Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 38, 1 October 1914, Page 5

Britain

THE LABOR MARKET. RECRUITING AND DEMANDS FOR MATERIAL RELIEVED CONGESTION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 30. The percentage of unemployed in Britain because of the war is very small. Recruiting has greatly relieved the congestion of the labor market, while the demands of the Government for war material and the invasion of German markets necessitated the engagement of extra hands by many factories. BRADFORD’S TRADE. FOREIGN TRADERS’ DEEITS AMOUNT TO SIX MILLIONS. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, September 30. The .German firms owing money to the Bradford exporters* intimated that they are investing the amounts in the Gorman war loan, sending the scrip to Bradford as payment for their trade debts. As the Bradford exporters require £1,850,000 from Germany and Austria, the intimation has caused dismay. The Germans intimated, they will not respect contracts made prior to the war. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce resolved that the Government relievo export merchants by making advances against approved foreign trade debts to the extent of seventy-five per cent. The total debts owing to tho Bradford district, including the American, are now estimated at six million.

A NATIONAL WAR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE WALES CONTINGENT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, September 30. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Cardiff, said the Empire had declared war on a barbarous and brutal doctrine. It had been cynically avowed by the Germans that nations had no rights unless they were powerful enough to enforce them. It was incumbent upon Wales to raise 50,000 men for a now army. This war, to be successfully waged, must bo a national war. “THE WORST !S OVER,” (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, September 30. The Daily Chronicle’s Paris corro, spondent, writing at midnight, says: There has h n ''n a long wait for good news, but relief is extraordinarily evident. The officer* Believe that the wor ’ ’ ■ r 'ver, and that the be«t sniy be 1