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AFTER THE WAR.

"A NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEPARTMENT.

[BY. WILLIAM ARCHER.]

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1917.

WHAT ABRAS WOMEN THINK OF PEACE.

FLASHES OF DEFIANCE MATCH THE GUNS.

BY PHILIP GIBBS.)

It was eurmously quiet at time-in Arras to day. The footsteps of my com

clumped panion were startling as they over the broken pavement of the squate, and voices women's voices--coming up

MOTHER ENGLAND.

FIRST BEGINNINGS OF TRUE

SOCIALISM

(BY: HAROLD" BEGBIE]

One thing stands out clear and distinct from all the confusions of this dreadful time

Women are greater than men knew.

The more I see of war work, the more greatness of women. Wherever I find a factory working with a minimum of slackness and a maximum of devotion,

in of the

HOME BULE CONFERENCE.

IRISH EFFORT TO REACH A SETTLEMENT,

An attempt is being made from Dublin to arrange a conference to settle the Home. Bulo question similar in many respecte to the conference arranged before the Bettlement of the land question by the passing of the Wyndham Act. A circular has been sent to the chairman of county Ireland signed by, among others, Lord councils and other public bodies in

Walter Kavanagh, D.L. Sir Algernon Coote Sir Nugent Talbot Everard, and Sir Gabriel Stokes.

are

Before the

One of the Brst things we ought to de after the war is to establish a National Jutelligence Department. This is not an ironic proposition, a jibe at Parliarcal (which ought, no doubt, to be our national Intelligence Department), nor & meer at the British intellect as a whole, On the contrary. Tam making a quite from some hole in the earth sounded high | do I feel the moral and intellectual Monteagle, K., Lord Macdonnell, Kr. praction, and simple suggestion. for und es great awful lonelines of utilising in time of peace the lessons we way, in this great awful renes ned are learning in war. An efficient In empty houses broken churches, ruined site of a General Staff and of an army in mansions cloistered once in flowers gar" ployees. Whet ver I find a successful.

The cxcalar says:Believing that all the field. It is of the highest importance dans behind high white walls, to know everything that can be known I went towards the women's voices as and economical work of social welfare, classes in Ireland were sincerely desirous shout the strength, the conditions, and in darkness go towards any glimmer there the direction in the hands of of finding a solution of the problem of the dispositions both of the enemy and of light for warmth of soul as well as women. Wherever I and a war charity Irish Government which will go as far as possible in reconciling divergent of idlied forces; and the duty of collect of body Some human creature lived still whose organisation and administration ing and collating

strike me as extraordinarily efficient, views, the gentlemen whose names Buch

seven in Arras ! information entrusted to a specially-trained body of from a vaulted cellar and stared at me, ployers of labour tell me that wemen

A woman same up a flight of stone stepa there I find women at the head Emappended to the circular met in Dublin with the object of considering whether men. But is it less important in peace to

to know what is passing in the and said, "Good day. Do you look for workers are quick to learn, are pleasant conference could with advantage be

to deal with, and manifest an intelligent called into being. minds of our neighbours, whether friend anything?

I look only into your cellar appreciation of the reason for discipline. The Grcular procects: ly or the reverse? Certainly not; it is of the highest practical moment from It is strange to find you living here. All Ladies in charge of hospital supply de recent rising most Irishmen watching our every point of view. Yet we are content alone perhaps."

"It is no longer strange'

nge to me. I have to tell me that their voluntary workers country's heroism in the field and marx- to have only haphazard and often mia-

show an amazing adaptability in going ing the spirit of comradeship which was leading glimpses into the mental proban here, as Aay, alone, all through from one class of work to another, and growing up between the men from Ulster censes of our foreign contemporaries. It the war, since the day of the first bom that they accept the rules and discipline and from the rest of Ireland had almost is nobody's business to colleet and bardment.

That was on October 8th, Before then I was not alone of the organisation in a most cheerful come to believe that out of the supreme arrange the evidenco; and the result is 1914.

spirit. And who that has visited our triala of many stricken fields there would that we remain either blankly ignorant was married But my husband was killed or worse, misinformed.

over there you see the place where the great military hospitals can doubt for a emerge some clue to a political settle-

fell Since then I am alone."!

moment that their efficiency is the workment after the war which all Irishmen What did we know of the German mind

women of Arras-one came now to devotion of nurses, both trained and rebellion and its consequences have We knew that ever since the Boer War stand by her side and nod at her tale voluntary, is the supreme spirit of those thrown a cloud of disappointment and the general feeling towards England had have lived below ground, coming up for establishmenta?

discouragement. Yet to many Irishmen been one of hostility; we knew that the light and air when there is a spell of

Socialism, as I understand it, is an that cloud is not without its silver lining. rapidly growing German navy was a such silence as I had listened to, and effcrt of the feminine spirit to right the and we believe that there exists through- deliberate menace to our safety; we knew going down to the dark vaults when a chaos produced by the monopoly of the out Ireland a more widespread desire

German foreign

a whole, that bumptious and blustering. But we another roof, or when German, gas steals masculine, It is the mother in humanity settling our political differences. In qur

crump through

than ever before to find some meane of wora ignorant of the fundamental and through the streets with the foul breath perceives that male rule meaus mechan recent domestic history we have striking essential fact of the situation-to wit, the of death.

isin, means a surrender to what are call-examples of the success which Irishmen colossal self-worship that had taken possession of the whole German mind--

ed the laws of political economy, means in conference have achieved not only in sacrifice of the heart on the altar of preparing the way for legislation, but bogey called Necessity. Socialism cries in creating such an atmosphere of mutual out with all the force and passion of helpfulness and goodwill that difficulties maternal love. There is no reason in all proviously regarded as insoluble have this suffering and pain; inequality is yielded to treatment, which has led to not forced upon us, injustice is not our far reaching and beneficial results. gunishment life is meant for beauty and joy, and if we would have it so, so it shall be.

in July, 19141 Nothing to the purpose,wo years and two months she and of the matrons and sisters, while the would accopt, Over these prospects the

PEACE POUR RIRE.

3EVOLUTION OF WELFARE WORK,

Then I asked her about the Kaiser's the conviction of unapproachable suport- offer of What did she think of

peace, ority to all other peoples, and of a con- that I wondered what her answer sequent right to world-mastory, No would be this woman imprisoned in doubt, we had been warned. Gerdarkness, hiding under daily bombard many

's Swelled Head"

had been the ments, alone in the abomination of desola: theme of such writers as Emil Reich and tion, J. A. Cramb; Mr. Leo Maxse had "Cr- It was strange how quickly she was

Indeed, these circumstances appear to many on the brain "; and the jingo Press caught on fire by a sudden passion. All

us to impose on all leading Irishmen the was tireless in mischief-making. But the tranquillity of her face changed, and

obligation of coming together and con the information supplied by the Ger there were burning sparks in her eyes.

sidering in friendly conference what is mauophobes was at best. fragmentary and She was like a woman of the Revolution, superficial, and most of it was tainted by and her

the best and most geoerally acceptable What would the manufacturers of mid-mean, of solving the problem that lies aleriar politil motives. There existed with a laugh, for she began her answer

was shrill ferce,

Victorian years have said of the Welfare before us. no scientific study of the German mind,

It is in this spirit that we Peace William offers pence, you kept up to date by qualified persons speci-say Bah! It is nothing but humbug Ilepartment of the Ministry of Muni ask your opinion as to the desirability of ally entrusted with the duty.

tions? What would the men who employ-holding such a conference. It need ed children in their mills have said of hardly be said that there is no intention How many people in England knew that, so long ago as 1808, Fichte bad said

bola Rowntree? Nay, what do some of mentary leaders. It is believed, on the the work now being done by Mr. See of going behind the recognized Parlia our contemporary manufacturers, such contrary, that such a conference, if manufacturers as you find paying seven brought together, could not fail to and eight shillings a week to children in strengthen the hands of those leaders, Ulster who cough and spit in those dread- and might bring about the settlement so ful linen mills, what do they say of this universally desired." Times (Deo, Ast,) Welfare work?

to his countrymen:

There are no two ways about it; if you founder, the whole of humanity founders with you, without hope of any possible restoration,

K

How many knew that, ever since 1870, the modern German mind had become more and more fatally obsessed by this iden; until self-aggrandisement by the most ruthless methods had come to be widely accepted as a sacred duty? How many knew that, from the Kaiser down wards, every German had deeply graven in his heart the couplet from Geibel which says that the whole world is one day to be healed by the beneficent Ger. How many realised that

blague). It is a trap which he sets at our foot to catch us. It is a lie.", other hand pointed to the ruins over the She grasped my arm, and with her way to the chaos of old houses, once very stately and noble, where her friends lived before the fires of hell came.

many

WHEN PEACE WILL COME,"

It is a revolution. It is the beginning, not of State interference, but of State

UNFOUNDED GERMAN

CHARGE.

The following is an extract from an interview which Herr Zimmermans, the German Foreign Secretary, is said to have given to a

"The Germans did that to us. They are doing it now. But it is not enough What they have done to Arras they want to do to France to smash the nation to the dust, to break the spirit of our race as they have broken all things here. They supervision, The State has interfered, wish to deceive us to our further ruin and very rightly interfered, in years

There will be no

peace until Ger-gone by; but now, for the first time in herself is laid in ages, and her the long story of English evolution, the cities destroyed like Arras is destroyed, State tself stands in the factory, works and her women left alone, with only in the factory, and is the living of the the gbosts of their dead husbands, as factory. The change is like the difference

then of Deutschtum

Je m'en fiche de had There was

ça!

difference between an absent, aloof and been carried to such a pitch that it is

a queer light in her eyes for rather displeased deity and a god who passible for millions of Germans to-day

moment, in the eyes of this woman of is in humanity and with humanity to hold quite seriously and sincerely that Arras who saw down a vista of two years struggling by us and through us towards Belgium ought to be grateful to Germany and two months all the fire and death beauty and goodness, for the Gormanisation" it has under that had been hurled into this city around her, and the bodies of little children in ganet It may safely be said that even

I do not mean for a moment that the The most fanation! Germanophobes did the streets, and her dead husband lying work of the Wellure Department has at not realise the existence of this amazing there on the cobble-stones. where now Lained the results which every lover of tribal pharisaista: yet evidences of it there was a great hole in the roadwayner must desire. We are still far from abounded in the literature of the past piercing through to the vaults.

WHAT THE CHILDREN LEARN,

live here alone in my cellar. Peace! between, Deism and Theism it is the the Transocean Servin of the Staff of

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twenty years, and ought certainly to have been brought within the ken of our states- men, qur publicists, and, indeed, of every thinking man.

It may be said that the important thing is not the collection of facts, but their interpretation, and that even if we had budd before us all the evidences of the German frame of mind, we should not

I met

anything like perfection. And perfection can never come until the workers the

a few other women of Arras, elins are impassioned with the desire as though for the boulevards of Paris, must interfere and supervise and en Two of them were young, daintily dressed for perfection. At present the State and they walked, swing in bed courage the workers. We are looking at bags, down a street where at any moment school rather than a community, with a shell might come to tear them to pieces the Ministry of Munitions as school- and make rags of them.

master.

One was a buxom woman with a little stalled in factories by the Ministry, have The had been born to the sound of shell fire,

reported in a Wireless message of December 10th:-

These facts, of course, justify the sus- picion that among other German steamers which are simply overdue or have not re- turned, several have perished in the same Of one case we know it from fashion.

the survivors: that of the steamer Kolga. In this case soven human lives were lost, marines calmly steered around the sink and the aurvivora stated that English sub- ing ship without even stirring a hand for the purpose of rescue. I merely refer to this in order to explain the feeling of promised the United States to carry on the German population. Germany has submarine was according to the interna

The

rules of cruiser warfare.

comment:

The reference to the sinking of the Ger

Kolga contained in the

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The lady superintendents, in-the following to the Admiralty makes have known what to make of them until boy and girl holding her hands. The boy to organise the workers, have to suggest mai steamship Press message of Decem the war interpreted them for us. TheThe git) was eight years old, but she now things for the workers, have to lead and i German peradoxist might even urge that ignor learns the history of France not only out tutor the workers. Nowhere do I find bor 19th alleges that English submarines. Saturday, 10th Feb But is less dangerous, then interpreted of school books, but out of this life in the the workers themselves organising their or misinterpreted knowledge. But this

midst of war. is precisely and definitely false, There hre, no doubt, dangers in knowledge, but they are less than the dangers of ignor auce. The man who sees may be dazzled

the sun or the search hights, may-mi- jule distances may subject to optical

Dasious; but after all, he moves througheem strange to them."

They are used to it all. Peare will Inare securely than the blind man Igoranco may be bliss, but it is never "Will there ever be peace" I asked. safely. The ostrich is fabled to act ou

FLASHES OF DEFIANCE. the contrary principle; but had that been

The woman of Arras looked for a mo. true, the race of ostriches would long ment like the one I had spoken to on the ago have been extinct.

stops of the cellar.. Then she smiled, in

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The tradition of the British Navy They are frightened the little ones 1" beaaty. We must wait for that till or throughout the present war and past cen shook the loose stones of a ruined house.

usked. A solitary gun boomed and whole system of education is changed

turies is sufficient in itself to refute such Bu in the meantime you may see in an allegation. No. Gernian ship bearing. The woman smiled and shrugged her this work of the Welfare Department the the name of Kalyn has been sunk by a shoulders.

I call it, of de feminine spirit, that beginnings or Socializm-that effort, as British submarine, reaching out of the mother in Lumanity towards her children. Mr. Rowntree has. done most, valuable work in this respect, and with more money at his disposal would have done even greater work still

mist:

must be liberally endowed. The sale of. the annual reporte could scarcely be exters in Arras, with a

the women who lived in collars away back pected to cover, not only the expenses of

smouldering publication, but the salaries of the men passion in the gloom and coldness of their who produced them. They must be some-

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Boma mea and many women feel tired all the time. This is not natural. Fatigue following work or great exertion in normal, but to be constantly tired in dicates a diseased condition, usually thin Whisky is the whisky with a blood. Backache usually accompanies this state of the system, growing popularity, because its Buch qufferers are usually pale has not elegant flavour is solely due to transparency of the skin is increased, in original fineness developed by Age. dark people it is decreased and, the co-

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or play to them, and in the evening there will be concert. I noticed that the excel lence of these arrangements depends a way that made me feel cold, for it was He has seen to it that the conditions of almost entirely on the personality of the It is Got a Government department

the smile of a woman who sees a ven-nationally controlled factories shall be lady superintendent. It amused me to Or He has installed hear from an obviously hard humane conditions. that I proposa A certain diplomatic geance for the wreckage of her life. politeness and reticence must be main- "There is no peace at Verdun," she said.lady superintendents in these factories unimaginative lady superintendent that "Our soldiers have done well there" whose duty is the human welfare of the the girls are not interested in such might lead to difficulties if a department I said good day to her and went workers, And wherever it has been matters, while next door a lady super of State were to publish sincere and through the ruins again and out of the possible he has created in the neighbour intendent full of sympathy and gentle searching annual reporte on the process city, and stood watching an artillery duel hood of these factories large hostels for ness will have music at the meals and of thought in other countries; Yet the up towards Soucher. The stabs of flame the workers-hu's for their sleeping, will tell you that the girls love their works tast not be left to individual enter in things were like red sparks canteens for thei, eating, and recreation entertainmonta, prise It is a form of research which they were like the fire in the eyes of poms for their amusement

A girl can have a dice gabicle, share in the amenities of the recreation rooms, and get all her mouls for 13s a week. To give you some idea of these under This is a veritable triumph of organisa takings I visited a factory in the Mid-on, and when the recreation rooms are This condition of this blood, which doc Tands whose milk bill for their canteen is better, and a more resolute effort is made tors call anemia is a dangerous one if £500 a month. At the another, so perfect to develop the girls love of dancing, allowed to progress; but with propor to very great There are men to-day at one of the chief advantages of the system seated, and served with dinner in seven efort iade to mix the sexes in happy and Dr. Williams pink pills for pale poople is the organisation, that 3,000 girls are mate, and acting, and a more intelligent treatment it may be speedily corrected. and Cambridge, at the other Uni that thought would be at oro stimulated versities, and at the Britis Museum, who and restrained by the knowledge that it minutes. In going round the factory of healthful amusements, the triumph will contain pet the elements needed to build the blood and restore the lest colour White & Poppe, the tady be complete. It is the greatest mistake and vitality. New energy circulates do all, or nearly all, the quisite read would come, for purposes of registration. ing: only their work is not systematised, and co-ordination, within the cognisance superintendent said to me, must show in the world to caforce anything like a hrough the system with the enriched and they have (with rare exceptions) no of a body of trained and (so far as pos- you our soap room," and pening a floor separation of the sexca,

blood, the heart stops it, alarming pal- inducement to note their observations, sible) impartial, objcctive observers. If invited me to enter a considerable room But what I desire to put on record is and no opportunity for publishing them other nations adopted a similar system which was filled with soap from foer this:-A real and most encouraging start pitating, and the colour returns to pale

Nothing more The requisite reports might in fact, be the result, would be a heightened Eum to ceiling. You have no idea," she has been made in true Socialisin, and the handle is needed except sunlight, a mero by-product of already existing pean self-consciousness that might be of said, how much soap is required for a nation cannot be too grateful to Mr. political and sociological scholarship, enormous value. We should all enjoy the family of 5,000 When you Rowntree, and his devoted workers for the good air, proper food and rest. If you organised and moderately remunerated. advantage of seeing ourselves as others lixen, room and think of the laundry success of this beginning. I think that do not know exactly what rules to follow And what about British thought.t see us. We should think and we should work for such an establishment, it helps Coventry "would be the dreariest city in these matters write a post card to-day Should we have no annual report on that? write under a novel sense of respon you to realise the magnitude of such an Ne periodical conspectus of the forces at sibility. Perhaps even our Wild Men undertaking. work in our own insular 20d imperial might whoop a little more tenperately if brain! Why, certainly we should take they knew that their whoogs would be re care to have such a report. It would be corded and used in evidence against them.

(Continued at foot of next Column.) -Daily News.

*the actual effort involved. would not be

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Messrs.

At some of the factorice, while the girls are at their meals a person will sing (Continued at foot of next Column.)

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