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THE WHISPERS IN THE DARKNESS.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT TO "THE TIMES."] "You have been dreaming," said the night nurse gently, “just a bad dream. Try to forget it.”
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The New York Times contains a re-
RUSSIA'S HUGE RESOURCES. 50 HELLION PEOPLE BACKING UP ARMY
In Russiaz the Government and army
the country
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, UNITED PRESS REAFF CORRESPONDENT.] Slowly, like a giant getting under way, Russia, backed by her plain people, is mackable tribute to the business ability gathering strength To-day, working for of the British as revealed by the tremend-her, she has an army of them fifty million ons and unexpected demands of the war. strong; The soldier who had come to the ward I is of special interest at this time in July show an increase of 811,001,646 and that morning from France gazed at the view of the news that British exports for Says the night murse with eyes full of doubting.imports an increase of $1,048,004 over
·N, Y. Times - He seemed scarcely to hear her. When the same month last year. the sunlight makes patterns on the ward floor because it has come to it through the broad fans of the chestnut trees and when the murmur of bees on the flower- beds in the garden is just audible, it is possible for a man to forget-no matter what his eyes have seen, bis ears heard, and his bands accomplished. sible, too, at high noon when there. is bustle in the wards and the dinners are trundled in on the hand-barrows. In the dawning, they say, it is not possible; and at night the darkness gathers shadows which go up and down, whispering.
The doctor called the soldier's dreams battle dreams"; but the shadows were not dissipated thereby. When the nurse moved away down the ward under the dim lamps, the shadows came again and the soldier's ears were strained to catch their whispering. They spoke to him at first in a small voies, because the presence 1t of the nurse had frightened them. was like the sound of the guns, he thought, when they are far away and the wind blows strongly; yet he seemed to catch now and then a crisp laughter, like the tick-a-tack of a machine-gun, which showed that the shadows were drawing
nearer.
The Russian war is the people's war. people are backing up the army in a way With thoir incalculable fortitude the
In Eng any other country of Europe. peculiar to them and not to be found in land and France, for instance, the Gov- emament and co-operating with in- War's business is wasteful, economi
the exclusion of well-defined citizen's eally unprofitable, asymmetrical and dustrial corporations and bankers-to price-inflated, and yet so impressive a spectacle in human endeavour that its groups-thus keeping the nation and the value to the future will be enormousaray in supplies Unsuspected possibilities are rownled. At the beginning there was a saying in also co-operate with these. But they co- England, Business as usual" it needs operate with an organized people tob, now to be amended. It should be through non-political groups which have
Business much more than usual" Old boon farmed all over
tias, peasants' unionit and whose aim is It is pos-measures are forgotten. New magnitudes citizen's associations, co-operative socie-
According to the Board of Trade but to serve Russia. appear. figures, Great Britain's imports in the Then there is a Central Committer. month of May were 8419,000,000. ay i-composed of civilians, to co-ordinate the crease of $61,000,000 over those for May,efforts of the groups and take the army's So some of the fifty millions are at the re-exports combined were $302,500,000, an 1015; in the same month her exports and orders, increase of $70,785,000 ever those for May, 1915. Imports were larger than in front, in aniform, under arms. Others any preceding month in the history of are back of the lines drilling to go to the British trade, with the one exception offrono The rest are scattered all over jols, big or Tittle, but for the nation. March, as would be expected, with the the Russian Empire working at their and doctors, and outlay upon war incrassing steadily.
They are farmers and merchants, tailor
chemists, bootmakers penters, machinists and plain day druggists and nurses, seamasters and car laborers all mobilized just as effectively, so far as carrying on the war is con- toremost trenches. cerned, as the foremost soldiers in the
BETWEEN THE RIVER'S BANKH The nurse switched out the lips, all but one, which was heavily shaded. She went to the pantry to prepare food for those patients who had been ordered it So, the gloom and al short intervals. silence of the ward were deepened and the wounded man could see quite dis tinetly the strange country in which he He was sailing on a found himself. great river, and the shadows were gather ed on one of the banks. The banks were very high and he thought they resembled the sides of his trench out in Flanders. On the No-man's Land in front of the trench, though, there were flowers grow ing, poppies and yellow cornflowers. The shadows did not come to the bank and so he could not see them well; but be heard the sound they made, their whispering and their strange, dry laugh ter. Right in the prow of the boat before hit was another
a witch-hag, and do, he shadows
SCATTERIT OYEE EMPIRE.
other four general names,
But it is surprising to find that exports not only have been rising faster than im porta, so that the adverse balance tends to diminish, but that exports actually have grown to new proportions. Thus, exports in May, 1916, were 39-87 per cent. greater than in May, 1915, and 11.8 per
The citizen's organizations for aiding cent. larger than in May, 1914, before Re-exports have increased in the war. the same way. They were 7.39 per cent, the country and the army are literally greater Inst May than in May, 1915, and hundreds in number but the majority of 6 per cent. greater than in May, 1914.these can be bunched under ene or the These figures de not contain one very in
British portant coramodity, namely,
the exportation has credit, of which enormously risen.
Great Britain is the economie mainstay of the allied cause. She holds the purse, and with it the power to command the world's goods, especially food. By reason of her natural wealth in materials and her great industrial equipment she is able, besides, to produce for the uses of war a surplus of manufacturers above her own requirements. Her exoprts and re-exports, therefore, include both goods produced out of her own resources and supplied directly to her allies and other France is goods bought outside in the markets of the world for their account.
a very large customer for British coal and iron, her own sources of such raw material having been conquered by the enemy. The other Allies, being indus- ipferier. to France, require from
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Then there is the Municipality Union, grouping the work of Russian cities.
Next is the War Trade Committee. Lastly the Co-operative Union, whose membership includes over 30,000,000 peo- affect in one way or, another more than ple, mostly peasants, and whose activities
pire. half the population of the Russian E-
So it is patting it very conservatively to say that, counting 'soldiers and those backing up the soldiers, Russian has fifty
a victory. million souls toiling to fetch her home
all, bent, like enormous quantities of many, dortits organization back of the fighting
were whispering together and the sound. was beavy, like the sound of great birds which pass in the night. He was a coun- tryman from the North and he knew the sound; it was the wings of the wild geese, which go northward in the springthe Then there was the sucking sound made by the river under its overhanging banks, The shadows moved like the ripe corn in his father's fields when the wind plays with it; but he could hear that they were whispering and laughing while they moved.
The grinding of a taxicab's gears on the hill outside of the hospital routed the wounded man and he rolled uncasily from one side to the other. He heard the driver push the lever home and the grinding sound became a shrill metallic buzz, which caused him to duck his head. He raised his head again to see if the great shell had worked havoc amang the shadows. They were whispering together He could angrily, hissing like snakes. hear the snapping of their jaws, like the tick-a-tack of the machine-guns in the carly morning, when they are licking their lips.
THE HAG-SPIRIT.
things.
PERMANENT CENTRAL COMMITTER. In order that the work of these organi zations may clash as little as possible there is a Central Committee sitting permanently, werk days and Sundays, in a building to itself here in Petrograd. When the Government has need of this or that for the army, or for refugees, or Cheap lines, it can and does call on the entral The aggregate of Great Britain's trade Committee for aid. The Central · Com
reaching its command, with its wires with her Allies may be measured by the mittee, looking over the vast resources out into the farthermost corners of the entry of advances" in the balanceat sheet of war expenditures This item
and does it, quickly and efficiently. represents not money leaned to her Empire, sees at a glance what can be done Allles, but almost entirely goods sup plied to them on credit. At the end of March last it amounted to $1,840,000,000 In the fiscal year it would be increased by 83,150,000,000 according to Chancellor McKenna's estimate. Thus, on March 31st, 1917 if the war lasts till then, Great Britain's Allies will owe her more than 84,000,000,000 for goods obtained on
She is merchant, credit. And that will be roughly one quarter öf Great Britain's aggregate ex- penditure for war, producer, and banker. By March 31st, 1917, she will have invested in the war, out of the proceeds of taxation and loans, domestic and foreign, the incredible sum of 810,500,000,000, of which her share will be roughtly $12,500,000,000.
There is not a single branch of homnu endeavour not at the beck and call, of
All the these citizens' organizations, and through them available for the Central Com- mittee and the Government, sciences, arts, trades and occupations have been mobilized in this way. They
for the army. are ever ready to provide anything from fresh milk for babies to high explosives
The whole world knows that Russia of the war. So did the other allies. But lacked sufficient munitions at the start was this: They were great industrial the difference between Russia and them countries and she was not.
REESIA'S INDUSTRIAL FLIGHT. Russia could not remedy this in a day. Nor even in a year. Germany had had for a long time practically a monopoly on manufactured articles, chenicals and so forth in Russia, and, as former Premier. Count Kokostsow pointed out, this had proved a positive curse to the Empire. tions with Russia and her former source when the war came on severing all rela- of supplies, she felt a pinch.
The balance will be represented by advances to her Allies," which they will be obliged to repay. At the close of the war, therefore, England will be what she was before, the largest creditor nation in the world. She is in the position of She So he laughed and his laughter brought banker who takes his credit from one is liquidating her credit in this country
The worst of this situation, so far as the narse back again to his side; and her places and puts it out in another. cool fingers on his brow drove the sha
But again, when she by sales of American securities and lend dows, far away. left him, they came, and their whispersing the proceeds to her Allies--to France, Russia was concerned, was that it could Russia, Italy, and her own colonies. The not be quickly remedied. Depending on woke the hag spirit which sailed with liquidation of her investments here, plus Germany for manufactured articles, she chemicals from him on the river so that she laughed her borrowing, is approximately offset
ing nearly all her
im- shrilly as men laugh sometimes in the
Teutonic drummers, she could not heat of battle. The laughter of the hag by the debts her Allies are contracting lacked machinery to make them. Buy spirit went down into the heart of the with her for war supplies.
And, at the same time, trade with nonmediately start manufacturing them her- soldier, awitter han an ill-desire, till his body grew with it, and he trembled belligerents is resuming. That is very lf, and so on. greatly, while sweat came on his brows. interesting. In May, British exports to China and South America notably in The laughter of the bag-spirit rose in a. fierce crescendo and the soldier knew that creased. The revival of orders from
South Americs for fabrics was that he had heard that sound. in his British industry a particularly gratify
shelled trench at the dawn, when they the enemy's line before the attack. The hag-spirit gathered herself up and stood out-stretched agains the sullan sheen of the river-fleshless arms like a cross of woe against the leaden sheen of the river. Then the nurse, moving from bed to bed up the ward, saw the soldier start. and caught the gleaming of his upright
He shouted and his words were strange words. For he would follow the bag spirit, stretched like a crook of wos, to the place of the shadows, which mock ed him in their fullness of laughter.
eyes.
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Which brings us to this: The Russian people, through their organizations, have accomplished near-miracles, and are still accomplishing them, making ap for past defects. Through their combined wits ing development. Having increased her and resources, clear on down through to exports of early everything but ships, the furthermost peasant of Siberia, they at the same time checking in every pos sible manner unnecessary imports, by have buried what otherwise might have prohibitions, duties, etc., the adverse trade balance is being steadily diminish- ed. In the first five months of 1915 it was $803,000,000 in the first five months of 1018 it was $738,000,000. Loughly, at the present tine Great Britain's excess
ports.over.exports is balanced by ad- vaneca to her Allies, so that she is keep- ing even, or perhaps a little better. This
And in his spirit he called on the mornis the extraordinary proof of her capa ing that it should not be darkened, and city for business.
on the young stars for light. And he came lerping in red fields, and there was great beat; he could feel the breath of those that whispered upon his checks. They had eyes which shone in the dark-
ness.
The night nurse took his clenched hands and laid him back gently on his bed. She smoothed his brow with her, fingers, marvelling at the price that must be paid You have been for a man's honour. dreaming," she said again. "just a bad dream.
Try to forget it."
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But how shall the soldier forget, who Barometer has heard the voice of the morning when Temperature. the sunrise is made dark by clouded Humidity sminke?
He may forget when the sun-Wind Girection light makes patterns on the ward floor
d the humming of bees comes in across the fower-beds, or at high noon, when they bring the dinners from the lifts In the dawn he cannot forget; and at night the darkness gathers shadows which gu up and down, whispering,
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