GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 28 August 1916, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

LIQUIDATION REPRISALS. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, August lid. Herr von Bothnia an Hollweg, Gcr,man Chancellor, lias ordered the liquidation of eleven British firms in Berlin, including the gas works supplying I the city, as a reprisal for the liquidation of German firms iii Ellwand. 1 GERMAN AIRMEN’S MORAL. London, August 26. A semi-official document, captured ,by the French, shows the Germans ■are experiencing great difficulties in I manning aeroplanes. The officer’s diary admits the German airmen are inferior to the French and English, and says; “This must affect the Ger- ! man morale.” |GERMAN CONCERN BANKRUPT. Berne, August 26. The Corporation for the Promotion of Commercial Enterprise in German colonies 'has been declared bankrupt. The liabilities are 100,000 marks. CHECKING CREEK ENEMY LEANINGS. Borne, August 26. A correspondent states that in order to check signalling to enemy submarines, Italian troops have occupied Porto Palermo and Mount Kalarat, on the coast of Albanian Epirus, which is under the Greek sphere of influence. COMMANDEERING LEATHER. London, August 26. The War Council notify that they intend to acquire all stocks of lighter weight leather in the Kingdom, and have ordered owners to furnish a list of stocks, including Australian and Xew Zealand sides 1 and bends.

SOLDIERS’ CLUBS IN ENGLAND. London, August ‘26. Sir T. .Mackenzie and General Richardson visited Brockenhurst, Netley, and opened the Soldiers’ Cl"’> rooms at Salisbury and Codford. Sii T. Mackenzie >saicl that if the donoiw know how the* men’s health and comfort improved •by .such provisions they would appreciate how well their trust had been carried out by the helpers here. The fullest information is being sent to New Zealand respecting the expenditure and the benefits- the men are deriving. General Richardson said the club-rooms helped to keep the men fit to qualify for the task of defeating the Bodies.

INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION. London, August 25. An article in the Nation claims that, for the complete restoration of trade unionism, the first essential is industrial reconstruction after the war, as a fair deal is only possible on that basis.

i MUNITIONS WORK. | Lotujpn, August 20. i The Ministry of Munitions is starting a poster campaign in order to obtain recruits- for the new labour squads. Men rejected for military .service, and not engaged on work 'of national importance are invited to sign on for six months or for the ■duration of the war, to iill munitions ’ factories. i EDUCATION SYSTEM REVIEWED. I 1 London, August 25. Official: In pursuance of the arrangements made for reviewing the system of education as , a whole, Mr Asquith has appointed two committees, the chairmanship of which will he respectively filled by Sir J. J» Thomson and Mr Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, ALA.

I The first committee is instructed to inquire into and advise upon the measures needed to promote tiie study of natural science in relation to a liberal education and in the interest of trades, industries, and professions, particularly those dependent on applied science. The second committee will in like manner inquire into and advise as to the study of modern languages in :e----lation to the requirements of a liberal education, including the appreciation of the history, literature, and civilisation of other countries, and to the i interests of commerce and the public

service. IMPORTS TO NEUTRALS. London, August 26. j The publication of American trade returns, showing the enormous increase in imports to neutrals, arouses sarcastic newspaper comments as to the inefficiency of the blockade, j Holland lias received a thousandfold more than she did before the war. The newspapers demand that a complete investigation shall be made into the books of the Netherlands .Overseas Trust.