Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 1 May 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THOSE RUSSIANS IN ENGLAND! HOW THE CANARD CREW. Times and Sydney Sun Service, (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 30. The explanation of the early rumor of the passage through Britain of Russian troops is stated to be that a large number of Russian officers visited Britain to buy munitions of war, and the act of the Attache’s staffs leaving for the front, together with a number of soldier servants who had accompanied 'them while travelling from Archangel to the Scottish ports. At the same time tho War Office shifted the camps of the Territorials, tho trains being hand-signalled and moved at night with the blinds drawn, and even the engine-drivers being ignorant of the loads pulled. Letters from Scottish railway officials to friends in the south spoke of a lot of Russians travelling, and the rumour made the handful an enormous army. FLOOD-GATES OF CRITICISM. MR ASQUITH AT THE HELM. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 30. The Times, in a leader, says: “It is hardly surprising that the sudden and costly clash of arms in Flanders, coinciding as it did with the first news of the combined operations in the Dardanelles, should have opened the floodgates of criticism upon the whole conduct of the war. There is a conviction that the first attempt at the Dardanelles was undertaken by the Admiralty without adequate preparations, which were grossly and mischievously over-advertised, and that it culminated in a very considerable disaster on March 18. We sincerely hope that, in the present state of public uneasiness, Mr Asquith will make it his own business to tell the nation frankly that be has laid the plans and counted all the cost. The only real solution of all our doubts is the Prime Minister, who will assert himself, and make the nation feel that someone’s hand is on the helm.” VACANCIES IN KING EDWARD’S HORSE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, April 30. In King Edward’s Horse there are vacancies for 100 recruits. INSULATED SPACE TO SOUTH AMERICA REQUISITIONED. (Received 10.3 a.m.) London, April 29. The Government has requisitioned the insulated space on all British vessels trading to South America. NATIONAL FUND OF THE BELGIANS. (Received 8.33 a.m.) London. April .‘SO. The national fund of the Belgians exceeds LIOO,OOO.

STATE CONTROL. ENABLING POWERS OF NEW LIQUOR BILL. (Received 10 a.m.) London, April 3D. The Liquor Bill contains two clauses with broad powers. It enables the Government to acquire temporary aVI permanently licensed premises in any area, or to open unlicensed refreshment houses with the right to sell alcohol to the public. MISCELLANEOUS. London, April 30. The casualty lists from April 17 to the 25th show that 11(3 officers were killed, 2(39 wounded, including twenty-eight Canadians killed and 99 wounded. Colonel Hartincharg, the champion shot, has died of wounds at Dunkirk.