GENERAL WAR NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS

[Unitid Press Association.l London, January 20.

The New York Herald’s London correspondent interviewed Lord Derby, who said: “We will hang on and tight until the Germans are thoroughly thrashed. The Empire will find men to do it. The call for volunteers is more than gratifying. You see how tfcey are pouring in from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and all the Empire's outposts. Many thousands are paying their way, for the proud privilege of fighting for their Motherland.” The Frankfurter Zeitung says that Italy’s Balkan policy is permanently over and Russia’s ended when Galli-

poli was evacuated and the Montenegrin and Serbian kings fled. Austria, Greece. 'Bulgaria and Turkey, who are leaning on Germany, will share in the new political structure. terminating the “confusion of centuries.” In the Reichstag Herr Michaelis, president of the corn administration, blurted out the fact that the harvest failed, saying; “The eastern harvest is small owing to the wet. We must be economical, despite the large stocks we hold in occupied territories.” Tile German press is circulating the idea that Russia should lie granted an outlet to the Persian Gulf, thus removing Russia’s organised motive for tlie war.

In the Echo de Paris, M. Marcellntin demands the stoppage of the practice of vessels flying Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and even Allied flags, and scattering mines on the French coast. He says that German agents buy and fake vessels, providing them with forged papers for the purpose of concealing mines. The increase in the price of beer to five kronen per hectolitre is occasioning riots in Vienna. Infuriated mobs destroyed a number of cafes, and the police closed the bars. A Rome message says that the American Red Cross Society is hastily chartering vessels to transport Serbian refugees to Corsica from Albania,where the tribesmen are massacring them, alleging that Serbia intends to Occupy their territory permanently. Count Reventlow is annoyed at Enver Pasha’s arrogance about the Gallipoli campaign, and is publishing an article asserting .that German officers brilliantly helped the Turks, and claiming that the German Chief of Staff was the pathfinder in organising Turkish resources, putting them in motion, and showing the moment for the road to the goal. Berne, January 19. Herr Liehknecht’s interpellations in the Reichstag have not been published in Germany. He demanded the termination of the Armenian cruelties and the roughshod militarist rule in Belgium and Poland, pointing out .that officers seized the goods of citizens and punished them without trial. He also complained of the reign of terror in Germany, where the military were arresting civilians, spying on telephones, and requisitioning property. He also alleged that the military prisons were crowded. London, January 19. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Copenhagen says that reliable infoiillation from Berlin states that tho Kaicer’s physicians called in specialists three weeks ago. They examined his throat and removed a granule which was causing hoarseness. The Kaiser has gained in weight and is stronger than ever, indicating the incorrectness of the idea that he is suffering from cancer.