Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

WAR OFFICE PREPARATIONS. “COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.” (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, March 19. The War Office is fitting up through, out the United Kingdom schools, infirmaries, workhouses, and asylums in anticipation of an influx of wounded. MINERS SUPPORT KITCHENER AND LIMIT THEIR HOLIDAYS. United Press Association. (Received 10.10 a.m.) London. March 19. The Miners’ Federation received the appeal of Lord Kitchener, and decided on a limit to the Faster holidays of one or two days, as a curtailment of the output might lead to a veritable disaster.

SUPPORT FROM RAILWAYMEN. CENSORSHIP BLAMED FOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS. (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, March 19. Mr Thomas, secretary, addressing railwaymen, declared that the censorship was responsible for the workers not fully understanding the occurrences at the front. He felt that now workers had been brought face to face with all that it .involved, they will give the best work to ensure that the lives (if their sons who are fighting will not necessarily be sacrificed. CONDITIONS OF EXPORT TO THE COLONIES. United Press Association. (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, March 19. The authorities have agreed to waive in respect to the Colonies the spoc’al war safeguards surrounding expons, on condition that the owners undertake not to make improper shipments. THE RED CROSS' WORK. QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S UNDYING GRATITUDE. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 19. Queen Alexandra prefaced her book, in which she describes the Red Cross work, by expressing her undying gratitude at the result of practical nursing of 20,000 men who have already returned to the front, and who would otherwise have been lost to the.. Army. WORLD’S JUSTICE FOR BELGIUM. DISCLAIMER TO GERMAN ACCUSATIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 19.

The Press Bureau states that the Belgian Government, has issued a disclaimer to the German allegation that Belgium forfeited her neutrality before the outbreak of war. The disclaimer declares that having violated international law, things went so far that Germany offered compensation for lost honor to Belgium. It describes the allegations as a tissue of lies, and concludes: “Belgium was the victim of her own loyalty. She won’t how her head before any PoAver. Her honor defies the assaults of falsehoods, and she has faith in the justice of the world.” JOTTINGS. For many years there has existed at the Admiralty a scale 1 packet of papers Avhich contained the famous “Dundonakl Secret War Plans.” The story of their deposit dates Lack to the early days of last century, and although, of course, known to statesmen of the time, by whom they woe said to be “irresistible, infallible, but too inhuman to employ agamst an enemy, or place in the hands of mankind at all,” and, incidentally, disclosed in the “Pamnure Papoifi” and in the “Memoirs of Lord P'ayfair. ’ they have only rece it.'y been made public property. After rll, the mystery is nearly as disapp-> i.tnig, as the revelation at the end of most works of fiction. The official announcement of “the secret” is short and to the point. It declares that Lord Dundonald’s plans simply provided for smoking out the enemy with sulphur fumes. In their great desperation the Germans have already adopted the invention, and complaints are lodged by our surgeons that the use of sxdphur in German shells has had the effect of making an otherwise slight wound dangerous to t ic Avounded.