Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 301, 18 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION.

FORCING THE LINKS OF EVIDENCE.

Timei and Sydney Bun Ssbvioib. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 17,

The Press Bureau, in stating how an eye-witness describes the intelligence and reconnaisance methods and the way in which information is gained by inspection of the uniforms of the dead or by cross-examination of prisoners, adds: Newspapers rarely value these, because no sane Government allows current details of the nature sought to be published. On the other hand, soldiers’ diaries and letters are often indiscreet and unwittingly betray the State. Their morale is to disclose where the shoe pinches. A considerable part of the intelligence work is synthetic in character and points to the building up, first, of the possible and then probable theory, based on a mass of suspicious facts; which merely amount to sidelights and are not established evidence. Often an apparently useless scrap of information forms the final link in the chain of evidence.

THE BRITISH EMPIRE THROUGH GERMAN EYES. United Puess 'Association. London, December 17. Speaking at the Royal Colonial Institute, Lord Grey stated that a German had informed him that deep at the bottom of every German’s heart was the opinion that Great Britain was rotten through and through, sunk in sordid sloth and sensuality, and the desire to capture the Empire which Great Britain was not strong enough to hold.

DOUGLAS ALIEN CAMP RIOT.

(Received 12.55 p.m.) London, December 17. A German named Vansch, ringleader of the riot at the Douglas alien camp, was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment. « THE ALLEGED GERMAN OUTRAGES. (Received 12.55 p.m.) London, December 17. The Government has appointed a committee to enquire into the German outrages and breaches of the laws of war. CEMENTING THE EMPIRE.

London, December 16. The Earl of Meath, the great Imperialist, who Avas responsible for the inauguration of Empire Day, lecturing on the training of new armies, pointed out that the co-operation of the different races in the British Empire upon the battlefield will strengthen the respect and love which unite all portions of the Emp re. When the war is over these men, trained on the same sysetm and filled with the same patriotism, fighting together in Europe, Egypt, China and the Pacific Islands, will return impressed with the unanimity of the Imperial feeling existing among subjects of all races and all colors. The Empire will brobably owe the 'full accomplishment of its Imperial destiny to the Kaiser’s en. vious, malevolent, and deep-laid plot.