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THE INFLUENCE OF SEA
POWER.
(FROM "THE TIMES " CORRESPONDENT]
NEW YORK, August 1st. The New York World devotes an im- pressive leading article to a eulogy and elucidation of the decisive gart taken by the British Flect in the vast struggle. After pointing out that Admiral" Mahaa, if he had lived to see the beginning of the second year of the world war, would have | found in the events of the first year the most striking vindication yet recorded of the influence of sea power upon history, it observes;
Except for the British Nary, Germany to-day would be master of the world. Ger- many's marvelous preparedness, con bined with her unparalleled military r sources, gavo the Teutonic allies a com- manding advantage that all the rest Europe could no; have withstood had land warfare alone been able to determine the result. But for British domination of the seus the war would be over and civilization prostrate befor triumphant German militarism.
BRITISH DETERMINATION
TO WIN.
SIR E. CARSON'S DEMAND ON NEUTRALS.
NEW YORK, August 2nd. Sir Edward Carson has made the following statement on the part which Great Britain is playing in the war the Associated Press:-
How long will the wor last and what will be the result! To such questions as so any British subject on give but one answer, and that is that the war will last until the case of the Allies has been brought to a successful issue, aard Europe and the world have been relieved from the ideals involved in the aggression of does not enter into our roabulary at the Prussion domination. The word "peace"
present times. It is vanished from our impossible under existing circumstaners. conversation as something immoral and
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FUTURE OF SILVER.
In certain New York quarters great hopes are being built upon the future of silver. aftor the conclusion of the war. It is very natural for the United States of America to bu deeply interested in the matter, for silver occupies a very important place among the Industries of the Republic. It is responsible for considerably over a quarter of the world's output, and the calze concerned represents an asset of between seven and eight million pounds sterling.
To a certain extent these hopes are justi- tied. The demand for the arts and indus- tries has languished considerably from causes, direct and indirect, throughout the widely extended area of hostilities.
The removal of restrictions that now obtain, the reopening of closed markets, and the return of freight and assurance rates to demand for the metal, but it will be returally normal quotations, will undoubtedly increase
some tiny befors that portion of the demand which relates to pure items of luxury will regain the healthy condition which antcdated the war.
artigh in the New Fork Times, entitled ruilitsay camps in which millions of men upon the volume conception depenis.
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enters more reluctantly upon its horrible Great Britain hates war and no nation
It is not, however, upon such consideni. and devastating operations; but at the tions that New York bases its extreme opti- a time no ation when it is driven mistic view as to the prospects of silver, to war by the machinations of fors who
but upon the fact that the paper currency of certain combatant Powers has been raised desire to filch from it or from its co- Wha. has been accomplished by British champions of liberty any portion of their
to enormous figures. The idea is suggested. sea power sa been carried through with-inherited Freedom is more resolved to see
that when pence arrives theke Powers will out single conspicuous, achievement, the matter through, at whatever cost, to a
find themselves compelled to create metallic Thers has been se décisive battle. Nor successfu} issue.
reserves inr' u ratio bearing some favourable MACGREGOR&C. single Dreadnought has yet been, in action. At the commencement of the war we proportion to that held in gold in the pre-war except against Fånd dafences, has sigh: were not and did not pretend to be a rush for gold that the stock in existence and period, and that there will be such a ed a hostile fing at sea. Nod the less the military nation. An Expeditionary work of the British Nars as a whole storia! Army of 200,000 for defence against Silver will be brought into a privileged posi Force of 170,000 turi 2nd a smal Ter the gold freshly produced will not suffice to
go round, and that, as a matter of necessity, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. the one decisive factor-in the warp
a șundar note is struck b i stable Horasion was all that we could boast oftion my hou of the more precious mont
but to-day Great Britain teens with Tho ronlisations of The Reckoning."
15 QUZEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, The spoils gathered of the finest material are being trained at the present enormous figures fact ex- paper money -rewaining by the military forces that Germany- has been training for 40 years to effvet the
and equipped to cope with every emor-tremely unlikely-for the State indebtedness No other nation in the world would have to be converted into some sort of conquest of Europe" are set forth and has ever produced or hoped to produce fandled form; otherwise the abnormal in rampared with the fosses she line willers voluntary army of such proportions. thation of currency would prove disastrous to in men, colonies, ted sea commerce, Her Each day brings thousands of men to the the internal trade of the countries concerned. mad rtal losses, the New York Times loulours who had never thought of military pla ros, are, however, trifle contrast with service before, and each day, as our would be at best only a palliative measure. Moreover, the creation of a silver reserve her oral losses. These an beyond at enemy grows weaker, the infaucy of International indebtedness would still have FRENCH LESSONS measurement and irretrievable.
strength is growing into manhood with to be discharged in gold unless some system Little more than a year ago Germnoyincreasing virility and prowess. That of binetallisu were universally adopted--a was on terins of real friendship with all all this is being accomplished without step éxtremely unlikely to be taken in the nations. To-day she is without a friend dramatic demonstration and foolish interest of a defeated group. in the world save for Austria and the un- boasting is a sign, not of weakness, but speakable Turk. The admiration and re- of strength.... spect in which she was held have been suc- eceded by universal abhorrence, by a great fear, and a stern resolve to rid the world of her monstrous designs.
A thou sand years from now the awful story of violated Belgiam will be read by school children in their history books as children to-day read of the Hun and the Saracen, The Germany of the Hohenzollerns is HOME damned for ever.
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It is interesting to End an article in the Tay, entitled Fiasco of our Commercial Intelligence," after all that has bein wri- ten and said about the perfection of Ge- man orgaisation.
· It should be remembered that a stalemate in arms as well as in finance is hardly prob It is, I course, true that our countryable, and that in any case the group ex- has not been accustomed to organization hausted financially would not be in a position and discipline which leads unthinking to dictate the terms necessary to rehabilitate from time to time to imaging that its resources and to force bimetallism upon there could be a different discipline in on unwilling world. the coalfields and workshops from that which prevails in the trenches; but all that is a mere temporary difficulty and which has cannot impede the country made up its mind to win if has to spend its last man and its last shilling in the process.
The restoration of a normal condition of currency will be best obtained by stimulating the interchange of trade, in order that if, as we all hope, the war is fought to a decisive finish, the countries worsted in the fight will be able to straighten their disorganized ex- change rates by increased exports, and thus will be able to obtain by degrees such a claim upon gold as shall repair the mischief caused by war,
The alternative to a clear, decided finish would conceivably give more encouragement to favourable views as to the prospects of silver. For in that case a feature of the new conditions after the war might be a building up of war chests in gold, and there might rise a tendency on the part of Governments encourage the internal use of silver coin, and to draw into their treasuo vaults the guit in circulation, world *It is to be hoped, in the interests of the d generally, that the outcome of the pre- sent strife will not be such as to initiate and there is little doubt that wise leaders on preparations for a contest at a later date,
mind-Fall Mall Gazette.
We have a right to say to neutrals that GERMAN ORGANISATION NOT our cause is just, that the war has been forced upon us, and that we are making, PERFECT.
nad are going to make, every sacrifice that makes a nation great to bring our cause to u successful conclusion. We have a right, I think, to ask neutrals to examine their own consciences as to whether they have done everything that neutrals ought to do, or can do, in insisting that the laws of humanity and doctrines of interte national law which have been so co- The writer insists that the war has fully fostered in times of peace are Neutrals are the executive proved that neither the State, nor the capi- carried out. talista, nor the workers in Germany haipower to compel observance of the prin any pre iee information about the indus fail to do so the result must be disastrous ciples of international law, and if they trial and agricultural resources of the to the world at large in the present and country.
in the future and to give free play to a the less revolting because it carries out. savagery and barbariem which is none is method by the aid of discoveries of scientific research and progress.
Before the war the necessity for the creation of scientific information about our industrial resources was not recognised. It was believed that everything was known, and the greatest confidence existed on the point, although closer reflection would have shown that nothing was know. But no one would admit that our knowledge of industrial affairs was either too amail or non-existent. No one looked closely into the matter, but everyone was content to skim the surface, because it was easier and raised no awkward questions to do so.
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VALUE TO FRANCE OF THE
BRITISH ALLIANCE.
In an article on the British share in the war, the Guerre Sociale says that the greatest stroke of good fortune which has befallen France in the war is to have had Great Britain as en Ally. It argues:--
What would have become of us, even after the battle of the Marne, if the German feet had driven us from the seas and had blockaded us; if Germany had been able to revictual herself in America and elsewhere!
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And then came the war and revealed Our gross ignorance of the conditions of in- dustrial netivity. We had no knowledge of our available supplies of the most in- portant materials. We did not know how they were used or what was the demand for them, or the various uses to which they were put, and the proft that was made from them. This ignorance led to m founded anxiety on the part of the public, which in the fear that it would starve, piled up provisions week out, month in, and thereby produced a rise in prices which for the great mass of the carsumers brought the first painful "experience of
Britain goes to war. Immediately the dearness. This ignorance about the quan- German flock is forced to confine itself to tity of our supplies did not exist among
its own territorial waters; Germany is the laity alone. It was the rule among blockaded and cut off from the whole Sept
Ligut. Murphy. the men, who were concerned in providing world; she is cut off from countries which 13th-Scouts Cor
Capt. Hutchison. the goods.
It was shared by the so-called supplied her with cotton, metals, and 14th- do.
Capt. Stewart. munitions of all sorts; from countries 15th- experts and theorists and, lastly, by the where reside one million of her reservists 18th Centre Sec, M. G. Co. Capt. Wood, officials and those who had to take far who are unable to rejoin
Our Army 17th-No. 1 Sec. Arty, Batty. reaching measures in the industrial sphere. is reinforced by an Army which is being and Left Sec, M. G. Co. Capt. Wolfe, No one had, for instance, the least idea made up slowly but surely of all the best 18th-Civil Service Co. as to the amount of breads.uffs or potatoes fighting material not only in Britain, but that existed, in spite of the official statis in Canada, South Africa, and Australia, ties about the harv:st There was precise knowledge about the yield since the harvest statistics to-day are quite aurel
And the same applied to the daily requirements of the people in meat-in fact, we were all in the dark.".
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roard our financial power is being consoli
dated by its alliance with the greatest financial Power in the world, the Power which in the twelfth month of war is capable of raising, without inocnvenience to herself, a loan of £640,000,000..
Can all this be true, or has the sidemic of self-depreciation spread from England across the North Beal
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George Lambert, from 1871 to 1885 the a very warm letter of thanks had been professional tennis champion of the Belgian Congo and the suppression of received from the President, Lord South-world, has died in London at the age of Belgium from the list of independent work. The balance of the Fund, 82,081.93, seventy. He lost the championship when The Grey Book includes a letter from had been paid to the Honorary Treasurer beaten by the American, Thomas Pettitt. Barca Bevens who was at that time of the British North Borneo General War Belgian Minister in Berlin, to the Relief Fund, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, proving absolutely that this proposal was made by Herr von Jagow, the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs-Reuter.
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