Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

INCREASED CHURCH OFFERINGS

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 25. The voluntary offerings i in the Church of England during 1914 increased by £307,000, compared to 1913.

OVER ONE MILLION AUSTRO GERMANS' IMPRISONED.

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) Loudon, February 25. The Tribune, Rome, estimates there are 000,000 Austrian and . German prisoners in Russia, 60,000 in Serbia, and 350,000 in France and England.-

MINISTERS’ CORPS IN GLASGOW

Times and Sydney Sun Service, (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 25. Twenty-five enrolled in the Ministers’ Corps at Glasgow.

THE TROUBLE ON THE CLYDE

ADMIRALTY WORK HAMPERED.

(Received 8.25 a.m.)

London, February 28

The Labour situation creates uneasiness, though the only open rupture is at the Clyde, where 11,500 engineers have struck, hampering the Admiralty. Some workers regard Mr Askwith’s letter as an ultimatum. Employers declare it is impossible to concede 6s.

A mass meeting is to be held to consider the question of resumption. The Humber engineers accepted 3s weekly during the war as bonus advances.

MISCELLANEOUS.

United Press Association. London, February 27

Mr Lloyd George, in the course of an interview, said the violation of Belgium turned British opinion from the desire for peace to insistence on Avar. Even on the Saturday after war was declared powerful city financiers earnestly hoped that Britain would keep out of the war, but on Tuesday they favoured war. Ninetynine per cent, of the electors would then have voted for war. If / Germany had not invaded Belgium the Government would not have intervened, “and I, certainly, would not have been a party to war,” he added. Since August we had assembled 11 million soldiers, and there would shortly be 2$ millions. Before the spring half a million would join their comrades in France. The Government Committee recommends employers and employees engaged in war work to endeavour to stop strikes immediately, so as to secure the full output, to abolish restrictive trade rules and customs, and employ women, if necessary, in making shells and fuses, in order to speed up the production; also to refer to all disputes promptly to a Government tribunal to avert stoppages, and to guarantee the workers and trade unions that nothing will be done to prejudice them after the war.

Neutral representatives of the International Red Cross who have toured the war camp in Britain report that the treatment of the prisoners is excellent, and that greater fairness is impossible. Neither the German Government nor the families of the men need have any anxiety. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February 26.

Four Germans interned on a transport at Southend have been allowed to marry Englishwomen whom they met in London before the war. Attended by an armed guard, they met their brides at the registry office. After breakfast at a restaurant, with the guards as guests, the bridegrooms were escorted back to the ship. Experts predict that the African maize crop will lie so enormous that neither railways nor shipping will be able to handle it. Seven million bags will be available for export. The Times, in a leader, says that when a great military power like Germany is reduced to mad bull rushes alternately in the east and west, which may be impressive while they progress but which never reach anywhere, we can only think of one paral. lei—something in a cage. The bars may sometimes bend under pressure, but the cage remains unbroken.