GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 18, 26 April 1916, Page 8

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

' DAILY NEWS ON COMPULSION. [United I f Ht» Association .1 . London, April 21. The Daily Xews .says the question of further compulsion is second only to tlio issue con "on: in g the Premier’s authority. CV'iaot arrived at a decision which does no-, necessarily correspond with any of the varying pre- | dictions, hut it is difficult to believe | they will justify anything approaching to compulsion’s demands, for when, at the outside, compulsion can procure only a 'further three hundred thousand men. it is diHieulf to assume that Cabinet will jeopardise national unity. TURKISH COMMANDER REPLACED. I The Times’ Salonika correspondent states that too Turkish commander at j Smyrna, has heeu replaced by a Gcr[raaii general. E X-SU LTA M 3NT ERN EO. Fx-Sultau Abdul Hamid is now interned at Magnesia, the only town in Asia Minor which is still loyal to the ! Young Turks. DEATH OF VON DER COLTZ. Press comments on the late Von der Goltz are hike-warm, several describing him as an admirable theorist, but nof possessing the ability to demonstrate his 'strategy in the present wn r. The newspaper L’Echo Beige won- i ders whether Von dor Goltz really died of typhus, pointing out, that his death occurred immediately after the fall of Trebizond, for which he was personally responsible. The French press think Aon der Goltz’R death and the fall of Trebizond will probably ruin German influence in the East. ('Field-Marshal Von der Goltz was on the German General Staff, and when Belgium was occupied he was . appointee! 'Governor of the occupied j territory. Later ho was sent to Consffmtinople to advise the Turkish War Office as Chief of Staff, and since then lias acted as commander-in-chief of the, armies in Turkey.)