Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

THE ANNIVERSARY OF WAR. KING GEORGE'S MESSACE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian arid N.Z. Cable Association. London, August o. H's. Majesty King George sent a message, to tile heads of the Allied nations as follows :- I desire, on the second anniversary of this great conflict my country and her gallant Allies are engaged in, to convey to you my steadfast resolution to prosecute the war until our united efforts have attained the objects wherefore wo in common have taken up arms. J feel sure you are in accord with mo in the determination that the sacrifices which our valiant troops have so

nobly made will not be offered in vain and the liberties wherefore they are fighting shall be fully guaranteed and secured." King George also sent a message to King Albert of Belgium, as follows: "Upon the second anniversary of my country taking up arms to resist the violation of Belgium, I desuro to assure your Majesty of my confidence that the united efforts of the Allies will liberate Belgium from the oppression of her aggressors and restore her to the full enjoyment of her national and economic independence." Telegrams have been sent by King George to the sovereigns and heads of the Allied states, also to southeast Africa, conveying his steadfast resolution to prosecute the war until the united efforts attain the objects for which the common arms were taken up, including the liberties of Belgium and general liberties.

SERVICES IN AFRICA AND EGYPT.

Johannesburg, August 5.

The anniversary of the war services (\ the churches were crowded. Similar meetings and services were held at Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Malta, and at other centres in Africa.

IMPERIAL PATRIOTIC MEETING.

London, August 5

Lord Derby presided at a great Imperial patriotic meeting at Queen's Hall.

Mr Asquith and Mr Bonar Law were the principal speakers. General Sir Douglas Haig wired: "Two years of desperate trench warfare have still further increased our comradeship with the Allies and ' mado us inflexible in our determination to carry to victory a war, that was not of our choosing. Wo look forward with confidence to success and a triumphal peace." . Mr Asquith moved a resolution expressing the nation's inflexible determination to continue the war to a successful end, and proceeded to say: "Never in the German's tangled and bungled web of diplomacy has there been an error so crude, and so disastrously fatal to its authors as the idea that we have lost both our sense of honor and our power to vindicate it. Tho enemy everywhere is on the defensive. There are signs of his material weakening and exhaustion. "Tho recrudescence of the deliberate and calculated barbarity on the part of. Germany has been dictated by desperation. Tho latest atrocities will blacken even tho besmirched annals of tho German army. Captain Fryatt's murder has outraged the conscience of the civilised world. We, with our Allies, are considering the most effective method of dealing with tho'authors and the nation condoning and applauding them. (Cheers). The final . result—victory—will be a great partnership of the nations confederated in the joint pursuit of a freer and a fuller life for countless millions." Mr Bonar Law said tho enemy had lost for ever the advantages which tho preparations of war gave them. The toils were closing round them. There was no good talking about the latest atrocity. They had to do something with the wild beast at large. The onlv one thing that could be done—they could do it-was to shoot the wild beast. OVERSEAS PARLIAMENTARIANS. London, August t*.

Queen Alexandra gave an audience to the Overseas Parliamentarians at Marlborough House. Sir T Mackenzie and other High Commissioners and Agents-General were present at the Queen's Hall, where Mr' Massey's message was read. THE WAR OFFICE POLICY. MESOPOTAMIAN AND EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS. PEACE PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT. Press Association—Copyright. Router's Telegrams (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, August G. Writing in Blackwood's Magazine, General Caldwell, who was recently director of military operations at the War Office, points out that the Mesopotamian and East African campaigns are being conducted by divisions that cannot be used in Flanders; theretore, they'are no exceptions from the War Office policy of concentrating nil the forces against the Germans. General Caldwell sees no chance of an early peace. Before many weeks, the Germans may be prepared or even eager to re-constitute the old b undaries, but the War cannot end until the Allies dictate the terms. Therelore, there are only slender prospects of peace for months ahead.