GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 2 November 1916, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Press Association— Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. Mr’ Arnold Lnpton, an ex-member of the British House of Coramopers, was summoned for publishing pamphlets prejudicial to recruiting, headed, “What we are Fighting For ! Why don’t we make Peace?” The case is unfinished. The Czar of Russia has authorised the issue of a loan of £300,000,000 sterling at 5) per cent, interest, payable in ten years. A number of Russian officers have been placed in special camps for severe treatment, as a reprisal for the alleged illtreatment of German prisoners in Russia. * The National Tidende (Denmark) states that a Russian prisoner escaped across the border into Denmark. German guards pursued and heat the Russian senseless. Danish farmers attempted to interfere, but the Germans threatened to shoot, and dragged the Russian to German soil. There are signs that the German munition factories are badly in need of men. German agents are trying to induce Swiss mechanics to emigrate. The high wages offered are usually refused, owing to the stories of hunger and misery in the German industrial centres. ThoiPepe has instructed the Apostolic, ~ dehjggte• iaf, .-Constantinople to ; inqpirq; ip-fj),[thq unfavourable reports iPfr>thWAioi)^itipn, ; ,af. the Allies graves ~at ■ GallijwSij i ai| d has been informed That the. graves at Oiihnrnu' Snvla Bay, Anafarta, and Seild-ul Bahr are in a decorous* condition. Some of those at the latter place had been damaged by bombs, but Enver Pasha had given instructions for repairs. The Turkish Government guarantees the preservation of the graves. In the House of Commons, Mr A. J. Balfour, replying to questions, stated that six British drifters were lost in the Channel fight. The raidefs possessed the advantage of being able ■ ■to...choose the. moment-of attack, the assumed intention of which was to interfere with the Channel 'service, a vital link in our main communications. The object failed. The only vessel attacked was the Queen, and she could have been saved if her captain had realised that he could have remained i/aiioatfdorqsi&; 1 xnirs. • The Flirt, an old typo oaf-' desti-nyen was surprised in tjic' dirrknesk; The German destroy* ers sanlerdier: by means of shots at Vilo.se range. The Nubian was sunk while attacking the German flotilla. Only the gale prevented her from being brought in, and it is believed she can be salved. The British ship- hit the -Ormans, hut did not sink any, .though there is reason to believe that two enemy destroyers were trapped in the nets and mines and blown up, and probably sunk.