Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 286, 1 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

KEIR HARDIES ATTITUDE

TOO WISE TO DISSUADE MEN FROM ENLISTMENT.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 30. German sources allege that a letter has been received from Mr Keir Hardie declaring: “1 have never said or written anything to dissuade our young men from enlisting. I know too well all there is at stake.”

THE FINANCIAL POWER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

WAR LOAN THE FIRST TASTE.

Times and Sydney Sun Service*!. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 30. The Times, in a leader, says: “The surprising success of the enormous national loan is the first taste of what British financial power means when applied to war purposes.” MOSLEMS REMAIN TRANQUIL. [United Press Association.) London, November 30. News from Teheran shows that the festival of Moharram passed off without the slightest hostility towards the Russians. The holy war proclamation from Constantinople was ignored. The festival was also tranquil in India. GENERAL. Timed and Sydney Sun Service*. London, November, November London, November 30. During the debate on Mr LloydGeofge’s financial statement, Mr Bonar Law declared that, though not one of the Chancellor’s most ardent admirers, he felt that when war broke out the conditions were so abnormal that they required treatment free of red-tape. He preferred a man in charge of the Treasury with courage, even if combined with rashness, rather than one afraid to do anything. At the inquiry into the Douglas riot, evidence was given that the signal for the insurrection was a blooded hand cut out of paper being posted' in a window. Three thousand three hundred prisoners were in camp. The guards were unable to use their bayonets, owing to being hard pressed by the crowd of rioters.

The Coroner, after reading the menu, which was the same as for the guards, expressed the opinion that the prisoners were given a very generous diet. The Football Association claims that 100,000 footballers have enlisted. This number exceeds the .aggregate of recruits from all other sports. Piper Findlater, the hero of Dargai, has rejoined the Gordon Highlanders for service at the front, after seventeen years’ farming.