GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

A SECRET MEMORANDUM.

United Prebs Association London, August 1G»

The full text of the secret memorandum drawn up by six of the. most important industrial and agricultural associations’in Germany n.-.- been published. It states that the district (Calais, 'Boulogne, and further south) is vital to industry, because it gives an outlet to the Atlantic in view of Germany’s future on the sea. Additional Russian territory, containing German-horn residents, is necessary, because Germany must largely augment the number of her nation capable of bearing arms. It is essential to reconstruct the East Prussian frontiers, and the war indemnity principally of accessions of territory. The annexation of the iron and coal districts of France is vital to enable Germany to secure the necessary supplies. Since the outbreak of war Germany’s monthly production of raw iron has been raised to a million ions. This is an over-great strain which would lose the war for Germany. Additional coal fields are necessary in the event of the Allies securing sources of mineral oil. Germany has already been compelled to raise coal in Belgium in order to supply certain neutrals which otherwise would be dependent on England. EASTERN ITEMS. Petrograd, August 17. A commission is inquiring into the atrocities between Jvangorod and Novo Alexandria. A German officer fired a shed wherein upwards of sixty Russian wounded men were housed. WOMEN AND THE WAR. ' London, August 17. The enumerators have not completed the collection of registration forms, and delays occur especially in the slum districts. Tenements are empty during the day, and the enumerators are revisiting them during the evening. Many women are exercising the privilege of posting the forms to avoid giving information to the enumerator, who, in many cases, is a womap neighbor. • Permission to post forms is calculated to encourage women to state their correct Ages, but some women complain that the forms do not show women’s value for war work, such as knitting and attending soldiers ’ buffets. THE PORT OF LONDON. London, August 10, In order to deal with the abnormal war conditions, the Port of London Authority is immediately increasing storage accommodation at the Millwall and Royal \ ictoria docks, hy a hundred thousand square feet. 5u < - A RAID AT DUBLIN. •. J London, August $6. 1 A party;.of, armed* -and masked’ (men intimidated the watchman and ridded a store at Dublin, carrying off a quantity of rifles ;thntf'\vf>ile intended for .the national ’ Volunteers. . . ;• U THE NEED FOR MUNITIONS.

London, August 16

!'i Sheffield is now a-gigantic'arsenal, where work is being carried on continuously day and night. The silverware trade has been stripped of men, who have gone to the munition works, but a large volume of employment has been found in the trade itself for the production of sword handles, scabbards, and badges, while the cutlery trade is making swords, bayonets, knives, and other cutting tools. The production of munitions is undergoing enormous expansion, while operations are being greatly extended for the making of shells. Many now shops have been built, ou a laigo scale; these are not yet all working, but are gradually being equipped. Hitherto few women have been employed. because the work is too heavy. They can manage an eighteen-pound-er shell but the next in size (a four-point-five is too weighty for them to lift. The women, however, are beginning to b e employed in hllmg shrapnel cases and making (uses.

6 irish avoid registration. London, August id. The crowds who demonstrated against Irishmen leaving Scotland :u order to avoid registration, shouted. “Cowards!” and called, “We hope the submarines will sink you all. When the men return they will he dealt with by the registration authorities.