Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 21, 11 September 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

BRITISH ENTHUSIASM IN MEN AND MONEY.

London, September 9.

Mr Asquith will ask the Hotise of Commons to-morrow for additional men for tin.' Army.

Sir George Scott-Robertson, K.C.5.1., read Viscount Hardinge's intensenly interesting aecount of how the princes and people ol' India had offered their services. The House was deeply moved, and cheered the Indians. In all, the report said. 700 rulers had offered their services and resources. Besides Die;: ami money, some were equipping a hospital ship. Others were providing, a thousand horses. As showing the extent of the offers, the Dalai Lama had offered 1000 Tibetans.

Mr Asquith announced that Lord Hardiuge's message would he circulated throughout the world.—Mr Will Thorne (Labor).; "Send a copy to the Kaiser." <.z'.<*l*

The Indian Government contributed £1.000,000 to the cost of the contih-

The. Indian contingents are 70,000 men. The first arrived this week. Delhi. September 9.

Accompanying the expeditionary force are Sir Pertab Singh, the Maharajah* of Bikanir, Patiala, Butlam, Uishengart and Jodpur, the Nabobs of Pagora, Sachin and Bhopal, also the Malik of Umar.

BRITAIN WILL ASSSST IN EMAN-

GIPATION OF JEWS.

Timeß ano Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 10. Sir Edward Grey assured Mr Israel Zangwill that Britain would not neglect an opportunity of encouraging the movement for the emancipation of the Jews.

(Israel Zangwill was born in 1864 and was educated at a Jew's elementary school in Spitalfields, and is president of the International Jewish Territorial Organisation. His hooks, "Children of the Ghetto,* 5 "The Master," "Dreamers of the Ghetto," etc., are works of originality and power, and are unsurpassed for their pictures of modern Jewish life).

THE KAISER AS A BRITISH

ADMIRAL.

(Received 8. -aim.)

- ; The Kaiser's resignation of his ; Idmiralship has ■ evidently ..<,-w.ofc reached; Whitehall, as it still 'appears in the September.' ;Navy fi£*ta-r.ufi ar.rt.-i a. \