General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 66, 13 November 1914, Page 3

General News

DETAILED SUEZ CANAL PLOT. GERMAN SPY’S CONFESSION. United Press Association. Pome, November 12. Prince Meliamed AH, from Egypt, furnishes details of tho career of Otto Mors mentioned in the cables recently. Mors came to Egypt in 1009, and secured a lieutenancy in Ihe gendarmerie. He was really a spy, with a staff of numerous con. spirators appointed to foment a rebellion. Various princes and notables identified with the Nationalist movement assisted Mors. Prior to the war Mors went to Germany. He also visited Enver Bey at Constantinople regarding a native rising in Egypt, and returned to Alexandria with a mission to blow up divers ships in the Canal, to prevent the Indian and Australian reinforcements from reaching Europe. The plot was discovered, and Mors was arrested, weaving a fez containing detailed maps of the Canal, and instructions from Germany as to how to blow up the Canal. Two big dynamite 'bombs were found concealed at his lodgings. Mors made a full confession, and furnished a list of his associates, who were arrested and many have been deported. Mors said that Germans gave him £IO,OOO and threatened to shoot him if ho turned coward. * THE GUILDHALL BANQUET. London, November 11. Lord Kitchener, speaking at the Guildhall banquet, added that every day increases our admiration for the glorious army under General Joffrei who was a great military leader. The Russians, under the brilliant leadership of Grand Duke Nicholas, achieved victories of the utmost value, and of vast strategic importance. He had no complaints to make about the response to the appeals for men, and the progress of the training of recruits was remarkable. The country might well be proud of them. The enemy was equipped with elaborate machinery for destruction, and by fixing the date of tho war beforehand possessed considerable advantage. The British army, under gallant and skilful leadership', proved not such a contemptible war engine as some people were disposed to tbink.

Mr Asquith, referring to Turkey, said the Allies were compelled, after veiled menaces and impudent equivocations, to recognise her as art open enemy, and he unhesitatingly predicted that she would perish by the sword. The Turkish Empire had dug

its own grave with its own hands. Regarding the destruction of Prussian militarism, it was he said, a great task, worthy of a great nation. It was, however, necessary for the accomplishment of the end in view that every man, old or young, rich or poor, busy or leisured, learned or simple, should give what he has and do what he can. \ FOODSTUFFS IN THE NETHERLANDS.

Washington, November 11

The State Department announces that Holland has entered' into an agreement whereby she secures a practical monopoly of the importation into the Netherlands of all foodstuffs, flour, and cattle. Holland has entered into a contract with the Hol-laTid-American steamers the only neutral line plying to America, whereby private shipments will not bo accepted. MISCELLANEOUS. London, November 11. Lody was imperturablo to the last. He refused to be blindfolded. He was executed at the miniature rifle range in the. Tower at dawn. He was seated in a chair, with folded arms, when the eight rifles rang out. The body was buried in the precincts of the Tower. M. Robin has presented to the British people twenty of his statues as a token of his admiration of the British soldiers fighting in France. New York, November 11. The Tribune quotes a member of the German Embassy at Rome as stating that when the Germans landed in Britain, if the men and women resisted them, the Germans would treat them exactly as they had treated the Belgians.