Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 May 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE HACUE CONFERENCE. "NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE." Times and Sydney Sun Sibviob. (Received 8 a.m.) London. May 3. There was a thrilling moment at the Woman's Peace Conference at The Hague, when the Belgian delegates, who crossed the frontier afoot, entered, and were loudly cheered. The British delegates declared that the suffragists were anxious to go to the front to light. The Belgians protested against peace without justice. The Conference sympathetically listened to the heart-rending story of injustice in Belgium, and a resolution was passed in favor of peace on just principles, with no transference of territory without the inhabitants' consent. IMMEDIATE PEACE DEMANDED. CONGRESS ENDS IN UPROAR. Amsterdam, May 3. Congress ended in uproar. The German delegates controlled the gathering and rode rough-shod over a protest by the two English delegates against resolutions favorable to Germany. The Congress adopted the resolution, demanding immediate peace. BRITISH EMPIRE IN ARMS! United Prebi Association. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, April 3. Colonel Maud, in the Evening Standard, declares that the Australians and New Zealanders trill probably exercise a great influence on the German general staff, who formed a very low estimate of their fighting value. Now, that the Canadians and Australasians have shown their capability, the Germans at last can form a serious conception of what the British Empire in arms means. STRIKE OF CHAIN-WORKERS (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, May 3. Seven hundred and fifty chain-work-ers at Oldhill engaged in Government work have struck in connect'on with the war bonus question. MISCELLANEOUS. London, May 2. A White Paper has been issued whereon Mr. Lloyd George based the drink crusade. The reports of the n-ival authorities of various shipbuilding!; areas ill-, dicate that partial measures are useless, and that total prohibition is the only remedy, outside martial law. Early morning drinking'is chiefiy responsible for slackness. The Admiralty's superintendent on the Clyde reported that some repairs to warships were so bad as to suggest that sober men could not have done them. He would like to see the whole of Glasgow and down to Dumbarton placed within the drink question area. The naval director at the Tyne states that the whole of the labor is deplorable, uncertain, and not dependable. The extra wages paid accentuated the difficulty. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe wrote that labor difficulties delayed destroyors in docking for refits. The Home Office inquiries showed that the main reasons for' staleness and fatigue were long hours and unusually high wages, leading to loafing and drinking, but drink was the chief reason. SSS Cable. The Times' military correspondent says the end of the war is not clear, except that it means the slow exhaustion of one side or the other. The exhaustion of Germany. Austria r.nd Turkey, with 136 millions population and immense resources, will necessarily lie a long process. It is practically impossible to fix the limits of the enemy's endurance. Therefore it is exceedingly probable that we are in for a long war.