Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 31, 12 January 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Pees? association. ~ London, January 9. The New Zealand High Conimisner's office is "snowed under" •Avith idelivered Dardanelles mails. Two mdred bags are arriving daily, conlining letters, newspapers, and parIs dated April and May, and a dozen >rters are busy.

Mr Jeffries'reports that the enemy irees in Macedonia are not pulling ell together. King ~ Ferdinand is •edited with the intention of having tmself crowned Czar of Macedonia, ■ f Ochrida. Only a thousand bales'of the Adana ftton crop have reached Coustanti»ple, because the trains are choked ith arms, ammunition, and fooduffs which German agents have been

lying throughout Asia Minor at sells' prices.

The Times' correspondent at Buchast says that a Bulgarian who "has arved at Salonika describes the situate in Bulgaria as extremely obscure. lie nation is divided into two camps, id the general populace, intoxicated r successes, are entirely {faithful to ing Ferdinand "■ and the K'adoslavoff ibi.net. The - most enlightened seeon remains hostile to the Governent, awl the' movement.is. shaping iroughout the' country to insist on le occupation of Serbia and Maceania. Which should end the war. Since

ulgaria has realised her ( le Government, contends that she nist continue in order to remain lithfiil to Germany, and to assure le permanent possession of the conaered territories. The Bulgarians' isualties are estimated at one hunred thousand, and the schools and ablic buildings in Sofia are .crowded ith wounded. '

The Daily News' correspondent at ew York says that a leading surgeon t Baltimore has received a letter from doctor in Berlin stating that the Raiser is suffering from cancer of the trynx. The growth has spread, and

a operation was- necessary to remove le larynx,and silbstitute tubes. ; - The Times,' correspondent • reports lat German women are indignant at ie authorities cancelling the annual rapery sales, the authorities insisting lat it was inadvisable to offer special iminine inducements for extravagancy

war time, and reducing the change

I fashions to a minimum. The Times' correspondent at Dublin ays that the Irish Unionists find Mr isquith's excuse for their exclusion rom the Military Service Bill is wholly Hconvincing, and they expect their ipmbers in the Cqmmons to make an ffectivd protest at the committee tage, moving -an amendment ex'tondag the operation of the Bill to IreMid. The feeling is not confined to

unionists, for thoughtful Nationalists ear the effect of Ireland's exclusion h political opinion. The French Minister of. Commerce I concentrating preparations for' an iUlied Trades Congress, and is deter-

mined on most aggressive and permanjnt anti-German commercial treaties. Ph'e* German press is whining. The Cologne Gazette says that if Germany's foreign trade is permanently reduced, the war, notwithstanding ;heir victories, is a failure. The lfrankfu#ter Zeitung ascribes the proMisals to the unscrupulous English,

jdding: "The war must not end until the most favored nation treatment is guaranteed Germany everywhere." The Times' correspondent at Petro?rad says the enemy forces are estimated at 120 infantry and 23 cavalry

divisions, with adequate artillery, along the entire front from the Gulf of Riga to the Roumanian border. These are divided into four sections, from Tukkum to the Upper Niemen under General von Hindehburg, thence to the Pripet under Prince Leopold of Bavaria, on the Ikwa river under General von Linsingen, and on the Roumanian border under the Archduke Frederick. General von Pflaftzer commands the Austrian army Jn East Bukowina, and General von Boithmer the Germans in the Middle*

Strypa. A correspondent at "Paris says the decision of the British Labor Conference' frankly has puzzled Frenchmen, Avho regard it as a sign.that ignorance still prevails in Britain as to what is at stake. Freneu Labor i s gladly bearing many things which in time ol" peace brought tremendous conflicts between labor and capital. France has mobilised over sayecnf, million's 'of men and is just calling up for. training the eighteen-year-old class. . Colonel Moraht,.; the. Tageblatt, says he expects German ,-ommanders to strike before, the new Russian assault ' is effective. He \yarns the public that the Salonika deuces are very strong;.and that their jpure will cost .muchfblood, the Allies regarding it as'the first position i i the defence of Fgy.pt.

The Crown Prince, in a New Year r-essage to his troops said,: "I relv I ion vou; if the New Year calls u s to i decision, which God grant. Due -I"-night animates u s all; Forward. Vth God for Empire .and Emperor, tt.-.vards a great future."