Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 35, 11 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

TRADt WITH AMERICA, SERVICE VIA VLADIVOSTOK. i j FACILITIES TO TRADERS. j Times and Sydney Sun Service. 1 (Received 8 a.m.) London, .June 10. Russia has arranged with the Canadian Pacific Company for a through goods service with North America via Vladivostock, having granted speciala facilities to traders. AMMUNITION-MAKING. MOSCOW’S GREAT EFFORTS. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Petrograd, June 10. Mr Lloyd George’s speech found • ready echo in Moscow, which is a great jindustrial centre. Masters held meetings in order to co-ordinate their efforts. All establishments hitherto engaged in the manufacture of luxuries and articles not esentisal to the well-

being of tlio people are to be adopted 1 for the production of war supplies. The enterprises owned by Germans have been taken over and adapted to the same purpose. These are kept running day and night, every available specialist and all the students of the technical college being included in the mobilisation. An Industry Consultative Board presided over by the Minister has been created. During the first half-year, the production of munitions increased sevenfold. A PLAN CARRIED OUT. Times and Sydnky i c un Service. London, June 9. General Witte, Inspector General of the Belgian cavalry, has returned from Russia. 'He declares the Russians are most valiant and well disciplined in the field. He was informed that it was their intention to abandon Przemysl in the middle of May, and a retirement was affected in order to advance more decisively.