GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 20 November 1916, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

A Berlin wireless message says that the Westfalisehe Zeitung describes President Wilson as England's pirate business manager beyond the ocean. A Turkish court-martial at Aleppo sentenced the Sultan of Egypt to death, in default, on a charge of placing Turkish territory under foreign dominion. g The 1 -: Politiken ■(Copenhagen) states that thirty of the: chief Danish banks have formed' a, trans-Atlantic Trading Company, especially for grain and foodstuffs. The capital is to be 10,000,000 kroner. During the last seven months fines amounting to £300,000 have been imposed in Denmark on smugglers, many culprits being sentenced to heavy imprisonments. There was recently imposed a fine of £30,000 for a single offence, yet such penalties fail to deter the offenders. Many of the smugglers are Germans, but some are Danes, working for international organisations, largely German. A Copenhagen merchant was convicted of smuggling Go,ooolbs. of-rub-ber, sealed up in herring tins. It is helieved that Germany pays the lines.' - Le Petit Parisicn states that a German staff officer, who was captured at Beaumont Hamel, said that tilts present German soldiers were in no way comparable to von Kluck's or von Bulow's in 1914, which, were the finest troops, but they toelted under Franco-British gun-fire. So few remain that they can only ho used to stiffen the young recruits. 'The old men of the latter are dummies, having no heart to fight, and they never lose an opportunity of surrendering. Tf the Allies pierce the German lines, Bapaume must fall, as there are no available reserves there.