GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 67, 19 July 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. London, July 17

Advices from Salonika declare that the pourparlers between Bulgaria and Turkey have been broken off, consequent on the German successes m Galicia. The Turks refuse to cede the territory of Demotika. and, upon the contrary, hope to possess themselves of the whole of the Adrianople and Dedeagateh railways.

The correspondent of The limes with the Russian forces says that the effective work of the Russian cavalry, was largely responsible for the German movements in Galicia and the enormous captures of prisoners. The advance, threatening the Hungarian plains, brought Hungary to a condition of considering an independent peace, resulting in an entire collapse, and the Austrians forced the Germans to come to the rescue with a colossal stroke in Galicia. M. Millerand, in the French Senate, stated that the output of seventy-fives had increased by eleven I hundred per centum, big guns by eight hundred per centum, and mitrailleuses hy fifteen hundred oer centum. He observed: “Since the enemy Ijas .seen fit to dishonor wai . let me tell them that to defend ourselves, j and protect the lives of our children,' we -will follow them in every field. e ( have formed a'section of gas asphy-j xiators, in which will collaborate technical experts and army servants of the university.”

Heavy rain detracted from the women’s demonstration. There was, however, a procession a mile long, nl 12-> sections, each headed Ivy banners. Among the inscriptions were: “Men must fight and women must work’ ; “We are not slackers” ; “We mean to save our country and to keep the Kaiser out”; “We demand war service for all.”

Mr Lloyd George, in his address at the Embankment, said that about fifty thousand women were already working in munition factories. It was a question of getting men and women together to help the country through the worst crisis ever experienced. The first tiling was to get an adequate supply of macliyve tools. The Government was assuming control of all the machine tool-making establishments. The women must give their whole time to the work, and they would receive the same piece rates as men. The Government would control the factories and see that there was no sweated labor. Women could help to victory; without them victory would tarry, and a victory which tarried nleant a victory whose footprints were footprints of blood.

Ernest Blythe and h. MellOW-s, who were engaged in organising Irish volunteers in various parts, have ‘been ordered to be expatriated. They m ill be allowed to select a place of residence, with the military authorities’ approval.bufc ftupt not teave the district ’without "permission. Both men refuse to leave Ireland, declaring that iio charge against them has been formulated. Mellows and Pirn*, the latter known as Newman, were organisers of the Sinn Fein volunteers. Their expulsion is made under the Defence of the Realm Act. ML J. M. Robertson '(dVliddleborongh). says that Germany will he harfkfupt in’ six months. ft is. lie says, impossible to over-rate the financial side (if the struggle. He did not believe the war would last as long as some military experts predicted, because German cannot endure financially. Site is spending 140 millions sterling monthly, and it is our business to wear down the enemy. He did not believe the nations who had power to lend money had been half exploited. The former agent of the HamburgAmerika Line has offered the American newspapers a free cable service from Germany. He is highly elated at the toleration of British censors in passing cables.

‘ It is officially stated in Paris that the Germans in the valley of the Southern Fecht fortified a position believed to he impregnable. The French preparation before attacking look a particularly long time. because they had to build over twenty miles of railway, over which they daily carried munitions, and they also had to construct miles of communication trenches.