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ACTUAL EXPERIENCES. Despite Mr. Bonar Law's suggestion that the result of sounding warnings of danger from air raids is to drive people into the street, 1 venture to think this question of giving the alarm is worth
AUGUST 18, 1917.
SEAMEN AND LABOUR DELEGATES.
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD'S
EXPLANATION.
Suddenly, a little boy, about four yeste HOME ON “PERMISSIONE
old, came running down the house, orying A HEART BREAKING EXPERIENCE. out over and over, "" want you, my I want you, I want you, my PAPA Every three months the French soldier papa" And the cold lady lost all her is given six days at home. That is, he is splendid poiss and began to cry, too, in supposed to receive this permission, as it the arms of the man, before everybody The vessel which was to convey the is called. Very often he doesn't get it.& nurse came down for the little boy, angh Labour delegates to Russia left an East If his regiment happens to be fighting a somehow the officer and the woman got Coast poft on June 11th. Owing to the critical battle when his falls due it is into the motor. The man said to the refusal of the semen and frecen of postponed for eight ten months, some chauffeur, "I la gare," and they drove Crossing the cobbled, noisy square in the vessel to take duty if Mr. Ramsay times for a year. Yet short and uncer away MacDonald or Mr. Jowelt were allowed tain us this enso is, it keeps the soldier
behind?
able suspense
1 to go on bourd, these two gentlemen die going and makes the war endurable for front of the Gare Montparnasse,
The permission is the woman and a motl in his faded blue, not leave the port. Mr. G. H. Roberts the soldier's family through the intermin woman, without any hat, a working: M.P., and Mr. W. Carter also remained brightest spot in the soldier's life, writes ragged coat and blus helmet, and in his Arang a baby. Her face was streaked with a correspondent of the Minneapolis
dust and tears and she held on to the edge Those who sailed in the vessel included | Journal from Paris, but it is not all gay.
The permission, much as it is longed of his ragged blus coat. He hold the baby Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Kenney, and Mr.
for, is often rather a heart-breaking exin both arms, up close to his tanned, thin Because, after all, it just face. The baby did not seem to notice West, of the Fabian Society, A
perience. Mr. MacDonald only made one effort means that every time it all has to be gone cything just rode there happily, held to go on board the vessel, and he had through with again, the separation that high in the soldier's arms, waving its no sooner reached the gangway than
of the six days there is the beginning
•the members of the crew lined up on deck very one knows may be for always. A little hands. ---
conciousness of the last one, like ngword Bix days and made it quite clear that if he was
of Damocles over everything. to be allowed on board they would put
is just a moment. Before it is begun on their cunts and cease work... MT. MacDonald thereupon left the quay and is almost over, and people have to try to
nake believe that it is an eternity. returned to his hotel
tional
Sometimes, when you see a potin and his wife, or his girl, in & trarcar or in a voiture, leaning close together, each conscious of nothing but the other, you can not tell whether the time has just begun or whether he is on his way back. of parting begins again.A Because with the first meeting the anguisha
Captain Tupper, of the National Sailors and Firemen's Union, thanked the men for the stand they had taken on behalf of the dependents of their dead comrades, and as the vessel left port the members of the crew and others on board raised a hearty cheer for Captain Tupper
Mr. Roberts and Mr. Carler spent the
day at the port awaiting instractions from London, and afterwards left by an evening train. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Jowett also remained for the day. their movements being vigilantly followed by pickets on behalf of the Sailors and Firemen's Union. A picket. kept a close watch on the exits of their hotel, and when they went outside they were followed.
iL
After dinner, when it was just begin- ning to get dark, I was frightened to see, almost under the wheels, it seried running along close behind a bram-car
me,
hig black dog. It was the train-car that runs from Montparnasse to the Gare de Lyon: The dog would get a little hekind, then the car would stop and he would catch up with it. He kept jumping up against the steps, making franite-little leaps whenever he came close to it.
Then I saw in the doorway a poilu in thought that he would surely be killed. his campaign outfit, pack and gun and Of course they are not altogether all. He was talking to the dog, selling times there is much feasting and feting, ne going to the station. It was the end tragedies of meeting and parting. Some him to go home and an they passed by and the departure is almost forgotten of the sixth day, I could see that He the comfort of the reunion. The husband had said good-by to the family at home, or on or father comes back from the front begged them not to come to the station, a tremendously niagnified human being, because it made it so much harder. But hero to be adored and worshipped, there was the dog that had come anyway. Of course, many of the soldier's have no Ever since she knew he was coming, the As far as I could see it, there was that beautiful as she can, writing out menus relatives, and many more live in parts, wife has been sweeping and garnishing leaping figure of the black dog. the house, making her own wardrobe as for impossibly delicious meals, planning of France too far away from the battle the time and the money necessary to go fece and memorable.
and return from Paris, but that is Do these unfortunate souls have to watch their comrades, leave in his spirits for dix days with their families, without ever a by which any one becomes sponsor for a hope of sharing the good time i
godson with the same sunt necmeary they! There is an organization in Paris. poilu on peruriasion, buy him for a to pay for his board and lodging while he is in Paris, a small gum, but often more than the soldier himself can afford.
STRAM POK #TRAITE, CEYLON more attention than it has received. of conversation, stated emphatically that to make every moment of the six days pertine to visit. The permiterion includes
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As a dweller on the coast, who has watched the growing significance of air raids for some years, I am certain practical system of warnings could be adoptou with advantage to the communi- ty. Mr. Bopar Law's opinion is largely the expert point of view; but I doubt whether experience of several raids bears out the contention that people crowd into streets when an alarm is sounded.
It is true in the early days when attack from the air was a vague, unfamiliar
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in the course it was not his wish to go to Russia. He was only going at the express desire of the Government. He had come under on obligation not to discuss international affairs with either enemies or aliens at Stockholm, but he was to have absolute freedom of action at Petrograd, He also declared that it was his desire that the finish,--Temes, war should be carried to a satisfactory
THis Majesty's Malls, will be despate and terror the tendency was for people to "GOOD BUSINESS WOMEN
wking Fawongen leave their houses during raids and go
I from this pork as nista parit, Pamatgers' star or sun gazing. But in the districts
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Total seared where raids have often occurred people hayo learnt that cover does minimise the
Bilk and Valmbles and Tow and Cargo for risks, and they take cover.AE Italy, France and London (antier sesingoman) will be sonveyed by this Stormer proceeding ria Bombay to Marseilles and London
Bet so until
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A WAR CROP OF THEM, Mere un must look to his laurels or will find some that he deemed the most
any
Men say that the wonderful thing about the terrible existence at the front is the scuse it gives them of being intensely alive. Power, energy, endurance they a keenness never felt in ordinary life have never unagined comes into their ex perience. They have a sense of vitality, When they go back on permission, they creatures Six days of life, between two are still intensely living, intensely feeling deaths there is nothing stupid or hom- drain about that.
bronzed, und muscled and swaggering Philadelphin Public Ledger-
Not
day no
So it will happen that you may see a Sometimes husbands and wives find each
Ilittle boy, or an lady, or a man too old other changed by their experience. know of one woman who had made her to fight, walking the streets with a board- husband a sort of invalid with too much ed private with the mud of Champagne When still damp on his helmet. A remarkable mothering, hovering, managerstacion she organization has made this possible, he came back on his first hardly knew him, he was so sturdy and writes Henry Bazin in a letter to the and talked the rough There has been established on the left esme, homo A timely warning docs enable parents he wils fixed there slipping from his
lace to language of the trenches, and shouted and bank of the Seine, at 10 But Vaugirard, to collect children and place them in brow
sang and swore and misbehaved and cor- L'arre des Soldats de la Guerre. basements and cellars or any adjacent. It could be the dullest commonplace to 3 the day before, miling: The content place of safety. Warning ukse helps repent that woman has risen magnifiented her up and downstairs; he ate and Through it, he or she who will, may he schoolmasters to take every precau ly to the opportunities afforded her by drank things that weren't good for him, come a god-father or godmother in seri- sad ralus of all paokagon are required.
tions against panic, and the same applies the war. All sorts of writers and orators and made her to the cinema for the ously good faith for six days. It costs to promoters of afternoon entertainments. huve birled this theme aboat until they first time in her life, and to common cafés, fifteen francs a godson; to be exact, sao For further parilanları, mailing dates, ste,
such as the managers of cinema theatres, have frayed it at the edges and shocked her dreadfully. All the time cording to the present rate of exchange, apply to
But when be went tiny au, marvellous to reinte, pays for EV. D. PARE
Superintendent More, I may say that so far as my own But in their easy generalisings they she was protesting helplessly, and thought just 22.04 Buys the happy privilege. This
knowledge goes, & warning sounded in a have overlooked wholly one of its most she would die of it. district familiar with raid dangers clears interesting aspects, and thine is the nuta- and does not crowd the streets. I heard ber of women who in some kind or an-away she cried more than she ever had the lodging and food of a soldier during warning sounded the other day and other of war work have shown themselves eried when he Brst went off to war 144 hours of daylight and darkness. All It hardly seems possible such a was surprised to see how quickly the business brains of the top grade. Men home on permission make up a grent he needs is the sponsor the filling of a orowded thoroughfares thinged out. For the most part these women comes from part of the present city life of Paris, and simple printed form the money does the would see drama after drama, some com small sum could be sufficient to defray the trade are Again, Mr. Bonar Law' suggestion is well-to-do homes, often from the class to one were to stand on the boulevards he rest.. not the last a difficult which business and problenord poynonymous and objectionable terms, plete, some fragmentary. The man home expense. But where there in a whi too short to waste any time in pretence donated or bought at special prices. The Even if the public is inclined to allow Apart from their own household affairs from the trenches lets his simple, human there is a way The itse of the building curiosity to get the better of its discretion (when ther had any) they were quite side come to the surface, and six days is is donated by the owner. Supplies are We quote a few of the scenes the place has been open some time with never
-9;336: in the an existing deficit. Journal correspondent
There are accommodations for men at and to crowd into the streets, the air without experience in managing
• LUISE NIELSEN "
At the entrance to the subway at the one time. There are a series of wardlike having arrived from the there Ports, Consignes mentice is assuming proportions that now thing of Carge by her are hereby infarsund that El justify the authorities in setting about. Even now that they have shown them Goods are being landed AT THE RISK into the the task of educating the people as to the selves, worthy, the description they would course of an afternoon walk; “ASAHI BEER." ions and/or extra hazardous Godowns of right steps to take when their safety is reseat is being called good business Madeleine-a permissionnaire from the rooms, with orderly rows of clean, sweet, the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown threatened. Indeed, development of air women, All the same, the capacity front, thirty-five, solid, tanned, his faded inviting white iron beds under a rain- Company Limited, whence and/or from the craft has reached such a point that, while which lay dormant within them awakened out brushed but still full of dust; his proof roof. Imagine what that roof alone It is necessary now to teach the public quickly under the warming sun of oppor-wife, smiling, pretty, well-dressed. They means to a point who has slept, under There i harves delivery may be obtained,
when one considers all things. For the only a few minutes. It was perhaps then his clothes for months There are baths Goods not cleared by the 2nd Aug, at 5 r. the best course to pursue during a raid, city for affairs that is really amazing were going to leave each other; oh for ground or in the open without removing
**** the future may hold still more consider most part these women are engaged in only about the third day. She was only and a nightshirt for every man, be subject to sint, tort
one or other of the many benevolent going to do a few errands, and he had a big dining hall where each soila gedson All broken, dusted and damagal packageable problems,
undertakings which war needs have call-
clasped hands, looking steadily into each are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ke
fashion, consists of but cafe au lait, and amined by Mesira. Gonnan and Douglas,
In dealing with the question of giving ed into being Only people who some things to do in roms other place. They receives his three square meals on the 2nd Aug,, st 10 AM
result of are immediately concerned in it know to other's eyes and then, without false two, for the curly breakfast, French substance, well cooked and served in Chaloss
ins against the Steamer must be alarms one may say as
old gentleman and his little wife of copious quantity, with the evening meat presented within 10 daes of arrival, otherwise observation that in many cases the warn what enormous dimensions charitable shame, they kissed each other in the open, bread. But the midday meal is of solid
ing is not sounded soon enough. After of work has grownised how boulevard they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by withere is a space between the east coast of ciently it is organised how cleverly and
England and the nearest enemy aero cheaply managed. The credit for this sixty passed; they looked at the couple in repetition, plus a big plate of hot, any ones whatevry,
dromes To-day when our narrow seas rests largely, in many cases wholly, with and then at each other. It was as if nourishing soup, Every man has in half ars full of eyes it ought to be possible to the women administrators, who have they regretted that they had lived a long bottle of red wine with coch lunch, and warn any part of the coast fifteen minutes divined by instinct things which it took life of too serene aflection without having dinner, And there is a living-room with
two, the moment that the war had wade lounging seats, before the arrival of the threatening craft ten years to learn and which some mea known one moment like this of the other books and newspapers and comfortable
could never learn at all.
f complete alandor, of uncon When I saw all this I quick'y bought a In actual experience one finds the ala: valuable workers possess in-so full of
young, very debon godson, and as I walked away thinking and the explosive effects of attack come too close together. Indeed, in my own sight, an infinite capacity for taking sciousness, experience. I have known sirens to begin pas, quite a genius for huudiing detail. Only a civilian, very young, ver their hooting after the attacks have and untiring energy, Interest one of the pire, and the little painted woman with nhout it, I retraced my step. 1 I said opened. I do not pretend to any inside fair sex in her job and she will give it aim, dughed
before, and bought another. For an ex- information and I lusit te to criticise, a chartention as if it were a sickly Imbecile said the old gentleman to penditure of 30.28 two men are my really experts whose inner, knowledge of the child.ere is an example of what the his wife, scowling at them terribly truly godsons for six days, and, figura situation may very easily compaid out capable woman cau achieve many others Waiting on the curb to cross the street, tively speaking, I can watch over their side indgment.
might be cited. In que populous centre noticed a taxicab coming toward me destiny They will presently hear of But I venture this opinion, purely the whole of the War Relief Funds dislowly, because of the traffe For their new relation, and the permission he guess in the dark, that in many towns tribution has been entrusted to a couple second I was astonished because in broad brings them. And they will learn at the of able women of their own initiative daylight in an open cab, there was a ente time of my name and address. I news of approaching hostile craft has to pass through too many oficial hands they have pieced together an organisation oman with both arms around the neck already have theirs, chosen as the next
which keeps a considerable staff of volub of a man, her head on his shoulder. Then two in line upon the waiting list. before an order to sound the warning is try workers busy administers several I saw that they, too, were not in this One is from the country near Limoges given The various officials, a little funds, and denis with thousands of cases world. She was in black, and tears were in Haute Vienne. I know the district The other was clerk in hampered by red tape, perhaps sensitively without Overlapping. Ask either of the streaming down her pale face. He was in well, He has a little farm and before They are now Pri fearful of making themselves ridiculous heads for information about any of uniform, with his packs and campaign the war lived upon it with his mother and
veto py shouting wolf when there is no the cases and she will produce it at things on his back. His face was eve a maiden sister wolf, may be are apt to consult over long once from carefully indexed Bles. Every more terribly rigid and desperate. Is shop in Marseille
there was a
Artillery The result is the wolf often arrives before things co-ordinated and planned in a knew they were going to the station
with his the warning shout goes up This is my masterly way, and workable schemes Farther on, where the Rue du Beofantry and Privato of the
blond, brown boy in horizon blue,
In a few days they will come and visit opinion, purels for what it is worth, as for dealing with any problem are expedi- comes down to the river, - to the cause of many belated warnings. tiously devised
father and mother Ability of this bigh calibre is a na
She was a little thin woman in black me When they do, we thre my two Agreement on several aspects of the warning problem has not been reached in tional asset that ought not to be wasted with a long black veil, and there was a godsons and will have a little jollifica and a talk between; per mpty centres. The vexed question whe when war work needs it no longer-
killed. They stopped and with a ther night alarms should be sounded is and the women will see that it is not black band on the sleeve of the boy and I'm going to blow mysel!" we'll a case in point. An astm sounded at Already any who have found them on that of the man. The other bos, prob- have lunch together and dinner together, Bigas startes proportion of people our selves in these strenuous days are distaly, had been lad was go to some-Laps & came of billiards and an hour of upon the business of self-protection It inched to go back to the humdrum of where, it seemed, but they would all meet so in a cinema, which is French for a may be the public is inclined to do stupid their pre-war life. Work has an attrat dinner, at Lavenue's, at seven. The movie. At 10 p.m. I'll escort them, like things in the face of the new danger, and tion for them now that they have tasted both kissed him gravely, on one cheek and a dutiful godfather, to the door of their
down to kiss his hearty handshake, a good night, an the expert is right when he advocates the the pleasures of it.
then the other, under his blue helmet six-day home and leave them with disuse of night warnings, But the stti. As a result many of these super-busi He had to bend
On the side walk, before a fine old bouge We are glad to hear that, the Ministry cudo is not, to my mind, the last word weep women have decided to put aside mothers
revoir, bosine chance on the subject I, In practice public social prejudices and enter commercial conduct proves stupid when people are life after the war. Men will have to in the Bue de Varenue, there was a closed pretty considerably if motor kood-looking officer and a lady to hold their own against very cold and still, and beautifully dressed, asked to take the right course of action, brighten up /es Ingical step. An educational campaign
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abandonment of the right ides is not the thesanding trade rivals who may tame down to the car, I could see she way normal order of the old parmisson. It is
by advertisement leading the public along the secounted as among the unexpected quite a great lady footman came on ht line would be the beneficial and to some uugaliant male minds the of the house with bags, and they stood
arrange things, Dot saying saything Tara Tom George Edgar in the Daily least welcome discoveries" of the war.there on the sidewalk waiting for him to
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pants, and is granted to soldiers of all red on the occasion of the birth of