GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 13, 14 September 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[United Webs Association.] London, September 12. The Times coVespohdent at Paris eays : _The" Trade Union Congress is regarded here' with satisfaction, as showing tliat the. old ignorance of the British-.'masses about, the issues at stake and the.conditions of the struggle have mostly disappeared. Bucharest reports that seven German officers in a UernYan hospital at Constantinople were wounded in mutiny'hy Turkish'soldiers. Disquieting conditions prevail in Persia and the Government is apparently powerless to suppress the .disorder. The Gendarmerie is unpaid and disaffected. German- intrigue is rampant. The attack on the British Consul at Ispahan brought matters to a head n»d the situation is critical. The War Committee of German industries is advocating an increase in the duties on agricultural produce, an Austro-German preferential tariff, and higher tariffs with the. outside world, particularly France and Russia. The Times says it is obvious that the Germans a're patiently preparing lean's 'i<o a., fiscal '"scheme* for :uso in ,the eventual peace negotiations. Colonel?ltepingtoii says - that the supreme merit of the Grand Duke Nicholas and his; officers was that, they remained deaf to all threats and entreaties which might have prevented weaker men from declining a decisive battle. The lannies are now out ,01 danger, with secure lines,' of retreat. Within a few weeks of the bad season, and with a wasted country behind them, the Germans must be sheltered for the winter or perish. In 1812 Napoleon misunderstood the Russians,, and the Germans to-day are reproducing the misunderstanding. It is a war on parallel fronts so., hatei . ful to Germans, and against successive well-defended positions, and the , Germans are faced \mt.v the perplexing'problem whether to halt till spring or embark on a winter campaign, attempting to capture.Petro- £ grad l and "Kieff." ' ifi