General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 3

General

It is understood that the British, French and German Governments have agreed to arrange an exchange of prisoners through Washington. Publication in New York of the German atrocities in Belgium provoked a storm of indignation. The newspapers’ cry is: “Germany must answer the indictment or stand for ever condemned.”

Pittsburg factories are making six million horse-shoes for France and Russia.

In a letter, a German officer states that the Germans retreated without food for twenty-four hours, but they had plenty of champagne. “The British fought like devils, but wo repulsed the French.’ ’

The German headquarters lias issued a statement in Berlin that the battle between the Oise and the Mouse was indecisive.

Mine. Patti and her husband were kept as prisoners at Carlsbad for several weeks, and when released the mob stoned them. Lieut.-Colonel Barclay, of New Zealand, has joined the Russian Red Cross field hospital. Germans at Willshrook were sweeping the Belgians across a canal with machine-guns. The Belgians were unable to cross, as the bridge had been raised. A soldier volunteered, and swam the canal under lire, and lowered the bridge. He was mortally wounded. Germans at Brussels forced the doors of the Palace of Justice, and removed all the objects of historical value. The magistrates have protested concerning the robbery.