Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 32, 24 September 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

OFFSGJAL.

High Commissioner’. 1 ) report: — Loudon, September 2d (2.30 a.m.) Official.—H.M.S. Berwick, operating 11 North Atlantic waters, reported that ,-.e captured the German HamhnrgAnieriea liner Sprecwald. which is mown to he fitted as an armoured norehaiit cruiser. At the same time wo colliers were captured with coal in Vtlantic waters. The vessels had between them 6000 tons of coal and 180 tons of provisions’. ».

The total-miniher of German vessels captured hy British vessels at sea or hy the British port authorities now amounts to 02, in addition to 05 German vessels;"detained in British ports m the outbreak of the war, making a otal of 187 German vessels in our possession. Seventy British vessels were letaiued in German ports on the outbreak of war. - Since then, twelve Brutish seagoing vessels were captured rnd sunk at sea, the vessels carrying overseas trade.

Lord Kitchener sanctions the formrtion of a Welsh army corps.

...The Capetown press unanimously •ondemns General Beyers, emphasising the fact that he deferred his resignitiou until in possession of the Government plans of campaign.

GENERAL CAVELUEN.

GIVING HONOR TO WHOM HONOR

IS DUE.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] . . [United Press Association.] -a(Received 9.0 a.m.) London, September 23. The Daily Telegraph’s Bordeaux '•orrespondent state? that it was Genwa! Caveluen, not General Pan, who uvuight up 200,000 to Sir John Trench’s left 'and determined the lerman retreat.

AWAY FOR EVER. ”

GERMAN HUMANITY LEAGUE ‘ ISSUES STRONG APPEAL.

(Received 9.0 a.m.) London, September 23

After the battle,of Marne, the German Humanity League issued an apoeal to the civilised world from RotL erdam in which it states; “The inevitable end of the war will be the deposition of the despot whose true aims md character have nakedly been rohroled. As men passionately devot'd to the Fatherland,’wb owe a bnunI ni duty to every man caring for the welfare of mankind to join hands in resting the Kaiser and the men around him who are responsible for the appalling crimes of the last five weeks. The lasting interest of the German wage-earner will only he solv'd by the victory to the Allies. Prns;ia’s domination of Germany must he crushed and swept away for ever.”