General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 56, 2 November 1914, Page 6

General News

WHITE FLAG TREACHERY. Paris, October 31

The Wurtemburg Regiment .iLtempt. ed to pass through a narrow defile in the'forest of Tourdesmoines and Midargonnes, hoping to join the Crown Prince's army at Varennes. The French, who had been forewarned, erected a barrier of rocks, when:e a mitrailleuse poured a hot fire. The Germans hoisted the white flag, but fired when the French advanced, killing ten, whereupon the mitrailleuse re-opened on the Germans, causing horrible confusion. In attempting to escape, over a thousand were killed.

WAR'S EFFEGT ON HUNGARY. Vienna, October 30.

Budapest telegrams state that the whole of Hungary is flooded with wounded, showing the ' sanguinary character of the Vistula fighting. Several Hungarian towns have protested against billeting any more wounded there, declaring that it is impossible to house and nurse them owing to lack of room and attendance. At Vienna" the schools, hotels, public offices, and churches are being transformed into hospitals. HEAVY BELGIAN LOSSES. / Paris, October 31J Belgian officers at Dunkirk state that the Belgian losses for ten days were 20,000.. The earlier 4 German successes were due to the longer range (of their artillery! The Belgians hasve now stopped the enemy's advance.;

"AN AWF,UL HAMMERING." London, October 31.. Donald Thomson, the photographer of the New York World, who accompanied the German army through tvventy-six engagements, was. wounded at Dixmunde. He states, that the Germans in Belgium are still fighting with marvellous determination, but are getting "an awful hammering," Their cavalry is utterly demoralised. The British cavalry work is both the. adimration and dismay of the Germans, who have not .attempted to .withstand onslaughts at close quarters, but turn and run.

A LONG WAR.

London, October 31

There is a tendency in the Berlin Press to confess that the war is more prolonged than was anticipated, and people are advised to husband their resources.

COMMERCIAL. New, York, October 30. Britain's announcement that cotton is not contraband has eased the situation. The shipment of several hundred thousand dollars' worth to Germany through Italian ports has already been negotiated. Heavy consignments of foodstuffs have been sent to Germany, via Italy. Chicago, October 31. Bidding in the wheat market was excited, both to cover and on speculative account, owing to Turkey's attitude. . .

SERVIA ASSUMES DEFENSIVE. Rome, October 30.

The Tribuna's Nish correspondent reports that Servia;, finding it difficult after two campaigns, to continue the struggle against Austria's growing forces, must, therefore, assume the defensive.

MISCELLANEOUS}. London, October 30

Prince Maurice of BaTtenburg war leading a company attack when he was struck by a shrapnel, and died almost immediately. He was buried at Ypres to-day. A steamer brought eight and a-half million eggs from Archangel to Cardiff.

•Tenders will be invited on the 4th November for fifteen millions' worth of six months' British Treasury Bills. The names of the German and Austrian ] Emperors, and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg have been removed from the. army, list*