Notes on the Campaign

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1915, Page 3

Notes on the Campaign

REMARKABLE RECOVERIES FROM WOUNDS. Tima and Sydney Bun Bmeviobi. London, . January 18. The Journal of Surgery reports some remarkable recoveries : from wounds. One soldier had a large hole driven into the frontal region of his scalp. Another had the vortex of the skull fractured, followed by extensive paralysis of the limbs. Both .are doing well. - < GREECE DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF ENGLAND. The Greek Minister, speaking jp London * said* “We are not only in sympathy hut are absolutely devoted to the cause of England in this great world crisis.”

SEED FOR RUINED FARMERS. The French Government is making immediate advances to ruined farmers to enable them to buy seed and renew their stock. THE RISE IN FOOD PRICES./ ../■-i 1 t 11 ‘p 'J* *• [United Peer* Association 1 Newspapers are giving prominence to the rise in food prices. The Board of Trade estimates that prices in hig towns are 19 per cent, above July prices. The Committee of the Labor Party recommends the Government to take possession of wheat, paying 35s to 40s a quarter, and sell at market price. If there is a surplus,, the Government should pay owners a bounty of 5 per cent., and use the balance in assisting the State revenue. KITCHENER’S APPOINTMENT. The Daily Chronicle, rebutting attacks on Lord Haldane, states that Lord Haldane on August 2nd was assisting Mr Asquith at the War Office. They decided that Lord Kitchener should be War Minister. The Foreign Office hesitated, desiring that Lord Kitchener should go to Egypt. Mr Asquith, however, recalled Lord Kitchener. i

It is untrue ,says the Chronicle, that the appointment was clue to newspaper agitation. THE KAISER’S BIRTHDAY. The Kaiser, in requesting that no festivities be held on his birthday (January 27), desires that all should realise the gravity of the, situation apd the direction in which fortune seems to have turned her face. He asks that the customary letters and telegrams be foregone, as it might interrupt postal and telegraphic services which ore already over-taxed, and interfere with His Majesty’s work at headquarters. He declares that such messages are not needed in these days of tribulation which have come to the Fatherland. His* 'Majesty offers his thanks in advance, amTasks that supplication he made to the Throne of the Most. vm t GERMAN REPORT OF FRENCH LOSSES. Amsterdam, January 18. A - - communique from Berlin states that in the four weeks since General Joffro published his general order to attack, the- French lost 20,000 dead, prisoners, 107,000 wounded, exclusive •*of sick; without any substantial advantage being gained. The Germans lost a quarter as many in the same .period. ‘ THE MINISTER OF FINANCE. Professor, Halfericher, Director of the Dent seller, Bank, succeeds Herr Kuelm tis Alhiister of Finance, UNLAWFUL ACTS IN GERMANY. , ’ ■’Berlin, January 18. ‘ Orders have been issued in Germany declaring it, ,uhlawf.pl to make pure wheat bread, also prohibiting the buying and selling of gold coins at above par, under a line of live, hundred marks and.p.Jerm of imprisonment.