Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 300, 17 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

HOW WE CAN SHORTEN THE WAR. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) Loudon, December 16. The Times’ military correspondent, ■discussing the duration of the war, says: “To measure the time the war will last .is to measure the energy we display in shortening it. Four months after the outbreak we find ourselves with five men in England for every soldier at the front. Until we alter this proportion we cannot prosecute the war as vigorously as we should.”

THE UNITED IRISH LEAGUE’S REPUDIATION

United Press Association, (Received 9.15 a.m.) New York, December 16. The United Irish League repudiates Sir Roger Casement’s visit to Berlin. He was unauthorised to speak for anybody.

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS INTERCESSION SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, December 16

St. Paul’s Cathedral was crowded during the twenty-four hours’ intercession service, many soldiers and Belgians being present.

CANADA’S RESOURCES.

THE EMPIRE AS A WHOLE.

(Received] 9 a.m.) London, December 16,

Mr Borden’s statement concerning Canada’s military resources has occasioned wide comment. Its quiet assurance of the ultimate British victory is especially commended. The Pall Mall Gazette says; Mr Borden’s memorandum is a picture in minatnre of the difficulties caused by the lack of organisation for the war prevailing throughout the Empire. 'At the same time there is no lack of determination on the part of the British people to see the struggle through to a victorious conclusion. An invidious comparison is sometimes made between the willingness of Britons Overseas to serve the Empire and the alleged slackness of Britons at Home. This is unfair and misleading, but the Dominions have done and are doing magnificently. The Australians and New Zealanders are not one whit behind the Canadians in their readiness to serve. The tide of British power is rising steadily and strongly, and the Germans will shortly be compelled to realise the fact against which they have stubbornly set their eyes that the Empire is no haphazard collection of tributary States but a brotherhood of free peoples with ideals of peace and liberty, and with a determination that these ideas shall prevail in the world and that weakest nations shall enjoy the right to live their own lives equally with the strongest.”

LLOYD’S WAR RISK TO THE AN-

TIPODES.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) London, December 16. Lloyd’s war risk to Australia and New Zealand is 255. THE CUNNING OF THE GERMAN. PRISONERS WRITE LETTERS IN INVISIBLE INK. (Received 12.40 p.m.) London, December 16. • .The censors discovered prisoners at the Douglas internment camp writing to Germany in invisible ink. One was sentenced to two months.