THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 34, 10 June 1915, Page 3

THE WAR.

Hope Crisp, the tennis player, who was wounded at Hill 00, Jims had a leg amputated.

The steamer Oameronia s passengers at-New York repqrt that three German submarines were trapped recently in British waters.

Sir Edmund Barton lias cabled Mr Fisher that Lord Kitchener Ims authorised him to say that the Australasian troops arc admirable.

Refugees declare that Italian labor was used for the extensive mining of Alsatian towns, in expectation of a French advance compelling German evacuation.

Amongst the number of leading el,ess players who have enlisted are Viner (Champion of Australia) and McArthur (.Champion of New South Wales).

Large consignments of barrels, supposed to contain beer, from Germany to Turkey, were detained at Bucharest, and found to contain asphyxiating gas bombs. Germany disclaims responsibility.

Sergeant-Major Gribble and a civilian named William Sainey have been sentenced to two years' hard labor for stealing war stores, comprising 72 drums of oil and 11,000 cartridges. The .Judge ordered the return of the stolen goods to the Government as a warning to tho.se purchasing Government stores.

A correspondent on the Swiss frontier leurns that 20,000 German naval troops at Brussels are bringing heavy guns, dismounted from the battle fleet. This accounts for the increase in the number of large calibre guns recently active at many points, notably in AJsace. An army corps of Bavarians has been transferred from Alsace to Trentino.