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We were resting after the first Battle of the Somme, writes. A. A. Mire in the Daily News." Naturally al the talk of the Mess was of after the war. Ours was the H.Q. Mess, and was the only subaltern; none of us was under thirty. With a gravity befitting our years and (ex-administration is receiving hundrers cept for myself) our rank, we dis cussed not only restaurants and revues, but also Reconstruction..
The Colonel's idea of Reconstruc. then included a large army of con- scripts. He did not call them con- scripts. The fact that he had chosen to be a soldier himself, out of all the professions to him, made it difficult for him to understand why a million others should not do the same with
A New York message of April 2 says that the seal o prohibition agents in various parts of the country is gradually assuming the form of a serious assault upon the liberties of the travelling public. The railway
of ecmplaints daily of harsh and un- warranted actions. by zealots of the new law in searching passengers passing from territory where alcohol is not prohibited into territory where it is.
The Mayar of Wilmington (North Carolina), Mr. P. Q. Moora, in a furious letter to the Director General of Railways, declares that the wife of a well-known official had all her
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must have the men. The one thing the war had taught us was that we must have a real Continental army.
thugs in the guise of officers" search- ing for contraband liquors.
Mr. 1. S. Peters, the Virginia State: Prohibition Commissioner, replies to these complaints by stoutly defend ing his agents, who, he asserts, show "carefulness, gentility, and discrimin-
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I asked why. "Theirs not to ccáson why on parade, but in the 100 Mess on active service the Colonel is a fellow human being. So I asked him why we wanted a large pation" in their search for hidden army after the war.
whisky. The agents of the Prohibit- For the moment he was at a loss.ion Commissioner
certainly Of course, he might have said claim that they are no respecters of "Germany." had it not been decided persons when enforcing the search already that there would be no Ger-law in Virginia. Only a few days many after the war. He did not like to ago they went through the personal "France, seeing that we were luggage of Me, J. S.. Williams, Con- even then enjoying the hospitality of troller of Currency, while he was
the most delightful of French Villages.travelling in a Puilman-car with a
Se, after a little hesitation, he said
"Spain."
At least he put it like this: "Of course. army, a large army."
But why
I said again..
companion.
Four State prohibition agents were brought to Woodstock, Virginia.
we must have an under the guard of a company.
of infantry to protect them from lynching by the infuriated public, They are charged with shooting and killing Mr. 1. D. Hudson and Mr. R. Shackleford, who refused to obey their demand to stop their motor-car and submit to a search. The prison-
"How else can you can you. defend the 'honour of your -oountry?"
"The Navy."
The Navy Pooh! The Navy
in't weapon of attack; it's a weapers were marched to jail surrounded on of defence.""
"But you said: "deford.""
י
by soldiers, whose commanding officer, Major C. Wyatt, was obliged
Attack" put in the Major, or to address the crowd and exhort aeclarly, "is the best defence."
them to disperse without violence.
Exactly."
I hinted at the possibilities of blockade, The Colonel was scornful. "Sitting down under an insult for morths and months," he called it, until you starved the enemy into surrender. He wanted something much more picturesque, more quickly cffcctive than that. (Something.pre- Bably, more like the Somme.)
But give me an example," I said, ef what you mean by insults and
onour."
Wereupon he gave me this extra- ordinary example of the need for a large army.
"Well, supposing," he said," that all the English women in Madrid were suddenly murdered, what would You do?'
I thought for a moment, and then said that I should probably decide ast to take my wife to Madrid until things had settled down a bit.
"I'm suposing that you're Prime Minister," said the Colonel, a little annoyed. What is England going to do?"
Ah. Well, are might do cothing. After all, what is one to do? Ore can't restore them to life." The Colonel, the Major, even the Adjutant, expressed their contempt for such a cowardly policy. So 1 tried again.
"And you think that that is con sistent with the honour of a great nation the England?"
"Perfectly."
"Oh! Well, I don't."
An indignant silence followed. "May I ask you a question now, sir?" I said at last..
"Well!?"
"Suppose
this time England begirs. Suppose we murder all the Spanish women in London first. What are you going to, dos Spanish Premier?"
Er-I don't quite--""
"Are you going to order the Spanish Fleet to sail for the mouth of the Thames, and hurl itself upon the British fleet?"
Of course not. She has no fleet.". "Then do you agree with theer Spanish Colonel, who goes aboutį saying, that Spain's honour will never be safe until she has a fleet as big as England's?"
"That's ridiculous. They couldn't possibly."
"Then what creld Spain, do in the circumstances?"
"Well, sheer-she could-e- protest,"
"Well," I said, "I might decide to And would that be consistent with murder all the Spanish worsen in the honour of a small nation like Londen, just to even things up."
The Adjutant laughed. But the Colonel was taking it too seriously for that.
"Do you mean it!" he asked, · "Well, what would you do, sic?
Land at army in Spain," he said promptly, and show them what it meant to treat Englishwomen like that,"
I see. They would resist, of course?"
"No doubt."
Spain
In the circumstances," said the Colonel. judiciously, "er-yes."
"So that what it comes to is this. Honour only demands that you should attack the other man if you are much bigger than he is. When a man insults my wife, I look him carefully over; if he is a stone heavier than I, then satisfy my honour by ignoring him. But if he only has one leg, and is three stone lighter, honour demands that I should
"Yes. But equally without doubt jump on him." we should win in the end?"
We're talking of nations," said Certainly."
the Colonel,' gruffy, "not of men. And so re-establish England's It's a question of prestige." bonour."
"Which would be increased by a "Quite so."
victory over Spain?"
"I see. Well, sir, I really think my way is the better. To avenge the fifty mordered English women, you are going to kill (say) 100,000 Spaniards who have had no connec tion with the murders, and 50.000 Englishmen who are even less con- cerned. Indirectly also you will
use the death of hundreds of guilt less Spanish women and children. besides destroying the happiness of thousands of English wives. Surely my way of murdering only fifty Docents is just as effective and much more humane."
That's nonsense,"
Colonel shortly.
said the
And the other is war.% We were silent for a little, and then the Colonel poured himself out a whisky.
"All the same," he said, as he went back to his seat, "you haven't an swered my question."
"What was that. sir?”
What you would do in the case I
mentioned. Seriously."
"Oh! Well, I stick to my first an-
saver. I would do nothing-except,
The Major began to get nervous, After all, I was only a subaltern. He tried to cool the atmosphere a little.
"I don't know why poor old Spain should be, dragged into it like this," he said, with a laugh. "I had a very jolly time in Madrid years ago."
Oh, I only gave Spain as an ex- ample," said the Colonel, casually.
It might just as well have been Switzerland?" I suggested.
There was silence for a little. "Talking of Switzerland" ]} said, as I knocked out my pipe.
"Oh, go on,' said the Colonel, with good-humoured shrug. "I've brought this on myself."
"Well, sir, what I was wondering was What would happen to the honour of England if filty English women were murdered in Chamonix.
The Colonel was silent.
"However large an army we had
"I went on.
The Colorel struck a match. "It's a funny thing, honour." I said, ‘And prestige,"
The Colonel pulled at his pipe.
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