5% Exchequer Bonds.
To the Directors
of Business Firms.
Directorship never carried such a privilege as this-to help the Country in its hour of need."
THE
WE WAR will be won by
MAN POWER and
MONEY POWER. Bustess firms have helped toward furnishing man power by liberating their staff
and workman to fight and assisting their dependents.
They are now asked to help to country MONEY
give their
POWER.
Companies have reserve funds which they will want for extension The of business after the War. Government asks them to lend their country that money to-day
to carry on the War.
THE MORE MONEY THE GOVERNMENT GETS THE
QUICKER THE WAR WILL BE FORCED TO A SUCCESS-
FUL ISSUE.
The Government asks the money
for five years and offers 5 per cent. interest. The security is the Con- solidated Fun of the United King-
dom.
On the 1st December, 1920, all the money lent will be repaid in full.
There will be no depreciation to
write off in the Company's balance.
sheet. The 5-year Exchequer Bonds
at 5 per
cent, are the safest invest-
ment for reserve funds. These
Bonds carry a high rate of interest; they can always be turned into cash,
and the full return of the money is
guaranteed at a given date.
A Directorship never carried such privilege as this-to help country in its hour of need,
Will Directors call a special Directors' Meeting,
so as to make the investment with the
least possible delay ?
THE TIMES'' says:
«NO ADVERTISEMENT CAN EXAGGERATE
THE EXCELLENCE OF THE FIVE PER CENT
EXCHEQUER BONDS, REDEEMABLE AT PAR
IN 1920, EITHER AS AN ABSOLUTELY SAFE
SECURITY—FOR — CAPITAL, OR AS
DIVIDEND-PAYING INVESTMENT.”
TAK AINGKONG DAITY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 23ru, 1916
FRANCO BELGIAN FRINT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
APATHETIC FATALISM” OF
THE GERMANS,
ANNIHILATING EFFECT OF FRENCH COUNTER ATTACKS.
LONDON, May 26th 1.10 p.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE CASEMENT THIAL.
LONDON, May 26th. The Casement trial will take place on June 2. His counsel includes the famous Irishnan, Berjeant. Sullivan..
THE IRISH PROBLEM.
THE NEGOTIATIONS.
LONDON, May 26th: It is stated that Sir Herbert Samuel, who is mainly responsible for the framing
The British special correspondent at the French Headquarters sonds interesting details of the fighting at Verdua, given by a German officer prisoner, who dwelt on the annihilating effect of the French of the Home Rule finance clauses, will counter-attacks and the terrific power of be associated with Mr. Lloyd George in
LONDON May 26th. It is understood that June 5 is de finitely fixed upon as the date for the opening of the Economic Conference at
WOMAN'S INFLUENCE.
WHAT IT MEANS TO A MAN.
EASTER
** CONFIDENCE” IN GERMANY.
INSPIRED ASSURANCES OF VICTORY.
BY BEATRICE HERON-MAXWELL }
A chain is not stronger than its After a certain interval recent German weakest luk, and the test for a man's papers have again contained several gene- character is often the amount and quali: val" reviews of the situation. Those ty of his susceptibility to a woman's of a purely military kind are devoted influence. Is it a good thing or a de- mainly to explanation of the slow pro plorable one that women seldom realise gress before Verdun, to the usual asser the extent of their power to sway mentions that the Russian and Italian offer- that men hardly ever acknowledge it in sives have failed, and to assurances that words, though their deeds fell am the fall of Trebizond is of no serious
loquent tale to those who are ready of importance. understanding 19:
the artillers, which it was most difficult the Irish negotiations, Either Mr.there is only one who can dominate, to to locate. The heavy guns most metho John Dillon or Mr. Devlin will assist dically dropped a shell at every twenty | Mr. Redmond, yards, the intervals being swept by the THE ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. 75's. The fire produced an apathetic fatalism among the infantry, who were deprived of all hope of escaping, either by charging forward or by flying to the rear as soon as an assault was expected, and their falalism was turned to exaspera tion. He declared that the report of the FOOD SUPPLIES IN GERMANY. capture of Vaux Fort was due to a STATEMENT IN THE REICHSTAG Major's involuntary mistake the Ger mans never advanced beyond the slopes,
Pari
AMSTERDAM, May 20th.
In the Reichstag, Herr Botocki, Pre He added that the fundamental mistakesident of the Food Supply Board, warn
relieve the attacking troops.
N. FRONT.
of the German Staff was its failure to ed the House not to expect any sudden improvement in the food conditions. He emphasised the great difficulties arising from relations with Federal States and stated that menacing lettors had reached him from Wurttemberg protesting against being sucked dry by Prussia.
[TBROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]
ITALIAN ATTACK NEAR
VALONA
LONDON, May 20th.
12.45 p.m. The Times correspondent at Salonika states that the Italians have begun to. atfxok the Austrians south-east of Valona, and that they are, also advancing în a
north-easterly direction on Beral,
ITALIAN GENERAL · PLACED ON RETIRED LIST.
ROME, May 26th." Lieutenant-General Brusati has been
placed on the retired list.
A BATTLE OF GIANTS."
MARVELLOUS RESISTANCE OF
THE ITALIANSLATO
ROME, May 27th. 1.10 p.m. Nowhere is the war more like a battle of giante, says correspondent of the Milan Secoło, in describing the Tyrol battle Great Austrian shells barrow
deep holes in the mountain sides, the ****s split and crumble, and whole slices of the mountain, with pine foresis, seein ent off, the crash resounding like thunder
rough the valleys.
Herr Botorki pleaded for the co-opera- tion of the States, saying that otherwise his work would fail.
INDIAN
PRISONERS-OF-WAR. IN GERMANY.
A SATISFACTORY REPORT.
LONDON, May th It is officially announced that - an
American report on the war prisoners' camp at Wrensdorf, where there are 600 Indians, shows the conditions to be satisfactory. Care is taken that the foodstuffs conform with the religious be liefs, of the prisonera. The relations be- tween the prisoners and the military are excellent. Many prisoners receive weekly parcels of food from Great Britain which are shared equally.
SKIRMISH IN THE SOUDAN, FINE ACHIEVEMENT BY AVIATOR,
LONDON, May 28th.
The Easter message from Berlin-in other words, from the Foreign Office--to the Cologne Gazette in called "Under the Sign of Confidence. The main Ergument is, however, that while the Easter Festival hus the year been nark ed by usual gloom and sadness, the Germans have got to comfort themselves with the belief that they, unlike their enemies, have won the war. They are even invited to believe that this will be the last war in history of the same magnitude “because it is to-day already an established fact that a European coalition will never again be formed which en sond its armies against Ger- many and her allies." The writer pro-
ceeds
There may be many women in a man's life appealing to spasmodic moods, or different phases of his nature, eniotional, psychical, or artistic, but as a rule,
make him or to break him.
Take a proud man in any walk of life, with ambition in his soul, on which he keeps a tight rem, fearing to fall short of success, distrusting the wisdom of quitting beaten and obvious tracks to which duty may point, disbelieving other men who arge him un, sat suffering from the ache of unused faculties that instinct says are latent in him, and give this man as tie shurer of his daily life, or ucca- sional leisure hours, a woman who does
That is the most powerful consolation not reach or touch this inner mind of which helps us to bear all discomforta his, hidden beneath the surface crust of and which lightens the task of holding. his reticence. The usual result is out. We have fought against a world of atrophy. He continues to stifle the enemies to secure the existence of our promptings that she disregards Empire and our position as a political
But let him meet the woman--wife or
power, and this security we have achiev- *- relative or friend who sees his capabled. The assumptions and calculations litios and talents, who longs to set his based upon the possibility of beating us feet on the higher rung of the ladder, which it has cost us to prove this IA who burns with eager vaulting hope for great indeed, but they are demonstrably bis triumph and weaves in fancy a laurel out of all proportion to the losses of wreath for his adornment, and you can
our enemies on land. If Germany bas watch him soar on wings fashioned for bled, France has bled to death. If Ger- him by her influence many has had to make sacrifices, from
Her belief in him gives him faith in Itussia the final sacrifice of her ambitions, himself, her keenness fires him with en-
of power in the West have been wrung thusiasm, her demand for the gift of his with enerous loss of life. The son whole self and what it can accomplish which we have given to Frauen, and impels him to draw her onwards and Russia, and which they will never forget, upwards with him towards the stars. ✅ and the removal of the English base for Browning was cognisant of this when an offensive against us on the Continent,
arc suecesses which we must set againat. he wrofe
all the troubles which have struck 5, and through which we still have to pass. The fact that we have secured ·and strengthened our position of might is for us. the consolation which outweighs enr sorrows and the final and firm establish- ment of our gains, which our enemies can no longer prevent, is the reward for what the fortunes of this war will still require of us. Our enemies lack this consolation and this success.
Oh I must feel your sopl: prompt mine, Your heart anticipate my heart. You must he just before, ̈in fins See, and take me see for your part, Now depths of the Divine PILT. The woman who wields this guiding sceptre must be heart-whole in her grasp of it; there can be no hall-measures, no incan of mercenary motives, and she must let him know, once she has drawn him into the radins of her magnetic personali ty, that he matters to her.
There are few men who will ask a woman's interest in their career, of dwell much on it to her, unless they are cer tain by sure signs that she wants to share its hopes and fears, and is most desirous of their confidence about it.
down have proved false. The sacrifices
The writer enlarges upon French anxi Russian losses, and declares that, al- though England is still trying to bully the neutrals," she has really lost all prospect of further influence upon the Continent. He declares that England is still unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices, and writes:
is part of what he seek from her, alugioh crisis because those who believe that If she has love to give him and if love England is in the toils of the compul-
should make hi'n certain that he possesses the game already almost lost chu still her heart and counts above all other me be saved only by universal military ser to her. She can tell him this hy words - Vico are opposed by at least as many ho or half words or even silences; the can will be induced even to-day by no poli- express it in all her ways and workstical purpose to sacrifice the most in- and he, understanding, will be comfort portant English tradition. The complete ed. There is a fallacious creed held by unparalleled phenomenon that the Radi- confusion of patty principles, and the many women that a man must be kept in cal Democrat Lloyd George desires and ignorance of how much he means to her. She welcomes him sparingly or not at
is intended to pave the way to militarist, all; she treats him coldly to rouse in land's political foundations, but is also
is characteristic of the collapse of Eng him the spirit of the chase
Once, twice, or thrice he may taste for sacrifices anything like those characteristic, of the strength of the dis- The War Office in view of the truculent stimulated to pass this harrier, and his which have been made by France and ardour may be fanned to flame warm Russia. It is a success of our arins that and unsatisfactory attitude of the Sul- enough to induge mutual sympathy, but England has been plunged in this crisis, tan of Darfur, why concentrated a force soun he tires of this effort and, slacken- and that she will emerge from this war
ing, gradually drift not only with her fundamental Sostitu Resistance by the Italians in such con
on the Kordofan frontier, dispatched a Even if intuition tells him she has tions broken, but also without any pos ditions is marvellous; yet, immediately force under Colonel Kelly against him. vent, he shunts the thought, and decides against Germany, While France and been counting the moments to his ad-sibility of again finding a foreign sword masses of Austrian infantry are hurled Colonel Kelly's troops occupied the that he is weary of thawing a layer of Russia suffer from this war losses for forward in attacks, the Italians appear capital of Darfur, on May 23rd after
ice every time.
which they can get no political compen like magic from the rocks and dugouts
Nor should she try to roune his jeal-sation, England will carry over into her and mow down in hundreds the enemy, defeating between 2,000 and 3,000 of thevusy as a spur to his regard for her, future history the impossibility of set- whose bodies are strewn on the slopen, v
men with strong feelings ubject to run ting Continental armies in motion against enemy who were strongly entrenched and in competitions. That other men sook
the strongest Power of the Continent. There is no sign of depression on the fought most desperately. The enemy lost her out is no drawback, but that the The Times part of the Italians. The reserve troops a minimum of 1,000 men. The British intolerable. Again, she is at fault when
resiprocates their sense of attraction in app
hurry up in motor lorries festooned with losses were five killed and 23 wounded, the criticises him blamefully, or nags at are no good women, only women who flowers and with bouquete on their rifles..
him, or Loops referring to past oppor They are confident of victory.
tunities he has misused or lost. Her in THE NEAR EAS-I
fluence should include praise why not? He probably defires it from few people, have been influenced by good women. ** having his own standard of personal Good in both these cases is an-adjectivo merit, and is unconscious of freding it of far wider significance than that of from her nevertheless, the knowledgemere non-committal of certain illegal or that she appreciates, the best in him immoral actions, and, outside the nece realises the obstacles in his path and the Barily restricted field of conventional difficulties created by his own tempera- morality is all-embracing. The French ment, and will commend him with nice know well and freely admit this in the - discrimination when he overcomes them, recommcadation when a man's conduct proves sweet to him, and makes a green 39 in question: “Cherchez la lemme! ** unsis in a desert of arid toil.
Men are all in the arena now fighting And she should chime in with his for something or another, and each needs neods. When he returns to her presence a woman's gage to strengthen his power tired, workworn, depressed, or angered of staying or smiting There need not from steady upposition he has coped be too many gages to go round, for with, she should take hini gradually feminine influence is various and eman- delicately, tactfully, wooing him by easy stes from the mother, the sister, the wife. unobtrusive softnesses to a receptive the daughter, the sweetheart, and, above frame of mind, and, having so soothed all, the ideal woman, whatever place ahe him, give him of her best,
fills So, whether or not her own state of The women who make unpleasant bis- mind is equable, the effort to attune it tory stand out in bolder relief than those to harmony with him will benefit herself who have influenced great and noble and bring its own reward, while every actiona in men but those who play upon time it will establish her infuence inore the strength of a man's mind and heart Burely over his heart and life.
to make discord instead of melody, who have fretted away the weak link in a man's life chain, have a reckoning to pay in the fulcea of time,
{THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}
THE RUSSIANS AND THE
BRITISH.
LONDON, May 28th.
A Russian communiqué explains that the Cossacks who joined Sir Percy Lake belonged to a force operating in the re gn between Kermanshah and Kasris biria.
HAVAL ACTIVITIES
TIROLGA REUTER'S AGEROY...
SPANISH STEAMER SUNK.
Bank
LONDON, May 28th.
The Sultan fled.
A striking feature of the fighting was the reconnaissance of a flying officer who succeeded by means of bombs and ma- chine-gus in forcing first a large body of hostile cavalry and then 2,000, infantry to retire în disorder. The officer was himself wounded but returned safely.
THE SUGGESTED MUSLIM CEMETERY IN ENGLAND
PRIVATE OFFER DECLINED.
Lorrow, May 26th.
Mr. Chamberlain has reluctantly de- clined the generous offer of Miss Faith full, of Tunbridge Wells, a former resi The Spanish steamer durrera bus been dent of India, to give her freehold house and grounds, comprising four acres, at BENERAL
Walton-on-Thames, for use as a Muslim cemetery. Miss Faithfull, was willing to defray the cost of the necessary alters tions that would have to be made to the
property.
[THROUGH REUTEB'S AGENCY.]
A DUTCH PROTEST,
SINKING OF THE DERKELSTROOM:
Tuz Haque, May 26th.
200 p.m. Holland has protested to Germany against the sinking of the Berkelstraom.
AFTER THE WAF.
PROVISION FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS:
LONDON, May 28th. The Small Holdings Bill, which is de signed to place 18,000 ldiers on 200,000 acres at a cost of six millions, has vasted its second reading in the Haus of Lords.
The offer is declined on the grounds that there will be no more burial of Muslim soldiers in England, while the remural of the bodies interred at Brook wood and Woking is unnecessary, and would be repugnant to the religions sentiments of many Mohammedans. Mr. Chamberlain suggests that Miss Faithfull should consult with the leading Muslim residents as to whether general burial ground in the neighbourhood of London is desired by the Muslim community,...
He will be glad of her tender pride in him and sympathy, and if to this she adds real love he will be gladder still. There is sincere and single-minded love of several kinds, and each has its value; but the one great passion that included them all is a paramount factor in his caroer IG20 Ang
He may banish it altogether in his work, the heart in abeyance to the brain, but it is a pernigaling sense and force that loses none of its strength while it is dormant.
When a man has found the woman who appeals to every emotion in him he is eager to respond to every emotion in her and his pleasure in so doing is enhanced infinitely by knowing that their ap- proach is mutual in its happine
One might worthily paraphrase the slyly mischievous saying of a modern (Continued on next Column.);
ate casus belli between the sexes: There writer on women, intended as a deliber-
have lived with good men, and make it, There are no good men, only men who
Of them it will never he said, The nations tise up and call her blessed |-
If there are women in England now of unblurred British descent, who have been influencing their men against supreme and unswerving loyalty to thứ truest interests of the Empire, let them take heed lest they fall they are build. ing their houses upon sand. For wher the beat of the fray is past they will se these purblind men, with clearer vision. past, present, and future, and will feet a sick disgust at their own weakness, and the treacherous, pernicious, selfish strength that has traded on it.
While the women who have magnetised the whole chain into solidity can lift their hands serenely in the sunshine as bet re Daily Mail