Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 6

Britain

TRADE WITH THE ENEMY

BIG PENALTIES PROVIDED

A GIFT OF SUGAR

(Received 9.40 a.m.) London, September 11. The Government's Bill prohibiting trade with the enemy inflicts penalties up to seven years' penal servitude and a £SOO fine. Company directors and officers are liable. The Board of Trade is empowered to inspect the books of firms, of which a partner is or was immediately before the war an enemy's subject, and companies of which an enemy's subject holds one-third of the shares.

The German ship Orlanda, with a cargo of nitrate from Mexillonese, has been captured and brought to Falmouth.

The Liverpool Chamber of Com merce has carried a resolution o: gratitude for the magnificent rally o! the overseas dominions to the Motherland.

Mauritius planters have offered a million pounds of sugar to the navy, and a similar quantity to the army. The Government has accepted the offer.

BRITSSH GUINEA. THE SOUTH AMERICAN COLONY READY TO FIGHT. Georgetown, September 11. All available forces in British Guiana, consisting of police and militia, have volunteered for active and reserve forces, and are mobilised. A British oil-tanker steamer is taking refuge, owing to having picked up a German wireless message. WITH THE ABRCRAFT. AIRSHIP TO MAKE CRUISES OVER LONDON.

Times and Sydnex Sun Services . (Received 8 a.m.) ■ London, September 11. The Admiralty announces that a Bri-j tish naval airship will make cruises over London during the next few days and nights.