General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 23 December 1914, Page 5

General News

SYMPATHY FOR FRANCE.

“TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIED GERMAN

AGGRESSION.”

Time's and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 22. . Professors of the Roumanian universities have presented an address to the French Minister at Bucharest, expressing admiration and sympathy for France as the victim of totally unjustified German aggression.

NEUTRAL NATURE OF THE MEETING OF THREE MONARCHS.

Tima and Sydney Sun Sbbtioib. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 22. The Times’ Copenhagen correspondent says with reference to the meeting of the Scandinavian Kings at Malmo, in South Sweden, that it certainly cannot he regarded as indicating a tendency to favor either belligedent groups.”

THE KAISER IN HADES.

Tiuki and Sydney Son Service*.

London, December 23

A subaltern, describing the life in the trenches, says that from positively authentic information, for the twentieth time, the Kaiser is sick unto death. When His Majesty eventually gets to Hades, he hopes that Pluto will put him into a fatigue party to carry a hundred pounds of bully-beef nightly through a ten-mile communication trench two feet deep in mud, only to find, on arriving at the other end, that there is no tin-opener, his knife being a bayonet.

HUNGER RIOTS IN BRUSSELS.

United Press Association. London, December 22. Hunger riots are commencing in Brussels.

NEW DEADLY PROJECTILE.

New York, December 22

John Harp Ham mo id, junior, announces the invention of a new projectile, scattering molten metal over the object attacked, and filling the air with deadly gases. Belligerent nations have already approached Hammond. .He states that he is offering the purchase rights to a prominent neutral.

GERMANY AND SWEDEN.

REASON FOR THE MONARCHIAL CONFERENCE.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Si London', December 22

The Daily Telegraph’s Copenhagen correspondent states: Germany proposed to cede certain Baltic islands to Sweden, and help Sweden to establish a protectorate over Finland and the far White Sea if she would aid Germany, but the offer was refused, whereupon Germany began a policyol interference in the export of timber. This was the cause of the conference between the Kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is reported as the result of the conference that none of the countries will be concerned separately during the war.