Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

wireless plant in chimney

AT LIVERPOOL. Trust and Stdnb* Son Sebviom. (Received 8 a.in.) London, December 23. A sanitary inspector at Liverpool discovered a complete wireless plant in the chimney of a suburban villa. LARKIN’S BANNER. “WE SERVE NEITHER KING NOR KAISER, BUT IRELAND!” Tuan and Btdnet Sun Skbtioi*. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 23. The police removed from the flagpole of Jim Larkin’s headquax-ters at Dublin a banner with the words: “We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!” A NEW PLAY, “DER TAG.” ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS AT THE COLISEUM. Timm and Sydney Sun Service!. v (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 23. . A new play, “Der Tag,” at the Coliseum, portrays the Kaiser troubled with dreams and visions of the horrors of war in which he has plunged the world. The Russians are at the gates of Berlin; his best men are dead ; God, his ally, has deserted him; and the spirit of culture is rebuking him thus: “England had-grown degenerate, but you made her great again!” The hands of the Kaiser are on his dagger, as the only means of escape from the

meshes of the net entangling him. 1 Seven thousand attended the performance, including Sir Rufus Isaacs, Sir John Simon, and Mr Lloyd George. RESPONSIBILITY OF WAR. Tuns and Stdnxt Sun Sketiom. (Received 8 a.m.) v London, December 23. The German press, replying to the French Yellow Book, again attempts to place the responsibility of the war on Russia, and answers the French statements with a blank denial.

ANOTHER HARTLEPOOL DEATH.

United Preib Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) 1 London, December 23. Another death has occurred at Hartlepool.

THE UNDERWRITING BUSINESS.

PROPOSAL TO CHECK WORK OF INTERMEDIARIES.

(Received 8.50 a.m.)

London, December 23

A movement is afoot among the underwriters to refrain from accepting insurance on goods from neutrals to neutrals who are neighbours of Germany.. A large proportion of the trade of neutral countries is financed by Britain, the transaction being based ' on bills backed by insurance policies. The proposal is expected to check private individuals acting as intermediai'ies with the enemy.

REJECTION OF 933 CASES OF N.S.W. MEAT.

ON GROUNDS OF POOR QUALITY.

United Press Association.

(Received 10.55 a.m.) London, December 23,

The War Office rejected 933 cases of New South | Wales canned beef purchased through an American firm on the grounds that most of it was of inferior quality, containing thin flank and scrap meat, cuttings off the cartilage gland and skirt. Sir T. Goghlan’s (Agent-General’s) independent examinei’s confirmed the War Office description.

GENERAL.

Paris, December* 23,

Mr Lloyd George, in an interview with Le Humanite, stated that the British war expenditure was forty-five millions monthly. Britain now had over two million soldiers and sailors under arms, and before the spring half a million fresh British troops would join those in France and Belgium.

London, December 23

The Cardiff Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to consider the question of putting to commercial use the enemy’s ships now lying useless in countries outside Great Britain, or to use them as Government transports to help towards the relief of high freightage. Lord Selborne, in a letter which has been published, points tmt that Mr Churchill has approved of the proposal that Britons outside the Empire should make a gift of a warship to Britain, and that Mr Churchill mentioned that a light cruiser would cost upwards of £300,000 and a destroyer £150,000. Lord Selborne appeals to three million Britishers resident in foreign lands to provide the necessary funds.

The death roll at Hartlepool has reached one hundred. In connection with the internment of forty Germans, a dramatic episode preceded their arrest. When the bombardment opened, a German shouted exultingly, ‘.‘Now, you English dogs, we will let you have it.” An English workman immediately laid out three. ‘ Hartlepool shipbuilding firms have requested the War Office to take adequate defensive measures.