GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 1, 4 December 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[United Phebe Aihooution.} London, December 2

The Times correspondent at Amsterdam says that postal connection with Belgium is difficult, owing to delays caused by the Germans’ restrictions of traffic between Belgium and Holland, on ''the ground of communications reaching the enemy front. Hie passengpi; traffic is diminishing daily, and passes are sparingly granted. The tension in Belgium is increasing, as the Gerixhin exactibng at© growing. . The Times* correspondent at New Yorkl- state.su that i the Bonkers* Association attribute the depreciation of the German mark to the excess of imports, find plso to ith©-re-port fiat Germany is* preparing Ho float If new war loan of 500 millions sterling. , It is pointed out, that Germanj||is now practically on a paper basis, > . The Echo de Paris’ Bonle correspondent reports that sensationalists say that the Kaiser’s visit to Emperor Franz Josef was duo to bitter AustroGcrman dissensions on the question of Poland, arousing conflicts and complications similar to those leading to the trouble pf 1806. Zurich' reports the t harmony has been restored, and that the visit will probably "be followed by a theatrical display by an entrV into Constantinople.

A Gorman..,, wireless . describes stories of concentration in Bessarabia as merely bluff, and says that, only recruits and schoolboys are drillingParis, 'December 3.

The Government has introduced a Bill to purchase 50 merchantmen, in order to combat the high freights on foodstuffs and other necessaries.