Second Edition Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 5 August 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Great Britain

ANNIVERSARY Of THE WAR.

LONDON CELEBRATIONS.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N'jZ. Cab.le Association. \ v Loudon* August 4.

London was crowded with convalescents in hospital suits driving to Albert Hall and other meetings to celebrate the second anniversary qf the war. Five ’ thousand from various hospitals attended, including hundreds of Anzacs and hundreds of sailors wounded in the Jutland battle, 400 of whom had lost limbs. General Smiths Dorrien presided. Three thousand patriotic meetings, in various parts of the country passed resolutions to continue war to a victorious end similar to the Australian and New Zealand motion. There was a'gathering of employees in many stores, and business houses granted an hour’s leave to attend the services. The Primate preached at Buckingham Palace, where the King and Queen attended. Eight thousand troops attended a service at Aldershot.

The Navy League m their fight-tor-right movement organised many meet-' “s®: ... - PRESS COMMENT ON NEW ECONOMIC /POLICY. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, x (Received 11.35 a.in.) London, August 4. The Manchester Guardian states that it is believed in free-trade circles that Mr Asquith’s reference to fairly apportioning the new economic policy among all classes of the community foreshadows the Australian policy of combining tariff with-high: wages.