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buthoritatively stated. President Wilson's declarations were (1) we are not-at war with the German people, but with their autocratic system; (3) we will make peac, with the people but not with their Auto- dracy, for (3) our object is to make the world safe for democracy, and (4) that can only be done by a world system of free peoples lengued together for the de
THE REAL WAR MAPS ARE
WOMEN'S HEARTS" SOME GLIMPSES OF LITTLE STREETS BY AN EX-MILL GIRL
FIRST RUSSIAN GIRL TO
KILL A GERMAN. LYING WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL.
The story of the first girl in tha Woman's Battalion to kill a German hus just been given me by the heroina berself
(writes a Press correspondent)
We are within a few days of the cow pletion of the third year of the war, write A. G. Gardiner, in a recent issue of the Daily News. Three years or the duran and concity of the common liberty. An Ex-Mill, Girl" has written a book, as she lay in the hospital wounded
By that announcement the real war, as tion of the war was thus phrase with distinct from the material struggle, was inrrowed down to Germany itself. All which Lord Kitchener warned us that rice, self-governing nations of the wo were entering on a long struggle. earth-all, that is, that counted in was There were not many who took the wara---Were united against ber and her allies, ing seriously. We may think that we did not for her destruction, but for the libers
tion of human society from "the menace and adopt the formula of some eminent of Absolutism. And it is the course of prophets after the event I always said the war with Germany which will govern
the length of the war of the world.
it would be a long war.”
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THE WAR-IN GERMANY.
"Helen of Four Gates, which has attracted much attention. In the Weekly Dispatele she writes this article, which gives some glimpses of “ Little streets and the great war.
Because I am being considered some thing of a freak in having brains enough to write a book after having done time in the factory, the editor of the Beef Dispatch has asked me to write an article But neither here nor in Germany was there any real vision of the course or
How is that var progressing? In the on some phase of Women and the War, past we have allowed our hopes of in- she writes.. length of the struggle. The Kaiser sternal disruption and economic collapse
If he expected from me a brilliant set army was to be in Paris in a fortnight; too much rope. To-day we are allowing of views on the subject he will be dia them, perhaps, too little. There is strong appointed. I do not deal in views on the steum roller," according to the ground for believing that momentous such a subject. I stand too near the Timer, was to be in Berlin in the three things are imminent in Germany--that the horror of it all. My husband is a soldier months. The author of the latter pro- Autocracy and the nation are approaching My only brother will soon be masked in the inevitable collision. It must be re: the spider's web. I do not like uniforms phecy is to-day telling as in the august membered that there has always been of any description-nor anything that accents of the dictator of two worlds that powerful minority opposed to the way;
makes people all look alike. I do not care the war has only just begun. There are and that populer leaders like Bernstein for what tends to brutalise, nor what and Haase (not to speak of Liebknecht
1 like years and years of it to follow. He is who has long been in prison) have openly tends to bloodless utecticismu. probably wrong now us, he was wrong charged the German Government with people with faces.
responsibility for the war. The opposi tions has been kept under because the
the machine; "Always, always as I walk along the The truth is that wars are wayward Autocracy has had control of
but the control is weakening. The Auto-pleasant lanes, hearing the cuckoo, or things. They rarely work out accordarcy must have victory or the challenge children's laughter on a green hillside, as ing to plan." Lord Milner thought the from the nation grows. It has not had the sun goes down, there seems to be a Boers would be eaten in a few weeks; victory and the failure of the immense great crimson cloud darkening everything
hopes founded on the submarine warfare with its berrid shade, Lincoln at the end of four years admitted has deepended the discredit that is under that no one had foreseen the stapendous mining its authority. Privations can be
born when victory beckons a people on nature of the Secession conflict, The only but privation is nother matter when prophets of war who can generally afford hope is sinking. io recall their prophecies' are those who promise disappointments, and disillusion. * They are singing their bills now," said Walpole when at last, he was driven inte the Spanish war; soon they will be wringing their bands.!!
then.
THE STARVATION PHANËLLE But though disappointments and dis illusion have been our portion in common with the belligerents, the great tendencies. of events should reassure us. They have been with us throughout; but they were never so visibly with us as they are to day, and the end may be near at hand.
This may be doubted if we look only ny the externals of the war. The three years uro nearly over, and we are about to es plore the unknown " duration," If we base our calculation on the visible strug gle we have not much material for n cheer ful forecast. Those who anticipato the continuance of the war over another win ter and perhaps over a second winter have the stronger case. We have come to the end of one chapter only to find once more that wo are at the beginning of another. We are experiencing that familiar decep tion of the mountains which offer us false summits for our achievement only to
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS, F-
A. GREAT CRIMSON CLOUD.,
I-shout baby to try and make my self forget it. I tell her to show big and as she puts her hands up I think of the lads who are showing big-beating down hellish terrors that come to men because they are human. She, peeps
She is Mary Goloubyova, an eighteen- year-old high school student. She is tall. and graceful, with pretty blue eyes, her blond hair, now short, giving her tho appearance of a handsome boy. Laugh- ing at the wounds which caused her to be sent to the hospital, she showed her. brilliant white teeth. Dictating to me ber tale, she trilled with a locket and a little bag at her neck On asking, I learned the bag contained cyanide of potassium in 350 she was captured. In the battalion all carried the same.
BY
MARY GOLDUDYOVA.
I am wounded, they say: I call it meco. scratches, but it may keep me from the front several weeks after only two days' fighting, but at any rate I was in the front trenches and 1 got my German. 1 am feeling better already, and hope I can go right unck. I must go my country. needs me. That is why enlisted.
I saw soldiers in Petrograd demanding, nos to be sent to the front and I realized that the country needed every mine and woman who was not a coward. Then the Wattan's Battalion was formed and joined immediately. 1 have never regret
edit; I was never afraid, and I ask only the privilege to bear a gun against the enemy again. I must fill the place of ren who will not fight.
Going to war is not too much for a woman: I was always strong; still, being
woman, I wondered if it would be too fatiguing. Once at the front, I forgot whether I was a man or a woman; 1 was just a soldier. The only preparation I made against contact with the enemy was to wrap the upper portion of my body Armly. During the title I was never hampered for an instant on account of my sex The soldiers, the real brav the cowards jerred.
Henry the food riots which have taken and I am reminded against ny will of place in the great towns during the lasts that mean death to the peepers.soldiers, treated me like a comrade. Only few days. Hence the remarkable declara | Slu saya Bye-bye and shuts her eyes tion by Conservative leaders like Del; and the visum of lovely men going to rack, Rohrbach Treeltsch, and Emil bye-byen a hell of din comes before Fischer that the denial of political, re Forang At end and that a measure of freedom must be granted forthwith, "so that the Government may give practical. and visibly evidence of its trust in the people which the German nation de serves,"
sie.
I am a women, not a freak. Moreover, I am a working woman.. I have no brilliant views. "I have feelings blind, irrational, natural feelings. They say that feeling is the ground work of opinions. 159, from these women in the little houses, feeling like myself, there may evolvo opinions that will challenge the glory of war and strike at the age-long custom of our sheltering behind a wall of nien..
"THE" NOBODIEN.”
We went into action a fortnight after our arrival at the front under heavy German cannon fire. Given the order to advance, we rushed out of our trench Feeling no sense of danger we dished toward the enemy in the wood. Tho machine-guns began knocking over-my- We were ordered to: lie down. I noticed those at the front with companions.
were all women. The men were fur- ther back.
I began shooting, the gun kicking my shoulder so hard that it is still blue and stiff. I was glad when we were ordered to charge the machine-guas in the woods. We paid dearly, but we held on, and by night our sconts discovered the machine gunners and we shelled then out.
After the first attack I was attached to a mechine-gun, carrying ammunition ti an advanced position under the fire of hidden German machine-guns. We were advancing and constantly in danger of capture by the Germans. On one trip over newly captured ground I saw what
The signals of distress are everywhere in the panic speech of Hery Dornburg, in the suppression of all independent comment in the German newspapers, in the apologies that are being made for the failure of the submarines to reduce us to starvation, and in the remarkable interview with Herr Bjornsen in the Nor wegian Press, in which, after having bean The withen I know are nobodies in the most obedient lackey of Germany, little streets. They are factory workers, repudiates the Government, declares that it is lying to the people, that it con als shop girls, dress-makers, bakern of bread, the facts about the sinking of acutral charwomen and mothers of families who ships, and that the Austrian Emperor work for love, not wages, and thus kick whom he has seen) is in revolt against their honest clogs through the ancient the tyranny of Berlin: In all this and lie that nobody would work if not paid much else there are the evidences that in money that is waited for and taken considered a wounded German offer disillusionment is at last coming to the
lying on the ground. I went to help him German people. When that process in
as soon as got.. maka
"Some of my friends read much, some with my gun in my right hand and the complete the last stronghold of Absolut scarcely any. Some of them can't pro-Seeing me, be jumped to his knees and
machine-gun ammunition in my left. it will fall with a crash as it fell in nounce the names of the Dardanelles and pulled out his revolver, but before hi Russia, and the war will be rar Mesopotamin. Some can.. What does it could shoot. I dropped the ammunition
matter, anyhow? We all feel about these and killed him places when we've got.anybody there.
The real war maps are women's hearts. Mesopotamia is where he is-lad, or the lads.
end.
RUSSIA'S DEMAND.
The results of our feelings are strange, tragic, and sometimes--hamorous. But it
How did I feel on taking a human life? I had no sensation excopt to rid my coun try of an enemy. There was no senti- mentality. We were trying to kill them and they were trying to kill us-that is all. Any Russian girl or any American same feeling.
It is the task of the Allies to help that reveal new summits to be won The phase proces to mature to help to drive in the of this year has been the phase of mutual wedge between the German peop), and the starvation. It is over-temporarily, bat systela which is now fighting desperately over. The boat has done its worst and for its existence not merely against the We survive. The blockade has done is Allies but against the tendency within. worst and Germany aurvives.. The The moment has come, not for a bid for is a humour tinged with tears. When 1girl in the same position would have the No, I do not feel that I did anything harvests of the world are being reaped, peace, but for such a revised statement was shop assisting, at the beginning of and the war goes on. The efforts of three of the Allies war nims as will put our the war, an old woman of eighty came to exceptional. Any well developed girl cal
sase unequivocally before the world. It my stall. Poverty, respectable, pinched, do the same. years, on that side and on this, to effect ich 'n statement for which Russia asks, was stamped all over leer. She firmly be
a dramatic finish have been brought to nought and we face a mere struggle of endurance,
THE LAST CARD.
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There are no cowards among us. Wo and nothing vill du so much to consoli lieved she was doing her bounden duty in expected to be killed and were ready to date the Government of that country in this time of crisis by buying a penny die. I had the luck to escape this time, the midst of the storms that rage around bunch of crushed, sullied, artificial flowers but I am ready to die the next. it as a frank and swift response in this to smarten her bonnet Another woman I never knew when I was hit. Shells In that struggle Germany is now de-matter.
evicted a bronze peacock from her house were breaking everywhere. One got me. finitely the underdog and across the The troubles of the Russian Govern- and buried it in the coalnook, thinking The next time one may really get me Atlantic her dootti is being written by the went have come as much from the Allier peacocks might be unlucky and that her light of a thousand furmees. She has as from the Extremists. The latter are man might come home and the war end still one card to play. She may try to careless of the political revolution that it the peacock was ousted. escape the slow working of events by has been accomplished they care only gamble with her Navy; but if she shrinks from that risk there would seem to be no alternative to a war of exhaustion. And with the experience we have had in this war of the power of the defensive it would be a coutrageous prophet who put an caris term to the struggle. In the light of the military facts, then, those who look for another year of war and possibly two seem to have the weight of the argument on their side
But the trau tendencies are not to be measured wholly by the visible military facts. War," said Clausewitz, is only an extension of policy," It is an instru- 41-12 ment, not an end. It is subordinate to ideas, and no one can be blind to the transformation in the world of ideas be hind the war, or to the startling elucida tion of the issue which has come in recent months.
AWAR OF SYSTEMS.
BOLE WOMEN
A MINISTRY OF COMMERCE. The House of Commons Commercial Committee, which has over 100 subscrib ing members of all parties, recently ap- pointed a strong sub-committee to con sider the question of a Ministry of Commerce. The sub-committee had threo meetings, and recommended in thir report the creation of a Ministry of Commerce entirely independent of the Board of Trade. They advocated the inclusion in the new Ministry of the Commercial and Trade and the formation of an Advisory Patents Departments of the Board of Committee of representatives of various
about the social revolution of which they dream. They are not pro-Germans, but
Another woman, a brave lass with a they are ridden by their theories and they represent the Allied countries, France, sickly baby and something of a comic Great Britain, the United States, as given spirit, wished her lad hone so that he over to Imperialise, capitalism, and con could do a bit o' church parade with kid quest as much as Germany. It is this pro-eneets (Somewhere, while she tossed paganda that the Russian Government has with the child, he was stretcher bearer.)
And to meet und destroy to survive.
Another woman, an old woman, sang what it asks is that the Allies shall come for joy as her knitting needles few, bo to its aid, re-state their objects in the canso Ind was taken prisoner. Her baby light of the great events of the past, six months, and enable it to return to the aged, have gone into the mills again, se
vas safe. Some of the women, middle Russian people with the assurance that the cause of the Allies is the one at that they can send parcels to their lads,
trades and industries to assist the liberty, that the destruction not of the Ger- knowing they don't get enough to eat. man people but of the German system, is Once, in the post office, my heart bled Ministry. The sub-commitles further sug the object in view and that the only within me to hear a young woman, tossing gested that a conference should be held enemy to pence is the Military Autocracy her shawl over her shoulder with a with representatives of the Foreign Office as to the Consular Service in regard to of Prussia.
Fanny of Hindle Wakes flourish, say, trade questions, They anggested in addi with a look of dark discontent, Itation, that the new Commercial Depart grand when we've to lose sleep ower that ment should be modelled on the lines of 500 She had had no Army pay for six weeks. Her new book had not come
THE CHOICE.
There should be no delay in making From the beginning it has been held in this declaration. And in convincing these columns that the war was not a war the Russian people that the Allies aim not. between nations, but a war between sys-at conquest bat at liberty for every people tems. The government of the world was we shall convince the German people too,
CHANGES IN WOMEN,
The psychological changes in working
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reached us we smiled:
a cruzy quilt here Absolutism, there Re and stimulate their internal movement women since the war began have been publicanism, elsewhere a compromise like towards emancipation. We have nothing great in literate and illiterate aliko. our own. We had tried to find an accom- to fear and much to gain from any dis modation, a basis of neighbourly existens, cussion of our objects, whether by Social-In the beginning, after the first crack between these systems, the Liberal world ists at Stockholm, in Petrograd, or in of doom, after the first stunned lack of own, and the going up of food. Wager hoping that the Absolutist world would London, whether by the churches (who feeling, came the enlistments. Maybe a increased 10 per cent in the factories. collapse from within; but the war cams have too long been silent), or by politi-thrill of adventure communicated itself Food went up 50. When the first chorus. whether this bit of territory or that was cians. It is not the Allies who need shun to the women. There was some feminine of Economise to change hands, but whether Absolutism the light; it is the Prussian Autocracy, fear of invasion. Newspapers were Our lives even to us seemed incapable of or Liberalism was to govern the world- which cannot afford to disclose its aims. feverishly read. Women fell out with further paring. And yet what we have not a section of the world but all the The peace which the Allies aim at is a each other for differing opinions, for in lost since then in love and grub! world: One ur other system had to go place of the peoples, a peace founded on those days we had opinions. Our own folk"I have heard quiet, commonplace entirely there was not rouur in the world reparation for wrongs,but not on revenge were not in the spider's web, women who before were never dissatisfied, for two principies.
on liberty to every nation to live its own It was not very clear for the first two life in security, and on the banishment an old maid, She's ne'er done speak with a gleam in their eyes of from the affairs of ten of the menace of Inds to go, said a shawled, stout woman
fog ber country. So she wants my pessible revolution. Women are primi years that this was the issue, for we had Absolutism. If that policy is made clear, in a little shop, telling me of another to read the papers so much as the men.
tive animals. Maybe it's not having time one of the worst despotisms on our side. the German people will see the choic But with the revolution in Russia the before them. They can stand by their woman
*Still, echoes of economy exhibits open- bruth that lay at the heart of the war system and have a long war with a bitter
ed by duchesses reached us arou. We jok was revealed.
end; or they can renounce their system
ed about it at fish carts as we tried to buy and by democratiaing themselves have, as
the tail end of a cod. We waxed sarcastic on the idea of making homes from scrap Mr. Lloyd George said at Glasgow, an earlier and a better peace, and
"This was the beginning of the real heaps and chairs from upholstered beer which in the end will reconcile them with upheaval of the lives in the little streets barrels. We had no imagination. We the world which their Governmons and 1-this shadow of the first fear for our were indignaat. But we had, no voices- their deeds have outraged.
(Continued at foot of next columi.) We were nobodies,
THE NEW PHASE.
That event made it possible for the United States to come in, and with the entrance of the United States the issue was not merely clear, but at last was
peace
"Well-I'd rather go myself. How much is onions? Lord! What shall we ha to eat in a bit!!
THINGS BEYOND DOING,