GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 90, 22 March 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

NEW LABOR PARTY. [United Phkss A&sPoiation.l London, March 21. . Mr Stanton, M.P., announces the formation of a new Labor Party to amalgamate the national services, Imperialism and broad Socialism. He expects it to embrace the manual workers iMkociated with Mr H. G. Wells. - _■ | v. l - ; #i> MORAL DISTEMPER. Professor Morgan has published a terrible record of German atrocities, based on official investigations, in France. 'He, insists that) the responsibility fo'f'Tlie : 'ofgV of bloodiest rapine is not Vvbhfffled' to the army. The whole of thA peopletaVe -infected with some kind of moral distemper.

“FLAPPERS” AS “PLOUGHMEN.” A new brand of flapper has been discovered. - Tn Lincolnshire forty young women ploughed heavy clinging slip* pery land with ploughs they had never handled before and drawn by, teams fresh from want of work. They were dressed in jersey,, breeches, skirt to tlio knee and gaiters. They exhi-j lifted' a professional touch that delighted the farmers and the experiment promises to solve the labor shortage.

WOMEN’S DRESS. Twenty thousand new thrift posters have been plastered in London urging women especially to eschew expensive dressing, particularly hats, boots, shoes, stockings, gloves, hand high heels.

GERMAN STOWAWAY CAUGHT.

Copenhagen, March 20. An American steamer which has arrived with passengers relates that a German engineer named Roewer escaped from internment at Kiao Chau and reached New York. His wife hid him in a large trunk, and ho was not detected until the naval examination at Kirkwall. He was interned.