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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 38, 1 October 1914, Page 3

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THE SALVATION ARMY. INCOME OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS HARD HIT. 10,000 "SOLDIERS” WITH THE COLOURS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 30. The income of charities is decreasing in consequence of the public support of the war funds. The ordinary income of the Salvation. Army at headquarters has almost ceased and the officers are working at a reduced salary. Ten thousand Salvationists are serving with the Colours.

CHANCE OF OPINION. GENEROUS TREATMENT FAVORED FOR THE HINDUS. (Received 8 a.m.) Ottawa, September 30. The steamer Komagata Maru has arrived at Vancouver loaded with Hindus, who are asking for compensation because they were not allowed to land. The feeling in official circles in view, of India’s, magnificent response to the war is that the Hindus are entitled to generous treatment. BATTLEFIELD STORIES FROM x THE "TOMMIES.” ' London, September 30. A subaltern writes from the front: — ; "I do .hope that wo will wipe out the fellows in front, then perhaps we will get a’ little sleep. All our people, especially the infantry, are very tired. I don’t suppose we have averaged more than four hours’ sleep at night for three weeks, and all, in the open. It is wonderful how accustomed one grows to little sleep and food, and very little washing. There is no time for washing and shaving, and most of us have grown beards.” An officer in the Coldstream Guards tells that he and three other officers were sheltering in a hay-rick, which was hit by eight shells in three minutes and set afire. They had to run for 300yds across artillery-swept ground. CAPTURED CUN ON EXHIBITION London, September 29. The exhibition of the first captured German gun in the courtyard of tire War Office, drew a big and admiring crowd. The gun was captured by the first battalion of the Lincolns. l "IT’S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY.” London, September 29. The Times has a leader on soldiers’ songs. None can tell, says the paper, why "It’s a long way to Tipperary” suits the taste of the soldiers, unless it is because it is entirely irrevalent to the matter in hand. The soldiers prefer a joke reminding them of borne to any song telling them they are herpes.” To our mind, to joke in the face' of death is finer than the heroic attitude.”

KAISER QUARRELS WITH CROWN PRINCE. London, September 29. Copenhagen reports that a violent quarrel exists between the Kaiser and the Grown Prince, the former considering the campaign in France a fiasco. The Kaiser is inconsolable. ROYAL PRINCE KILLED BY HIS OWN MEN. United Press (Association. London, September 29. A Belgian doctor states that Prince Adalberg, the Kaiser’s third son, died at the Brussels hospital. The physician was ordered to hold an autopsy in the presence of two German doctors, and this revealed that the Prince was killed by a German bullet, Other post-mortem examinations showed that German officers had been similarly killed. ACROSS THE SWISS FRONTIER. Berne, September 29. German artillery crossing the Swiss frontier were disarmed. The men stated that they had nothing to eat for six days, and crossed the frontier in ignorance. The Swiss believe that the mistake was a sequel to their privations. OUTRAGES ON CIVILIANS. Ostend, September 29. Before being expellpd from Alost, the Germans arrested 26 civilians and forced them to sign a confession that the inhabitants had fired on the Germans. During the fighting, the Germans compelled 40 civilians to walk ahead of the troops, and several were killed by the Belgians. The suggestion is made that in order to protect British and colonial trade after the war, leading Australian merchants should agree with England, Canada, and South Africa to refuse to buy German or Austrian goods for five years. • . The Yorwaerts (Germany! informs its subscribers that it has been suppressed by Marshal Youkessel, commanding at Biandenburg.