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WOMAN DISCOVERS HEESELI.
The whole trouble, with women vince war begna has been timidity,
1 do aut mean with the exceptional woman like Eve, who took the zaitintivo
before anyone dreamed she had any The average woman would have let the apple rot on the tree before she woul have dured to pick it
The average woman has never done any thing, in the world because she has bren afraid.
Of course this timidity had a cause,
FRIDAY MARCH 23RD
ACHOSE SIBERIA IN WAR TIME.
A WARNING TO INGENDING:
TRAVELLERS.
As a warning to those who have thoughts of making the Journey to Europe, ri Biborin, a correspondent who has recently returned from Potro grad writes to the NC Daily News as follows
in order to warn any intending pas sengers of what they may have to face, The journey from Shanghai to Harbin is abcasy and comfortable as could be desired, but the Russian trains are so heavily overtaxed by war that break
HOW AUSTRIA'S STRANGE COACH BLOCKS THE WAY.
AUSTRIA DOOMED ANTWAY
It is necessary clearly to recognise that a no case can Austria Hungary continue to exist as self-controlled monarchy," he says. "It she be no dis
CHINESH NEWS.?
A DEMAND FOR TEN 1,000,000,
Following the demand of Dr. Sun Yat- sen, A Teen Chun-hsuan, the notorious
Mr Henry Wickham Steed, Foreign. Editor of The Tiure, thows in a very lacid article in the Edinburgh Review how Austria's Alrangely constructed coach Blocks the way to European revolutionary leader, has now written to Pesco He shows how a readjustment the Government from Japan, demanding of the wheels will make for progress
Yen 1,000,000, ne says that in March, and the exit of Austria-]
1915, he and Chang Yach-cheng, now Minister of Justice, concluded a loss of Yen 1,000,000 with Chồnsweiyen, a Japanese mercant. No security waa given bub: in their agreement. It was stipulated that the rachey should be repaid by the Chinese Government. It is
to the Government to apply for repay- was concluded, that Mr. Ton has written ment. He reports that the proceeds at this loan were used for cquiping the late Punitive Expedition in Yunnan to finance the attack on Lung Chi-kuang in Kwangtung by Li Liek-chan, and to ment the expenses incurred by Tang Shao-yi money bas been used up and the Govern ment is now asked to inaka repaymont. TROOPS IN KWANGTUNG UNPAID
of European security, she will be trans formed and directed by Germany in the
torosia of Pan-Germanism, "It is for this reason that, the Pro Austrianism of the Clericals, of Cosmo.
Having to day returned from an extremely uncomfortable trip to Petro grad in useless endeavour to reach Eng and the cause was lack of knowledge and by that route; I beg for a little spaca mombered by the Allies in the interests: idiot until now, dd, year after the loan. horsell. The average woman ROVER knew herrolt
The_exceptional woman dis- covered herself-her power-and the kept the discovery quiet, Therefore she had the whole world of men at her foot in the old times; therefore she obtained a posi- tion as typist in modern times. She was the person who did things, because she downs are or frequent occurrence, After Rolitan High Finance, and of some din Shanghai, Suffice it to say, all tha knew she had the power to do them. Unleaving Harbin our clectric light failed fortunately it never occurred to her to and for eight nights we had only candle open the eyes of her sek. As a matter of light. Next, the baggage and kitchen car fact, she thought she was an exception. went wrong and we had to scramble for a Everyone encouraged her in the iden busty meal at occasional station persicularly man perhaps he liked to restaurants Ther a second-class car broke down, and ladies and children,
think that she was an exception,
t
faded publicists, and diplomatists among the Allies, is, in cheet, but a form of Pro-Germaniem
THE SOLUTION.
A chicf corner-stone of any solid and
lasting European reconstruction must be the creation of a united Southern Slay State consisting of the ringdons of Serbia and Montenegro, Josuere goyana Croatia Slavonia Dalmatia, and the purely blav portions of Istria Carniola nad tyris, with due allowance for the necessity of fixing a practicable geographical boundary Unless this stars is formed, the main purpose of the Allies the destruction of the power of Prussian militarist-con scaredy be
achieved.
The average woman sometimes achieved men and baggage wore crowded into the through other people's pradding, but it dining car and spent an extremely trying did not occur to her that it was by reason 3 hours with a crowd of other passengers of the power that was in her
abil another car could be had Sogoral Therefore she never expected to be ade of the ladies were taken into the other quately paid. So woman power has rear by sympathetic fellow-passengers, mained asleep more or less until the war, but the discomfort was great.75 Now the strangest people are discovering These troubice were cheerfully bore, themselves. There is the little woman, and 24 hours late we arrived at Petzo who never thought she could manage any grad. Having been warned on the way from 120 100 confer paleting 21 that we should have difficulty in finding thing unaided, successfully a lit
hotel accommodation, we got the ladies orange "woman, who thought her day was and children into the station restaurant donc long ago, cleaning offices: there is and sent off three of our men to find The German road to the Enat will not the helpless society women Bading out the roane. After a long wait, they returned be blocked, the principle of nationality. use of her hands: there is the telephone girl who is now a valued bank clerk and said that the best they could get ware will not have been vindicated, and the four rooms in a very third rate hotel, seeds of future ware will have been gown. there is
is the domestic servant who is f
fore
We had no choice, and got settled down It is a grave error tą regard in Southern woman in a factory and there is great for the night, a friend and myself occupy. Slav question as merely an isolated issue body of middle-aged women, who never knew they had day, now living everying a dirty little den the size of a Bhang in the Great War, a thing which the hai bathroom, I being inther advanced Allies can attend to or neglect without in years, had a small, bed, and my chum affecting substantially the quality of very short couch and two chairs, with their victory. It was the immediate of understanding it thoroughly and of 2000 PASSPORTS TENURED,
facing betimes the dimouldes by which it is surrounded,
minute of it.
The discovery of herself means most to
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FOR FIVE MONTHS.
A former Governor of Kwangtung,
Kai-hsien, is visiting Cantou ou behalf of the Central Government relative to the present Enancial difficulty. The pro vincial troops, have not been paid for
vent
OPIUM IN KWANGTUNG.
It has been decided that on the 1st April Sino-British Commission will commenca an inspection of the Province of Kwang tung to verify that opium cultivation has
ccased. The Governor holds the district military and civil authorities responsible they are unable to suppress poppy growing belore April,
WAR NEWS,
NEW JAPANESE RIFLE.
The Japanese ariny has announced the non area al marillo by orduance, who has in the past invented several useful firearms accessories be new rifle is and to be an improvmient" an DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY, Sono idea of these dificulties may
the weapon now used by the Japanese army. Its special features include a broader muzzle, à longer range and im- provements in the internal mechanism, be gleaned if it be remembered that te interests of Roman Catholic and UrtheIt is said to be more powerful in its dux clinicalism, as well as the claims fring capacity and more convenient
bande. Butanel Nambu is now travelling militate against the complete unincation in Europe, inspecting army ordnance in and fusion of the Southern Slave; while, the Entente countries, with the special within the Bouthern Slav family itself, object of applying the lessons of the war differences of development and tradition to his new invention, which the Japanese require the most careful and farsighted army authorities claim to be the best and most effective of all fire-arms now used treatment.
throughout the world.
the middlenged woman. Since she rut grew her youth she has laboured under a bedding but his rug and a pillow,cause of the war. Hence the importance Colonel Kijiro Nabu, an authority on."
unwanted feeling. She thought she was of no use to anyone Yog she her Hoping to be speedily on our way, discovered two or three directions in we made the best of it and next day set which only she can be of use. The differ about getting our passports through the ence war he made to her can be seen by contrast, Before the war timidity was local police and the Profecture of Polic written all over her. She never go what whose permit was necessary before we she wanted because she was always afraid could leave the country. With the help 14 ask for it. She kept a pension of the Consular staff I got mine through Italian nationalism, apologetically and steered an uneasy way in eight days, having been assured at the between the grumbles of the paying British Consulate that when this was guests. She was one of the fret to fail done all I had to do was to bring it when the war came, and she thought the back to them to be vised, when I could cad had come
proceed on my journey through Norway Then she made the great discovery And Sweden. You may imagine my dis- self the bad not known rose up ang gust, when on taking it there I was met austered, the call for workers. The teetly decided No. We are absolutely Unless the new European settlement ing that she was, wanted whereincodon forbidden by the British Military Cop removes all the main causes of slay un
mony things bag link to allow any more people to go on, rest by reuniting the roses, and uniting undame
impetus, severed is seen 10 best ad Bergen, Christian Stockholm-all, are the Czechoslovaks and the Southern
..
more
Vantage in a munition factory as weithre so full that there is no room for any blavs, it will be halting and precarious. supervisor. Here she koups a pension
but because it is wanted. Here she buys to advantage because she is putting monor in other people's pockets. Here she uses her cooking experience not to evade the grumbles of guests. to feed her family
VATICAN REMONSTRANCE TO GERMANY.
The Corriere della Sera says that there There is the less reason to run this 18 7ea30m to believe that the Vatican had Well, sir. I had had much more risk in that a fair and amicable sette presented a remonstrance to the German Government against the now submarine of Petrograd thas I liked, and the ment of the italian and Southern Slor Gove
able to state on good authority respect of an indefinite stay in such claims in and around the Adriatic is por policy wretchedly dirty quarters did not appeal fectly feasible without doing grievous (says The Time porrespondenz at Milan) but I made haste to see the ticket wrong to either. Once in possession of Wilson's netion in severing
agenta, who all said there was no chance Trieste, with a sufficiently deep littora:
enormous
impression in Vaticaa ciroler. of a seat in the weekly express for and defensible border extending from the relations with Germany has caused a several wecks. This did not satisfy me, present Italian frontier eastwards and The Pope's Allocution at the last Con and obtaining the help of a kindly Swiss southwards round the Gulf of Trieste, sistory, deploring certain barbarities interpreter, I had a satisfactory inter and including at least the western half which the whole world knows are prac view with a railway chcia) and after of the Istrian peninsula with Pals and tised only by the Central Empires and some talk and a litte monotary transie the Riva Arsa, with the Istrian Islands, his marked silence at the time of the tion, I got a berth in that night's express besides Lisa and Vallona, the Italian German peace proposals were symptó. for Harbin and was heartily thankful to strategic situation in the Adriatic would matic of the growing distinction which so the lights of Petrograd disappear in defy attack without infringing any the Vatican is making between the moral the distance
Her qualities are now of national im portance instead of merely an aid to a grudging private guin. No wonder madame discovers herself. The joy of having something to give is hors for the first time. The powers she brings
are marvellous to other people the factory-mother, and literally falile the position of mother to three or four thousand people It used to be on sidered enough for one woman to look well to the ways of one little household
Now
the welfare of a factory full of mea
Eaddition the is responsible for women. She keeps a dainty little home chiefs, and shis rees that every man and woman in the factory is well nourish ed. She does not leave them to for the want of a good meal on an odd shift the has it provided for them when she thinks they need it most,
wia zential Southern Slav rights,
causes of the two groups of belligerents After a fairly comfortable journey, "Lord Bobert Cecil said truly at the acc
The change of tendency was further by Cardinal Lasparti's letter accentuated reached Harbin a few hours lato, and inauguration of the British Italiano Cardinol Mercier regarding the Pope's so missed the express to Tairen and offer League on November 24th, that there is efforts on behalf of the deported Belgians.
According to my informant, the latest, might in the dining room of the crowded no real conflict between the Southera
piracy
hae rand Hotel, got away again for Blay and the Italian National ideais. German threat of unlimited Taiten, reaching that port just too late am certain, be added, there is room for completely alienated what Vaticus sym for the steamer to Shangai. But a few both. It only wants clear understanding pathies remained with the Germans, and, of followed as it is by the firm attitude. days in the comfortabla. Yamato Hotel on bota sides to avoid misconception." were like paradise after my experiences, MISSION OF LIBERATION
the Calted States, it is bound to create tension in the relations between the Pon and so I end my letter ms 1 began, by She carves and puts out each dinner urging intending travellers to think well. The work of conciliation is eminently tiff and the Germans. Three foreign herself, so that she knows exactly what over the situation before trying the task for the Allied Governments, and Nuncios are now waiting to Gross, the | each one of her children is having The Siberian route,
especially for that of Italy Italy, as seas, and it should not be forgotten that giris never suspect that the vinegar ther
the elder sister of unredeemed Hapsburg during the war the Pope bay bad to insist on having with every mal
peoples, has a mission of liberation to depend almost entirely on American war bene watered, but she saves them from further
accomplish, Some of her writers and Catholics for his enormous
volences, The discovered self likea clean towels statesmen have revealed their under caemic She substitutes soup and bis cuit when a worker cannot take he and the system of washing before every standing of this mission and have pro- meals, and she is ready with the little meal It appreciates the quiet comfort claimed a lofty conception of it und of extras in between meals for those who of the rest rooms and aims at something true salama
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when she has sprained her enkle the wel she has all having to loss, time
of the kid at home. It approves the
Transylvania and the Rumane dis
che saved through a little extra feeding astonishes itself by developing talents for menabarment of Austria-Hungary can thation of Bukovina, must become Buma are run down Maby a breakdown brightness of the recreation hall and The conviction that only by the districts of Hungary, with the Humane soc
and yet it is suggested that time and singing and gaiety,
power of Prussian militariae effe lan, dne provision being made for the money are wasted on welfare work PFAFer again will she keep herself to tually destroyed is shared by all ex fair treatment of the Saxon and Magyar berall a mate for the outer girls, European affairs No better vindication must be united with Serbia. The ins borself Each girl is discovering in perienced Allied students of Central minorities. The Southern Slay provi At one time it was each for herself; now of their belief can be found than in the yarn would retain the central Hungarian girl whose machine is stopped for some determined efforts now being matic by plain, and, ouse freed from the rate of reason or another spends her waiting time Germany, and by the partisans of Ger their own oppressive oligarchy would- in helping her neighbour many in Austria and Hungary, ss to reind it easy to maintain profitable re construct the Hapsburg Monarchy during tona with their neighbours Thu the war as to ensure the continued r Italians naturally belong to Italy kaninance of the German and Magyar
fare supervisor arranges for her to a sitting job, and she dresses hen two or three times a day by required, Her first aid represents a stitch in time which saves much valuable entput.
Bho is helping the girls to dis themselves. People who see them notic that their expression has changed stead of always wearing a disco on-the-defensive air, they look happy and content. They have all their med the factory, and the regular, nour food is making new women They never knew before that they work Bo
may hours and not feel fati They never knew, this healthy, bucy self before. It is a discovery which has zerez to be of health before them
forgotten.
They never knew before that they like their meals Berved daintily, and Ain order), Each girl is discovering fastidious self which cannot now bear, the anyhow conditions
in some of the homes. She wents. the cooking done properly, as he questions to the factory mother testify
Now how would you boil a piece of pork, Mrs. Swalloy And Mes Swal, up the advantage by telling ber nut in some vegetable and herbs and male stock, with, the soup.
(Continued at foot of neet volumu.)
The "war" has "diservered" woman to herself, and she will never again be the game. There will be no exceptions Low, for the majority of women hevə die covered
er of woma god middle-aged woman knows now
perionoc in the streng tha paraczally-slo Tways secure - hei woman hos work and
that
of her
“There will
elemants within its borders, en
VARA BESSENTIAL OBJECTS,
As to the Austrian Germans, little barm would be done should they elect to enter the German Empire with the Haps burgs at their bead
If the Allies win to give a clear THE ONLY PATH,~~
The Allies are not seeking to crusa and direction to the will to vistory * which developed will burde in all their people, they should the German poople, or even to prevent The young lose no time in defining the precise ob the union with it of outstanding German vered the valite of her fects they have in view and in canalising tribes. They are seeking to break the health and stren
still, the value of her that will towards the attainment of those power of Prussian militarism laat is comen in England who will co be few objects. As regarde Austria Hungary the toy, of the Prussia-ridden Germany created by the wars of 1884 1886, and be sweated after the war. Having essential objecia rio clear.
For How that Germany has turned they discovered herself, woman makes Uniese the in nu to end all I bât business to make her, ability known"
w to draw,
worse, the western half of Hapsburg Monarchy into a formidabin her employer. Welfare work has been alicia must be included in a reunited political and military weapon I bave
tried to show locked trpon za & barrier to the employ Poland, and Nie (mainly Buthene) uthe work done by Bismarck in the nicot of women. It has been said that eastern half, with the north enter or Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, tad is cumployers after the war will be shy of Ruttene counties of Hungary, bust 30 consequences, requirs to be undone, and woman because of the standard the Wel- to Russia Bohemia, with Moravia, and ascendency of Prussia, reduced to pro- fare Department of the Ministry of the northern western or Blovak counties portions compatible with the liberties of Vauitions has zet t up as necessary for of Hungary, must form an independent them, Bob the welfare work, in dis or at least a self-governing State linked the other German States and of Europe. covering women to themselves, has made in possibly by some form of agreement" their indispensables to theirs employers with Poland.
A woman 19 no longer worth half a man.
Peggy Booth in the Daily Mau,
(Contraued as foot of next column,)
To this desirable end the only path leads
dismemberment of the pr through the Bent Hapsburg tea ms, concluded M Steed