GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 22, 24 September 1915, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

-Remarkable crown Prince. VHA Vis* W ; .fl'aVfV Ml '; iH United Peess Association. Mr lan Malcolm. SJt.P, haspublish-e<i-|e,fo|gffiS oii ji|t: picljiil€|s.f- Itj iii| extract<t:Joluihfs ili&vy) v'kaU ss\s?> an inteiyiew at Berlin in January, ''1914, with the Crowni Ptvi ve w i>o yiggesj£4 that England ami Germany >. u ihtso.be; friends, hut that was impossible, while Eng;*i;l was fiijend^with .sudrpebp-Jd French and the Russians, -i,,.,,',,,, - - . , "You have riltmng in common with them,"-said -tit; Crown Prince., "and nearly everytluig'iii' common with \\< Together we cqulcf divide EnVojie and" keep the peacefo'f the world for ever.'" {JM? 1- Malcolmlfrecalled the impossibility of breakjpg • K'sting treaties. ~ The Crown l?|ince: "Yon could .shut yolir eyes. lilt us take ''the Trencli ■cfijraips; we w|nt them." '; iTOjMalcoln) !|"Forgive me, outdare- 1 , ly'sife'Would be,:better to improve the , colonies you have before you tidre th'oPe" of other people,|' The Crown Krhjge,; "That is candid ; but none Pjjfiju - colonies are worth, anything, otherwise you would have had them long ago." The interview closed by the Crown Prince exclaiming.: "J want wir. ?ml want to have a smack at those Jiend) swines as soon as ever I can."

MISCELLANEOUS. Paris, September 23. The British Budget has produced an enormous effect in political and business circles. The public are struck with the simplicity and the absence of.fuss wherewith the gigantic operation was carried out. "Perfectly splendid" was the verdict of a leading manufacturer. » .'; La Liberte is of opinion that the beauty of the thing lies in the hugeness of the burdens which the House of Commons unanimously voted at a single sitting, and says that a pe6ple animated with such a magnificent determination is invincible. The French Budget Commission re* ports that the cost of the war up to the present time has been 1200 millions sterling, and the expenditure is now eighty-two millions monthly.