LONDON AGAIN.
THE JOYS OF HOMECOMING.
ISY AUGUSTUS MUIR IN THE DAILY MAIL.”]
There is one experience common to all who have been in battle and are buck. It is an experience never to be forgotten. One thrills with emotion oven to recall it Only the initiated can wholly understand.
But to those exiles from Gallipoli. in has deeper significanco-it is more fragrant with inexplicable and eager joy than to those who have fought in Flanders and have returned. I refer to the first aight in hospital at home, when one lies in the quiet ward and listens to the music of the outside world and the sweet life- wounds of the stroeta,
If you are from France you misa a cor- tain fine flavour in the delight. For the Flanders firing line is but a vast stone's
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GERMAN APPEAL TO AMERICA.
***AWKWARD' RESTRAINTS” ON- EXPLANATION.
The German Government, evidently alarmed at the vigour of the campaign against Teutonis plotiers in the United States, has taken the extraordinary step of issuing a disavowal of its agents and
live plea that Germany has been misunderstood, not officially to the Ame rican Government, but to the American public through the agency of the Berlin correspondent of the Yew York Times, ir, Garrett. The statement, dated De- cember 20th and sent by wireless, is as follows:
I an authorized to make the foll statement:-
FOOD SUBSTITUTES.
WONDERFUL INVENTIONS OF GERMAN CHEMISTS.
THE CHESSBOARD OF WAR.
PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SPRING.
EIGHT MOVES OPEN TO THE ALLIES.
The following article, which we havo condensed; is transmitted to the Pittsburg Dispatch by Mr. John L. Balderton, its special correspondent in Europe:
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An Austrian medical paper note, some of the latest inventions of the German chemists to provide substitutes for the articles that are growing scarce through the blockade. Two savants, Heidneck and Nagel, have been studying the possibilities of yeast used in brewing. They declare
The great operations of the Allies in the that if the microscopic parasites that
Mediterranean will not begin until late form the yeast are properly dried and March or April. Great armies, in large TIILATJAP compressed a very nutritive substance park consisting of troops withdrawn from can be obtained consisting of at least 50 the western front and, of reserve units per cent of albumen. The learned Pro- which it had been intended to use in fesor Jacobi, of the University of Tübingen, has concentrated his energiesFrance next spring, will be concentrated on the small parasitical insects that feed number of bases on the Mediter- exclusively on the moss known as citraria Janean. There is at present, so means of
estimating the This moss abounds in the
with their great super- islandica.
day, the Allies can put perhaps 1.600.000 ority in man-power, now increasing every men in this theatre by May if they so
in
throw from London. The wounded glide person, group of persons, society or Tyrol and Harz mountains. According to this effort, bber of men to be used
The German Government, naturally, das never knowingly accepted the support of through populated tow loud with human organization, seeking to promote the cause life. In the smooth hospital train one of Germany in the United States by illegal liston all slay to bursts of throbbing acts, by counsels of violence, by contra- The distant guns grow fainter; vention of law, or by any means whatevor tibly they are swallowed in the that could offer the American people in yhispering of the whee is; and halfslumber the pride of their own authority. If ing and half-awake, vaguely conscious of should be alleged that improper acts have any change, merging gradually from the been committed by representatives of the shock of war into the stir of doings now German Government they could easily be ineffably sweet, one is ushered into the dealt with. To any complaints, upon such life which one left behind in the dim past, proofs ag may be submitted by the Ameri five weeks ago,
can Government, suitable response will be dufy made,
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A brief summary of this Message wan received in Germany which referred to riots and conspiracies against peace and order in the United States, and the effect produced thereby on the public sentiment ia Germany was probably more painful than the American Government knew. A
the professor's calculations, 20 tons of the moss could be gathered per square kilometre, or 200 tons per six square miles.
are
not
desire. One or more of the following plans are practically ocrtain to be adopted by After being suitably cleaned and prethe Allies next spring. I may say here pared, the mass could be made into a sort that the operations I shall outline of " flour."" which could be used for
put forward as prophecy or as guesswork. broad, in the proportion of 50 per cent. Nor have I penetrated into the confidence and would only cost twopence a kilo of the allied war staffs. It is highly prob
a penny a pound, able that at present the plan for the spring gramme, or less than Perhaps the gold medal should be award offensive has not yet been selected, that it ed to Herr Berckhold, of Frankfort, who will depend on the course of events this bas discovered that the sewer water of winter in Macedonia, and on the attitudes large cities contains between 10 and 40 and fortunes of Grecce, Roumania, Italy, grammes (1 oz. equals 28.35 grammes) of and Russia The plany outlined repre the sent all those which, in the opinion of com- fat per day and per inhabitant, heaviest figure being found in places petent authorities, night in whatever cir where textile industries are much devecumstances exist next spring, result in loped.
Herr Berkhold erected a factory at Elberfeld, and then at Frankfort, for ex- He tracting the fois from sewer water. now transforms these fats into margarine by the simplest of processes. It will ap. parently soon be easy for the advanced German chemists to produce milk out of the printers' ink obtained by washing old newspapers, and to substance should be out of reach of their capacities. It may be asked whether they intend to eat this margarine themselves, or sell it to
As is well known, the means of com But for more sweet are these home-
munication between Germany and the Bundy to exiles from Gallipoli. I lie in
United States are very unsatisfactory. It a pale green rooms in the heart of London, is practically impossible for the German the life of the city floats up to me Government to keep itself in touch with through the opened window, Last night the American gentiment. It has often to was my first night in England. In mid- depend upon the Foreign Press for infor summer I went from it all, and from Demation concerning American affairs. The vonport docks was snatched on the deck Message of President Wilson to the Con- of a vast liner into the grey unknown. My
gress. in which the activities of German thoughts were not then with what I BE Pathizers in the United States were left; it was the future that held me with its unadventured romance, its promise of a glimpse into the strange things of life. High hope leaping in the heart quelis al regrot
for the past. The little things that light up travel-quaint sights of foreign the jargon of new longues, on- storm, craft passing at night, dawn, like a picture whose appeal has faded were tossed aside. For one's eyes gazed beyond the horizon. It was the future and its unexplored possibilities that grip ped. But the homecoming is different always is. One must rely on the car alone The sound of hammers rang throughout the night at Malta; ambulance wagons whirred on the wharves; jarvoys called to their mules; wheels rattled. But it all was foreign; there was an exotic taint in the very atoosphere; and one longed pas sionately for the did, well-remembered sounds that could speak with their homely music to the heart. To him who returns from Gallipoli, England calls not with elfa voices shrill and clear, but with the -old, honest uproar of her streets
Added shore-were looked at and, different impression might have been pro- their customer-nations.
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And they are coming up to me now through the eyewing fog a welcome, at salve, an enchantment. It is soothing as Leart's ease, this rude song of file. How could I have failed to remark its beauty But war teaches us all many things..... And I now know the beauty of street sounds that uncouth musio of human existence l'
before 1
Most of all do I listen to the footsteps on the pavement; incessant passing foot steps of endless variety making an odd Mostic of sound. You can pick out the child's from the man's; the slipshod shulle of the beggar from the slow, precise tread of a constable; the lumber ing gait of a homeward-bound labourer from the light, quick step of a woman, Your ear is sharpened to details because. the details are beloved, beautiful, roman- mundare, cart rumbles paut; it is yet a living, noisy symbol of home, and it affects one strangely. Above the distant under-tones of a great thor. oughfare you hear it stop; heavy boots clink ou the cobbles; the tinkle of a bell; the response... veicus, boom of the slammed front door; the driver', busky call to his horse; and the cart rumblog on, till it is lost in the tune- less drone of unceasing traffic..
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Night draws down. The murmur of the city in softer in late evening: but the solitary noises of passers-by and vehicles come up with heightened clearness to the quiet room,' One listens lingeringly, moved by the strangeness of human exis tonce, by the loneliness of days that are dead, by the beauty of the present hour. It is sweet to taste the old life again, even in imagination and through the median of disjointed noises that may reach one
duced by the full text of the Message but unfortunately thas was not available in Germany until the American news papers arrived in Germany by mail a fort sight or three weeks later, except such portions as might be taken, with doubt and reservationg, from the English Prem
The Opinion, which quotes the Austrian paper, also gives other instances, notably how a new shoe or bout is being put on the market which is made without leather.
WAR.
In the meantime confidential communi PUBLIC DANCES AND THE cations between the German Government and its diplomatic representatives in the United States, by wireless or cable, are impossible for reasons which the American Government known.
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PROHIBITION IN GERMANY.
must pass through the English Censorship. and messages in Beoret code by wireless are Respecting the order of the Kaiser that forbidden." Misunderstandings are there.it will be pleasing to him if Society con fore bound to arise while explanations are tinues to give its Christmas and New often so circumscribed and belated as to be not wholly effective,
PLOTTERS DISAVOWED.
Apparently the enemies of Germany have succeeded in giving the impression that the German Government is in some way morally or otherwise responsible for what Mr. Wilson has characterized as anti- American activities, comprising attacks on property and the violation of the rules which the American Government lag seon fit to impose on the course of neutral This the German Government trade. absolutely denies. It cannot specifically repudiate acts committed by individuals over whom it has no control, end of whose movements and actions it is neither off- cially nor unofficially informed. It can only say it does most emphatically declare to Germany abroad, to the United States and to the American people all alike, that whoever is guilty of conduct tending to associate the German cause with lawless- ness in thought, suggestion, or dred against the life, property, and order in the United States is, in fact, an enemy of that very cause, a a source of em- barrassment to the German Government, notwithstanding anything he or they may believe to the contrary.
Year balls, it is reported that the Duchess
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officers of the Imperial Guard. It was uselesy to send any of those her in- vitations, because they were all dead,
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Third-A second route of attack is the Struma Valley, which can be reached by If private balls are looked on with railway either from Salonika or from the Greek port of Kavália, find which leads favouring eye, it is still forbidden to dance in public. But the proprietor of a direct to Sulia. At one point in the gorge dancing saloon-café, known as the Süd- of the Struma, the only road becomes a Oriental, arranged a system of giving the track probably impassable for artikery, alarm if ever there were danger of aand there is no staer way by which an police raid, and gave his clients all the army, unless mounted on mountain goata, dancing facilities they wanted: As soon could negotiate the pathless Rhodope as a Wachtmann appeared in the distance Mountains, behind which the railway lies. one of the street scouts pressed a button This route, unattractive as it sounds, is and an electric lamp was lit under the listed by the exports as
possible." eyes of the conductor of the orchestra.
IV. Immediately the waltz or tango was
Fourth-The third and shortest way to changed into a patrotic air, and the couples disentangled themselves from each eat the Constantinople railway is to Laud others' ambraces and joined in the chorus. at. Dedcagatch, and proceed one week's
One day, however, the scout went wrong,
march up the valley of the River Maritza, over the Thracian plain, served by a rail- or treachery must have been at work, and
way running along the river, to the main Herr Wogard. of the Sud-Oriental, was arrested and condemned to a week's im-line, for wause possession the Germans. prisonment. The sentence was light, and attacked Servia. Meraha von der Goltz, contest this march over the wild, rolling merely a reminder that it is not a time with the main Turkish field army, would to dance in the South-East of Europe. although there is no objection to the same country where the Bulgarians crushed the exercises in the drawing-roomg. of the aristocracy.
I am as sure of that in Germany as I was sure of it six weeks ago in the United States, and yet, in the last few days, some very eminent Germans, including one of the most powerful bankers in the empire, have said to me despondently, almost de
pairingly, that the only conclusion open to them was that President Wilson was resolved to force war upon Germany. By that you may measure the depth of the misunderstanding.
Preposterous as this German conception of the American attitude must seem to
Turks in the first Balkan war. An army in great enough strength to push the Turks back, but utterly to rout them, might cut the railway line and then stand on the defensive.
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Fifth-A variation of this scheme, for a great army of 100,000 men or more. which could thoroughly smash the Turkish fed forces, involves a march from Dedea- Thirty miles gatch on Constantinople. from the goal the invaders would bring TPHONE NO.2012 up against the famous lines of Tchataldja, the Sea of Marmors and the Black Sea, which stretch across the isthmus between which brought the victorious Bulgars to & full stop in 1912, and have been pro nounced impregnable by many authorities. Even if the attack on Tchataldja failed and the Turkish capital held out, the railway to Turkey's allies would be again Sa Entente hands.
VI.
It happens regularly that Press me sages from Germany are taken from the air by the English and are reproduced as representing the official German point of view, the assumption being that the German Censor will only pass such things as the Gormian Government wishes the world to believe, Finally, owing to these conditions, all German expression of opinion falls uador an awkward restraint. If the German Government could speak and alone, to the American Government, out of the hearing of the rest of the world, and if it could communicate confidentially with its diplomatic representatives in the from the street.... A motor-car United States, much misconception on throbs up: it halts opposite. The voice both sides could, perhaps, be avoided. By the use of wirdegs, it is true, the German also a man's is that of a girl they are chatting on the doorstep; good Government may communicate with Americans, it is from this point of view. no longer The German attitude to- nights are exchanged; the car whirs round Ambassador in Washington in a private the corner and of into the city. When code known only to the American Govern wards the United States is a pacific aiti It has quite died away I can hear the ment; but, as all other overaments may tude. That it has not been differently ex- girl's latch-key... Silence again.
communicate by cable in an absolutely pressed is owing to the fear that to ex Sleep came to me last night till I was secret, onde, the German Government feels
press it in any less formal manner, that suddenly wakened by a voice singing low that to be alone deprived of this
is to say, with any gratuitous warmth of
Sixth By landing at Smyrna the Allies and clear. The street was quiet; there privilege, and to be required, as to other feeling, would betray the world into
can attempt a march on Constantinople was no other sound to be heard save that Government is, to correspond with its re errors of judgment as to the conditions
From Smyrna a of jaarticulate song and slow halting foot presentatives in a colle open to the Ameri-existing within the fortress. Those con- through Asia Minor. falls. I listened intently. It was the can Government, is an unfair discrimina ditions are much stronger than the world railway runs 150 miles to the Sea of Mar a young girl singing softly to tion. This therefore, is an obstacle that believes. It seems easier for Germany to mora. A route more likely to be followed herself. The child-voice and the litle foot-combines both fact and feeling, and if one understand her enemies than to compre. by an army of invasion lies 150 miles in- land along B branch railway from steps held a strange beauty and sadness adds thereto the misfortune that the Ger- head the American point of view.
Smyrna, which at Afum Karabiasar joins as I hearkened to them in the silence of 1030 Government thinks it has reason to
NEED OF A "SUPER-DIPLOMACY." the Constantinople-Bagdad line. At this deserted streets till they had waned and distrust the neutrality of the United were gone from ma for ever,
States, it will be seen how serious it is,
Affairs between the two countries appear town the invaders, having marched due We veed not inquire whether the German now to be drifting unwisely. The resources east from the sea, would turn to the north Government is justified in regarding of existing diplomatic arrangements are and follow the 200 miles of minding rail. The roads in American neutrality with reservation.
there are moAsia Minor, in spring at summer, are without precedent The doubt exists, and hinders every-ap- unequal to the requirements of a situation way to the Bosphorous. proach to an understanding.
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of Cyprus may be landed at Alexandretta ernment the privilege of using a secret ment of an unusual. not to say heroic, code by wireless was in the beginning character. I have reason to believe that and march inland fifty miles to Aleppo, but it might communicate in this way, if it were proposed to lift suddenly to a Here the Constantinople-Bagdad railway with its ships at sea, but the German higher
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the grows in the Kurdistan mountains will make it possible for General Nixon to sail 400 miles up the Eaphrates from. Feluja and join the army from Cyprus at Forabus, thus winning for Britain the richest lands in potential agricultural wealth in the world.
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regard him as a usurper. If assured mili. tary protection and a khalif of their own people, the 10,000,000 Arabs of the empire might renounce all allegiance to Constan- nople, and if the Mecce expedition can accomplish this the Turko-Germanic scheme to exploit the military failure of the British at the Dardanelles throughout Eighth The British way land a force the Mahomedan world will be checkmated. would a feasible military operation whose can also be served by the election of a
tes, and if this step were would bring the invaders the railway in the Red Sea for the capture of Mecca, the interests of France and Italy lif a dog. the rhythnic footfall of the con- ever valid it has ceased to exist, since go per-diplomatic plans the ex-Wolfifty miles
London is never still. A highway or courtyard way be hushed; but the mute echo of day's clamour mingling with the distant whisper of night trafli seemg to run untiringly through the darkened aisia of sleep. Sleep comes to me thus wooed and accompanied by the soothing minstrelsy of the streets, and is deliciously broken at intervals by the dim-bualed
and further thunder of a train, the quick whir of a passing taxicab the stacerto barking of
United
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of this quences would rock the Mahomedan world friendly to the Entente Powers, for in stable on night duty. The hours slip by: there are no more German ships upon the taken boldly upon the assumption that for the Upper Euphrates. The
every difference there is a bridge to batcheme to cut the Turkish Empire in two to its foundation. The object of this ex-Tripoll and Tun's there are millions of morning colos grey on the window blind, seas
would be cause lifa revives o the quiet pavements. It would be hard to say at this moment found by looking that for every difficulty would rest on the shoulders of General Six polition the Holy City of the Turkish Bul-Moslems whose at itado in the face of the Everyone is hurrying through the chill whether Germany misconceives the Ateri- there is a solution possible in the resources John Nixon, commanding the Indian army
Some of the eight possible campaigns air. There is the pleasing jingle of cat mind more than the United States of the buman understanding, the response operating in the Bagdad region. Bagdad tau as Khalif of Islam and the election in allied reverses gives rise to great anxiety-
is on the Tigris, but the town of Feluji,his place of an Arah of the blood of the crockery downstairs. Footsteps are in the misconceives the German mind. On both would be immediate and very gratifying. passsgo. To and fro they trip. The door sides a great majority, both of the average This might cutsil the exchange between on the Euphrates, is only thirty miles from Prophet The present Sultan and Khalif outlined may become impossible through
If is not eligible for the khalifate under the course of events in the Near East this: ເ opens. A fresh young voice calls Gond people and men in responsible places, Terv the two countries of Ambassadors vested the city of Haroun al-Raschid.
Bagdad can be held during the winter, fosen law, for he does not belong to the winter, but there are no others which can morning. It is the nurse with my break earnestly wish peaceful relations between with high and special powers. GARBEIT. the spring floods caused by the melting of clan of the Prophet, The devout Arabs be attempted by great armies... fash
the two countries to remain undisturbed.