GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 18, 24 December 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Unhid Prism Association. • : Paris, December 23. Senator Berencer states that the French arsenals and factories ai’e exceeding Germany’s output ih gun s and munitions, but without England’s production of high explosives and chemicals, and the assistance of the colossal British fleet, France would have been strangled at the outset. Germans are interning civilians who invaded the French provinces to minimise the food problem, and 20,000 have also been ordered to quit. The Germans are using donkeys as dogs’ food.

Amsterdam, December 22

The Kaiser has postponed his visit to the French front owing to a cold. He Was greatly fatigued on his arriT«rfrom the Russian front and throat specialists were summoned. : Thq Telegraaf states that a powder factory and* several ammunition depots at Meunster, in Westphalia, were blown up, doing enormous damage to tb* town. Three explosions took biabe between '8 dnd 11 o’clock at night. Six hundred women - were era.ployed and three hundred of them wore killed. The cause of the explosions is unknown. ' ’ London, December 23.

Mr Frederick Green, presiding at the Orient Company’s meeting, said that the year had been one of difficulty. owing to the number of steamera taken by the Admiralty for armed cruisers. The outlook for shipowners was'" not bright, and it . Was difficult to'forecast.' ' THb Post Office gauged the. fact on Monday that half a million parcels and a million and a-half of tetters harh.been posted in the United Kingdom' for * the troops ib France. Six special'trains and four Channel boats are running daily, , The Government has prohibited the export to Switzerland of food prodhcts and all'articles likelv to be uset fill to the enemies, unless they are consigned to the Societe Suisse de Surveillance FconomiqueThe Government has requisitioned , the whole of the insulated space of all British t Company are IS ; <3arg?r : jro?.*" •. >. ■ -iil .