Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 2, 27 November 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

TO SHORTEN THE WAR, I M P ORTANCE OF WEAK E AST. SETTLE TURKEY FIRST. RUSSIA TO CONTROL BALKANS. EMPLOYMENT OF COLORED LABOR. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, November 26. .The Observer states: Tim employment of an additional quarter of a million British troops hi the Near East would do more to shorten the war than the employment of thrice their number in any other theatre. Victory in the West would thus be more certainly advanced than by any ,other method. Turkey is the most vulnerable member of the Central League, yet by her position and supplies she sustains the strength and cohesion of the whole, even for the German western armies. It is, fore, as the base, equally vital and assailable. Were tho Balkans once mastered, and the Straits to tho Black Sea re-opened, Russia, who thinks more of rapid mobilisation and the inunitiohment of her man-power, could subsequently assume control of tho entire Balkan business, and jointly with Italy, the whole of the war on the Eastern side of Europe. Austria would then be doomed, and with tho Berlin-Baghdad railway connection broken tho German staying power would then be irretrievably shaken to its foundation, and the FraneoBritish Army could return to ihe west. While tho relief of merchant shipping would be an immense gain in connection with food supplies, just as proportionate but pre-requisuo would bo the organisation of our whole resources, including tho employment of black and yellow labour on a largo scale. . V'TDaU

PACIFICISTS AT WORK. 'j r.Ty ... . EXCITEMENT IN SOUTH WALES. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) , London, November 26. There is some excitement in South Wales regarding the Pacifists’ conference to be held at .Merthyr on December 9. As the outcome of the brokenup conference at Cardiff, it is stated that the Pacifists have engaged 250 lusty stewards. The Rhondda miners warned the Winstone Pacifists that the meeting will not be tolerated, and have asked Mr Stanton, M.P., to request -Hr Samuel (Homo Secretary) to prohibit: the proceedings. ;^i TRUTH ABOUT ANTWERP. CHURCHILL’S FINE TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH NAVY. Rr?ss Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.10 p.m.) London, November 26. Mr Churchill, - in his concluding article in the Sunday Pictorial, argues that no more important results have been achieved in the 'present war by forces so limited and for . losses so small than those rewarding the almost forlorn, enterprise to relievo Antwerp. Ho declares: “To the five days thus gained, we owe our victory on the Yser, - and at Dunkirk, and Calais. There is no more remarkable example of the flexibility, celerity, and baffling nature of the amphibious power which Britain alone wields but in which she is so blindly undervalued and condemned.