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I have spent a whole morning and afternoon--the first since the fight begun quite away from the battlefield and its siguts; and sounds. Then was no other
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LAW LORDS' DECISION..
· German-owned firms registered as. Eng. Fish companies can no longer sue as British Brus. To deal with them is deni ing with the enemy. This is the effect
course for a civilian, it he wished to keep remedied within the limits of reasurjalik.of an important judgment given by the
measure and judgment and be fit to weigh issues (writes Mr. W. Beach Thomasness and without breaking too much with
valuable traditions i with the Rritish Army in the Field).
(1)-As regards the formulating and The calin that succeeds, perhaps also precedes the storin extends far behind directing of our toreign policy in general the lines. By a magic touch the clearing there should be a Foreign Affairs Com- mittee elected by, the two Houses of our stations where the wounded jostled one
it should anotices -nuzy jesting, like a Bank huli Legislature at Westminster. das crowd, and a fer tuuching the very not be a large Committee; fitten at most, depths of pain bere today a quiet Sun of Peers (or, as I should like to cull day air. The ductors and nurses bad them, Senators) and Livingois, in the pro- prufited by a whole night's sleep. There portion of two-thirds to represent the one patient to twenty beds, House of Commons and une-third the was not
Members of the Legislature though as late as two-night ago the staff Senate. could deal with the work unly by incoll-suould be Flected to the Committe by the Men whoopinion of the House of Commons and ing volunteers of all surts. had carried up anumanition to the guns the House of Lords respectively, and all night offered themselves as hospital when elected should co upt as members of orderues for the day. They were joined their Committed the Agents-General de at one time by a body of signallers, at offein of the self-governing Dominions. anther by sume Indian troops. The soldiem, too, are at rest..
Tir lhcers, in spite of the intoler able strain, are ready to fight their batties o'er again before inquirers, be exose their master desire is to let all the were above world know that the praise.
To the Committer from time to time thc Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should contide all developments of the foreign policy of his Cabinet. Similarly, all great appointments in our Foreign Service should be mentioned while they are merely contemplated and before they are made. The Foreign Affairs Committe of the Empire world, of course, only be "I hope you were satisfied with as, sire" said up of the survivors of a deadvisory, but the Secretary of State for sperate charge across three barrages of Foreign Affairs would lo reluctant to act the intensest fire of the day. I think - against its considered opinion, and, at thung in all this stress of the struggle so the same time, would feel greatly sup moved the fighting general to whom it posted and assisted in his announcements
to Parliament. was said as this wodest question.
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House of Lords last month, when Lord Mersey, Lord Kinneur, and Arkinson, Lord Shaw, Lord Sumar. Lord Parker,
ment by Lord Halsbery that trading and Lord Parmoor agreed with a judg- with an enemy-owned "British" firm was! illegal.
The High Court, and also the Cuart of Appeal had held sal toe Daimler Co., Ltd, must pay 5,000, due on ouls of exchange for goods supplied, to the Con inentas Tyre Co., a German-owned com
Ing Continental Tyre paný registered as tings and carrying
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notor types. Ot its Co. was incorporated for the sain of German-minde shares were held either by the parent capital of £25,000 in 11 shares 24,000 Germany company or by Germans resident
Germany. The remaining one sharo was held by the secretary in England, a German who had become naturalised. Of rpe resided in Germany and the fourth the four directors when war broke out
England a few days later.
The Daimler Co. refused to pay on thei grand that it was illegal to trade with or pay money to or for the benefit of enemy aliens,
Mr. Justice Seration held that so long as the Continental Tyre Co. was register- to sin, and that this payment was not a ed as an English company it was entitled trading with the enemy, live judges in the Court of Appeal uphold this decision," Rione dissenting.
Ou these decisions thousands of Eng- Tish traders inct hills held by banks which had discounted them for Germany just But the Daimler Co. carried their case to the House of Lords, before the war. who heard it last February.
In this way the people of the United In all armies during na attack you have to appoint posts, as it were, police Kingdom and the people of the self. posts this is one of the mpy details governing Dominions would really beford dustice Buckley (Lord Wrenbury) Comitted from picturesque accounts-come identified through; their elected or wlane task is to turn back men wheerppointed representatives with the coti- nerve has falled. In no case where I have act of the foreign affairs of the Empire. had news of the fighting has any one of Nelless to say, no member of the For these posty found a single straggler to Affairs Committee of either House must be at the same time a member of stop or question.
the Government of the day. The Com mittee must exist absolutely outside the Peading better and more his too early to give, as I should like Government.
as to the gave, a general description-of-the-far reaching arrangements fighting from Gommecourt to Montau-federation of the Empire, the Crown at there are one or two cardinst Colonies and Protectorates and the great fadian Empire would be represented in facts that ard as well said at once.
the consideration of foreign affairs by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Secretary of State for India, who would presumably have been commiltad by their Foreign Affairs colleague on every matter of any importance in his Department especially where it affected the interests of the Crown Colonies, Pro tectorates, or India.
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Tu a vigorous judgment delivered last mouth wataining he appeal, Lord Habsbury said that in his opinion the whole discussion was solved by the simple proposition that in our law when the ob ject to be obtained was unlawful the in- directness of the means by which it was to be obtained would not get rid of the unlawfulness. The abject with which the company was registered in England was to derive profits for its shareholders. Since the outbreak of the war the share- holders and become (with one exception) enemy aliens, and dealing with them be enne illegal,
The other lords also agreed and the appeal must succeed..
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In general the battle, though only the prinue to others, is a won battle. The results are greater than was expected over much of the field; and all along the Find our Army has proved itself better
"I read where a case like galan hund brein in every way than it was thought to be, Of that there can be no question. The
curod by Cuticura so I sent for treu sample, After uding them I found the breaking out New Apny has found its strength, is
Lord Atkinson thought there was no.
was drying up so I bought a taz-of sagirus? fuller of fight than ever it was, is not
'continued to use then. Now I am com- less full of fight can say no more in
(med) Miss K. Morgun, (2.) There must be set up at the For-evidence on which it could be assumed
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Trposes reading estions in refer who first shattered Two years ago Gereign Ofia, or in conection with the For that the company, as distinct from its ence to its trading. seemed plain to But though the courage and, indeed, candidates for all its work at home and skill was equal all over the front, aabroad. Hitherto, at any rate down to him that the company must be regarded as an alien company, and by the pro- sharp line divides success from failure; about a year ago such selection has vir- and even for the sake of justice to the tually been made by the private secretary flamacions the position taken up by the trips the crucial cause of the contrast to the Secretary of State, who has placed appellants was right. Lought to be pointed out. Between Mont-on paper his suggestions for all except: auban and La Buisselle uur success was the very highest apointments, those which great thingh. varied. To speak roughly, (nie mattēvs of Cabinet consultation. Of the sperd and depth of the advance and curse the Secretary of State at any time the number of the losses more in a de-could chose candidates for the Furrign scending scale, from Montauban to InOffier staff, for the Diphumatic or Con Boisselle. The greater the advance theular Services. without reference to his less costly. But all of it is a tale of tough fight lasting for several days.
The battle north of the Antre differs in almost all particulars Let the chief By Thiepval difference be said first. Serre, Beaumont-Hamel, and above all Héboterne and Commecourt, the Ger-
In ancient days it was frank nepotism nts had assed artillery in phalanxes. Some batteries that had not fired a shit that prevailed. In more recent times the itt this region before barraged or Secretary of State was pestered by me- the trenches with shells that fell as thickbers of both Houses of Parliament to ac
They fell inept candi ates for this, that, or as machine gun bullets.
Weing in the lower ranks of the Diplomatic curtain through which our troops of other branch of the Foreign Service and were forced to press. In the south found it very difficult to refuge. the machine-gun was the enemy. Hire learn, however, from the publication of Service can exist honourably and effi the artillery curtain was its competitor, certain notice to candidates that there ciently in foreign capitale on purely
A SPLENDID FAULT.
private seretary, but is a matter of con venience the course was generally the one. bare indicated. In the far past and in the not very distatit past the patronage of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was by no means wisely exercised in the public interests,
NO USE FOR THE GERMAN IN JAVA.
The Hundurger Nachrichten publishes a letter from a prominent German mer- chaut in Surabaya bitterly complaining of the strong anti German feeling in the Dutch East Indies. He says that many Germans will certainly leave Java after
the war. Germa successes have not altered the sentiment of the Dutch as the news service of our enemies fine tions too well.'
The
various reasons should be kept apart from the Foreign Service, but with the same facilities as now for the exercise of discretion by the Secretary of State. He should be able, if he chose, to bring Diplomatic or Consular officials home to work; or similarly to send Foreign Office clerks abroad.
is now in existence a Board of Selection minal pay. The Diplomatie and Con- within the Foreign Office itself, similar sular Services must be completely fused,
properly and sufficiently paid. no doubt to that which has for some timeHome Service of the Foreign Off for I think there is no sort of doubt that the German Stant had made up its mad past existed at the Colonial Office in ro- that the attack was to be launched begard to promotions, tween the Anere and Arras, with Gen
The number of mecourt as the centre. guns they concentrated there was grat They used a very heavy shrapnel their 5. guns in some quantities. The "duds
are there to prove it. Every detail of the defence was practised and preached. Dug-unts were especially en trived, and the men both drilled and stimulated. There is other proof than the exceptional daring they showed in taking machine guns out into No Man's Land and shooting automatic guns from the parapets of the trenches.
But the Board of Selection-it is per missile to assume-is entirely composed of a few heads of departments in the Foreign Office itself, and the tenderry of these selectors inevitably will he only to select randidates who are known to
All Foreign Service must start from a them, who came from within a very small
· Altruistic nepot consular busin Young men who have and privileged eirele ism will come into existence. Sir A. B. been selected and who have successfully 118 commissioned will gracefully select the son or nephew passed the examination must start on of Mr. X, Y., and the latter will recipro- their foreign careers cate the charming attention. In the days Vice-Consuls and be paid a sufficient of the grem Lord Salisbury we came as salary to support existence decently in a Under them may be early as possible to an ideal condition foreign town. of affairs as regards selection of candi- clerks, pro-consuls or consular agents of The story of this half of the battle is dates for all branches of Foreign Service.msch the same standing as at the present Lord Salisbury had a wide purview, day, who would be rather employés of an unwavering march of our troos
wide acquaintance, with men in many through these curtains of fire right p
ing as Vice-Consuls, the future diptle- matists would rise by ability to be Con- to the enemy trenches, which in all cars, spheres, and an odd habit of just pick the consulate than of the Crown Start- Those who I believe, they reached-sometimes fisting out the right man even from com-
paratively bumble ranks, With a few suls and Consuls-General. ing the enemy hand-to-hand in No. Ma'suas he might lift a Vice-Consal like showed the requisite qualifications would Land. O fault was that "the Sir William White to he Ambassador at became diplomatic officers to deal directly with the Governments of the lands in were too keen." Isolated parties crosed Constantinople, if he thought he was one, two, three, and four lines of trendes suited to the work, or a West African which they represented the British Em- of Lega and entered villages and took prisones. Commissioner, like the late Sir Claude pire. In short, our Secretarica Some of our troops reported their Macdonald, to be Minister in China, andtion and Councillors of Embassy, our so forth. And the permanent officials of Ministers, Envoys, and Ambassadors, sence in Serre at 2 p.ni, on Saturdy. Farther south two Irishmen took twenty his day were also men of no inere depart would have begun diplomatic life as Vice- prisoners and held out till Mond, mental piety and not only concurred Consuls and have risen through ability though they dared not use their last with such appointments outside rules and and appropriateness to the higher posts
in the Diplomatic Service. munition because of the prisones regulations, hat frequently suggested for the Consular Service: Finally they decided to release the pi- other, soners and return, which they da especially.
There must in future.be. a. Board of successfully.
Selection for the Foreign Office as for the other Departments of State service. But it must be a Board appointed by the Sovereign, and consisting of men of light and leading representing great public in- terests, history, science, and commerce, the seroud and third line trenches, with combined with a few departmental off
All the later evidence goes to show the the German losses north of the Aare were much heavier than 1, at any rap first thought. The bayonet was busy, nd our artillery had made terrible havoc
the enemy had manned heavily. A qucials ra offrin tity of the enemy's batteries were knockd
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When candidates have been selected by the appointed Board of Selection-a Board which I trust will look as jouch to physical fitness as to mental qualifica tions-they must pass with sufficient sue- cess a test examination as to their pro ficiency in all that concerns the service of the Crown in foreign countries. But the end that they shall exhibit the right kind of proficiency the present cur- riculum laid down for entry into the Diplomatic Service, the Foreign Office
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And, crowning marvel of all, sevealdition for entering the service of the staff, and the Levant and Far East Con- groups of prisoners were taken ad Crown in the Foreiga Office and the sulates must be entirely revised.
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