A. LATE DISCOVERY,
VALUE OF MACHINE GUNS AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Mr. Lloyd George (Minister of Muni tions) in the mise of Commons sold that
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MR. H. G, WELLS ON THE FUTURE.
EUROPEAN POLITICS AFTER THE WAR.
THREE OREAT WORLD POWERS.
the question,
"Well, I suppose I must, although I abled the administrators to reader speedy hate to hear the cries of the drowning," the footsteps of the Allies had been dogged assistance to officers and men of the Indianid the submarino captain, ordered by mantle in the January number of Army who have been permanently disabled The Pirates of the World" to sink any by the spectre of " too late." In appealing or wounded, and to provide the liners which might be found upon the wide
killed died from stretch of the Atlantie. who or nction for more labour, he said that only a trifling of those who have
wounds with prompt assistance. Assist Yes," answered his lieutenant, percentage of machine tools and Inthes were He was sure a working night shifts.
we are unable to carry boats.". officers who have been invalided back to by the medical authorities to spond a India from the front and who are ordered period of convalescence in a notorium.
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change would be made, but feared that itance has also been rendered to British we cannot do anything to save then, as Slater, which may fort the nucleus of
Except to refrain from attacking them, and that is impossible, for one cannot
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Mr. H. G, Wells reassumes the prophet's
Cassell's Magazine. In the first of a series of articles which will try to answer What is Coming 7" he suggests that the outcome of the war will probably be the creation of three "Great a World State bringing universal peace.
Whatever appearance, of separate¦ * TJITAROEM....... sovereignties are kept up after the war, the practical outcome of the struggle is. TJILIWONG.. only three great World Powers left-the anti-German alios, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan-Americans. And these new Powers will be in certain respects unlike any existing Europea
States." None of the three Powers will be small or homogeneous enough to serve dynastic ambition, embody a national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any group of financial enterprises. They will
be more comprehensive, less romantic, and more businesslike altogether.
might be too lato.. We had discovered late the value of high explosives, and realised late the incredible nusaber of shells re-
Somo idea of the calls which may be sey express orders." replied bis quite likely to be this: that there will be quired. Mr. Lloyd George told an astonish of house that it was not until Mr. Asquith anticipated may be gathered from the fact
This conversation took place on the con- that it is estimated that of British officers ning-tower of one of Germany's most visited the trenches in June that the over-
of the Indian Army and of the Indian modern submarines, whilst he was travel- whelming importance of machine guns was realised, and the orders, therefore, enor Army Reserve there will have been 540ing avash backwards and forwards acress killed and 800 wounded, of Indian officers the chief steamship route of the Atlantic mously increased.
Mr. Lloyd George said it was six 300 killed and 750 wounded, and of Indias Not a ship was in sight, whilst an overy months since Mr. Asquith had invited him non-commissioned officers and men 9,000 side stretched the ocean rising and falling to take charge of the provision of mani-killed and 25,000 wounded. It must, of with the restless swell, and Beccy clouds bions for the army. He was instructed to course, be remembered that no more than drifted soross the blue sky overhead, till increase supplies in order to lessen lasses 25 per cent of the wounded in each class the junior officer marvelled to himself at Preare likely to be so severely wounded as to the presumption of bringing hideous war
In the into such a scene of beauty when attacking perilous positions. viously what we had stinted in material wo be invalided out of the service. bad squandered in lives. Our shortage of majority of the eases the wounds will be shells was known to our trips and the relatively slight, and the men will remain on enemy, but neither knew how really short the active list. Even allowing for this fact we were in some very essential particulars. however, there will probably be voare 200 Military experts had believed the days of British officers, nearly as many Indian high explosives were numbered, except in officers and men who are incapacitated by the case of siege guns-and considered wounds for further service, many of whom shrapnel the only weapon of held warfare, will need assistance from the fund.
Intian soldiers who have returned from The British were reluctant converts to the- conciusion that a very substantial propor- the front sick or wounded have each heen tion of high explosives was essential for suc-paid Rs. 25 (£1 13s, 4d); men permanently disabled have been paid £3 6. 8d., and cess iu trench warfare:
these are to receive a further similar pay-1 to no name on her side, though observa-casential nature; and cut of that state of ment at the end of six months, while the next of kin of dead soldiers have also received each the sum of £3 3, B., and are to receive a similar sum,
SPEEDING-EP.
Experts now believed that quite half of the high explosives were necessary, but came to that couchsion too late to prevent a shortage of shells at the beginning of the year, The Ministry of Munitions and created buiklings to supplement, the works of private firms. The Ministry had organ- ised 40 local ammunition committees in the most important engineering centres, con- sisting of business men; also they put up national shell factories. which were a conspicuous success. They were not only increasing the supply, but minimising la- bour difficulties and enabling the Govern ment to check prices. The result had been that the previous week the factories turned out three times as many high. explosive shells as were turned out by all the arenals * work in the United Kingdom during the month of May.
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Since last April a monthly sum of £870 has been expended in comforts for men who have left Indja on active service.
TANK STEAMER UNDER FIRE.
PLUCKY ESCAPE FROM U. BOAT
>
AFTER WARM ENCOUNTER.
It was after midday when the look-out reported & small smudge of grey on the skyline, and, after a moment of telescopic observation, affirmed that it was a liner of considerable size.
On hearing this the captain gave orders the appromen of the expected victim, in the vessel to be submerged, and awaited
Possibly she is a neutral," said the lieutenant, inwardly hoping this might be so; it was aureover, the first time he had been employed on this hateful task.
I think not," replied the other, for tion through this periscope is by no means easy."
Now we shall be murderers," cried the younger officer.
No, replied the r'der, "now we shall Whilst they were speaking the ship loom beatrice" ed larger, but as she was steaming straight towards them it was impossible to tell her size speed, and nationality.
Haze habet, said the captain as the sub- marine drifted slowly on, and the un suspecting liner lessened the distance be- twe be and her fue.
longer.
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“Germany, I believe, is going to be beaten." he says, "but not completely crushed, by this war; she is going to ba left militarist and united with Austria and Hungary, and unchanged in her affairs comes. I believe, the hope for ant ultimate confederation of the nations of the earth Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers KARIMOEN attempting recuperation, cherishing re- venge, dreaming of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the TJIKEMBANG : British, the French. the Belgians, Russians, Italians..or Japanese to think
any longer of settling their differences by ARAKAN... war among themselves, To do an wilf mean the creation of opportunity for the complete reinstatement of German mili- tarism. It will open the door for a con- clusive German hegemony.
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INTER-STATE CONGRESS. It was about one o'clock when the offi
"Now, however clumsy and confused the diplomacy of these present Allies may The captain of the Sun Jelito, one of thecer of H.M.S. l'index, one of our latest
be (challenged constantly, as it is, by a free, venal, and irresponsible Press in large oil tank steamers of the Eagle Oil destroyers, were at luncheon (intensely coast at hali-speed).
at least three of their countries), the Transport Company, has reported a warm weary of their task of steaming up and enecunter with a German submarine. The down the Irish story, says the Central News, is best told They were interrupted by a message from necessity they will be under will be so the wireless operator that he had just re-
urgent and so evident that it is impossible ceived a call from the Portiora, to say
to imagine that they will not set up some in his own words:
that a submarine had fired on her, missed
permanent organ for the direction and her, and was giving chase, and that coordination of their joint international though her speed was giving her the all-relationships. It may be a queerly con vastage her coal was running low, and her stituted body at first, it may be af
called a Congress, or any old name Immediately the officers became more, that sort, but essentially its business will be to conduct a joint, fiscat, military and the Ask her how far off she is." cried 'the
naval policy, to keep the peace in cheerful,
In a few moments the Vinder was head ship with China, and organise joint and commander, as the messenger left the cabin. Balkans and Asia, to establish a relation- be swing out and the engines to being for the open sea, her speed gradually several arbitration Arrangements with I saw that it was only a shell that had more fuel, natil the chief engineer tele-"And it must develop something mere stopped, but immediately afterwards, when increasing as the stokers piled on more and America
sure and awift than our present diplomacy. phoned to the bridge to say he hoped the struck the lower bridge, I ordered away boilers would stand the strain, but he was One of its chief concerns will be the right full speed again and to give her all they
doubtfiel.
of way through the Bosphorus and the posibly could..
Dardanelles. and the watching of the forces that stir up conflict in the Balkans and the Levant. It must have unity unauthoritative conference enough for that; it must be more than a
The quantity of shells fired during the
A submarine suddenly appeared about operations in September was onormous. The battle lasted weeks, yet there was no short.200 to 200 yards on our port quarter, and age. This ammunition was the result of without warning, opened fire on us. four months of enroful husbanding, but the was on the bridge at the time and ordered our stern to be kept towards him and the we would be in a position to replace it in engines to be kept going full speed. After tight could not be maintained much morely diplomatic pretension; it may ha whole was replaced in a month, and soon
The position regarding a few minutes we were struck on the star- A single week. medium guas and owitzers was thoroughly board side by what I thought at first was a torpedo, as I was staaned by the con antisfactory up to midsummer this year. Big guns were not ordered on a large scale, cussion and hit on the side with the flying Considerable reductions had been effected splinters in the prices of raw materials. There had heen an aggregate saving of about £20,000,000 by the department securing cou. trol of the metal market of the country.
OUTPUT OF MACHINE GUNS.
I at once ordered the boats to
"Risk it," came the answer. "The submarine was now flying the
Right," grunted the engineer, as he ignat Abandon ship immediately, and turned once more to his throbbing charge.
By now the destroyer was meeting the the shells were flying all over us, some striking the water alongside and others full force of the Atlantic swelt, which been erected to turn out a new type of passing over the bridge and falling into severed by her razor-like bows, swept across of repres
"Can you get another two knots if need- the vessel rose on a foaming crest
One of the first things, he continued, was multiplying the output of machine-guns. A now factory to produce smaller guas had Two new factories had been equipped,
the water ahead. This was kept up for the deck in sheets of foam, while behind machine-gun, with the result that the de. livery had increased fivefold. The output about forty minutes. Then the submarine a mighty mass of tumbling snow stretched "There she is." cried the look-out, as of rifles had vastly increased, Trench mor- discerned two patrol boats above five back toward the shore, now lost to sight. tars were a new development, but the out- miles away making for us. Then he dived. put of grenades had increased forty times. I saw one torpedo leave the submarine, The cost of 18 pounder ammunition has but it seemed to me to disappear about heen reduced by 40 per cent, and other half-way between us, although soon after ad caught the ear of the engineer, as ammunition proportionately. The rented a large column of water rose about fifts he passed the speaking-tube on his way to
But I am labour to man all the fratories Machines feet from our part quarter, and we could examine the steam gauge. for making machine guns were standing feel the ship tremble all over.
If he could get certain we were not struck under water." idle for lack of men.
The report proceeds to praise the con- skilled men where he wanted then, the duct of the officers and engineers, who problem of the war would he solved,
struck manfully to their pasts, especially the chief officer, Mr. Piper, who took the wheel and to whose steering the escape was very largely due.
In no war ever fought had the prepon derance of machinery been so completely established, The German Successes were almost entirely due to the mechanical pre- ponderance achieved at the beginning of the war. We appointed a number of hustlers
The San Meito, which is of 10.160 tons The vessel is com- gross, was on her way to Mexico to load a, cargo of fuel oil,
Liverpool.
**OUTCLASSED."
to visit the factories to find out what was manded by Captala J. D. Jackson, of Wrong, to set it right and to press for- ward contracts. The net result had been. an increase in the deliveries of old orders by 60 per cent. Two emergency factories for filling shells were erected in six weeks, Mr. That was a fino piece of bustling. Thomas, who went to America, reported that Mr. J. P. Morgan had saved Britain, millions by preventing the inflation of prices.
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For the new factorics we wanted 80,000 skilled workers and 300.000 unskilled. He beard talk about over-ordering and over-production. Nothing could be mischievous, They could talk of over- ordering when they had as much as the Gernians. A good margin was a wise in: sarance. Less than enough was foolish extravagance. What we spared in money we spilled in blood.
FATAL WORDS.
He had a remarkable photograph of the Loos battlefield showing the barbed wire undestroyed, and only one machine-gun employment intact. Every soldier anid the only way of doing it was to have enough ammunition to crush every enemy trench and every concrete emplicement, to shatter every machine-gun, and rend ovory yard of entanglements. If the enemy wanted to resist he must do it in the open.. He appealed to the employers and work- men not to have too late" inscribed on -the portals of the workshops. They were fatal words in this wor-too late moving here too late arriving there, too late coming to this decision, too late starting
late."
The Devil sat by the Lake of Fire on a
pile of sulphur kegs;.
His head was bowed upon his breast, his
tail between his legs;
A look of shame was on his face, the
spark dripped from his eyes- He had sent his resignation to the throne
up in the skies
"I'm down and out," the Devil said-
ho said it with a sob-
There are others that outclass me and
I want to quit my job.
Hell isn't in it with the land that lies
along the Rhine;
I'm old and out-of-date and therefore I
resign;
One Krupp-munition maker, with his
bloody shot and shell,
Knows more about damnation: than all
the imps of Hell.
Give my job to Kaiser Bil or to Fer-
dinand the Czar.
Or to Sultan Abdal Hamid, or some such
main of war.
to leave the old home, the spot I I hate
love so well. Bat I feel that I'm not up-to-date in
the art of running bell." And the Devil spat a squirt of steam at
a brimstone bumblebee, And muttered: "I'm outclassed by
Hohenzollern Devilry."
THE SPECTATOR
"She'll knock her bottom ont," he re- plied, and turned to curse the stokers for not giving him more steam.
..
III.
There was great anxiety in the engine, room of the str. Fortiore. For half-an- hour engines registered for twenty-five kouts were being driven at twenty-seven, and messages were repeatedly sent to say noise was deafening; the steam steering. that the enemy were still fa pursuit. The gear grunting and rattling as the liner swayed from port to starboard, leaving a zig-zag track behind her, Barely a mile
mere.
So far as purely material things go, Mr. Wells-who foretold with wonderful accuracy some of the most, startling scien- tific achievements of to-day-prophesies "a general arrest in invention and enter priss" owing to the war's vast destruction of capital and the fact that we are killing off many of our brightest young men,
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now separated the two ships, and the, pas-gkong Eaco-2nd Day.
sengers saw with dread the distance be- tween them lessening,
IV.
"We are gaining." cried the commander of the submarine."Try a shot," be tele- phoned to the bow torpedoroom, as he swung the submarine to port to allow a better aim, and swore at the risk he ran of losing his prey.
V.
The tactics of the submarine could be judged from the Fortiora by the movements of the water.
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What the devil is up now1" he cried, he rushed to his levers. Crash, what was wrong! The engines slowed and in a frantic effort to avoid the silver phoned the accident to the officer in
The captain of the liner span the wheel jammed,
Borves him right," he said, as he tele
charge.
nemace.
VI.
The captain also wore, shouting es a torpedo from the submarine just missed the hows of his vessel: Fore gun sub- marine 1800, fire." With an angry clack the weapon spoke; a rent appeared in the conning-tower of the submarine.
"Missed," cried the enemy's look-out and the chase began again. A torrent of abusive German came down the tube to the torpede-flat when the summander saw her shot fail. Suddenly a sailor rushed to the bridge, pointing to a black streak approaching swiftly behind the vessel,
We are pursued,” he cried, “and this delay will cost us dear."
Turning, the captain saw the black streak gradually growing bigger, "Try a shot from the stern flat he roared down On the German submarine the com
+ the speaking tube.
Lower, you fool!" he cried. Once more the gun was fired, and the submarine began to list.
Right; that has settled her," the cap- tain shouted....
VIII.
The message reached the ears of the lica-mander ordered all on deck,
It is all over.” be said to the assembl tenant on duty," Ah, good," he said, “we
"No," said the lieutenant, "Look !" have lost our prey. The men glared at ed men. him in fury as they placed the shining
Glancing or the waves, the commander missile in the tube, but were too busy to
ing the name Fortiora, reply. Perhaps one or two agreed with saw two boats swiftly approaching, bear-
"sible """
on that enterprise, too late in preparing to an end in a year victoriously, or linger The footsteps of the Allies were dogged by along the bloodstained path for years." the mocking spectre of tea
The Daily Telegraph Parliamentary cor "Unless we quicken our movements," he respondent referring to the neglect to concluded, "damnation will fall on the supply-machine-guas, asks why had nothi sacred-cause, for which so much gallant this been realised at the War Office till blood has flowed. Victory depends on the June, and why was it left to a civilian employers and workers. It is & question Prime Minister to press the truth upon whether we are going to bring the war the military authorities 1
VII. Meanwhile, on board the Finder, the chief engineer were na Full astern was ordered from the bridge.
Why he exclaimed, "this is impos
For us,
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