Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 40, 22 January 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

THE DERBY RECRUITS. I RESULT OF THE FIRST CALL. 1 United Press Association.! i Loudon, Januarv 21. At tiic* first call of the Derby rejermts to-day there «ore lively scenes jai Whitehall and ul other centres. Tinmen who had been summoned appeared jat hourly intervals. It is expected ithat the medical examinations will take a week or ten days. ] Notices informed the men what regiments were open, and some vacancies in the .Household Cavalry were ‘soon filled. • | The summons continued a note adJ vising recruits to appear in valueless Iclothes to avoid the expense of despatching these home and as a result many of the men seemed to be tramps and beggars. THE WAR IN PARLIAMENT. London, January 21. Mr Asquith said in the House of Commons that an opportunity would he given on Wednesday to debate the blockade questions, and he hoped Parliament would prorogue next week. Sir E. A. Cornwall sought for a statement as to the Allies in the Adriatic. Lord Robert Cecil replied that he was not possessed of any information about Montenegro, except what had been published. APPEALS UNDER THE DERBY SYSTEM. (Received B.Jo a.m.) London, January 21. The City tribunal received eight thousand appeals in The first eight Derby groups, and the healing will occupy at least three months. V.C. WON ON THE TIGRIS. DEATH IN THE WORK. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE HONORS. (Received 8.35 a.m.) London, January 21. A Victoria Cross has been awarded Lieutenant-Commander Cookson. He was aboard the gunboat Comet on September 28 in the advance on Kut-d-Amara, and was ordered to destroy an obstruction across the Tigris. The attempt to sink a central dhow by gunfire failed and Cookson ordered the Comet alongside and jumped on to the dhow axe in hand and tried to cut the hawsers connecting it to other craft forming the obstruction, despite the heaviest rifle and machine-gun are from both banks. He was immediately shot and soon died. Three other officers on the Cornet received Distinguished Service Crosses, and sixteen petty officers and men Distinguished Service Medals. POST-WAR BRITISH TR'ADE. - OPENING OF NEW AVENUES. LORO ROSEBERY’S VIEWS. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, January 21. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Fdin->-argh, said: Vast new avenues of rade are opening for the Empire after the war. Austro-German trade ias been crippled for many years. We ' will be victorious but exhausted, paralysed, and almost bleeding to ueath from such a debt of taxation as the World has never seen. Our prc-con-roivecl opinion of tariff must be reconsidered.

Lord Rosebery said he hoped Rnis-sian-Gonnany would be utterly min-,-d, otherwise nothing would have been gained, but he hoped Christianity ivilisatiou in Germany would not be •rushed between the impregnable wall ,f the Anglo-French in the NVest and -he torrent of innumerable Russians m the East. THE TIMES’ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

(Received 8.5 a.in.) London, January 21. ’! he Times’ linaucial and commercial cniew for 1915, states; With strict •conomy there need not be any doubt t our linaucial resources striking any .train in our commercial opctations. tespite restrictions, they are satisaetdry.

INTERNED NATURALISED BRITISHERS.

j HABEAS CORPUS REFUSED. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London. January 21. The King’s Ueneh refused an application for a writ of habeas corpus on hclnlf of interned naturalised Britishers. The Attorney-General explained that the Crown’s rights under llm Deletin' of the Realm Act were at stake. Prisoners’ counsel declared that when -the Act was passed no single person who was a party to its passage would imagine the liberty of Englishmen being restricted without trial. The Court held that the Act conferred the widest powers, to secure the safety of the Nation. TRADE WITH THE ENEMY. London. January 21. Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, replying to a question about alien traders, said that in the case of. a business unincorporated as a British company, where one of the proprietors lived in an enemy country, consequently the representative here was precluded from trading in business useful to Britain, a license to carry on wa s sometimes granted. THE BILL GOES THROUGH. MR 3&N A R LAW’S THANKS. London, January 21. In the House of Commons, the Compulsion Bill passed the committee stage. Mr Bonar Law paid tribute to the restraint of all sections of the House in dealing with a difficult measure.