GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

JUnmee Pekbs Ass xjjation.) It is unofficially reported that Lance-Corporal Ominundsen, the champion rifleman, has been killed in action in Flanders. He won the King's Prize in PJOI. Naval-Lieutenant Louis Hamilton. has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for transporting a navil gun 100 miles up the Niger River, ISO miles up the Baiiuc River, and then sixty miles overland, largely contributing to the surrender of Garna. Lord D'Abcrnon, presiding at a conference- of cliief constables, on the question of liquor control in various areas, staled that prosecutions for drunkenness had dropped JO per cent, since the application ,of the Act There had been a, gratifying increase in sobriety amongst seamen and S»*onien.. and a marked improvement, in the shipyard and munition workers' time-keeping. * London, September 25. •Mr Louchhin Mac Lean Watt, in an article in the. Scotsman, says that hitherto it Ims been the custom In the great camp in Northern France to hold a .united parade service of all creeds under 'the guidance of Pi'esbyteriau and Anglican chaplains, and there was no attempt made at proselytizing. When an Anglican, removed elsewhere to the front, a Presbyterian continued the services until another Anglican came. Bishop Gwymi who was recently appointed to supervise tile Anglican chaplains, has now intimated that the joint service must cease and that Anglican soldiers must, only attend Anglican services. Mr Watt continues: "It is impossible that the great mass of Anglicans will approve of this bitterness. Elsewhere in a hospital, where a wounded Scotsman was lying, a chaplain came in to give communion to the stricken, ;Tud wiid with a lighl smile, "You're out <>■ it, dock. I can't give it to you." Mr Watt adds: How the stricken Christ must have felt Ids wounds burst forth again! Churchmen arc playing a most dangerous game at this moment of supreme sacrifice if they persist, in putting forward a shibboleth, for reality.