Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 9 October 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

OFFICIAL. The High Commissioner reports from London on the 7th inst., at 6.15 p.m., as follows: Official.—North of the Oise and at Lons there has been hard fighting. Elsewhere slight advance or retreat [varies throughout the lines. Reports generally are satisfactory. The French army is fighting with great dash and bravery. A COMMERCIAL MOVE. SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLANTING THE ENEMY'S TRADE. United Press (Association. (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, October 8.

I Lord Desborough, on behalf of the Imperial Council of Commerce, circularised the Chambers of Commerce in the Empire, inviting suggestions for supplanting the enemy's trade by an Imperial interchange of commodities. The suggestions will be submitted to a congress at Toronto in 1915. THE SUGAR SHORTAGE. GOVERNMENT PURCHASES AND ARRANGEMENTS. (Received 10.10 a.m.) In order to avoid a sugar famine, Mr McKenna (Home Secretary) i>urchased 900,000 tons of raw at about £7O per ton at Demerara (British Guiana), Java, and Mauritius. It will be sold at cost price to refiners, who will re-sell the refined at a price agreed to by the Government and baaed on the cost of the raw article plus a fair manufacturing profit. THE TERRIBLE STRAIN. MAILS ARRIVE IN TIME AND SUPPLIES TO HAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 8. A correspondent states: "Food supplies and tobacco for the army and the newspapers arrive punctually. There is no hitch in the mails, but the strain of waiting is felt, especially by the Turcos and Singalese, who lost heavily in earlier battles. They have learned that the Germans are not taking colored prisoners,but they failed to understand why they were not allowed to cut off the heads of captured Germans."