Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 68, 23 March 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE THREE MILLION STANDARD REMARKABLE COMPARISON OF NUMBERS WITH PREVIOUS WARS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 6 p.m.) London, March 22. The Times’ military correspondent says: “We are working up to the three-million men standard, and we shall have a million in the decisive theatre before the campaign is much older. This is one hundred and ten times the number who fought at Agincourt, thirty-three times that at the Crimea, twenty-five times the number at the Peninsular war, fourteen times more than at the second Afghan war, and four times greater than at the South African war. GERMAN IDEAL DENOUNCED BY BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER. United Press Association. (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, March 22. Sir Edward Grey, in a speech at London, said the German ideal was that the Germans were a superior people, to whom all things were lawful and to whom all nations must be subservient. He would rather perish or leave the Continent than submit to such conditions. Other European nations must he free to live without the Supreme War herd’s interference.

MISCELLANEOUS. London, March 22. Lord Kitchener, in a letter, warns the Liverpool Dockers’ Union that if the men continue to refuse to work during week-ends steps will be taken to ensure what is required. Copenhagen, March 22. A Swedish copper foundry was engaged night and day in making hundreds of tons of copper monuments for German linns. The authorities stopped the export, believing it to bo an evasion of the lay prohibiting the export of raw copper. Stockholm, March 22. Gendarmerie officers who were recently in Persia state that the rifles which wore landed in Persia, allegedly for Persian sheiks, were intended for Persian gendarmerie. Athens, March 22. Sixty Christian families were massacred at Kimerii, in the vicinity of Airalifc.