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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. CONTEMPORARY OPINION
THE MILDNESS OF THE AMERICAN NOTE.
Is Germany Downhearted?
Sowers of Tares.
THE POISON GASES.
Terrible Tortures of the Victims.
The Great Charter of English liberties is seven hundred years old to-day. In a word, what the! Charter did was to tell the King that his subjects would rot to-
Shortly after the war began lorate an absolute monarch. Ho
says the Globe tho Admiralty
Lausanne, May 7-A profes had been told so before, and in
discovered that in and near the ear of chemistry writes to the great shipyards and munition Journal de Gazette that the Witans Goot in Saxon times; taip.
factories there were German German supply of Chilian nitrates but the subsequent Norman Con-
agents" whose work was to sow was exhausted at the end of Count the Columns. quest established a monarchy
disccntent among the men, and March, but that the exploitation. Among the Petrograd wires are to delay tho delivery of munitions of the Ostwald process of the that was practically a beolate. In
Yesterday the Telegraph wise hands such a system has published 384 columns of solid two of more than ordinary by tempting them to drink, That extraction of azotic asid from been known to bo productive of reading matter. To-day there significance. From o te we learn particular danger has, we believe. Emmoniaa enables explosives to be
that the enemy's losses in Galiois been effectually scotoled, but produced in abundance. good; but, for one man who can will be 30 published.
have been instrumental ia bring another and yet more subtle form use abeolate power for the people's
ing about meetings, ip Germany of nitaok is apparently now good thero are a million who
The professor affirme that at which peace was frankly being carried on. would abuze it. William the Con-
Germany has aephyxiating gases used at Ypres Frenol Mail-Due per ais. Allan-demanded; and, from the other, many friende in this country were not bromine, but oxides of queror was hardly in his grave.
tique to-morrow.
that "the traggle has no ho are trying their before his con Rafa; begin t
boat asate which are obtainable cheap show his subjects what a terrible
reached ita extreme of intensity to effect the public with a lyn in unlimited quantities by that the Germans have been doubl-weariness for the war and the Ostwald process. They are ing the number of their troops, a feeling that the Hun is not so easily liquefied, of a brown colour, aad that the Allies have empell-black as he has been painted. A heavier then air and have effecta Aki Maru to-day at 3 p.m.ed them by the best of all argagreat deal of the preposterous similar to those reported. Australian Mail.-Closed per s.s.ments-combination-to do this. peace talk which is heard in Central News,
Tango Maru tc-day 3 p.m.
Hitherto we have had no confirm certain quarters has its origin
weapon such a power may be come. His succeseora were but a
small improvement on him, but when John came to reign it was gradually made clear, as the yeare went on, that the liberty on which pre-Norman England had prided itsalf must disappear altogether unless strong action was taken:) For the common people to help themselves in those days was, of coarse, out of the question, and their authorised champion the Church was occupied, particular-1 ly during Henry 11's reign, in standing up for its own right.
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happily for the country, John st last set the barons by the eare as bis brother and father before bim had done.
Democratic England.
Henry IInd his son Richard' had been men of such marked personality and strength of will that the barons could make no Jlasting progress against either. If they hated both they also fear- ed and respected them. For Joha they could have no respect, and, going over to the side of the Church, they entered, with Card- delivered|inal Langton at their head, upon a crusade against royal tyranny which ended in the signing of Magas Charte. Like other great movements, it did not succeed immediately any more than it had
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An officer on active service has
other sources, but that is no lawful going and hope that the humani- given a vivid acosant of the re: son for doubting them. The tarian, folly of their hearers will effec's of the German gas on oar. firat of the two wiree also says spread it far and wide. "Don't troops. that an army of 150,000 Germans humiliste Germany" is a maxim was annibilated in a single month to which we cannot assign un en- Yesterday and the day before,' by the Russians in Galicia, and tirely English origin; the he writes, "I went with--to age Late we can well believe.
women'e gathering at The Hague some of the men in hospital at on which Mr. McKenna was , who were" gassed" yester questioned last night, is its day and the day before on Hill expression in action.
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Learning the Truth.
It is said that the agents of the the civilised world ought to have Kaiser in London are not infrethe truth fully brought before The truth as to Germany's quantly clothed in Belgian uni them in vivid detail, and not position was bound, in the nature forms, and our readers will do wrapped up as at present.
of things, to leak out in the long well to suspect anyone in Belgian When we got to the hospital rua. The German presa can uniform who is found to be ex we had no difficulty in finding easily be muzzled or forced to plaining that the French and out in which ward the men
print what it knows to be false;
but this does not preventroturned English really hate one another soldiers from gossipping. The end that if only England world were as the noise of the poor devils trying to get breath- enemy's
consent to do so she might make government officiala
was sufficient to direct us. a moct advantageous separate We were met by a doctor can even, for a time, koop relatives
It is in London boarding belonging to our division, who in
peaco. ignorance of
houses and restaurants that the took us into the ward. There the fact that such and such men Kaiser's agents are usually most were about 20 of the worst casee have been killed; but as the
weeks pass and no news arrives active, but they also frequent in the ward, on mattresses, all recruiting meetings and, cautious- the relatives know pretty wellly enough, have ma le very special mors or less ip a sitting position, China Providente.-8 buyerr.what to think. As time goes on, efforts to permeate the Women's Propped up against the walls.
"Their faces, arms, hands were the story must necessarily circu: Saffrage Societies. They appear of a shiny grey-black colour with late in Berlin and elsewhere that
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The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day je 16 91.
To-day's Anniversary,
A New Time Table.
Readers are reminded that
new. time table for
becomes known that there is zot
country.
on Bach and such a battalion, has all to have had the same instruc mouths open and lead-glazed
tions, for the method of their been cut up, and, as it gradually action never varies, and they all eyes, all swaying slightly back- wards and forwards trying to get a family within a given large employ the same phrase in the breath. It was a most appalling circle, that has not suffered be-attempt to sow discord in this sight, all these pro: black faces, reavement, conclusions become
These prople do more harm what with the groaning and struggling. struggling for life, lees difficult to form. Taking than might be supposed, and we noise of the effort for breath. the two wires together and fancy that if the police honoured Colonel, who, as everyone keeping one's mind bent in the them with their attention some knows, has bad na wide an ex- men loesee that have come through would be made both as to the savage parts of Afrios, told me to- rather surprising discoveries perience as anyone all over the during the past few months, it is numbor and the organisation of day that he never felt so sick as he **** scarcely unreasonable to assume the German agent. For the did after the scene in these cases, that the energy, as a general most dangerous. were, of course, knew from the beginning that trade in the great workshops and give them salt and water to try to whole, is out of spirita. Everyone those who plied their treacherous to be done for them, except to Thera ia practically nothing
the Prussian" systemi takes no account of men killed. The Kai-shipyards, but these permestors make them sick.
the well-authenticated stories of Ger-
To-day is the 700th anniversary bad been ruling for of the signing of Magna Charta. sixteen years when the important signature was at last wrung from him, and, during all that time, and long before it, the Charter a may be said to have been form- Kowloon-Canton Railway comes ing itself. Similarly it was not into force to-day. till after the Stuarts had been expelled that it could be looked Fon 1215 till the time of the ing, a Chinese was sentenced to upon a established immovably. At the Police Court, this morn Hanoverians various monarchs month with hard labour for the sought to break through it, and larceny of a jacket. in tome cases succeeded. Not-
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Larceny of a'Jacket.
European's Loss.
a
ser set out with the belief that cannot altogether be despised. "Tas effect the gas bae is to able offenders in this respect were
all his soldiers live for, is the It is astonishing bow much harm fill the large with a watery, frothy Richard III, Henry VII, Hary, Me. Phillips, 46, Elgin Street, pleasure of dying at his supreme men and women who continually and rises until it fills up the whole cin badore by even a few attate matter, whiob gradually increases VIII, Elizabeth and every one reports that some person has command. That sounds. very play upon the doubts and fears lungs and comes up to the mouth; of the Staarte. But Magna stolen from her sitting-room, a pretty in theory, but reduced to of the more foolish and resolute then they die; it is suffocation; Otarta had given the people brass clock and a black wood stand fact and exemplified on such a heart bey had something to valued at $30.".
soale as has been the case since sections of the community. We low drowning, taking in some
know that the same thing is going cases one or two days. -* the beginning of the war, en in France, but there the special it is more than likely to idea which is promulgated is that men who died in the trenches, "We have lost hundreds of make. & discontented, down- hearted and desperate prople, the English intend to remain in and over half the men who reach- permanent occupation of the ter-led hospital have died. Eight ritory they are now defending. died last night out of the 20 I and will never leave France again, saw, and most of the others I Everywhere they are notive and saw will die; while those who get poisonous, and it is a pity the over the gas invariably develop authorities do not take more acute pneumonia. It is without aptive measures to lay them by doubt the most awful form of the heels.
We have ventured to comment once or twice on the risk that fall back on; comething to throw lies in the telegraph agencies' singling out ons special man or re-in the face of any would-be
"Kailan Output. giment or ship for special mention, at a time when all are doing tyrant; and it is in the The total output of the Kailan noble deeds. It is very hard to please everyone in this world, and spirit of this list of liberties that Administration's mines for the almost as hard to do justice to everyone. As we said some time since, subsequent laws have been pas week ending May 29 amounted to first the London Scottish, then the Canadians, then the Australians sed which have made of the 63 877 tons and the sales during came in for "special praise, and, as a natural consequence, the British a more self-governing race the period, to 47.773 tons. press was soon asked to pablish a statement to the effect that one than, perhaps, any ia the world. regiment had been noticeably overlooked when the praise was served
oat. The offender of the moment is not a telegraphic agency but Another Word to the Sanitary "Eye-witnsee himself who, as we stated yesterday, neglected to Board. pay honour where honour was due by speaking of a regiment recently quartered in Hongkong as "a battalion of Pathans," at a time when these men had been performing a most magnificent fent.
in aro
Robbed Whilst Asleep.
Unfortunate.
The American Note,
besides
soientific torture, Not one of the men I saw in hospital had a scratch or wound.
"The nurses and doctors were all working their utmost against this terror; but one could ste from the tension of their nerves. that it was like fighting a hid den danger which was overtaking. "everyone..
wia
A Chinese has had a costly The little that we know about night's rest according to the police the costente of the latest Note reports. It appears that a shop. from Washington to Germany We are again obliged to call the keeper of 80 Dee. Voeux Road tells us that ite tone is a mild Sanitary Board's attention to the West was sleep in his Club, the one and that the enemy is re- The regiment towards which this "annecessary official anony- ways and wiles of the Chinese Sik Lo, when he was robbed of a lieved thereat. There is an mity" as the Globe happily terms it was observed, is the 40th laundryman. Some few months watch and chain eto, to the value amasing frankness about the
WAR ON NUNS. Pathana; and we feel sure that our readers will echo the protest ago we spoke of an edifying prae- of $120.
statement that the German papera which has been made by the Globe, by the London and China Express tice common among the washer-
anticipates further period of Sisters of Mercy Killed Under and by Mr. Arnold Whits in a letter to the Times, if they consider men of Koalon and district; to
argumen", "as they declare that
the Red Cross, for a moment the splendid bravery exhibited by these Indian troops wit: that of wearing the olethes I appoare, according to and their British officers. They were making a diflicult night alt ick of European customers while police report, that a Chinese from sea warfare, including the British states that yesterday a special Garman prisoner
athe Note permits of discussion of
Paris, April 28.-The Malin over open ground, and, one after another, their cficers fell, fighting they are at their work in the the se. Ranilla entrusted a clans methods. Others to the very end. Mr. Arnold White says in his lotter: "Captain water. To this we have now to add man with $200 to tafely keep for the pressmen of Germany had with 300 Belgian refugees-child-caught with a respirator in his
train arrived at the Gare da Nord Dalmahoy fell, after boing wounded six times-the bravest of the the information that the dhobis of him whilst he was travelling. He doubtless alto been led to that
pocket; the pad we analysed brave Caplain Christopher fell in the same grand way. Major Monkokteui
the returned a few days afterwards conclusion. There is, however, the orphanage and infirmary of of soda with per cent of some
old men, TOD,
and invalids from and found to contain hypoan phite Porkins died of his wounds. Nearly all the British cloers were tabit of washing the clothes and found that the clageman had ja ta Fossibility that the killed or wounded. Captain Waters is lying in hospital with a bullet of Europeans in promiscuous had the misfortune to have been enemy may be a little too know the institution Saint Michel, at other substance of through his brain
Subadars Johandad Khan and Jem holes that contain dirty water the victim of a visit from a dis- ing and taking advantage of the the Sisters of St. Francis of Asial, which when they send it out it is Poperinghe, which is managed by The gas is in a cylin ler, from Kakkor were killed."
rain-water or overflow from the honest man who operated on his aforesaid mildness, may grow so allusion to "a battalion of Pathans"? And the navy and air-men have these bolen or pits are eight feet falee, but was apparently a well-ness to take any measures stronger inghe, taid: We had already Please make a point of
To this the kind of thing to be adequately summed up in a side a
raar ons for the fight from Poper-it there spreads
One of the sisters, explaining the propelled a distance of 100 yarde; the same bind of ground for complaint. Only a few days ago, while below the level of the fields. As fitting key.
than pen and ink, that the over decided to remove all the coou- publishing this in every paper in the names of three flight-officers were given, that of a fourth, who the ground slopes gradually, the
strained cord may anap. The New had tackled thirteen enemy air craft, was omitted. Of course it water from one series of holes can
York Herald (with how much Thursday, se it was to be trane and women, ought to know ex acts of our institution next Eugland. English people, men would be absurd to charge those who make the reports with inten- quite well flow into the next
authority is no concern of oura) rmed into a military hospital, actly what is going on, also mem- tionally leaving ont names of men or of regiments, but we have it 50 les-after has been used to
says that the German crisis is bat on Sunday the Germans ton bere of both Houses. The people on excellent authority that evil is wrought by want of thought," wach other clothes! When the
not past, but only just beginning. barded the town, and although of England oan's know. The as well as in other ways. If the reports are to be fair it seems washermen come out of the water
and Mr. Bryan of all people our establishment flow the Red Germans have given out that it obvious that full credit must be given to the man, the number of they dry themselves on one or
Canton's May Contribution. says that be hae no doubt! well to omit all special mention until after the war. It is charac have been told off to wash. On Canton, baa remitted to the Prince! aident in the event of war: both One of them had her head blown then to give them a dose of their men or the ship deserving it. Failing this, it would perhaps be other of the towels which they His Majesty's Consul General, Arnerics will support the Pre-Cross flag, it was not spared. is a rapid, painless death, The Three of our sisters were killed. liars No torture could be worse teristic of the Britisher that, while he shrinks from inordinato praise the whole it would appear that it of Wales Relief Tand local sab of which remarks encourage us off by a gaell while engaged in own gas. The gas, I am told, is
from anyone's "making a song" about his achievements he is a almost time something was scriptions for May amounting to to think that there is yet time for easily affected by entire absence of recognition easily soured and, dong towards a fairly clos in- 692 38. 51. The total amount the Emperor William and his getting the children away. Several chlorine, and probably some other from that time forth, becomes almost physically unable to do his pection of there spreaders of seat from Canton to date is friends to encounter a gigantic have been left at Montreuilisur They think ammonia kille it.””
of our inmates were wounded and gas in the shells they burst best. How it is that "Eye-witness" and others who send news uncleanliness and disease, £1,790 178. 10d.
not too comforting surprise. Mer. Router. Home do not know this, is somewhat of a pazzle.
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PRINCE OF WALES' FUND.
and