General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 5

General News

THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY. [United Press Association.! London, January 26. Representatives of the shipping industry have furnished a statement to the Board of Trade, showing that while the relation of tonnage to trade i> not deficient, they attribute the increase in freight chiefly to the abnormal distribution of tonnage hy the dislocation of oversea traffic due to the war, the Admiralty employing about a fifth of the British tonnage. While the United Kingdom oversea trade lias been reduced JO per cent., the oversea trade of Germany, Austria, and Belgium, representing 22 ppr cent., has vanished, and the Baltic and Black Sea trade has ceased. There' is an accumulation of tonnage where it is not wanted, and a paucity elsewhere. Increased working costs have affected freights.

THE DESTITUTE IN BRUSSELS. Ttmeb and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 26. |rt Fifty thousand destitute throng the Brussels relief kitchens. Soup is dis- —* trihuted daily at twenty-one canteens, under the protection of the American flag. Outside the townships, villagers are searching the fields, in the hope of finding stray potatoes, and pick up fruit rotting" in the orchards. The old people will return home and die. rather than face life in new' lands, but the young are going forth to other lands, with their poor bundles of rags on their shoulders. THE SULTAN OF EGYPT. || Timei and Sydney Sun BiavioM. $ London, January 26. Sir George Reid says that Germany’s mad adventures have done one good" thing for Egypt in exchanging the Khedive for a man of real ability, but a thing of doubted excellence for the Sultan, who earned the title of “The Father of the Fellabin” before he ascended the throne. He will find the highest personal enjoyment in developing his people.