GENERAL WAR NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS

London, February 7. Sir H. Eider Haggard, answering the criticisms that ex-soldiers should be settled in England, points out that ten thousand will be the utmost that the British Government will endeavour to deal with, whereas there will bo hundreds of thousands anxious to emigrate at tho end of the war, A large party of wounded soldiers from Germany has reached Tilbury. One related an astonishing story of German frightfulness. Two thousand Russian prisoners wore taken to the bring line in France and forced to dig trenches. They were cruelly underfed and worked days and nights in a famished condition, while many were killed and wounded by shell-fire. Finally they were smuggled back to Germany, suggesting that the Germans themselves were ashamed of the treatment. The Germans ordered other prisoners to build Zeppelin sheds, and those who refused were furnished with a year’s hard labor. Many civilians accompanied the wounded men, including married women with families, and a number of governesses who were expelled from Germany by a re«cent order

The War Office says that General Dobell reports that 58 more deserters from the remnant of the German forces surrendered to the French in January and more are expected. A strong French column is movingsouth to the Spanish frontier of Guinea. One has already left the bank of the Xtom River. The ComJ po column has reached Xgow, sixty I miles from the coast. \ Copenhagen, February 7. j Reports state that Court and official ) circles in Berlin are excited about’the i articles by the Daily Mail’s spy, and are confiscating neutral newspapers j which reproduce them. On suspicion j two of the Ka-sor’s secret detectives I and several aides-de-camp have-been ! dismissed. Madrid, February 8. A steamer has been ordered to proceed to Muni to embark a thousand German 'fugitives from the Cameroon.?, who will be brought to Spain for internment. THE CLAN MACTAVISH. London, February 8. Admiral Jellieoe. in atelegram To the owners, says that the magnificent fight shown by the Clan MaeTavis'i fills the Grand Fleet with admiration.