GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 75, 26 October 1916, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

The Admiralty depies the Berlin official statement that a British destroyer was bombed off Flanders. A; new American loan to the British Government will shortly be announced. It may exceed fifty millions sterling. The New York Times gives prominence to a correspondent's suggestion that America and other nations draw up a plan for the purpose of internment in neutral countries of all prisoners of war, thus relieving the belligerents of war prisoners, who total 24 millions. It is reported that the AngloFrench conference" on" Friday decided on a collective Entente Powers' programme as to the Eastern front. They also discussed the Greek question, and adopted a resolution, which will develop progressively, whereby King Constantine must realise the Allies' unity of action and energy. Figures prove a marked decline in the British, losses at the Sommo, compared with the earlier fighting. Some estimates give the German losses at fully forty per cent, greater t than ..those of the British,'whoso new methods of, attacking and advancing ihaye Resulted in; saving men. It is believed that the "tanks" and other inventions have saved the British nearly an Army Corps. The Daily Express advocates the formation of regiments of Imperial Guards consisting of Dominion troops. Sir Joseph Ward, in an interview, j says that the idea has much, to re- j commend it. As an _ Imperialistic j conception it would'serve to focus the • people's minds upon Empire affair ■■ j and would be productive of good if the Guards could he formed without weakening the individuality of the ' various separate divisions from the overseas'' Dominionsi fn the House of Commons, Mr Llovd George stated that the Committee of Inquiry into the question of utilising prisoners on war work was of national importance. Mr llunciman stated in the House of Commons that the rates for carriage of non-refrigerated products from New Zealand and Australia were moderate, and had not been altered for eighteen months. In the House of Lords, Lord Newton announced that arrangements had been completed for an Anglo-German exchange of prisoners over 45. years of age This means that the British | Empire will surrender 7000, and Cermsuiy 700. S ; r B. Borden (Premier of Canada) in a stirring appeal for another hundred thousand enlistments, says that the climax of the war .is rapidly approaching, and Canada's last hundred thousand men may he a deciding factor Canada's manhood must answer the challenge, if the nation is to have an abiding peace in the future. Hitherto enlistments have been more rapid than transportation, but in the past few months enlistments have greatly decreased. Mr Dreyton, chairman oi tne Canadian Railway Commission, is forwarding a proposal to the Imperial Government that all ship, and men used now by the Admiralty between Britain, Canada, and Australia, shall b 0 maintained in their present service for five years after the war, for carrying merchandise instead of munition's The idea is to preserve the trade between the British Dominions. He is also suggesting an inter-Im-perial Board be formed to use the captured German ships wherewith to build UP the service.