General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1915, Page 5

General News

TEMPERANCE IN RUSSIA. ALL LIQUORS TO DE CONSUMED ON PREMISES. FINES FOR DRUNKENNESS. Times and Sydns? Sun See vices. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 23. An official description of the Russian temperance measures shows that all liquors purchased at hotels and restaurants must be consumed on the premises, and supplied only to customers having meals. Persons found intoxicated and incapable in public placevs will be liable to a fine of one hundred roubles (about '£l6). BELGIUM'S NEW KING. Timed and Sydney Sun Sikviom. London, January 23. It is stated that Germany has selected as King Albert's successor Prinz Otto Vindisehgratz, who is related to the Belgian Royal family. UNRELIABLE GERMAN BULLETINS. General Joffre, in directing attention to the lying character of German bulletins, says that either they entirely invent'operations, or else distort those who actually happen. The recent statements relating to French losses are totally untrue, the losses being fewer than half th& German iigures. During the fighting of the past two months the German bosses have been greater thau those or the French.

"SURE, WE'LL SHIFT 'EM!" London, January 23. "Devonian" writes: "While in an observation trench, six Germans advanced and got in a trench. Wo couldn't shift them. Two Irish riflemen came up, and asked, "What's the matter?" One turned to the other and said, 'Come on, Tim. Sure, we'll shift 'em!' They fixed 'bayonets .-nd rushed forward. You would 'inve jlaughed to see those Germans running from two Irishmen."

PROOF OF GERMAN ATROCITIES. United Phess Association. Amsterdam, January 24. The newspaper Tyd states that although the Germans denied that civilians had been buried near Vandeweyer, the Louvain Municipality disinterred thirty-seven bodies of men, women, and children, the victims of the August terror, lying in ghastly positions in rough coffins. They are now buried^in the cemetery. THE DAY OF PRAYER. Rome, January 23. In connection with the war, the Consistory has definitely fixed the expiatory function in Europe for 7th February, and elsewhere for 21st March.

ITALIAN VICE-CONSUL SENT TO PRISON.

The Vossisehe Zeitung reports that the Italian Vice-Consul at Liege was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for assisting communications between Belgian soldiers and their relatives.