Second Edition. General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. General

UNITBP P&gM ASSOCIATION *\' Berlin, May 20. | The newspapers/opine that Italy will send 40,000 to'the Dardanelles, and a/ force will also he sent 'to Montenegro to assist in the capture of Cattaro. New York,, May 20. Statistics -show that American exports to Scandinavia and Holland for March were in some cases tenfold those of, March. .191-1. Germans boast that a hundred shiploads of foodstuffs were recently sent to Scandinavia and transhipped to Germany. l|ondon, May 26. Private Morrow I Irish " Fusiliers), who received the Victoria Cross for rescuing, under Tieavy. fire several men buried If the .debi* of » wrecked trench, has been; filled, .while again assisting wounded;*; men under heavy fire. It lias Jieen "recommended that a clasp !)'e added to his Victoria Cross. Sir John Egjpeh reports tfeat some portions, of the' liiVfc east ofTTprfe-s lost on the 24th. have not yet been recovered, an amount of jins'greater than on any one .occasion-being emitted from cylinders Jifeng a floht of five miles for 4V hours, while the line was bombarded with asphyxiating shells. The gas cloud in places -was forty feet. high. Portions of the line, however, are intact. Throughout this ordeal our men demonstrated that with due precaution this form- of attack can be defeated. The latest gas attack has extended to Saint Julien and Steenstraate. The, British were protected by respirators and motor goggles, and kept their ground with the utmost determination. After it passed, the infantrymen, the ;g as threatened .the gunners, and it colored the Britishers a deep yellow resembling .jaundice. The Germans were obliged to allow an interval lor, the clearance-of the air, and this enabled .the Frenchiartillery to find the range and cut down the Germans mercilessly. TJiQse reaching the British trenches were.".kjlled to a man. Indications are that Germany is irritated at the failure of. Austrian diplomacy to prevent the war, and is d?> termined to strenuously co-operate with Austria in giving Italy the punishment it considers she deserves, even at the price of great losses'. The Kaiser, in a message of personal farewell to the, Italian Ambassador at* Berlin, aiiked him to convey, to King Victor the indignation that is felt in Germany. The Berlin press declares: AVe have been' prepared for this, an* are down,on. our knees ,because. Italy It must be admitted,, however,, .that our final victory is now further away: Amsterdam 'imports, that Germans are nervous because t,]ie publication oi .Austrian .concessions .indicates . uncer.tainty of',,ultimate, vif'tor.y. > ( Ainsterdain,,May ,25. ;

.A i German commnnique scutes;: ,Strojrig rßmssian. forces attacked. : us, on itlie Thibissa, east of,ilfassieni,..and,\ye yepulsed them..-.across )t.he river,with heavy, loss. We took £240 , prisoners ami captured.ftye i machine-guns. General Mackensen re-opened the attack north of <Praemyslt;w.i.th complete success. '.'-We stormed and captured, the strong fortified places of Dashajow, As;trow,.ftadymuo,'>Wysocko. .South .of Cetula we captured 21,000 men. and 39 guns, of which nine were heavy, and forty machine guns. An extraordinary high number of Russians were killed. A neutral correspondent of the Times describes (the industrial output of Germany. Pig-iron, which was 1,600,000 tons monthly before the war, fell to 587,000 ton s in August; later it rose to 9-10,000 tons. Coal, which was 268,000 tons in July; was 97,000 in August, nml eventually 183,000, though it has declined recently. W)ien the war many manufacturers ]6st their heads and discharged'masr ses of workmen, but the German genius for organisation was brought into play and. every factory possible ,was transformed for the manufacture, of war material, despite a small profit owing to,the difficulty of training new workmen, A committee of industrial -leaders,, however, eliminated the jnll L diemen,, and finally controlled the whole-industry of the, .empire, took over the -distribution of war ordprs, and--decided that the best use the available industrial .forces could he put to was-the .organised supply, of metals. .(Meanwhile war.credit banks were created, aided by an ~ Imperial grant to support undertakings hard hit by the-war. ,Labor exchanges distrrbuted.the available labor in.the most effective manner from a central office for the' whole empire, i«t which ,employers and employed were equally represented. Despite this success ,real anxiety for the future is now traceable among! industrial, leaders. The entry of Jtaly has stopped the supply of raw materials, and the country is feeling the results of the loss of £920,000,000 of foreign trade. Times and 'Sydney. Sun ; Service. London. May 2~>. 'The Times' military correspondent says the supply of good men in Germany is. not exhausted, but to a large extent the .flower of German youth has bee stricken down at the moment when ours is about to blossoms