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stands a little pork butcher's chop, with the usual row of wooden dumay sau sages covered with silver paper hanging in the window. One of there took the fangy of a German trooper le dropped out of the ranks, walked into the shop and conveyed to the woman behind the broken French that he wished to buy the
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GERMANS IN MEXICO.
ARMS BEARING RESERVISTS
READY FOR SERVICE, On March 10th the New York Times crnment had recently cancelled orders in printed a story that the Mexican Gov- the United States for 20,000,000 rounds of ammunition and had transferred the
NEW HEROINE TV
[BY U. DE VERE STACPOOLE, THE WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.]
What will be the effect of the war upon. I was asked that question to-day by a Press The answer, of course, is that, as the woman of fiction 1 gentleman not unconnected with the
of the war on the woman of fiction will be the effect of the war on the woman of fact Sentative of the woman of fact, the effect
B. P. Whitaker, of Bradford, the usage, She tried to persuade him that existed for many months in Roubaix contracts to Japanese manufacturers. The for as the woman of Gebion 18 repre
he could not have it, but in vain, and at last, for the sake of peace, she sold him the dummy. He tucked it under his arm and ran on to rejoin his company
Many of the troops, went straight on to dash their heads against the British at Ypres, but some of them stayed and were billeted on the residents
Accommodation was allotted by a rough and ready plan Officers went through
narrator of the following extraordinary experiences, is a young Englishraun en- gaged in the Bradford trade who has just succeeded in effecting his escape from Roshnix. Although twenty-six years of age, he escaped internment, by a strange stroke of fortune, and was able, after a period of hiding, to travel with compara tive freedom in or about Lille, Houbaix, and Tourcoing. His descriptions of life in Belgius and particularly in Antwerp and Brussels reveal much that has hitherto the town street by street chalking on hown unknown to the outer world, each door the number of men for whom board and lodging was to be provided. During the two years of my stay in Roubaix troops came and went, but the town was never without its quota. Of the behaviour of the men, their relations with the civilians and the method of their feeding. I shall have something to with tac civilians, and the something to say prevently The coming of the wounded from the battle of the Somme will never be forgotten by me
1 left Manchester, where I had been acting as agent for a Roubaix firm, on September 6th, 1914, expecting to be abroad a week..
I have only just returned after spend ing two and a half years behind the When I set out for German lines. Roubaix, for the purpose of investigating the affairs of my firm, the German hordes were being pressed back from the Marne, and it did not seem to be at all likely enter Lille or that they would ever enter Roubaix. Except for a delay of three days in London owing to the need of procuring a passport, I had no difficulty in reaching Roubaix, Travelling by way of Folkestone, Boulogne, Calais, and Lille, I reached the town on September 14th.
York paper, Juan T. Burne, admitted that the story was correct. following day according to the New
We were not wholly cut off from the outside world, English and French news- papers were to be obtained surreptitious. at intervals, though we had to pay dearly for them. The Time Circles which are being established in this country have was glad to pay frs. More than once 50 (two shillinge) for the loan of a copy
He also admitted that a great many An excellent effect. I do not mean în of The Times for a couple of hours or
the cret to say that the war has made so. It was in The Times that I read the
WOMLI more excellent that would be first nows of the battle of Neave Chapelle Germans had gone into Mexico recently Once or twice. I managed to get a copy but denied that any passports to Germans of the Daily Mail for an afternoon. Each had been issued by the Consulate impossible, besides it would be flattery; General in New York Instead of pass but I do mean to say that the war has of these papers had to be smuggled into
ports Germaans who have recently gone given her excellence a wider field to Seven of my friends and I combined in-
into Mexico were provided with safe con- spread in that her penetration into the the town, by what route. I could not tell. the middle of 1915. to buy a single paper det papers, which enll now be required ranks of the employed has made the world at 24fre. (about 188. 2d.). at any Mexican Consulate in the United brighter for the whole community, and moment's notice by the that every time I scramble into an Those who could not afford to buy even States on a share in a paper could hire one for applicant stating in writing that he is omnibus helped by a pleasant woman The ammunition orders were trans-o mellow the heroine of my next novel, know half a day at a minimum charge of a going for legitimate business purposes conductor I feel a warmth that is sure-
Men, in short, are beginning to franc, and as the papers passed freely from hand to hand the last reader often ferred from American manufacturers to fever write one.
and to understand them as they never had to con a very tattered specimen. It Japanese makers without solicitation ou will perhaps surprise some at home to the part of the Japanese The Japanese, women as they never knew them before, know that we read each paper greedily, it is understood, have contracted to understood them before to recognise from the front page to the back includ deliver 8,000,000 rounds immediately and that an infinite reservoir of efficiency, ing the advertisements. The theatrical the remaining 12,000,000 within a few pleasantness, civility, and straight com advertisements especially would act us wecks, and have further agreed to supply mon sense has suddenly been tapped, and a total of about 75,000,000 rounds to tide that, in consequence, and despite the war, over, if necessary, the period during the dry old world is greener and more, deeming and wishing, ang mga
The French people, especially the poor,
THE ART OF SMILING. use to go to "penny readings "the cost which the ammunition factory just out gracious in many places than the world of admission was really a franc. They side Mexico City is being built. That of 1h13. chen in a private house, or the back room will be manned, it is stated, by expert
The story as it appears in The Timex, jollity that is a revelation to male crea of shop, and listen to extracts from cartridge and shell-makers from Japan the work of cleaning windows with a Haid Consul-General Burnsis substantures like myself. She may not malce an smuggled French newspapers,
better than an absolutely per Only two newspapers wore permitted tially correct, but what I would like to absolutely perfect bank clerk, but she 18 by the German authorities to be bought know is how The Times got the infor-thnk clerk-she is a worban. and sold openly One of them,hemation. It certainly did not come out knows how to smile. Business men rarely Bruxellois, was published daily at a half of this office. But at the same time. I
picasnut he is generally trying to penny the other, the notorious Gazette fail to see anything wrong about the smile and when a business man looks des Ardennes, was issued in French three matter. The American Government you something. A whole ocean of good times a week at a penny. Roth of them enforcing what I may term a disc:c will lies behind the woman's pleasant look wore thoroughly pro-German. Day after tionary blockads so far as Mexico is con and easy-coming smile good will, good day they would tell us of great defeat cerned, and the result is that if we huy humanity, and good humour, Yes, the greatest Of writers are not blind to of the Allies. They sometimes contained ammunition in the United States the decidedly the war will have an admirable
the.. what purported to be the British and delivery depends on the discretionary effect upon the woman of fiction, if fiction
But someone may grumble, French official communiqués, though I decision of some American oficial.
lation, but at the same tome it rankes
woman of to-morrow will be more mascu- am unable to say whether they were course that is a perfectly proper regu- revelation of the war-the woman of fact. our position doubtful, to say the least, doctored" or not.
I saw a little munition worker yesterday so far as getting the ammunition, we want line-more more I don't think so. is concerned b
in trousers and leggings, covered by a yellow overall: she was brooding over the fascitinted the contents were hate. contents of a shop window, absolutely
On the evening of the first day of the occupation an order was issued direct ing all civilians to keep indoors after o'clock The hour was altered to 8 o'clock the next day, and there it has would sit round a room, perhaps a kit. factory is now under construction and the woman goes about her work-even remained ever since with the exception of one period of a fortnight, when the townspeople having incurred the anger of their foreign rules by chering a British girman who fought and brought down a Fokken med be being forbidden town were punished by to be abrend after 3 o'clock. This was only one of a multitude of orders with which the Germans replastered the walls
at various times.
It is typical of German business enter The news which I there heard, that the nrise that towards the end of last year chief partner in my firm, a Frenchman, they were offering for sale as souvenirs had been captured by the enemy at Mau complete collections of their posters at beuge and sent as a prisoner to Germany, francs a set. Truth to tell. nobody paid caused me to prolong my stay in Ruu much attention to these injunctions, and Laix. In the meantime events moved prohibitions. The penalties in most cases rapidly. Antwerp fell before the onrush were not very severe. If, for instance, we of the Germans, and as their right wing were found out of doors after 8 o'clock swung round in a terrific thrust for the punishment was imprisonment for Calais, Lille and Roubaix passed in a five days. The municipal baths served as day into the hands of the enemy, and Iaurison with the dressing cabins as cells. Personally I did not have occasion found myself a prisoner,
to examine the interior of the cells, but there are not many people in Roubaix who could not give first-hand evidence on their appointments.
I remember vividly the Monday morn ing in October when German troops marched into Roubaix, Only the after noon before I had stood with a group of men on a railway bridge spanning the boulevard and watched them advancing my Lille. Some of them caught sight of us perched on the bridge, and, taking marksmanship on us. One of our number was killed An hour or two later we beard the roar of the guns and knew that Lille was being bombarded.
"I thought it wise to conceal myself and lay hidden for eight weeks. After the first day or two I learnt that the town began to settle down to the new con
GERMANE FICKING TO MEXICO.
How many passports have you issued to Germans to visit Mexico, since the dismissal of Count von Bernstorff Consul-General was asked
the
The
NOVEL EXEMPTION TEST. It was decided by a King's Bench Divi- sional Court yesterday that the British born son of Austrian parents cannot his British svade military during the war renounce service in this country. nationality and thus
The people of Roubaix bought, these two papers quite readily. Nobody put any trust in them. In fact it became a standing joke that anyone who showed Now as for the contracte Mexico is any temporary tendency to be despond said to have let to Japanese manufactur which I cannot discuss. The only per ent must have been reading the era of ammunition, that is a question Brutellois "
Ambassador ng Waebington, tinct change became noticeable in the of the Government in Mexico and the Towards the end of March, 1915, a disons who can talk about that are officials policy of the German military autho ritics, and for the first time the people of Roubaix began to feel the iron bel The Allied Governments had formally declared their intention of blockading Germany, and the German Army had shops which closed on the first day were Chapelle. Whether these two events had plied, reopened: The tramcar service, after one anything to do with the change, or whe. Do you mean to say that no Germans day's stoppage was resumed Church ther it was merely a coincidence, I do have gone into Mexico during the last services proceeded without interruption, not know; the fact remains that our few weeks?" though the bells were silent except when German governors who had hitherto certainly do not, but they did not Our turn, we know, might soon come some German"victory" was made the treated us with tolerable leniency chose have paseports. If they did go, and some but what matter? Deep-rooted and un-occasion for & compulsory celebration about this time to initiate a régime of probably did, they went with safe con- quenchable in the mind of every man and Whan Warsaw was taken, and at several stringent regulation and repressions which can be had at any Mexico woman in Roubaix the belief that the other stages of the German drive in the triumph of the enemy was a hollow tran-exet, the belle were run my arser of the The first sign of the new policy was Consular ofce in this country. Quite a sitory triumph and that before long the Kommandant. The last bellringing the issue of posters calling on all men, large number have been issued from this tary as an absented under the Military.. Armies of the Allies would prevail. heard before I left marked the fall of women, and children over the age of 14 office to aubjects of various foreign Service Act, and had since been"
I have not issued any passports to
The Solicitor General appeared for the
us to be French soldiers, tried their ditions. The schools and some of the been given a sharp lesson at Neuve Germans, or any foraigners," be own to show cause against a rule mias
Through all the trials and anxieties of Bukharest two years under German rule the towns-
countries,"
people of Lille and Roubaix have no palaces remained closed Work in thetween 17 and 50 were required also to safe conducta
wavered even for a moment in their faith; nor, though the waiting has been long, have they grown weary bocange their hope is deferred. Their confidence in Frafice and Britain i staunch and un- shakable.SON
It was on October 19 that the enemy entered Roubaix. Infantry, artillery, Death's Head Hussars and Uhlans they made a brave show as they, strode or rode through the streets of the occupied but unconquered town. All day long they streamed through Roubaix, accompanied by a motley train of carts of every size and shape which they had seized in Belgium. People standing on the road- side said among themselves that they were retreating such was their invine ible conviction that the invader must be repelled
The tragedy was not without one touch of comedy. Quite near the house from
Theatres music halls, and picture milis was stopped, most of the lathes being remored to Germany quite early
to go to the Town Hall and take out identification papers, while all men be- obtain a control cardul interference from the Germans, perhaps Up to this time I had escaped any in the occupation, and all brass, copper, because I scarcely ventured into the bronze, and German silver with them.streets for the first two months of the
Business, in the ordinary sense, was forbidden, but it went on covertly on a German occupation, and possibly also naturally restricted scale. There was because from a previous long residence little or no absoluta destitution anong in Roubaix I spoke French fluently the people. The French municipal Strangely enough, though I went to the authorities paid to the wives and depend. Town Hall with the rest and supplied ents of French soldiers their allocation trug particulars of my age or separation allowance and to the mill nationality, papers were issued to me as operatives out of employment an india matter of course and never during the ence allowance by special paper money whole two years and more of my presence For some months no rigid restrictions were placed on the free movement of residents in and out of the town, and food was available in plenty. There was therefor little outward change in the social life of Roubaix,
and
for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the Middlesex Regiment battalion of The applicant Frederick Augustus the commanding officer of
the son Freyberge was born in London,
The of Austrian parents. His father after- wards because & naturaliced" Briton
een sentenced
orders. applicant was handed over to the mili
for refusal to chay military claration of alienage, which was forward- How many Germans bave received coming of age this year he made a de I cannot answer that. It would be aed to the Home Office His contention was that, by the law of Austria, he was Austrian subject, and the de born violation of my position as formation. Consul General to make public such in claration of Aliënage made
Devon investigate each applicant for safe conduct?
Mexican
service at our command to do that, even Certainly not. We have no secret if we wanted to."
foreigner o come here, nak for a pale Then all that is necessary is for a
* legitimate reasons 2 THÁN conduct, and get it as soon as he signs Yes, that is all that is necessary. He paper that he is going to Mexico for
have no way of knowing that he isn't in their midst did the enemy molest malls out a blank and signs it, and as we in any way.
going on perfectly proper busines, we issue the safe conduct,"
While Mr. Burns would not hint at the number of Gerroans who have been pre vided with safe ennduct, it was learned the number issued, mostly to Germans, from another source that of some days has been more than 100
ple the
corn-
an Austrian subie
applicant said Sir Gordon
this carious dilemma. Hewart, s he is an enemy subject; then he cannot He can only succeed by establishing that
The rule was discharged with cos succeed because he cannot have a writ of huberts cars. (Laughter.)
Costa.
propagands in India. On this com mittee were four Hindus and one Chinese. The Hindus were Chakraborty, one Acharya, who is said to have returned to India, a man named Cuba, who is said to be employed in a club in New York; another named Chari, whose, whereabouts. are not now known, and H Chin, the Chinese student, who recently sailed from
rebels in the uprising which the Germans, arms and ammunition to be used by the San Francisco for China to assemble
with Hindus and Chinese and expected to instigate in all parts of the Indian Empire
The only incident which throws any light on this curious immunity occurred about the middle of 1913, Like all other men of military age I was required to Changes came later, bat it is a remark-present myself once a month at a public which was divided into squares for the able fact that even when the place was in hall in order to have my control card
months of the year, marked in the proper
All that a German must do to get safe space with an official stamp Kontrol. *** July,..., or** August, or whatever the conduct is to give his name, age, height, month might be. We were summoned for colour of hair and eyes. the place of this process by greups, first those from destination, and to state in writing that 17 to 23. then those from 25 to 35, and he is going on business. It is a matter of se on Hundreds of young fellows would only a few minutes to apply for and gather in a room, and one by one, as receive one of them. They are printed their names were called, would take their on ordinary foolscap paper and do not cards to be stamped by a non-comtis bear the Mexican coat of arms The sioned officers sitting at a table on the national crest appears on all passports für side of the room. On the occasion The number of Germans of arms I have in mind the non-commissionel bearing age now in Mexico is estimated officer said to me You are French at anywhere from 50,000 to 150,000, and aren't you?" I answered No Are of these at least 6,000 ure reserve officers you Belgian "No again, You or non-commissioned officers who are, as conspiracies concern not only foreign a Mexican put it the other day avail nations, but also the United States and
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Because of instructions isued by llu- Department of State and the Department. of Justice to officials in New York not to discuss details of the German plots in advance of arrests data as to the wide range covered by these plots has been withheld Federated officials do not deny that the investigation is only well started and that additional disclosures may be expected at any time. There is good authority for the statement that these
urs Dutch, then! A third time I read or service whenever needed At our insular passessions: The Panama
plied No
present none of these men is in the Canal is believed to figure prominently Mexican army
At official of the United States Secret Service was naked if a certain well-known man who was formerly a high German
in the German plot programme, and it has never been denied that it was in tended to create trouble in the Philip pines, as was done in Cuba, and as was
At this stage one officer who had been sauntering up and down the room smoking cigarette came to the table took up my card, and turning to the man behind the table remarked, "It's all right He's an Americas. I did not official in Mexico, and who is generally proposed in Mexico
still in Ludwig Hans Wax was arrested for theft trouble to enlighten him. That is prob-credited with being the braing of theThe same week a German named Max ably why I enjoyed comparative liberty German Mexican propaganda of 82,000. "Ho had in his possession wher -Timer
DRAMATIC INCIDENT
proved when examined at police head quarters, to be a complete portable wire dess outht capable of receiving messages all the way from Berlin
He is," was the quick answer arrested a black box which the police say It is very doubtful if this particular German will be allowed to go to Mexico. THE PLOTS OF THE PLOTTERS, American secret service men fox weeks A dramatic incident occurred recently have been busy watching the German It is said to be one of the most com and the Hindu Chandra Chakrabortyment officials have ever seen-in fact, it in the Senate at Sydney. Mr. Gardiner plotters for example, Ernest Se Kunna plete wireless receiving outfit the Govern was charging the followers of Mr charged with plotting against British is said there are thre complete outfits of rule in India With reference to great receiving possibilities concealed in Hughes with deserting the party machine in order to save their places when the Indian plots it was learned that the box. So the police of this and other Guthrie rose Holding a letter which he among the papers seized when the office cities and the United Secret Service men had just opened, he said: This is why Wolaton Igel, Captain von Papen are hunting all over the country to locate we left. My son has been killed into as plot paymaster, was raided the key and transformer which go with all properly equipped outfits. These they believe are contained, in a black satchel Wax is said to have carried with him from one city to another.
Mr. Gardiner offered his sympathy to Mr. Guthrie, who broke down and left the Chamber.
IEECULE WAS on which gave the names oftimbers of committee which was changed with the direction of the German Continued at foot of neat solumn)**