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THE GERMAN FLEET. WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE

ANY CHANCES.

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"JM. de Beaufort, in his Voyage of Discovery in Germany says he heard Admiral von Koester, lecture scornfully on the inactivity of the British Fleet, which had become contaminated with the **peddler spirit of the nation," and de clare of the German fleet "We must not allow ourselves to be inveigled into an engagement in which we might possibly

be beaten.

The more I saw of the German fleet, and talked to its officers and men, the more I besame convinced that this war is not going to see a naval battle fought out to the bitter end. My trips have proved to me that, in the widest sense of the term, the Germans spoke the truth when they said, We are not going to take any chances with out feet. "

Mr. de Beaufort saw some interesting sights and heard some interesting things during his visit to Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, and Kiel.

GERMAN PEOPLE ANXIOUS FOR PEACE,

,

the

END OF THE **ARABIA ?

SIMILAR TO LUSITANIA.

SOCIALIST OPINION

The correspondent of the Daily Chroni rie at Marseilles says:-Only a nazard Under

heading 3 August the the fortunate circumstances of a smooth Fourth the Vienna socialist Irbeiter sea, the nearness of a few steamers, and Zeitung publishes an extraordinarily hitter and outspoken review of the situa the slowness with which she ruccumbed

Lakitania. No one, listening to the sur care of prevented the Arabia becoming a second date rather than August 1st is taken vivors narratives, could fail to be because England's entry is regarded as

impressed with the similarity of the two the real starting point of Armageddou.crimes. The passengers were left to shift On August 1st was the beginning, but for themselves to drift in open boats Germany has on August 4th the world-war was in full 300 miles from land. blast. But another reason is suggested deliberately broken her pledges for the choice of August 4th. A footnote America and is defying the world.

Mr, George Mortimer Gordun, who was to the article says: If our readers should ask why we ourselves (as distin- passenger, says the een was like glass guished from the Berlin correspondent) The majority of passengers were on deck let the opening of the second year of war enjoying the sunshine. The Arabia was pass without a word they might consult making top speed, "It seemed difficult to the first pages of our issues of July 25th believe that a submarine could get us, and 30th.

h." On those dnes the Arbeiter he said, we were forging ahead so Zeitung appeared with great blank rapidly. The stewards had distributed spaces. Evidently the censor had been at the usual pre-lunch bowls of soup, and work. Judging by the fact that is then, suddenly and without warning. Berlin correspondent's article on "August there was a great shock and a thunderous moment of the Fourth is uncensored, one may con-

explosion, followed by a clude firstly that this article, which refers strange silence. All of us knew what had only to German feeling, has some official happened, though only a few had seen the approval, and secondly that the paper's torpedo racing towards the ship before

it struck. comments on these previous dates innst & really sensational have been of character, and probably referred to Austria's desperate plight

My walk round Wilhelmshaven," he says, did not make me feel that I was attending the last convulsions of an en pire. Work, will, and efficiency seemed to be in the very air staring, shouting at you, at every turn. Though the army is mobilised up to the last Landsturm.

The war began, says the article, as man, and though boys of fourteen and

War of the peoples." A sort of fury fifteen are already being drilled, Germany has not taken a single workman away scized upon all heads, which were not strong in international understanding." from her shipbuilding yards

"It was a frenzy, Nay, a madness." "I have seen and copied the authentic Mutual fear and suspicion had become figures, stating the number of men en-excited to fever pitch, *Through popitlar ployed at the various Government and private yards. They total ever 33,000 at the three Government yards at Wilhelm- shaven, Kiel, and Danzig, and over 57,000 at the different private reds in Thor Hamburg, Danzig, and Bremen. That is over 20,000 men; and the yards are running twenty-four hours a day.

A SURPRISE AT KJEL,

Yet at the western cutrance of the Kiel; Canal, Mr. de Beaufort was rather dia illusioned. "I was fortunate enough to get opportunity to land. The captain charged the with a delivery of a stack of documents at the office of the port. It goes without saying that I was properly chaperoned. Two sauiors with loaded rifles and bayonets marched one on each side of me. What's all the excitement about t I inquired innocently of my two guardian angels.

The

Passions the war had the character of a war of the peoples."

It no longer has that character. longer the war has lasted the more it has build Lave

if only

Une one

Оне

could have prevented the war: had had the peoples on one's side.. can only bring the war to a close before its natural end-i.e., universal exhaustion if in this matter one has the States on one's side, That is the problem; the pacific portion of the peoples have to impose their will upon the States at time when the peoples as such do not exist for the State.

At the head of the States stand the the Governments." These statesmen, must keep the war going, for "They fear for their own futures unless they bring home victory after such nameless sacri ces. What is to be done? Revolution The machinery of the State would crush

NO PANIC.

THE CHURCH AND THE WAR.

COLLECTIVE SIN.

The Church now is searching for the causes of its failure; and perhaps, from the shock of the war, it thinks that it has failed more than it has, says

But on one correspondent of the Times. Churches all over Europe; and the nature point it certainly has failed, like all the of this failure and its connection with the war is easy: to'vro, Its dealings with sin have been too hand-to-mouth. It has been concerned with the particular sin more than with the sinful state of mind of which that sin is only a -to

symptom. In that it is like our medical science, which, against its own will, is forced to cure diseases rather than to remove the causes been that the Church commonly has of them. But the result of this error has narrow notion of sin. Sin means to sins that are obviously disastrous in their consequences to the sinner himself rathor than the sinful state of mind which sooner or later brings disaster te all. A drunkard or a thief is a sinner because he suffers for his sin; but there is ar evil condition of things out of which he became a drunkard or a thief, and which is maintained because the mass of per state of mind. Indeed, respectable people fectly respectable people are in a sinta! Are those whose sins are not obviously disastrous to themselves and who there fore have not seemed to need the attention of the Church.

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There were no panie, no cries, and no had confusion; We had previously several submarine drills. Lifebelis were at hand, and each knew his allotted station and the number and position of his boat. All walked quite quietly to The women behaved their stations. splendidly.

**

Some of the pasengers went to their cabins to save the most possible, but they were the exceptions, for none knew how any minutes the Arabin would keep afloat. The explosion had smashed my bont.

I sought another, and clambered into the last but one that was launched.

"The captain was the last to leave, and the women and children were first. They were placed in the boats before they were launched. All the boats got away without incident, thanks to the smooth sea.

The boats hung about, watching the doomed ship, and waiting to be picked up. Some trawlers came up and took up the people. One trawler hovered about, fearing that the Germans would attempt to board the Arabia and get her paper which they were determined to prevent.

95 MINUTES. AFLOAT.

Exactly 95 minutes after she was struck the frahia sank. Her list was very slight at the outset. In the first it in the germ. Millions who are yearn-half-hour there was little change, and. They replied Linust simultaneouslying for peace would condemn it as bring then she settled down, dipped down stern and with that peculiar inflection in the

ing assistance to the enemy, and would first, and sank very slowly and gradually voice which ordinary mortals only use approve its suppression.

one of the most moving and pathetic when speaking about something spiritual:

spectacles The Arabia was struck aft, in over At your orders, air. The feet

remaining so long aflost was due to the Zu Befehl Flatte macht grasse Man

the bankers, and the reason for her

is going through Grand Manoeuvres.')"

coal breaking the effect of the explosion,

What then remains! Nothing but the general will for peace into such a steady work, which sets itself to convert will on the part of the State. Such work has put limited success, but that success is already greater in Germany than in any other country."

Forty-eight of us were aboard the VERY GRAND MANŒUVRES,

trawler without accommodation. The arst They did not smile, he adds; there was

night there was a terrific thunderstorm. not even the suspicion of a twinkle in The writer points the lesson in regardThe majority on the deck were exposed to their eyes. And, indeed, the Fleet was to Germany. "So far as obstacles to the cold and drenched to the skin.

Other passengers any that nobody saved going through grand madenvres ? - It reace exist in Germany, we must unite was trying several times a month to re-all our strength to sweep them away. The any belongings, and most of then lost dues the record of the passage time annexation enthusiasts are misjudging their money and jewellery. One man, through the Canal, Did I realise that the reality of things, and are doing harm attached to a theatrical company, lost all their biggest ship, could now pass through where they wish to do useful service. his professional property, valued at the Canal, from wick to Brunsbüttel, They do not possess the decisive influence £7,000. in a fraction under six ours Ingred for which they are striving, but it is with him (an hein!) that such a per-urgent that they should be suppressed

still further. formance vas indeed marvellous.

This official went on to say i You know, so few foreigners really under stand the Gerinan people. We are so (peaceloving, so industrious, but, by Jupiter don't pull the eagle's feathers, for then his wrath will punish those who dare to attack his best and young.'

We are told that he had a very superior air.

LIKE THE GRAND. OLD DUKE OF YORK

Tua ake to him, Mr. de Beaufort saw the great German ships steaia into the Canal and down again; for when they were about ten miles up they received sadden orders to turu about,

du not recall exactly how long it. took those eight ships and their escort- using alt for locks to pass from the Elbe into the Canal, but I am certain it was less than twenty minutes from be ginning to end. Well," inquired my

.

THEIR "GOOD FORTUNE.'' The Malta correspondent of the Tele graph says that all the survivors from the We know we have the enormous

Arabia comment on their good fortune that the torpedoing did not occur a few. majority of the German people with 18 when we express the wish that the Govern-hours later, as it would then have been ment should show itself ready to take any impossible to get all the passengers away. peace proposals into consideration, only

One passenger who was leaning on the excluding such us aim at the lessening or

rail called to his companions, look at this silver streak." The explosion the degradation of Germany,

Everybody occurred the next instant. was well instructed as to the boat-station, but the members of several families were separated owing to the upsetting of two boats, necessitating a change of the plans

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A franker admission of Germany's war weariness and anxiety for peace has never yet been pablished. That it should have been passed both by German and the Austrian censorship is enormously signi- ficant.-Daily Chronicle.

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One trawler encircled the sinking liner, and the passengers thereon saw detail of loose gear gradually sliding down the decks as the vessel tilted. Then she made a quiet dive. There were two) big puffs of soot and smoke. In the next two minutes wooden objects shot to the surface-chairs, boards, even a baby's cradle. There was practically no vortex; twn loose boats quietly floated as the

Now the Church is always saying that the war is a punishment for sin; but often it says this as a mere phrase and in plain bewilderment. The punishment seems it capricious, a result of the sudden anger: of God because of some one thing done or it has happened because people do not go. left undone. There are clergy who think to church or because of the Bill for the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church. And in Germany there are many pions Lutheran pastors who are able to escape from the question whether Germany. sinned in making war by telling them selves and their congregations that the war is a punishment sent by God; that it was, in foot, willed by God, not by Germany. This kind of sophistry, which seems to us mischievous and bypocritical in the Germans, is the result of judging sin by its obviously disastrous conse

quences, and of seeing it only where those consequences are immediate: There is a kind of stupidity in this view of sin, for it does cramp the intelligence like all band-to-mouth views of life. The Church needs to discover that the worst sins are those for which, not the sinner himself, but the community is punished, the sins which do not immediately express them- selves in some individual action, but pervert the connagu mind so that a while society sins, and what is worse does not

We are appalled now by the collective. sin of Germany, and still more by the fact know that it is sinning.

that Germans see their evil us good. Now the drunkard or the thief does not see his evil as good; he is to himself usually only a failure. He has a bad habit of which he would sure himself if he could, and there is no danger that a whole

noble and hercie. But there are sins of society will think drunkenness or theft the conenon mind, like the sin of Ger- many, which make much worse evils than drunkenness and theft seem noble and heroio; and against those all the Churches) So the have been strangely impotent. Church of England is suddenly made aware of its impotence, and expresses that sense in the National Mission.· Bat ir will do nothing if it merely insists that people ought to go to church more than they do go. It must itself make church are interesting, and it can do that only by a greater exercise of its own intelli gence upon the nature of sin and of righteousness. People are tired of being told that they ought not to commit the obvious dianstrous sins; they know it. already, and most of those who go to church do not commit then. But they

are dimly aware of the sinful state of our whole society, of which the war is a proof; the result of obvious sins, or of sins that and when they are told that the war is

seem to them no sins, they are impatient, they wish is to recognize those common for they know that it is not truc. What sing which afflict a whole society with impotence, those perverse ideas which

make evil soun good and frustrate all the

efforts of civilization.

omers escort, Germany's cause is not tarmers in the Kiangenow Mountain and nailboat sankt underneath. wt It is because those perverse ideas have

lost yet, eh with such rachtkerle (magnitent fellows) to stand guard over

us.

also specimens of the young poppy plants, thereby proving conclusively that the regulations against opium are treated as

scraps of paper."

"But somehow my entaasiasm had sub- sided. It was a magnificent sight, yet it seemed sad,

it was wonderful, yet I could not battleship; the must now aggravate the draw any inspiration from it Again Fatherland still more by building Sham and again there came leaping back to Dreadnoughts? I exclaimed, What do my mind the-solemn, confident answer you mean Oh, you are thinking of the of those two simple sailors: Grosse resurrected Lion. You mean ghost Dread Manover; and, try as I wouls, I could moughts? No, they did not mean any not see in the whole performance anything, of the kind. They meant what thing else but a practical demonstration they said, Sham Dreadnoughts. No. of England's sea-power. These splendid other words could describe them. ships deserved a better fate than Grand Manoeuvres in the Canal!

JUANGAN. THE GERMAN. SAILOR

Mr. de Beaufort talks of the training of the German sailor." The drilling of the personnel of the German Navy, like that of her army, is systematic, almost perfect in every detail. But it has the usual weak ness of a virtue carried to extremes. The men are overtrained, The German is not amphibions; he is not web-footed like Jack Tar. He is a soldier first and last; and, while both soldiers and sailors are fighting men, there are, or should be many differences in the method of their training.

THE PAINTER. WHO SMASHED 'A GUN,

"Just AS Potemkin conjured up. Eourishing villages before the astonished eyes of his Imperial mistress by meanB of canvas and paste-board, so the British Admiralty (1 was informed) bus created a new fleet of a hundred battleships, by means of canvas, wood, and paint,

At the beginning of the war England bought up a hundred old paasenger and freight steareers. The holds were filled with stones and cement, the cross-beans strengthened, and the bulls painted a dark grey, just like the real thing. The addition of a wooden superstructure and turrets armed with heavy-calibre guas of wood-gave them a realistic, man-of- war like appearance.

not been attacked by the Church that the

Church leaves so many mon cold and

There were many narrow escapes. era explosion smashed a cabin in a nurse and a child, but they crawled out unscathed. Some of the ladies sti!! feel shaken, and many have bandaged hands. Others are cannot prevail

of 36 hours exposure to the rain and spray on the trawlers, but they are full of praise and gratitude for the crews, The latter gave up their oil-skims and clothing, and were unremitting in their efforts to reduce discomfort, especially earing for the woman and children,

IMPERIAL BRIGANDS.

A wireless message from Berne states that a stenographic report of the Reich- stas proceedings on October 27th contains the hitherto unreported speech of the Socialist. Herr Ruehle, who said:

"The war was started by a band of Tuperial brigands at headquarters in Potsdam. They are criminals whose hands are stained with the blood of millions. Herr Liebknecht wante nothing from them--neither pardon, aor amelio ration of his lot in servitude. He will accept nothing from them, but awaits liberation by the workers who, when they understand the truth, will rise and pat an end to the despotism of militarism, and to Germany's enemies in high places.

རྣ,::.. in Potsdam."

Most of the speech was inaudible owing Herr Rueble was re- to the tumult peatedly called to order.

Nevertheless, whenever I maintained that the German systein produced only automators, I was emphatically assured A friend of my informants, who were that, even if overy officer on board a Ger- German naval officers, had bad an op- man battleship were killed, the gunners portunity to visit one of the shipyards would continue the fight and the ship where some of these sea-terrors were would be navigated."

being converted. He saw one'ex-passenger AS AD PASTE-BOARD CRAFT

steamer that was equipped with wooden The Voyager found that a good deal of nine-inch guns, and it looked really ter- British naval information still finds iterible. While admiring these monsters, way to Germany. Some of it concerns painter, who with his brush and pail was real ships recently commissioned; but adding the finishing touches to one of other relates to mystery craft.

the turrets, slipped and fell. He landed I learned of a new crime committed on one of the nine-inch guns and smashed.

The mayor (Mr. T. Smith) said that the by Perfide Albion,' which deserves to be it to pieces.

tribunal had heard that an applicant to recorded. It is not enough that England They are much puzzled in German whom they had refused exemption had naval circles what possible object the since been badged. Until they received British Admiralty can have in view with some explanation from the authorities this colossal sham fleet Quarterly Bee trikstual did not feel they could

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TRIBUNAL ON STRIKE PENDING REFORM.

The Mansfield Tribunal have gone strike."

seems to say what everyone knows. They are left to science to the purely intel lectual faculties, which by themselves. has had no help from religion against Own GrIOIS, Religion only steps in. when we do what we, and everyone else, It does not prevent us, see to be wrong. or the Germans, from mistaking evil for good. That where it has failed, and, in so far as it has failed, it has not breu religion. For there is in true religion an intellectual passion and faith no less than a moral. It abhors a wrong idea as mach as a wrong action, and it has a scent for the evil of thought. that is what the Church needs now, if it is to escape from that impotence of which it has suddenly become aware.

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