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SAXON PREMIER TALKS OF AN ILLEGAL ARMY.
Bartin, October 19th.
There were remarkable seentes in tho Saxon Diet when the Premier, Herr
A
Zeiquer," in a spoeck, declared it was af fact that the Reich had an illegal army. He said
many of these illegal organisa- tions in the neighbouràvel of Berlin
would have attempted a rising at the bo
It is reported that the Imperial Coning of October but were prevented by ference yesterday deliberated on
the Prussian Tolicy. They had been train ing from four to six weeks this summer Singapore scheme. The Daily Mail
at Koenigsbrueck, and hundreds strongly attacks the plan on the ground.
of
– INTERNATIONAL LAW.
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S {REVIEW.
AUTHORITY; WEAKER SINCE
THE WAR,
Lord Birkenhead delivered an address to the Canadian Bar Association in Mant real on International Law as the Great War has left it.”
If we could persuade ourselves that the defeat of tiermany, the principal employ. er of those methods, hait ended them for over, the mischief, in point of time. would be finite, and in point of con sequence curable, But, unhappily we have no such security. It is on the whole, worth while to face facts, however disagreeable and oaked these facts may he and the truth is that when the nations
INDEPENDENT LABOUR.
Y
BRITISH POLICY AND RUSSIA
J.
LABOUR AND THE EMPIRE WHITE SETTLERS IN THE TROPICS. At the summer school of the Intiepen dent Labour Party at Hoddesdon on September 11th, Mr. J. SturryL.C.C., read
fa
that there is need for economy and avoid thousands of their nascibers had lately trine which never, of course, could, ex instrument. of destruction, however, de nations and Russia For Grent Britain difficulties, anul Labour. would cer
ing friction with Japan who had recently been arolled in the Reichswehr and
and would put an end to them.
British Foreign Pokey and Russia was the subject of an address on September 11th to the members of the Independent paper on Labour and the Empire,” Labour party's summer school at Houds in the curse of which he said that if tion by Mr. E. Wise, who is the Britt Labour attained to power it would not be able to ignore the Empire. A Labour of the world spring to arms, when the secretary of the Russian Co-operative Prime Minister would have to submit to glittering counter of world dominion is placed at the hazard, all the hosted Societies. Mr. Wise defined the main ob- his Majesty the names of two persons for
the posts of Indian and Colonial Secret Until the month of August, 1914, it was
veneer of our civilization is swiftly dis-jective of the foreign policy of i any taries. Moreover, the Prime Minister generally, though not quite completely, sipated, and we still revert, as man re- British Government to be peace and the would find that problems would true that the civilized uations of the verted long ago, to the state of society securing of such conditious abroad as which would need not only the
Co-opera world had over a long period of time, which Mr. London so vividly portrayed would safeguard the industrial prestion of these two Ministers, but so combined to increase the authority of in his book Before Adam Does any perity of Great Britain. Apart from Foreign Secretary as well. They might international law. Indeed, from the days one person now believe that if another the Ruhr question there still remained be apposed to imperialism, they might of Grotius there had, until ten years ago, sees victory or defent depending abnost in Europe in this lack of friendly rela- but they hail got to wimit that the Empire
war should ever emerge, a nation which one fundamental cause of unsettlement, reject the theory that trade followed been discernible a hardening" tentibacy' upon the legal side of a body of doe upon the throw of a coin will neglect any ticns between many of the Western was a great Enes, that its existeneo brought with it certain responsibilities vastating, the employment of which pro- this was politically and economically di tianly be cowarilly if it refused to should mises success and all that success brings astrous. In Asia the absence of a friendly or them: Mr. Sturr went in to point out sept metaphorically, he called law at all.
Twenty-five years ago I wrote a small Anil indeed, myself have always thought settlement with Russia was a danger to the difficulties in the way. He reminded gisen every evidence of a sincere desire armed. The Entente knew these things work upon the subject of international that the nice distinctions drawn by vari pence. Ja Európe. Rusia undoubtedly his hearers that in 1018 the Australian law, in which I attempted a debuition of ous Hagne Conferences between permais desired a peaceful settlement and there Labour party adopted as a plank in ita that science. To-day it would be necessible and non-permissible instruments of newal of complete relations with our sary that I should rewrite it. To-day destruction were so artificial that they selves and other Powers, Whatever may Australian self-government, The British programme a declaration for completo. should define international law as that could not support the barsh test of have been the case three or four years Labour party had also declared that they body of doctrine which civilized nations, modern warfare.
ago, Russia now desired prace above a bat no sympathy with the project of Im until quite recently, had believed to be
SUBMARINES AND POISON 'GAS."
things. For her, war would mean a set- perial federations in uthority comparable to this which in binding upon them with a fores and
back to all the progress and effort in subjection to a common Imperial Legisla far as they implied Let me give an illustration, in qrder to the direction of economic reorganisation ture wielding coercive power. They their own systems is conceded to their see precisely where international law of the past three years. Dar neech of might, therefore, regard the creation of á own law. This definition, of which I sor stands to-day. The unlimited submarine peace and a real settlement on the Con-super-Parliament in the British Empire rowfully record my own conviction that warfare carried on by Germany did as tinent of Enrope was based on the same as outside the realm of practical politica: MENTS DISAGREE.
it is neither cynical ner pessimistic, sug much to brand her with indelible infamy interests and the same desires as that unless (a) the populations of the various gest some sombre observations.
Hun-ns any crime which she committed. Ger of Rain Economically, even if the uations approached equaller or (b) they BERLIN, October 18th. dreds of years have passed since the great many was defeated, and her fleet lies rot Ruhr question, was settled, no stable basis all ceased to be democratic and reverted The difference between the Imperial pioneers addressed themselves to
Her ting in the green depths of Scapa Flow for European prosperity (en which our to absolutism The South African Gos and Saxon Governments, which were xtianity and civilization; and yet toxins posed that the judgment of the whole depends) could be found until Russia made by British Labour. If this hack
Eulean task-hundreds of years of Chris With her defeat it might have been sup
own prosperity and employment mainly rnment w years back deported cer
tain Labour leaders. A great protest was acerbated by General Mueller's perempt who cares to understand the truth delivered upon the method of warfare so providing half the food required for occurred when a Labour Government was the cruel and poignant truth confronts world had been finally and for all time again fulfilled her normal function of tory decrees, have now extended to a that the Great War very nearly demon inhumane and so murderous Has it? Central Europe in return for accuro Power in Great Britain could it have forced the South African Government to system which had been laboriously and broke out to-morrow in which Great factured goods. Qua lopsided basis not. They might object to the law and The former has announce its intention of painfully compiled by the humanitarian Britain, was involved, the same submarine with Europe dependent on high-priced by friemily remonstrance endeavour to get
and intellectual effort of centuries. The weapon would not be employed to our American food-stuff, a resolution thanking the Board for changing its Charge d'Affaires at most familiar and elementary weakness hurt? Is it not, on the contrary, & fact could only pay by debasing her currency, go. They had to encourage conferences a
for which abe it altered, but beyond this they could not its services to the Empire,
ways been that it formally recognized in world is at this moment preparing its conditions of trade were impossible. The afternoon was devoted by the con- his refused to recognise his successor as war a permitted system of litigation plans upon the basis that the German
sible Ministers the self-governing was to get a common measure of
for peace, and for whom the nation still feels a real affection.
declares The paper that, at hest, if trouble comes with Japan | we shall have provided another Kino-
chow.
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LONDON, October 18th, The Economic Conference this morning
the Imperial Shipping Board, and passed
member of the Peoples Party retorted accussing Herr. Zeigner of open treachery, A tumult by the Communists followed whereupon the Nationalists walkal from the House. BAVARIAN AND SAXON GOVERN
continued its discussion of the report of quarrel between Saxony and Bavaria strated the moral bankruptcy of that Are we sure to-day that, if a world war and growing market for European many recant? They had to admit that it could"
Mastich, while the Bavarias Government normal inte till an inch alleges the pe fers to a technical discusion of navalį kong as Communists are included in theImplicit in this recognition was that the menace will be renewed, if not by Gor For the United Kingdom the re-open- tion on agreed matter If we maintain-
defence, at the Admiralty, also to com- Saxon Cabinet, Bavaria has also mittee work on wireless nud communica tions generally, following Sir L. Worth- ington Evans speech,
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Dinety-eight and three-fifth seconds, and
result of such a war, whatever its moral many, then by another? How are we, re quality, possessed, even if by surpation, then, who, up to the present, have count the function of the Judge. And accorded ourselves as writers and authorities on ingly a nation which put its quarrel to international law to describe the legality the hazard of the sword established its of submarine warfare ? legal, as apart from its mort, position that, it is legs or that it is illegal? And Are we to say hy its successful employment. This was if we pronounce it to be illegal, are we, the reason which led the cynical, an none the less, to proceed upon the basis scrupulous, but powerful inind of is that it will be recurrent, and that we marck to pour constant contempt upon must guard against it or perish ? international law nad its professors. Find me an argument founded upon
THE GERSIAN FXAMPLE
In the year 1914, all those who counted
mennt
ing of Russian markets on the largest this free co-operation the experiment scale posible was essential if the unem- would be a necess. If we attempted an ployment rate was to diminish and not other way, although sometimes. increase during the coming winter. Old that we agreed to differ, the experiment ing industrial activity in the Colonies as to its policy in regard to the Depen- markets were closing owing to incren would fail, Labour could have no doubt and the growing competition of the dencies and mandated territorion United States of America, but the Russian accepted in the letter and the spirit the market was capable of immediate and obligations of trusteeship, and no amount immense expansion. Russia required just of raving on the part of white settlers. those goods which the industrialism of anxious to make money should defect it and she could pay for them in just those hull be directal to develop the capacity Western Europe. could not now market, from this path The Socialist foodstuffs and raw materiale which the of the coluared races to the fullest extent Continent of Europe found it difficult to buy from America,
NEED OF FOREIGN CAPITAL,
policy
the tropical and sub-tropical regione. White settlers should be cocuraged in migrate when they so desired to the col er zones. In the tronies they should simply teachers and leaders. They could also be traders, but not exploiterco
called its Minister from Dresden,
MORE FOOD DISTURBANCES.
BERLIN, October 13th. Food" disturbances in Mannheim cul- minated in the police yesterday evening Bring and killing saven and wounding
A further illustration may be attempt and I will ed. The last war ushered in the employ many other rioters. A party of demon-international law," he cried,
find you a professor to answer it. And ment of poison gases, In comparison strators was hemmed in between German so the nation, which worshipped in the with the physical consequences of many police and French soldiers on the Neckar world of abstract thought Treitschke, and gases, actual and potential, the nice re. LONDON, October 18th.
in the world of action Bismarck, grew drements of The Hague Conferences be bridge, and a great anmber were wound intelligibly contemptuous, of a creed plac obsolete, and, if the subject were Underwriting is proceeding of theed, Sixty were arcreed,
which perforce admitted that success cannot too traginal, they would also become
Russia now recognised her dependence Union of South Africa's £9,000,000-loan
stituted immorality. And so there arose humorons. What are the chemists of the
issued at 993 and bearing five
PANEL DOCTORS ON STRIKE in Europe a Power calculating, reckless, disappointed nations doing at this moon world markets and her need of for per cent.
unscrupulous, which laughed at Thement? Are they caring about The Hague rign capital and credits if her agricul interest. The loan is redeemable 1933-34. THEY REFUSE TO ARBITRATE. thein which looked only to the sharp particular form of chemical horribleness factor in the Russian situation. Previous Hague Conferences while it attended Conferences of the past or The Hague tural industry was to be rapidly reator- Conferences of the future? Is there any ed. The need of credits was no new
KILTS AND BAGPIPES. ness of its sword and to the disciplined from which Germany would recoil if she to the war the peasant was franced The Highland gatherings give the Seds. LoNDox, October 18th.
strength of its great battalions.
could destroy the French Army of De mainly from abroad, for he bought his of appreciating the national dress and the and their visitors recurrent opportunities. A crisis has developed in the State
cupation on the Ruhr Are we quite machinery on two or three years credits PAPAYUS SPLENDID GALLOP | medical insurance system. The Minister
sure in the Temple of Truth from what and often sold his grain before it was national wasic To all spectatore the intellectually and politically in Germany weapons we should ourselves recoil if we raped. His need now of credit was dress and, to most, the music appeal with of Health's rejection of the panel doctors were secretly laughing, as international were Germans and the French were in much greater than ever, and he could peculiar quality of romance. Other
peoples have a national dress; pub request for arbitration on his offer to tragic commentary cannot be onged Have even the most, akilful chemists paramount position in what was des have the bagpipe; but the Scot has know
law, and all that it involved. And the Ocupation, and perhaps not a merely only obtain them abroad. That country where we suspect, in it so proudly temporary, occupation, of the Rube which could finance him would obtains donned as in Scotland. Other peoples, reduce their fee by a shilling to 8/0, that the inherent and unavoidable weak Enally exploited the destructive effects of tined to be the greatest outlet for the best how to draw from it the emotional has led to a private meeting of doctor fied them in the view which they took ences to continue to proscribe expansive only, therefore was the Labour demand Scottish bagpipe music can never be
ness of this body of doctrine almost justi new chemicals? Are new Hague Confer produce of European industries. Not effects of from all
wound. The fall: significance, of over Britain in London today. For had Germany won the war what bullets and register preclusions upon the for credits under the Export Credits Art apprehended by a stranger. To a Scot contoked by the Insurance Acts Commit would have happened? She would have use of chemicals which hardly any nation and other schemes justified by the immed who is well structed, every pibroch, for
dictated peace,I should imagine, at tee of the British Medical Association, Buckingham Palace; for the recline of the world has any intention of obey: iate need of providing employment for instan tells definite story of som? nine furlongs in a hundred and even Two hundred, were present at the meeting, have been greater than that of Versailles. I air fully conscious that the whole greatest stap possible at this moment in and the new military marches
Lingt -this-mixarnanečne would, on the whole,
British unemployed, it would also be the soient fraylor-nolde dend or wotal-los- and two-fifths. The horse was never fully and unanimously rejected the offer. This And, anyhow she had enjoyed this once tenor of my observations is one of gloomy trial prosperity of the past few years. Frative form
the direction of safeguarding the indus nerative ranch, the same pictorial and extended, and critical observers are un-is expected to lead to the resignation of already. She would have rewritten on presage to the future of civilization, but
new map the outlines of a new world, my counsel, such as it is, has no value if Rusia anyhow was rapidly recovering,
who does not find himself profound anguish of the galety. medical completo impunity. And, inasmuch as There was, indeed, a dream, affording to even though not at the pace otherwise for Scottish archeologist t
pipes. the strong have many friends, she would sanguine minds the prospect of n golden attainable. With credits there was na object, as they are ready, to do, that both Approved socie
resterday have found apologists and defenders in hope, when President Wilson held out doubt at all that on alsolutely safe busi the tradition and the details of the High- decided to resist any call on their funds every neutral country of the world." She the assurance that the United States of Bess lines Russia could place, and land dress have been corrupted; that the beyond the fee of 1/3.
would have conquered by the agency of America would adhere to a League of British manufacturers could accept kilt is properly nothing more than the poison gas hy sinking hospital ships; Nations which could have made interns orders on such a seale as to make an hanging ends of the plaid that tartana by breaking almost every hitherto obtional law a reality and armed ste pre appreciable difference to the employment must now be neither invented
nor modified: served convention of war: by converting scriptions with a sanction myself, on-situation. Further, the effect would be even that this hunting,
fighting dress a the sea into a holocaust of murder; and fortunately, have not a sanguine mind, or felt indirectly in the stimulation of trade a whole emphasizes the much legend of by a public deification of the doctrine of at least not an over-sanguine one, and I between Russia and other European ancient wildas. when their own biktori- dreadfulness." The triumph of Germany, never for one moment believed that Pre- countries, and between other European as are engaged in showing the High- BIG SEIZURE ON THE PRESIDENT in other words, would have involved the inducing the American people to under policy, therefore, that should be adopted peace kiving people, who, like the smell sident Wilson would be successful so countries and the United Kingdom The landers to have been a cultivated, anil destruction and the disruption of inter national lawns the whole world bad take responsibilities alien to its trad was first to accept the repeated Russian States of ancient Greces were impelleil understood that law until the manth of tons, and only with great difficulty to ha affers to negotiate a general peaceful site of geographical
reconciled with its interests, August, 1914.
settlement and, secondly, to use the post-
of the purists,
Scot tion in which we found ourselves as the Irud and
her visitors continue to regunt only country in Europe with Gnancial the dress and the music as, the trun resources sufficient to help Bussis nad on the history if the scenery, of the
symbols of Scottish nationality an
"and, more assist as rapid a development as possible Highlands up fall ofmin me that of the Bussian market. The present romance of mountain and forest We were hot at war, but we were not lovelice the music and the dress presente position was anomalous and indefensible. romance of lost cars and impossible at peace with Russia. We could not a lorr and flavour into life which in hope to improve our relations with her hrming inetitably drabber in its exter by keeping her at arm's length, nor cold, and manifestations we expect to come to better terms when Certainly the Englishmay does nothing she became strong and no longer needed assistance would be of vine and would
The subsequent discussion was held in be welcomed
·ATE COM.....
rare in the visitor to
Animous font it is the most impressive/ the toctors, who are credited with the ice And all this she would have done with it he not frankly and honestly given Without credity progress would continued by the triumph. the quee
performance shown by either candidatë.
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"A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN
SPRINGFIELD (linois), Oct. 18th.
tention to launch their ow service,
ARMS SMUGGLING.
* CLEVELAND.”
Sergeant Carey of the Water Police sized on board the sa President Cleve Bat Germany did not win the wa
THE LEAGUE OF WATIONS. lund, early yesterday morning, a large Through all those dark and doubtful Who, for instance, with the claim to montha we had sustained ourselves by the be still at large, could have supposed quantity of arms and ammunition which belief that the defeat of Germany would that the United States of America, would be found in the steerage in a number of mark the downfall of an outlook opan hottest to the League of unclaimed passengers' trunks. The foldestructive. Has it done so7 Can zation of Japanese immigration in ber
public law at once so unmoral and so Nations for imperative decision the ques lowing is an approximate list of the haul dispassionate observer, examining with Western provinces 1 It is a very unhl made
cool survey the present outlook of the thing to be an idealist, but it is, on world, claim that the authority of inter the whole, more useful to be a realist. national law is as strong to day as it was If the League of Nations had been pre
One shot gun,
Five revolvers.
Seven automatic pistols
Nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition various calibres.
FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND DYNAMITE
Chief Preventive Officer Clark and
to
in 1914 Central, Europe. is dissolving ticable in the selise that the United our help, Now, when opfriendly ecorate modern He. It was doe
But few genera
and he was instantly eognizable abroad.
again only this week in Mine Pavlovn wet only by his chrck suit and his whiskeys the unmistakable signs have cropped un
before our eyes into anarchy. It would States of America would have done every of analyse and determine the responsibility, the sense, to be more precise, that the exceed the purpose of this lecture to thing necesary to make it a success We are more concerned to appraise Facts United States of America would have private. than to distribute praise or blame. And contributed her share of the military and
Ballet The
"The Fairy Dolly baź by a peculiar- MORE SEIZURES STEAMERS the facts, however disillusioning, stare us naval force necessary to enforcea
Taçiness in'nd di individundity of character. in the face Every nation which, under decisions fair, opportunity would" at
idea of which is entire broadenst the terms of the Treaty of Peace, has leant have been given to a dazzling ex-
over the memoirs and travels of pas obtained less that that to which it con periment. Then, and then only, might. The world still folds precious and incal to be as shy of betraying nating
(timer/20 time Nowadays the Englishman ceived itself entitledy is simply waiting international law have become law in the culable prices for those who have the as the Bent at home is proud of rove an opportunity to get more. Nearly only sense in which any, law is low. But will to conquer and the manhood to die. his. He has no national dress, no nat Mr. Lloyd George, barehended, deposit number of Chinese Revenue Officers raid Great War, and no step has been taken, with complete conviction that it would in those nation willing to die
every vital preclusion of the various even so, I hesitate, while I would have Nations will still be found willing to put al music Once civilized above the foll Hague conferences was violated in the welcomed the experiment, to predict all to the hazard; men will still be found of jeering at the ways of the fore od a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, inscribed.ed the sy. Kat Sing, a small, Wuchow or can very easily be taken, for restoring har succeeded. Would immunity, even the survival of the at and the elimina English Explanations of this shyness
hennpears almost to apologiz With humble and reverent homage to steamer, early yesterday morning, and that which, for want of a better term, so, have been attainable in any gravo tion of theranfit will still proceed, and many. Some ascribe it to his compos the memory of one of the world's greatest found secreted in the paneling of a cabin late Mr. Hall, in a preface to the last coercion. And, in a supreme clash of national Inwyers, can hope to do la tong other again, to an unes I must describes as their authority. The decision which regaired instruments of all that we who call ourselves Inter-rigin, others to his lack of artist on the bridge deck four automatics, one edition but one of his learned and ange nations and of interests, would anything carry in hands less puissant the torch confouses. And there are revolver and 400 younds of ammunition. cious work upon the subject of interna else have happened except that a new of Grotius, and preach to an indifferent
to declare that the capre Earlier in the night the Revenue Officersional law indulged in a gloomy predic world war would have developed with world the crsed that in the long run tion, which events have very fully justi alinements more clearly defined violence and illegality do not pay that, searched the R Yue Ying Wah, and in fied. He predicted that the next wax the crew' quarters seired five cares of would be fought with a degree of un
My conclusions, therefore, though med morality is he pr
to a nation, the white ese Marks have now reached from 38 to 12 dyamite, a large quantity of perenssion known since the Middle Ages. He was tious Mankind is a combative animal Mount was not the idle chatlar of
scrupulous, sayugery which had not been sombre, are, I believe, sensible, and cau-
individual, and that the Sermon caps and several cots of fuse.
right.
(Continued at foot of nezt column,
men.
THE MARK.
Lospor, October 18th.
milliards to the pound sterling
thoughsess Mas