General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 3

General.

PAPAL APPEAL FOR PEACE

Rome, September 11

The Pope Ims requested the Ambassadors of belligerents who recognise His Holiness' See to ascertain the sentiments of their Governments relative to a Papal appeal for peace.

NEW GERMAN SIEGE GUN WITH

POISONOUS GAS

Malta, September 11

A message from Italy describes a new German siege gun, whose shells contain poisonous gases.

AUSTRALIAN SHIP-OWNERS SET

FINE EXAMPLE.

REDUCTION OF FREIGHTS

London, September 10.

Ship-owners in the Australian trade are setting an example to others by reducing freights. They have informed merchants that they intend to make no profits out of the war. They submitted figures showing the present cost of working their vessels to representatives of merchants, who are communicating with the banks, protesting against the present exchange charge, which is a serious factor in trade.

SOLDIERS' STORIES.

"HELL'S OWN WORK," SAYS A MUNSTER FUSILIER.

London, September 11

A wounded Minister Fusilier says:— "The Germans came at lis from all points, horse, foot, and artillery, and the air was thick with screaming, shouting men, waving swords and blazing away like blue murder. Our lads-* stood up to them without a sign of fear. We received the cavalry with fixed bayonets, the rear ranks firing steadily. The enemy collected all round us, until there was left hardly a s hole for a mouse to get through. Then the hardest fight occurred. Wo wouldn't surrender. We tried our hardest to cut through the iron wall of Germans. It was hell's own work. If the battalion was wiped out, it fought to the last gasp, and the Germans have no more than dead and wounded men, if that's any satisfaction to them."