GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. ■ London. October !L The president of the Central unemployed body stated that since the war there has been no evidence of distress, and. employment is plentiful. Fifteen thousand Welsh miners have accepted the Federation's recommendation, and will continue to work pending an inquiry into their demands. Six thousand khaki-clad men took part in a recruiting march from the centre of London to the north, south. east and west, with a view to impressing young Londoners of the urgency of the call to arms. Members of the House of Commons and others witnessed the march, and recruiting meetings were held.along the route. Paris, October 3.

Tiie Secretary for Aeronautics, in an interview, stated that work is going on unceasingly on the construction of heavy machines, The. radius of action and speed of the. biplanes; have been.jnct'cased* .and monoplanes, have jbeen .discarded. In twelve lAißnthfe the lifting capacity of French has. bocn.quadrupled and tljeJv' speed, nearly doubled, l Th£ Bishop of London, in a vigorousl denunciation of night clubs in London, declared that they were mostly the haunts and hunting-grounds of sharks and loose women, and their existence in war time was a 'national danger. The London County Council, in the promotion of public morality, had kept the clubs under observation for months, and were now plying evidence ' before the authorities. The Bishop urged that they ought to dea : l-drastically with the owners of places of amusement which young soldiers;, cannot- visit without danger.. Newspapers endorse ' the - Bishop's statement. A number of clubs have recently; been closed, but' the. police have difficulty in securing conclusive, eyidencl: ■ ■"'-■' '.•'■■ rallies have been held. thr v ()iighbut the provinces. At ISastbourne &500 persons liu hospital uni-: form paraded. London, October I. The Morning I,'ost computes the prize-money that has accumulated for officers and men of the Navy at four millions, of which nothing has been distributed. The paper complains that the Government by purchasing confiscated cargo.es, deprives the Navy of participation. .An artillery officer, describing the bombardment, states that there was a grand supply of ammunition on Friday. Our machine-guns prevented the Germans repairing their trenches. We brought wp load after load of lyddite shells to the gun-pits, and at mid-. night all was ready. We waited till lorn- o'clock, when the cannonade began. The air, was suddenly torn by thousands of explosions, the shells screaming overhead. In a section of five miles throe thousand shells were fired in five minutes, which will give some idea of the awful majesty of these few moments when, like an avenging angel with flaming sword, the Allies swept down on the Huns. The flashes so continuous that they gave almost unbroken light. All the gnus were firing their hardest at care-fully-registered points of the German trenches.