Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

WORK OF THE RED CROSS. United Press AssoouTiqv ( ,i-\ (Received 8.15 a.m.) \'i\ L London, September 26. ;Mr Courtauld Thomson,^of the Red Cross Commissioners for the Mediterranean, .interviewed, said the Red Cross had six fully organised depots in Egypt and the Eastern. Mediterranean, and others at Gallipolli. The Britjis'h j organisation worked in complete harmony with Australasian, ■each doing its best to help the other. The Red Cross ladies were indefatigable, * despite ' the temperature being 116 ddgjrees in the shade. The Red Cross was spending nearly £IOOO daily. :i j ■ l Xondon, September 25. An Order-in-Council has been gazetted applying the liquor control to Londo}i,'arid including the'.'City area. The Daily Mail reprints a Budget forecast' from the Hamburger Fremdenblatt, correctly forecasting the British income-tax, and the tea and tobacco increases, two days before Mr McKenna's speech in the House of Commons. ;