General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 27, 18 September 1914, Page 5

General.

WHAT GERMAN INTERVENTION MEANT TO THE WORLD.

London, September 17,

A White Paper issued containing Bunsen’s Vienna despatch in reference to the rupture which Austria shows that on August Ist conversations between St. Petersburg and Vienna were proceeding iu the mostly friendly fashion. Austria even assented to

mediation on points of her ultimatum that were incompatible with Servian independence. It was at this point that Germany intervened with her ultimatum to St. Petersburg and Paris, cutting short the prospects of peace. A few days’ delay would in all probability have saved Europe from the greatest calamity in history. # COMMERCIAL MATTERS. (R.eceived 9.10 a.m.) London, September ilk Wheat is steady. Australian is being offered at ;(7s 6d. Forty-seven millions have been tendered for the Treasury Bills; for six months the average is 58s 6d, and twelve months 68s 3d.

CEYLON’S CONTINGENT FREE.

(Keceived 9.10 a.m.) Colombo, September 17. Lord Kitchener has accepted Ceylon’s contingent. Ceylon pays the cost of transport.

HEAVY FOREIGN BUYING hF

CEREALS.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) New York, September 17. There is heavy foreign* buying of wheat, flour and oats, speculators believing the war will be a' protracted one. Over two million bushels of oats were purchased for export on Tuesday aad Wednesday, and nearly the same ..mount of wheat.