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GAI ETY - MASKS - LUROPE'S. TROUBLES.
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NOVEL CRIMES IN GERMANY, IMPERSONATING OFFICIALS AND
CAPTURING LOOT,
dermany-bas taken to crime increme Any man who can unravel the tangled ingly since the revolution, and the once threads of the web of life in Europe alter orderly empire. where pickpockets were the storm of war is a peer with super-almost unknown and hold up and rod- natural wisdom, for he must have an beries created a sensation, is undergoing understanding not only of the mystery an epidemic of crime. Probably no ay“ of financa by which bankrupt peoples are tem has proved more effective than, in spending more money than ever before in these days of uncertainty and change, history on personal luxury and pleasure, playing the official or impersonating a but also of that greater mystery of the soldier, or a policeman. human heart, which, bleeding from many wounds and stored with tragic memories:
Recently, two clever criminals who dis
not yet twelve months old, is concealing covered that a certain man had concealed its agony under a mask of gaiety, forget in his nouse 115 thousand mark notes of ting the black past, not looking forward the old type, and liable to confiscation,
the future full of peril, and living in the present for all that it is worth.
to
frightened bim into surrendering the money on the promise of escaping prese- cution.
I found that spirit in Paris, where out wardly all is gay, though beneath the camouflage there is the skeleton of A real official, who had nosed out the troubla, writes Mr. Philip Gibbs.ples, entered just in time to see the trans- it also on the edge of battlefields, fer of the money and really did confiscate found in cities. lika Amiens and Lille. Now it, besides arresting the three men.
More successful was another tale off- coming across the frontier from Franco into belgium, I find a superficial gaietyecial scheme. Here a group succeeded in and joie de vivre, a finging about of inducing a man who had hoarded 30 thou paper zoney by all classes in spite of the sand mark bills to sell them at a hand fantastic cost of living (as if money could some prost. The deal was in progress, be printed on the Government presses as when sellow conspirators, posing as offi- fast as there is need of it) and no sign of cinls. appeared, confiscated the money the anguish plainly revealed on the faces and robbed the owner. of people who were long under hostile rule, who suffered exceedingly by Enes, imprisonments and tyranny, and whose industries and fortunes were utterly ruin ed by the general campaign of destruc-
tion.
TROUBLES OF BELGIUM.
Belgium was hard hit by the war apart from the tragedy of invasion. Most of ber factories in cities like Bruges. Ghent and Antwerp were robbed of their machinery, if they were not destroyed like Ypres under the fail of war A-friend of mine, who was a great manufacturer with works at Ypres and Bailleul and other towns in Flanders, told me that be bad, abandoned. hope of re-starting those industrie
capture An airplane was used to criminals when the authorities got wind, recently, of an attempt to carry 20,000,000 marks on an express train to Munich whence they were to be snuggled across the Swiss border.
Robberies, at railroad stations from freight cars have been increasing to a Countless cases of false great extent papers for the delivery of goods have been discovered, usually after it was too late.
The discovery of two freight-car loads of bacon lying on a siding at a suburban stasion led to the discovery of a huge indie orginated in Holland, conduct
and of false bills of lading.
from the Rhineland, making
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The German Army," be said, sat share"in handling the faked bills of lad
down on all my factories, and where theyhe constant swindling extends to every sat down they squashed everything to
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dust. There's nothing to be done except imaginable kind of food and
This is thaterial. A young man appeared recent
to plant woods there. and say No Man's Land.' In our time we shall at a storehouse in central Berlin and When not see factory chimneys rise in those asked to have some cases stored.
the warehouse watchman saw the cases be places. Whoever thinks so, dreams'
The present condition of Belgium is not as suspicious because they came from the briliant. The manufacturers are living imperial textile plant at Zwickau, so be on credit and not on production, although reported their presence and investigation some of the factories are beginning to showed 5.000 yards of textiles worth He had procured work again and the best brains in Bel 120,000 marks, and the young. gium are making great efforts in private the cloth on a forged order bearing the
was captured by a ruse. enterprise without relying at all. Gov- ernment aid, which is low, besitating, signature of the textile authorities. and up to the present, I am told, hope lessly unpractical
The Government's proposal to raise a
big loan by means of a popular lottery
BOTHA'S AGENDA NOTE.
man
is denounced by many thoughtiel-mercueral Smuts at the funeral of It seems a most immoral policy which General Botha, mentioned the following will still further slacken the industry of
the masses, who, after the shock of war, example of General Botha's noble and are tired, without energy, and disteste magnanimous character. ful of toil.
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The free issue of paper money makes on June 28th," he sail, the German exchange merciless Against Belgium, representatives were called on to sign the bere now 35 francs go to the English Peace Treaty with its inevitable humilia pound and prices are raised at the same tion. General Botha surveyed the scene, time as wages are increased by the pres- and wrote on his agenda paper the sure of continual strikes.
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Many of the working men of Belgium God judgments will be applied with whose labour was very cheap before the Justice to all peoples under the new sun war, and whose conditions of life were and we shall presevere in prayer that they very low in the scale of comfort, have may be applied to mankind in charity been to England since then and have been and peace and a Christian spirit. To inspired with envy for the English rate day I think back to May 31st, 100, of pay, and now demand that same rate (The signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging with a loud voice, though it is fantastic which ended the Boer War). in relation to the ruin of so many em players of labour, the deafness of material and the lack of capital.
PEOPLE ARE GAY
There is to sign of those troubles, how ever, in the public places, except where processions pass, and no shadow is on the faces of the people.
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moonlight or starlight by the sand dunes and the sea It is the chic-place in Bel- gium. The best society is there in little villas amid the dunes within view of the Zeebrugge where this morning I saw scene of that astounding exploit of the I was impressed by the gaiety, even the British navy and the destruction which joyousness, of crowds in the Grande Pince still remains close to these little villas- of 13-inch naval guns of Bruges the other night in that lovely At Zoad is old square of Flemish bouste, so rich and wonderfully camouflaged among the dunes warm in the sunlight, so steeped in the built by Germans (and damaged beyond beauty of the Flemish Renaissance, where use before they left) to defend the coast The sight of day long at the hours, half hours and against the British feet. quarters the carillon of the belfry plays these monsters in concrete beds is a hor- little jangling tunes in which there isrible reminder of war that was here along. such sad music of the Middle Ages, so the shore of Belgium and not far away that one BOCK little Blazer-baized at Heyst and Blankenberghe many houses Princesses and fair daughters of the were hit by shellfire. To Zoute-Knock. burghers dancing on their toes over these people go to forget the war and present cobblestones
troubles, and on the Digue they dance and. There is a menacing marmar of the dance. masses in a city like Brussels, where there are charming girls there of the
It is a pretty sight I must confess days ago there was a monster procession This vessel offers excellent cabin accommodation for saloon passengers. led by war widows, mutilated men, and best Belgian families, and lots of children. wounded soldiers demanding Poles and Czechoslovaks with young men, and English girls, and Americans. and work, and lower prices. Truly, the gian Government, faced by the desert of who, I found, had been prisoners in Ger its battlefielda, immense debts, and back many or officers at Dixmude, or had bocs of production, must bear the voice of the in pleasant exile in England during the people, impatient of delay, with anxious war. The orchestra for the dance was There were no Princesses of Fland not magnificent. It was a simple piano, bumble Brabant in
tkis
square that night, worked by the untiring arms of but there were swarms of Baxen-haired philanthropist not without reward. It and The Broken girls who belong by right of birth and,
unerasingly to the rhythm of the Outside the Among them were English and American fox trot and the one step. girls staring about them as if in the cafes ant the fathers and mothers of the middle of a fairy tale and young Bel-dancers, smiling as they watched the gian soldiers and officers with tufts of swaying of the young couples in the yellow bair showing below their toeseled fantastic steps and queer; rhythmic cape, and boys of Brages demobilised kaleidoscope of that dance on the Digna
10% sat a man who had factories into
Ato civilian suita.
What had brought
and Messina, Grande Place was a band in the middle where now there are only ashes and raga of the square. It was a band of maai-and Bodes of buildings Bome of his girls Feians in bowler hate but very military in were dancing there and he smiled sa be their choice of tunes and in their splendid watched them pass, greeting him with rhythms of Le Fille de Madanie Alge", their exes, over the
the shoulders of their which they were playing. And the browd cavaliera surged around s dance and in lindof walking love making! End langhter pleasant to be under the sky There was no trace of war e agony in any one of these people; no look of inisery. MAGDANCING ON THE DIKE,
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In Brussels the opern was' crowded at the performance of Le Jongleur de Notre Pain Back Gor Pad Co
Dame and Scherezade, a That night I saw a most gay little violent contrast between the
Christian Testamene; a queer, amusing picture of file faith in its simplest expresion and pag Amey Dupon of Kiely LyEm in Europe After the storm There is zo ulien in its most cruel and voluptuous Das habeba a old song about Avignon when once lomine neopta frétta ero, crowds of
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