GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association

Petrograd, August 16

The publication of Mr Buchanan’s summary of the extent of Britain s participation in the war lias produced on excellent effect.

'l'he Xovoe Vrcmya. pays tribute to the priceless services of ■ the British fleet, and mentions that Britain’s creation of an enormous army emphasises the danger of a premature move »n the western front.

The famous Troitssky monastery has offered its workshops for the manufacture of shells and other war materials.

COTTON TO BE CONTRABAND.

London, August 16

Britain and Franco are about to simultaneously declare cotton contraband. The officials at Washington have received the intimation in the best spirit.

CEMETERIES IN FRANCE.

London, August 15,

The French Bill for the establishment of national war cemeteries provides for the bodies of Allied soldieis temporarily buried at the front, also in the interior, being exhumed and interned at the cost of the State.

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE.

Romo, August 16

The Pope has offered to send twelve Ttalian Capuchins to the concentration camps in Austria, as Italian prisoners refuse to confess to Austrian priests, whom they believe to be spies.

CASUALTY LIST.

Loudon, August 16

The week-end casualties are 45 officers and 981 men killed, 199 officers and 1901 men wounded.

NATIONAL REGISTRATION.

Loudon, August 16

One hundred thousand voluntary helpers are collecting, on Monday, registration forms in London, which has been subdivided into one hundred enumeration districts. Women have proved skilful enumerators. Many Irishmen, anxious to avoid registration, have quitted the Clyde ports, amid demonstrative taunts and jeers. Some intending passengers were hustled, and returned to their trains.

ANTI-TORPEDO INVENTION.

London, August 15

An Italian claims to have invented an apparatus reputed to be capable of instantaneously nullifying the effect of submarine torpedoers, causing them to burst before reaching their objective. The invention has been submitted to the naval authorities.

HUS’ RENAMING SHIPS. '

London, August 15

In accordance with the Admiralty decision to associate ■ the names of enemy steamers employed in the Rritish service-with their original owners, the modern Huns, the names of seven large steamers appear in the volume of tlie Lloyd’s Register with the prefix Hun. These are substituted for the German names; thus we find Hunkerford. Hunstanton, Huntly, Hunsdeu, Huntress, Hunsgate, and Hunseud. RED CROSS SWINDLERS. London, August 15. It is proposed to standardise the Red Cross uniform to avoid imposition by women posing as Red Cross nurses in order to steal money and presents intended for soldiers at the front. It is- estimated that there are ten thousand of these imposter? in Germany.

CLERGY AND THE WAR.

Loudon, August 15

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, in . a pastoral letter on national service, condemn the idea of the clergy serving as combatants or in other capacities than chaplains.

EXPANSION OF THE UNION.

Johannesburg, August 16

General Smuts, addressing the South African Party, denounced a two stream policy of which the Transvaal has had an experience so bitter, prior to the Boer war. He contrasted it with the success of Boer and Briton, through unity, in South-West Africa, emphasising the actual prospects of the Union doubling itself, if it continued. The road of the Union’s northern boundary would not he where it is, and they could bequeath to their children u huge country in which to develop a type for themselves, and form a people destined to be in time a civih'sing agency. WOOL AT THE LONDON DOCKS. London, August 16. The congestion at London docks has seriously a fleeted wool shipments. Since the war began London has practically been the only port receiving British imports of wool. For the f irst seven months of 1916 the total represents (|19,600,000 lb, compared with 5-16,700,994 lb for the same period last year. 'The exports have decreased enormously, thus precipitating the congestion, and the home demand, despite the huge requirements of the military authorities, is insufficient to relieve the congestion. In consequence, the Government has notified the Bradford Chamber of Commerce that unless traders remove wool from the docks and warehouses the Government will remove it regardlass of dost. The wool traders coh»

sider this harsh treatment, as there arc huge quantities of crossbred wool available, if the War Office does not want these immediately the exporters urge that they ought to be allowed to export to allied manufacturers and America, who want crossbreds.