General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 3

General

BUILDING UP THE BRITISH TOY

TRADE.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, September 25

The Board of Trade’s exhibition of German-made toys was a great Success. Unemployed women and girls are being taught to make similar toys. Manufacturers and the potteries are entering into the toy trade.

RETURN OF NON-COMBATANTS.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Berne, September 24

France and Germany have accepted Switzerland’s offer to act as intermediary in return of women, children, and persons incapable of bearing arms. Austria’s reply is awaited.

Nine cases of Asiatic cholera are reported among the wounded from Galicia.

The Chronicle’s Geneva correspondent states that General von Diemling, commanding the army in Alsace, has been dismissed.

Mr Stanley B^ cKmas f cr succeeds Mr Smith as director of the Press Bureau v Mr Smith goes to the fron*-. A sentry fatally bayonettd MacLeod, a coastguardsman at Berw'ck, thinking he was a spy, The Belgian Government has thanked Mr Holman for Australia's offer to receive refugees, but is unable to accept tire offer, because when the war is at an end every man, woman, and child will be needed to repair the awful wastage of war. A Belgian court-martial convicted a German infantryman of killing a peasant woman with a bayonet, and another of having stolen jewellery in his possession. Both were executed.