General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 17, 7 September 1914, Page 3

General.

ONLY EMP! RE-MADE GOODS FOR THE FUTURE.

(Received 8.0 a.in.) Ottawa, September C,

The Hon. Mr Foster (Minister of Trade and Commerce) has issued an appeal to Canadian manufacturers to capture all the availble German-over-seas trade and make up to the Empire the losses sustained during the war. The whole of the Empire, he said, should covenant together to purchase only goods made within the Empire itself.

LETTER GY THE BRETiSH

FOREIGN SECRETARY.

THE CONFLICT WITH iv!in-

TAR ISM,

i'Received 8.0 a.m.)

London, September '6

Sir Edward Grey, in a letter, say

' 'England is engaged in a conflict with militarism under which Western Europe will fall if the Germans succeed. If the independence of the

smaller States is secured, the German people themselves will he freed from Prussian militarism, which has driv-

en Gor main- into the conflict in

nrope, and it will he a brighter and

freer day for Europe while it will compensate for the awful sacrifices.”

ATLANTIC TRADE ROUTES FREE FROM THE ENEMY.

(Received 8.50 a.in.) Washington, September G. It is officially stated tha| Britain has decided to disarm all her merchantmen owing to the trade routes in the Atlantic: being perfectly free from the enemy.