General News

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

General News

THE TERRIER AND THE RAT. SMALLEST REPUBLIC IN THE WORLD AGAINST GERMANY. A (By Electric Telegraph—Oopyemht] Time* and Sydney Sun Service*. (Received 8.0 a.m.) „ London, January 8, San Marino, which is £he smallest re public in the world, has been aroused, and indignation is at fever heat against Germany, in consequence of the charge of the local wireless interrupting offi-r rial despatches to the Austrian fleet in the Adriatic and communicating them to the Allies. San Marino rejected Germany’s demand for examination of her wireless, and insists that an Italian commission ’should inspect it. (San Marino, is a small but independent state in the north-east of Italy, being one of the most ancient states in Europe. It consists of a rocky mountain, upwards of 2,000 feet high, among the lesser ranges of the Apennines, and a small territory. The Government is Republican, with an executive, composed of twelve memr hers, selected from the sovereign grand council of 60, of whom one-' third are nobles. The area of the Re-' public is 23 square miles, and the ppulation is 11,500 miles.) STARVING BRUSSELS. Ttvts and Sydney Sun Service*. London, January 8. An Englishman writes : “Brussels is on the brink of starvation. The worst tales you hear do not, approach the reality.”