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A TERRIBLE WAR ZONE. THE HAVOC OF THE ROCK FRAGMENT

RUSSIA AND A SEPARATE PEACE.

GERMAN REACTIONARIES AT

WORK

FUTURE OF FARMING IN

GREAT BRITAIN. THE FARMER'S VIEW OF THE POSITION.

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PEACE AND THE ALLIES. HOW FRANCE REGARDS THE POSITION:

Panis, May 23rd.

M. Briand, the Foreign Minister, addressing the Russian delegates now

"I have said, and I repeat, that while this present torrent of blood is being visiting France, said :—

acing their lives with such abnegation, shed, and while our soldiers are sacri

The Italian Front, The Carso, The Carso! Sun-scorched, wind-swept

Humanite, the official organ of the and treeless, broken up into rock ledged ravines, steep sloped, impenetrable; no French Socialist Party, publishes the war terrain is more ruthless, no field of following account of the workings of the battle more brutal So thankless is the Germanophile reactionaries in Russia soil that it will not even drink in the The debates in the Duma give evid blood of the men who have fallen bere, ence that Russian national representa which, gathered in clots and pools, bardion is powerless against both the action ens, leaving a deep red blur on the grey and the inertia of the all powerful rocks. This is the battleground of those bureaucracy. Since the Russian retreat In the 20 years from 1879 to 1890 apri- the word peace' is sacriligious if it

The condition of English agriculture in well to realize the position and wants of 1914 results from its recent history. It is agriculturists. Only broad outlines can be attempted.

this rock-ribbed plateau is the pathcentral powers, which he condemned ener- was estimated by Sir Robert Giffen and to consider peace in these circumstances.

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struggling to conquer Trieste.

Rising from the bed of the Lower last summer the supporters of bureau cracy have dwindled to a minority of the Isonzo to a height varying from 200 to 800 feet, and stretching inland to the con-last diplomatic speech, Sergins Sazonof fines of Istria, mounting ever higher, ever the Russian Foreign Minister, referred steeper, as it spreads out into the interior, to certain internal pressure for a se parate peace between Bussia and the of the Italian advance. Here no can be dug into the earth; no intricate getically, A

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Savenko, a National Progressive De. Hoardings of broken stone are the only ramparts possible; and the ground paty, disclosed the source of this pres heaves upward into such sudden and irsure at the sitting of the Duma on regular hillocks that the troops of the March 13th. According to the Petrograd invading armies are in many places or Retch of March 14th, Savenko reveal posed to the full view of the enemy who ed that at the end of 1814 Scheglovitoff are everywhere entrenched on higher then Minister of the Interior, and Baron

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Taube, Minister of Education and formsc. ground. These hillocks have now been part tunnelled out, in order to protect Chief of the Petrograd Gondarmerie the men and make it possible safely to Corps, forwarded to high quarters

In many places the Italian trench memorandum urging the necessity of lines are directly under those of the separate peace with Germany, enery, often at an angle of 45 degrees. Crouching in the lee of their parapets, the troops are relatively protected from hastily constructed gun fire, while barbed wire entanglements, thrown out in front of their lines, guard them from a Budden onslaught. Such is the battle line of the Carso, which stretches for eighteen miles from the heights of San Michele to the Adriatic

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Deputy Sanvenko also declared that he possessed a copy of another memoran- dam emanating from the same trio which asserted, unblushingly, that Russian de feat was preferable to granting liberal internal reforms. Since 1914 the three Ministers have been compelled to quit the Government, but, said Sevenko, their Germanophile propaganda, and their efforts to foment internal dissensious At no point have the Italians advanced have been continued by the reactionaries more than four miles inland on this of the Extreme Right in the Dume and rock-bound plateau. But looking at this by such newspapers as the Russloe battle front from the plain it seems Znamin, which has been nicknamed the surprising that they have been able toPrussian Standard. Besides, a noble gain even a foothold, and a visit to this man named Pavloff was permitted by the sector fills one with amazement at what censor to declare in the Moscow Veda the troops have been able to accomplish mosti that victory by Germany would be in the face of the most dificulties is superhuman preferable to the triumph of Russian

"Markoff, cader of the Extreme Right Party and editor of the Zemitching which now receives a subvention of 150,000 rubles instead of the 30,000 rubles it got in 1914 attempted to contradict a venko. He retorted by producing a declaration signed by 160 members of the Right which reads in part

THE CHEAP FOOD" POLICY.

not be punished, and if to-morrow trous period. The area under the plough Europe runs the risk of yielding again dwindled; produce diminished; fewor

It would be dishonour to the Allies live stock were kept, the number of agri to the high-handed measures and fancies those that remained fell; the loss of capi-athirst for pride and domination. cultural labourers declined; the wages of and whims of the German military caste, tal sustained by landowners and tenants Lord Milner before the Eversley Com What should we answer if to-morrow- upwards of after concluding such a peace our coun- (1893-97) at

In the early years of the tries were drawn again into a frantic mission £800,000,000, period the main cause of depression was a conflict? What would future generations series of adverse seasons; in the later say if we committed such folly and let of all varieties of agricultural produce lish a lasting peace on a solid basis?

A real peace will result from the years it was the heavy fall in the prices escape the opportunity offered to estab

Peace under the pressure of foreign competi tion. In the case of wheat the climax victory of the Allies, and it can be came in 1894, when home-grown wheat brought only by that victory. was sold at the average of 928 10draust not be a vain formula, but must be based on international law, guaranteed by a sanction which no country will be quarter-the lowest price since 1744.

and bring No one disputes the benefit that Eng permitted to withstand. Such a peace land derived from her cheap food, and will irradiate humanity

no part of our purpose to attempt to security to the peoples of the nations, who strike the balance between loss and gain will be enabled to work and evolute no We shall obtain victory by our arms, English agriculturists met the national cording to their own genius, and blood by the only means in their power. In the policy of cheap food from anywhere" will not be on them any longer. face of falling prices they reduced their and shall assure peace by brotherhood, expenditure Those who had capital laid acting unceasingly on relations which down their poorer cornland to grass; will become more and more intimate. those who had none, left it to tumble Germany lives in a state of anguish down. Theorists argue, from the experi- and remorse, and she realises that this is ence of manufacturere, that farmers the beginning of the end. It is certain. Henceforth there is only ons should have met falling prices by in that the hour of victory will soon strike- creased production They overlook the for us. essential difference between the two indus country fighting for the same cause sincs trics. In manufacture increased produe the Allies bring in the common ture it does not. The law of increasing tion means cheap production; in agriculten peoples. returns governs the first industry; that of The soil cannot be made to increase ite decreasing returns controls the second. yield without increased expenditure, and therefore the maximum cannot be reached unless prices are remunerative. This im portant fact, often ignored, partially ex- plains the present position. Farmers can- not grow more produce than they can afford

THE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.

Our car climbs rapidly through the long, winding drive way of a vast park,

60,000 IN LATEST CENSUS. planted with secular oaks, and halte in front of a row of broad stone steps.

Villa Hohenlohe, the officer with me

There are approximately 60,000 Japan- aunounces. I look up. All that remains of a once palatial country residence is a "It belonged to

Since 1899 agriculture has slowly climb eso in California, according to the Con- ed out of the alough of despond. Farm sui-General at San Francisco, Mr. Hei- loophooled facade. Prince Hohenlohe, the Austrian Governor

ing in 1914 as compared with farming in kichi Yamazaka, who has given out ad- of Trieste, who persecuted the Italians GULF BETWEEN RICH AND POOR.

the war,

Wo realise that economic danger 1899 might be fairly decribed as prosper there so outrageously before

being taken of Japanese subjects in the threatens the country and see the chasm ous. Both landowners and tenants adaptance estimates on the result of the consis the officer resumed.

He paused for a moment as I looked between the wealthy and the people. Weed themselves to changed conditions. State

Mr. Yamazaka explained that the pre- down on the Eriulian plain, on Sagrado know also that the enemy is weakened, Rents which had been lowered to meet and Gradisca, and the many towns which yes, exhausted, and wishes, as if for falling prices were not, as a rule, raised

olhaJapanosu popula- have been wrested from Austria, a manna from heaven, to make peace with on sitting tenants, in order that they seat census is the firet systematic attempt You have had your revenge," I can his most powerful for His proposals might recover some of their lost capital to clear up the numerous disputes about toonid Farmers grew more economia of ton in California since the 30-called was entered not refrain from remarkvlfcrtneypiek res But, if there be no certainty of variety, more watchful of small profita gentlemen's agreement"

pires reply.

A few weeks before the war complete victory, then it is the duty of and, by prolonging their courses of into between Japan and the United Prince Hohenlohe

to an Italian

ducing the cost of arable cultivation. resident in Trieste. ⠀ You see, the prince knew what was going to happen. The

Agricultural labourers had, to some ex- house has been destroyed by Austrian

tent, shared in the renewal of prosperity, In some arable counties they still remain too low, but, on the average, they had in the Japanese Agricultural Association, 1914 passed considerably beyond the formerly editor of the Japanese figures of the prosperous seventies. It american. Messre. Kawashima and China. should be remembered that this rise was have been touring the State getting re- secured by the pressure of public opinion ports from branches of the Japanese- among agricultural employers, and with- American Association and kisdred organ. out the intervention of strikes.

isations FANAR

Brensedly, sold theddenly, quite unex statesmen to avoid fresh ordeals for seeds" found & profitable means of re States for the restriction of coolio labour,

Russia. “

"The signers of the pacifist document belong to the bureaucracy. The other

The census is being compiled on reports

Japanese Chamber of Commerce in San made by Mr. Kawashima, secretary of the

shell-fire. You can see that all the shells members of the Duma wore indignant Since 1890 their wages rose continuous Franciaco, and Mr. Chiba, Secretary of

came from the east, the officer continues, pointing to the coping, which plainly in dicates the direction of the shelled BA

AUSTRIAN PRIGHTFULNESS

when Savenko read it and protested vche- mently

"Outside of the bureaucracy Russian sympathy is unanimously for democratic France"

Death

uniforms, They wear Italia aeroplane. It dies far out beyond our fore the war imported wheat had reached The bulk of the Japanese population in

No

State."

The

We pass through a breach in the stone wall at the back of the estate. Ir a few moments we are on the edge of the Carso. I follow my guide as be threads his way forsaken atmosphere of this line of OUR SMALL ABABLE AREA,

They began the work of compiling these through the blocks of loose stone. Where battle cannot be portrayed. For mile The explanation of this revival is that reports in the middle of March and with there is any surface soil it is dull red, upon mile the rocky plain stretches on during the 14 years before the war the be ready-to-draft the final census-report- rough and uneven, and hard as ment, ward. Not a house, not a hovel, not even prices of foreign imported food and this month. Mr. Yamazaka said the so that it is easier to walk on the tones. shrub or tree breaks the terrible home grown produce, with some fluctua census, would show a classified list of the We pass lind after line of low stond walls monotony. Even the enemy trenches tions, were gradually rising. For natural employment in which Japancy of all which had been used by the Austrins ss do not seem real. Endlessly on and on economic reasons the nation is never kinds are engaged in California. Mr. trenches. Finally, at a bend in thecom the grey rocks and the red parched soil likely to eat such cheap food again as it Yamazaka said: munication path, which is piled high with reach, desolato, silent, like the Valley of ate in the nineties. It is not only me Roughly speaking, there are about very large stones and sandbags filled

A cause as the population of exporting with earth which has hardened to a Then in the heavens to the south countries increases the home consumption 60,000 Japanese now in California. There rock mass, my guide halts.

We are here a mile in the rar of small dot comes into range of vision. is greater and the exportable surplus are 20,000 in Los Angeles and ita vicinity. our first-line trenches; we have: Tot yet One cloud puff after another breaks lesa. In the United States farmers are 8,000 in and around San Francsco, 3,000 even reached our second lines, bu look close to it, and still it follows its course excountering the difficulties of older in Oakland and Alameda county, and the at this. He removes a stone which per unchanged, coming ever nearer tous countries. They can no longer grow remaining 29,000 or so in the Sacramento mits me to look out on a hillock with When overhead it circles slowly, majesti wheat without fertilizers, and the in- and San Joaquin valleys, in and around rises to the right. On a patch of cally The red, white, and green of the creased cost of production is reflected in Stockton, in Fresno county and other ground of about three meres some thin wings confirm to us that it is an Halian the increased price of the produce. Be places adjacent to agricultural regions. corpses. lie unburied.

com lines, dipping closer to earth, then cir price which, on some qualities of land, California is made up of ranchers and They have been out there three month cling higner until it disappears to the already made it a remunerative crop for farmers, orchardists and fed indus or more, the officer restimies the north. But its message has already been home producers. There was every pro tries. They annually add a considerable

Suddenly shell upon shell spect that the rise would be permanent EVERYWBEnemy will not allow us to bury them received.

You see they command this field from screeches by from the rear Big shells and continuous. But large areas of portion to the productive wealth of the their positions up there which we have whirr by with an uncanny, whistling potential cornland remained unploughed. as yet been unable to take. We have hen moun like souls in agony, so in keeping No attempt was made to convert pasture five men killed trying to bring in one with the mood of this battlefield into arable. On the contrary, the ten body; now it is forbidden to attempt it. We turn back. In the communication dency had latterly set in the opposite The first is that they desire nothing so The

Austrians

make war with all the trenches we come upon men heavy laden direction. It is the withdrawal of land much as to be left alone. However gall Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) of their with food for those in the firing line. from the plough that is the really serious rag may be their grievances, they prefer ICE HOUSE STREET, TEL. 230-155. German ally. Only it is not so well-Prinking water in carried in large question. It is here that the charge of them to legislative interference, known. Along other sectors of the Cars Chianti flagons and the food brought up undercultivation is best founded front I saw many unburied dead with baskets strapped on the men's backs, substantial increase in gross production second is that they know the natural pro- the Italian lines. We again quicken nyt very drop of water everything used is possible without an addition to the tection of their industry your dolina it is called here. It is nothing nd Dusk comes on swiftly, the bom more produce might be raised from

and 10 is comes to be transported by ares of arable-cultivation. Undoubtedly to linam wages of Land Courte gan more than a pocket of earth surrounded rdment grow more intense: Out of the soil already cultivated. But the add not long be postponed. It must come, Is it a little pain or a big paint Does it by steep, stony slopen Here the troops ght in the east a shell in a slow ascend. tional production On the average for, the tendency of ices to rise. The third to be derived from this War may disturb, it cannot counteract, stonered. The living crouch in their curve rises like a flask of light, then Murca in limited.

a star of flames which falls the five years previous to 1911, the yield is that they expect a heavy slump in and rack your entire being f

Isn't it foolish them to be driven by ravine. The dead are arranged in longly to earth. Another comes to pains or aches, big or little, when you rows in the improvised cemetery which place, and the Carso thus fake per acre in England of wheat and pots wheat prices after the declaration of toes was greater than in Germany, and peace. When the belligerents whether orror: it was only in the yield of barley and allies or enemies have resumed their has been laid out at the bottom of the ads forth in all its livid horror oats that this slope

The composanto, or “sacred

that this country took the second protective policy the exportable - wheat camp as the Italians call their burialet pillars of stone stand forth like place dificult to explain Burplus of the world will be sold in this

It is not ground, in arranged with loving care. gts, while the big guns in their pits

even country, under Free Trade, by producers Under the influence of this great Sculptured beadstones and crosses hewnot forth a flash of fire followed by a justify the hesitation to plough up grass who will be ready to take nnremunerative remedy, aches and pains are bound to out of the grey rock mark the graves. It dening roar which crashes amid the The cropping of the land to day repre- prices rather than not sell at all. With melt away Immediate relief is afforded is a new cemetery, yet it is almost full le stone piles, echoing and reechoing sents the form of cultivation which the to headaches, backaches, espaces. For the casualties here are very high. A ↑ Mỹ the battleground. Friend and foe slump of the period 1870-00 rendered prospect before them and their ex- toothaches, neuralgia rheumatism, and shell exploding not only wounds with its rost amid this upturned waste of ecessary, Farmers may show an excene parience behind them, farmers will not

plough The trench walls awaken. Hers of natural nation, in making changes, worth their while, that this summary sožalios. A tortured world is made free, own fragments but splintered rock is sto

hurled as well, trebling, so it is estimated, here between th barbed wire a but they have burnt their fingers once, I am convinced Gold at le. id. per bottle.

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the troops seem in the best of spari hasent itself and then crawl onward wheat has become more, pronounced They are uhanimus that, with the pre- 1678-82 They have grown accustomed to the

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Astray shots ring out. There to and more firmly established; others may sent depletion of labour, no immediate the Carotheth machine gun is spettering a

be reluctant to plough up green which addition to the ares of arable cultivation HOW TREY ADVANUS

banf bullets toward a spot

after 25 years has become useful but is possible. They are equally agreed We pass through a communication tun mon before something had moved. all are profoundly distrustful of the tha after the war, no addition will be nel driven through solid rock. Finally Craig, groping, stumbling amid the political tendencies of the time and attempted without that security for we come out into the open again. We have stone platool, a company, a batte hesitate to embark on additional outlay, stable and remunerative prices which can reached the first-line trenches. Looking lion pancen to the attack Hurling E FARMER'S ATTITUDE only be given by the natural rise in through the stone parapete I can follow itselfdily over the stone parapets the Those who at the present moment, for fiscal policy. Free Trade must either

world prices, or by a change in the enemy lines which loom up over us

pdrag column succeeds in establish- Stone walls like our own, and behind ng Then the arduous task of immediate addition to the arable ares of work out its own remedy for the condi

one resson or another, advocate a large these, higher up, other trench walls are

consorting seen. There is a lull in the fighting querene begins. Thus by rushes is the three points in the farmer's position change an immediate national necessity, and linking up the cons the country will be wise to remember cumstances render the agricultural tions it has created, or, if special cir The loneliness, the bleakness, the God-

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