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NATIONAL SERVICE IN

GERMANY.

EFFECTS ON INDUSTRY.

[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO THE

"DALLY TELEGRAPH.""}

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY OTI 1917

OUR PAST MISTAKES.

LORD SYDENHAM ON NEW MEN AND METHODS.

PROHIBITION-NOW!

ORGANISING GOOD PRODUC-

TION

BY PROF. J. Y. 31

SIMPSON, D.85., EDINBURGH.]

Professor Simpson has recently returned from a visit to Russin, during whick he wee the guest of the Grand Dake Nicholas in Trans Caucasia

THE

AUSAGE" IN MESOPOTAMIA.

BY EYE-WITNESS.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO-DAT 8pm-Auction of Valuable easehold Pre- perty of Sales Booma, by Mr. Ges. P. Lammert, SRI

Saturday, 10th Feb.

THE NEW PROGRAMME

Lord Sydenham was admitted to the (DY EE GUREN, AUTHOR OF THE AWAKEN honorary freedom of the Worshipful Com-

ING OF ENGLAND, ETC-), pany of Painters on December 13th, and was afterwards entertained at Insolcon. It is good revs not only to the people Mr. Hallam Williams, the Master, Pr

the Master, pre-of the British Lales, but also to our

The scope of the measure is simple, London, in matters of commerce and in ing a greater supply of home-grown food sought to bup back to the old way of high, she directs our troops, depresses the Today 13th

Sydenham, said the City oflice that we are going to set our own house in order in organising and creat provides that all male citizens between dustry, did not command the weight The dilettantism of sending out pious recollection of the abandon of that init enemy, and, as one hopes, paralyses his Noon-Hongkong, Canton and Boso Steam:

On December 3th the German Imperial Parliament adopted a bill to enforce national porvios throughout the empir

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of

the ages of 17 and 30 who have not been the councils of the nation that it had a called up for service with the colours

right to claim and exercise. Sound shall be liable to patriotic auxiliary

How had Russia fared under her second year of vodka prohibition Had grown tired of the restriction and

sherifice! It was worth while going to things, perhaps a little mortifed at the

see what had happened, even if there A complete answer would be long and detailed, and I do not propose to set it pretty much the lines of the answer of

The Sausage, or Kite Balloon, is one of the latest scientific developmorts which has found its way to the oldest country and lens to the Army. Most mornings -in 110 world She is run by the Navy.

and evenings, when the wind is not too

omniscience initiative with her menacing air of

11 -The Kowloon Laud and Building

Co., Ltd., Mesting of Shareholders, Neon-Humphreya Batate and Finance Co Ltd, Meeting of Shareholders at the Hong kong Hotel

sorvien for the duration of the war. Aquirement was the most important re: Ofici in taking skilled mun essential to had been no other interest rain, one can see 45 miles from the Monday.

what is patriotic auxiliary service 1 · ̈· It

bout Co.,

Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders. Wednesday, 14th Feb.

1216 p.m.--Ladies Recreation Club, Annual

General T

&Co Ltd General Mecking at the Office of Messrs Lowe,

2nd Feb,w Noon Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders at the Offices of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson

City Hallg

circulars to farmers has come to an end; and the disastrous policy of the Wer of Governments, and it was to the production of food and therefore to is defined in the Act ge service with he hoped that after the war knowledge the welfare of the Army is to be chucker. public authorities or in public institu- such an existed in the City on buginess altogether reversed. The uses subjects might come by its own. If wo tions in war industrice, in agriculture,oted back on the past 2 years we saw and his farm are to be put on the sumo down bore. Nevertheless, it would follow mirage with its old atmospheric effects:- i aurting, or in any other capacity that much of which the British people might footing as the manufacturer and his is directly or indirectly connected with be proud, but also much, of the same time na we created fication the nation most deeply con zon, so objects appear more fore the war The Government also promised caused alarm and dismay. Never

factory. This should have been done, of a year ago, but with a certain intens shapes shimmer on a mor) distant hori Bincham & Matthews. the Reichsing that, though not : mentioned in the Act, h

tory had the fighting power of our race the Muditions Department, but we vinced that the right and only possible dentists, la

been so severely tested and shore so glad even at this late nize that the new insurance brightly. No nation over before found Fresident of the Board of Agriculture, Journalists, and those or at a time of emergency and no Empire policy which in its fruition will result educa more than 4,000,000 volunteers for service Ms. Rowland E. Prather, has outling, tional work would hot

called upon for service under the Act, in history had ever rallied to a great in a closer equality of sacrifice between

cause our Empire had done. the authority charged with carrying clone women Phelping the work those who produce shells and those who

produce food War Department in the Prussian Wer Ofice, a sort of rough parallel to our vast gifts of money to all war

Tawyers

azom

however," burew out a Boy or two to the

acheutu--considerably modified, however

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these wo

thing had been done, and individuals the lose ones, as the Russians pathe trying to circumvent the law by means of tically call them-more determinedly

deleterious substitutes. According to the investigation made by the Society of Mill and Factory Owners in the Moscow District (2915), there was a small but

To Mesopotamia in very clear air after Bausage. But under ordinary, cond tions one does not entirely escape the The only difference is that the elusive

shortened than they do from an aeroplauc at an elevation of a thousand feet higher. One lazy day Kus rises and falls like The extreme cloration the "Sausage the folds of a concertina, r

can reach is 3,000 feet. Its lift is a hare 600 lbs, and above this height it would be dragged down by the weight of its cable. Cold nights following hot days

2

there

always fighting to get to the oxygen in

impor

canvas

To the vulgar eve the Bausage" offers no suggestion of tielicacy and it is to be regretted that our ribald troops call it ugly names. If the aeroplane is the most graceful machine that man has achieved. the Sausage is the unlovely, A Bequet Experimental, hovering and loop-

Monday, 26th Feb,

Turkiay, 27th Feb

Hongkong Races-1st Day, Hongkong Races-2nd Day. Wednesday, 28th Feb

Hongkong Rates Ord Day- Saturday, Srd March

10th March

Day.

12.50 p.m.-Hongkong and South China de onto the Lignide toss, New Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd, General Meeting Government Building.

out the new scheme is the especially set-up vital needs of the troops in the field, the No patriotic farmer who has the cause noticeable increase in efficiency among contract the gas which loses olasticity. Ministry of Munitions. While in this War work undertaken by thousand the

whose of victory at heart, and who does not the workers as the result of prohibition. The rubber and cotton fabric, of the bal Batarde Races Off 3 country both the Ministry of Munitions 386 or sex prevented their

the want to make a fortune out of the dire But that investigation dealt only with loon is not a perfect container, and Joint Boryico are under curl control, Na ces be prosti, on these wo bad a sight to should do anything else but welcome the after two years, the influence of profit

s to necessities of his fellow countrymen the first few months of the war. To day, is constant diffusion as the bydrogen is

many the corresponding department

are in Gert the conduct of the war a tho under the thumb of the military authori handling of the many questions which the Government of supplying wheat at The increase of efficiency of labour in take a featherweight observer up, but he war and the proposal of entering into a contract with bition is sean to be very much greater the air. When the gas is reduced to 60 per cent, it has just enough buoyancy to ties It is significant of the change that war raised had so far been simply deplor. the bigh price of 00s. a quarter, and oats the factories must now be taken to generally leaves his boots on the ground. has come over German political ideals able. The reasons were obvious. We and potatoes, and probably barley, at amount to between twenty and thirty Every pound of weight saved is imp that the Reichstag put up a fight against were unprepared against a well-prepared figures commensurately reinumerative per cent, while different plants have tant. The small light basket of can the military control. The Government, enemy,

and to the last Ministers were

us there was no danger. We had EPATE CONTRÚI, OF FARM LANDA. been increasing heir production for the and wicker can only hold two observera more amenable labour sections, and red to wage war on a vast scale

sule reason that labour is more efficient under the most favourable conditions, and methods which had grown up in of relief that he no longer is to be harass quality of output. All the representa glasses and compass. The hydrogen is Ivory farmer will experience a sens and better both as regards quantity and they mount with little, besides their went through. The exclusion from the peace, sed the country lacked leadershiped for labour. The price guaranteed for lives of our industrial circles express the prepared from caustic silical and stored Art of trade union oficials speake

pitted our amateurs against the Ger- volumes Labour was also won over by non professionals, with results that were what is a profitable one. It is now opinion that the workers are more conm the little nurse balloons of thick canvas being given representation on the three inevitable. Mistakes were always made matter of County Councils War Com scientious in their work, with the result which receive it in a condition which kinds of local authorities set up all over in war) but we had made no mistakes maitees, working in conjunction with the that the products of their labour have would injure the more delicate fabric of the country for the purpose respectively naval or military, in the past 2 years Land Valuation Department, to map out finer finish, and fewer of them are bad the Sausage. of (1) determining how the Act shall be which the study of naval and military every field in every county, and to get This is the more remarkable, for the interpreted, (9) putting it into effect, and history might not have iverted to motor driven ploughs, cultivators, potato workers were themselves in general of (3) acting as umpirs in certain miss

eventuali

The new arrangements following on the diggers, self-binders, and other imple- an inferior class, the better artisana political

crisis had two great advantages ments handed over to them as quickly as having been early called to the colours, It is obvious that the

The categories of

small Cabinet, which ought to have possible from our controlled engineering Notwithstanding the very hurd coudi employment mentioned in the Act require been set up in August, 1914, would be able works. With each machine should go ations of labour, due to the war, the work further limitation What work comes

te to arrive at quick decisions, and the men skilled engineer thoroughly conversanters have a much niere healthy and bright within the neuing of the Act 1 Does, for who composed it were likely to be able with ita parts, and his staff of unskilled appearance, and so ou Those sentences ing and banking, and wheeling and spiral- example, the paper industry or the to make up their minds as their presistants (who will probably he lads) florists business And if a firm or dessura did not before it was too late, and one or two husbandmen who should are a free translation from a recent rong to earth, does not merely rival a bird

UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS. industry is included in the Act, has it the by previous training and experience had they were skilled, to handle new and on the Prohibition of Alcoholic Bever-sausage which has burst its skin in the journal wrote to the editor, asking why

the Among the new Ministers were some who never have left food production, at which part sent by the Minister of Industry or dragonfly in grace; it is an inspired and Commerce to the Special Commission put the flated into movement

intelligence there too many employees on the stuffs of ontained cowlodge which waited a ne strange implements of war. ages. Of the effects of the change upep frying pan. In the air it tops and web- she was peerish, blue and discontented, most like a One of the readers of a popular healtu the various Government offices or special departure (laughter and cheers), and the Mr. Prothero's policy of controlling the every aspect of life, social and mora bies. The tail which is contrived to and his answer will inferent all "bin

in their posts. That constituted a new war companies? To answer these and similar questions local authorities acceptance of a principle which would ap-cultivation of farm land instead of much has already been written, and there steady it and keep head to the wind only people we (described above as No. 1) are to be set pool to the City of London. Perhaps when embarking upon the adventurous scheme is nothing to modify makes it look more helpless and unwieldy.

dear My nil over the country, consisting of a peace returned this principle might sur in war time of reclaiming the waste is & In the Rasstan Budget for 1914 the On the ground as it is being dragged into you write that you are thin and do not reader," he said, "whes նր military man as chairman, two higher and

we should no longer agree that sound one, for what we are obliged to do estimated revenus from vodka was put its tent often by a cadre of eighty men weigh what you should, you have given grade civil servants, and two representa: any politician was fit for any pods which is to produce as much food as we possibly owned ning buzdred and thirty-six-it looks like a gigantic hawk moth me the real cause of your unhappy tool ves each of labour and capital. All the he was able to obtain takes of suggest that, without any further loss of of Finance showed me how by the emerged insect even to the sheen on its this would give 6 quieting and reassuring That would be a sn in the shortest time; and I would million roubles; but the Russian Minister chrysalis, whereas the aeroplane is the ings. If you only had a reserve of lat members of these bodies are appointed by permanent nation gain. tho War Department, but the Government the first class (and we had made

influence to the vital "forces, and you protumed to appoint the representatives could never be wholly redeemed in war: hmmons persuasion or baricting, the introduction of new taxation and the wings to

The task before the new Government was lack of capital or sheer slackness or love sing of old taxes, all that money But like 30 many obscene images the ba

be happy. contenteda

and of the employers and the employed from one of tremendous dificulty, and might of sport we know to have been under ordinary Budget for this year showed one eaters its tent one is reminded of the per distribution of fat on the body and lists

optimistic, tvenna by the organisations Got grant that it had not been undertaken onltivated before the war should be no deficit, but, on the contrary, a credit rich hangings of a Tibetan temple or limbs makes all the difference between Then, too, you realize that the pro- each. Moreover, ap

appenis“ against the debisions of these local bodies are allowed too Inte

immediatly acquired by the State and balance. The whole procedure seemed Chinese foss house. The dark olive green beauty and ugliness, and you envy your caltivated for the bonent of the whole one for congratulation from beginning monster is hound horizontally to earth plump friends. As a liberal Allowance The scheme will be set into operation extensive delicacies argue that, as wiwitavat hesitation. In dealing, however, something more. Whereupon the Minister, sun awning, which glows like a glass of 16 enable us to bear some of the trials of nation. That should be step taken to end, and I said so, and perhaps beneath a rose tinted actinic-ray-proof of fat is one of nature's wise precautions a dollows:-The War Department will is necessary, food, they should not be with the Farmer, who, it is apparent, has replied, as calmly and usually as a man Pommard held up to the light The lits, you should do all in your power to

a general appeal for voluntary forced to close their doors. The gold been handicapped during war time might talk about the weather, I underous tail of the beast is

depleted enlistment for national service. If smiths assert that they, at any rate, ma through the shortage of labour, the offer stand from so-and-so that the private of air and tucked under its gross belly get fat.I know nothing so valuable. this appeal does not meet with an fron crosses, and should for that reason

The enimist or polytheist who discovered make people fat as a pre adequate response men will be called up be placed under the heading of national in my opinion, should be made to the vested interests in the spirit trame in this new mumbo jumbo and peeped and PAREN individually by means of a form issued service. One and all declare that if farmer of doing the work himself (pro Britain are so strong that it was not through the inspection holes into the dim From the standpoint of

Sargol prepared The Skrgol of by a second local authority, described uxury, trade shut down, the State will vided he can obtain sufficient labour); of possible to do the same as here. Ap interior of its howels would forsake his is essential, as it has great value as a

requisito number of employees! Are

presented

vive,

to a contral body, whose award is final deve

HOW THE SCHEME WORKS.

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carnings in the new employment under the execution of the orders.

of acres which through

engaging the Government's machines and men; or of the Government taking over the renting of the fields.

had been already replaced, so that the |“ Bausage" is beautifully shrived. As

parently a disnguished. Ally and Minister f Finance believed that we in these islands had to accept the present state of things in regard to these liquor interests just as we accept the weather. In the spring of last year the Government faced up to the situation. but it shrank from the issue there was

convinced leadership, no vision as

whole Pantheon on the spot.

A FAMOUS BOOTHSAVER S

PREDICTION.

The l'emps quotes an announcement

to what the right to victory implied, taken from a provincial paper of the And ever since that date our cause bas death at her small property neat gene steadily back The fact is unchal Menng, of Madame de Thèbes, the lengeable. To some it is a mere coin famous soothsayer, in her and hear. By cidence to others it has become an in- all clasace of society the propliccies of imation that, after all, whether we like Madame de Taches, which were publish

eagerly reach. She did not belong to the class of diviners of the future who always see horrors and evils ahead, but, being above all patriotic, the future she foretold for the enemies of France was

One of the most important provisions to discover the average production control, I think it will be fair to allow it or not, wo zre kving in God's world, ed caen year about Christmas time, were

undertakes to do this trecessary work,

DEALING WITH SMALL FALNS

to

of

reserve force, and saves the other tissues from destruction. So, by all means try to get fat.”

A S. WATSON & CO., LTD., VICTORIA D19PENAARY, *** THE PHARMACY,

QUIN'S DIEPENKARY, LES EDWARD Distinsist,

PETER

67-4

DAWSON'S

above ng No. 2, and composed and suffer & serious diminution of income, appointed very much like the first. On ludlords will be deprived of their rent, receipt of this notice the man is bound and Germany will be on the downward to find antional work within a fortnight. path to Bonomie ruin.

In the event of the farmer agreeing to If he does not succeed the local cam- ATTITUDE OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR do the work himself ho should give a mittee (No. 9) will find it for him. It is But if luxury trades are likely to suffer guarantee that an will produce at least expressly stated that in determining in consequence of the Auxiliary Patriotic as much wheat, oats and potatoes as he where to put a man the local body shall Service Act, war industries will take in did in 1916, bad if the Government have regard to his age, family, circum a rich harvest. The new law will make inspectors find that these crops are not stautes, health, place of residence, and it possible to expand output to the utter sewn by cortain dates the fields should previous Occupation. As a point of most. The state will not only give these be immediately controlled by the Cover special importance wages are mentioned. industries orders, but it will also provide ment. Where the farmer declares his The committes shall see to it that the them with the nethsary labour power for willingness, but his inability, to cultivate the national service scherao shall be question has ariect of limiting profits on more land with crops that are essential, adequate to maintain the man and his war contracts. The State is about to take and the Government takes immediato dependents.

costs, to standardise these, and to add the farmer certain payment for work of that ultimately it is a moral world, of the scheme is that no person may to the 10 per cent for profits. The supervision, provided, of course he and that a nation that deliberately employ anyone already engaged on work great German captate of adustry, it is

thinks, and acts as if it thinks, that men in national service except on production | needless to add; ere up in arms against

and munitions are the only thing, that of a a leaving certificate from his last this proposal. Such is the patriotism of

matter will never win the war. The only employer stating that the holder left the the German industrialists If, however, It is an easier problem to deal with leaders who have had the vision and variably a lurid one. Her fifteenth situation with the employer's consent. If they cannot be tapped in this wa has been suggested this is the real profits will be skiumed by means of a State undertakes farming on its own men who bave stood most closely to the few days ago, and in this latest prognos -way, their large farms than with small ones when the courage to say so plainly are the two and last armanc was issued only a that Jackbone of the enactment, and its aim is very attitude of labour remains to ho all farms are unsuitable for the intro Beaty and Sir William Robertson For cad in the spring 1017.

tight war profits

account The hedge-divided fields of sterities of the war Sir David sidation she predicted that the war would to restrict the free movement of labour, Should a master refuse to give a leaving soon. The Labour party in the Reichstag duction of most tractors. For squall the rest, we are invited, eg, to listen certificate without just pel authority scheme but the Labour party has ceased instituted in districts where small it restaurants, whilst we know that way. In Russia, clear as the Edinburgh

apparently satisfied with the new farmers and small holders depots should to Ministerial talk about reduced meals f may appeal to a third described above as No. 3, and composed to represent and re-echo the true feelings fators are numerous, at which small hundreds of thousands of tons of grain Castle Rock from Princes Street, may like the other two, which shall consider or lapour in the country. The Socialist holdere could not only borrow machines and inmenso quantities of sugar are

complaint and, where necessary, issue minority alone does that, and the Bocialist such as self-binders, mowing machines, still to be retained to provide a pro- moral energy into the life of that nation; Evidence of an inflow of leaving cortificate itself. This local minority was opposed to the measure.

be seen the authority (No. 3) shall also settle indus Competent observers assert that the fre- pedato-ploughs and liggers, but also duct that diminishes genuine efficiency in the strength of which it has endured trial disputes.

quent bread riots in Germany will now vases suitable for the work. I am told and clogs the wheels of victory. How and continues to overcome its myriad be accentuate Act,

by riots against the that in some districts there are many can people nursing such insinosritics The need for the measure arises partly In the meantime, the first request for suficient labour to work them on farms lieve in an irrational, unmoral world, or Minister at his desk, you will always horses turned out because there is not at its heart expect to overcome! To be difficulties. With whomsoever you may from the labour shortage in Germany voluntary colistment under the Act was There is one point in which (though nut and that is what we are doing. We find lim, as he speaks about his coun partly also from the thinning ranks of issued on December 12th at Magdeburg. & teetotaler) I must strongly disgree with think we can make our studied calculatry, comung back to the story of that reserven in the field. The wonderful This epoch-making document is worth Mr. Frotbero, and that is in his defence tion about men and munitions and shut initial victory as the great, factor in victory recently achieved by the French quoting in some detail. Persons whom of brewers in the use of grains, which our eyes to the inconvenient moral issues. at Yordan rather points to lack of the Act applies are requested to volunteer. He says are es necessary for the prodne We think we content mong pirits the war. As the result of it the Buaian that is

Yes while every industry in Germany for the following kinds of work, if they tion of milk. Now, though farmers use and at the same time win the weArmy and the people are absolutely

going—industries almost are specially qualified entirely limited to turning out material barracks; (2) red (1) Watchtoon at both dry and wet grains in feeding their carmot Vision for victory will not be one fused in the fire of a common Jabour my all tell the same tale of a military workshops, military laundries, insary, sten in wartime for the production vonhated to us in our cups, but on our sacrifices in sections and detach Whisky is the whisky with a

sacrifice, "As yet we have been making 18. shortage Women are employed military stores, and nursing in militery of milk in winter. There are many dairy our knees everywhere; they do work within their hospitals; (3) Olerk and typists, as well farmers who never use grains at all, and Owing to a variety of circumstances, selves, we have given of our goods; some

growing popularity, b because its physical their strength Prisoners

capacity, and work far beyond as printers, bookbinders, and compositors; though I admit ther are about the cheapest a more generally accurate knowledge of have surrendered on great principles elegant flavour is solely due to

of war, too, (4) especially the Russians, labour for the messengers, and persons to do

Telephone operatives, postmen, food for cows at the present moment, they the stafel affairs in Germany will prob like that of Compulsory Service. But Germans, and the sla

slave-drives from

(e) Guards (6 pret esential, and many farmers are ably, be found to obtain in Petrograd we have done nothing voluntarily to original fineness developed by Ago. Officers' Belgium only

servants; and

for producing milk

all Wine milk economically without the than in London and the conviction is gether as it people, and there in appar Obtainable from testimony to the same railway lines and bridges. The remark use of grains. The use of eat cakes in borno in upon me that this nation is ently one thing that we cannot give up Merchants. bear hard toad, Germany must reorganise horable thing about this appeal is that keeping up the albuminoid man power. The soldiers at home will be though, women are not subject to the Act, become very popular, and with the

at present drifting in the direction of We have not, the will to do so, and transferred to the front, and their place they are eligible as volunteers for work and the continuous cropping of our too old or unfit for military service; and The local rates of wages are offered to should be possible to approach nearer to to blame. The question is not whether to make a common sacrifice and rise to the apocifically war industries will

will be those who are taken, and anyone, who Germany figure of 28 tons of mille from we can attain the vision and the power given an necretion of labour power ther male or female, engaged on national every 100 acres in place of our meagre 17 to win. We can. The solo question is,

That the scheme will revolutionise the service will be distinguished by wearing tons, acres in place of fur meagre

Are we really in earnest industrial system of Germany is obvious a black and white armlet, with the words The Government has rightly insisted One of the mais interests in the Russia Already the luxury traders are trombling" in their shoes, and it is amusing Patriotic Auxiliary Service upon it. upon a certain price in the sale of mills of to-day 18 18 witness conscious and voluntarily sacrifice the people will go on ONGKONG HANBARD REPORTI

much discussed scheme is tus in and hay To get cheaper milk, pork, unconscious, to a moral fact, And that herve how intent they are to prove Lint operation. It remains to be seen whether heel and mutton there is on thing Mr fact is part of the very essence of life their particular branches are vitally it will become as unpopular and dis- Prothero should do, that will no doubt from important for Germsa economic life. The credited as the War Food Office and the inevitably follow as an outcome of his Calvary, viz, that only by sacrifice and the far-off Cambrain days – to fashionable tailors are at pains to show numberless special war companies which vigorous policy, and that is to control there in the power to progress and that tailoring is one of the jugularra standing monument of Germany's prices of millers supplying offala, corn overcome be attained, and evil be put industries of Germany. The retailers of incapacity in the art of effective organise and care to those who are producing mear

mary fo good to pourquia) tion-Daily Telegraph.

Conturned of foot of oras column.)

WHY THE SCHEME WAS ADOPTED.

kept

National

grains are not at all

care to talk, be be soldier in the trench

ments, Our soldiers hayo offered them

at dome will be taken to civilians either under headings (2) (3), and (4) above, especially of our poor. TINS inconclusive

peace. If this prove to accordingly were not the power

and milk

be the case, we shall only have ourselves win. But the moment that we decide

the challenge of the hous, it cannot but be that the law of the life that overcomes will re-assert itself, all things will become new, and in the invuls of fresh energy rising from the consciousness of

SOLE AGENTS? HRUTTONJEE & SON. [99

ON BALE

to victory. We can win the war, but not LEGISLATIVE.

Sof the MESTINGS on the terms that we have hitherto B101 1915

UNCIL thought were ours to make with the world VIGED BY THE MEMBRES in which we find ourselves. And this is not pessimist rightly conceived, it is the only optimism which is worth while

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