General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 5

General News

TWO POINTS OF INTEREST. IN THE ARCONNE AND EAST PRUSSIA. United Press Association. (Received 8.25 a.in.) London, February 9. Military critics are watching two points. The first is at Bagatelle, there being a suggestion of the possibility ot a new German offensive in the Argonne. The second point is in East Prussia, where extensive preparations are being made for General Hindenburg’s next big move. His weakening on the B/.ura is attributed to this. GOVERNMENT FACED WITH THE PROBLEM. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, February 9. The Economist, in discussing the rise in food prices, said they were bound to reach the highest point reached for forty-three years. The purchasing power of wages had fellen seven per cent, in one month. Many farmers continue to hold wheat, and the blockade threat was used to hoist the prices. Unless there was some improvement in the position the Government would he driven to take over the staple foodstuffs, or re-enact maximum prices in order to save the poorer classes from widespread suffering. FIERCE EXPLOSIVES. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.)' London, February 9. “Eye-witness” gives illustrations of fierce explosives. He says a piece of rail weighing 251bs was hurled a mile, and the detonation of a lyddite shell in the enemy’s trenches threw a German across the railway canal into the midst of the British.

GIRL AWARDED ST. GEORGE

CROSS.

“FIGHTING LIKE A MAN.”

Times and Sydney Sun Service London, February 9

The Czar has awarded a Kieff schoolgirl the St. George Cross for conspicuous bravery in fighting in the trenches like a man. She was wounded three times. PUBLIC OPINION IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN. London, February 9. A correspondent travelling in Norway and Sweden describes the change in public opinion. Formerly it was pro-Germanj but now it is strongly in sympathy with the Allies. The costly German Press campaign has been so overdone that the people have become disgusted, realising that Germany must have an uneasy conscience or she would not spend millions of marks in this senseless manner. A great peace movement is afoot in Scandinavia. In a single week two hundred meetings were held in Sweden alone.