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POLAND'S GREAT VICTORIES.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1920.
Paris, Aug. 20.
THE WAR OF 1925.
WHAT MAY HAPPEN IF THE LEAGUE DIES.
Every report arriving from Poland makes it clearer that the Some idea-indeed, a vivid one Foles have won an overwhelming victory and that the Russian armies—of what is likely to be the are on the brink of disaster.
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The "Herald" writes: To-day it is becoming evident that the įdies is given in a story by Re- Polish victory is the work of France. General Weygand, Marshal |ginald Berkeley in the July num. Foch's Chief of Staff, is in supreme command actually if not officially | bar of-To-day und Ta-morrow, the and it is reported on good authority that the plan of battle was monthly journal of the Laàgns of prepared by Marshal Foch himself. Marshall Pilsudski, President of Nations Union. Poland, who is ostensibly in command of the Polish armies, is actually leading a force in the field under French orders. The western wing and centre of the Polish armies are under the direct command of the French Generals, Hearys and Billotte, and nearly a thousand French officers are in the teld while French non-commissioned officers are now in charge of artillery units and tanks-Havas.
NEW FRENCH LOAN.
London, Aug. 21.
The Times" understands that the French Government, will issue ★ loan in October bearing six per cent, interest and exempt from present and future taxes. The several existing issued French war securities will be admitted in payment of subscription at the price of their issue de more.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR FOR FRANCE.
Paris, Aug. 21.
The French Government has approved of the appointment of Dr. Mayer as German Ambassador.
PRESIDENT WILSON RECOVERED.
Washington. Aug. 21. Telegrama show that Pres. Wilson has completely recovered from his illness except for slight lameness. He works as usual and takes a daily ride.
BAN ON LUXURIES.
Christiania, Aug. 21. The importation of luxury articles, as for example motor cars, pearls, diamonds, lace, pianos and phonographs is forbidden.
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New York, Aug. 21. It is officially announced that a merger has been completed between the International Petroleum Company and the Tropical Corporation. The deal involves one hundred million dollars. A new International Petroleum Company in connection with the merger will be organised under the laws of Canada.
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It purports to be, the diary of a young Englishman, written circa 1923, which was discovered by a Chinese archeologist in the year 9002 A.D. in the desolate and utterly barren island which was formerly the rich and densely populated home of the British, a race now practically extinct”
The diarist has been mobilised again to Ôght, this time against his own countrymen, and in the opening pages of the diary be sots down his ideas of the causes which have led to the revolt of Labour against Capitalism that he is to help suppress.
Becauses of opportunites mis- sed by every European Govern- | maat, the workers of America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain. and Great Britain had taken con- trol of events and declared war on their Governments. The torch had been lit by a trifling labour dispute in Spain, which soon de- veloped into a general strike all over Europe. The Council of the League was called to consider this new menace to the peace of
the world, but the authority of this body bad been too under- mined by the capitalist Govern- ments for its ruling to have any effect, and the revolutionaries, | who had thrown in their lot with the Bolshevists, supported the policy of the ultimatum sent from Moscow on behalf of the inter- nationals of all the workers of the earth warning the League that its intervention would be regard. ed as an act of war.
The diarist is chieflcancerned with the progress of the re- Oilvolution in England, which com- menced with a general strike and the proclamation of a Workers' Republic. The entry relating to his mobilisation runs
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London, Aug. 21. American sugar speculators are having a had time. Their predictions that prohibition would lead to increased consumption of pft drinks apd sweets has utterly failed to materialise and housewives are economising to the atmost; moreover a great sugar beet.crop will. shortly be available when it is expected that prices will fall to nearly the pre-war level.
COTTON MISSION POSTPONED.
London, Aug. 21.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce sub-committee has decided to recommend postponement of the proposed cotton mission to Far Eastern markets until 1921 when it is hoped the dificulties in connection with the arrangements will be surmounted.
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"So here I am back in khaki, mobilised against organised workers in the British section of the Armies of the League of Nations All constructive work suspended again. All our energies and brajos concentrated once more on destruction. The 'haves and the have nots" fighting fored. and the Corps Commander average desert anyhow. Those the spoils of the earth.
can take in the situation on the confounded Glasgow chemists Damn us all. We don't deserve to live. whole front at a glance. But the bave put together about the most .
new weapon is the effective incendiary shell that can I'm off to play poker in the supreme
Brennan wave" barrage. The be imagined. For curiosity I tried mess."
entry in the diary which descibes to walk along Piccadilly the other this new atocity runs:-
¡day. There's not one building
jour own people were caught by it The new scientific accessories and utteris destroyed. have revolutionised "war. By "LONDON A DESERT." means. of aerial mirrors andi The diary ends abruptly with strong held glasses movements of the following entry:-
Toey've made London a pretty troops can be easily distinguisb-
Perhaps the most valuable, certainly the most vivid, entries in the diary relate to the theories and mechanisms which are a logical outcome of the last war. Here is the new theory of war es expounded to our soldiers by a divisional staff officer
"The objective of an army is not to defeat the enemy's forces in detail; it is to out-manoeuvre those and get in amongst the **1 am not a scientist, so won't|left just a monstrous crater where civilian population. That puts vouch for the strict accuracy of the Palace and gardens need to the fear of God into the other my recollections of bis statement, be. In a year or so if this goes side, weakens the home front, but apparently it is a kind of de-on there won't be one stone left and make 'em squeal for peace. velopment of the Hertzian waves standing on another in this place. I'm no: A historian, but it of wireless telegraphy-vibrations They pump on an average about sounds mighty like a reversion of the ether. The atoms compos-a thousand big shells (incendiary to the habits of oor
savage ing matter, and therefore in-and otherwise) into it daily. Not forefathers.
cidentally composing the humaale soul dares to live in the place. "Second point of his lecture body, are made up of electrons of I've been clinging to my billet was that everything cow depends ether. You send out the Brennan Dear Baron's Court Station-a- on mechanical efficiency. Our wave, the electrons are made to thundering good cellar: but I big tans are entirely directed by vibrate in tune to it-phot! life is shall have to give it up. wireless from the air. This is extinct; the matter composing There is no need to point the supposed to be very secret. They your body is changed into some moral or adorn this tale: Mr. aim at getting through the thing else. It is a kind of horrible Berkeley's terse and vivid writ enemy's lines with them and alchemy.
ing does that sufficiently. But getting in amongst the civil A later entry outlines retibu- the reader cannot dismiss it as a population. My God! it must be tion:-
brilliant piece of imaginative like being attacked by prehistoric 'The Brennan is a two-edged writing. It has of more practical Saurians. You can't put the weapon. We put down a wave value than that. It is a piece of things out of action short of a barrage for the attack to-day, but intelligent anticipation of what direct bit with a heavy armour- something must have gone wrong may be expected if the League piercing shell.”
with the directing gear. A lot of dies.
"I attended to-day a demonstro standing, and the road-well, you tion of it upon some wretched can't see it! The remains of the dumb animals at one of the Abbey and a bit of, St. Stephen's Garerament laboratories. Bren-tower are sticking up like de- nan, the inventor, a shrivelled, cayed teeth. Practically every- beady eyed atomy.beside himself thing else is fist, or, at most, a with his discovery, gave us an mound of rains. explanation of it first before giv Buckingbam Palace entirely - ing a practical exbibition of its disappeared about a month ago. effects.
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