GERMAN INTRIGUE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 6 November 1916, Page 5

GERMAN INTRIGUE

THE LATEST QPEKATIO/iS.

ATTEMPT TO SPLIT QUR ALLIES

RUSSIAN PEOPLE WARNED

Press Association —Copyright, Austra-

lian and N.Z. Cable As-<..-intioa -Received 9.:y a.m.) London, November ">

The Daily Chronicle's Petrogiad correspondent states time German intrigues with the object of splitting up the Entente coalition arc increasing in vigour as the Allies are gaming the upper hand in the military operations. The enemy is spreading rumours of England's determination to fight to a iinisli and prevent Russia, concluding an advantageous peace. The Russians are indignantly rejecting the malevolent insinuations against England. The latest suggestion is that Russia does not need Constantinople, and that only England is opposed to the freedom of the Straits which Germany could guarantee.

The Novoe Vremya comments that the fate of Constantinople will be decided without Germany.

Enemy activity in Russia also takes tlie form of spreading false rumours of riotings and strikes. While Petrograd hears that Moscow is rising, that the police refused to do their duty, and that the soldiers won't fire oii the crowd, Moscow simultaneously learns that there have been similar happenings in the cap : tal. Theijo is the same procedure in other large centres. Labour leaders have warned the workers to ignore the rumours.

PORTUGAL.

OPERATIONS IN PORTUCAL. STATE COUNCIL'S DECISION. Press. Association—Copyright. Renter's Service. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Lisbon, November 5. The State Council, realising that the activity of enemy submarines off the coast was connected.with the disturbaiices which agitators arc at-tempting-to organise inrco-operatiou with Germans who.were 'expelled on thd' occasion of the elections, iliave decided to postpone the elections, if necessary, and suspend the Constitution.