Great Britain
WANTED—THE TRUTH.
Times and Sydney Sun Service London, February 10
In the House of Commons, Mr Joyn. son-Hicks, M.P., complained that though the Turks captured Tabriz on January 6th it was not announced in the Press till the 13th. Britishers, he said, did not mind knowing the truth, however had.
Mr Long urged the Government to take the country into its confidence regarding the recruiting. There was one risk, ho said, of telling the enemy something he should not know, hut there was the other risk of discouraging our own people. Personally ho preferred the first risk. He believed they could got as many men as they wanted, provided that we made clear that the men were really wanted. Ho hoped the War Office would publish widely our treatment of German prisoners. He urged that letteres from wounded soldiers should be carried post free. Mr Pyle s asked whether any misfortune or disasters had been concealed from the nation. The nation ought to be told whether it had lostj or not lost off the coast of Ireland. Highly qualified and experienced journalists were not permitted to approach the trenches, hut amateur journalists were allowed to send trivial, belated, and inadequate accounts of events for which the nation was thirsting.
BRITISH TYPHOID REPORT.
Times and Sydney Sun Service London, February 10
Mr H. J. Tennant, Secretary for War, in tbe House of Commons, stated that 421 cases of typhoid had occurred among the British forces, 350 of the cases being among uninoculatod men. Within two years, there had been thirty deaths and in twenty-four cases the victims had not been inoculated.
HARRY LAUDER’S PIPERS'.
Times and Sydney Sun Service,
London, February 10. Harry Lauder has organised a band of pipers to tour Scotland to stimulate recruiting. THE QUARTERN LOAF, Bd. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February 10. Tbe price of the quartern loaf has been raised to eightpeuce. GOVERNMENT WHEAT SEIZURE. United Press Association. London, February 10. Over 1600 appeals for compensation in respect of wheat seizure by the Government have been filed. LABOR'S CO-OPERATION WITH THE WAR OFFICE.
(Received 8.45 a.m.) Loudon, February 10. In the House of Commons, in response to Mr Tennant’s appeal, Mr G. H. Roberts, Laborite member for Norwich, stated he was authorised to say that the trades’ unions were fully anxious to co-operate with the War Office and do their utmost to prosecute the war to victory.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 34, 11 February 1915, Page 5
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