GENERAL WAR NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 53, 1 November 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS

United Press Association. Adelaide, October 30. j The Governors of South Australia ■ and Westralia, who are both of much j military experience, have expressed 1 their willingness to join the War 1 Council. Fremantle, October 30. The Orontes has arrived from London. Passengers state that they saw the sinking of the French steamer Adamante by a German submarine in the Mediterranean. Paris, October 80. The Persian Legation denies a rumor that Persia has concluded an entente with Germany and Turkey, and adds that Persia is firmly resolved to maintain neutrality. Petrograd, October 30. The Czar and Czarevitch visited the southern front and reviewed the troops going into action. They distributed medals, and there was intense enthusiasm at their visit. The Germans have commandeered all the metal at Vilna. The troops collected everything, to the hist nail, the population not resisting till they began to strip the churches. Then an enormous crowd gathered during the night, armed with grenades and bombs. When the soldiers began to strip the churches in the early morning the crowd attacked . them, and there were terrible bloody combats in the streets for two days. Many soldiers and civilians were killed. New York, October 29. The news that Japan has become a party to the agreement not to conclude a separate peace is regarded here as disposing of the last chance of Germany creating a split on the peace question amongst the Allies. The United States does not intend to take any action unless formally approached by Germany, and then only if the Allies are prepared to consider Germany's overtures. The New York Tribune declares that Germany is already beaten and is bleeding to death, and her one hope is to make peace this year. The Russian Government is seeking to establish a credit with the United States, and is reported to be willing to pay nine per cent, for a loan of fifty to one hundred million dollars. London, October 29. Colonel Repington says that if the Allies had had 300,000 troops at Salonika, Greece and Roumania would have come in, and Bulgaria would have been overawed, Turkey paralysed, and Serbia saved. He says that it seems as if the Alliance was without a military headpiece and the pri-. mary duty had been neglected. An the forces at Gallipoli were to be retained, it had been necessary to send an army from, the "West, which was a three months' operation. The quays at Salonika will only permit the landing of 800 tons of stores daily, and it is altogether unfair to throw upon General Monro, who is entirely new to the situation, the responsibility of deciding what course shall be adopted at Gallipoli and Salonika. One' thingis certain, which is that the Allies must prepare strategic reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, fit "and" equipped to take strong action at a point fromt the Adriatic eastward. Thf>' suggestion from 'Rome of an Allied expedition, through Montenegro to, Mitrovitz or Albania; to Prisrend;, js feasible. , i New York. October 29. Secret Service men have discovered that the bombs used by the Fay consporators were exactly similar to those used to cause fires earlier in the year.

London, October 31. The first South African naval contingent has arrived at Plymouth. Ottawa reports that an order is out for tlie raising of 100,000 more men in Canada. A Roumanian deputy, M. Ilicsco. lias published an article threatening \l\ Bratiano if he does not assist Sorbin. The Frankfurter Zeitung asserts that fifteen thousand French troops, with ouo hundred guns, were landed at Salonika. The Kaser lias appointed General Maekensen a member of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Merseburg. The position carries an income of two J thousand pounds a year. General Maekensen has no personal fortune, and he holds every possible military decoration. Toronto reports that 200.000 Canadians are under arms. Twenty new battalions have been organised during October. Lord Rosebery, at a recruiting meeting in Edinburgh, said: "We are asking for another three million men." London, October 31. Lord Kitchener is issuing khaki armlets for enlisted men who are awaiting the call to the colors, and to those who have offered to enlist but have been medically rejected ; also to those who have been invalided out of the army and have been medically discharged. A White Paper has been published. showing correspondence between the Bank of England and the Treasury. On August 1, mil. the Bank announced that (luring the previous five days they had advanced twenty-seven millions to bankers, bill-brokers, and merchants upon Government stocks, bills of exchange, etc. They commenced that morning with a reserve of CI 7.120.000. which was so largely drawn upon that it could not calculate to have eleven millions in the evening, so unless permitted to issue notes against securities, in excess of the amount permitted by law. i(- would be necess.irv to curtail the facilities essential to trade and commerce. Mr Asquith and Mr Lloyd

George replied that if the Bank found it necessary to extend discounts and advances, so as to require it to issue notes, they would obtain Parliamentary sanction for the step. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. Paris, October 31. The new Ministry is:—M. Briaud, Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Gallieni, Minister for War; M. Viviani, Minister for Justice and Vice-President of the Council; M. Dommergne, .Minister for the Colonies; Admiral La Saze, Minister for Marine; MM. De Freycinet, Bourgeois, Combis, Guesde, and De Nyscochin, Ministers of State; M. Maloy, Minister for the Interior; M. Ribot, Minister for Finance; M. Meline, Minister for Agriculture; M. Sembat, Minister of Works; M. Clementel, Minister for Commerce; and M. Poinleve holds the new portfolio of Minister of Inventions. M. Canibon is Secretary of the Foreign Department. It is feared in some quarters thaat though the Cabinet is composed of the ablest men possible, it will be unwieldy, but the happy relations as to the conduct of the war arc assured, because M. Gallieni and General Joffre are warm friends. M. Briand declares that the change of Ministry does not mean a change of policy, M. Viviani. in a letter to M. Poincare, stated that lot) Deputies had stood aloof in the motion for the vote of confidence which he asked for, and he resigned because be believed that ;it the present time unanimity was essential.