General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 87, 15 April 1915, Page 5

General

DENIAL OF PEACE PROPOSALS AT WHITE HOUSE. United Press Association. Washington, April 14. President Wilson states that he lias received no formal communications from the Pope regarding peace, and there is no truth in the statement that the United States is aware, officially or unofficially, of any terms of peace that might be made. New York, April 14Mr. Edison announces a new submarine storage battery, enabling a submarine to remain for ten days submerged without danger of the chlorine poisoning the crew. The battery gives an underwater range of 150 miles. i Petrograd, April 14. j The Minister of Finance informed . the Press Agency that the war was I proving a blessing to the people of ' Russia. The peasants had now better prospects of living in comparative comfort, as, owing to the allowance made to the families of soldiers, their incomes were greater than in time? ;of peace. The prohibition, of vodkf* \ is primarily responsible for the ameliorated condition of the peasants. Before the war their average yearly savings on deposit totalled between fifteen and twenty million dollars, while in January alone thirty million dollars were deposited.

Paris, April 14

The War Office has adopted khaki, it being found impossible to keep the blue-mixture uniforms clean. Moreover, under searchlights they show a pure white. The chief difficulty in the way of a change is the lack of khaki, but it is hoped that the British manufacturers will rise to the occasion. Berne, April 14. Professor Gonpp. nerve specialist, writing to the Munciner Medezin, says there is an alarming increase in madness in the German army, particularly since the French offensive began in the middle of December. A very large number of gaps in the ranks were due to morbid excitement and nervous prostration. The explosion of a shell or the fate of a comrade, he says, is sufficient to produce paralysis, convulsions, loss of speech and delirium, which often disappear in hospital, but reappear when the men return to the front, and even the suggestion that they return to the front is often sufficient to send men mad. Times and Sydney Run Sebvtoe. London, April 14. Sir A. Conan Poyle suggests that the White Book concerning the treatment of British prisoners should be distributed in the army, for no man would fight the worse for having his soul aflame with righteous anger. The report will teach our men, if any still need the lesson that it is far better to die in the field than to trust to the humanity of the Germans.