Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

WELL-MEANT FOOLISHNESS SOCIALISTS IN CONFERENCE. WAR MUST BE SHORTENED. Unitku Pbmi axiom. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Copenhagen .January 19. The Socialist Parties in the neutral States have convened their first conference bearing on the war. Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Italy are represented. Resolutions were passed declaring that public opinion was horror-stricken at the slaughter and the far-reaching ravages of the war, and demanding that immediate steps be taken to shorten the conflict. Several delegates pointed out that lit was impossible to conclude peace under existing conditions, and admitted the Allies could not move towards peace while a single German soldier remained on the soil of France or Belgium. M. Poland, the President, hoped he would soon be able to call a meeting of Socialists representing every power.

AN ALIEN'S RIGHTS. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, January 19. The Chief Justice in the Court of Appeal has decided that an alien enemy may ho sued, but that he himself cannot sue, though ho has power to appeal. PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS. TIMM AND Bydnw* Son BIEVIOM. (Received 8 a.m.) London, January 19. Food prices in Berlin have increased from twenty to twenty-one per centum since July. In Britain bread is seven-pence half-penny the loaf. Farmers now holding stocks are palpably speculators gambling with supplies. The Miners' Association demands that the Government protect the publie against the artificial increase in the price of foodstuffs.