Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 37, 18 May 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

COMPULSION BILL, j j PASSED BY A SOLID MAJORITY. ' rUMTPD PllUhr A K'Viru a”'-'- 1 London, May 17. The Military Service Dill was read the third time by 250 to do. I QUESTIONS IK PARLIAMENT. | | RECENT EAST COAST RAID. ! London, May 16. Sir A. B. Markham, in the House I of Commons, asked whether the tele- | graph and telephone wires had been j cut in an East Coast town during the I 1 recent raid. 1 London, May 17. Mr Runeiman has introduced a Bill j to cut down the price of brewing beer *ls per cent., also conferring a clause on manufacturers to prevent an undue amount of sugar being used in sweetmeats. Newspapers are devoting much at- | tention to the possibility of a system ;of rationing being introduced into Britain, in the view of the desirability ! not to have an undue great shortage, j but the difficulties are the distribu- • tion, owing to the number of men in | the army and the large profits of the ; middlemen.

1 THE DIRTY HUNS. BAD TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. > (Received 9.20 a.m.) Hague ( May 17. British and other soldiers at Schneido Muchl camp are compelled to work on farms and mines chiefly in Fast Prussia and Poland. Many have been deprived of their letters nil food parcels are not-deliverable in the absence of addresses.

EMPIRE PRODUCERS’ ORGANISATION. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, May 17. The Empire Producers’ Organisation is arranging a conference of industrial, agricultural and labor representatives at the Mansion House on June 14th. THE PEACE OF THE WORLD. MR BALFOUR’S VIEWS. BRITAIN AND AMERICA’S PART. SEA POWER MUST STAND, (Received 12.30 a.m.) London, May 17. The official text of the American journalist Marshall’s interview with the Hon. A. J. Balfour, shows he discussed the freedom of the seas 5 and said Britain had always fought for the freedom of the seas, whereby America had been able to d|velop on her present lines. Germany’s conception was very different, and her demands were made not because she loves freedom but in order to give world-wide exten-

’ sion to her ideal of a great autocratic military State. Experience that this I was so, proves that Germany would least the freedom of the seas to the winds and destroy her enemies’ trade the moment it suited her. International law was powerless if unsupported by international authority. If substantial progress was to be made in securing the world’s peace, and free national development, America and the British Empire must explicitly recognise their share in the common ideal. It was an unchanging element by political creed that this war was essentially a struggle between two ancient ideals, in the outcome whereof America was equally concerned as the British Empire. Both should work together to ensure the permanent triumph of the Anglo-Saxon ideal. Arbitration does not go far enough,- and such precautions as “scraps of paper” were useless unless they can be enforced. We delude ourselves if we think we are doing good service by passing good resolutions. What was needed i i militarist was conquered is machinery enforcing them. This must largely consist of sea power. The lesson is that Britain and America, instead of giving up their maritime powers, should organise them in the interests of a common ideal whereon the peace of the world largely depends.