GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 31 October 1916, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Reuter's writer, Madame Bramson, makes painful revelations of the prison camp at Guestrow, where the Anglo-Russian consumptives are slowly dying, less from illness than from utter misery. Austrian deserters describe the atrocious treatment inflicted on the Poles suspected of having sympathies with Russia. They declare that 20,000 were summarily executed. Tiie authorities will publicly present military honours to the next-of-kin if the winners do not survive. The King personally bestows the Victoria Cross, the Grand Cross, and the Commander of the Bath,- and of St. Michael and St. George. Norway's reply to Germany will probably be sent this week. .Meanwhile the entire German press, as if by order, are vehemently denouncing Norway's attitude as unneutral. Pro-Germans are making efforts to control the .newspapers, having purchased several in Madrid and the provinces. They have also lately started three in Madrid. The Italian Socialist Minister, Signor Bissolati, in a speech, denounced the treachery of the Austro-Germau Socialists, who had deceived the Allied Socialists anent the war. Victory, ho asserted, would be incomplete unless Europe was freed from the nightmare of Austro-German militarism. Italy Avould light until that man-beaded monster Austria was wiped oil the nuvp of Europe.