Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 310, 31 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

UNITED ACTION URGED. PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPRING Times and Hyunky Sun Suhviom. (Received 8.0 a.in.) Loudon, December 30. The Times’ military correspondent, reverting to the proposal that the Allies should unit and co-ordinate their strategy, urges a conference of representatives of the Allies’ armies and navies, because the war will continue throughout the winter without intermission, and will redouble its intensity in the spring. We are, the paper states, in the presence of a final effort on the enemy’s part to mobilise and make up their resources and present them later in the field. Our duty is to note the preparations and make arrangements to frustrate them.

PREPARATIONS AT PORTSMOUTH j Times and Sydney Sun Sbbviobb. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 30. Instructions has been issued at Portsmouth that in the event of the enemy commencing a bombardment, fragments of > the shells be handed to the military so that they might discover the nature and size of the missiles. ’PRECAUTIONS WITH ENEMY SUBJECTS. [United Press Association. 1 London, December 30. The military authorities have ordered Germans and Austrians, including j those naturalised and also their Bri-■tish-born descendants, including the i second generation, from Sunderland 'and coast towns near the T^yne.

DOUGLAS DETENTION CAMP. London, December 30. Mr Chandler Hale, of the American Embassy, has forwarded a report to Washington eulogising the accommodation, food, and all other arrangements at the Douglas detention camp for enemies in Britain. Conversations with prisoners at Douglas had satisfied him that the recent riot was the work of agitators. Prisoners admitted that only themselves were to blame. A NEW ZEALANDER KILLED IN ACTION. London, December 30. Captain Charles Harbld Reynefl Watts, a New Zealander, was killed in action. \ . THE LOYALTY OF INDIA. (Received 8.50 a.m.) f , London, December 30. Sir S. Subramaniza Airjar, a judge of the High Court of Judicature, Madras, said none were more loyal than the. representatives of educated India, but a dissolution of the Congress could not be entertained till they were nearer the goal of self-government. Dhupennra Nath Balm, president, deprecated reference to such a controversal matter, and said: “We must present a United Empire. We can put a wall of Indians in the field, against which the Germans would hurl themselves in vain,”