Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 285, 30 November 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

ATTACK ON BRITAIN. SUPER-ZEPPELINS READY. Times and Sydney Sun Sebvices. * (Received, 8 a.m.) London, November 29. The Turin newspaper Stampa declares that eighteen super-Zeppelins are ready to participate in an attack on Britain in the spring. Each is armed with machine guns and fifty bombs. i , •'■TM'-.-r — .-.,1 APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS. A KINGDOM OF COD. Times and Sydney Sun Seb vices. (Received 8 a.m.) Loudon, November 29. Twenty-eight influential laymen representing various churches issued an open letter urging the churches to urge on missionary societies at the time of the world’s war the paramount necessity of Christians to extend and establish a world-wide Kingdom of God, which was the only sure foundation for peace. KING ALBERT STEADFAST. BRITISH TROOPS CONFIDENT. I Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 29.

Lord Kitchener,. in the course of a statement in the House of Lords, said that throughout the whole war the Belgians were led in the field by their King, who, though hard pressed, had never left and never intended to leave Belgian territory. He added: “The British troops at the front have been refitted and are in the best of spirits and confident of success under their leader.” PAY OF GERMAN OFFICERS. REDUCED TO HALF. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 29. In the House of Commons Mr Tennant stated that the War Office having learned that British officers in Germany were not receiving the pay to which they were entitled under the Hague Convention, had decided to give German officers in Britain only half pay. TO COPE WITH SPIES. EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS. if - Time* and Sydney Sun Service*. (Received 8 a.m > Loudon, November 29. In the House of Commons Lord Charles Beresford urged greater vigilance to cope with spies. Mr McKenna stated that since August in the metropolitan area 120.000 suspicious cases were investigated, 6000 houses were ransacked, and 342 persons interned. GENERAL. United Press Association. London, November 28. It is stated that two hundred American passports sent to the Berlin Foreign Office for registration disappeared. in similar circumstances to the English passport, which Lody used. (Lody, a German spy, was executed at the Tower.V

Several of the interne*! Germans nt Douglas gave evidence that tne out-

break was prearranged. The ringleader told his comrades to take off their numbers, as something was going to happen. • The military in charge . gave evidence that they were subjected to a fusilade of knives, forks, and crockery for ten minutes before they fired. The missiles injured several soldiers. Complaints about the food were unjustified. The outbreak was the work of agitators. The London daily newspapers have agreed not to publish football news, except the bare results. Financial papers, commenting on Mr Lloyd George’s statement that the bank of England had discounted 120 millions worth of bills under the Government’s special arrangement, consider the amount is not over large, considering that five hundred millions were outstanding.