Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 60, 6 November 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

JAPANESE TROOPS SUGGESTED FOR EUROPE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 5. Dr. Dillon, in an article in the Contemporary Review, urges that Japan be invited to send troops to Europe. There is a similar suggestion in an anonymous article in the Fortnightly Review. «, * i THE PROBLEM OF ALIEN CAMPS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 5. A score of alien camps are established in Britain, Ireland and Gibraltar. Five hundred have arrived in London and thousands are being investigated.

SERVICEABLE GIFT OF MOTOR AMBULANCE COLUMN.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 5. A duchess, member of the House of Commons, and friends have presented to the War Office a motor ambulance column of fifty vehicles for service with the Oversea expeditionary forces.

KILLED IN ACTION.

United Press Association,

London, November 4

The following were killed in action :—Lieutenant Williams and Malcolm the last named belonging to the Lancashire Regiment.

CANADIANS REVIEWED BY THE KING AND KITCHENER.

SOLIDARITY OF THE EMPIRE.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) London, November 5.

The King and Lord Kitchener inspected the Canadians on Salisbury Plain. There was intense enthusiasm. The King sent a message that the Canadians’ prompt reply was of inestimable value as evidence of the solidarity of the Empire. THE WHEAT MARKET. (Received 9.30 a.m.) ■' London, November 5. Wheat is firm, with fair, inquiry. ANNEXATION OF CYPRUS BY GREAT BRITAIN. ■' ' ’| ! • ’ V; 1 J ITS INTERESTING HISTORY. (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, November 5. Official: Britain has annexed Cyprus. * ' ■—■—■l - M Cyprus.—lsland in the Levant, 60 miles south of Asia Minor and 40

I 9. west of Syria. Area 3584 square miles, population 274,108, of whom 214,480 are Greek Christians and 56>. 428 Mohammedans. The capital, Nicosia, is situated inland and has a population’hf over 16,000. The island is administered by a High Commissioner, with an .Executive Council of six and a Legislative Council of eighteen, twelve of whom are elected. Under the Convention of 1878 an ; annual tribute of £92,800 is payable to the Sultan. The island receives an annual grant of £50,000 from the Imperial exchequer! Revenue 1912-13, £384,685; expenditure, £351,461. Imports, 1912, £602,345; exports, £728,988. The island is nearly traversed from east to west by two lofty chains of mountains, having "between them the valley of the Pedia and Mount Santa Croce, the ancient Olympus 7000 ft. above the level of the sea. There are extensive forests of oak and walnut, and large districts of open country with a fertile soil. Cyprus is thought to have obtained its name from Cyprus, one of its early kings, though others say it was derived from a certain fragrant tree or flower. It has been celebrated as the residence of Venus, surnamed Cyprus, who was the chief deity of the island, and to whose service many places and temples were consecrated. The Greeks made themselves masters of it, and it was taken from them by the Homans. It was a portion of the kingdom of the Ptolemies, and of the Byzantine Empire; was conquered by the Arabs in 648 A.D., and taken from them and given to the Knights Templars in 1191. After 1571 it was subject to the Turks till 1878, when Great Britain assumed a protectorate. "BRITAIN WILL NEED ANOTHER MILLION MEN.” Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 5. Lord Charles Betesford, speaking at Croydon, said: We are fighting like sportsmen and gentlemen against cowards, ruffians and brigands. I believe that Britain will need another million men.

LOYALTY OF EGYPT NOT QUES-

TIONEO.

Bom©, November 5

The newspaper Giornale oTtalia publishes an interview with Hnssan Stichi Pasha , Prime Minister of Egypt, who declared that the Egyptian and British authorities were working in perfect .harmony. All Egyptians spontaneously expressed loyalty. Many officers have volunteered for service with the British armv;