Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 24, 4 January 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

GALLANTRY ON FBELD. NEW ZEALANDERS INCLUDED. United Press Association. London, December 31. Saturday morning’s papers will contain a Gazette of seventy seven pages of names of officers and mmi. recommended for gallant and ulSuingUisncd service in the field by Field-Marshal Lord French. It included the names of Generals Haig, .Monro and Sir ,f. Hubert son. Liout-Colonel Seely. Prince Alexander ol Tech, and Lord Loch. The following New Zealanders are recommended; —Major-General R. H. Davies, Lieut.-Colonels W . •) • Glasgow , West Surreys) ( A. K. Glasgow (Sussex Regiment), Lieutenants W. \ • Berryman (First Dragoons' an 1 J‘. A. Hell aby (attached to Devonshire Regiment).

NEW STANDARD OF COURAGE. DAILY GRAPHIC’S CONDITION OF PEACE. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London. January 3. The Chief Rabbi at the Greek Synagogue says the men who fought and 'died at GalWpoli set a new standard of human courage and added luminous pages to British history. j The Daily Graphic avocates that i

peace he not made except on condition that the Kaiser and Admiral vo.nTirpitz and the Ministers be hanged as authors of the cold-blooded murder of civilians on the high seas. INDIA AND THE WAR QUESTION OF SELF-GOVT INWENT. EMPIRE RECONSTRUCTION. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Bombay, January 3. The All-India Moslem League passed a resolution approving of the appointment of a joint committee of the National Congress League to ft mulate a scheme for the self-govern tent of Lidia. The President, in his opening address, said the only form of Government possible was seh government under Britain’s aegis. India, however, must wait until afar the war. when the Empire will 1 reconstructed on new linos. The r with Turkey was the greatest posL’Te misfortune. He hoped when peat 1 arrived that the Moslem countries would ho so dealt with that their dignify would 'not be compromised. ,