GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 86, 11 August 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

RUSSIA WILL COME BACK. [United Press Association.! London, August 10. Colonel Repington estimates that at the end of June two-thirds of the German Army wore still in the West. He believes that a million and a quarter supplemented three-quarters of a million Austrian* operating in the East, hut he says that we must not flatter ourselves that the German reserves are being used up. The gar- ( risons and depots in the interior are still full of recruits, though of infer-, ior quality. The Germans' advance in the East is hotly pressed, but they are unable to break the order of the Russian re-j treat.

Mr Stanley Washburn says that he travelled thousands of miles in Poland and Galicia. He visited eight active armies, and met and talked with nearly a thousand officers. From the first month the popularity of the war has grown steadily, until it has the support now of the entire Russian people. The Russians have come through their trial of fire without exception, and they are one army, now reconstituted. They have probably suffered far less in personnel than their enemies, their spirits are good, and their confidence is unshaken.

The task, he says, hefore Germany is to repeat their Galician enterprise against an army infinitely better than the one she broke, and she may, if she can do this, have the,same problem to meet at some other line in two months, and. after that, another, and vet another. She may do it once, and site may do it twice, but there will come a time when she can do it no more, when Russia will slowly, surely and inexorably come hack, fdop by step, until she has Germany on her knees.

PRINCESS MARY ARRESTED.

New York, August 10

The Tribune prints a story that a member of the British Royal Family has had a disconcerting experience, being arrested and chii-geci with being a Gorman spy. It is stated that Princess Mary was held up, under a guard of officers' who were sympathetic but sceptical. "When the matter was investigated itavas found that the Princess had gone incognito on a visit to the front,; accompanied by Mile. Bussau, to nieet the Pri»«re of Wales. Six' miles 'from ;1 village her car was halted by a French patrol. The occupants had forgotten their passports and permits, and the patrol failed to recognise the name of "Lady Chester," under which the Princess was travelling. The car was left under guard, with the assurance that the occupants would be shot at six o'clock next morning. Four hours later an officer returned to identify the Princess, whose bona fides were established, and messages were sent to headquarters, from which point had issued a general alarm for the missing Princess. / . •

WOOD PULP FOR EXPLOSIVES.

London, August 10

A neutral who tqured Germany states .that German chemists have overcome'the difficulties of using wood pulp to replace cotton in the manufacture of high explosives, the chief difficulty being to eliminate impurities. Three large factories, employing four thousand hands, are now engaged in making pulp.

A FIND OF MUNITIONS.

London, August 10.

One of the last discoveries made by Botha's troops in German SouthWest Africa was that of twenty-seven thousand rifles, packed in cases, and also parts of a large number of mach-ine-guns and an enormous quantity of ammunition, which was landed a {few weeks before.the outbreak of the war. Tin's adds point to l)e AVet's admission that he was marching to the German border to obtain ammuiftion.

KAISER'S ARABIAN LAMP.

Amsterdam, August 9,

Advices from Damascus state that tln> Kaiser's "Arabian lamp," of bis <jwn design/ n .fqr,, Saladin's; toinh, was presented with; full ccrQiuonv:'at"('on-stalltinople^on-August ninth. "I '•

KAISER'S FAVORITE PIANISTE.

London. August 10

.Madam Fanotlia, the Kaiser's favorite pianiste, was arrested in London, and deported. Murium Fanotlia is a native of Warsaw, and settled in London many yeans ago. She was appointed court pianiste to William J. The Daily Fxpress says that although she had the entire confidence of the royal and aristocratic houses, Madame 'Fanotlia had developed a fierce hatred of the British, and iolently and contemptuously denounced them. An unguarded expression, used in a fit of temper, led the Home Office to order her to he instantly deported.

THE UNITY OF EMPIRE.

London, August S)

Sir 1L Borden, when receiving the freedom of Bristol, said that (lie comradeship of the men from the widelyseparated dominions at the Dardanelles and in Franco, would more than ensure the splendid unity of (he Fnipire. When they fully rolled n j) their sleeves we might look for a knockout, inasmuch as Britain will then be lighting Germany on equal terms of munitions.