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PACIFISTS AND. THE WAR. zociety of nations. How is that eradica
MR. BALFOUR ON GERMAN
POLICY.
On the notion that the House of Com mons at its `rising do adjourn natil October 15th..
manent solution without a really effective and genuine League of Nations.
on to be produced 1 The evil originally fcame into being by the facile successes which Germany has attained in war, and the only way to eradicate it is to show that war does not always lead to facile success, or to success all "(Cheers.);
3000 EXEMPTIONS CHALLENGED. CLERK'S FORGERY AND ITS
worst domination of the world seems to be merciful, because le effectively carried out with less systematic, methods and leas indifference to the fellags of the subject GIRL population. In the course of this Wat erany has overrun districts both in the and West, and we also have had our of territorial conquest. We hare
and have
taken German
If you can once make it clear to German ocellains part of Palestine and Hen
The
RESULT.
Sir Archibald Bodkin
proscented.
dealt with summarily Carter pleaded guilty and elected, to be
ICES AND SWEETS. minds that in modern civilisation the potamia. Mr. Anderson (Lab.. Attercliffe) urged [aufficient to coerce recalcitrane members security has been
morni, view of a majority of nations is colonies;" and wherd, trado has scrown
Ida Lilian Carter, aged nineteen, of we have gone Marsala-road, Lewisham, a clerk, recently the desirability of a more real effort to of human society, then, and not, until and wealth has increased almost before employed by the Stepney tribunal, was move in the direction of peace. He sug. then, is there some prospect of that peace our eyes Ent wherever the German summoned at Old-street for forging the gested that
which the hon. gentleman, as well as soldiers go they strip the province of all Government should- our
everyonet on this side of the House, so machinery for production in order to pre-signature of Robert Abrabrelton, the tri- oberry the movement of opinion in the earnestly desirca.
vent fature competition with their own bunal clerk, to a blank certificate of various countries involved in the war,
manufacturers. The principle adopted is outside the ordinary diplomatic channels, closely than, I am sorry to say, hunan of Germany,
The German theory, the German pric-that Germany must flourish and everyone exemption and to a notice of decision. tice in this matter harmonises much more else must be content to serve the purposes By our declarations we could either help theory and human practice usually do.
The real dificulty in the way of peace or hinder the denieratic movements in There is absolute congruity between what
they preach and what they practice, and owe They think in their innocence that another girl named Terleshky, was engag is not what hon. gentlemen, opposite вир the various lands. the progress or res we need not trouble to ask whether the all that is required is to bring two ored under the direction of M. Abrabreiton. This girl," said Sir Archibald, with tardation of which would shorten ur abominable doctrines I have just men threw trade union leaders together from In June she was discharged for irregular lengthen the war. Many of the questions tioned are the crochets of a tow inde- Germany and the Allied countries and which bad arisen were incapable of ger. Dendent thinkers, or whether they reallement are most-anxious to inquiries last month to explain the great satisfactory will be settled. attendance, The police were making present the views people. You have only to look to see
of the German embrace many opportunity of arriving at number of men in the district who appear. Major Tryon sad tile speeches of the
what the German Government
| d an honourable, safe. and durable peace. service, men apparently of good physique. to have been exempted from military does Pacifists in that rouse did infinite harhardi, and then go and see how the Ger- that the differences between them ar
First read your Treitschke and Bern-fectly useless unless the negotiators know hale, healthy, and hearty.
(Hear, hear.) But negotiations are per- to the cause of peuce. Germany wa waging the present war for the purposes
nan Government, when it
been noticed that "Miss chaote, carries out the doctrines which bridged over by conversation, friendly dis-porter would get forms from them and gets the obviously not so great but they can he umber of young men, and that the hall and the other girl were friendly. Carter of conquest
Mr. Ponsonby (R. Stirling Burgne) have been preached so universally from cussion, and argument. I do not at this hand them to idlers in the office. thought tacre was a growing wish in tan
university chairs, from patriotic associa morment, study it as I will see in either country that international
tions, by all the machinery of interual problema should not be solved by international Propagandu which has been going on in MAC It was clear that inilitary vic
Germany for the last twenty-five years tory had now become our predominant knowing exactly what it is that the Ger and more. We have an opportunity of aim-cheers-but military victory itself would achieve nothing.
man Government wish to do, and what the German people are ready to approve, Belgium I will say nothing, except to re because we can see them at work. mind the House that never yet even Of
when the way in which the war going gave the greatest impulse to the paciat element in Germany, could a Ger plainly, clearly, definitely and without man statesman bring himself to say ambiguity. "We took Belgium without excuse; we mean to give it back, and. so far as lies in us, with all we have taken from her." They have introduced quali fentions; they have invented history.
DY
Mr. Robertson, said he was one of the earnest, advocates of the League of Nations, but Mr. Snowden and you of his friends greatly weakened their puss tion by their attitude with regard to aur duty to Belgium at the beginning of the war. They should so explain their action as to give one any ground for sharing in their faith in the etency of the League of Nations, after the war, to protect any aation atwicked as Belgium was. Before the war, the then Government. two or - three times offered the German Government to abandon the right of capture of commerce at sea, in time of war, if that concession could be made the
to
CALUMNIES ABOUT BELGIUM.
was.
it
The
the
basis of an agreement for the restrictiongian policy. They have made mendaci- gentleman never has discovered yet thrighton, and, being A1, was soon drafted
"I was suggested by Mr. "Pousonby thay, Germany's action in the West, and it handx No greater instrument for dinly way now teppey tribunal
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country.
as ices and sweets."
nctions of the German Government or girl had access to the official stampe, one in the statements of the German politi-bearing the signature of Mr. Abrabrelton, cians which meet with the greatest favour which was left lying bout the office, and that would tend to make discussion likely been kept over either of the rubber stamps, in their country, any sign or symptom not the slightest control seemed to have to be fruitful. I cannot conceive what friends had the pee more or less to them. The young women and their male by debates of that character.. hon. gentlemen opposite expest to selves, and there was no check on Germany is now, the African Colonies we Do they
would mean in the first place that we named Carter, the brother of Miss Carset. wish us to hand back to Germany, 24
number of exemption forms issued.
ARRESTED AT BRIGHTON. Anve
taken They know quite well that "One of these forms relates to a man should give to Germany submarine bases who was arrested at Brighton on July 7th on the trade routes of the world, and put in consequence of a statement made by pol the world's commerce at Germany's dis-her. He was passing there as, Alfred In the second place, it means the Casey, and was in possession of a tera! rannical government of the natives. It exemption purporting to have been issued
in the third place, that Germany by the Stepney tribunal. means, great black army in Central Africa which forms, some filled in will deliberately
set to work to create this form he was ja poguession of other addition to will make ponceable development
wife, others Snowden
(Lab, Blackburn) He thought it would not do to have a by himself, and a set filled in by his sister, France has dose it. They have spread calumnies about Bel.but has France menuced peace? The hon.
Mr. Balfour: Yes, France has done it. He received a month's imprisonment at set of papers filled in by his own hand. of naval armaments. Certainly twice ur thrice the German, Government
ous statements on British policy in con- nations have a soul, that nations have a nounced in reply that on no conditions endeavoured to divide Belgian opinion; German character, as Germany is now. End who had been challenged in the streets
nection with Belgina.
into the Army. They have character, that the German soul and the there were some 8,000 men in the East Inquiries by the police showed that would it consider the restriction of naval | bit never yet have they clearly stated the armaments. In view of those replies only policy which the extremist pacifist very little secret of it-for the purposes 400 were deserters, while 7.000 had failed are going to use those powers--they make why they were not in the Army. Of these from Gertuany he and his friends, "who bad for years been trying to get an shall carry out before the war is brought wickedness of having a disciplined arms cent. had exemptions. 20 per cent, were an the bench has determined that they not merely of defence but of aggression: to respond to the call to military service. agreement to the restriction of armato, an end. There is, an even more strik af, black men to which I object.
(Hear, hear.)
It is not the abstract of the 8,000 persons challenged 30 per ments, realised that Germany was not
ing example of German methods, bent on the peace on tax world, and was carrying out of German: the of the may be neccesary, or unnecessary. What exenigted on the ground of hardship, or
That But to be trusted, and from that moment Germany has the power on the Easter the end of the war they never discussed or criticised the irontier of Germany.
I object to is giving back to Germany Russians, 12 per cent. had legitimate certi
one wing businesses, 10 per cent were naya chamates in the House of Con:
I think that Ger- mous. (Lasers.)
man's action in the East is an even colonial empire would-Germany being stolen from the
powerful for universal evil as a great cent.were in possession of documenLS
instrument soficates, 3 per cent. were forged, and 5
per more instructive subject of study that she is at present-put entirely in her we ought to have indulged in propaganda will reply the closest study. Consider turbing the peace of the world, or increas through the tire matter again, in order to divide German opinion is what Germany now hus: the influenceing the miseries of humanity could be.
be to cancel all the Germany.
at Stepney and to go exemptions given That proposition was really to put it in the mildest language from conceived in my opinion than giving Ger- that I have been asked, as has Miss absurd to the last depth of absurdits, the north of the Baltie, aorth of Finland many the great central African domin-Terleshky, on many occasions, by young Miss Carter had said I must admit was nt. no moment any more possible to right down to the Black Sea. She has to be used as Germany would know men of military age attending the tribunat win this
war by dividing German gained it by the collapse of Russia She how to use them.. opinion in Germany than it was for Ger many to have won the war by dividing How has she used it! You have there bas used it according to her own ideas.
to get them a form which would keep them British
GERMANY'S BUSSIAN POLICY. opinion in this
out of the Army. These young men have (Cheers) He challenged, any pacifist to
every example and specimen, at an Germany is ready to abandon her Russian they met us in the streets they would bay Then do the hon. gentlemen think that sweets, the usual sum being 2s. 6d. When given us money to buy chocolates and dispute the statement that at all times
elaborate specimen indeed, but aspect policy Germany's Russian policy bas the German peace movement had been Germany can do, how she carries out a
men on a manufacturing scale of what been the most astute and, at first sight, the weakest in Europe. The so-called single nim in different manners, accord-
the most successful-indeed, the only give evidence, but the magistrate told him Mr. Abrabrelton asked to be allowed to pro-Boer movement in Great Britain was ing as the situation happens to direct her. ing the cessful thing she has done dur, he would have as opportunity of making twenty times stronger than my move. ment of resistance to the war in Germany policy. The post which she favours is proud of it. But what does it mean for an explanation to the proper authorities.
war, and she is proportionately to day.
that of a liberator. Next to being en- very large fraction of the human race?Carter, said she was not likely to abscond slaved by Germany there is no worse fate Does this House contemplate with equani- if bail were
Mr. Margetts, who defended Miss GERMAN MILITARISM.
than being liberated by her. (Laughter mity this row of subordinate States under
Her parents are Unless we got a peace which would n
and cheers.)
German Finland now finds herself in the grip of trade though starved themselves, supply young girls. They have been flattered and domination, feeding German and Miss Terleshky are good-looking volve the overthrow of German militar Germany. Germany insisting and dictating Germany with armies in quarrels cajoled by young men who came to the he said. Both sha most respectable te ism it would not be worth having ing what kind of government she is to be with which they have no concern, stretch-office and who wished to dodge the Army." (Cheers.) When General Smuts referred under. Germany, as far as L can make ing from the Baltic right down to to the knock out blow he did not out, is stripping her of
to the meau the annihilation of the German materials, and not supplying ber
copper and other Black Sea?" Further, do bon. members
The summonses were adjourned for four, nation, but that the German fighting
food-stuffs,
with contemplate with equanimity one of the teen days, and Miss Carter. was released but force should be brought to a point at troops and attempting to drag her into Russia will be cut off from all direct
garrisoning her with inevitable results of that, which is that on bail on her own recognisances. which Germany would have to sue for the war and to use her as an instrument intercourse with her Western peace. We could not get disarmament for further aggressions on Rusis, and and that the Lask of the self-rehabitating all round unless we first secured the distill further interference with forces on and self-reconstitution which we all armament of Germany The kind of whom the Russians must depend for her
Fegeneration. Go a little farther south thently desire that Russia should carry peace urged by Lord Lansdowne would you find the Baltic provinces, Esthenia, Germany can rejoice at Russian dis give us the status quo aute bellum. Ger the Letts, and the Lithuanians, the Poles Russia is going to be little more than the should be almost impossiblet many would be able to continue her and the Ukrainians.
integration. Germany rejoices that militarisin, and conscription would be whole list, and you will find Germany Hinterland of her own dominating in
Go through the hung round the neck of every nation. It proclaiming herself anxious that they Bence. was because he was satisfied of that and shall be free from Russian domination,many's methods change and Germany's I think it a calamity to man- that civilisation was at stake that he but pursuing one end steadily remors heart changes, or unless a complete vic kind. (Hear, hear.) But unless Gier. could not agree with Mr. Snowden. The lessly. without wavering. without pity. question was whether by any negotiations She endeavours by every means in her tory on the part of the associated Powers with Germany they could secure an agree.power, by force, by treaty by treaty convinces everybody in Germany that, ment for disarmament. He did not think extorted by force, to bring these peoples is a failure, I fail utterly to see how this they could..(Hear, hear.) Germany ander German economic and military great rehabilitation of Russia is everaged whether they will it or no, their policy would never agree to disarmament, until her handmaids in matters of commerce take place. (Hear, hear.)
domination, so that they shall be
merely she felt that her military power hat and supply her with troops in times of
to been broken. (Cheers.) He believed that
Hon. members, who I believe unless this war ended in the dictation of war. That is the policy. It takes differ-cerely and earnestly desire the peaceful
quite sis disarmament to Germany the future throughout the whole of that great are to be quite incapable of appreciating the but it is univerzal It goes progress of the human race, seemed to me would be worse than the past. would be the state of mind to which eastern frontier, and so determined is she presents to the realisation of their own
What which I have described on Germany's magnitude of the obstacle which German Great Britain would be reduced if Ger- to keep these nations under ber heel that, ideals. They desire peace as we all desire many were left as she was at present having it absolutely in her power to re- peace, but they Every device for the destruction of life arrange the map of this part of Europe which would merele make a future war
desire on the largest possible scule would be as she pleases, she has been careful not to the desire it on terms which would leave peace on terms the order of the day, and the methods of arrange it according to national or
inevitable, (Hear, hear.) war which Germany bud forced upon the ethnic limitations. I do not believe it is an immense fraction of civilised mankind world would still remain if there was possible to exaggerate the cynical nuda absolutely incapable therefore of carrying
absolutely under an incquelusive peace. (Cheers.)
German heel city with which she has pursued and is out their own development in their own pursuing this ME. BALFOUR'S SPEECH.
mėnsure,
fashion and in their own way, and which Mr. Balfour said: The true obstacle
EVILS OF GERMAN DOMINATION.. would put back the whole progress of to nay legitimate peace is what has been limited, and personally tied to
Germany wants these States to be civilisation. That ideal will never,
Food concisely described as "German militar Prussian monarchy; to be coerced when treaties of Brest-Litorak remain untouch-All these things made the Baran's bag-
the connot, be carried out so long as your German militarism is based, not occasion requires by Prussian soldiers, ed or if you contemplate giving back to on the ambition of a few soldiers; not, but to have no voice in the Prussian Germany her possessions in Africa, or if indeed, upon a strictly military caste. Parliament and no power in directing you mean to give back to Turkey It is based unfortunately on the fact that Prussian policy. I cannot conceive any Arab districts which are now happily the German writers and professors, men of peace being assented to which leaves that relieved from Turkish rule. It is because theory, men action, those "engaged in state of things unremedied, because future I do not for a moment think that Ger- commerce, tho engaged in historica wars would be solutely certain, and man negotiators are prepared to take speculation, are all united in the theory Germany's powers would be enormously that view, or anything like that view that the true policy of any nation which increased. If you go to: Roumania you Mr. wishes to be great is a policy of universal
Coventry) How see Germany's methods written in tumis- do you know, domination. That is the difficulty. You takable language. She has not merely Mr. Balfour: Because I am gifted with my call it think it is very good forced Roumania to give immense contri- some common sense, and have had some phrase-militarism, It precisely ex-butions, but she has control of Boumanian of the documents and observed, sine of presses the instrument by which that holds Roumania at this moment absolute adgment on this subject. (Hear, hear.) industries, railways, and dockyards She the actions upon which we must form a policy is carried out. But the difficulty ly, not merely in the sense of military their policy hon. gentlemen below the is that this grow and immoral heresy has domination, but of
that reason 1 venture to say that by an economic domina- spread its roots right through the most tion which shows no mercy. She has trangway opposite, animated se they are, educated classer in Germany, and until destroyed the independence of the Bou-I firmly believe, by patriotism and hon-We hope soon to read your explana those roots are eradicated there is very manian people for generations. When ourable motives, are doing, the very wor mall hope that Germany will willingly Germany talks of peace she means only service they possible can to the cause they become a peaceful-mber of a peaceful a domination compared to which the haze at benef. (Choorn.
iam"
the
GERMANY AND NORWAY.
Some time in June one of the leading
German newspapers wrote as follows:
-
"We want to know why 9 per cent. of the Norwegian ships, since the begin- ning of war and to the present date have been trading between English, French, and American ports,
all are carrying supplies and war material. which hamper and postpone our suc The Norwegian people should be made to understand that ve in the leng run can't allow this to take place, and that our Government won't tolerate this. We would like to hear the Nor wegiana" answer." was given by the Christiania Nghed latel The answer was not long delayed. It
12th, 1916, we beg to inform you that the next day, thus:-
In reply to your article of June your paper was handed to one of our leading politicians whom we asked to answer, and who, begs us to say that be will be pleased to answer your article about our ships and shipping if you will kindly first.
explain why the bag- gage of Baron von Rauthenfels (which
high explosives, some shaped as foun- Was supposed to contain only official papers) did actually contain bombs DE talo pens, others as lumpe of 008), others like ordinary bombs, and that sugar containing poison and glass, etc. it contained also. -poisonous pencils, Gage, highly interesting, man Imperial of it was sealed with German Government's seal.
We would also like to know why this same Baron of Bombs, when his luggage was unexpectedly taken for examination, found Norway, so cold. that he immediately took a special train over the frontier into Sweden, not pousing, even to read the evening paper which
to him by a gentleman present, ships Norway has lost by submarine
paper, contained a
list
of the
ships have been junk by submarines and action and a statement that over 1,000
and men who has died in consequence a total of about 2,700 children, women
of the same to Capita
tion of, the above, and meantime we assure you of our desire to see the war. finished quickly,"
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