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THOMPSON'S SOCIALISM F. CAPITALISM THE CREW OF THE “EMDEN"
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The statement having been made thas, the late Captain von Müller ran the Emden ashore on Keeling Cocos Island, where he was taken prisoner with the sur- vivors, except the landing party, which escaped and made a marvellous journey
The forces of Labour and Capital wore. arrayed against each other in debate on March 20th. Through the mouth of one of Its most powerful speakers, Lalone chale longed the Capitalist system, and urged the House of Commous to declare that Ingis lative effort should be directed to the gradual supersession of the capitalist system by atate Adjt.. 4th Bo., K.S.L.I., asks: “Is industrial and social order based on the
this correct ?? 'public ownership und democratis control of the instruments of production and distributhe 4th K.S.L.I., was ordered to Singa- Ho goes on to say: "My battalion,
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caped overaly Capt. C. B. Bright, DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
Mr. Snowden has mellowit much in
pore from Rangoon in February, 1915, the years which have elapsed since he in consequence of the muting of the 5th first took up the vocation of crusader |LL. (Indan Army), and found that dur- against the existing system. Socialism of ing the mutiny Lieut. Lauterbach and his typo is now regarded by the ex
of this party as unpretient and party of Enden sailors had escaped from On this occasion the one-time the internment camp at Tanglin" Bar- preached constitutional racks, and succeeded in reaching Dutch evolution "We
territory, Later, Lieut. Lauterbach, with propose no revolution (he said), members of this party, succeeded in We
to not propose, and I would always reaching Germany Arabia and resent, confiscation.
It is the longest way Turkey. I never heard of any party es to obtain an object, and it is vertatt i caping from Cocos Island. Some months end in disaster. There is no analogy be later, when the crew of the Emulen, tween Socialism and Bolshevism. As a matter of fnet, Socialism and Bolshevism together with other enemy prisoners, aru antitheses Bolshevism, in its political were removed from Singapore to Aus- theories and in its practice of dictatorship tralia, a tunnel (nearly completed) was and confiscation, is not Socialism, but discovered leading from the crew's quar-, Die-Hurd Toryism."
ters."
..THE TEST.
Advancing the axiom that the test of nuy economic system was "Does it deliver the
The statement made that the landing party escaped is quite correct. Capt.- Lieut. von Muecke and a party of men from the Eulen were sent zahore at
CO., LTD..is the stored at ttenly had Cup Cocos Island to destroy the wireless
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station there, and they became marconed on the Emden had to leave because subsequently driven ashore and burned, H.M.A.S. Sydney was sighted. She was
and those not killed were taken prison- TB. The original landing party seized Was it Mr. Ross' schooner Ayesha "and" escaped he asked, without changing the therein, proceding to Java, whence they of our economic system, to eliminate traversed the Indian Ocean and finally,
the admitted defects and evils of the exist-roached Arabia. Thence they made their to Constantinople. At the Turkish
he
THE LANDING PARTIES ESCAPE.
Engineer Commander H. F. Rüssell, (retired), writes to The That
at
f ing order pointed out, we were not living wapita Licus, on Mucoke'n services were to-day under a capitalist system which was needed at once by the commander of the wholly free and unrestrained. All improve German squadron, Admiral von Usedom. ments which had passed the House had been brought about by the
of the application principles of Socialism, which, they arivocat ed, should be more fully extended Capital ispo, he scornfully observed, had had admit that competition was not a good formed the escort to the convoy.
to I was in one of the light cruisers that When thing, and he pointed to the formation of the Sydney forced the Emden onshore, trusts as proof of that realization. Just badly on fire, she various systems had passed away so the off after
once Wonk capitalist system would pass away; in fact, hauled her, and sark her, and the the Emden's collier, over- #ping away.
why worry?" asked a finis-time thus occupied did not allow CE terialist. The Labour Party, ho said, her return till fifteen hours later, when proposed to continue on the lines upon many of the loss badly wounded sur- which this progress had been made, bat vivors of the Emden had managed to geb they wished to move more rapidly. "We ashore, but lay in the hot sun in a pitiful are no advocates of confiscation, of resort plight, as the land crabs are very ferg- to force," he said, "and, speaking for my cious there. self, I want no further step forward to be taken until the previous step we took us been justfied by its success"
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The whole business of the House of Com mons, Mr. Snowden declared, was occupied in dealing with the failures of private enterprise. He pointed to the Labour programge at the last election, and said that it was contained in the written constitution of the Party. Wo stand upon that," he said, amid Labour cheers, and we do not apologize for it."
ginally landed from the Emden to seizo Meanwhile the party that bad ori. the wireless station, having witnessed
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the destruction of their ship, had suf- p.&O.BANKING CORPORATION ficient respite to devise means of escape before the Sydney returned and they would inevitably be rounded up.
They took Mr. Ross's old schooner, forced the wireless staff to give them water and pro- visions, and although the schooner was in a very leaky state, with sails much SIR A. MOND'S REPLY.
rotted and rigging defective, they got clear away before the Sydney returned. Sir Alfred Mond was the champion of the I believe the party consisted of ona anti-Socialist system, and moved a resolu- officer, two petty officers, and twelve men. tion which opposed the proposed alteration It was said that the wireless people fur- on the ground that the abolition of private ther hompored their chances of escape interest in the means of production and dis by filling some of their water casks with tribution would impoverish the people and salt. In this condition these men began aggravate existing evils. It expreased the their amazing voyage and got the belief that far-reaching measures of social redress might be accomplished without overturning the present basis of society, and which, ofre resolve to prosecute proposals by removing the evil effects of mono- poly and waste, would conduce to the well- being of the people.
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What be claimed was that THE things had greatly improved in the last
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