General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 5

General

GERMANY’S HARDEST TASK.

Amsterdam, March 5

The Tvaiser, in mi address after the service in the park at Xivbowo Castle, Poland, said: “Our hardest task is to prove to the entire world Germany’s right to existence. We Prussians, accustomed to tight to overcome a superior enemy, should trust firmly in our Great Ally above, who will help our just cause to victory. History tells r.s that God is only on tho side of believing armies. As my friend I.uther declared, a man with God is always in the majority. Our enemies are without that watchword. They carry the heavy knapsack of an evil conscience, because they have fallen upon a peaceloving people.” THE WAY THEY HAVE IN RUSSIA Petrograd, March o. At the opening of the war the army contractors wanted the Grand Duke Nicholas to discuss supplies. They were kept waiting in an ante-chamber for hours. Finally the Grand Duke appeared. He ignored their greeting, and said, “Him who steals, 1 hang. Good morning!” Graft has diminished to an extent hitherto unknown in Russia.

CHINA AND JAPAN. United Press Association. Pekin, March 5. The conference of Chinese and Japanese Ministers agreed to extend the lease of Port Arthur and Dalmy for ninety-nine years.

(Port Arther and Dalmy were leased to Russia by China in 1898, and taken by the Japanese in the Russo-Jap-anese war.)

LORD ROSEBERY ON RACING. i , London, March 5. Lord Rosebery, in a letter to the newspapers, protests against the suggestion to stop racing. “If it ceases altogether the thoroughbred horses which are essential to the army, will disappear. Our Allies know that Eng. lishmen do not think it necessary to put up the shutters because they are engaged at war. Epson and Ascot were "held throughout the Napoleonic wars,and the winner of the Derby announced in general orders in the Crimea.”

ARGENTINE WHEAT FOR BRITAIN Times and Sydney Sun Service. Geneva has been informed that Britain has bought the whole of the Argentine wheat harvest of 1916.

“WALES FOR EVER.” The Press Bureau states that the King has approved of the Leek being the badge of the Welsh Guards, and the motto “Cymruambyth” or “Wales for ever!” A dragon is emblazoned on the colors.

COLORED WAR NEWS.

Sydnev, March 5

Lord Selbourne, presiding at the mooting of the Telegraph Construction Company, considered that the Govern, ment and Press were blameworthy for giving too favorable a color to war new ,s. If responsible people understood the characteristics of the race they would minimise the good news and feature the bad.