GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 86, 11 August 1915, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

I DEVASTATED FRANCE. United Press Association. London, August 9. Some British members of the Allies' committee for Agricultural Relief have returned from a visit to the ruined districts in France. They state that it is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the destruction in the Maine and Meuse districts. The Germans shelled and set Rre to places wholesale. Many villages are without n sign of life, the people who remain living underground. Cultivation is, however, still carried on by French women, who are loading carts, driving reapers and cultivating land within a few kilometres of the trenches. They' are working uncomplainingly aniidsf desolation and ruin. The whole valley of the Marne is under cultivation. The people of England are generously wsponding to the committee's appeal for stud cattle. The King headed the list with live rauis from the famous Sandringham Hock.

SOCIALIST ffNVERTED TO MILITARISM. London. August 9. The editor of a Socialist newspaper at Chemnitz. Saxony, has renounced Soeiali •■■!, publishing a letter declaring that Internationalism and Socialism are dead, ms Mars rules. lie adds: "Let vacillators and old women play at International Socialism, I'm going over to Hindenhurg." LOSSES OF AUSTRIAN OFFICERS. London, August 9. Extreme measures have heen taken to recruit oflkei". The special course of instruction only lasts a month. Since the commencement of the war Austria has lost 40,000 officers, including 30 generals.

GERMANS PESSIMISTIC. London, August 10. The German press is greatly disappointed at the Duma's unswerving resolution to continue the war to the bitter end. Th 3 Bfrlinpr Tagehlatt says: We always warned our leaders against the view of P.imia aiming at a separate ponce. We believe that the Russian , Government will attempt'to keep up , the. hopes of the people and drag on ,tli3 war. j The. Ereug Zeitung says that the ■ resolution ef the Duma is an object lesson, showing' that Russia's moral ■ power and resistance is still uubro-l-:en . * i Die Colpgas Gazette says that since , the position on the Bjura Rawl^a htzb been given up the possess-; .ion bf Warsaw has lost in military ito-