Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 33, 9 June 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE SPY MENACE. TAPPINC THE TELEGRAPHS. (Received 12.5 p.m.) London, .Line 8. Cabdon Jappe, a Dane, \v;ts arrested at Plymouth for trying to elicit naval information. He possessed an apparatus capable of tapping the telegraph lines and for sending telephone messages.

E3JTISH GA&uaLTIES. v *%jfer,r'3 «a».. -..'■ .-.-*■ ***±j&a * THE THIN RED LINE. London, June 8. There wore 3221 casualties in France and Flanders up to May 22, including. The Black Watch. Killed 119 i Wounded ... ... 4U.i Missing ... ... 126 Seaforth Highlanders. Killed 164 Wounded ... ... 77 NEED FOR FRESH EFFORT. Times kkd Sidney Son Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, June 8. The Times, in a leader, says: "The terrible lists of our losses for the week. showing nine hundred officers and twenty thousand men, should awaken the most sluggish to the need for fresh efforts. These losses are not suffered in a great action appreciably hastening the termination of the war, but is ordinary wastage as the war is now prosecuted, and must continue to be prosecuted, until our supplies of high explosive and the supplies we provide the Allies are increased, allowing them to adopt other operations."

A WAR BtNU*. WORK STOPPAGE FEARED. UNITVD PIIMB ABBOOIATIOK. (Heceived 8.10 a.m.) London, June 8. The card and blowing room amalgamation having decided to proceed to claim a ten per cent, war bonus, it is difficult to avoid a stoppage, which will affect three hundred thousand. THE NEW CABINET. MEMBERS POOL SALARIES.

(Received 8.10 a.m.) Londonj June 8. The Cabinet, including the Lord Chancellor, has agreed to pool their salaries. Each member of the Cabinet will receive £4271. Mr. Asquith is excluded from the scheme. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS. LLOYD GEORGE AT WORK. "HIS MASTER'S VOICE!" (Received 8.10 a.m.) < London, June 8. A gramophone factory at Midilesex usually employing sixty is now employing four thousand men, women, boys, and girls in producing cartridges cases, charges of lead, cases for gun cotton, cordite, and release fuse igniters. LANCASHIRE IN THE LEAD. SHELLMAKINC EXTRAORDINARY. / London, June 8. Tho masters of Lancashire are rapidly organising shellmaking. Of fifty thousand skilled engineers in the Manchester district 18,000 are already engaged in munitions, providing employment for 75,000 unskilled men and women. Hitherto few of tbe 1.8,000 wove employed in making shells, but the problem of diverting a considerable body of skilled men is being solved by the workers' goodwill.

Trades union officials declare that Mr Lloyd George has accomplished a great task by broadening the men and masters. They have had a committee working for some time now, and they arc being urged to add representatives of labor. Committees are completing a census of labor and work in hand in engineering establishments to enable the Government to decide how many skilled men may be spared for shellmaking, also in some cases'to transfer civil work to other firms Avith a view to transforming their own workshops to cope with Government requirements; Many women are offering their services, also .superannuated engineers.

DAUGHTERS OF EMPIRE.

COMTINCENTS FROM ABROAD. (Received 8.10 a.m.) London, .June 8. Tlie Government lias revoked its decision not to accept contingents from Barbados, British Guiana, Jamaica, and Trinidad for service in Europe, on the ground lliat there is no tear of raids by German cruisers. Barbadoes is the most western isle of the British West Indies. It is mostly under cultivation and has large plantations. It was first settled by the English in 1624. Bridgetown, the capital, is the centre of great sugar, cotton, and arrowroot manufactures. The white population is 17.000. British Guiana is on the north roast of South America. It has an area of DO,277 square miles and a population ol 295,71.'?. The capital is Georgetown. Jamacin is the principal island of the West Indies. It has an area of 4207 square miles and a population of 831,:>B.'s. It exports large quantities ol sugar, rum and coffee. The capital is Kingston. It is self-governing, having a representative Constitution, It was taken by the English from Spain in 1055. Trinidad is another island m the West Indies Group. It his an area of 1754 square miles and a popu-

lation of 330,000. It exports large quantities oi' rubber and tobae.-o.

"AMERICAN" PASSPORTS.

TRICKERY EXPOSED. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, June 9. The first definite confirmation oi' a .suspicion that fraudulent American passports were being issued by someone acting on the authority of the German Government has been placed in the hands of the military. Robert Rosenthal, 1 a spy, has been arrested ivlien about to leave England, travelling on a passport issued by "Captain Prieger." Rosenthal admitted that Prieger had issued United States passports in any name, printed on a prop?r form, and on proper parchment. Fo 1 * this purpose forged dies reproducing the seal of the United States were utilised. After confession Rosenthal attempted to commit suicide by strangling himself "with the hedcolthing in the cell "INCARNATION OF EVIL." OUR DUTY TO HATE ALL DEVILS. (Received 12.55 p.m.) London, June 8. Lord Headley, in a speech at Windsor, said: "It is our clear duty to have a good hate of all devils and not make a compromise with the Evil One. Anyone talking of sympathy with the Germans or of loving their enemies are playing into the hands of the most relentless and ruthless incarnation of evil. Conscientious scruples when at death grips with murderers, ravishers, and poisoners are as out of place as mercy would be if you found a cobra under your pillow."