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INTER- MARSHAL FOCH
VIEWED.
ENEMY SHAKEN AND TOTTERING.
LONDON, September 25th. The Daily Telegraph', Correspondent at Paris yesterday interviewed Marshal Foch at his Headquarters. Marshal Foch said:" The British Army is fighting better than ever. All its losses have been made good. The Americans are splendid and wonderfully gailant in the field. The French Army is the same good old army
as in 1914. No more need be said."
Speaking of the general position, be said:"The enemy is shaker and totter- ing, but still holding out. You must not. think we will get to the Rhine immediate. |ly. We have passed the crest of the bill, and we are now going down the hill. If we gather impetus as we go, like a rolling ball, so much the better."
WAR FOUGHT ON TOBACCO. NICOTINA AS SISTER TO BELLONA.
A remarkable fact which, in the crash of larger issues, seems to have scaped the notica it deserves, is that this war is the first great conflict in history which has been fought on tobacco...
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In all previous wars the nations engaged have concerned themselves in a more or less generous spirit with food. equipment, and material, but rarely to any appreci
of the able extent with the luxuries" fighters. In the present war public and private agencies have been at work from the outset in all the belligerent countries to provide the men with little "extras" and the chief of these has been tobacco.
'In England the provision made in this respect by the Army authorities was promptly supplemented by the public working through special funds or through newspaper organisations which made it their business (and pleasure) to me that the men who were Bghting the for in France and Flanders, in Egypt, in Pales tice, in Mesopotamia, and elsewhere, were duly supplied with adequate allowances of tobacco it all forms. The combined resuls
efforts in which the general public has taken the keenest and most generous inter. est has been the despatch to the various fronts of almost uncountable millions of cigarettes and hundreds of tons of pipe tobacco.
MORE SMOKING.
So far as the British Army is concern. Marshal Foch's brain is always working.ed, all this tobacco, or practically all of i, goes out to our four or five millions He keeps a pocket-book in which he jots of men duty free, but it is a significant down instantly, any thought occurring circumstance that despite this fact, and also despite the fact that successive in- to him. When his mind is made up bis creases during the war have brought the decision is carried out unswervingly. duty from 3. 3d. a pound to Ss, the con- He sleeps well and is always in bedsumption of duty-paid tobacco has still
gone oa increasing. belare eleven in the evening, and he has
1 to be awakened in the morning. He keeps his nerves of iron unter, control. No events, good or bad, have ever shaken him. He was strong in the bad days, and it is unthinkable that he will inse his head in the hour of victory. His Generals Are supremely devoted to him, and they admire his intelligence, but still more his character, which is modesty itself. He was a passionate smoker of strong cigars British till three weeks ago when 2. General presented him with a pipe, after which he has smoked only a pipe. Since then he has been inundated with presents of pipes.
to bear
Apart from these enhancements of the duty, the cost of production has also risen steadily. Low grade dack American to- bacco has gone up from Od. to 2. a pound, and hus, in addition, enormously increased freight charges. A light China tobacco, in great request for blending with better-grade leaf, was pur- chased before the war for 6d. a pound. It is now 45. a pound, and is still in demand even at that price and with Ss. on top of it for duty.
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The anxiotics and nervous strain in-
ILI separable from a great war doubtedly responsible for this increased The testimony consumption at home. from the front is universal that were it not for generous supplies of tobacco in all forme it would be impossible for the men of stand the strain of continuous conflict. The same argument inny not unreasonably apply, though in a lesser degree to those at home who by persistent and unweary- supplied with all their requirements in the way of guns, shells, clothing, and all the other colossal needs of the greatest war in history.
NATIONAL PROHIBITION IN ing effort are keeping the fighting men
UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, September 24th.
The House of Representatives ap proved of the mensure making National Prohibition effective from July 1st, 1919. The Senate bas already passed the
measure.
The House of Representatives rejected an amendment permitting the importar tion of wires until May 1st. The im- portation of wines must therefore cease when the President signs the Bill GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS THE GOVERNMENT'S VIEW.
LONDON, September 9th. The "German newspapers continuo to. dwell on the political crisis. It appears, however, that the Centre Party and the National Liberals have decided to sup- port Count Hertling, and it is pointed ous that the Lelt majority cannot be formed without the Centre.
The North Germag Gazette indicates the Government's view of the question of "parliamentarisation" and says there is no reason to go beyond the present system of Government. A majority Government would be fatal in the conditions Dow pre- |-- vailing in Germany.
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A service of thanksgiving will be held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday.
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France and Italy, with less extensive sources of supply, have been no less en- thusiastic in their efforts to meet the tobacco needs of their soldiers, while until the raw material gave out it was part of the duty of every individual cigar-maker in Germany to manufacture, free of cost so far as wages were concerned, 400 cigars within a certain stipulated period for the As we have use of the Kaiser's troops. seen recently, Germany has so little tobacco lelt that beech leaves and other substitutes have had to be used to supply the demand, and have had disastrous con- sequences on the health of the men.
Eagland's chief source of supply has, of course, been the United States, though a certain amount of leaf has also come from ladia, Borneo, Java, and elsewhere. With the enormous number of men called up for the American Army, however, the adequats working of the great tobacco plantations in the United States may soon become an extremely diffealt problem. Even as it is, imports have been decreas ing in so marked a degree.that the bonded stocks of tobacco in our own country have become dangerously depleted.
It may yet become necessary to subject to some system of rationing that section of the lay public which is not engaged in productive war work, involving heavy manual labour, long hours, and great nervous strain. We must, at any rate, conserve the available supplies for those who need them most.-Daily Express,
DEEPENING WAR'S HORRORS
Speaking at the Countess of Kinnoul's residence at Eaton-place, recently, Major, General Sir Francis Lloyd said that if there was one thing more, dreadful than any other, it was that all the courtesies of war had disappeared. We had fought the French twenty-two times since the Conquess, and although we had done our best to kill one another, yet when a man had been taken prisoner he was treated pretty well. There was no question that the horrors of war had been accentuated fifty, times over by the way our prisoners No had been treated by the Germans. Chinese torturers in the war, of 1880 had gone so far, except perhaps in regard to mutilation, as the Germans had in the treatment of our men. They had treated our men worse, than those of any other nation, and he doubted if the Americans would fare any better than our men.
Captein H. Ellis Nobbes, a repatriated officer, said one of their men captured at Cambrai told him that he was put on that a Conference, attended by many with 168 other men to work behind the members of the All-Russian Constituent German lines. They were kept there for Assembly, is being held at Ufa. The Social Revolutionary leader, M. Avksen- tieff is presiding, and M. Paaloff, Pre sident of the National Czech Council, is participating...
three months, working from six in the morning till seven at night, unwashed, unshaved, and in rags during the cold of November and December. They were ill-treated by their captors, and when they stopped work from sheer fatigue they were beaten with the butt ends of rifles. Their only food consisted of a piece of black M. Paslaff said the Conference aims at bread for breakfast, a basin of vatory the formation of a single strong soup for lunch, and some coffee and black At the end of the Bussian Government controlled by a non-bread, for supper, Bolshevik Constituent Assembly. Appa- three months they were taken away in a rently the Biberian Duma and the Govern- state of collapse. Out of 168 men twelve ments of Omsk and Samara have accepted died, and ninety had to be admitted to
hospital, the proposal.
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