Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 284, 28 November 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

FOR HOME DEFENCE. Times and Sydney Sun Sebvioeb. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 27. The announcement was made at a Guildhall meeting for the promotion of home defence that nearly'a million ineligible for the front were giving up their spare time for drill. DISRAELI'S PROPHECY. Times and Sydney Sun Service!. (Received 8 a.m.) ;' London, November 27. Murrays have published the third volume of Disraeli's Life, containing remarkable prophesies. Disraeli told Oobden in, $ 849 that' it was 'madness to expect universal peace, because of the fact that America and England were rich and contented. Wars were not made by such Powers but by a race or prince who agitates for position. Disraeli, with rare prescience, when the Schleswig dispute broke out in the beginning of 1848, brushed aside the ostensible pretexts for Prussia's action and pointed out that it meant an eventual challenge to England upon the sea. He further predicted that the intellectual march of Atheism may lead to a revival of national idolatries, modified and mythically dressed up according to the spirit of the age. This finds fulfilment Germany.

DEALING WITH SPIES.

ALL AUTHORITIES CO-OPERAT-ING. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 27. Lord Haldane, replying to Mr Crawford's Leith statements that the Germans were receiving signals, coal and petrol from the coasts of Britain, said that the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Home Office were co-operating in unremitting vigilance to suppress the known paid spy system. WAR LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. GENERAL. United Press [Association. London, November 2C. In the House of Commons, Mr 11. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, interrogated, said there was no intention at present of sendiag Maoiis to East Africa. He was unaware whether they had yet left New Zealand.

In the House of Commons, Mr R. Hunt asked why the Lord Chief Justice's German chaffeur was being granted naturalisation, and subsequently allowed to leave Great Britain.

Mr McKenna replied that extreme care was exercised in erevy case, Out of ten thousand applications less a hundred naturalisations had been granted. Tbe chaffeur had temporarily gone to Switzerland.

The Pall Mall Gazette is taking part in the campaign against football until the demand for recruits ha* been satisfied. The Gazette announces that it will not publish the result of matches, as it consi le'-s footba 1 ! a direct impediment to the raising of the new armies which the Nation requires. Football is an agency for drugging the conscience of manhood, and a huge susceptible portion of the public. The only true sport to. day is to be found at the front.