On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 46, 23 October 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

GERMANY SQUEALS FROM PAIN. United Press Association. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Paris, October 22. The newspaper La Liberte reports tWnt a German protest against the netting of submarines has reached the Italian Government from a Neutral source. Germany also protested against the sending out of large vessels to sink submarines.

fortnight, both to save Serbia and retain our hold on Gallipoli. Home, October 21. II Observatore Romano denies that the Pope has written to King Albert. Petrograd, October 21. Ten thousand men, mostly prisoners, under American engineers, are constructing a double railway twelve hundred miles from the PetrogradEkaterina line to the Gulf of Kola (near Archangel), which i.s permanently ice-free, and will open a valuable 'port for the war traffic. Archangel is now ice-bound. j New York, October 22. Newspapers hysterically comment on shakiness of Britain’s position and the peril threatening in the Balkans, They suggest that Britain should muzzle croakers and political schemers and prevent stories, which are here converted into flaming headlines. American nerves are jaggy, and some hysterical people apprehend that the Germans contemplate the invasion of South America and Mexico, and a bombardment of New York. Amsterdam, o?vober 22. The Kaiser visited Ostend ut \ eek with Prince Eitel and General Falkenhyn. He later returned to headquarters at Luxemburg. Special measures were taken against aeroplanes, and his visits were shrouded in the deepest secrecy, being unexpected. by even the highest officers. The Telegraaf states that German newspapers are commending a special tax on possessors of foreign stocks, in order to force holders to sell the stock to neutral banks as security for credits, thus relieving exchange. It is estimated that the foreign stocks held in Germany total between 12-10 and 1500 millions sterling. The Germans, in anticipation of air raids in Belgium, announce that any community so visited will be held responsible and fined proportionately to the damage.

General Hissing announces that all Allied soldiers now in Belgium must report themselves to the authorities within twenty-four hours, for internment in Germany. Those omitting to report will he shot, as will likewise all persons suspected of harboring. London, October 22. The newspapers publish complete documents of the martyrdom of Nurse Cavill, and in leading articles denounce it as Germany’s, crowning infamy. The Daily Graphic characterises it as the most damnable crime of the war. The newspaper Retch says that two Austro-German armies under Generals Rovess and von Gallwitz are on the northern Serbian front. The former is estimated at four army corps operatig at Belgrade and on the Save. They are endeavouring to force the Save and Danube at the easiest points, facilitating the difficult task of the second army, which consists of three' and a-half army corps entirely German. Probably a stronger third German army is concealed behind General von Gallwitz on his left wing, in order to deliver the main attack in the Morava Valley between the Serbians and the Allies. Mr B. R. Wise has informed Sir G. H. Reid that he has received wellfounded complaints of the neglect of soldiers, which suggested insufficient organisation to deal with the wounded in hospitals. The men do not receive pay, and are unable to even obtain stamps to post letters to their friends, and when the men leave the hospitals they are penniless and inadequately clad. The men suffer from cold, and this is regrettable in view of the large supplies of warm clothing that was sent from New South Wales. Ho complains that all this is due to want of organisation, and says the War Contingent Committee is ineffective to deal with seven thousand wounded men. Mr Wise suggests the appointment of an officer controlling a certain number of hospitals to see that the soldiers’ needs are attended to, and to keep the High Commissioner’s department in touch with the men.