GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. London, August 12

Typhus is ravaging Constantinople. There are a hundred deaths daily. Ismael Bey, a near relative of the Sultan, is among the victims. The Mohammedans have accused the Germans of poisoning the cisterns.

Mr Hiram Maxim has invented an apparatus to protect soldiers against asphyxiating gas, that is more efficacious than respirators.

Two German officers of high standing escaped from the prison camp at Old Castle, County Meath, but they were recaptured.

An official report says that the American exports of spelter for the ten' pionths ended April 30 were over two hundred and twenty-three million .pounds, 'compared with three and a quarter millions for the corresponding period of the previous year. Le Matin announces that the Pope Bik h letter to Catholics in Eastern Prussia, Commiserating on IRe£s-iiAtf|ty* comities inflicted by The*' RuCsfad iiivasitm. U.H August 12.

*’* T<hl ifi'fiicipal Bavarian art societies' Hift# appealed to the public to sacrifice their unimportant metal momiliibitts t: lf> \lfeld inettd, which the army greatly is in need pf. August 13.

The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent states that the recent Allied progress at Gallipoli is equal in importance to any previous success. The Allies have discovered on the west coast flf point'in file Turkish defences, and this will enable further rapid advances. The Turks,. jlre transporting \ heavy artillery frpfii Bobir* against i front. , | SSli4| Copenhagen. August 13. | employee of ’the Constantinople of the Danish Salvage Coinrelates that tl|e Breslau is lying Th;'St. Enia dock, covered with can;ya.S. which is hiding yawning holejs rlc4ivigl in the light with Russian Varships. Hjer commander and twenty men have been reported killed. There is only one large German submarine and two old types at Constantinople, and the former frequently changes its number to impress the Turks of the Germans’ enormous submarine strength in Turkish waters. Petrograd, August 12.

A communique states that in the Caucuses we dispersed five companies of Turks, who were supported .by four batteries, in a river valley in the Oltz region. The enemy fled in disorder before the bayonet. London. August 12.

Mr Stanley Washburn, describing the exodus from Galicia, was struck by tlie fact that the husbands, brothers, and fathers of these refugees were fighting in the Austrian Army. The refugees said the presence of the Germans struck fear into their hearts. It is a truly sad commentary on the German reputation when the people of their Allies flee at their approach. The Prusian name carries the same terror to the Galicia peasant as to the Belgians and Poles.

Christiana, August 13

Twenty-five of the crew of the interned auxiliary cruiser Berlin jumped overboard,' find attempted to swim ashore. The guards fired, and eight men were struck, and sank. The rest were rescued. Amsterdam, August 13.

The Vorwaerts says that a number of Berlin Socialists have been arrested. on suspicion of high treason, for publishing a pamphlet severely critising the attitude of leading Socialists. A Bill, asking for a new credit of live hundred million sterling, has passed the German Federal Council.