GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 65, 16 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Pbess Association. New York, November 15. Mr Frederick Palmer, the famous correspondent, of Collier's Weekly, declares that the Avar will end next summer with the« Kaiser beaten. The British may wash dirty linen in public, but if the German steel curtain ■could be lifted the revelation then would amaze the world. Lord Kitchener's Army is one of the world's 'marvels, he says. j Rotterdam, November 15. i The Tageblatt pays a tribute to Lord Kitchener, likening him to the Duke of Wellington as the embodiment of the military spirit of the British, and says that although the German methods are quicker, Lord Kitchener has raised armies out of nothing. Salonika, November 15. Passengers from Constantinople state that the Pera Palace Hotel is preparing for the reception of Count Kassa, who boasted that he would arrive accompanied by the Austrian heir-presumptive and King Ferdi'nand. The Hungarian press says that 'a hundred thousand Austro-Germans ■will eat Christmas dinner in Constantinople. London, November 15. Mr Ben Tillett, lecturing on the war, paid a tribute to the bravery of the Prince of "Wales. a youngster out at the front," he said, "who does not seem to have any fear, and .who goes through the mud and the thickest danger accompanied by other officers, 6ne of whom remarked: 'lt's all very well for him, hut if he gets killed we shall be blamed.' "

The wool traders do not expect any" fresh orders for military clothing in England for the next six months, and therefore manufacturers will have to rely exclusively on normal business in the Home market or with neutral countries, though possibly there may be some orders for military purposes from the Allied Governments.

The Departmental Commmittee of Advice on the employment of women, in an interim report, states that clerks of military age number three hundred thousand, whereof at least half are available for military service. The bulk of the .substitutes for them must ! be women, and the .committee recommends that Chambers of Commerce, and educationalists in leading centres should organise to train women as clerks as soon as possible. The Times' Amsterdam correspondent says Holland, is teeming with GermU. Teutons; 'swarm ; the hotels, and Railways and ( the train's, and, sit, close j .to ' Englishmen '. in ( the cafes and restaurants. There is great economic pressure in Germany, and it is beginning to dawn on the Germans that an industrial chaos is vm-> avoidable after the Avar. They are still confident of victory, but the difficulties of finding positions for the millions and ;millions who are fighting will afterwards'be a positive nightmare] /Thousands of wealthy " Germans are flocking into Holland. Meantime! there nh factitious warjactiyity, and a large /demand for DlAch vies, miners,, p bricklayers, carpenteis, {HatL metal-w(j>rkeis. Kktpps arejof r; take (to any v number ; {^: J)utch, who lire not accepting because.of' the-high j]jfric| of German f00d.,.; > Captain Pefrytrlansen, who won" £he V.C. at Galliholi has arrived in London. He partlipated in the Suvla Bay landing 1 fand was present at the capture of Green Knoll. He reporta that: they were* unable to hold the eminence owing, to the intense scrub fire. The assault was launched at five o'clock and! the Top "of the knoll was ' A jiiesperate struggle followed to hold tfieir ground, the Turks ceaselessly shelling. Ultimately they were compelled to give up the knoll/" "We were cut up," said Hansen, "but in turn we cut up five thousand of the enemy. The Suvla Bay landing was carried out with- little opposition, and everything, went splendidly at first."