Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 68, 20 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Umted Press Association. Cairo, July 19

Sir E. Maxwell has issued an important proclamation, calling on anyone aware of a plot against the Government to inform the- authorities; otherwise they will be liable to martial law.

Roirte, July 19. A private letter from Berlin states that the Kaiser’s personal fortune has greatly diminished. He is interested in many industries' which are now ruined, and also in steamship companies, which have lost very heavily. Tire Kaiser has, already lost one hundred million marks, and the

Kings of -Bavaria, Saxony and Wnrtern burg, and the Grand Duke of Baden have also suffered heavy losses. Petrograd, July 19. During June. (51,90.0 Austrian and German prisoners passed Kietf. including-, 11-11 officers. Ten thousand of the prisoners were Germans. A German aeroplane recently discovered a weakness in the Russian lines on the Niemen-Visctula front. An Austrian brigade was ordered to break through. The brigade waited a night before attacking, and a Russian motor transport captain accidentally discovered the Austrians. Ho rushed to the nearest regiment, and brought up men in relays, by foHy motor lorries. The Austrians confidently attacked ip the morning, hut. few survived, except some prisoners. The latter were Germans. They had attacked in overwhelming strength, but the Russians had already retired, preserving their line intact. London, Juply 19. The Conciliation Board has awjivd-

, ed the fciftpvay : strikers concessions \ totalling £58.300 pef., annum. All men earning up to 40s a week will receive a war bonus of Bs. An eighthour day was refused. A Time&’ correspondent points out that Britain’s ' war expenditure is greater than any of the belligerents, and is. now averaging 3J millions

daily. Allowing for .the -higher cost of soldiers, this does not account for the great disparity, and it suggests exhorbitant war profits on contracts, and it may be necessary to eliminate undue profits if /Britain wishes to held out.

A gift of £3OOO has been made to the Times fund for the use of wounded and sick New Zealanders. Sir J. J. Thomson (Professor of Physics at the Royal Institute), Sir C.A. Parsons (of turbine fame) aid Mr Beilby will form Lord fisher’s Inventions Committee. Twelve prominent scientists»including Mr IT- 11Baker, Sir William Crookes, Mr Bertram Hopkinson, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Ernest Rutherford, and Mr J. Strutt will form a panel/of consultants.

Compared with the period of' 1914, beef has' increased in price 40 percent.:; sugar. 68 per cent; fish, 64 per rent. ; flour, 50 per cent.; bread. 40; tea, 38: .; Ju Pefflin the ..food, prices have increased 65 .per cent. In Vienna, beef cent.; eggs, 167; bacon, .10*2; nee, 125; bread. 83.. Mr Phillip {Tibbs, writing to the Daily Cjjrofticje' %m British, headquarters, quotes a sergeant-major’s

opinion of Kitchener’s Army in France. He says they are a very cheerful lot of men. When they entered the recruiting offices some wore overtrlihed, -having been working hard for ten months. Now yon could not find j*'?better regiment. “You’ll find plenty of hotheads, but not i old feet;” . says the correspondent, Mr Gibtis adds that the new army received 'its baptism of fire by being led. into thie danger zqm by-easy stages. The lingular officers say\ they ’ have never,'seen soldiers of finer physique and stouter qualities. Many Germanas now, regret that they pushed beyond, the .San, as nothing of importance resulted, and now it is very difficult to extricate.the ‘German forces. . The-correspondent says that his trip increased his optimism as to Russia’s capacity to weather tlie / storm, and his faith in the stamina and stubbornness of the Russian in-

fantiy. The Trade and Labor Gazette states that the increasing number of enlistments have made.an.active demand for labor. Owing to the, requirements of the Allies there has been caused A shortage of labor in many industries, and there is now very little unemployment, except in,a few ,luxurious and other trades which are adversely affected by the war. The transference from one trade to another, and the substitution of female for male labor, is extending. The German Gazette declares that employment in the majority of .industries is perfectly satisfactory/• May returns, show that the number of men applying for work had decreased by seventy per cent., and females had decreased by, fifty per cent, ill Britain, The Bureau reports shows that employment, of women is enormously increasing, .