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FIGHTING ON WHOLE BRITISH FRONT.
GAINS EXTENDED.
LONDON, August 19th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports There has been fighting along the whole front from Pozieres to the Bomme.
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HONOUR FOR GENERAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.
LONDON, August 18th.
On the occasion of His Majesty's visit to France the Grand Cross of the Vic torian Order was conferred on General Sir Douglas Haig, and that of K. C. B. on Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson and Sir. Reginald Bacon.
THE KATIA VICTORY.
HUGE CAPTURES OF MEN AND MATERIAL.
Loxnos, August 18th. The British gained ground towards Ginely and Guillemont, capturing 200 General Murray estimates that the prisoners. The enemy's artillery has strength of the enemy at the Katia opera been inore active,
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FLEURY FULLY. CAPTURED.
PARIS, August eil. A communiqué says that enemy counter- attacks south-east of Maurepas were 10 pulsed.
We captured the remainder of the village of Pleury and advanced between Thiaument and Fleury, >
BRILLIANT FRENCH ASSAULT. A later communiqué says:--A brilliant French assault captured notable portions of Maurepas and cavalry operated south- cart of the village. 200 prisoners were
takoj.
We exteuled nur positions between Maurepas and the Soume.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.
NO CHANGES IN CABINET.
THE MIND OF AN EXECUTIVE. THE WOMEN WHO STAY
AT HOME.
PRESIDENT WILSON EXAMINED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MENTAL HYGIENE.
DUTY WITHOUT GLORY,
And what, of these, others?"
In the general chorus of praise that is hring deservedly accorded the womun war worker there is, perhaps, & frudency to remark the spectacular and ignor the
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| BY 142. P. ROCKWELL, M.I.] The seemingly incredible shortcomings of Mr. Wilstmas.an executive officeretonplace. must be viewed in the light of certain Yet it is in the performance of the: well established methods for studying hundrum and ordinary that the greatest and recording the mental proceeses of war work of women is being performed. individuals. Is accepting as evidence Certainly if is importible to speak too and analyzing the record, writings, highly of the way women have como speeches and acts of Mr. Wilson, and to the scratch," and, sacrificing their while conceding the fact that with his own pleasure and comfort, have quietly pedagogie background, after long study taken on the jobs of their menfolk who
But while, 2007. and laborious effort le las conformed to have donned khaki. and assisted in applying certain meritori-doubtedly, patriotism has played a terry ang economic reforms, we find unhappily large part, it will be admitted that a by that in broad governmental and interna- no means inconsiderable advantage at- tional policies requiring prompe-solationtaches thereto.. his mental reactions are inadequate. The women omnibus conductors, rket Here he is mentally incoherent, and collectors, clerks, secretaries, and muni- altruist, without proper wise or sense of tion workers would be the first in men proportion, lacking in judgment, pur- that the comfortable sum which reposes view, decision, wisdom, creation capacity, in the little pay envelope at the end of and therefore in the essentia's of true the week compensates largely for their leadership and great statesmanship. He weary feet and tired brains. Even the, also is probably the unfortunate host of voluntary workers and the wives of men anal personality. These are inherent at the front who have resumed their pre- mental deficiencies for which in a large marriage occupations are to be congra sense he is not to blame.
tulated, in that thrice blessed work," The public Press perhaps most freif not quite panacea for all ills, drives quently ases the word vacillating in out or deadens the gonwing fear that is describing his deficiencies. This word is clutching at so many hearts these black in its trae sense hardly descriptive. Mr. days. Wilson probably suffers chirily from a But what of the herne-keepers--tluse mental infirmity, a tardy mind, which wives who, because of their failing in the first instance to compre families, are unable to fare forth aid! Fow pause to. hend the right point of view in a given take up men's work! subject cannot be speeded up through the think of the fierce fight that is being It is officially announced that Harivarious évolutional steps necessary to waged behind the ensement urtaiñed Crewe has been appointed President of arrive at the correct solution until after windows and spick-and-span brasses of outward the Board of Education. Mr. Henderson that solution has been accepted by many little suburban hon has been appointed Pay Master General of his countrymen. His mind, though sign of it is given, for the sternest rule and Labour Adviser and Lord Newton well equipped, fails to co-ordinate fune of Suburbin-compared with which the Assistant Under Secretary for Foreigntionally with sufficient relerity and law of the Meries and Persians wer Affairs. There are an changes in the accuracy, to adjust itself properly to the mere scraps of paper is that at all sts
correct soon. Though well furnished appearances must be kept aps and admirably trained, the mechanisma In this little white and green painted Iacks the elasticity, joise and co-ordina | villa, with the perket-handkerchief" tion required by the special and possibly lawn in front, live the wife and three- sudden demands, his present position children of somebody in the City "whe Huakes upon, it.
sacrificed a comfortable $300 a year to Perhaps a fair picture of Mr. Wilson's become a Derby man. His salary has mental processes many he gained by erased, and, in the stereotyped official study of his attitudes upon the question phrase, the in me from all sources of preparedness. At first he thought s is 338, made up of separation allowance a nation we were safe; we needed no mili-and a few shillings weekly from their tary provision for the future other than total investiments,
that we pressed, til those urging pre- yaredness measures were unduly nervous and excited. More than a year later be advocated among other measures for our protection the largest navy in the world. What had happened 7, Mr. Wilson's mind, nothwithstanding his knowledge of history and ecratomies, was not sufficiently alert to grasp at the onset the possibili Ties and significance of the great conflict across the Atlantic.
Cabinet.
· Losuos, August 18th.
ALLIED CONFERENCE AT PARIS.
PERFECT AGREEMENT.
Paris, August 17th. Me Runciman has arrived love and has conferred with M. Clementel regard- ing the steps to be taken by Britain and France to give effect to the resolutions of the Economic Conference. The Minis ters were in perfect agreement on the joints discussed,
BRITISH EXPORTS TO SWEDEN.
We continued our offensive on the rightIXNG SIGNS PROHIBITION ORDER, of the Mense, driving the enemy from two fortifed redoubts north-west of the Thiaumont work, taking 100 prisoners.
We aperiably progressed east of the Vaux-Chapitre Wood.
THE BRITISH ADVÁNCE.
GRATIFIED FRENCH EXPERTS.
LONDON, August 17th. A Paris message
1be Hay's That methodical British operations which are gradually surrounding Thiepval have gratified French experts.
IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
LONDON, August 18th.
His Majesty the King has signed an Order in Council prohibiting exports to Sweden except by licence and under guarantee that they shall not reach the enemy.
TRACING KUT PRISONERS-
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Losos. August 17th: In the House of Commons, Mr. Forster said that 80 officers and 178 men of the British Army, and 140 officers of the The capture of Mouquet Farm, half-a-Indian Army captured at Kut have been mik north-west of Pozieres, is itaportant.
traced. No manes of the Indian men as it stands as a height of 456 Yeef, com-
are reported. ading Thiepval plateau and town. Similarly, Hill 160, north-east of Potieras, commands Courcelet village and the main road to Bapaume, five miles distant,
GERMAN
REINFORCEMENTS.
FOR THE SOMME FRONT.
PEACE DEMANDS.
PETITION BY GERMAN SOCIALISTS.
AMSTERDAM, August 17th. Torgauntypublishes a Socialist petition for a speedy peace without territorial inquests. The petition is numerously
signerL AMSTERDAM, August 17th. Forty, long trains, crammed full with troops, passed Çologite yesterday going towards the Soming front..
WESTERN FRONT PIVOT.---
ANGLO-FRENCH AIMS.
LONDON, August 17th. Mr. Warner Allen emphasises that the
If it be urged that Mr. Wilson's ad ministrative career has been guided by special information received from sources not accessible to the public, w. uswer that this fact should have largely contri- hated to ather than have nilitated against, crrect judgments. If it be said that certain Congressional or diplomatic prises. sequired precipitate and radical declarations quite contrary to those made in the earlier days of his Administration w reply that mental alertness and pres esence would have made impossible cer- tain erises which his Administration has had to far.
No
CLOTHES PROBLEMS,
The first luxury to be dispensed with was the strong armed, sturdy general." Charlndies and washerwomen too are ex pensive luxuries and not to be thought of when there are three healthy and bi- gry little bodies to clothe and fred. So mother puts her shoulder to the wheel and takes up her way work. Day after day, with sickening ootany, arises the problem of making two short ends meet. What will adequately take the place of the ton tertibly expensive
Farves milk on which the title ones. always thrived? What food will replace the hopelessly extravagant jints?
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wear out? clothes children there's a hole in my boot."" I've torn a piece out of my best frock." As for some of Dickie's clothes, they are
mother's clever patches,, beyond even With Heaven-sent inspiration, she ents Some one may say that Huy a person up a pre-war costume, which even in without special, training in the wife of these days of patriotic lathes is too administrator Mr. Wilson has done reas shabby for the light of day, and by careful sonably well We here suggest that as contriving there triumphantly emerges president of a great university and Gov-from the pieces three whole pairs of knick- ernor of a commonwealth a considerable ers for five-years-old Wickie, Long-legged portion of his mature years has been Jorce and her frocks present devoted to diplomație, sonomic and ad-dicules. ministrative problems differing not in
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kind but in degree from those pressing never acknowledges defeat, and cheer- for-solation in his present office.
fully sacrifices an aftermou frock, and. A turdy mind, not an alert one; an her one pretty evening dress is cul, re- overweening confidence in his own judg; planned, restitched, and reborn as Joyce's
Sunday best. obstinacy
After all, frills are of ments, not in those of experts;; in rejecting advice, not persistents in no use to me in wer time, smiles mother. seeking it, bave made possible the extra-
Such tiny, commonplace little things, ordinary group of recantations which Day after day the same trivial round- have punctuated Mr. Wilson's public planning, contriving, managing and behind it all, like sorne sinister monster crouching in the shadow, is The Fear. During the day it is kept in subjection- the children must not be. The burden of their childish thoughts and plans is when daddy comes home"; and mother KINGSTON, August 18th. A cyclone has swept southern Jamaica.with profit be briefly touched upon. Mr. echoes it. The little home must be kept trim The children Wilson is not a dremer of dreams; he till daddy comes home,' The banana crops have been damaged.
He lacks fed and clothed (somehow) till daddy Kingston is isolated and some people cannot see beyond the veil.
comes home." The inability to give little have been killed,
that divine imagination inseparably "asso- cinted with leadership and the grasi of treats and buy toys is concealed under the great problems. He has not the gift of sane phrase When daldy comes home.
CYCLONE AT JAM VIDA.
KINGSTON ISOLATED.
In addition to those above-mentioned there are several mental disabilities of collateral character which further handi- rap Mr. Wilson in his struggle to adjust himself to his environment." A few may
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WEATHER. REPORT,'
On the 20th at 11.37.- Pressure has de- creased moder fey over N. Japon, the northern depression having word erstward It bas increased moderately over N.E. China and Formpis mo sl ybtly elsewhere, except over th Looc woes and in the extreme South, where it inearly stationary.
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such potent and subtle contribution. times we will have when, daddy comes That mental elasticity which is possibly home." one of the greatest attributes of master intellects is a stranger to Mr. Wilson.
WHEN FEAR ACTEARS,
It is only at night that The Fear boldly If Washington and Lincolu had pos- comes from its hiding place and waits,. sessed tardy and inelastic minds this in the darkened bedroom, to pounce; country would not have endured. They when refrehing sleep refuses to close tired coped successfully with unprecedented eyelids and rest weary liabe; then at last conditions and the extraordinary dificul the ugly monster, imagination, has full ties associated therewith. Mr. Wilson, with sway. Tales of the war that she had ampler historic background, with special almost forgotten are remembered by the-
her brain training, with the example of majestic over-wrought wife, and in national personalities and with the able jostle war pictures and war tragedies. advocacy by competent authorities of Now her husband has left camp and she sees the trenchies, the speeding bullets, adequate national policies, has not had safcicut mental alertness and elasticity the splintering shrapnel, the hand-to- to adapt himself to the cirrustances. hand fighting. Now imagination gathers. In one of the greatest crises of history, the reins, and she sees a still, white face involving issues so fundamental that they gazing vacantly upwards from a grim have cost the race untold suffering, wor No Man's Land She sees herself and and bloodshed from Thermopyle to the children alone in a crowded world. Gettysburg, he has failed utterly.
Hysterical No doubt, but it is part of He has failed to urge the adoption of the payment that is being exacted from those measures for safeguarding our every war-weary woman in the land. peace and integrity which ordinary Picture after picture passes before the prudence dictates, and which alone can dizzy brain, till with a smothered sob guarantee the perpetuity of inalienable (for after all, she must think of the child- rights vouchsated to every citizen under rea near by !) she buries her face in the the Constitution..
pillow, and, with clutching hands and straining heart, cries, “Oh, that the war may end and bring him back.
He has failed to succour the helpless and oppressed, thus compromising the validity of the spirit and principles to which this Government is dedicated and smothering humanitarian impulses in berent in all free peoples.
Are not these thousands of wives and anothers war workers? There is no be coming uniform, no approving smile. from onlookers, no monetary compensa He has failed to recognize justice andtion, no getting away from the continual the principles on which it rests.
thought and worry. Nothing but the He has failed in the higher mathemastorn resolve to keep going somehow ties of statecraft.
He has failed to interpret and give cohesion to the traditions, aspirations and hopes of a great and forward look ing people.
Aud all this not through ignorance or I-design, but because of mental maladjust
mente York Sun.
till daddy comes home."
Surely when the longed-for day of peace. has dawned and honour is being paid to the womanhood of England, the first toast to be drunk will be
Our Home-keepere," and the first medal struck to A Wife-For Valour."
STELLA --WILSON.
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