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BARON BURIAN'S PEACE PROPOSAL ONLY A PEACE MANŒUVRE
PAs, September 12th. A Havas message says:-The whole Franch Prem, commenting on the latest peace proposal by Baron Burian, calls it a camouflaged enterprise for weakening
BAGDAD
YEAR'S MANY RACES. ONE NATION-
WAR'S UNITING INFLUENCE IN
AFTER A OCCUPATION, CHANGES WROUGHT BY THE BRITISH.
The following is from Reuter's special Correspondent in Mesopotamia-
The hot weather is on us. The nigra tory stork has returned to Bagdad, his
AMERICA.
Lay J. W. T. MASON.).
New York.
when the thirteenth million of Americans Allied power by stopping military pro second season since our occupation: The Patriotism developed by the war. In the
was enrolled for war.service under the
new law raising the tatal of enrolment of those aged from 15 to 45 to 22,500,000.
GERMAN ANXIETY FOR PEACE.
FAILURE OF SUBMARINE CAM- RAIGN ADMITTED.
The
AMSTERDAM, September 13th.
Vice-Chancellor, YOD German Payer, in a speech at Stuttgart, dwelt on the depression in Germany, which be "attributed not to reverses in the West but to the prospect of the fifth war winter, with fantastic increases in State debta. He admitted that the co-operation of American troops had imposed a heavy burden on Germany),
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Submarine warfare had not worked so quickly and surely as "was calculated,
XTCHS,
Nothing truly liberal is to be found in such an enterprise, which is only peace manœuvre, as started every time when German power is in danger, remem- buring the political and internal incidents in Germany in July, 1917. Thus a Ger man defeat is most apparent. To such a peace offensive the Entente remains arm, opposing a common programme of in- tangibility, and is not to be infiuenced. Germany obeyed the suggestion of Spain claiming compensation for damages in- flicted by submarines. For every torre- doed Spanish ship Spain will claim the possession of equivalent German tonnage The same political result in the same case was obtained by Holland.
GERMAN COLONIAL METHODS BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS.
LONDON, September 12th." Mr. E. H. George's terrible in dictment of the German treatment of the natives in South-West Africa is generally commented upon.
recent rain is probably the last we shall see until next cold weather. The Turk has been dissipated on all three fronts. As a pugilist Serving in the ranks pat it
We've bitten of his left ear and his right, and broken his nose, and knocked him ever the ropes. In the meanwhile, peace has resigned in the city, the ameni ties of life have been multiplying for the army and the civil population. The place was dead to all appearances, om mori bund, when we entered it on the 11th March last year. Now it is bustling hive of humanity. Thousands of work- men pass through the streets early and lates The main thoroughfare, metalled and lighted, is a constant stream of traffic; the sleepiest old women who haunt the bazaars have become adept at dodging the Ford van.
A remarkable welding together of the various races, comprising the American nation is taking place through common days before America entered the conflict one of the arguments used by many Ameri- cans as a sufficient reason: in itself to justify a declaration of belligerency by Congress was that by no other means could a strong spirit of Americaniam be implanted in those new arrivals from Europe, who still retained an instinctive partiality for their ancestral homes.
The prediction is coming true. A truly marvellous transformation is occurring in towards their new fatherland. They came the attitude of these recent Americans here for economic reasons. They are new finding that all unconsciously they developed a spiritual love for America The playing. of the Star Spangled Ban Oct brings lumps to the throats of Americans who do not yet know the American language, but who have learned to recognise what the national anthera mesas since the war started.
had
One of the most remarkable effects of the new American patriotism has been the A police force has been organised and contempt it has developed for strikers a fire brigade. The street lamps havs Before the war America was the land of given place to electric lights. The water strikes. To strike bad become an act of! freedom. Vast numbers of Americans, supply has been extended. Mosques have been repaired roads metalled, schools not themselves working men, even regard- opened, including a survey school and aed the striker as a soldier fighting the Now, however, that is changed.
From being a semi-bero the striker has fallen to the low estate of a slacker and an anti-patrict. This con- tempt for the man who quits his job in
The oily Chronicle says:--Whatever the future of other German colonies may but he claimed that all belligerents were be it is impossible that "South-West I training school for teachers. Water carts world's battle for better conditions for the
Africa can be restored to Germany.
equally weary of the war. The question was which side would collapse soonest. It was undeniable that defeat and losses seemed only to increase the power of resistance in Germany's enemies,
He concluded by saying: "Were we sure that no other State would be in a better position us regards Belgium than we.. I believe I can say that Belgium can be restored without danger and without restriction."
Yon Payer declared that Germany could
The Daily Graphic ways:After such an exposure, the return of any Colonies to Germany would make the Allies partners in her unspeakable crimes,
The Daily Telegraph says:--Whatever ex-German colonies may be returned after the war, South-West Africa assuredly will not be.
The Morning Post says:-After this horrifying blue book, the Allies cannot in any circumstances willingly assent to the return of the African colonies.
The Time says:-Knowing the Ger mans as we do now, we could not restore any natives to their wider mercies with
their crines.
human race.
war time has had an astonishing moral
ply in the street; sanitary squads "have penetrated the most hidden purlieus of the city; the amells are becoming centri fugal. Galled, injured, sick and starved animals are received into a home until they are it for shaft or pack again The effect. It can be stated as a general pro- markets are controlled: the grain supply position that American working men no has been taken in hand, and the prices | longer strike to adjust their grievances, are now moderate. The municipality. They appeal to public sentiment, and pays its way, and the Tigris is crossed by public sentiment has been quick to re two bridges.
spond to any just cause of complaint.
Young
Americans of foreign parentage who return home on furlough after their few months in the army training camps are doing extraordinary missionary work life in the open under rigid discipline in the encouragement of patriotism
and buoyancy of spirit, and they inspire a new awesomeness among their relatives and friends by their pride in their mili- tary calling
The
not hand over Poland again to Russia Out becoming deliberafe, accomplices of soldier in the street, if asked if he marked has wonderfully improved them in bealth
out reservę.
be
ALL ES MISSION IN RUSSIA.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,
People who never before gave the feel- ing a thought now confess their desire to make great sacrifices for the sake of America's cause in the war. Spirituality has crept into the being of these embryo americans and a serce passion for liberty. They are ready with their lives to pay whatever the toll may be for world free dom. They are creating a new America for themselves and their children.Duly Expres.
RE. where touring parties, with a aprinkling of professionals in meat of of them, come in from various front to There is ze give entertainments.
.31.C.A., which includes a branch for Indians, and the Church Army Recrea tion House.
There are
These are only some of the outward changes, and though most of them affect the Bagdadi and the British and Indian soldier alike they are probably little noticed by the Army of Occupation. The much change in it, the city, would prob and could not assist in placing Finland
ably say that it looked cleaner, stelt less and seem more alive. He might re again under the Russia yake. Germany
mark upon the good behaviour and con could not allow the States on the Ger-
ARCHANGEL September 11th teated appearance of the citizens, but man frontier and Baltic to be again sul-
The Allied Mission, in a proclamationis in doubtful, if he would associate these disclaims responsibility for the expulsion conditions with the work of the adminix jeeted against their will to Russian
of members of the northern Savict, which tration, with the police, the Revenue or Tsarism thrown into civil war and was carried out by Russians. It says the Judical Department, the municipality anarchy. Dermady would not submit to Allies will immediately release the arrest the reorganisation of the courts, the the Entente her peace treaties with ed Ministers and bring them back to provision for agricultural and garden Ukraine, Russia and Roumania. Apart Archangel. It emphasises that the Allies developments, and the control of grain establish rule, and markets in those lean months when from this the territorial possessions exist have come to Russia to e ing before the war could everywhere be order and liberty.
we had to feed the civil population. restored. A preliminary condition for
AWFUL CONDITIONS PREVAIL : Least of all is the soldier in the streets Germany and her allies was the restora
likely to grasp the complicated. naturs tion of all territory they possessed" on
AMSTERDAM, September 13th, August 1st, 1014. Germany must, there A correspondent of the Tageblatt, de of the machinery we have been getting fore, firstly, receive back ber colonies con- scribing the awful conditions in Rusia, into gear, the complex relations of cerning which the idea of exchange on states that an extraordinary Commission inbourer, tenant, landowner and State, the grounds of expediency
has withdrawn the most important quer the dificulty of adjusting their rights, need not excluded. The Germans, as scon peace tions from the administration of justice and assessing property and taxes with was concluded, could evacuate the occu. and passes the most terrible, sentences and no revenue registers or land records to pied regions. They could restore Bel carries out inaumerable executions with go upon Yet all this is being done, and The arbitrariness a system is being evolved based on what giuni. If Germany and her allies again out court or verdict.
is sound in existing organisations. We possessed what belonged to them, and if exceeds Tsardom.
have adapted and modified these to mert Germany was sure that in Belgium no other State would be more favourably
the new needs, preserving as far as pas placed than she, then Belgium could be
native agency. There is interesting restored without encumbrance, and "with INCREASINGLY GRAVE SITUATIONsible local traditions and employing
IN PETROGRAD.
matter here for a comparison of adminis. trations, but I am writing now of the LONDON, September 12th outward city and how it appears to the Reuter learns that official telegraphs troops.
Eighteen months ago Mesopotamia was portray an increasingly grave situation
a depressing front. Our army after its at Petrograd and Moscow. Serious fres are undoubtedly raging in Petrograd-gallant failure to reliever Kut was camped on a barren mud fat without grass or Violence is rife.
The Government is still negotiating stones or trees which in the hot weather with the Bolsheviks as regards the release became a burning sand drift and in the of officials, but the situation is delicate rains or flood season a slough of despond and anxious, as njob law reigns.
It was a featureless land removed from BRITAIN'S TRADE RETURNS life and closed in by a blank horizon. There was nothing to meet the eye, not a street or a shop or a house or a barn, or a tree, not even a woman or a child- only the material of war we had brought into the desolation, the trenches we had dug, the tents we had pitched, the dumpa we had piled and our observation post and unlovely incinerators. There was nothing to fall back on after the day's work or the spell in the trenches. Then in the big offensive and the advance to Bagdad from December (1516) to March (1917 life was too crowded for monotony, In the fighting afterwards until the end of April our troops were carried along the Tigris, Dial and Bhatt el Adhaim out of the deltaic mud into real country. It would be an illusion to calculate on the will to peace in those circles among ALLIES LOAN IN HOLLAND. They crossed gravelly downs whers flowers grow. There were even, willows and our enemies which are responsible for the
poplars and orchards of fruit trees. It opening and the continuation of hostili
An Entente Joan in Holland is immia may seem an affectation to assume that ties. They cannot admit to their country. men that their aims are unattainable and ent as part of the general agreement being these things made any great difference to their sacrifices vain, but others among negotiated in which arrangements for an the comfort of mind of the soldier. It is those peoples will think differently improved Dutch food supply predominate. quite possible that thousands of us were
The Handelsblad states that Great Moreover, those others will prevail, soon or late. Until then there remains for us Britain is mainly concerned. It is report barely aware of them. Nevertheless, there nothing but to defend our lives."
ed that the loan will arrange for must have been some subconscious re Referring to the Prussian Suffrage Bill 200,000,000 guilders in six per cent Trea-action apart from victory in the escape tivities. Forgotten lights of the turf, the
Bury Bills. fidence of the people not merely in the TRAIN ACCIDENT IN HOLLAND concrete negation of everything that con-
The Vice-Chancellor said that Germany: was deeply convinced that, us an innocent, and attacked party, she was entitled to indemnification, but the prosecution of the war to that point would cost her such heavy sacrifices, irreplaceable by money, that she preferred. on calm reflection, despite her favourable military situation. to abandon this idea, quite apart from the fact that the forcible urging of com- pensation would inevitably feopardise
future peace.
arzlament.
The Vice-Chancellor declared that Ger- mary was ready to collaborate as regards a League of Nations, arbitration and dis
LONDON, September 13th. Germany desired disarma.
A decrease of exporte of £6,281,178 and ment on the basis of complete reciprocity, an increase of imports of 20,577,523 is applied not merely to armies but to shown for August, compared with August navies Germany would demand the free- last year. dom of the seas and sea routes, siso an open door in all oversea possessions and protection of private property at seg
We laugh at the idea that we should penitently ask for mercy ere we are ad mitted to peace negotiations. We laugh
OBITUARY.
SIR SAMUEL EVANS.
LONDON, September 13th.
at the fools who babble of revenge. A The death is announced of the Right pea by understanding will bring Hone Sir Samuel Thomas Evans. P.C., nothing humiliating for us, nor any K.C., President of the Probate. Divorce period of misery and wretchedness.
the Vice-Chancellor declared that the con-
Prussian but the Imperial Government more or less depended on the decision in this question. Further
the decision was not, per sole of}
how ever seriously a dissolution and new elee tions in, war time might be regarded, Moreover, he believed that the Prussian Government, had already decided on a dis solution if the Upper House did not agree to equal suffrage.
GERMANY'S PEACE APOSTLE
and Admiralty Courts.
AMATERDAM, September 13th.
AMSTERDAM, September 13th. Forty were killed and over a hundred injured near Weesp, owing to a train fall ng down a steep side of an embankment which collapsed, presumably owing to re
cent heavy rains.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, September 12th Silver is steady. There is a fair de mand on trade account.
from the interminable expressionless mud wastes that we had left behind us, the
stitutes life.
The officers club occupies one of the best houses on the river front with a double quadrangle and a garden over-
or dine or play bridge and meet the looking the Tigris. Her one can lunch
constant flow of men who are passing up and down the line or coming into head- quarters on work or leave." some good tennis courts within a minute or two's walk of G.E.Q. But the Sport ing Club, a couple of miles outside the city, has been the greatest stand by in the way of exercise and diversion. The grounds are very extensive and the managing committee have spared neither pains or expense. There are two race- courses, one for the flat, the other for steeplechasing, a cricket ground, & golf. course, tennis courts, polo, hockey, and football grounds. Early in March we had a Bagdad week. "There were polo, foot- ball and hockey tournaments, a, boxing competition and two days excellent racing. An interesting event on the second day was the Arab Plate of Rs. 100 for local owners. Twenty ponies entered, and the jockeys with their variety of dress or undress, ranging from the New- market cult to Bedouin fashion, top boots or bare toes, with their bended and tans Relled bridles, gay saddle cloths and high peaked saddles, made a great show. A lottery in Bagdad in race week raised
R 116,000: ten per cent went to the Sporting Club and five per cent. to the civil hospital. Those of us who remem bered the monotony and stagnation on the Tigris and Euphrates fronts eighteen months ago could no longer complain of being left out of life. On the same day one could, see Frank Wootton win & race. Norman Brookes win e tennis match, and sponge. Ragdad seemed the hub of ac Tom Costello spadring or holding the
ink and the athletic world reappeared one hears are vanishing from old England there, and the games and sports which were resuscitated in the city of the Calipha
And side by side with these alien
Bagdad, of course, occupies, a very small space in the extended front we hold now. One may pass a year or more with out seeing it, but men who have the good activities the old life of Baghdad con- of the most unspoilt of Eastern cities. fortune, at, who visit it or pass through tines with little change. It is still one on work or leave, will agree that it is the perfect antithesis of the Sinn. We have brought it peace, security and a Sodom. Gomorrah: Shake Bod and measure of wealth but we have not in- Sunny-hat" of the old days. Here things jured its peculiar spirit or traditions. are alive. There are hotels one excel Leave the main thoroughfare and enter lent one clubs, canteens, a morning the Moslem, Christian or Jewish quarters, paper, innumerable restaurants which Arab, Asraelite, Armenian, Chaldean, outrie one another in their British names Persian, Syrian, Kurd. go their wavE WEEKLY REPORT.
employing a homely or patriotic nomen phrsuing what is essential to them in life The in the environment preserved by their of: "years" Messrs Samuel, Montagu & Co.,
for thousands clature as a bait for the soldier. A Havas mesange says:-The Kaiser
Hyde Park Restaurant, the Union Jack,nctors. nade a long speech during a visit to their weekly silver report, state
remoteness is. dying or dead The war Essen. He once more posed, as the Apostle Again there is nothing fresh to report London, English Empire, British, Prince Romance in the old sense of mystery and of Peace, trying to throw the onus for The tone of the market remains firm at of Wales, Trocadero. There are cricket, frightful hatred on Germany's enemics. the maximum price: The British trade football, and hockey matches every day, bas killed it, and everywhere torn aside That kind of Kaiserian literature is no demand is fairly large, but not being controls a soldiers club next door to the the veil. But to anyone who is still 10- mere effective, even with the German sidered anreasonable, in met at 494d people. It is a sign of the distressing The official Shanghai exchange varied open air theatre which has been built by terested in the East, Bagdad should be conditions in Germany now in progress. during the week, and remains at t
LONDON, September 13th,
in
(Continued as foot of next Colume.),
Patisfying whether to the eye or to the imagination.
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