GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 98, 31 March 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

RUSSIA’S TASK ON THE BALTIC. Petrograd, March 20. Dr. Hamilton Fyffe says that the assembly of German capital ships indicates an attempt to command tiie Baltic, in support of their land operations. The enemy does not appear confident of success. They have advanced in several places. The Austrians in Galicia are anxious about Roumania’s attitude. RUSSIAN GENERAL RESIGNS. Petrograd, March 30. General Polivanoff, at his own request, has resigned, and General Chouvleff, head of the commissariat department, succeeds him. DEATH OF FRENCH GENERAL. Paris, March 29. General Largeau, one of the youngest generals in the army, who was in command at the conquest of the German Cameroons, was killed at Verdun, He had only recently returned, and immediately asked to be sent to the front. CONDITIONS IN TURKEY.

, London, March 29. Athens newspapers continue publishing alarming stories of the condition of Turkey, alleging that the residents of Constantinople and Smyrna have been warned to go to the hinterland to escape starvation. SCENE IN THE COMMONS. London, March 29. There wa* an extraordinary scene in the House of Commons when an army medical lieutenant leapt from the distinguished strangers’ gallery and dropped a distance of twenty-five feet to the floor. He fell on his face, and, springing up, made a wild rush to the Treasury table shouting: “Protect the heads of our soldiers from shrapnel.” Members and attendants quickly sui - rounded and removed him. The intruder gave his name as Lieut. Turnbull. He was khaki-clad.; He suddenly climbed out of the gallery and scrambled along the railing, to the astonishment of a crowded house. 1 Members watched spellbound, until Turnbull suddenly dropped. The Ser-, geant-at-avms and assistants seized him. but the powerful fellow struggled, amid the excitement and shouting of the Sepaker. He was later medically examined and released. “THE MAN” CARSON. London, March 29. The Westminster Gazette sarcastically refers to a section of the . press greeting Sir Edward Carson’s return i as the arrival of “the man,” pointing out that Lord Kitchener, Lord Fisher Mr Lloyd George, and Lord Derby had each been placed on a pedestal, but 1 had been pelted by their creators. Mr Hughes had been idolised as a brmger of salvation on new lines, but now facts were coming out.