GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 42, 25 January 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

United Press Association. London. January 23. , The Government is shortly closing the museums and galleries. The Government has appointed commissioners to visit the Clyde, and the Tyne for the purpose of immediately carrying out the dilution of labor. The Times, in a financial and trade review, says that there is no more significant thing in connection with the financing of our adverse balance of trade than the Canadian Government’s arrangement to credit the Imperial Exchequer with part of the first internal Canadian loan. Canada’s example shows the self-govern-ing Dominions the possibilities of Hut a nee if war ' conditions are prolonged. Perhaps it is the beginning of a new era in Imperial financial arrangements. Amsterdam reports that the new taxes are being bitterly discussed by German Socialists, who demand the seizure of .war profits. The Liberals complain of the folly of loading people with new burdens while national unity is endangered. The Cologne Volks Zeitung says that a few hundred million marks does not matter, as the people will accept any amount of taxation. Washington, January 23. Mr Daniels told the Senate that the Military Committee hoped for an international agreement to limit armaments after the war. America will be in a position, to tell the Powers that she is rich enough to outbuild Them unless they agree to a limitation. The New York American publishes a bifastful letter from Ignatius Lincoln, the German spy who was a member of the House of Commons, explaining that he is going to Central Asia to rouse the Mahomedans against the Allies, and to preach a holy war on the methods .of Billy Sunday.