INDIGNITIES.

PARADED AS CRIMINALS.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) London, August 19

Renter says that on July 30th the Consul’s telegrams at Danzig were stopped and telephones cut off. Sir Drummond Hay and family on August sth were given an hour to pack and were escorted by soldiers in a motor car to the station. Rifles were levelled and insults hurled in every street. Angry crowds demonstrated at the station. Appeals for food were refused. They arrived at Stettin .after twenty-four hours and were buntiled into another train and reached Hamburg in nineteen hours.. They were insulted and were sleepless throughout the journey. At Hamburg the ladies were submitted to gross indignities. Sir 1). Hay and other Consuls were paraded as criminals before they were imprisoned.

SOLDIERS NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE TO RELATIVES.

NEWSPAPERS BARRED.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) London, August 19

The “Daily Mail” states that British soldiers are not allowed to write to relatives, but only to send a post card saying whether well or in hospital, which is without postmark. Only officers of the highest rank know what is afoot. No English newspapers are now allowed to enter France. CAMPAIGN TO ASSIST OUR OWN TRADERS. SWISS RESERVISTS LEAVE LONDON. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, August 18. Wheat is dull; 42s 6d was offered for wheat and Sour afloat. The Colonial Office proposes an early exhibition in London, comprising samples from all parts j of the Empire and also neutral countries, with a view to enabling British tenderers and manufacturers to supply articles hitherto obtained from Germany and Austria. The Board of Trade, supplementing Mr Harcourt’s action, is devising a campaign to assist manufacturers and traders to establish themselves in colonial and neutral markets. The Prince of Wales’ fund includes £6OOO from tho Begum of Dhopal. Two thousand Swiss reservists have loft London.