Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

HATRED OF BRITAIN.

POPULATION KNOW LITTLE OF THE WAR’S PROGRESS.

[United Press Association.] London, September 24

A prominent American who has lived for many years in Berlin was interviewed in London. He said the Germans are working night and day at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, altering merchantmen into transpd’fs, and are also working unceasingly on Zeppclu s. They expect to squash England to pieties. It is believed in Beilin that the war will endure for several years The population know little of its progress. The British are hated with an intensity hard to describe. It was never supposed that England would he a factor in the light.

THE MORATORIUM ENOS ON NOVEMBER 4th.

[United Press Association.]

London, September 24

The Government, after consultation with the various interests, Is ending the moratorium on hills of exchange, retailers’ debts, and rents! . As regards other debts, there will he art extension of a month. The moratorium ends on November 4th.:,

KNITTED BELTS AND SOCKS FOR

THE ‘‘TOMMIES.’

In view of winter requirement!?, Lord Kitchener has asked the Queen to supply 300,000 belts, kn tted or woven, and 300,000 pairs of socks, available in November. The Queen is willing to accede to the request and asks the women of the Empire to assist in the making.

THE TEMPORAL HEAD OF THE MOHAMMEDANS.

A SIGNIFICANT APPLICATION.

Aghakhan, the temporal head of die Mohammedans in India. Las applied to the War Office tq serve as a private in the Indian contingent,

HOLLAND AND THE TRADE IN SUGAR.

HOLLAND TOO CONVENIENT FOR GERMANY.

London, September 24

Despite the prohibition of export of sugar from Holland, German merchants are selling and obtaining payment through Holland. The British Government has forbidden the import of sugar through Holland BRITISH CENSOR PUTTING ON THE SCREW. Times and Sydney Sun Services.

(Received 8 a.m.)

London, September 25

British censorship has been made more drastic and prohibits the obtaining of first-hand narratives close to the front. t

GERMAN PEOPLE DELUDED BY STORIES OF SUCCESS.

(Received 8 a.m.) London, September 25

A German officer who was captured twenty miles from Paris and has arrived in England, said that the Germans must be there now, and when told that they had been driven back sixty miles, he cried “Impossible!”

Officers and men are schooled on the invincihility of the German armies, and declare that the final defeat cl their country is impossible. All are deluded by stories of the Germans 1 uninterrupted success on sea and land.