Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 3 July 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

CASEMENT CONDEMNED.

AN APPEAL LODGED. DEGRADED BY TH£ KING. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.—Copyright. London, June 30. Casement occupies the condemned .oil in the Pentonville Prison. An appeal on three poims has been lodged on his behalf.

The Times says the King lias degraded Casement from the knighthood, his name being erased from the register of St. Michael.

KITCHENER'S SUCCESSOR. LLOYD GEORGE APPOINTED MINISTER FOR WAR. London, July 1. The Daily Chronicle definitely annbuuc**Bitliat Mr Lloyd Kedrgie ■has * been appointed War Jf mister in succession •'■■• to the late Lord Kitchener. There is *a perfect understanding tween Mr Lloyd George and the General Staff. A new Minister of Munitions is to be appointed.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. London, June 30. The Board of Trade has appointed a committee, under the chairmanship of I«ord Faringdon, to consider ho«- to meet tho needs of British firms after the war regarding financial facilities for trade, particularly with referent to financing large overseas contracts. Mr Asquith has declined t-he churches' request to proclaim August 4 a prayer day, as it would interfere with the production of munitions. The original Kitchener's letter, calling for three hundred thousand recruits; has been sold for £6OOO in aid of the Red Cross Fund. The purchaser will present the letter to the nation.