Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. Rotterdam. July 21. , Germany is optimistic about t lie prospects of the wheat and rye crops. The crops are smaller and have suffered owing to unusual heat, hut it is claimed that' they have resulted in ears equallinig the ultimate production.

London, July 21. The King has ordered the removal of the name of Prince Kite! Friederich of Prussia from the roll of the Knights of Jerusalem. Speaking-at Vancouver. Mr Roosevelt said: “I am proud of the, showing, that Canada has made in helping Britain. Her men fought and nied honorably. It is lamentable that they should die, but no national fabric can.be built until cemented by tht blood of those willing to make a sacrifice of their lives for an ideal.” The Ottawa Evening Journal, the leading political organ of Canada, commenting on the Times’ statement that the shortage of shells verified its demands for a Ministry of Munitions, and national government and organisation of national resources be fulfilled, aavs. that seldom has tiie • ' * a. English-speaking world witnessed a greater journalistic triumph. The fact of the matter is, says the Journal, that the Times is a national institu- • tion; it is wrapped up with the history of modern England, and often more • truly reflects the national mind than does the Government. , A Cairo'message states that a Euro- . pean who left Constantinople on July 3rd reports that 50.000 Turks are founded at Constantinople, besides those at Adrifnople, Smyrna, the Dardanelles and ports on the Sea of Mar.tnora. TKe proportion of the killed is high. The*heavy casualties are the

only cause for anxiety which the leaders admit; their optimism is otherwise . undiminished. Until disaster overtakes the Turks the position of the leaders seems secure. Food is fairly abundant, with the exception of rice. Shopkeepers have been ordered to surrender silk stockings* lace, .feminine nn- , derciothing, and false hair, presumably for the benefit of the female friends of the German officers .Much newly-coin-ed gold has arrived at .Constantinople, and the chief officials are believed to have been paid till the middle of June.