GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 82, 5 August 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[United Press Association.]

Milan, August 4

I! Sci'olo announces that the forthcoming German Xote will inform America that the Lusitania incident is regarded as definitely closed, and Germany does not intend to reopui the question

Paris, August 1. M. Poincare, during a week-end 'tour to the front, presented King Albert with the War Cross. 1 Letters state that 40,000 Armenians ’■ in Cilicia perished. The entire popu- * lation were stripped of all their p"8- * passions and driven into the desert ’■* i) die. | Twenty Armenian Social Democrats j were publicly hanged in Constant i- ! nople on a charge of plotting for the independence of Armenia. , M. Clemenceau, writing in I’Homme j I en Chaine, invites the exiled Herr I Harden to visit France. He will thru be able to inform the Kaiser that each hour gives a new strength to the Allies,' and that , time is fighting on our ( 1 s ide. Italy has joined in, Japan’ is rattling her arms, and the whole ( world is trembling with anger. Ihe end is not yet, not until we have struck the last blow. | ' Amsterdam, August 4. I Prussian casualty lists 254- to 2^9

eoninin 24,008 names; The total to the end of July was 1,641.569, apart from Bavarian, Wurtemherg, Saxon and naval casualties.

Romo, August 3. H Cmriere Della sera comments that Russia appears to be as indomitably heroic in retreat as she is honorable in victory. Blie is now weaving out the enemy, and will retake her territory to-morrow.

Petrograd, August- 4. The submarined German transport carried reinforcements form’ Nibeau for von Bulow’s hard pressed array. The importance of the feat lies less in the fact that a German regimentwas sent &> the bottom than that maritime reinforcements must cease or be carried out with extreme caution for the future.

Rome, August 3. Austrian casualty lists show that 56,1)00 were killed and wounded up to July !.*

London, August 4

Mr Lloyd George has temporarily appointed Sir Frederick Black, as Dir* eCtor-General of Munitions, i Two further deaths Jiave occurred > as a result of .the fire at Nobel’s explosives factory at Ardeer (Ayrshire). Thirty-nine people were injured. Considerable d apt age was done, but, the manufacture of cordite ha.s not been seriously affected . Tile cause lias not yet been ascertained. The War Office has' decided to discontinue puttees, owing to the result Of last winter’s campaign, when the puttee was found -jto be little protec-, tion against mud and water, and actually. led to great suffering. A large order has been given for Russian military bools, which will be supplied to the troops before the winter. Lord Desborough’s second son, Gerald, has been killed in Flanders while leading a charge upon some machineguns. His brother’s death was cabled on May 28.

f Leading foreign statesmen have telegraphed to London newspapers, paying tributes to Britain’s share in the war.

M. Pichou states that the British army has added a million men to the French, apart from the fleet securing the freedom of the seas.

M*. Sazanoff’s message says: “We admire the way the British Empire responded to their country’s call.. r l he Russians .are impressed with the tremendous power of the British navy, so remarkably exemplified in the complete effacement of the. enemy’s fleet. The Daily Mail publishes messages to the British people from M. Goremykin, the Russian Premier, who says: “After a year of war we can say with certainty that we are twelve months nearer the liberation of the. world, since we are all determined to complete that liberation.”

General Polivanoff, Minister of War. says: “We shall, continue to fight with all the strength which lies in the inexhaustible resources of. tbe Russian Empire, with nnsbakeablc confidence in ultimate victory and with the volume of munitions increasing daily.” New York. August 4.

American opinion, after a year’s war. is restrained, owing to President Wilson’s exhortations for tbe strictest neutrality. It is admitted that nothing else coulcl have shown the unity of the British Empire, which was a composite democracy, of Governments, existing for the people, not vice versa, as revealed by Prussian militarism, which is repugnant to Americans. Strategic and tactical antorities are of the opinion that the net result of-the year is that the Allies have the advantage of having avoided a decisive action, covertingfthe struggle into, a, test of endurance, enabling them to make preparations from their potential resources. America appreciates

Britain* unlimited powers of money and men,.

Berlin, August 3

Official: Seitz. Governor of Southwest- Africa, lias reported to the Kaiser ; “I was obliged to surrender with thirty-four hundred troops, who won* surrounded by an enemy greatly superior in strength Every prospect of a successful resistance was excluded, because we wore cut off from our base, and ii was impossible to break through owing n> the condition of tbe horses, which bad been without oats for months.”

Petrograd, August 3

Oivi) life in Warsaw continues, and the people continue to frequent cafes and parks. The hotels are empty, and visitors have departed to their homes.

i The Cologne Gazette explains that the pause in the Warsaw operations is clue to the length of communications. There must he no lack of reserves and supplies of ammunition. The enemy’s counter-strokes also create situations which must he clear-

ed up before the general advance continues.