General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 35, 28 September 1914, Page 3

General

“FIVE 808 A TIMES." Times and Sydney Sun See vices. London, September 26. The Times is purchasable surreptitiously in Brussels at six francs (about ss) a piece.

PREACHING THE SUPERIORITY OF PRUSSIAN CULTURE.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. ‘ (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 26

Mr Austen Chamberlain recalls the fact that when he was a student in Berlin a professor was preaching tbe superiority of the Prussian spirit and the duty of Prussia to make its culture and civilisation supreme throughout the world. Britain was the greatest obstacle, and the only reproach against her statesmen was that they kept the danger too secret. “MADE-IN-CERMANY” STORIES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 26. Germany is inducing Chinese papers to publish stories of Japanese atrocities. One paper was paid £IOOO to open-its column to these fabrications. THE FALL OF LONDON. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 26. The impression prevails in Germany that the fall of London is entirely at the Kaiser’s discretion. Britishers at Dresden suffered annoyance from the jeering populace.

BRITISH OCCUPATION OF LISSA.

[United Press Association.] Rome, September 26. A British-French force occupied Lis-

(Lissa is a mountainous island on the coast of Dalmatia, only 40 square miles in extent, with a population of about 10,000 people. It was held by Great Britain, 1810-15).

BRITAIN’S CRAIN SUPPLIES.

London, September 26

The removal of Russian prohibition means that an enormous supply or grain is now in sight. The vast stocks in England have been augmented by cargoes diverted from Germany. Grain continues to arrive in largo quantities from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Ranjitsinhji has placed his resources at the disposal of the Empire. Ho has promised to maintain 1000 men, 200 horses and fifteen motor-cars.

The Prize Codrt is selling by auction the first five ships on October?. The sales of captured grain to date total nearly a million sterling. Mr Lloyd George, speaking 'at Criccieth, announced that Britain would not charge Belgium interest on her ten millions loan.

Fourteen hundred British wounded* arrived at Southampton on Friday. The British Red Cross is sending 30 surgeons and 150 nurses to Paris, also 100 motor ambulances. The Ulster foreign service army numbers 10,524. Major-General BadenPowell commands, and Captain Craig, M.P., acts "as assistant adjutant-gen-eral .

Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Criccieth, said that 14 years ago he had stood on the same platform and opposed the South African War, but Britain to-day was engaged in a righteous war. It took 15 years to break Napoleon, ft would not take so long to vanquish the Kaiser, but Britain was going to see it through. He said for every Belgian soldier lost on the battlefield, three innocent, unoffending people had been ruthlessly killed.

Eighteen hundred German prisoners were captured between Malines and Aerschot on September 23rd, and sent to England.