GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. Amsterdam, August 14. Gasolene is exhausted in Vienna, and taxicabs have ceased running. The Kolnischo Zeitung states that over five thousand wounded have recently been added to the workers at Krupps. During recent fighting an officer, who is believed to have been a Prince, was killed. His body was taken in a motor car to Ghent and was followed by officers of high rank. A newly licensed German pilot, wishing to show his prowess to the inhabitants of his native city of Schlotheim, made an exhibition flight. In landing he crashed into the crowd, killing fifteen women, London, August 14. An officer who was in the SouthWest African campaign says that at one place there were ten mines across a roadway eight feet wide, and three more on the railway line, which would have killed everyone within a hundred yards. General Botha wag nearly killed by the explosion of a»raine, which killed one of his attendants. The Adjutant-General has assured Mr Redmond that he hag every intention of sending the Sixteenth Irish Division to the front as a unit. • A neutral who was lately in Germany describes the way the war loans were raised. Ho says it is done through an organisation which is really a glorified pawnshop under State control. It receives all kinds of property, and anything that can be converted into money. Against this security are issued bank-notes, which are legal tender. The interest on deposits is to 6 per-cent., according to the class of security. The man in the street is quite easy in his mind about this plan, but it is obviously unsound, as the notes are issued against property that is liable to destruction and subject to great fluctuations in value. Should there be a panic and a run on the banks the result will prove disastrous. A laborer at Middlesborough has been fined forty shillings for treating a man to a pint of beer. This was the first prosecution at Teeside under the liquor control order, Loudon, August 14. Lieutenant Barter describes Captain Smart’s exploit. He was almost ten yards from the German trench when he was wounded in the right shoulder. “I shouted, ‘Hardy, go back,. ’ He answered: ‘All right, Pm left-handed.’ Then he rushed off and commenced to slam bombs at the enemy, and went on like that for twenty or / thirty yards, when he was shot through the 'head, half of which was blown off.’’ Paris, August 14.

A semi-official Note allaying anxiety over the British prohibition of the export of coal explains that a French official has been appointed to the British Exports Committee. Britain has given assurances that France’s needs will not, suffer in the slightest. . Tlje of Deputies parsed a. Bill .to secure > ground for cemeteries; ’foj* the Allies' Willed. 1 M/Milleralid, in ijntijodpcipgl it, saidithut in offering the iast resting-place Franace was paying n ( striking tribute to’the Britons’ apd, Belgians’ bravery. -p ' i • , ,i; -Madrid,' August 14.

The 1 British Etnbassy denies cruolcips to German prisoners in Togoland and the Cameroons, 1 All prisoners, have j>een transfer red to 'Europe,' tlip nonipu are returning to Europe, and Clip, missionaries are unmolested. New York, August 16. The British and French Govern-

ments are arranging credits for one hundred million sterling in the United States in order to finance war purchases and counteract the depreciation of sterling exchange The American press points out that for the first time in its history New York is virtually the world’s financial centre. Copenhagen, August 13.

The Government has placed an extra war tax of 20 per cent on surplus shipping profits. The Politiken estimates that the shipping companies earned last year over one hundred million kroner more than usual. Rome, August 13.

There is a great lack of wool for soldiers’ garments. The Milan newspaper Gorriere Della Sera urges the Government to press Britain to permit exportation to Italy.