General News

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

General News

r i FINANCE IN BRITAIN, LUnit&d Press Absooiation.] London, January 19. The Treasury order adds that issues for the United Kingdom will only he granted if advisable in the national ir. terest ; issues for the overseas Dominions will be allowed where it is proved that urgency or special circumstances exist. The Treasury will not insist on the restrictions where issues ait requred for renewal of Treasury bills or other short instruments of foreign and colonial Governments, municipalities! or railways. "CARRYINGS-ON" IN CAIRO.

A GERMAN TALE, "LIFE" AMONG THE OVERSEAS' OFHCERS. London, January 19. The Berliner Frankfurter Zeitung publishes an extract from a Cairo diplomatist's letter received in Constantinople, in the course of which it is stated that "brilliant life is being carried on in the best Cairo hotehs. All the Canadian and Australian officers have brought their wives, and officers are drawing two and a half times their ordinary pay. There are great balls at the hotels, sometimes brilliant, sometimes developing into regular orgies. The officers and their ladies have requisitioned all the motor cars of Egyptian princes and princesses now abroad, and are parading about and angering the population."

"MADE IN GERMANY" HATS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 19. German newspapers have started a movement in Berlin in favour oi' German hats for German women, .and boycotting the French. The newspapers declare that German women can no longer be allowed to adorn themselves as advertisements for foreign countries. The movement is receiving considerable support. POOR PARISIENNES. Timk« anc Sydney Sun Smeviom. London, January 9. A Paris report says that suburban Paris is suffering intensely from the increase in the cost of living and stagnation in business. Every family has sent, a soldier to the front, and many two or three. The womanfolk left behind are endeavouring to keep brave faces. Tt is difficult for people of this class tf> apply for State grants. They have joined the working women's soup queues, and all have given up theatres, cinemas, singing lessons, and finery, and, are busily knitting and chocheting.