GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 53, 2 July 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

TxiTKi) Press Association. London. July 1

An Englishman who left Constantinople in the middle of June says: "Food supplies were dear, but there were relatively plentiful stores. There was a shortage of coal. It was untrue that a condition of panic existed among the German officers in the city, but no German troops, excepting the Goeben and Bresiau marines. The Turks were more confident than the Germans regarding the future. They treat the .-English residents well. A young. Englishman named Clark, who died in a hospital" in Paris, stated he lived with a German in Vienna before the war. The German died and Clark appropriated his papers, adopted his identity, and went to Berlin and enrolled in a corps of ten thousand known as the "forlorn hope brigade," who were to be trained as aviators in order to take part in the air raid on London a£.the end of July. After the first lessons he escaped, with the object of,telling the British, and he went to Paris through Holland. He died before he accomplished his 'mission.