, 1915-02-06

the German steamship "Eleonore Woermann"
which eft there in December, carrying pro
visions for the German cruisers in the South
Atlantic, has been sunk by the battle cruiser
"Australia", her crew being rescued and
landed at the Falkland Islands as pri-
soners. She had been acting 81 a Ger
man auxiliary cruiser, and her meeting with
the "Australia' occurred off the coast of Pa
tagonia. The German steamship altGotha",
which had been ut Buenos Aires almost since
the beginning of the war, left yesterday,
ostensibly for Bremen.
Advices from Cape Town state that
Colonel Kemp, who joined the Germans
with Colonel Maritz, surrendered with
his whole commando to the Union forces
yesterday, but the place of his surren-
der is not stated. 1t is reported that
recently he and Maritz quarrelled with
the Germans and that Maritz has offered to
surrender, and it is expected he will lay
down his arms without delay.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Asquith,
in presenting a resolution de7oting the present
session entirely to Government measures
said: "This is without precedent, but all our
energies as u nation are c~opc8ntrated on the
war and every interest should be sub0rdi-
mated to this overmastering purpose. Ac-
cordingly the Government proposes to taEo
away the opportunity for private members
to introduce Bills and will conine its Iegiel&-
tive proposals to measures for the prosecution
of the war;. MIR. B mar Law agreed there
to, and declared that the Opposition intend
to treat the present sitting as a war session,
as in Canada and France. Mr.. Asquith
further said; GAS long as war conditions
prevail, and until hey are determined, which
/ hope and trust at no distant date they
will be in our favour, we should postpone
The discussion OF the Plural Voting Bill and
all domestic legislation, in subordlnatIon to
the one national purpose" The House there
upon adopted the resolution.
In reply to Sir John Ress, who urged that
cotton should be declared contraband,
Mr.. Tenant, Under Secretary Of State for
War, said that the requirements of Great
Britain were safeguarded, aud Germany
had sufficient cotton for her war require
ments, therefore Sir John Ress' su8ges-
ton was unnecessary from a beIligerent
point of view, and other interests were in
volved upon which it was not desirable to
touch at present,
Mr.. Edwin Montague, Financial Secretary
to the Treasury, has been appointed Chan
cellor Of the Duchy of Lancaster, vice Mr..
AlaStefLnan, VINO recently TeSISneu' MI
W. Rea, M. 2. for Scarborough, and Mr.. A.
Beck, M. P. for Saffron Walden, have been
made Junior Lords of the Treasury. The
elections Of Mr.. Montague, Mr.. Rea, and Mr..
Beck are unlikely to be contested. Mr.. Ac-
land, Parliamentary Under Secretary for For
eign Affairs, has been appointed Financial
Secretary to the Treasury, vice Mr.. Monta-
que. Mr.. Asquith in a letter expressed his
profound gratitude at Dir. Masterman's ser
vices, hoped the severance Of his relations
with the Government would be short, and
invited him to retain his membership in the
Committees dealing with war matters.
Mr.. MacNamara, Parliamentary Secretary to
the Admiralty, announced in the House OF
Commons that q submarine, with its coming
tower showing, fired a torpedo at the hos
pital ship "Asturias'', but missed. The
"Asturias'', he said, is painted white, with q
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