GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 14 April 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. CUnited Phess Association.) Johannesburg, April 13. . Sir John Robinson has offered a very large sum to assist in the despatch of fifty thousand South Africans to help Britain on the Western front. He says that Britain requires assistance to defeat the enemy forces there, and urges the Government to follow the examples of the Canadians and Australasians. Mr Lionel Phillips, in a war address, said that Admiral von Spec's defeat was fortunate, as he intended to bom-, bard Capetown. London, April 12. Several Trafalgar Square rioters were lightly.fined at Bow Street, the magistrate advising them to leave these idiots alone in future. Amsterdam;': April 13. M. Dombla Menwenhuis; a Socialist, and formerly a Democratic leader, is regaining popularity by conducting an-'anti-German campaign against the exports of footstuffs and other goods to Germany. Paris, i April 12. The National Council of the Socialist Party, by 1996 votes to 960, decided to continue its efforts for national defence, to safeguard France, which had been attacked and invaded, and restore tp the Serbians and Belgians their independence. It was considered inadvisable to hold a universal conference while disunited. The conference suggested that the various international bodies should compile opin-; ionß regarding war problems,, alloting- the responsibility lor. starting the war, also suggesting a preliminary investigation of-the-"economic problems arising out of the war.