GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 96, 24 August 1915, Page 8

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ARABS RISING. , L’MTJiO PltJiSa AsSOtnAllON. j Paris, August 22. , Lo Jumps’ Cairo correspondent reports that the Soyd ei Ideiss have or-, gaumed an uprising of the Yemen tribe* against Turkey. The insurgents have decided to march against Shak- j arisada Sana, and establish an iudo- j pendent principality. , I j PRO-GERMAN CHILDREN. j Johannesburg, August l i2. j The Hospital Hill public school, for- j merly known as the German school, 1 hoisted the Union Jack for the first, Mine. Some of the pupils, 9U per j cent, of whom are of German extract-1 ion, pulled down and burned the 1 nag. CHAPLAINS FOR ITALIAN FLEET. 1 I Home, August 23. The Pope is about to appoint additional clergy to accompany the Italian Navy going to tire near Hast. ESTIMATE OF FORCES. Petrograd, August 23. It is estimated that not less than forty per emit, of the German forces are operating against Russia, and aggregating. with the Austrians, seventy per cent, of the enemy forces. AUSTRIAN MORATORIUM, Amsterdam, August 22. The Austrian moratorium for payments abroad has been prolonged for another four months. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Sydney, August 24. Mr Ashford (Minister of Agriculture), has already reserved a quarter of a million acres of Crown Land for occupation by returned soldiers. ■Melbourne, August 21. I Dining the week-end four died of j meningitis and nineteen fresh cases 'were reported. Mr Drank Brennan, a member of itlm House,. speaking under the aus- ■ pices of the Peace Alliance, said it was [ better; to be a dead pacifist than a jlive militarist. He made disparaging [reference to the Australians at Gallii]»oli. Me stated that British “jinfgoo*” are fond of reviling German j “Junkers,” but there were junkers h> ! Australia who wore called military ! bounders. Atrocities were inevitable i in war, for the military business was jtiie ©hlt one which did not require any I referenee.