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GERMAN SOCIALISM. PLAYING THE GOVERNMENT GAME
IN BERLIN
ilerr. Eduard Bernstein's article, The Rent in the Social Democracy," which appeared in the Zukunft of April 21st, is the fret clear and logical account from the minority side of the German Sinlist non Socialist - publication, is split. Although Herr Bernstein, writing for
article shots quite clourly the true studiously moderate in his language, his character of the present alliance between the German Government and the German
in
before the war in the question of mini- Dients. No human being yet knows how and by what means this war will end What will the Canotte Party do, if the war leaves behind it a Europs still more samps, and if the competition in armu- mons connues. Already the voices in HERR BERNSTEIN'S HOME TRUTHSharply divided than before into two [BY THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT NORMERLY the Committee camp are multiplied which
contemplate support of Army Bills futar, and it is really diffenit to cum- seive by what argument the party could- ance of the dogma of the united front it justify a hostile Vote, since by its accept- basslinken the very foundations of its the International as a peace force, h the tael profits of the year'a working, is ProducKismet is very satisfactory that, the dividend Theatre, Tokyo. The play was given
once so Lrm belief in the effectiveness of can be maintained at the saing rate as May 20th and, judging from the papers
The spokesmen of the Committee Party still the old Social Democrats, and that last year and further substantial recently to hund, it proved as great
are never tired of protesting that they are
uphold, the old principles. They may amount put to the equalization of triumph there as it did here. According may be
try to persuade themselves, but they do dividend fund. Referring to the impor- to the Japan l'imes it equalled anything
they still maintain, and will always
political processes. This is seen alrendy tance of building up a reserve, he said: scon on the stage in Japan. That It cannot be expected that the present se, but Hongkong would probably ques
ant reckon with the compelling force of
price of 3/- per lb. will continue indetion the further opinion expressed that
in the uncertain attitude of lending mein- finitely, and when conditions are again it was the best thing ever done bycialist majority and the way in, which bers of the Party towards the scheme politico.commercial leagues, in the com be former is using the latter, especially which aim at the formation of separate change in their estimation of for the purposes of its diplomacy. normal a drop to 1/6 per ib or even amateurs in the Far East
Alarcover. Her veinstein is a more Colonia) policy, in the agreement of The Japan Times continues :--- lower is quite probable. It is with this
Somu soones were sensational, notably thin impartial witness. Defore the war deaders hd Prens with the uncritical object in view that the recommendation
and at the Doddalin meeting-in Berlin is made that a sum of Ts, 10,000 should the Harem which is by far the most he was not an extremist, but a revistami official language on the occasion of Here the two stars of on August ord, 1014, the recommended that the exchange of notes between Wilson and
GAME be put to equalization of dividend, fund, beautiful."
war credits. He did so on accounts. *** first
THE BETHMANN-SCHEIDEMANN ** Nothing better illustrates the false posi making this acount Tls 35,000 It is Tokyo and Yokohama net and shone budinist Farty should vote for the the two heiligerent groups, and it much cause and occasion of the war," which the ition of the Committee Party than its the intention of the directors to invest together. Mr. Bundy as Hajj and Mr. of the view which he then held of the
sum corresponding to the dividend fedley ng Mann were wonderfully Government succeeded in representing to relationship to the Imperial Chancellor versation between Hamlet and Polonius. reserve, and so far $20,000, have been harmonious and the act was made trenten- the Socialists as essentially a war against This play is terribly like the famous con- Do you see yonder cloud that's almost invested in FM. S. 6 per cent, Waringly successful by their splendid work autocratic Russia. He adds: Loan and a further $30,000 is now being
more particularly is this act striking into shuke me, and after two months was in shape of a camel. By the mass. The climax and the extraordinarily beau clear to me that the assumptions, which and 'tis like a camel, indeed
had decided my attitude in the arst days thinks it is like a weasel. It is backen purchased
tiful tableau at the close.
It may be open Among the ladies Mrs de Havilland of August were mistaken. Apoording like a weasel. **Or like a whale?"
She the representation in the Ceridan White
to question whether the philosophic Chan easily comes first, as Maramul spoke, she moved, she danced and she sang Book of August Zod, the German war
against the East, while against the West plays the same game with the eloquent as an artist, Mrs. de Havilland's per-should, in my opinion, be directe West cellor deliberately and with calculation formance was a triumph.g
Mrs. Nonweiler played and moved in a strong defensive seemed to me to fit our Scheidemann as the philosophical Prince if not in his own nature, certainlly in garrulous Lord Chamberlain. But it 18. her most difficult role of al-Kutul purposes with a skill and a grace we might have
of Denmark played with his father's
expected from her,
wenael. Of what use is it to anybody the nature of his policy that he should
when Scheidemann pathetically declares often enough make a camel look like
that the Chancellor said white, whereas the Chancellor carefully said whitish to say that he really meant black? It is grey, in order, in case of need, to be able
benefitting his country.
It was
But the first weeks of war were
enough
This was how the
derstood the question. But the Socialist Party on August 3rd und August
-year the war assumed the man mintary, count it against strength not against the East, but against Character or a European counagration.
Herr Bernstein then shows that the majority of the Socialists, although they
they how shows He had been deceived, did not alter the
course.
were
Very like a whale"
The slightly higher cost of production is accounted for by the inclusion of the exten war duty of 3 per rent, for January March output and the current year this charge, which we hate to pay as we are not paying income tax pliko home companies, will amount to
about lid, per lb on the basis of present. Mrs Mason's Tarps was careful prices The argument that we bay nu piece of acting and served to relieve much inomine tax is no longer applicable as we of the sombreness of the piece,
good comedy well dressed and well acted. Wor duty in lisu thereof. Mrs. Sweet, and Mrs. Hawley as the are charged this
Early in January of this year the sine fiskeb and the Widow Kobiroh directors decided to proceed with the were both excellent.
The theatre was entirely filled, over a gradually claimed as alles by the diffenit to believe that Selisidemann is erection and equipient of a permanent hundred people travelling from Yoko-urists and annexation is, and how they
The reaction upon foreign countries of factory, and this work is now in progress, hama to see the play: Many members of yielded, especially to Hattery. He then the total cost being in the neighbourhood the Diplomatic Corpe and prominent gives a cicar historical account of the this policy of change of meanings has, of B. $20,000. In addition to this, new Japanese were present, including Mr. gradual division of the Socialist Party hitherto only been that foreign pountries. ines have become a necessity this year.Walanabe, Master of Ceremonies of the by the increasing condicts about the have extended to the Social Democracy
inuch new evidence, and proves conclu statements of the Chancellor. The accounts were adopted and it was Imperial Household and Count Tora periodical votes oz credit. He produce the mistrust with which they receive the
ajority retused
to everywhere abroad the Social Democracy decided to appropriate the balance of shima, Trofit and Loss Account as follows: The proceeds of the performances are sively that the
train-bearer. ⠀ This no gain for Ger- to be devoted to the Allies Sick and tolerate any sreedom of opinion and today is regarded as the Government's speech on the part of the minority, aud Final Dividend of Tis. 1.20 per
many, It is an astonishingly childish. Wounded Fund.
ultimately forced the delinite split, share (12 per cent.). making 20
psychology has created the iden
which STRENGTH OF THE SOCIALIST MINORITY. per cent, for the year
Herr Bernstein then explains the prethit enemy countries will come crawling Place to Equalization of Divid
to Germany when they see that the Seat situation-- cud Fund
The Committee Party ban on its side the Germans stand united behind the Govern overwhelming majority of the officials a ment and the idea has proved to be a
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BOATING TO BATTLE. A FLOODED FRONT.
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Almost
completely false calculation. The atti-
cal chairmen exeted before August 4th, Do you know what my pri of the and also visitas of the party restude of the Socialist majority has further tint is like?" said the Belgian officer tant alone is no measure of 18 future increased the taste for resistance in the The majorny of the enemy camp. It could not, indeed, have un leave in London, as we gathered round strength.
Not I will embers are still it the drid, and much any other effect, because it is regarded on the smoking-room fire.
win depend upon the state of mud the enemy's side as proof that it is tell you
Picture to yourself miles of flooded waten they return and the state of affairs impossible in any near future to expect.
the great land, desolate and depressing flanked when they and at nomen the from the German people itself any effec
tive antagonism to German militariam..
Finally, Herr Bernstein declares that here and there by villages that bare long side of opposition are
majority of the Socinist working etasies since been shelled to rubble.
On one side of this stretch of water of russin, of Leipzig and neigh the German Socialist majority is totally
And there, month xnguona baxony, of the Hulle district, and he says ather side are oure run the lines of the Hun trenches; on the hourhood of our constituencies in the unable to do anything effective for pracey after month, we wait, and watch, for all various constresencies of Thuringia, the world like two dogs separated by a Lower Franconia, 01 Frankfurt-on-Main
neighbourhood, and of strong wire fence. There's not much and excitement about most of it-there's awful thenish districts in many other
stituencies the Opposition has heavy monotony.
"In a few places on our front we are weighty minorities on its side. It sapno within a hundred yards or go of the Huns, therefore, be supposed that the fate of the fut in the sector that I know hest there's Opposition will be the same as that of no question of getting out of the trench Oppositions an previous party splits and charging him; we can only shell him, for there's almost a mile of water in
between us.
The party will not positively abjure. several
internationalism and will still give it a mal modest altar in its temple. But it will cunte support internationalism quite feebly, very just as
its opposition to proceedings which according to its programme it ought to have combated vigorously to-day Incks the strength which the Party onca possessed. A country in whose Parlis- as its mission to act according to its ment there is no party which regards is. science will never be popular in the
and
world
MARINES!
merr bernstein devoles the lust and most important part of his article to demonstration of the utter and con plete But it's at night that our excitement abandonment by the Socialist majority of begins. Just at the edge of the water in the traditional internationalism front of our trench we have two little pacifism of the German Socialists, and he
MERCHANTMEN AND SUB- eaches where our two boats lie hidden, shows that Herr Bebeidemann and his and when darkness has come we set out followers have no further claim to repre- on patrol. Sometimes with padded oars, sent abroad anything but German milá
Replying in the House of Lords, last sometimes with punt poles--for in most Larism. The following is a translation of places the water is quite shallow we creep the most significant passage
Before the war the Social Democracy month, to Lord Latymer, who asked whe towards the German lines. At any Telegraphic, advice has been received moment a star shell may give you away, was the German pence party. At home it ther the captains of merchant ships had that Lee.-Sgt. L. C. Boyd, 15th Highland and ballets spurting up the water around was an, because of its unyielding opposi instructions not to hire at submarines Light Infantry of Shanghai, recently you or whistling overhead warn you that tion to the policy of armaments and to until they were attacked, song reported as dangerously ill has been rowing about in No Man's Sea is not all actions and speeches which could dis- The Earl of Lytton said the instruc- removed to London and is in hospital always a healthy game--though I've had turb friendly relations with other countions given were issued on March 2nd there, and his condition is greatly in some very pleasant hours on the water tries, and because of its support of all last year, and were still in force. They
Lee Sgt. Boyd received a in proved" granade wound in the left elbow on April 3rd anniversary of the date he left Shanghai) and on April 8th under went a successful operation at a base hospital in Rouen.
year
measures which seemed to be calculated were, he thought, quite clear, but in the to improve these relations, On the one interpreting of them a good deal was hand, it stubbornly opposed the military left to the discretion of the master of the budgets; on the other band, it stubbornly ship. The instructions were to the fol- were to avoid, action wherever possible, and similar international voted for the Government on treaties of lowing effect, Defensively armed hips commerc agreements. Abroad the party cultivated It was held to be the duty of the master Armament WAN and promoted the international organizao bring his vessel and its cargo into tion, both political and economic, of the port without mishap.
The strangest part of it all is that the against Germany, ga
he became old enough he entered the bordered bare Belgian ang ac foally its representatives and its news be presumed to have a hostile intent.
Summer ROADS OF DEATH
But the crowning excitement comes when you meet a Hun patrol hoat. Once when I was put within serkeung and two men we heard the steady splash of a punt polo in the water coming slowly towards 2nd Lieut. T. Fletcher, who left the us. We took out the safety-pins from our International Cotton Manufacturing bombs and waited until they were almost Co., Ltd., Shanghat, in September, 1915, on us. And then we let fy. Look! working classes, and it was a valuable provided to enable him to full this duty, to join the Army, was killed on April and he rolled up the sleeve of his tunic factor for Germany's position in the and that armament was not to be used 23rd last. He had a commission in the to show a deep scar on his elbow got world because of the extraordinary con- for any other purpose. Under the con 5th Bedford Regiment leaving for the this from a bit of one of our own bombs, fidence which it enjoyed among all ditions of warfare which prevailed, until front in September, 1916 and taking so close did we let the Huns come. But democratic parties and other friends of this was there would have been no part in the Battle of the Bomme of that not one of them could have escaped, for peace, In the Parliaments and the Press difficulty in understanding and carrying While in Shanghai be was at least three of our bombs dropped right of the Entente all those with the great out those instructions, but the method member of "A" Co British, B. V. Cinto the boat, and there wore great bits Jean Jaures at, their head, who combated of indiscriminate attack by submarines to the Gors certain element of doubt as to the and of the Shanghai Cricket Club, and a woodwork drifting about next day. agitations and Government acts directed introduced by the Germans had created precise moment at which it was the duty was also a Mason.
of the master of an armed merchant fellows in the trenches on both sides are man Social Democracy Lieut. Charles E. de Berigny of the frightened to fire for fear of hitting their THE SOCIALISTS AS MILITARISTE. Royal Flying Corps, has died of own men. As a matter of fact, all four of Now, the vote of the Party on August vessel to open fre. The instructions fractured skull in France at the early us were slightly hit in the run for home, 4th, 1914, had shaken this confidence, but provided that the master of a ship should. age of 19 years. The young officer was but the Buches never got home at all had not immediately uproofed it. As the not allows a submarine to approach
There's only one other born in Japan and went to school at
foodlands,
Ar than it was expected the voting magnus, maine and On leaving Weihaimer he close to the Fun in the food of getting declarations of was proceeded, from Gar-vessel at a range within which & torpedo en instructed not to. at least abstain from voting, and capable of taking effect Submarines of werb to the University of Victoria. B.C. intervals there are raised
TRADING roads for two years and then joined Mess cast and west between the wide stretching people were shocked when they suddenly the Alles had been Vivanti Bros. in. Yokohama, As soon lakes-unpleasant little ribbons of land saw the Socialists vote for the war credits, approach merchant vessels, and therefore two lines of broken poplars, but when the party on subsequent occa any submarine sighted at a range from the enemy. And farsions also voted for the credita, and when which a torpedo could be launched must connecting us." gut along the man hidden advanced posts. There night paper uttered only a lightly moderated and day, men he in the mud and listen, in echo of the litterances of the Chancellor case anyone should be fool enough to and his people faith in the power of
BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT attempt an attack along that road of resistance of this party was at JAPANESE SQUADRON THANKED an end even among the great majority of politicians. Socialists and foreign
Admiral Bate, who is in command of of course there is only a portion of of our front that runs by the edge of a lake
the rest is just like the larger part of The policy of the united front in Ger the Japanese Squadron operating in the the British and French front. But if we many strengthens the policy of the united Mediterranean, has been warmly thanked were to advance there we should leave our front on the other side, and paralysen the by the British Government for saving flanks in danger where the water begins labour International What is more, the 2,800 out of over 3,000 men on board the for it's still harder to push the floods dogma of the united front logically means trennt Transyland, which was tor forward as you advance than it is to push the throwing overboard of the policy pedoed in the Mediterranean on the V.B.. which the Social Democracy pursued May 4th the Hun back
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