In the West.
The Allies' Finance.
MOBILISATION OF COLD.
United Press Association
(Received 9.0 a.m.) Paris, February 7
The Three Powers’ joint finance is regarded as a corollary, and as important as the joint declaration in September, when the British, French, and Russian Governments undertook not to seek peace or discuss terms separately. It implies the mobilisation ot the gold of the three richest countries in Europe, and in financial circles it is .every whit as important as the military one. yesterday’s official statement declares that the three Powers have resolved to unite in their financial, equally with their military resources, in order to prosecute the war to final victory.
EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID.
SHOCKING SANITARY CONDITIONS IN SOUTH BELGIUM.
Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.ra.) London, February 6. ' Telegrams from’ the Belgian frontier report a severe epidemic of typhoid among the German corps. The sanitary condition in South Belgium is very bad, and the men are drinking the water from the rivers, where corpses have remained ior weeks. It is alleged there are 12,000 cases ol typhoid at Antwerp.
PLAYING AT DRAUGHTS.
“IT’S SLOW, BUT SURE!”
Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 6. An officer writes: “This war is like a game of draughts. We take two trenches and the Germans take one; we, move and take three, and they move and take two; and so on. It’s slow, but sure.”
TWO PAIR.
A FRENCH SOLDIER S' LUCK.
Times and Sydney Sun Service
London, February 3
The wife of a French soldier has given birth to quadruplets. They are all well, and have been named, as a loyal tribute to the Allies, Raymond, Elizabeth, George, and Alexandra.
The names veil to this birthday party, whose arrival lias been deemed worthy of widespread publication, are those of the President of France, the Queen of Belgium, the King of Fngland, and the Czarina of Russia respectively.
CATHOLIC CARDINAL IN THE TRENCHES.
Times and Sydney Sun Service London, February 0
Cardinal Bourne visited the ('a lln Be regiments in France and addressed them at various points in the lines. Ho watched from an elevated po;si-
tion just out of shell range a British find .German artillery duel. His address to 800 Irish Guards was about to take place on the firing line when it was rendered more realistic by the deafening noise of an aeroplane soaring overhead. Journeying about the front, the Cardinal lived on bully beef, hard tack, and the actual wartime food supplies to the soldiers.
ALLIES’ PROGRESS TO OSTEND
CONTINUES.
United Press Association. (Received 9 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 7. The Allies’ progress northwards towards Ostened continues.
OPERATIONS EAST OF CUINCHY.
(Received 11.45 a.m.) Paris, February 7
A communique states: The British captured a brickfield one kilometre each of Guinchy, which the enemy always held hitherto.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Paris February 0
Official.—We progressed north of Beausejiur, and repulsed the enemy north of Massiges and south of xVltkirch.
The warships remain at teaux. They assisted to defend the Canal, silenced tho enemy’s heavy guns, and dispersed ] arge forces of the enemy. The warships were undamaged. There has* been heavy fighting at Bethune, La Bassce and Triple. Two trainloads of wounded arrived, including 4.00 Germans. Official: There have been no infantry actions since the oth. Our artillery at Woevre and Argonne dispersed several convoys, and set fire to a train of 25 coaches. Ottawa, February 0. Canada’s first contingent has arrived at tho front. “THE OLD BRITISH LION.” The “New Statesman” contains a criticism on tho French Yellow Book by Mr Bernard Shaw-. The following passages appear:— “From the authentic part of this Yellow Book there emerges a picture s'o stirring that it is amazmig to mo that no Englishman has yet> rescued it rorn its wrappings of official correspondence. For in it you see tho old British lion, the lion of Waterloo, the lion of' Blenheim, the lion of Trafalgar, making his last and most terrible and triumphant spring. Yon see him with his old craft and his old courage and strength unimpaired, with his old amazing luck, his old singleness of aim, his old deeplying and subtle instinct that does better without great men at a pinch than his enemies do with them. . . Austria saw Servia in her grasp at last. She flow at Sorvia, Russia flew at Austria, Germany flew at Franco, and tho lion, with a mighty roar, sprang at last, and, in a flush, and his teeth and claws in the rival of England, and will now not let I her go For all the pacifists nr Socialists ! in tho world until lie is either killed or j hack on his Waterloo pedestal again.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 5
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