Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 59, 12 March 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

BIBLES FOR THE SOLDIERS.

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, March 11. The British and Foreign Bible Society provided U million bibles in a score of. different languages for the lighting troops.

JAPAN'S DEMANDS ON CHINA.

SAFZCUARDINC BRITISH INTER-

ESTS.

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, March 11. Sir Edward Grey, in the House of Commons, said the information in possession of the Government with reference to Japan's demands on China was confidential, and the Government was considering their effect with a view to safeguarding British interests with which they might appear to conflict.

RATES OF EXCHANGE AND RUSSIAN TRADE. BRITISH CHANCELLOR SPEAKS CONFIDENTLY OF OPENING OF BLACK SEA PORTS. United Press Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, March 11. The question of preventing the fluctuation of rates of exchange was discussed at a meeting at which Mr Lloyd George and Lord Reading attended. Mr Lloyd George said the Government had made special arrangement with Russia, by which no embargo would be placed on butter, wheat, and other foodstuffs.. As far as Britain was concerned, so long as they enjoyed the existing confidence with regard to loans, it would not be advantageous to borrow from the United States. He believed the Russian exchange would right itself as soon as she resumed her export trade with the opening of the Black Sea ports.