Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 3 October 1916, Page 8

Great Britain

THE CONQUERED TERRITORIES. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, October 1. A.White Paper publishes the correspondence respecting relief in Allied territories in enemy occupation. Viscount Grey, in a despatch to Sir C. A. Spring-Rice (British Ambassador to the United States), points out that the enemy never intended to fulfil his obligations under the rules of war as recognised by all civilised countries, and negotiations were so conducted as to confuse the issues and throw the greatest possible odium upon the Allies. The whole discussion so far as the Ausiro-Gorman Governments are concerned is only a move in their deep policy to excite public opinion against the legitimate tfse of sea power of those fighting for the principle of nationality, and so long as the Central Powers occupy the Allies’ territory they will continue to use the civilians as they have used them in a thousand towns and villages in Fiance and Belgium, not as non-com-batants, but as hostages and forced laborers.