Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE BRITISH ARMY. TIMM AND StDNTBT SUN SIILVIOM. London, January 5. The Times, in a leader, says the task of raising the army by the second million is one of great magnitude and some perplexity. While we hope that voluntary service will continue to supply our needs, we hold that the hugeness of the undertaking • should not cause reluctance to consider the possible necessary alternative of conscription. We have been at war for five months, and are only beginning the task. We must not falter, but faco the issue with calmness and foresight

"THE UNION OF PRAYER." Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January o. The Times' leader says: The volume of religious services which with one mind and heart were held throughout the Kingdom were profoundly impressive. Never since the first permanent divisions of Christendom has there been so great a union of prayer for the common end. In far-beyond oceans our fellow subjects sent up petitions with ours. "THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING." Timii and Sydney Son Ssbvioh. (Received 8 a.m.) London, January 5. The. Archbishop of Canterbury, at the intercession service at St. Paul's, took for his text: "The peace of God, which passeth all understanding." In the course of the sermon His Grace said: "We meet in the largest church in the Empire in the central pivot of its throbbing life, on the first Sunday of what must be a memorable year. The war is being conducted over a greater area and on a scale, with more fearful carnage, than any since the life of this round world began. It would baffle the power of man to reckon the load of sheer blank sorrow in innumerable homes, yet, facing it all, we could take deliberately the text and maintain the absolute fitness of our thoughts to-day." MORE PEACE TALK. THE TRUTH COMING HOME TO GERMANY. Timm and Sydney Sun Sirviom. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 5. The Times Washington correspondent states that wide publicity is being given in London to a telegram that Germany now realises she cannot win. Various subtle ways and "efforts are being made to capitalise the hopes expressed by President Poincare, the Kaiser, and others for peace by next New Year's Day. Such activities cannot be ignored, and undoubtedly point to the fact that in Germany and America financiers are dismayed at having relied on the assurance from Berlin that it would be a short war. "THE SIMPLEST WAY OUT." SUGGESTION TO SETTLE THE CONTRABAND DIFFICULTY. United Press Ahsooiation. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, January 5. - In a letter in the Morning Post, Mr Arthur Kitson suggests that the simplest way out of the contraband difficulty between Britain and the United States is for Britain to take the entire cotton and copper supply of the States for a year or two. This would shorten the war by depriving Germany of these commodities.