GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 35, 17 January 1916, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Punas Association. Copenhagen, January 15. The .'German Socialist Parliamentary ,party, by 60 votes to 25, expelled Herr Liebknecht. „ Rome, January 14. The Tribune, echoing the gratifica-

tion of the British press at the skill shown in the retirement from the Dardanelles, says: “It is pertinent to regret that the skill was not displayed until the retirement. It is a historial truth that England loses nearly every battle except the last.” London, January 14. Sir Thomas Mackenzie has inquired whether there is likely to be any diminution in the manufacture of army clothing and learned that the War Office has recently placed considerable orders, and is of opinion that the Government will require all available crossbreds wools. Captain Bean has arranged with Cassells, Ltd., for the publication of the Anzac Magazine, of two hundred pages, at the price of half-a-crown. the profits’going to the Anzac Corps and the Red Cross Society. The book wl| contain a remarkable selection of drawings, and of poems and !sketches that have been written ’in The trenches.

Petrograd, January 14. Mr Lloyd George’s message to Russians is as follows:

Warmest greetings to our valiant allies. The time is coming soon when both fronts will face the enemy with conditions of complete eouality in regard to munitions, and the numerical superiority is on our side. Petrograd. January 14. There are numerous instances of feminine heroism on the battlefields A regiment lost its colonel and ten officers. A sister-of-charitv rallied the troops, led them back to the trenches, and then fell dead. Another nurse fought protecting the»wonnded in the evacuated village of Naudah. The incidents suggest that educated Russian women develop masculine mentality and desire to appear natural and strong more than pretty. Sex distinctions in Russia are less than elsewhere, and women fighters among the troops are common. y •,