In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 76, 1 April 1915, Page 5

In the West

GERMANY’S POSITION.

CONFIDENCE STILL UNSHAKEN

LITTLE UNEMPLOYMENT AND FLOUR.

Times and Sydney Sun Sekvioe. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 31. A neutral correspondent writes:— Very little news of the great defeat of the German army at Marne is

known by the people owing to the censorship. The former spirit of boastfulness has toned down, yet there are no unto\Vard signs of the national confidence having been shak-

| A cotton famine is approaching. .The mills are working half time, but 'the reserves are exhausted, and many of the factories lacking cotton have closed. There is little unemployment, as the manufacture of war materials, the production of which has doubled and trebled, is absorbing all non-com-batants, who are paid a low rate and 'work long hours. However, they do not complain, because they consider they are working towards the final victory for Germany.

Only intense care and economy in the flour supply will make.it last tilt next harvest.

THE FIGHT IN LORRAINE.

FAILURE OF GERMANS' MAIN OBJECTIVE. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, March 31. The Times’’ correspondent in Lorraine says: Nothing has changed along the line from St. Mihiel to the Ahisges. For a couple of months the French have been marking time ard only fighting to expel the German spasmodic and aimless attacks. The net result is that the Germans have completely failed in their main objective. The French have made little leal advance, but they have kept the Germans’ war engine working at full pressure. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, March 31. M. Viviani informed the Duke of Orleans that it Was impossible to alter the law of exile to permit his entry into the French Army. (The Duke of Orleans, who was born in 1869, is the chief of the BourbonOrleans family, and eldest son of the late Comte de Paris. He was married to the Archduchess Marie Dorothea of Austria in 1896. In 1886 he was exiled from France, and a subsequent visit to Paris subjected him to second expulsion. He has served as a soldier in India, and has a house at AA r ood Norton.

THE VICTOR OF LONCWY! HOME TRUTH TOLD TO THE KAISER BY ENRAGED GENERAL. DINNER AT A LUXEMBURG HOTEL. United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Paris, March 31. The Figaro vouches for the story that the Kaiser was dining at a hotel in Luxemburg in August, when a certain General arrived. The Kaiser, in a frantic rage, upbraided him for uselessly sacrificing thousands of his best soldiers and in capturing Longwy, which was defended only by a few battalions. The General went livid, and exclaimed: “The close formation of the soldiers was, by the reiterated orders of your scamp of a son, who was at a safe distance.” The General bowed and withdrew, and then blew out his brains on the pavenient, A week later, a postcard bearing the Crown Prince’s portrait, was selling throughout Germany, and was inscribed “The Victor of Longwy!”

ECHO OF THE LA TOURAINE’S VOYAGE.

(Received 8.30 a.m.)

Paris, March 31

Raymond Swoboda has been arrested. Incriminating documents show that his mission was to blow up the La Touraine, on which he was a passenger. He represented himself as a Russian from Paris, where he had bad a long residence.