Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

CONCUBINAGE AND MARRIAGE. ASSISTING THE FAMILIES. Timm and Sydney Sun Bbevipm. (Received 8 a.m.) ■yS,■■■. London, January 30. The Soldiers’ and Sailors Families Association negatived a proposal to help only upon the production of a marriage certificate. Rev. Wainwright protested against putting concubinage and marriage upon the same level, but others agreed that the Association was acting according to the dictates of Christianity and humanity.

THE GERMAN ELEPHANT. ROSEBERY’S GREAT RECRUITING EFFORT IN EDINBURGH. Unitid Pbmi Amooiatioh, (Received 8.25 a.m.) London, January 31. Lord Rosebery, at a recruiting meeting in Edinburgh, appealed to the municipal authorities to keen down expenditure to the lowest degree consistent with efficiency. Lord Rosebery said he admired the voluntary array, but the Nation was engaged in a business of life and death, and might be compelled to abandon the principle. Germany was a great passive elephant ; Prussia was the mahout (driver) with a spike sitting on Germany’s head; and we were fighting Prussia, who was merciless, brutal and unscrupulous. His aggression even in the United States affected the German population, which was very large and extremely anxious *to be the mahout to drive the United States into a civil war with her ancestress and friend. Realising the barbarities that Prussia had committed in Belgium, France, and Poland, we cannot doubt the fate reserved for ourselves if we succumb. Admiral Beatty, when he drove off the “bahykillers” like chaff before the wind, postponed another of these inglorious expeditions, which resulted in the. death of many women and children. But this is a fight in which we can leave nothing to chance. The Empire’s traditions and glories are not going to perish for want of any exertion on our part.