Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8, 8 September 1915, Page 6

Great Britain

AT THE HOSPITALS. VISITING THE NEW ZEALANDERS United Press Association. (Received 12.55 p.m.) London September 7. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, New Zealand High Commissioner, visited 150 New Zealand wounded at the King George Hospital, where, with'two exceptions.! all are doing well. Mr Mac-kenzie-visited the Convalesceiit Home, Epsom, and arranged to make them more comfortable. All will be boused together. The War Office allows the Nyy Zealand medical ■ officers to take charge. THE WHEAT MARKET. (Received 1.55 p.m.) London, September 7. Wheat is quiet and lower to sell. TROOPS FROM WEST INDIES. - (Received 1.50 p.m.) ■} :i' > London, September 7. '/ Official. —►British Guiana is sending a .large'detachment of-picked mem with the West Indies contingent. NORTHCLIFFE PRESS ATTACKED, . A' A GERMAN JUNKER AND AN ENGLISHMAN. , (Received 1.54 p.m.) London. September 8. At the trade. Unions Congress, Mr Seddon, the President, in moving the resolution cabled on the Ist inst., said that when we were faced with attempts to jrush tile country and to force the Government's hand', it was time fot a- declaration that no man or newspaper should supplant the true will .of Democracy. He protested against the attempt to embroil the Nation in a great internal conflict. Labour asked the Government to give us a lead and take the workers into partnership, not as individuals, but as a collective whole. He urged that the .Government should abandon their reticence. In withholding information they did not deceive the enemy and created suspicion in the minds of the Home people. If there had been failures in conducting the campaign end mistakes by commanders and politicians, they should ask the Government to make them scapegoats. They should not invade the sacred right of voluntaryism.

Mr Shaw, representing the weavers, in seconding, said that for years the Northciitfe press, now responsible for the conscription agitation, had been pointing out how far Britain was behind Germany. There is one tiling the German doesn’t understand, namely, fouling Ids own nest. This press consistently magnifies our shortcomings, doing what it can to injure England in the eyes of the Continent. He would as soon trust to a Prussian junker, as there was no difference between him and an Englishman who behaved that a certain class should dominate and put the spurred boot on the necks of the people.