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DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S TRIBUTE,
The Duke of Connaught, speaking in
TO THE BATTLE!
THE VOYAGE OVER.
[BY A, U, GARDINEE-]
Mr. Gardiner, the editor of the London Daily News, published the following article fully a month before Viscount Grey's new proposals on the League of Nations were announced.]
A LETTER TO VISCOUNT GREY. the fact that war crime, that the arst duty of civilised society is to organise itself against the perpetration of that crime; that to prepare for it is a criminal conspiracy against mankind to be punish ed by political ostracism and economic strangulation that competitivo forte, with all its concomitants of secret diplo secret trenties, armament rings,
be committed to a collective instrument cise of force in international affairs must must be outlawed, and that the only exer
for the maintenance of the common peace rest, on en as well as on shore. It will of the world. We must disarm with the help us to face this necessity if we re quest of the air have revolutionised all member that the submarine and the con- the conditions of war; that in a military case we are no longer an island; that in have ceased to exist; that the axioms of a military sense geographical boundaries war have been serapped and that the future of war is is incalculable to us as
to any nation..
Inaugurated by a visit of the King and The draft "fell in" at dusk in the Queen, accompanied by Princess Mary, and opened by the Duke of Connaught. at ghed on the quay. There were little the second Inter Allied Conference and groups of men from almost every regi Exhibition relating to, and illustrativement of the forces hurriedly called together Allion for the after-care of disabled from distant camps in England to threw address you publicly I do so for reasons of, work which has been done among the
In ventaring, dear Lord Grey, to sailors and soldiers, was concluded at the in their weight against the German flood which I hope will command your respect Central Hall recently, when the Duke of Connaught was again present and on They had sung ns they marched through and attention. "It was confidence in you phasised his deep interest in the laudable the seaport town, but when the dock gates and Mr. Asquith that carried this nation object aimed at
clanged behind them they had entered a with practient unanimity into the way at French, said: All that we have seen and new life, the grim seriousness of which time when the events that led to it were all that we have heard will be equally
was only just making itself felt...... placed to the conimun stock for thọ bono-
still too obscure for popular judgment fit of the disabled man. Of course, absolute
Marshalled there in the shed they stood. There were plenty of elements in the unity of practice in countries with different traditions and different charac-silently while the rolls were called and country that needed to stimulus, to whom teristics cannot be expected, but we should the "parade states" checked before the war was a thing desirable in itself and all try to standardise the main, principles Embarkation Staff Officer. Then they this war the realisation of a long-cherish of the treatment of the) discharged dis abled man.
ed dream. But you carried with you those filed out past the shipping to where lay who believed war to be a dreadful and A great note which this conference the long, grey 20-knotter ready for the bateful thing, only to be accepted. when strikes is that though a pension, which
the moral cnee, was. indisputable and when is, after all, only a money compensation crossing."
the most sacred things of human life were for a definite physical hurt, is necessary, A solen business, this crubarkatim in deadly peril. Those had had their dis- and should be on a liberal basis, this is Tired after many hours in the train, the agreements with your policy in the past, however, only part, and by no means the principal part, of the State's duty to the men had no sooner thrown off their equip. but they trusted your fundamental wis disabled man. To rehabilitate him and ment and adjusted their cumbersome dom and purity of motive and knew that | give him, the chance of again beinglifebelts than they wrapped their great untioning the nation to this ordeal to the world, to our own people, the useful and happy member of society, cots about them and made ready for the with fortune, but were obeying impern We have a sublime cause, but our states-
gambling light-heartedly
edly neutral. to witke him again as physically fit as night. The old hands many of them retive commands no alternation to which possible, and to enable him to go back turning after three or four wounds was left. That trust has never weakened. to his old trade or teach him if new one found the warin, snug corners and were No record that has come to light has suited to his condition this is the great soon asleep, But for many it was their changed the conviction that you were right ain we all have. The idea is new, and sea trip; and as the boat slipped quietly and that no other path that we could have it is really the product of this terrible down the channel to the sea they watched walked with honour lay before us. The War, but it is one of its best productions. intently the many strange sights around Lichnowsky memorandum has revealed to The old days of neglect of the hero of the them
the world the heroic efforts you made to battlefield are f past, never to return. The conducting officers of the draftvert the tragedy, and has given you an Ainung our Allies and Dominions there
THE ALLIANCE,
-In
You were, not
WHAT DO WE SZEK ?
::
MORAL BANKRUPTCY.
I do not address all this to you because you are not aware of the choice that is. before the world. I address you becaus I believe you see that choice more deeply, Europe, and because the capital sin in more intensely than any statesman in the conduct of the war by apital in un beon the failure to present the moral issue peoples and to the enemy peoples. manship has betrayed it down to the level of the enemy. Alone among official Allied spokesmen, President Wilson has kept the only war aim that matters, the aboli tion of the institution of war and the emancipation of humanity from its thral dom, steadily, unfalteringly in view. the rest, we look in win for vision or leadership or even understanding. There is no attempt to impress no 5. There
is a lidurite morm on this question. gathered together in the saloon, and then corny, not only in the Allied, but also We stand shoulder to shoulder in the senior officer was appointed O.C. Troon.in enemy countries, that belongs to no Europe with the conviction that we are Light for justice, liberty, and right, and ship. He selected an adjutant and dividne else in Europe.
fighting for a new world order, and we bave the spectacle of the French Pre- we stand equally together in the endeaved the remainder into watches. The rules ours to repair and to rebuild those who and regulations of a night crossing were And it is because of this that I address of Nations which America has come into Bier scoffing at the idea of the Longue have suffered in this mighty conflict. In then read and explained...
you. Nearly four years have passed since closing this conference for 1018 I do so
the war to establish and of British Minis with the full hope and conviction that
On deck all was in darkness. The the journey began. For anything that eters damning it with lofty patronage i with reopen in the next year in some vibration of the decks and the slapping can see, it may continue four years which is rather worse thun downrigk
opposition. The battle cries, that are God-speed in your good work I will not that the trooper had picked up her asyal Officer who had escaped from Graised have the accents of the prize-ring) other Allied capital, and in wishing you of the lanyards against the mast showed longer. I mot the other day a flying conroy and was hitting it out fallthree years: He had been in ten camps in
where he had been imprisoned for say good-bye but a jeep (Choers:)
or a dog fight, and the expenditure, ong speed for the French coast. Gathered in Germany. In many of them he had had war ams propaganda has been worse than the stern a few men stood silently watch much freedom of movement, and as, the propagate
wasted because we have no war ainus toy M.Metin, formerly Erench: Ministering the dum outline of the coast with its result of his "experience he ridiculed theThis bankrupigy-of-weral purpose tyk
that Germany could be starved into surrender. That was not possible, he
reflected in the fatal policies pursued. said, but he was sure we could beat her The Emperor Karl's peace propoval spas militarily, not in one year, nor in two,
turned down not because our war ans probably in three. His opinion on either
were concerned with high things, but be- I only men cause they were concerned with tow point may be good or bad,
to all of us. It is because the future is territorial questions and the same indif tion it to illustrate how obscure the future things. And the same eagerness about so obscure that our ininds should be clear fewnes to the enduring interests of man. as to the end we stek. And it is becauan kind which brought that episode to nought your mind is clear and you have an un-
led to the failure of Kerensky's despair- rivalled power to clarify the mind-efing appents to the Allies to state their Europe that write this letter.
of Labour, in expressing the gratitude headland light gradually fade. In a few of the French delegates for the hospitality minutes the light too had been swallowed extended then, said France was not lag by the blackness. ging in the endeavour to do everything possible for the disabled, and he hoped when the next conference was hud that
France would be in a position to exhibit nes, achievements, France had not for
gotten her share in the mutual affirma Lion on the part of the Allies. She had confidence in the Allied cause and faith in the final victory. (Cheers.)
Lieut-General Melis (Belgium), Colonel Subotitch (Serbia), and Professor Ernica Burei (Italy), and the Hen. J. S. Me Lennan (Canada), spoke in similar terms Surgeon-Major Antonio de Costo Fer reiro, representing the Portuguese dole gates, in expressing gratitude for the success of the conference, concluded
God bless this hospitable land; long live the Allies long live the causó a justice and right, long live, the liberty of peoples; long live international law and long
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Plunging into every sea alongside was long, low destroyer which every now and then flicked a message from its bridge to some unseen ship. There was another destroyer, its presence indicated only by the broad trail of foam lashed up by its racing propellers. They gave a sense of security, these boats. When, as the night deepened, they disappeared from time to time, the deck guards, strange to the mysteries of the sen, would whisper among themselves, speculating as to the mission which had called them away. But they always returned, ready at the scent of danger to burst into a tornado of death-dealing fro,
Picking his way carefully among the sleeping forms the officer of the watch made his rounds from deck to deck. There was a sharp reprimand for the owner of a glowing cigarette. A man was roused for sleeping too comfortably without his lifebelt. party dividing up the next day's rations was making too much noist Someone kad so far forgotten the discip. line of the ship as to climb on the gun platform and discuss the working of the
is
What is the pearl of price that the world in its blind agony is seeking What is the single aspiration that is common to every heart in every land? It the simple desire to live-to enjoy the few years we have on this planet in peace and security. Burns penetrated to the ultimate purpose of all governnient when he said
To make a happ
Padme king fireside climes For weans and wife;
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
war-aims in ternis which excluded to perialism and conquest and which would enable him to preserve his hold on the revolutionary movement. Austria was driven back upon Germany and Russia was allowed to fall like ripe fruit to the same hand. Nor is this all. The democratic
movements against, the military despo Lism in the enemy countries have been chilled and sterilised by the Allies' ack of response to the emotions of freedom:
THE NEW MOTIVE.
Mr. Jefferson Caffrey (United
States) said there were two questions which war; and (2) repairing as much as we could the have wrought by the war Americans had had as yet no real experi ence in tending to the men injured in the great struggle. But they wanted to learn chaser gun with its watchful naval crew. ed it for nearly four years is the to the height of the great argument. The
because in this connection they wanted,
if possible, to begin on the right lines. thought that during the week they had learned a great deal. He trusted they would profit from that learning. There Fore they had much for which to thank their British hosts and their colleagues of the Allied countries.
They had coing there to learn, and bo
M: Gennadius (the Minister for Grecte) said his country had joined in the war quite recently, but froin the outset her heart and soul had been at one with the cause of civilisation and liberty, chain pioned by the Allies. He desired to say how greatly his admiration had been aroused by that exhibition and confer clite, organised so rapidly and so effed tually. It was a fresh instance of the inexhaustible resources, intellectual, moral, and material, which this great country was contributing towards the present sigantic effort the advance of liberty and the civilisation of the world. (Cheers.)
This is the greatest common denominator If the war is to be redeemed from this of the world. This is the
the ground to which tragedy of crrors and of low purposes, all our politics converge, the ground on and if the peace that is to be won is to which we all, meet even those who love offer the world any hops for the future. war for its own sake, for even they only Europe must find a voice which will geho conceive of war as a means of establishing that of President Wilson on the other darkens the world to-day and has peace
of some sort. And the shadow that side of the Atlantic and lift our-cause
rested is no longer habitable makes this that the basis on which human society has modest, but unalterable ideal of mankind impossible. We have lived on a
and The volenne has become active humanity is doluged with its moltea lava, The eruption will tease in due time, but the volcano will remain and will function again, and every eruption will be more terrible than the last. Human society has got to leave the slopes of the volcano or perish...
volenno.
light Bicked right ahead. A sudden blast The night was at its blackest when a from the siren brought every man to his fact The men clung to railings, stan chions, and ventilators to save themselves from falling us the ship heeled over in answer to a hard ported helin. A moment of tense excitement and the danger was past. A great wall of dripping rust towering above the trooper's decks loomed up out of the night. There was an ex- change of deep throated shouts from bridge to bridge. An officer roared, Stand fast, men" Their the tramp was swallowed up in the blackness as suddenly as it had appeared.
An hour later, the troopship was sheltering behind a friendly breakwater, and at dawn the draft was disembarked, and the modern developments of
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ORANGE PEEL.
The Captain frowned, but took the snub, And, calling up the Junior Sub, Observed, "Look here at all this mess, It's fit for piga, sir, nothing less.”...**
The Duke of Connaught, in acknowledg ing a vote of thanks, believed the exhibi- tion and the conference would produce The Colonel stopped and glared around, splendid results for the poor wounded Then, pointing steraly to the ground, men of the Allied countries. Everyone What does this mean?" demanded he, recognised the magnificent services they A piece of orange peel I see." had rendered their respective
to countries and to the civilisation and humanity of the world. We would The Major called the Captain then, like to show by our acts the And said. "By Gad! You're fault again, desire that existed in the heart of every I really can't think what you mean one of us that in their unfortunate By letting all this filth be seen;" wounded state, they should suffer as little e he possible, and that afterwards, when they returned to civil life, they should bo fitted for employment. He felt con- vinced that that splendid exhibition in connection with which he so much ad- mired the Italian and French sections The Junior Sub blushed crimson red, would bo to stimulato An interest Then, to the Sergeant Major said. throughout the Allied countries in our "I'm quite fed up an all that rot." poor woanded soldiers. (Cheers.)
I mean to say-a pigsty-what!"
The Sergeant Major, filled with rage, ENEMY ALIENS DEPORTED FROM Attacked the Sergeants at this, stage.
Brimstone and thunder strike me pink! You'll win the war! Yes, I don't think!"
The Sergeants, starting in to cuss, Approached the Orderly Corporal thas:
IRELAND.
Recently about 450 Austrian and Ger tonn civilians who had been interned at Old-castle, co. Meath, sing the beginning of the war were conveyed to Dublin and shipped thence for interment elsewhere. At the quays they were the subject of a
(writes the
You lazy, lumbrin boss-eyed lout Who chucked this blankety truit about
The Orderly-Corporal turned his eye
remarkable to ent). Crowds On Private Atkins passing by
Daily Telegraph'a
Look ere, you blob-nosed, pink-eyed Just shift this festerin' rubbish 'cap."
ww sweep,
And Thomas Atkins smiled a smile, And set to work in soldier's style.
of the women fell gesen ble as the These waved Sina Fein and flags and cheered, while a crowd of Sun Feizers on the opposite side of the river sang the soldiers song and cheered the departing aliens. The gathering of was a large one. Once aboard the ship. the Austrians and Germans produced musical instruments, and their band played lustily as the steamer moved away amid the cheers of the sympahtisers on both sides of the river.
Mag.).
They talk a ruddy lot," quoth he "But who does all the work? Why, me!"
J. MALTON HAYES, M.C. (in 55th Diy
WAR BASIS.
leadership, and in the general despair the nations are perishing for lack of moral thoughts of men are turning to you for inspiration. You cannot, however much. you may desiro it, long remain a spectator of this unspeakable tragedy. In office on out of office it is for you, with the authority of your past and of your charac ter, and with your anrivalled access to the minds of men in all countries, finally secured by the testimony of Prince Lich nowsky to your disinterested aime--it is for you to give a new motive to the In other words, we have discovered that tragedy and a lead out of the dar world organised for war is a world that to the ravaged Europe. I know that the is henceforth unthinkable. We have flat minor erities will talk of the secret tered ourselves in the past with the organ. treaties to which your hand was set. But isation for war, that with the process of
these things do not, I am confident, re- present your deepest convictions about the social, economic and intellectal inter- course the title of liberalism would eat fatare. They belonged to the old dis away the base of the war god and quietly usation in which you like the rest were submerge the earth by an inevitable law. entangled. But you have the vision of That illusion has gone.
Liberalism and the new dispensation, the intenso convic militarism, force and freedom can to tion that no other remedy will heal tho longer co-exist. One idea or the other wounds of the world. And it will be your must possess the earth. If militarish pre task to lead men into the path of endur- vails anywhere it will prevail everywhere. ing pence with the same high purpose If liberalism is to survive anywhere it with which nearly four years ago, with must survive everywhere. And the issue infinite sorrow but with stern resolve, of this war is not whether this bit of ter- you led this nation into the path of war, ritory shall go to this country or that, but whether the future of the world is to rest on peace basis or a war basis whether human society is going to rebuild ** SINK WITHOUT A TRACE’ ita dwelling over the volcano or away from the volcano.
If these are the alternatives we must face the consequences. If militarism is to survive do not let us suppose that it will survive on the old scale. If it sur vives all the activities of the earth will
be absorbed by it. Every industry in
every land will be controlled and
SWEDISH MINISTER CENSURED..
"The Swedish Constitutional Committe which revises the procedure of the Couri- cil of Ministers has drawn up a report, fitters for Foreign Affairs with refer- reflecting upon the conduct of the lat ed with a view to its service; every call once to the secret communications that way will be built for it; every ship de were allowed to pass, through the Swedish; signed for it; every life consecrated to Foreign Office, between Count Luxburg, It will govern the school, the home, the German Minister to the Argentine, the church, our literature, our Ecience, and his Government (It will be remem our art Citizenship as we have under bered that in this Luxburg correspondence stood it will be dead.
We shall live ja
occurred the now famous injunction that armour. The loary lie "Si vis para bellum, will deceive as 10 fous Argentine vessels should be Spyros Wo cha know that to organise for war Versenkt.) The Committee's criticism is is to will war. And we shall know too in the first case directed against the that when war comes it will spare actual transmission of the telegrams. The "nothing, that it will be waged nos with Committee did not consider it its duty to armies but with nations, that it will raze judge if the transmission of the messages cities and blot out the civil populations was permissible or not from the point of that all the achievements of traction that it should be strongly criticised.
will view of international law, but it consider That is the future if militar
survives
There is no escape from it, and I repeat that such a future is unthinkable
TOE PEACE - DASIS?.
An examination of the documents in the case has revealed the fact that the de- partment was not aware of the contents of the telegrams, which were transmitted without any possibility of control,
The alternative is the organisation of the world for peace. We cannot accept
The Committee is further astonished at caust the fact that the transmission of the rehun this idea half-heartedly Wo
con-grams should have been begun and come. accept it wholly with all its sequences to ourselves, or reject it tinned without careful consideration of whally. It rests upon the acceptance of international law and diplomatic custom.