General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 5

General News

EXCHANGE OF DISABLED PRISONERS AGREED TO. : (Received 8.-15 a.m.) Rome, January 6.. All the belligerents have agreed to the Pope's proposal to exchange disabled prisoners.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. Delhi, January 6. I The Khan of Gunput and the Roy 9 Company, of Calcutta, were sentenced 1 to eighteen months' rigorous punishment, and fined 5000 rupees, for selling - mica to Germany, via London. Eleven 1 cases of mica were seized at Marseilles.

IN THE ARGENTINA. Rio de Janiero, January 5. The Government has dismissed the officials responsible for alolwing a German steamer secretly to leave Per-. nambuco. Paris,. January 6. Forty Germans held a farm at an important point at Sfe Georges. They were almost surrounded by Hoods/ and the Allies were unable to shell them for tear of hitting their own troops. Three Belgians and a Frenchman on Saturday night swam, waded, and : crept to the farmhouse,, and choked the three sentries. The rest of the Germans were asleep. The Belgian company rushed the farm. Two of the sleepers were bayonetted, and the rest surrendered.

London, January 6. The mystery surrounding several bombardments of Fournes "when exalted personages visited the town have been explained in the arrest of a railway official, whose signals were detected in connection with the aeroplane raid on Dunkirk. The traitor was shot. Londqn, January G. A correspondent "at Cairo writes:— "The Australians and New Zealanders little thought chat they would take part in the Sultan's accession ceremonies, but they clanked their spurs proudly. The city wore an honest holiday air.' '