General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 3 April 1915, Page 8

General

MISCELLANEOUS. United Pbesb Association. London, April 1. The War Office announces that such a large stock of clothing, underclothing, and mufflers has been contributed to Britain from overseas that no tnrtlier supplies are needed lor the troops. Casualty lists lor March total 1081 officers and 18,794 men, of whom 390 officers and 4190 men are dead, 3031 men missing, and 3232 prisoners. The Admiralty has obtained conclusive proof that German agents are fomenting strikes in Britain ; particularly in Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, and Birkenhead.

The Intelligence Division has reported that it has definite evidence of a conspiracy on the part of the Germans in Britain to increase the gravity of the drink question by “treating” the workmen of Britain.

The Saturday Review' says the country after the war will insist on being better informed on the foreign policy, and also on closer relations with the Dominions. The latter have grown up, and will no longer he fobbed oil with departmental red tape or an understrapper of the State. It is unbelievable that they will subside quietly and not ask inconvenient questions regarding tlie rearrangement of the war. This will enormously quicken the Empire’s evolution. The Saturday Review cannot see what good end can bo served by postponing Australia’s strong movement tor an informal consultation with the Motherland dining the war concerning matters that are hound to come forward when the time ol settlement arrives to secure intimate communion of the people. Australia re. quires a. much more human touch than the chill curt agency of the cablegrams and the rigid formalist of Whitehall.

The revenue for the financial year was £226,694,080, of which customs contributed £38,662,000, excise £12,313,000, stamps £7,577,000, income tax £69,389,000.

His Majesty King Albert of Belgium, in an interview with the Journal, of Geneva, affirmed that before the war he and bis country had scrupulously observed all the requirements of neutrality with the precision of the specifications of an engineering contract. He was unable to explain why Belgium had suffered, and could explain less the acts of cruelty. He had never imagined the German so malevolent. Ho emphatically denied that Belgium had compromised her neutrality by conversations.

“Eye-witness” states that Germany started the war with fifty thousand machine guns. She had fifteen along a front of 250 yards at Neuvc Chapel le, whence 7500 bullets poured every minute.

Genoa reports that fifty thousand Germans occupied the valleys of Kayseri berg, Munster, and Gelipiler. The French guarding this part of the line arc with difficulty resisting.