Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

I IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

IIHBS AND SYDNEY Bnil Service*. London, January 8

j Lord Curzon, in the House of Loris, declared that the Germans were inspired by bravery equal to our own, and appeared to he fortified with a hatred against us such as we, with om more phlegmateic temperament, are incapable of.

j Lord Kitchener, in reply to questions, said that six new armies being lorganised included the Indians, hut excluded the Colonials, who had not yet been sufficiently trained. Arrangements were being made to keep up .the strength of the depleted Indian units.

! During the debate strong complaints were made concerning the Government’s leniency to aliens, particu.

larly in prohibited areas. Lord Crewe promised to consider the matter of sweeping them out of prohibited areas.

GENERAL. [United Press Association.] London, January 8. Mr Ellis Griffiths, M.P., has resigned the Under-Secretaryship of Home Affairs owing- £o private business. He continues to support the Government. The Treasury announces that in view of the exchange between Great Britain and the United States being now normal, it would be unnecessary for the two Governments to devise a plan to adjust balances. ffiMKa and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 8. Employers in Birmingham district are requesting/the exemption of schoolboys to permit of their being employed in order to execute war orders. Miss Feme Rogers, an American actress playing the title role in “The Sleeping Beauty,” at Drury Lane, has resigned because she entertains enthusiastic pro-German sentiments. The great London clubs are feeling the effect of the war. There are many resignations, but few elections, and the staffs have enlisted. The financial pressure is severe. AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. PROBLEM OF DEFENCE AFFECTED BY THE WAR. Time* and Sydney Sun Service*. (Received 8.0 a.m.) • London, January 8.

The Times’ Toronto correspondent .says that Canada will agree to Britain’s decision regarding the Imperial conference. Australia’s desire for a conference will he influential with Britain and the other Dominions. The war will involve a radical readjustment of the problem of Imperial defence.

LARKIN AND SEDITIOUS MATTER. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 8. Following the suppression of seditious newspapers in Dublin, Larkin, editor of the Worker, printed in Glasgow in full the same pestilential stuff. LORD KITCHENER’S WORK. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 8. The Times, in a leader, says: Lord Kitchener culled the armies as they were ground out of our towns, which are being filled with the unwonted bustle of tjje .preparations for active service. The nation is deeply grateful to Lord Kitchener, and feels that he is solidly fulfilling the pledges he gave when ho entered the Cabinet. At the same time, we would like to know a little more of what is being done. . EXPORT OF TEA AND COCOA.

(Received 11.35 a.m.) London, January 8. The prohibition on the export of tea has been removed, while the export of cocoa to certain European countries has been prohibited. BRITISH CATERING SCANDAL. (Received 11.35 a.m.) London, January 8. The hearing of the summonses charging J. Lyons and Coy with selling unsound moat as food for the troops quartered at the White City, for whom the firm was catering, has been adjourned for a fortnight. After the preliminary evidence, counsel for the prosecution stated that the charges involved a searching enquiry into the conditions under which defendants carried out the contract.