GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 30, 4 October 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Pkess Association. j London, October 3. . Mr Oppenheimel,' the South African diamond pioneer,'has offered one hundred pounds to each of the first four South Africans who gain Victorian Crosses. Berne, October 3. Travellers describe the conditions at Vienna as chaotic. Uermau officials are endeavouring to dominate everything, and have assumed entire censorship of the press. Newspapers are appearing with whole pages almost Want. Numerous political personages are overflowing, while .the financial situation is deplorable. . Verinesp exchanges with' Switzerland is unpreeedently low. \ Amsterdam,'October 3.

A German report says: General Hindeliburg has taken 1100 prisoners near Smergeii, and General von Linsingen took 1300 on the Kormin. We have captured a further 1100 at other' points. The Russians attempted to bleak through westward of Tai'impol, but failed, leaving 300 dead. Rome, October 3. • A communique reports:—Fogs are retarding operations, though they have enabled the infantry to destroy the -enemy's outlying defences;.., We attacked along the Tohnino fr.ontfrom Men/.li to Vodil, and on the heights of Santa. Maria and Santa-Lucia. The right wing was v unable to .maintain ,its : jiaiiis, but the left wing held its ground. ' '' " ''' '' i ''"' / 'Copenhagen, October 2. Co-operative daily 'leaders- have cdecided' that it is" desira ble' to (supply England 'with'biitter 'ahef Bacon : as ber fore, despite Germany's offer of higher prices, and appointed a committee to control the sales and maintain supplies to England at the highest possible mark. Washington, October 2. The Government are •studying |the British' methods of dealing, 'with submarine's, with a view! to-their'/adopt-ion. These include' a special -type of. mine 'destroyers, trawlers, and seagoing mbtor-boats (armed with light giiiis) and aeroplanes. The .statement is made that already.sixty submnrfne.S 'have been, destroyed, i . • ■-, ' London, October 1, ' Tlie Times' Petrogriid correspondent says that Polish refugees state that the enemy's horses, guns, and transports "are sinking-in the treacherous mire of the Pinsk marshes. Guerilla peasant bands, who know perfectly the labyrinthian tracks, are effecting sudden raids, with which the Germans are powerless to cope. Peasants are firing their cottages and abandoning the villages in 'the path of the German advance. Sydney, October 3. Mr; Pearee. siieahi.ig at a banquet, remarked that it had been said that the Australian soldiers were tine best equipped of those stationed in Egypt, i No other part of the Dominions had put the amount in material into the war that Australia had. The war had tested the patriotism of trades unionism, and'-had found it really true right through. They had had to ask unionists to waive for some time the principles dear to then- 'hearts, and had never asked in vain. M. Chayet, the French Consul-Oeuend stated that he had learned, by private letter, that the vFrehch were hi possession. of a very powerful new weapon, and he did not doubt, if this was correct, that the recent advances must have been in connection with tlie use of this weapon, which, he hoped, would help to shorten the war.*