WAR CABLES.

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

WAR CABLES.

MESSAGE FROM LORD KITCHENER. (Received 8.45 a.m., August 19th.) London, August 18.

Each soldier also received a little slip of paper signed “Kitchener/’ with 200 words of soldierly advice telling them to “Fear God, Honor the King. Remember you will be fighting on the soil of a friendly nation, abstain from liquor and looting, bo courteous to women, but not rnoie than courteous.” Lord Kitchener’s message has been ordered to be kept in every soldier's pavbook. “ A TEETOTAL WAR. tf _ EXCEPT ON THE GERMAN SIDE. ((Received September 23, 1.30 a.m.) London, Sepemher £l. This is a teetotal war so far as the Allies are concerned, but the trail of the Germans is marked by myriads of empty bottles. ANTWERP PEOPLE HASTILY PREPARING BELGIUM. FORTS BEING REINFORCED. Antwerp, August 23. The people of Antwerp are cuttmg down plantations and destroying villas and cottages in order not to afford the Germans cover. Earthworks have been thrown up and field and heavy artillery have been placed in new defence works in order to i enforce the forts. The -ale of alcohol has been forbidden, excent by chemists.

LIQUOR FORBIDDEN. A RUSSIAN OR!)Mil. (Received October 2G. 10 a m ) Petrograd, October 2b. The Governor-General in Galicia, by order of the Tsai-, announces that anyone offering spirituous liquors to the troops will be court-martia')e 1. PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA. (Received October 21, 8.30 0.m.) London, October 20. Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent states that following on the dec-ease of crime as the result of closing the spirit shops, the Tsar has ordered the permanent prohibition of the sale by the Government of alcohol. “I have decided to prohibit forever in Russia the Government sale of alcohol.” Tt is estimated that the revenue this year from the sale of spirits in Russia will amount to JL'l)3,000,000, — Advt.