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Mr. Shaw is on firmer ground when he sounds the note of warning as to the probabile effects of the war upon the balance of power in Europe when Touton shall have ceased to be a counterpoise to Slav. The new treaty betwoon the Allies describes as "the most tremendous blank not to conclude peace separately he
by our Parliamentary party trick of choque we have ever been forced to sign striking moral attitudes. The only limit there is to the chiigation is the certainty that the cheque will be dis honoured the moment the draft on it becomes too heavy. And that may furnish virtuous pretext for another war between imbroglio in the Balkans.reminds us that the Allies themselves." The recent
it is often difficult to put them back again when once the Dogs of War" are let slip. on the leash, and it may, indeed, prove
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directs his shafts of satire long for an extension, rather than a curtailmont, of the bureaucratic powers which are his pet aversion: Even those of us who, in the words of Mr. Bonar Law, would last summer, and, "prefer the excesses of free institutions runs, to the arbitrary rule of the War Lord, may question Mr. Shaw's propriety in publishing statements that were sure to be quoted extensively abroad as admissions of our dishonesty, though we may rejoice
the issue lay directly between the pro tagonista Instead of depending largely
the actions of others, as upon
in the negotiations that took place as the old saw "too many cooks spoil the stand Mr. Shaw's partiality as an Irish broth. It is easy, of course, to under inan for the Who'll-dare-tread-on-the tail-of-my-coat" style of diplomacy, and occasionally, no doubt, it produces the effect desired, but it is scarcely one to bo recommended for general adoption in
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and incompetence on the part of the of Belgium was not violated. And season of Lent calls us to self-
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In justifiention of his onslaught, to be shielded from that terrible Mr. Shaw says that to all prayers
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and neighbour, France, Lombarded and battered the whole nation rose to appland public opinion, the concealment of the which must be the source of all rightful con- him. All the Foreign Office distrust of Let us go deeper, and enquire as te that Anglo-French plan of campaign, the dis duct for the servants of God. guise of the Entente in a Quaker's hal,
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of settlement comes, but because it has a practical bearing on the most perilously urgent and immediate business before us -the business of the appeal to the nation version of the motives which animated the Of course, if we can eccopt Air. Shaw's for recruits and for encrmous sums of British Foreign Office we shall have no money. It has to tecide the question difficulty in subscribing to the rest of the whether the appeal shall be addressed case, which his ingenuity builds upon it, frankly to our love of freedom and our Most people, however, will ask, as a con- tradition (none the less noble and moving dition precedent to that, for an explana because it is so hard to reconcile with tion of how it happened, after all this the diplomatic facts) that England is a diabolically skilful maneuvring for war guardian of the world's liberty, and not that the outbreak of hostilities found to bad law about an obsolete treaty, and Great Britain so utterly unprepared eant about the diabolical personal displace anything like an adequate force in position of the Kaiser and the wounded the bold. It must be obvious to the most propriety of a peace-loving England; osual observer that in termiable
rest of the slosh tosh that Sir Grey as WOOD WORK, BRICK WORK, has been making John Bull sick for puppet whose evolutions were direct months past:" When, however, Mr. confession: that he has a distinct bias nube Foreign Office Mr. Shaw has an axe to Shaw prefaces this statement with the ed by the Artful Dodgers of the a slightly malicious taste for taking grind. He is really striving to support the conorit out of England," he must his protest against the survival of not complain if we decline to take him Bureaucracy in the Foreign Office after engaged in the most deadly strife the workt
For six months our nation bas seriously as a historian and regard him its banishment from the other Depart has ever seen. The flower of the manhood rather as sa advocatus diaboli.
It will, however, be seen that Mr. Shaw Great Britain was right in going to war in
ments of State; to show that, although of Europe is being cut off. There is sorrow utters no protest against the war itself; last August, it is wrong to entrust such and as yet there is no sign of
hundreds of thousands of homes, on the contrary, he chuckles with gloo at grave issues to the unfettered control of end of the war. Unprecedented patriotian the the prospect of dealing a death-blow at Ministers and their subordinates and to has been evoked. Many have offered them- BROWN, RED AND GREEN COLOURS German militariam and all that it leave the public, who have to pay the selves willingly to fight, and if need be to connotes. Had the Foreign. Office been butcher's bill," in a state of helpless die for their country. Many are ingrudg the International Socialist Bureau," he ignorance until the die is cast. For this ingly giving their dearest, and all are Bay's. had Sir Edward Grey been purpose he has to set in motion the active giving money for the righteous cause. Still Jaurès, had Mr. Ramsey MacDonald been imagination on the possession of which the Supreme Ruler looks upon us and Prime Minister, had Russia boen he prides himself, and, having evolved a THE CHINA IMPORT AND would still have been the same we must rounding facts accordingly. The prospectus. On the suggestion of our King we have Germany's ally instead of ours, the result theory by its means, to colour the sur-worldly pleasures, selfish thoughtlessness and "Be zealous and repent." No doubt EXPORT LUMBER Co.. Lan have drawn the sword to save France and of conducting international negociations duly observed one day as a day of Etumble excessive drinking have diminished amongst
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smash Potsdam as we smashed, and always must smash, Philip, Louis, Napoleon, et hoe genus omne. What he inveighs against is our alleged hypocrisy. We are, in his eyes, a nation of Junkers and Militarists only F
degree loss pronounced than the Germans, and from the day that Germany defeated France. in 1871 we have been anticipating trouble, When the Kaiser began to copy our Armada policy by building a big fleet the
attractions, but it still takes two to make in the full light of day is not without its a bargain, and, until human nature has been purged of much of its guile, it will probably prefer some of its business to be transacted behind closed doors.
To, make the facts fit in with his fauty Mr. Shaw has no alternative but to sneer at Mr. Asquith for being calmly insensible to the real nature of the popular explesion
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prayer to Almighty God. Two or threa gather together daily for a short service of a little more frequently than they formerly intercossion, a few attend Holy Communion did, but so far as institutional religion is members of our church in this Diocese the concerned it is difficult to detect amongst great increas of religious earnestness and revived spirituality which our Lord desires.
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aggressive; and the ery that the German obvious barrister's point" about the vices on Sundays and week-clays. fleet or ours must sink, and that a war violation of the neutrality of Belgium. physical recreation, military drilling and the between England and Germany bound to come some day, speedily ceased indeed, it was not for us, who had seen physical well-being, I am sure
Was Nobody cared twopence about treaties; like are necessary for our national safety and to be merely a cry with our Militariste the Treaty of Berlin torn up by the acknowledgment of our God and Communion public and became an axiom with them.
And what our Militarists raid our Junkers brazen seizure of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Him, especially on the Lord's day, are played for. There was nothing unres down, sa Russia did, to talk about the echoed and our Junker diplomatists by Austria in 1900, and taken that Iring acessary for our eternal welfare Bar
spiritual health. sonable in the agitation, but those who sacredness of treaties, even if the wisto
I suggest that we arrange our engage took part in it and Mr. Shaw admits paper baskets of the Foreign Offices vere opportunity of really drawing marer to God, ments BO na to use this Luut as an that he was one must not pretend that not full of torn-up scraps of paper repenting of our former lukewarmnes in they were barmless Radical lovers of peace and that the propaganda of by Prussian Militarism and its contempt undoubtedly knocking at the door of our We were rasped beyond endurance His service, and of listening to Him who is England and Germany is a Prussian common-sense; and we just rose at it and season, Easter will find us a chastened Militarism and of inevitable war between for us and for human happiness and hearts in these sad days. If we so use this infamy for which the Kaiser must be went for it." There is unquestionably a people, more truly Christian and batter severely punished. We cannot shout considerable admixture of truth in this atted for the great privileges and sacred for years that we are boys of the bulldog Mr. Shaw is too clover a debater to ask responsibilities of the mighty and united breed and then suddenly pose as gazelles.?
Evidently Mr. Shaw is unable
us to swallow his sophistries without Empire our Lord has entrusted to us.- to distinguish between a natural anxiety disguising them with a little of the jam remain, your faithful servant and bishop, to be prepared for an attack that appears eager to get to grips with Germany as of truth If, however, we had beers, 50 inevitable and a desire wantonly to pre he avers, the violation of the Treaty of
Hongkong, February 10th, 1915- cipitate a conflict.
Passing on from the general to the Berlin by Austria would nave afforded us particular, Mr. Shaw argue or rather tion of the terms of the Triple Alliance, the opportunity by the automatic opera assumes that our "Foreign Office, of It is, therefore, reasonable to infer that. which Sir Edward Grey is merely the
we were so anxious for peace that, though sciously beat in a long-deferred Militarist
wo resented Austria's high-handed action, war with Germany as the Admiralty was Porhaps we were wrong, but surely even we shrank from making it & casus belli.
LONDON, January 11th." and that is saying a good deal" Bir
Captain Willett, of the steamer New- Edward's offence appears to be that
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bridge, who has arrived from East Africa, instead of bullying and threatening in path of error, even if our safety were berg, which was reported some time
reason why we should continue along the states that the German cruiser Konige the Militarist style, he hesitated to make not menaced by Germany's aggressive of an Esat African river, was skilfully it plain that he was prepared in certain designs upon Belgium and France. If we concealed by the Germans among the to have been bottled up near the momal eventualities to go to war although in can be accused of anything it is of showing naime, The vessel was hidden by the the ostensible interests of peace he was too much forbearance, Germany, on the foliage, and could not be discovered until urged to do so by the Russian Minister other hand, knew that in preparing to the British obtained an aeroplane and so emboldened Germany to set the invade Belgium she was coarting ourThe latter dropped smoke bombs over match to the powder-magazine. That war opposition, for in 1870 Mr. Gladstone the Konigsberg position, and the was averted in the Algeciras crisis and made agreements with France and Prussia British ships shelled and sunk her. Caps again in the Agadir crisis by showing that to co-operate with either of the belligerants taia Willett believes the crew of the we were ready to fight is used by Mr. if the other violated Belgian territory, Konigsberg went down with her.
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