, 1915-01-30
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Censored a Jamaico
London. Jany. 27lh.-Ihe death has taken
place of Mr. Alexander Elder, fouudero the
E,ler Dpmpyter Line of steamers.
Cardinal Bourne has left for the front,
with the PERMISSION of the War Office to IN
ouire into the arrangements for the Catholic
soldiers.
The Imperial Conference for 1915 being
impracticabIe the Colonial Off e is negotiat-
lug with the Dominions regarding the hold,
inc of au Imperial Defence Conference, Aus
tralia and New Zealand being especially
keen to arrange with Canada regarding the
defence of the Pacific. 1t is also considered
that India, hitherto unrepresenled, should
participate.
Dispatches from Capetown announces that
the Governor General Of the Union, in q
statement reviewing the operations for lie
pelling the attempted German invasion, con
cludes The line of the Orange River Is
now entirely in our possession, aud the enc
my's advance into our territory near the
enstern border of German South West Africa
has been checked.
A despatch from Copenhagen states That
a rumour Of the general mobilization Of the
armies of the three scandinavian countries,
as II result of the recent conference OF the
three Kings at Malmo, has been officially
denied.
Food prices have advanced twenty per
cent in England since the outbreak war,
according to the preliminary reports pre-
scented by the Parliamentary investigating
Committee. The suffering among the poor
hns been further increased by the reduction
Of salaries, aud among the poorer classes
who live on a few shillings u week the food
question has reached a crisis. The ParIlH-
meutary Committee are Investigating reports
that spectators are partly responsible for
tie increases in the price OF food.
Bread has advanced and the plice of
beef, mutton aud bacol are twopence
to threepence per pound higher, White tea
has advanced twopence per pound. The
Governments demand upon the fuel supply
has increased the price of coal nearly six
shilIings Il ton.
Advice from Washington say that the
German Governments assumption OF the
food supply makes it ditiicnIt to prove that
imported food will not be devoted to military
uses and that the status of the calgo Of The
steamer "WIlhelmin4" is thus rendered
questionable.
A despatch from Copenhagen states that
the Swedish Press is showing renewed irrita-
ton against the British contlaband policy,
some Stockholm papers suggesting reprisals
by forbiddlng the transportation Of goods
destined for Great Britun over Swedish
railways.
The "Morniug Post" discussing the Will
helmlna case, considers it more plausible
and more insidious than that of the I'D cIu2
and more injurious to tue Allies, by relieving
the Germans from the necessity OF feeding
both their ulmles and their civilian popula-
ton. Tue paper thinks hunger is the most
humane way Of wogiuS war. and points out
that it is used by Germany ruthlessly III her
land blockade, which is more strict than the
British sea blockade, yet the Americans evade
the British blockade which is maintained IN
support of a cause the Americans regard
rs right.
New formations of troops will soon face
the Allies on the western front and the Rus
siaus on the eastern front, if the plans made
at Berlin by Baron Buriau, Archduke Charles
Frederick and the Kaiser are carried out
successfully. These plans were necessitated
by the position into which the repeated Rus
siau successes in Bukowinn and Transyl-
vunia- coupled with the inability of the Ger