GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 16 June 1915, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

( Unhid Pbim Absooutiom. | London, Jnno 14. j "Eye-witness" writes: —O.i tlio day our naval airmen scored their .srceess two comrades of the Flying C.):ps 'made an adventurous Ight, reconnoitring twenty miles from our lines. Several German aviatots attacked. Our pilot was shot through the jaw and neck, and sustained a dangerous wound. He collapsed and .ost control, and then recovered sufficiently to steady tlie machine and continue the flight. He was at by a succession of hostile airmen. The pilot gradually grew weaken- from loss of blood, and was hardly conscious. The observer helped to bandage the wound while he kept the machine going and .completed the reconnaissance, and landed safely. The pilot is progressing. Amsterdam, June 14. The Zeppelin destroyed at Everie 'has been identified at LZ3B. i Paris, June 15. j At a meeting of the Suez Canal Company the report stated that the 'commercial traffic for the AugustDecember period fell by nearly 40 per cent., but military transport constituted an important sett-off. The

company's loss for the first five monjtths was 6} million francs, this, being | reduced to 4J million by the anti-war surplus. Receipts decreased during I the current year by 35 per cent, n* compared with the corresponding receipts for 1914. The dividend was fixled at 120 francs net, eighteen million francs being carried forward, and the (meeting was hopeful that there would be no further decrease in the dividend. I The motion for removing Heinchen, a German director, was carried. Times and Sydney Bun Sebvioe. London, June 14. Holland proposes to construct two cruisers, four submarines and sixseaplanes. The Hague, June 15. Germany, through America, has agreed to treat reprisaled prisoners as ordinary prisoners of war. Stockholm, June 15. The Prize Court at Berlin, overruling the Kiel Court, decided to pay full Compensation for the seizure of the Swedish steamer Ellida, bound for Hull. The judgment is likely to form a precedent whereon many neutral claims will be based. Melbourne, June 15. The Commonwealth Government has decided to allow 37,000 carcases of mutton to proceed conditionally on their being supplied to the British Government instead of to private firms. The Government has taken ! action to totally prohibit the export of mutton and lamb from Australia. | Amsterdam, June 15. Maxmillian Harden, in an article in his journal seriously reviews the reconstruction of the British Cabinet. He says Britain has at last awakened, and will never slumber again, except in death. He warms Germans against under-estimating or misunderstanding its enemies, and insists that Sir Edward Grey did not promote the war, but rather strove for peace. The Tageblatt suggests the formation of a special committee of foreign affairs with an advisory board composed of former foreign secretaries, ambassadors, and consuls. It adds: "Our diplomacy must do the utmost to bring a speedy peace,- and, above all, to prevent further additions to the ranks of our enemies." London, June 14. A remarkable pastoral letter from the' Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, read in all the churches and dioceses, states that nothing on earth is more terrible than war, especially such a war as the present, causing a sea of blood for years. The letter contains prayers that eagerly desired peace may soon be granted to the stormtossed world.