General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 35, 12 February 1915, Page 5

General News

SWEDEN WAKING UP.

United Press Association. London,, February 11

The Swedish Royal Commission iccommends the Government to build up several submarines of the Ja'rjst types as quickly as possible.

BRITISH PRISONERS' TREAT-

MENT.

London. February 11

Mr Tenriant, in the House of Commons, stated that from numerous crn'U'unications he hai received <>nd r'tvrt of an es? • ..en office-, ' e hai reason to fear that British prisoners were worse treated in Germany than the French and Russians.

WHAT THE WORLD HOPES FOR. London, February 11. A politician in Rome has received a letter from a friend in Berlin. Inside the envelope, in invisible ink, was written: "The situation is dai'y becoming more serious. The Germans are fast approaching revolution. One often finds scrawled in chalk on the walls, 'Death to the Kaiser.' " A GERMAN THREAT. London, February 11. A Paris correspondent states t'.iat the Germans are unable to work t.he 'coal mines at Nas de Calais. The miners refused work, owing to the rumor that the pits would be closed when the men were below. The Germans publicly threaten that they wiM blow up the mines if they are driven out of the district.

A NOVEL PROPOSAL.

London, February il. Legislation is proposed in France allowing soldiers to marry oy proxy, the soldier making his declaration before a regimental officer and the woman before a registrar. ' MISCELLANEOUS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February 11. Mr Tennant, interrogated, stated that in a household census three million men had stated their willingness to enlist. The London County Council has approved the establishment of a cadet corps in secondary schools. Miss Marie Corelli announces that she is organising a gift, probably of music, for the Australasians in Egypt. She says: "It is right and fitting that we should do our best to show we are fully aware of the sacrifices they have made, and give them some token of our kinship and attachment." United Press Association. The Times' Cairo correspondent says that some of the Colonial troops have suffered severely from taking adulterated drink. The medical staff discovered that hocussing was extremely practised, and combatted it by establishing wet canteens.