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IDEAS OF A WORLD PEACE
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boughs too dearly, We are pot triumphs out of this, war, but the peaca of the world.
This war is altogether unlike any previous war, and its ending, like it duvalopment, will follow course of a own. For a time "people's minds ran About the end of the war there are into the old grooves, the Dugmans were two chief ways of thinking. There is a going nach Paris and nach London: Lond simplor some of mind which desires merely Curson filled our minds with a pleasant) a date, and a more complex kind which image of the Bombay Larcorn riding down Unter den Linden. But the wangs particulars." To the former chussenstilles precedent of u sommeil of victors belong most of the men ous as the front, divesting feems to the cangtished is not They are så bored by this way that they now so dridantly in men's minds. The would welcome any peace that did not atmoat the Allies talk upon now is to definitely admit defeat and examine the soy particulars later. The tone of the Gernas semy, to judge by its captured letters is oven lower. It would welcome peace in any forum Never in the whole | history of the world has a war bben so universally unpopular as this war.
The mind of the soldier is obsessed by a vision of horns cöming for good, su vivid and alluring that it blote out nearly every other ponsideration. The visions of people at home lights up, of plenty [ instead of privation, and the sensation of hundred tiresome restrictions. And it in natural,therefore, that a writer given to guesses and forecasts should be asked very frequently to guess how long the war ham still to run.
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We must end the war on Ciernian soil. The Germans talk frankly of Western ofensive wil be chiedy on holding ons. I have guessed that the]
German sit by pest Fine: it is a mere guess, and I admit it is quite conceivable) that the pugh my still be grinding cus its daily tale of wounded and prisoners in 1918, far from that goal.
None of the combatants expeated such A wat dù this, and the consequetçu is thas the world at large hus no ideu how to get ont dř it. The war may stay with as like a schoolboy çaller, bigase it does not know how to po. The Italians said as mach to me. "Suppose we get ta Innsbruck and Labich and Trieste," they
aid, it isn't an end: "
AWAY DUTY.
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nearly everyone la ansions to get out of A
All such foronating is the very wildest the war now. Nobody at all excepti
of 'shooting. There are the chances of perhaps a few people who may be exiled
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handful of greedy | war to put me out, and "of a war that to account, and changes far faster than the military profit-seekers, wants to keep it going. intelligeres I have made various for quietly perhaps, and obstrusively everyone I know is now trying to find As the outset I thought that the way out of the war, and I am con military Gdhonay would be lavish with vinced that the same is the case in Cer., cavalry and great attacks that it would mary.. The' is what makes the Frace fight ne about the 1999 level, would be stany, price campaign so exasperating. reluctant to entrench, and that the It is like being chased by clamerons geese across a common in the direction in which
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I trusted to the melodramatic instinct of to prevent a subsequent wollapse into
the French eng over the Rhine before 1013. 13 is was the Gera:ans who entrenched first.
THE TWO OFFENSIVES Since then I have made some other attempts. I did not prophesy at all in Blỡ, so far as I can remember. - E had I should certainly have backed the Gallinalotto win to w the right thing to do, and it was done
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A present three programmes are intelligence of the British military custe.
before the world ol the war ja The Hest rush seemed to bear me out,
which the star can be ended (sic). and I opened my paper day by day The first of these assumes expecting to fend of the British sad plate predominance of out Allies, It.l French utrenched and the Germans has been stated in general terais by Evacuation, reparation, beating themselves to death against wire Mr. Asquith. and trenches. In these days I wrote the war, and, guarantees that nothing of (due punishment of these responsible for
the sert shall happen again. There is_as set my mention of the nature of these guerunters. Just exactly what is to happen to Poland, Austria, and the Turkish Empire does not appear in this prospector. The German Chancellor is equally dive. The Kaiter has shamn- peded the pruce-at-any-price people of Great Britain "by solemnly proclaiming that Germany wants peace. We knew Fare what sort of poser 2" it would that we are promised vaguely abominably. It should have given us evacuation and reparation on the Western Constantinople, and brought Bulgaria to frontier and in addition, there are to be our sider it gave us a tragic history of guarantees-but it is quite evident they adininkatrative indolence and negligence, are altogether different quarumeés, from
Mr. Asquith's that nothing of the sort is and wasted bravery and devotion. 'I was, very hopeful of the Western offensive in ever to happen again. The programme of the British and their Allies seems to con- 1915; and in 1918 I counted still on our
template something like a Torcible dis continuing pusit I believe we were very azament of Germany; the programme - near something like decision this last of Germany hints at least of a disarma. YOUNG MAN is aired by a Ship September. but some archaic dream of time and military ocupation of Belgium appealing to the common sense of the
ping Office as a STENOGRAPHER
the desertion of Serbia and Russia, and world, really the beginning, and the and TYPIST. For further particulars doing it with cavalry dashed the hopes the surrender to Germany of every facility proper beginning; of the unprecedented
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side or the other, or a European chaos.res the botter for mankind. They are irreconcilable sets of terms.
aly brush it with our brains, with our pvailable and still unorganised brains;
we realise that the art of modern as is to invest, and invent, and invers itherto I have always hoped and looked
LOOKING FORWARD.
Yet it is hard to say how they can be modified on either side, it the war is to
be decided only between the belligerent MAJOR CHAPPLE, M.P.'S STORY.
r decision, a complete victory that and by standards of national interest puld enable the Allies to dietate peace. only, without reference to any other con.
of them and to slow down their spoedt such an expectation is largely considerations. Our Allies would be insane to 4 knots.
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Major WA. Chapple, P., for Stir: the display ho bae made of his quality-lingshire, has sent a strong reply to the made very urgent in my mind. A
To surrender his kulfe means for the Independent Labour Party in his steful German American writer has said, Hohenzollern the abandonment of his constituenty, who asked him to urge th the British would rather till twenty, dreams, the repudiation of the entire the Government to enter into peace thusand of their men than break one education and training of Germany, for
negotiations with Germany. half a century. When we realise the geral. Even a grain of truth in such,
The bon member, who is a surgeon, fatality of this antagonisin, we 'realise
legthening one's estimate of the duration of the war.
a temark is very valid reason for how it is that in this present anticipation states that he has seen the horrors of ↑
THE FRONT OF DECISION.
of hell the weary wasted and tormented nations must still sustain" their monj- trous druary struggle? And that is why this thought that possibly there may be here can be no doubt that the Western side way out, a sort of turning over are playing a winning game of the present endlessly hopeless gamo up the Western front, and that this lato a sew and different and manageable.
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in every cradle every mother in her home, every muiden trusting chivalry, every Christian knowing Christ Peries is the front of desisich now. It is not game, through the introduction of some
external factor, creeps and spreads on Ito you and me and all who would have infloubt that they are beating the find it creeping and spreading.
peace secure, to bind them fast. Buch M2 LI HON TANAP-dents versed in en there are in Germany, but none parlak sad Merchants in this Polony for Law FEAT.
Biturajera, has been a teacher to Ruzojeku, Opans and shoving them hack The That is what the finer intelligences of Britain.
Xe bus a good method of training Kerepekts, to zertain factor is the rate at which they Amarica are beginning to realise, and for Chapple declares that the" Bur- of ant mis certinents in Chinese: tane ser, L
adapter park in the Chicony examina Uờn, and, in pomanent ashoving them back. If they can why men in Europe continually turn their glar of the nations must be caught, the hala good kameni bir takin prefly get to so rapid an advance as eyes to Amerian, with a surmise, with a
doubt. tering the average rate since July let vato two or three miles a day, then wehall still see the Allies dictaling! teas.But if the shove drags on at its thinking in this matter was the specchimbandy was waiting after many pent pace of less than a mile sad President Wilson's that heralded the or four thousand prisoners a week over present discussion.. All, Europe was im timitet Somme front, nothing is pressed by the truth, and by President simpted elsewhere to increase the ares Wilson's recognition of the truth, that ofressure (this was written originally from any other great war after this Americe will be unable to abertain. Can be the French offensive at Verdon),,
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EXCHANGE OF NOTER, A point of departure for very much
if the intolerabla stress and boredom America como Into this dispute so the oke war will bring about a peace long end to insist upon something better than bts the Germans are decisively crushed.
int Vám an operating surgeon to limb- men. In answer to an inquiry; a mutilated soldier, who had lost a lower months of suppuratica and pain another and a graver operation, "said : loft Scotland for Now Zealand and a nice little home there and a growing busillesand Lleft it all for baba day and this. With prim atrile he raised his Shrunken hand
had
the counterpane and indicated his broken body. But his spect changed in an instant reyes flashed and bis face, took on the stern ast look of tha
man who know and Thels sad does, and he added st
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G." "MOUSSIÓNS
Morrison, Hill Road.
"THE NEW FRENCH new diplomatin patch work, and so
I don't regret it. I'd do it again
Pthe war, universally detentes, may obviate the late complete Armageddon? a Into 1818 or 1919. Food is, I there, above the claime and passions fans god general disorganisation will of Germany, France, Britain, and the cbofors 1920, if it, does. The Allies rest of them, a conceivable right thing your homes secure, your wires unviolat
You
with your country uninvaded,
THERAPION THERAPION
EMEDY
he a winging "gache baare tum, but to do for all mankind, that it might also ed, your hairies safely cuddled roomTHERAPION NO tweem unable to discover and promote be to the interest of "Amedies to support? your work nordinuous and your purses TEDIMO.CHISING ACCOR
fall concludes the hon. member, think tamilitary genius needed to harvest in the Third Fary scution, that chestionable victory. In the long run, t may not be an unmized Vory, complete and dramodic max
peak, which mocy pomohly be the cut from this war
would go on to sak, Sedot: this present change of Notes i
owe, that man and such as bo If you respect and valid him and then you will not sik for peace bofore the
comes arhich they gave