General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 52, 17 October 1914, Page 8

General News

THE CANADIANS’ ARRIVAL. [United Press Association.] London, October 16. The first Canadian transport was moored at nine o’clock yesterday mornI ing, and the last 12 hours later, after I a voyage of sixteen days, the troopships including many trams-Atlantic liners. COST OF THE WAR. London, October 16. The Exchequer returns indicate that the British expenditure on the war up to the present averaged about five and a half millions a week. KING GEORGE V. THE KAISER. ' ■ ■ Rome, October 15,. The Tribuna, in an article on King George,, contrasts the dignified silence wherewith he awaits events with the “lokuacious imperial enemy'’ who fills the world with words. THE ATTENDANT HORRORS. -.-1 f< ' : ■ -•r * ; • Paris, October 16. Professor Bcssell, of Munster, has been sent to Metz to combat a threatening epidemic of diseases. He found an exceptionally large number of cases of dysentery, inflammation of the lungs,- and typhus. He declares that this is not surprising when the soldiers were uninterruptedly for five days and nights in trenches half full of water, where it was impossible to send them fresh supplies of provisions, and the soldiers were living on the rations carried in their knapsacks. These rations finally became mouldy. I The horrors of the insanitary conditions were increased by the fact that in many instances it was impossible to remove the dead and wounded. GERMAN DISSATISFACTION. SUPERIOR FRENCH ARTILLERY. IN THE VERDUN DISTRICT. , The Hague, October 16. A correspondent named Helleven, recently with the Germans in Lorraine, states that the Germans are dissatisfied with the progress made, and admit that the French artillery is proving superior. The French seem to have dragged heavy guns out of fortresses, and are now using them, in the open field, where they outrange the German guns by two kilometres. The Germans continually find Frenchmen in trees and in cellars, with pocket telephones, who inform Verdun of any change in the position of the Austrian and German guns. Though Lamdes and Remains have been taken, the guns, of the forts at'Parodies ami Leonville still cover* tli« gap. ■ TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN!” I London, October 16. Three French soldiers, bored by inactivity, agreed to emulate the, “Three Musketeers,” and made an excursion to a small farm in the middle of the war zone to-.get a good meal. Several Germans, likewise adventuring, entered, and agreed to a truce, and the meal was enjoyed. Then the French claimed the Germans as prisoners, but the Germans protested that owing to their superior force, by the rules of the game the French should be prisoners. After a polite wrangling, the French led the Germans to the French trenches, where they were given an immense reception. A GERMAN BOAST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Petrograd, October 15, A member of the Council of Empire, who has returned from captivity in Germany, states that the Germans cannot speaty of the English without foaming at the mouth. They boast theat they possess 75 Zeppelins, which will shortly begin to “lay eggs” on London. USING THE PRISONERS. London, October 16. The Germans are employing the French and Russian prisoners in constructing a second line of trenches between Liege and Coblentz. Princess Mary is appealing for £IOO,OOO to provide a Christmas gift of a pipe and, tobacco for every soldier and sailor on active service. Public-houses have been ordered to close at ten o’clock. Belgian refugees at Rotterdam elected a committee to proceed to Antwerp to consider the possibility of repatriation. There are 25,000 refugees in the Folkestone district, and a million in Holland, including 50,000 at Rousand. Following the British Consul’s denunciation, the authorities in Madrid seized a clandestine wireless apparatus installed by Wickonigg, an engineer in the Austrian Consular Service. The German-Aufitrian Consulate at Washington has announced that 550,000 reservists are unable to leave the United States. Replying to enquiries, Mr Lansing, Acting-Secretary for State at Washington said that citizens may sell at their own risk even--contraband to beligerents. It rested with the latter to prevent the shipments reaching their enemies. American administrative officials now consider loans to belligerent nations in Europe by private firms and individuals in the same class as the ordinary commercial transactions, and therefore do not involve the violation of neutrality.