Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

CRIME AND RECRUITING.

NEW CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE NATIONAL DUTY.

Times and Sydney Sun Service, (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 6

The police attribute the notable diminution in crime since the begin* ling of the war to the people keeping better hours. The early closing of the public houses, and the new consciousless of the national duty have increas’d the prosperity of the poorer classes, and there is an absence of unemployment. The brewers’ output has been reduced forty per cent, in some districts. The very prosperity of the working class hinders recruiting, and the increased demand for labour checks employers encouraging the men to join the colors.

QUEEN’S WORKWOMEN FUND

AMOUNTS TO £132,070.

United Press Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Loudon, February 7. The Queen’s Workmen Fund amounts to £132,070.

GERMANS’ REPULSED BY BRIT-

ISH.

(Received 9.0 a.m.) Pretoria, February 7

Tlie Germans attacked Kakamas. but were repulsed, nine being killed, 22 wounded, and 15 taken prisoners. One of the British was killed and two wounded.

DE WET TO BE TRIED AT BLOEMFONTEIN.

(Received 9.0 9.111.) , Capetown, February 7. De Wet will shortly ho tried at Bloemfontein on a charge of treason After Kemp’s surrender, forty-nine rebels who had been disarmed by the Germans have arrived at Upington.