Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

fS fj [United Pbess Association.] m '■ London, September 9. The Times’ correspondent at Paris b*. reports that a secret Socialist meeting is being held at Berne with a view to continuing the international movement ;■ V" among Socialists in Lurope. 1* rench Socialists refused to participate, but two militant French syndicalists are attending. It is undoubted that the, German subterranean agencies are, working among neutral Socialist opin-j ion with the object of creating another, 'lever for a peace propaganda. j The Times’ correspondent at Torom-j ' to says that a formidable political or-, ganisation of Germans has been disr covered in Alberta and Saskatchewan.| Leagues were formed in 1913 as a protest against loyalty, but they now explain that they have a cultural mission to fulfil-, which must maintain ’ the German language in Canada. Pome, September 10. It is stated, in relation to Austria, and Germany putting out police feel- ( ers, that it is impossible to further, hide the truth that cholera and typhus are raging in the central empires, ami have grown in alarming proportions. In fwentv days there have been 742/( cases of "cholera in Austria, whereof! 3290 were fatal. Cholera is widespread; in Galicia, and typhus has a strong / hold in Upper and Lower Austria. The mortality in Germany is' alarming. Efforts to combat the plague are inade-j •quate, and contamination is spreading. London, September 9. The War, Office has accepted in principle the offer of volunteer training, corps to.raise a battalion for special service in France. The terms of the work to he undertaken are as yet unOne thousand corps are availaide, representing 350,000 men. The. Times, in a leading article, says that time has added to the urgency of our earlier appeal for deliberate and concerted effort to organise. the resources of the Empire for war purposes. Canada is the only case where there has been any direct communication with Britain; the other Dominions had no such fortune, and, as a result, though putting forth all their efforts to send trained men to Europe, they feel that their leaders know, little about our aims. Were the plans applied/ if possible, simultaneously to other' dominions, the policy which brought Sir Robert Borden to London will be solvent. All these hesitations and doubts are barriers to the fruitful! mtimqcy of counsel and a,re flow perplexing the leaders of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.