Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 3

Great Britain

WARNING TO INSURANCE COMPANIES'. United Press Association. (Received 8 a.m.) London December 5. The Admiralty caution insurance companies against communicating particulars of the risk of great work to companies or persons other than British when effecting reinsurance. Offenders are liable to prosecution,and they will also be prosecuted if the particulars are sent to countries outside the Empire, whether to branch establishments registered as British companies of otherwise. TRADING IN WAR MATERIAL. SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 5. Priestly, a commission agent, was sentenced to four mcmths’ imprisonment for attempting to trade in war material without a permit. Letters which were intercepted indicated that prisoner was attempting to push the sale'of one or two million Mausers. Other documents related to five thousand tons of picric acid and a million Mausers, and included the plans of mines, bombs, aeroplanes, and airships, Mr Bodkin, K.C., for the prosecution, said on behalf of fTie War Office, that German agents in America wore putting people forward to contract for the supply of munitions to the Allies, knowing they were unable to supply the gpods. The importance of the scheme could not be exaggerated. REALISATION OF AMERICAN SECURITIES. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, December 5.

■\Yitk a view to meeting the Government’s desire for the realisation of American securities towards the regularisation of exchange, the Carnegie Hero Fund, namely, the trustee of the University of Scotland and the Dumferline trustees are selling five million sterling steel co-oper-ation bonds and investing in the war loan. , LONDON CREEKS’ SYMPATHIES FOR THE ENTENTE. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, December 5. The Greek community in London, in order to express pro-Entente sympathies, are equipping ambulances for the British in the Balkans. The sum of £6OOO has been subscribed. BRITISH FARMERS ASSIST FRENCH CONFRERES. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, December 5. British farmers have sent ruined French farmers two-thousand head ol poultry. ,<! TWEJCLERCY AND TH)E 'WAR. .iMUST’OBEY ORDERS. L(Received 11.35 a.m.) London, December 5. The Primate, in a letter, to Lord Derby, complained that some of the j clergy incur the stigma of being shirkI ers "hen they declined to enlist acting under the Bishops instructions.

Lord Derby replied: “Ministers of all demouinations niust do their duty by obeying their superiors’ orders, and no slur can he attached to them.”

SOBER BY LEGISLATION.

LESS DRINKING IN LONDON;

(Received 11.35 a.m.) London, December 5

Tlie Weekly Despatch, comparingthe convictions for drunkenness during last week with the preceding claims, says; It has keen proved that the people can be made sober by legislation. and that partial prohibition does lessen drinking. The Dow Street convictions dropped fifty per cent.