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AFGHAN TROUBLE OVER,
PEACE NOW SIGNED.
Simla, August &
Peace was signed with Afghanistan this morning.
THE UNREST AT HOME.
BETTER OFTLOOK IN LIVERPOOL
London, August 7.-′′ A mass meeting of railwaymen in Liverpool resolved to abide by the decision of the National Executive, refusing to authorise a strike in sympathy with the Police, while urging the Executive to take steps to secure an examination of the objectionable clauses in the Palice-Bill and the reinstatement of Police strikers.
The authorities report a distinct improvement in Liverpool last. evening. Over a thousand applications for enlistment in the Police Force have been received.
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Oxford is to-day bonouring two men whom the whole country would delight to honour. Now that peace with Germany is cer- tain, we may expect before long to be able to welcome General Pershing and the leaders of the American army and to show them and the American publie our appreciation of America's milit- ary achievements in the war, and we may hope that our authorities will recognise that our peace celebrations will be incom light of experience gained after plete if we do not include the event will condemn him on in our official guests the victors that score. Joffre's second great of the first battle of the Marne. test came in 1916 with the battle The outstanding characteristic of Verdun. Then, with the same of these men is moral courage.courage and patience which he They were tested under very had displayed in 1914, he endured different conditions, but the man- the Crown Prince's attacks ner in which each stood the test for close on five months ex- when it came has left its mark on hausting the enemy's strength, the world's history. Joffre's big waiting and watching, with Haig and Foch in leash, for the time to appearance of a prosperous rmer begin the great counter-battle of rather than of a leader of mon, the Somme. Jus. as history haa, his berign face, his soft, small already recognised that the Marne voice, his care for his men, made Germán victory impossible, which earned him the name of so it will I believe, recognise that 'father," all tend to conceal the the campaign of 1916 opened the strength of will and resolution road to our victory. Joffre has which brought him successfully not had the glory of completing through TWO of the great what he began, but, he laid well His staff and truly the foundation on which others built. We whose armies be nursed during the critical days of their development owe.him an especial meed of gratitude and admiration.
London, August 7, The Executives of the Unions of the Railwaymen and the Society of Locomotive Engineers last evening jointly recommended the Lon-burly figure, which gives him the don tube and North British Railway strikers to resume immediately The services on the London and South Western Railway and the South London tube improved yesterday. Many strikers have already resumed.
The conference of bakers, masters and men, in London yester day, was without result, but the Co-operative Societies have conced. ed the bakers' demands. This affects 5,000 out of 30,000.
BETTER NEWS.
London, August 7.
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The Birkenhead Police have resigned from the Police Union.crises of the war. This is the first force to do so in the strike area.
The Yorkshire coal-owners and miners conferred yesterday and decided to ask the Coal Controller to meet the representatives of both sides.
AUSTRIA DISLIKES PEACE TERMS.
WILLING TO HAND OVER FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION TO ALLIES.
St. Germain, August 7. The Austrian Delegation has returned to Vienna: The Austrian counter-proodsals emphasise the inability of Austria to accept the financial clauses. They propose to hand over to the Entente the financial administration of the country" in order that the Allies may see the impossibility of seven million persons discharging the debt of the old Empire of thirty-eight millions.
ANTI-PROFITEERING ANNOUNCEMENT CAUSES SURPRISE.
London, August 7. Sir Auckland Geddes announcement of anti-profiteering measures has surprised M.P.'s, as it was not expected the Govern- ment would act without waiting for the report of the Committee which was only appointed a fortnight ago and met for the first time on August 5. Sir Auckland Geddes told the Chairman that it was now unnecessary for the committee to pursue the enquiry.
THE HUNGARIAM SITUATION.
Copenhagen, August 7. According to Vienne papers, French troops arrived in Budapest on August 5 and British and American troops on August 6.
German correspondents in Budapest state that the Hungarian peasants are wreaking vengeance on the Bolshevists, whose leaders in many Communes have been publicly beaten to death with sticks
FRANCE AND THE PEACE TERMS.
Paris, Angus: 6. The Peace Commission of the French Chamber of Deputies bas approved the report of. M. Barthou, expressing regret that the Treaty does not completely undo the work of Bismarck. but pointing out that the League of Nations, despite defects, is a sure guarantee for the maintenance of peace.-Haras.
FRENCH DEMOBILISATION.
Paris. August 6. The demoblisation of the French Army is being pushed actively ahead. The task of deconcentration will be complete by September 15, the total demobilisation being realised by October 4. Then France will have an Army totalling about 600,000 men.-Harur.
THE BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE.
Copenhagen, August 7. An Estboniau communique says the Russian North-West Army, "under Bolshevist pressure, je continuing to retreat along the Esthénian frontier. The Bolshevists now threaten Yamburg.
THE FRENCH MERCANTILE MARINE
Paris, August 6.
Over one milliard 825,000 francs are to be spent by the French Government in developing the new commercial fleet. A Bill will be introduced in the Chumber of Deputies-Hanun.
US. RAILWAYMEN WANT MORE WAGES.
Washington, August 7.
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warned those of us who had to visit him ou delicate and difficult missions. Le pere n'est pas toujours tres commode, and when he had made up his mind that a certain rourse was right, he would not be moved. No Commander throughout the war was more resolute in dismissing ing pressure from the outside on incompetency, or firmer in resist behalf of those who had influence at their back, and he made many enemies in consequence. He has initial dispositions of the French been hotly eriticised for the
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Our other visitor has been marked chiefly by bis unshaken faith in the qualities of his men. or German General thought that At the beginning of 1918 no Allied it would be possible during that year for a great American Y to take the field and fight its way enemy's lines. triumphantly through the The Germans believed that they could win THE GREAT RETREAT.
victory before the American The strength of the German troops could intervene. At each movement through Belgium sur- crisis of the year's campaign. prised both Joffre and ourselves,Pershing came forward with a and was not discovered until de timely offer of help. In March, Laurezac had been beaten at when Fech became Generalis- Charleroi and we were closely simo, Pershing offered him all engaged at Mons. A smaller the troops he had and told him man would, when he found his that whatever first plans had broken down, have might think, however hasty, ac- anyone else thought only of defence, but from cording to accepted standards, the first days of the retreat his had been their training, he knew. mind was set on driving the foe that they would and could fight back by attack. While the enemy In May, when the Crown, Prince left him no respite and his long was advancing to the Marne, he line from Verdun to Amiens was sent his men to stop him at everywhere yielding before the Chateau Thierry, and in July, by weight of the German onset, reinforcing Mangir, te gave Foch he was preparing and watch the power to carry through the ing for his opportunity to counter-attack which won the strike back, and soon
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38 second battle of the Marne and the enemy had by his rapid pro-wrecked Ludendorf's last offen- had another ready. We have army, he was no less insistent gresa anticipated" one plan, hesive. Later, having formed his been given in Lord French's book that it should be used, and when and difficulties which then beset anxious debates as to whether a glimpse of some of the anxieties in September, 1918 there were the French Commander-in-Chief, victory should be sought at once, and can picture his feelings when or whether it would not on August 30th he was told that be wiser to wait until the the British Army could not re- following spring, when the main in the line. Foch is to-day American Army would I are gain- Tightly the popular idol, but his ed in strength.and experience, he glorious feat in the first battle of threw in his vote for action. That allowed to overshadow Joffre's great faith and great courage. the Marne bes been wrongly was a decision which, required greater part in that vital victory. For the ground between the The dramatic story of the taxi- Mense and the Argonne allotted cab army which swept down to the American Army was the upon Von Kluck's exposed flank most difficult on the whole long became connected almost entirely front, and a number of the Ameri- with Gallieni's name; but it was can divisions had had BO Joffre who formed the 9th French previous taste of battle. There Army, called Foch from Lorraine were many who shook. their to command it, and placed him at heads, and said that Americans one post of danger, and it was Joffre who began to move Mean-a prolonged battle on a wide were not ready for the test of oury's Army to the other post of front. But Pershing was firm, danger on the left flank a fali ten and the valour and enterprise of days before the first shot was the American soldier won through fired in the battle of the Marne. Las he had believed it would. „Had
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