GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 9 December 1916, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

The King and the Royal household have had two meatless days weekly

for some tune past

Compared with the previous November, imports for last month increased by £17,300,232, and exports 088 whilst re-exports decreased, by £1,175,923.

Mrs Lloyd George is making ■ ppmls on behalf of the British and Foreign Bailors’ Society, which is entrusted with the welfare of the aged mothers, widows, and orphans of our heroic

• seamen. Ollioial: The Admrialty, the Ministry of Munitions, and the Army Connoil have agreed to secure the early calling to the colors, up to the age of 31, of all fit semi-skilled and unskilled men whose release Irom contioiled and Government establishments will not interfere with the output of munitions. Viscount Grey emphatically denies the German allegation that he'used language implying that one of the reasons why England should participate in the war was that she was able, at any' time, to threaten to retire, and that he would always he ready to undertake mediation in order to help Germany. The Queen has resigned the ollice of Patroness of the National Council of Women. Her interest therein is un_ diminished, but she abstains from any interference in public matters. -I no Council has enlarged its scope, and is considering liquor prohibition and the j extension of the franchise. | A wireless frbni Paris says that theGazette of Lausanne gives a detailed j narrative of a careful and futile attempt to induce French Mussulman prisoners at Miossen Camp to join the 1 Sultan of Turkey, with a view to fomenting a revolt in Northern At idea. Several Arab chiefs afterwards were scattered throughout Germany, and harshly treated. Commenting on that portion of the German Note on the loss ot the Arabia, wherein it is stated that ii proved to he an ordinary passenger steamer, it would he a regrettable mistake, the United States officials point out that at the time of the Sussex case America stipulated that there must be no more regrettable mistakes. The officials do not consider that the Note makes a strong case for • Germany. Mr Frederick Ondcrt, who was recently at the front, says that after the war Britain will have the largest and best equipped army in Europe,' ami that next spring the output of munitions will be quadrupled.