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THE WAR.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON.
'MR. "PAGE'S FACTS
The Arabassadors, Ministers, and other representatives of Allied nations nam bled at the French Embassy recently to receive an address expressing the frater- nal sentiments of the citizens of London with them in the war and in reply speeches were made of the greatest in- terest and importance
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Mr. Page, the American Ambassador, said:--It is particularly pleasing tʊ mo to receive this touching and appreciative address from a body of English people. The American people reciprocate the kind feelings, you express. They come into this gigantic strife not because they were bound by any trenties or even any un lertakings or had anything to gain from it except to come to the support of liberty itself. (Cheers, )
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Point was given to the address by a great meeting which was held earlier in Hyde Park The demonstration was. organized by the British Workers' outbreak of the war to crainteract the movement for an early and inconclusivo peace and to unite the working classes in vigorous prosecution of the war until German militarism and autocrae
not see him, you know that that side of you is safe: there is a man there who will die before he deserts you.
{BY O. VINGR).
Lee just, even, to those whom The invasion of a bedroom at the Regent condemn and intend to destroy. The Palneo Hotel by two portore led to action for trespass and slander by Mrs. Mary Gorman Kaiser has brought great beneßtä Gwynne Hughes, wife of a captain in the to humanity. It is thanks to him thai Australian AMC agost the hotel British and, Americans instead of being company. The case was heard by Mr. Justice Coleridge and a special jury. merely relatives with a suspicion of ons According to Mr. A. E. Harney, her another and only a grudging apprecis As you know, part of the American counsel, Ars, flughes, coming to London Fleet is now in your waters. As you may know, a preliminary expeditionary from the front, but uncertain as to when That is a very old phrase. It comes from in anticipation of her husband's leave tion, are now “shoulder i comrades?? force will soon land on the sacred soi! he would arrive, took a single room at the the time of King Alfred, so that Ameri of France as an encrest of the Army that hotel. The captain reached London the is to come. (Loud cheers.) Next week next day, arriving at the hotel while seans may feel that it is their phrase, as a roll is taken of the men subject to core wife was on her way to meet him. His well as ours. A "shoulder comrade" is seription in the United States, who are luggage was taken to her room. Captaju the flower, of the Republic-men from 211 nod Mrs. Hughes dined at the hotel, and the men whom you know to be there at to 30. There are 10,000,000 of them, and at the wife's suggestion a stretcher was your side You know it without seeing the first Army that will be equipped will put in her room for her husband. Son him, for your are both too busy to be there will be another selection, and if fond knocking at the door. and someon you need more still then another selce-outsule shouted There's a man in this Bon. (Cheers.)
room, and the room is only booked for are than 1,000 women of the United two parters forced their way in, shouting
There happen to be on this island now
one." The husband opened the door and
States: who have been trained as nurses
There's a man in this room and he must and who act under the direction, for the
come down and register." moment, of his Majesty's Government and our most skilled physicians necom panying them. More than that, Com missions are on their way to Russia and to France to do what they can to help shall send and can send as many monours these two men, or one of them, It brings out clearly the ideals which to help in those problems as may be need reamined in the room. unite the free peoples of the world ind, for they do not have to be trained.
Then, apparently, Captain and Mrs. Hughes fell asleep. fighting for the universal triumph of These services, which yet are not much, Capatin Hughes signed the register in the popular government as against the arro, but which, if they are needed, will be morning and then went off to the front. gunt pretensions of a military clique to come much, as offered to you and my dis. Mr. Holman Gregory K.C.. for the tinguished colleagues here, and their hotel company, said no allegation had countries, perfectly freely and as wel. been made against the lady's character. comly as anything was even given by to the room with his assistant. Captain The head porter stated that he went up one nation to another. (Cheera.)
Ifughes, flew into a rage and told them ed, but said that he did not think it Hughes admitted that he had not register necessary to go down and do so. Mrs. that her husband would not come down. Only one porter went into the room.
arn overthrown
The following message four Mr. Lloyd George was read at all the platforms
May 26th, 1917!
As a citizen of London, send you my hearty appreciation of the address which
to register here,
Mrs. Hughes replied:-"He is prepared that he must go downstairs and register. but the porters insisted The porters refused to leave, and Mrs. Hughes rang the bell for the maid and asked her to send the manager to her.
It is for the opportunity of shoulder comendeship that we may give such thanks as he deserves to Kaiser Wilhelm. Through him so many nations are bound have never been since the days of the and vowed together in the one crusse, se Crusades. Through him there is a broad free-masonry between the mon of the Allied Powers that will be a greator than the Kaiser had dreamed of making German Kultur.
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proach of triumphant peace, but is n proof of the bonds of fraternity and understanding which their heroic sacri- fices in the cause of human freedom have established between the democracies of the world.
public and all its resources to the end, I greet you, I thank you. I pledge you the unvarying courage of the Ro- and after the end all its ideals to help rebuild the world which is suffering such
shattering. (Loud cheers.)
ITALY AND NATIONAL RIGHTS. The Marquis Imperiali said the mes- sago would be received and welcomed by The meeting adopted a resolution sandall Italians with profound satisfaction ing fraternal greetings to the peoples and grateful appreciation. The friend- of the Allied contrics, particularly to ship between Italy and Great Britain was their kinsfolk of the United States of based on the solid foundations of love of Anterica, on their decision to join with justice, devotion to freedom, represent- the democracies of the Old World in defence of national rights and individuals for the tw, democratic countries a liberty, and to the Russian democracy would go on fighting until they had common moral platform. The Italians on its liberation from the autocracy and secured the objects of the Allied caute--- its determination to maintain its glorious national rights and human liberty. atruggle againal the power of Kaiserdom, (Cheers.) until all the oppressed peuples are freed |from the tyranny of the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg nutterata and their con- feslerates.
"NOT AFRAID OF PIRATEN. **
A pression was afterwards formed to march to the French Embassy at Albert gate.
JAPAN'S HELP IN MUNITIONĄ. The Japanese Ambassador, in the course of his reply, referred to the Alliance which binds our two island Empires so strongly," and sail:--
Mr. Harney: You waited in the room until 1.20. Why did you not wait out side after that 2-Because I thought 1 had waited long enough.
Casabianca.
Mr. Justice Coleridge:
He was not
memory of that comradeship will be You may imagine what a fine thing the
ten years, who has fought in France. Think of a British bricklayer, in another There are two bits of gold braid, and of honour among the decorations of his Frenchman's water bottle taking the place other such things, a German helmet," a
knows one or two things about the Frencht much about foreign politic-not much room, The bricklayer does not kno more indeed than in the old days, but be (and about Lite Germans top) which no
politicians knew before the war. He will problems of the East, but he will know hot know very much about India and the
some things about their peoples that no bricklayers in Great Britain over know before As he reads his paper he will come across perhaps sonie roforence to the Ghurkas and will put down bis paper to tell his wife We saw a lot of them chaps. up at N We used to ay Hell John or Salaam to them and they grinned at us. Good little follows they were. They made a fine charge the dag YEAR'S WORK AT GREEN-I will point to the bullet, elaborately
I got that present from the funs in me
trespass. There was no slander, they said. The jury awarded Mrs. Hughes £100 for A stay of execution apon payment of the money into court was granted.
WICH.
DISCOVERY OF A NEW STAR.
Observatory, Greenwich, took place on The annual visitation of the Royal June 1st. The Astronomer Royal pre-
mounted, which stands on the mantelpiece and then describe how the Ghurkus used to bake, their chuppaties. His wife will smile though she has heard him tell thos story many a time!
Such moon, will remember their shoulder
will never see them again. There will b tries, though the majority after the wae
This grout international pact, always sonted his report to the Board of Visitors comrades when they read of other conů,
The work has been considerably restricted owing to the absence of five junior assist- the Army or Nuvy, Specin efforts have, ants and 19 computers who are serving in however, been made to maintain all the fines of observations in which a breach of continuity would be serious. The error of will be changed. the moon's place as given in the Nautical also, the relations between all classes will Almanac was minus 131 seconds of are,. and is increasing nearly a second a year.
be changed. We shall live the rest of our
in commen, such as there has never been themselves, of past deeds and saferings memory running through the peoples
in the past, and because of that all the relations of politicians and diplomatists And because of that
a strong bond of friendship between us. has since the war acquired an-ndditional The unions carried their great exportat of a common case and by our strength and a now meaning by our bolie banners. Loud cheers were evokes comradeship in arms, whether engaged by an inscription displayed by the sailors in reducing the military stronghold of and freisen: We are men of the sea Germany in Kiaochat, in sweeping her who are not afraid of the Fun pirates, naval forces out of the Pacific and Indian We cet them daily." Other conspicu Oceans, or in fighting against ber nets ous features of the procession were Czech of piney in the Mediterranean Sea. and Montenegrin contingents in their The nature of the present occasion pre-Fortunately the improved lunar tables of lives with memories of our shoulder com- national dress, Belgian workmen, and members of the Société National des efforts made by Japan on the line of
vents me from dwelling further upon the Dr. Ernest Brown will be ready shortly. rades; we shall have always the pleasant Professeurs de Français en Angleterre their actual operations of belligerency,siollar proper motions; those of 12,000 cases that are not our own, into ways of Special attention has been put to knowledge that wherever we go among and Ecole Culinaire body that aroused great enthusiasm was composed of about 100 fine young men in khaki marching behind a banner with the inscription "Czech volunteers from the United States. A large number of
British and Dominion soldiers accom panied the procession.
may at any turn mest with one of them.
I shall always remember a certain two minutes of waiting before we went over the top. Those last minutes of waiting for the barrage to lift and let you away I glanced
are the times that try a man.
up and down the bit of trench where wa were; at the other end was & sergeant, a tall man with a heavy black moustache. There was no Dutch courage in that mun. He was cool and steady, just waiting for
Comradeship in arms carries as a neces may be permitted to enll your attention. tion 24deg. and 32deg. have been deter mined. The results confirm the accuracy sary complement a comradeship in in: of Kapteyn's formula, giving the die dustry. It is my belief that in this tances of stars as a function of their latter comradeship too Japan has not magnitude and proper motion. Professor Barnard discovered last year a faint star been lagging behind her allies. The vast with the unprecedented motion of 10 army of our workmen have been and are seconds per annum, which proves to be PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS,
devoting themselves with might and the nearest known star in the northern A deputation of the organizers of the
main to the manufacture and supply of hemisphere, its light taking 61 years to demonstration, numbering about 50 of the West in the conviction that in the.
munitions, emulating thus their brethren reach.us Several observations were received at the one that to: Uzens of women and men,
photographs this star were obtained at the signal. As he looked for it I caught Embassy by the French Ambassador win war for pence. They feel that every Pairs of photographs of everal star his eye. There are times, when men will his eye. I shall always sie that look in The address was read by Mr. Victor bullet or bomb they turn out spells folds, taken at intervals of some 16 years, Fisher. It expressed the national sentiblow at the mailed fist of which they have been sent to Mr. Ianos at Johannes face. We did not smile, or do anything look into one another's eyes (and this was ment of brotherhood with, and apprecia- have felt the menace for so long a time burg for study, with the Blink microscope, but look at one anothr.But I knew that one of them) without any change of the tion of, the alliance of the domocracies of the world in the cause of freedom,
in their part of the globe. (Chears.) which is a very effective method of detert- humanity, and civilization. The address concluded as follows:-
We bope that this manifestation of popular sympathy and solidarity on the part of the masses of London's citizens will help to silence the few weak and sinister voices that have been raised in pleas for at premature and dastardly peace a peace whereby all the sacrifices and all the courage of your brothers and ours would be wasted. We have lived through hours as dark with impending disaster as any that nations have ever suffered, and now that the sun of victory is dawning on our horizon, the masses of the British people are more determin. ed than ever to be worthy of their dead, to be worthy of their past, and with you to be no unworthy architects of m future in which war and tyrarny shall be banished from the world for all time."
AN ALLIANCE FOR DRPENCE. M. Paul Cambon said he was deeply touched by the demonstration. The ad- dress alluded to the ancient rivalries be tween Francs and England. But that was more than a century ago, sinte when the two countries had ben united for the defence of oppressed people and they were allied now not to attack but to defend (Cheers.) It was an alli- ange which would defeat the designs of the enemy and would not only allow
- THB STEDFASTNESS OF RUSSIA.
M. Constantin Nabokoff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, said
ייי
and
ing stars that have changed their posibe had only to look to me for help, and tions in the interval. many considerable motions, but his most never seen him since. He may be dead: He has detected it would be given, or I to him. I have interesting discovery is not on a Green but I still hope that some day 1 may I will not fail to convey to the new Russian Government and to the Russian distant from Alpha Centauri, which ha
wich plate; it is a faint star about 2deg. catch his eye again. people your inspiring words, which I has discovered to share the large proper feel very happy to-day in saying that we motion of that star, so that there are good must take it for granted that Russia ground for suspecting it to be a distant
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Then there was Captain L only got out to the front after many at tempts, because he was old. But be bad that same gift. He could make men his shoulder comrades with a look. He never spoke very much, but he always had a smile or a word of praise for good work
will continue to be loyal and faithful companion. This would be specially and will actively contribute to the efforts interesting, since Alpha Centauri is our for the desired consummation. (Cicers) nearest stellar neighbour. proclaim that every time the words carried out by Mr. B. Chapman the pre nearer giving an order taun Coue I should like to have a large audience to i An important piece of work-chus been done; and he was never known to get separate pay are mentioned in this paction for all parts of the world, would have said there was no discipline country is an insult to Russia. (Cheers.) reduced to the year 1917. It is the first in his company. There was not as they of the charts of magnetic alung boys with me' The Germans I have profound and boundless faith in time that this work has been carried out understand it. But Captain Lhud deny them an elementary sense of honour, the genius of the Russian people. Can I at Greenwich. elementary wisdom and foresight? Thiese Russian people understand that any other course than active and complete co are the only qualities needed to make the
operation with the Allies would mean disaster and worse than disaater —dis- honour (Cheers.)
only to step out of a trouch for the men to follow him, and when at last he died. in a trench in the Hindenburg line, drop.
on the world out of the present dark-ped into it dead, with a machine gun ness. (Loud cheers,)
OTHER UPEKONZA.
M. Paul Hymans, the Belgian Minister, said the demonstration was a most im pressive testimony to the noble British prople's friendship for Belgium, and the close union of the two countries for the defence of right and freedom
bullet in him, his men held that trench against all the odds, held it even when told to retire, because he had led them to it
There is one symbol I should like to
We shall have such shoulder comrades. convey to the Russian people-the dark
now to remember, not only on both sides ness of the streets of London That dark
the channel but on both sides the Atlantic, ness is a symbol of the sacrifices which
Even if the war were to end to-morro the nation have made in order to prevent
and no American army ever came to the wanton destruction of what is des rest M. Misu, the Roumanian Minister, said France, we should have things to remen to them their homes. They have of their the support of the great Allied demo ber, the spirit in which America joined pwn free will renounced many rights they cracies would bring the present barbarous the cause and how she set herself to cherished, such as free choice of oc-
war to a happy end, and secure in the pare. These things already have helped cupation, free choice of travel, and last future a lasting peace and the free de the Allies immeasurably, the becom them to hope for but to be assured of of all, of free and uncensored expression of Montenegro, said it was true to-day fight by us in the trenches. And as a
but not least the right they cherish most velopment of all nationalities by our side at
our shoulder comrade.
Already she is: victorious peace. The demonstration
Sir Roper Parkington, Consul-General showed that the citizens of London When the Russian people understand to say the world, was composed of human after the war, will read of America as
of their thoughts on certain matters."
result of that comradeship our bricklayer, thought as the citizens of France. France had suffered much, they would
that the asme sacrifice is demanded of mainder of the contury no Germans could beings and Germans, and during the re- It renews the vigour, re-establishes the suffer more; but thanks to the resolution them that the great British nation have rank as humes or civilized beings. memories and get him telling tales.
he will read of France and Indis, in a new way That name too will stir It is not a lash to jaded nerves, but they would surmount the barriers set of liberty, then we can have full enn- General Carlos Garcia Velez, the Cuban able to speak or write of these countriesTM
of the nation and the heroism of its Arai made of their own free will in tha enuse (Laughters and cheers.) we
Minister said Cuba was the small brother that have stood with us, without remem
No man, when the war is over, will fe fidence in victory (Cheers.) When that
big brother went the little brother fol will judge his words in the light of their of the United States, and wherever the bering that he speaks to thousands who lowed. If troops from the United States own knowledge. That is the new in- ime over some Cuban troops would Buence that will move among all our dis. be found among them. (Cheers
Senhor Teixeira Gomes, the Portu gueso Minister, and M. Vovanotch, the (Continued at foot of next column. Serbian Minister, also replied.
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victory, is achieved I feel certain that the noble derics of the great French Re public, Liberty, Equality. Fraternity, will cease to be a national device and will become the foundation of the free intercourse of all the democracies of the world. (Cheers) Light will then dawn
with one another and with other peoples, cussion of affairs and all our relations. the memorit that the thousands have f their shoulder comrades.