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• GERMANY'S WAR AIMS. VISCOUNT MILNER'S SPEECH. Viscount Milner, Secretary of State for War, speaking at the anniversary gathering of the Y.M.C.A., at the head. quarters. Tottenham-court-rond, said that the work of the association, like that of
INSIDE A TANK.
[UT TANXO.]
To watch them moving slowly like mon- strous beetles across undulating country is one thing; to crawl through the low door of the sponson is another.
Here you discover a small space com pact of machinery, like nothing in the world save, perhaps, a submarine. There
k
THE MADSEN GUN. ITS. DEFECTS.
FAR EAST TRADE. FINE BRITISH CHANGES.
to
In the House of Commons, recently, Sir C. Hobhouse called attention to the inquiry recently held into the merits of the war by supplying Rasain with boots-
SEOUL (Korea), Jurie, 10th. For a time Koren made money out of the Madsen gun and asked for further and rice. Since the Russian Revolution information as to the conditions ander this trade, has stopped and in pine f the Bed Creas, was among the important
which the trial took place and the reasons links which bound together the nation' in the Seld and the nation at home. We is the powerful engine with its transmis. He asked, why the arranged test of 3,000 prices of all accessaries, which fall hard
for the adverse report which was issued. never could have out of our thoughts the sion, genring, and cooling system; there continuous rounds was not carried out.
that temporary spurt of prosperity she men in the field, and we must all be
is now experiencing the effects of rising " grateful for any agency which enabled will look in vain for woodwork, the whole He was informed that this test was dis-on population never overburdened with
are, the guns and their ammunition You us to give practical effect to the constant,
bus" is of metal. When you listen to vivid sympathy which we felt with them in the titanic struggle they were carrying as he discourses on his beloved, you wil test had so disposed of the ability of dearness of rice, their staple foud, is due
the second loot who is your cicerone, prosed with because the 1,200 rounds superfluity of this world's goods, on with such wonderful courage cheerhear with wonder of the many metals that the Lewis gun to fire a greater tumber to the war, 10,000 miles away, and ure The people fail to understand ther the fulness, and endurance. (Cheers) Times go to the making of the modern, internal of stress like the present had their great combustion engine.
of rounds continuously that the authori- foolishly inclined to attribute it compensations, It was thought that in this, the fiercest trial BR uplifting
That much-disputed person the designer ties were not disposed to put it to a test Japanese domination, which from the of the tank certainly had no thought for which they knew it could not stand. through which our country had ever pass.
the, comfort of the crew when he drew ed, we were a more united nation than
point of view of good government is the up the plans of this modern land ship. recently as April the Government were who are notoriously incapable of pro- General Sir Philipps said that as best thing that has happened to Koreans, we had ever been in living memory,
Everything is far utility, for war, and (Hear, hear.)
so far satisfied with the merits of the perly governing themselves. Party warfare,
the result is a most formidable weapon Madsen gun that they made an offer to class differences, and industrial disputes--they
of attack. Squat and inert of appear the owners to purchase the rights. That expital, in the old days with the Seoul of One has only to compare Seoul, the all existed, no doubt, but they were all
ance, what tremendous power there is offer was withdrawn, but subsequently it today and see the difference the Japanese submerged. We were nahamed to pursue
Fefore it brick walls crack and crumble, was decided to give the gaan further have made. Seoul is a fast developing thera when the existence of our country
trees, bent and cracking like dry sticks, trial. fall the steepest gradients are climbed, took place, he was satished, from all hat with wide thoroughfares and impos- As to that trial, which and
recently the whole fature of humanity the widest shell craters crossed. were at stake. There had been times
had heard about it, that it was in every ing buildings, and by common admission during this long
Perhaps the most extraordinary part of respect very unsatisfactory. He felt that has the finest hotel in the Far East. Wr when may the ride, after one has become used to the the matter had not been people in this country had had perplex infernal din of the engines is the strange per manner by the Government Depart play a great part in Japanese ambitions
treated in u pro
This magnificent hotel is destined to ties and doubts because they were not illusion of speed. The vibration gives ments concerned quite satisfied about what we were fight- one the impression of rapid motion; one were interested in the gun had seen the is to divert to Kores, after the war the However, those who Undoubtedly the desire of the Japanese ing for. They had thought that our war
is reminded of that eccentric vibration Prime Minister, and were told that if European passenger trafic over the trans. sims were for some territorial or partly felt in the corridor of an express train. territorial and partly commercial advan
The illusion ends with a prep through removed there would be another trial.going on to Vladivostock and then reach- certain objections to the gun could be Siberian railway. Instead of passengers tage-something they did not greatly the parts; the ground is passing slowly, with that they were quite satisfied, and ing Japan i Taurags they will be en- care about, or, at any rate, something
no faster than a man may walk Thirty they looked forward to the gun emerging couraged to turn off at Harbin, Man they did not care to go on shedding blond
tons or thereabouts on the move and successfully from the new trial. for.
thirty tons is no small weight! Turn off
churia, and continue by way of the the engine and the tank goes forward on
Railway to Antung, and thence on in Japanese-controlled Sonth its own impetus one inch.
Manchuria Seoul, Fusan. Shimonoseki, Kobe, and Tokio
Tha
As the engine warms up the atmosphere becomes hot through the ports in front together with blue obnoxious furaes of a steady stream of thick dust pours in, carbon monoxide. **
In the seat next to the second "loot" goggles are imperative. Binck visaged steem his bus and clad in grease-stained overalis, he down over knife, edges
round craters, up and imposible, down chants that make the that look so heart stand still..
But the war aims of Germany had re- moved all these perplexities. They had made the issue perfectly, plain. military party had all Germany under its heel. Germany had all her Allies under Ber grip. She had safeguarded herself in the last by setting up a ring. of dependant States-the Ukraine, Poland, and Finland and she was now torning with all her might to the West, in order that by a supreme and desperate effort she might crush the remaining free nations of Europe and so dominate the world. Her ident of the future of man- kind was a Central European block of
As the "bus", tilts upwards, her blunt irresistible military strength, supported
anse pointing skywards, a fresh naise is by giant industries drawing their raw-
added to the din of the engines. Every material from all the rest of the world on
thing movable, oil-cans, tips, tools, slide Germany's own terms, leaving the supply, with a crash to the rear end. ing nations to enjoy "just as much pro
The summit reached, a sperity, freedom, and self-determination until one sees, instead of blue sky, the movement brings her nose down, down slow see-saw as Germany chose to permit a world of coming plunge far below. peaceful, servile States, working for the tackle clatters toward with a series of profit of a great, paramount. Empire,reports and the bus" wallows down-machine-gun to have the opportunity of That was the German peace as we saw twards, reacties level ground again safely, illustrated today in the case of Russia and crawls, snorting, forward like & and Roumania, San
seaticnt thing proud of its exploits. AN DEJECT UNATTAINABLE,
One thinks of pre-historic sturings, of That was the vision of the future of fabulous beetles; not even the fertile ima mankind which possessed the soul of the ginings of Mr. H. G. Wells wver fancied rulers of Germany today, and which anything more grotesque than this! nation dazzled with victory was prepared to wade through further seas of blood to attain. could be that that object was unattain
It was as certain as anything
able-hear, bear)-and it would fail, as every attempt to subjugate the world to a single will had failed, from the time of the Roman Empire to the time of Napoleon.
The liberty-loving nations of the world would fight on indefinitely-(hear, beat) for their ideal of a world common- wealth of free nations, as opposed to the ideal of a new Roman Empire, and so every fresh German success meant, not the fullment of German ambition, which was absolutely intolerable and unthinkable, but the further prolongation of the war. But we had to recognise that attempts to subjugate the world to a single will had in the past gone a long wey, and they might go a long way again on the rond to access, and this, was the day and the hour of the climax of Ger- | many's power. Therefore, we had to fight as we never fought before in all our history, and as our great noble French Allies were fighting day (hear, hear) with every ounce of their strength-until the great reserves which the cause of freedom still possessed had the time to be fully mobilised. He saw that the German Minister of War was sneering at those reserves, which, be thought, inconsiderable. He laughed best who laughed last (hear, hear) and the Gorman Minister of War would live to regret those.sncers. But let not anybody think for a moment that though he spoke with hope and confidence of the help we might get from others, and especially from America (cheers)--we were on that account abating one jot or tittle in our own effort. That bad never been greater than it was to-day-it had never been as great.
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are
Mr. MacPherson said it was satisfac tory to know that our men had the best Available gun that could be produced. Bat it did not follow that the War Office would remain content with any gun. If there was a better gun in the market no make Korea a travel highway and thus at any moment they were convinced that
The whole ides of the Japanese is to question of price would affect theat in advertise to the world their improve- the slightest. The spirit of the people ments,
which of this country would not tolerate discard. Korea, when agriculturally developed really wonderful ing the best weapon on any consideration with the same skill as the Japanese have, of expense. The War Office, indeed, had promises to help to solve the Japanes price at all to the patentee, to use the and the climate is the best in the Far the power, without mentioning terms of food problein, for the land is very fertil invention of any patenter without wait
for ing Madser gua at present was not up to sants the best means of improving crop East. So their efforts are being concen terms. There was no doubt thetrated on imparting to the Korean pea the standard of perfection. It had not yields. attained the standard of accuracy of the Lewis gun. Un the question of the trials. after the war for the trade of the four- Great Britain ought to make a bid ae believed there was a condition that
ditions, and the distinguished members happen when the present international but the guns were fired under service con, though there is no telling what may 5,000 rounds should be fired at 400 yards; ten millions of Koreans. The tariff is
that it was not humanly possible for any will be a great demand for textile machi The loose of the committee came to the conclusion tariff agreement expires in 1920. There nery, beet-sugar, and paper-mill machi.. firing 3,000 rounds in a day in any part of nery, and also for cheap motor-cars which the Unttlefield. It was clear that no gebr
are able to compete with the ubiquitous his troops to go into action just now cral officer, commanding would ever allow Ford.
·ADENCIES NOT GOOD ENOUGH. dreds of yards away the flash could be monopolised foreign trade in Koren, with the Madsen gun as it stood. Hun Before the war A big German firm seen. ff the gun were used even in the although, to our disgrace be it said, most daylight the machine-guaners would wiped out in a quarter of an hour.
be of their business was in English couldn to go into netion with the gun as it was we should are that it never recovers its
It would be sheer marder to ask our soldiers fish agencies. It is now shut down, and viece goods This firm held several Eng. But the Prime Minister had given in- should be lengthered, because, according whole of Korra. It is vital for British atructions that the barrel of the gun' pours
There is only one British firm in the to experts, in proportion was lengthened the liability to flash de
Far Eastern firms to open branches here. creased. This would involve lengthening It is no good merely to have agents. Bo the support, and it might take time to far as I have been able to judge Japanese Carry the attempt through. A trial would be made under is to be the Liverpool of the Far East and improvement atentions after the war, Kobe (Japan)
might see the day, if this was the best advice is to watch all the moves at Kobe. real service conditions. He hoped they Seoul the Paris of the Far East. My used for British troops and by Britishing of the decision of the Nippon Yusen gun, when it would be a British gun It is very important to digest the mean- troops.
The
'buy' awings on her point of balance to the right and makes off towards
time. The roar of the engines makes talk bom On top speed she anakes better impossible; one is conscious of emarting, half-blinded eyes; perspiration down the blackened faces of the crew in dingy rivulets; the brat is overpowering Not without a certain feeling of relief the bright sunshine. onu crawls through the low side door into blinking and wiping greasy hands or The crew follow, cotton waste.- Last comes the second "loot black but smiling and screne.
What d'you think of the old bus ? he queries,
What can one reply 1 As an experience, not to be missed but as a daily task, hardly to be sought after. One thought of that same "bus" in aution and; figuratively speaking, took ut one's hat to its good-humoured crew.--Buity dtail.
ilt
the barrel
U-BOAT CREWS IN! TERROR HUN
trade.
Kaisha to go to Europe from Kobe direct instradot stopping first at Yokohama. With Japan Lecoming rapidly indus- trialised. the relation of Kobe to the industrial areas increases its importance.
ADMISSIONS OF DEMORALII find that much thought is being given SATION AND DEFEAT..
by Japanese shippers to the alternative Panama route to Europe Are our busi the conseruences to the Senz Canal and neis men in England sufficiently realising
FALK, The Daily Mail Correspondent in the familiar trade Everything is changing.-From BERNARD. communications?
tried to help him to recover. And a for those nations which were still fighting shoulder to shoulder, nothing could be which sank in the Bight of Heligoland The Germans recently saived a U-boat more inconsistent with good feeling, or with good policy than to indulge in the conning tower had been forced from the
after a fight with a British vessel.
It was found that the plates abaft the lightest vestige of disparagement- course, mutual criticism was only humanets, and that water had rushed in and the Far East.
OF
the U-boat rapidly..
and
when the U-boat was brought to the sur- marine coffin. Many were drowned. but The crew perished inside their sub
face it was found that some of the men been suffocated by the air pressure. were standing upright, dead. They had
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fellow-workers. even among friends, comrades, susceptibilities were liable to be excited But wherever national it was positively harmful. When things comrades; when things went wrong let us went right let us give full credit to our not, east the blame on (Henr, hear.) We had ow got a single who reached Norway a few weeks ago, and All
one another, This story is told by a U-boat deserter Allied Army under a great Commander information received by a neutral corres in-Chief-(cheers)-a man full of cour-pondent shows that the murale of the age, resource, and prudence. It was not from General Foca-whom our British declined owing to the increasing difficulty
German
submarine crews has steadily generals were playing up to most lovally and danger of the servico, for all, they were worth that one ever
The improving gunfire of British mer- beard u
chantmen, the use of depth charges, and word of disparagement of the harrying by aircraft, destroyers, It he could tell them the numbers, as in leader of the French nation, motor-boats, frawlers, and other craft are
British effort; nor from that grand fight- of course he must not, which this country Clemenceau. (Cheers.) There was no U-boat and in the demoralisation of
all playing had put into the field since this great statesman worth his salt, who would ever U-boat crews.
a part in the defeat of the battle began, which we were now patting dream of uttering a word of disparage- in, had which we were going to put in ment of our splendid Allies across the in the immediate future, those numbers Channel. But there were meaner minds, would astonish them. Not that even those plumbers were enough. No effort dad at a time of great stress, and excite could be great enough where everything to find fault was sometimes difficult to ment, and nervous tension the tempation In the world was at stake (Hear, hear.) But these numbers did show that if we felt absolute confidence in our Allies they traitors in every country, and there were the fact that inexperienced crews LIE Let it be remembered that there were were justified in the confidence which they placed in us (Hear, bear.) He everywhere some enemy agents perhaps employed in German submarines, but it desired to utter a word of warning good many upon whom one they leads added significance to the statement men of German ancestry.
There are in the American army many against "erabbing." He did not refer could art lay one's hand. It was they made by another U-boat commander that largely composed of these men marching who were at the bottom of most of the great many of the German submarine towards the front met & column of Gez», A company even to the constant storm of criticism fault-finding which sought to set one losses are due to the fact that many of man prisoners returcing from it. The PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI, authority was at the present time ansail hear) and if they were not at the bottom going to sea within six weeks of entering dently, with the cheary American jokes
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RUSSIA,
officer, told na audience at Munich last Commander Rose, a well-known U-boat month that the moral effect of the British wasser bomben "-water-bomby, or depth experienced crew, in consequence of the charges was great, particularly on a
hellish din of their explosion.”
NOT PROPERLY TRAINED.
This is the first German admission of
August 27th, 1918.
GERMAN-AMERICAN TROOPS PLAIN TALK TO GERMAN PRISONERS.
ed. Suggestions were often helpful, and of it they were quite certain to avail the service. criticism, Lept one up to the mark. This themselves of it with the most diabolical
Every week submarinca fail to return to cars; their heads lowered us this fresh of their escort falling harshly on their (was all right, even in war time. Bat letakill. Let us stamp on the head of that their bases, and others crawl hoine badly detachment of their detected conquerors.
with and He appealed to the Press of this country in the dockyards and the emergency repair heads were lifted in amazement an sud. and to the Press across the Channel not depots which have been set up in order denly Nothing could be more unreasonable, to walk into the trap which the U-boat force may be kept up to trenchantly and abusively in their
finding themselves for instance, than to abuse Russia was constantly setting for them. (Bear, hear.) Ensio had let us down moral unity of the Allies was the basis which crews return has caused much obedience to such misconceived hound
The strength.
physical and mental condition in rent swept them with contempt, for ther ther tongue by the newcomers. The tor tremendously, but she had only let na and root of the greatness of our common anxiety. The strain of remaining under as the Kaiser, for their taking sides with down because she was herself the prey let us preserve that at all costs, for withed by all kinds of craft, particularly dur-the world over, and for making them
use It was our most precious naset. raging fever. Ona did not abuso a man that preserved we had only to bear and ing the fine weather in April and May, selves the scum of the earth by their water for long periods and of being hunt Prussian devils against all deceat people because when in a delirium of feverba forbear with one another to the victory has had a marked effect on the personnel, methods of fighting, so that their relatives struck & blow even at a friend. Ons only and, which might still be very distant but and has necessitated increased periods of ins free country had to come 4,000 miles
(Continued at foot of next Column.) ·| was never doubtful (Load cheera) rest for officers and men.
to wipe them off the face of it