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in other ways. Just now we all have well that there should be placed That he was not quite so wrong she theatro was packed with people from the opportunity of protecting ourselves record auch authentic details as those conthen seemed was the burden of a remark: the town and districts around.“
against private and public anxieties by tained in the report just published by all lecture on The Origin of Man,"
investing as much as we can in Wor the Government Committee on the Treat
Mr. Kipling said: We have rather a Loans, LE ment of British Prisoners, in which are delivered at King's College yesterday by Professor Wood-Jones, Professor of
Mory is curious article. Have you set out the testimonies of forty-eight Anatomy in the University of London. dry subject to talk over this afternoon. ever bought that invested money in the officers and wventy-seven non-commission. ed omcers and men, chpard of December, quite recently, descended from the and I will tell you a story. Once upon a Maine, that will work for you, while you ed omcers and men, captured between the That man is not, as has been held till so, before I begin, if you will allow me, only thing in the world, outside the Army, the Navy, and the Mercantile thropoid apes; that these would be in 1914, as to what befel them during their fact more accurately described as having time, a hundred years ago, there was a sleep! Everything else knocks off, or transport to Germany, atta
been descended from man; that man, as large and highly organised community goes to bed, or to es a holiday at in There is nothing very new in the re port, but two things which it establishes man is far more ancient than the whole in India who lived by assassination and tervals, but our money kits up all through may be noted. Statements by some of anthropoid branch; that, compared with robbery. They were educated to it from the year, working to fetch in the 5 per him, the shimpanzee and the orang-outang their infancy; they followed it as a procent interest that the Government gives the officers and mcn concerned, who are
on every pound it borrows from s now in Great Britain, have already been are newcomers on this planet these were fession, und, it was also their religion. the assertions made by Professor Wood- They were called Thugs. Their method
HOMETHING OF A MAN TO SAVE. published, and the mass of evidence now added effectually proves that their aufus, and which he claimed to have been was to disguise themselves as pilgrims,
Savings represent much more than their ferings we in no way exceptional proved not only by recent anatomical re or travellers, or merchants, and to join Again, there has been a diaposition in arch, but to be deducible from the whole with parties of pilgrims, travellers, and more money value. They are proof that tread of geological and anthropological merchants moving about India Thoy the saver 1 worth something in himselt.. some quarter to draw a distinction in discovery Quite one of the most inter got into the confidence of their victims, Any fool can waste any "Too) this, as in other respects, between the German People and their military sting references in Professor Wood found out what they had on them, and muddle, but it takes something of a man masters. These records show that same Jones lecture was to the recent reperts in due time-after weeks or months of to save, and the more his saves the more of the wors indignities suffered by the by Dr. Stewart Arthur Smith, of acquaintance they killed them by giving of a man does it make him. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for prisoners, were inflicted by the civilian Sydney, on the Talgai skull, discovered them poisoned food-sweetnicats
form of self-restraint, und contamenco, population, including women of the well in 1800, in the Darling Downs, New choice or by strangling them from be every crisis; thrift, which means some to-do elnéses, and especially the "ladies" South Wales, but never seriously in hind ns. they sat over the fire of an steadies it. And we need steady minds vestigated till 1914. This undoubtedly ing, with a knotted towel or a specially
·Just now. Remember, too, thay every- During the first three months of the human skull, very highly mineralised, prepared piece of rope. They then strip- thing we waste in the way of manu-
was found in a stratum with extinct ped the corpse of all valuables, threw
factured geods-from a match upwards-- war (sals the report) there is hardly a pouched mammals, and is probably as it down a well, or buried it, and went as well as everything wo buy that isn't single mention of any English prisoner, ancient as the famous Piltdown skull, on to the next job. At last things got absolutely necessary to get on with, menng however severely wounded, receiving
whose human nature was so hetty being so bad that the Government of India had diverting some man or women's tube and medical care bon the enemy during disputed just before the war. In de to interfere, and after many years spent energy from doing work connreted with journeys which habitually lusted for several days The condition of the posits of the same age as those in which in tracking down and hanging up the the war. And war work which means the Talgai skull was unearthed were actual murderers, and imprisoning their supplies food, munition, ships is the wounded under these circumstances was in very innay cases such as can hardly found the bones of dings dogs, and also spies and confederates, who included all only thing that is of the least importanca be described. It constantly happened the bones of extinct pouched mammals ranks of society, it put an end to the now Everything outside that necessity that officers and men aliky were shut gnawed by these dogs. Now the dramatic whole business of Thuggee is danger and waste, ba, you sve, wo are The world has progressed since that all in a splendid position in invest. Not into trucks for the inevitably slow and interest of this discovery lies in the
Until the arrival of day. By present standards of crime and fewer things to bay it with, but it only is there more money going about
Compressed fur felt Topees fullowing facts. lengthy journey The use of these trucks, Captain Cook in Australia no non- those Thugs were ineffective anateurs.
spond uncleansed and manurious, for
money on what covered with white or khaki doll is also wrong to severely wounded, so overcrowded that pushed mammals had ever intruded upon They did not mutilate or defile the bodies
Nothing else under Heaven matters with puggaree to match. fifty or sixty men would be placed in geologically certain that Australia bas rape, or enslave people; they did not to day except that the war shail go on to single truck with the doors closed and any sort of alleviation absolistely denied, always been surrounded by sea since the kill children for fun; and they did not victory. From time to time the repre
Absolute protection from the sun, entailed terible suffering for the pristine of the evolution of pouched mam burn villages. They merely killed and sentatives of the Allies meet together and oners. The most elementary require al Had it not been so it is almost robbed in an unobtrusive way as lay down what the war sims of the Allies! inants of deiney and cleanliness were certain that the many non-pruched matter of education, duty, and religion, are From time to time our statesmen will stand rain or sea water and regularly feed. Not only were the mammals in the neighbouring continents under tis patronage of their goddess, repeat them. They all agree we are fight. prisoners thrown into trucks, often inches have migrated thither How then Kali the Destroyer i
ing for freedoms and liberty; for the right keep their shape for years. Very good. At the present moment all of small States to exist, and for nations deep in animal manure, but for days end can the presence of the Talgai man and nights at a time they were forbidden to his dingo dogs, alone among these be the Powers of the world that have not to decide for themselves how they are to leave them for any purpose
accounted for We are almost forced to been bullied of bribed to keep out of it be governed. All this we understand and Care was taken to make the conditions there in boats with his family and his national Department to make an end of What is the personal aspect of the cass
the conclusion that he must have nerived of perfectly believe.nderstand
That is the large view of the situation. specially degrading for the English domesticated dogs. And the astounding Where Fresch and English. prison fact emerges that at a period in the German international Thuggee, for the for you and me 1 We arc fighting for our were conveyed by the ane train the world's history when, only a year or two reason that if it is not ended life on this lives, the lives of every man, woman, and planet becomes insupportable for human child here and everywhere else. We aro and allowed privileges in the matter of ago, the most advanced anatomists were beings. Even now there are people in fighting that we may not be herded into was scarcely dis England who find it hard to realise that actual slavery, such as the Germans have ent attempts of the French on such inguishable from his brate ancestors, a the Hun has been educated by the State established by force of their arma obtaining food, at stations. The persisted that man
man already so highly developed as to from his birth to look upon assassination large parts of Europe. We are
fighting occasions to apply the English prisoners have domesticated animals, to be a boat were invaribly frustrated.
builder and navigator, was actually in trenchery and abomination that the mind labour CHILDREN'S “HATE ** CHORUSES.
under the lash or at the point of Besides the miseries of filth, of euf du reason ng master of his own date of man can Inboriously think out, as a the huyonet with a dog's death and
perfeetly, legitimate means to the national dog's at the end of it. We are foration, of overcrowding, of untended the reasoning his own fate. and putresent wounds, the prisoners, In view not only of even more con ends of his country. He is not shocked fighting that men women, and childres not be tortured, burned, and muti- endured prolonged and quite needless vincing evidenco, gathered from man's by these things. He has been taught the Inted in the public streets, an happened terment through hunger and thirst. On own anatomical structure, Professor it is his business to perform them, his one journey, which lasted for three days, Wood Jones made a moving appeal for duty to support them, and his religion four officers and twenty-eight men were the whole reconsideration of that post to justify them. They are, and for given thres loaves of black bread to Darwinien conception of man's compara- long time past they have been, as legiti divide between them. This had to last tively recent emergence from the brute mate in his eyes as the ballot in ours. the entire journey, and during these kingdom, which he claimed to have been This, remember, was as true of the Ger If for any reason, whatever we full three days, duty had nothing whatever to so disastrous to the world's thought in man in 1814 as it is now People who short of victory and there is no half- drink, not wen water, until on the last view of present tragic events. The have been brought up to make organised way house between victory and defeat---- day they were given a cup of coffee missing link," of Huxley, he asserted, evil in every form their supremis good what happens to us? This. Every rela apiece. On another occasion a carriage if ever found, would not be a more because they believe that evil will pay tion, every understanding, every decency ful of prisoners were given one small jug apelike man, but a more human ape them are not going to change their belief upon which civilisation has been 50 of soup among them all and a small cube Such phrases as The will to live, till it is proved that evil does not pay anxiously Enilt up will go will be washed of raw bacon apice to last for forty-The struggle for existence," and "The So far the Hun believes that evil has out, because it will have been proved eight hours. Again, or a journey laat survival of the fittest the whole ideal paid him in the past, and will pay him unable to endure. The whole idea of ing three days and nights, sixty men in ajof what Professor Wood-Jones described better in the future. He hes had a good demoerney which at bottom is what the sine hours of end-on evolution from lever to higher start. Hun fights against will be dismissve
against-will without anything at all; then the door forms-must be abandoned in view of our Like the Thug, the Hun knew exactly been shown incapable of maintaining was opened and a few pieces of bread new knowledge Man as man is incon what he meant to do before he opened itself against the fun. It will die; and were throws to them like dogs. They ceivably more ancient than has ever be his campaign against mankind. As we will die discredited, together with every begged for water, and it was only after supposed even by so original and daring have proof now, his poisoned sweetments belief and practice alt is based on th twelve hours that a backet was placed an investigator as Professor Arthur Keith and knotted towels were prepared years The Han ideal the Hun's root-notions in the truck.
in his last book, "The Antiquity of befor hand, and his spies had given him of life will take its place throughout the Moreover, the physical sufferings of the Man. Finally, the hand or for the fullest information about all the world Under that dispensation man British mes everywhere aggravated by brute striving, red in tooth and claw, for people he intended to attack So he is will brzome once more
natural prey inersant nural brutality. At all stages the world's mastery, and the philoso-doing what is right in his own eyes. He body and goods, of his better armed of the journey the prisoners were dis-phics founded thereon, are grass misin-thought out the hell he wished to create neighbour. Women will be the mere played as an exhibition to the crowd. On terpretatious, su Professor Wood-Jones be built it up seriously and scientifically instrument for continuing the breed: the August 31st for example, a party of pleaded, from which not only on senti with his best hands and braius: he vessel of man's just, and man's cruelty, British offers, wounded and unwounded, mental, but scientific grounds it is imbreathed into it his own spirit, that it and labour will become a thing to be were kept sanding for two hours outside the station at Cambrai, exposed to a disperative. for human thought to free might grow with his needs; and at the
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knocked on the bred if it dares to give trouble, and worked to death if it does not And from this order of life thors will be no appeal, no possibility of any sception whenever the train, stopped a a wanan scant from the window of a
This is what the Hun means when be derise and lighly hostile crowd was found first-class compartment and spat in his
say, he intends to impose German kultur on the platform, who surged round the face.
Nine-tenths of the atrocities Germany world. This is precisely what the world which is the German religion-upon the carriages and trucks containing prisoners, But all things considered, it was the threatening then with knives and revol bekariour of the German Red Cross that has committed have not been made has bonded itself together to resid. It and insalting them with the grossest was the most revolting. At every station public. I think this is a mistake: But will take every ounce in us, it will try forms of abuse.
there would be found an elaborate instal-une gets hint of them here and there us out to the naked soul. Our trial will German officers often took an active partlation of food and drink and materials Folkestone has had more than & hint not be made less by the earnest advice on those occasions. One scene in partie for medical aid presided over by women For instance, we were told the other day and suggestions that we should accept cular, at Aschen, on September 2nd, is wearing the Red Cross. Consistently they that more than 14,000 English non-com- zonis, sort of compromise, which means described by several witnesses. Here refused anything whatever to the English, batante, men, women, and children, had defest, put forward by Hun agents and mob of drunken Uhlans and railways however draperate their needs. When been drowned, burned, or blown to picces confederates among us They are busy, employés was deliberately incited against naked by a wounded officer for a glass of since the war began. But we have to in that direction already. But be sure the prisone's by a German colonel. Their water one of these ladies burst out laugh conception--and till the veil is lifted of this Nothing-nothing we may have behaviour became so threateinng that the ing and said: Nothing for you Eug after the war we shall have no concepto endure now will weigh one leather. train was aved from being rushed by the fish. They would show food to the tion of the range and system of these weight compared with what we shell most crowd only by being moved out of the starving prisoners and then remove it atrocities. Least of all shall we realise, esrtainly have to suffer if for any cause station I
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happened to be among calling the attention of the crowd, and the prisoners a Highlander in a kilt, this observing that it was not for wine as they realise in Belgium and occupied we fail to victory. curiosity would be exhibited in the door The women seemed to be even worse in France just across the water, the cold, way of the truck, Well-dressed women this respect than the men.
organised miseries which Germany has were constantly prominent in these scenes, extraordinarily venomous in preventing laid upon the populations that have and often at wayside stations rows of anything from reaching the prisoners, fall into her hands that she might school children would be found drawn up, and their general display of spite, their break their bodies and defile their souls. chanting choruses of abuse. At the jour heartless cruelty, their profusion of gross That is part of the German creed, ney's end the prisoners would have the insult, were barbarous beyond all words, What understanding is possible with a same experience as they were marched One officer tells how a women of the Red breed that has worked for and brought from the station to their camp.
Cross brought him a glass of water spit about these things? And so long as the ting in it first. Torgau, for example, a party of
Germans are left with any excuse for record of "In this
crunity towards Long thirty offers arriving in the evening suffering and defenceless men one kind of thinking that such things pay, can any through the town with a thin guard of an exception to the rule The German can trust? None. For it is the peculiar old Landsturm troops, and had great soldiers who travelled in charge of the essence of German kultur--which is the difficulty in getting through the fumense prisoners would often do what they could German religion that it is Germany, spitting, threatening crowds, most well for them (which was very little) when they moral duty to breake every tie every dressed people of the middle classes, which could be sum of doing so unobserved by striction that binds man to follow-man thronged the streets. At one large house their superiors or by the crowd. On many if she thinks it will pay. Therefore, several indics in evening dress stood at an of the journeys the English would have mankind are against her. Therefore, all open window shoating and shaking their got nothing at all if it bad not been mankind must be against ber till she fists One of thoes officers describes how that sometimes, between stations, these learns that no race can make its way or as they let the train at Torgau Station, Germans gave them a little of their own break its way outside the borders of
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