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NO TUCKED UP TROUSERS IN GERMANY

[BY O, D. STELLING.]

To judge by the fantastic stories of lilo in London that appear in the German Press it is clearly & part of the Prussian news-manipulators' policy to comfort their credulous publics with harrowing stories of the plight of their

the

it. it tion for England. The officers and men

or

ory will know that, as a matter of faet, A FREE WORLD OR A

the Russian methods are not so very SLAVE WORLD,

strange after all. Almost exactly what is of Russia has not merely to establish happening at Riga, and no doubt en

other fronts, happened in the Army

this for liberty internally; she has to secure art Cromwell. Any one may

Papers, New regulations for putting the Ger of all test in its beginnings it shall not himself in the valuable Clerke

Uermany Happily this simple fact people on clothes rations, far more be overwhelmed from the outside by which were published by the Camden shorthand reports geeins to be generally recognized in Sapely some twenty years go.

Papers tre virtually. the efforts of re of the debates in the * Co

Council of drastic than any restrictions hitherto im- posed, came into force on April let, Russia in spite of They not only limit in minute detail the totidings As the rear proceds ix Army as to the drafting of a Constitu number of garments which all permons does not indeed change its character, but discussed freely such questions by the presents some napocta in a new and Lords veto, redistribution, the enlarge from infante upward may possess, but it

much higher light. No one could ment of the franchise, and so on. Crom- arch-enemy. If some freak of chance,

determine the precise amount of stuff hesitate now to say that all the Allied well, Ireton, and Fairfax wers there, but chabled a newspaper-reading German to

which may henceforth be used for making peoples feel in their hearts that they are in the presence of those great leaders and visit London in these days cae may ple

suits or dresses. The object of establish ghting to pull down the last castle of

autocracy among civilized men. The war any other officers, simple soldiers were ture his amazement at the discovery that

stilling maximum quantities" of cloth is is for popular government. It is for not afraid to rise and put in shrewd ob- no mention the names of the plain sol popular government against personal sections, Generally the reporter does

read

that the Houses of Parliament are still stand to put a stop to extravagant fashions.”

A Salciinter-" ing on the banks of the Thames, that. The following list of adequate ward government and that is only another diors who spoke," there are still quite a large number of robes for men and women has been off-way of saying, what was said from the bufferoute.

ge number of cially fixed, and no further supply of any outset, that it is a war for national vened. Their interventions are full of creature, as people living in London, that even the of the articles described may henceforth liberty. The Allied nations feel that they sound sense; the Puritan soldier stands

never again trust their fortunes forth as a genuine

Jacobin theatres are open and the music of Wagner be purchased without special permits, and and their lives to the caprice of a clique little like the word

proof of necessity --

with an Irresponsible at the head of it as he was like the pleasure-loving, reck- Everyday suit

who

assorts a preposterous claim to less soldier of fortune who roamed over Divine right Russia found that she the Continent in the seventeenth century. could not on with the war without The debutea came about because the

her own

mireaucratic autocracy Cromwellian Armies were determined not bringing to an end, although Taazism had many to disband until Farliament had accepted qualities which are a Constitution and the Puritan soldiers and kindly paternal

Bortos of negations were foreign to the rigid From the in vain. That is an extraordinarily close assured that they had not fought that constitute Kaiserism,

happening Dow moment that Taaris fell Kaiserism was parallel to what is

rtior, doomed. We believe that Russia The Russian soldiers began the daily in Russin it is being more clearly Revolution in Petrograd. They mean to that if the terrible hand of see it through, and they are setting to recognized er allowed again work in what was once the English way, believe, to be the to reach into the centre of Russian life, and will

successful

sian way. freedom will be expelled And the only succes

We must trust the Russians, then to safe war of settling the matter is to make sure that all danger is ended by sooner manage their own business The Times or later ending autocratic rule in Gercorrespondent quotes the most moving words of M. Makogon to the soldier delegates at a meeting in the Cathedral Makogon is a member of the Duma and a peasant farmer:

without

is played as the concert-halls, and that

neither Yoast seagull nor stewed dach shund figures on the menu of most restaur

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Sunday auft Overcoat or cape Smocks or jerseys Waistcoats

Working trousers, paire Working aprons.... Winter gloves, páir Handkerchiefs Shirts ... Veste Nightgowns Drawers, pairs: Socke

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WOMEN.

dress

Sunday dress Single skirt Blouses....... Cloak or capo ShawI Dressing gown Aprons

can

a

the

many

get

at that such

We

said, withou

in

Let us suppose Herr Pumpernickel itin arrive at Charing Cross and to wander about in search of the evidences of de- pression, desolation and destruction that: perusal of his thrice-daily Zeitung hare led him to expect. Of course, he knows his Londen well, for was ho not under- manager of the Greater London Hotel in the days before the conflagration 1 He emerges from the station smacking his lips in appreciative anticipation of be holding a scene of gaunt havoc, looking

It is not to be forward pleasurably to the abomination of desolation. But, alas, for poor Herr

general motive as we have hero descrit Pumpernickel! He is doomed to disap

ed should result in Russia in strange pointment. Can he be dreaming? Here

manifestations of the overwhelming sense You soldiers," he said, is the mame old London before his eyes-

that liberty is all-important. A vast officers, are a herd of cattle; you officers, the same endless stream of traffic, motor

Empire revelling in and insisting upon without soldiers, are helpless. Unite freshly won rights Bure to express and avenge the memory of your brothers and pedestrian, the same general air. of business, the same crowds, the theatres

them in every variety of form characteris who have fallen; remember those who are tit of the amazing contrasts within its starving in German prisons; remember all open, the shops displaying their wares

borders. The headiness of political phil- the widows and orphang at home. Aro as attractively is ever, the same old

losophers who have much book-learning you going to be free men or German buildings and not a single one showing

fout

sons two bave fallen the slightest trace of a Zeppeli bomb, us

In the restaurants he can obtain almost Both men and women (including boys and little practical experience, the dog slaves? Of my any dish his pulate fancies except, on and girls) are limited to three pairs of matism of doctrinaires, the idealism of and two are among you, I shall curse certain days potatoes though he sheets or shoes, one pair of house-shoes an intellectualism long pent up, the them if they disobey their officers.

Then wo read that by a common im

their limited to two complete courses for or slippers, three pillow-slips, two sheets, backwardness of illiterate and super-you going to fight for your country? luncheon and three for dinner. His bill twa blankets, one eiderdown, three towels, stitious peasants-all these things in-

evitably appear as weaknesses in the pulse the soldier delegates lifted up two kitchen or dish towels, and three wighty attempt of the nation to find hands to the altar and oried We unounis to possibly half as much again dusting or cleaning towels and rule down to its new life swear, so God help us, to stand zogether

for a permit to re alcohol refreshment except between cer plenish one's tain hours. He sees khaki-clad men

Winter gloves, pair Handkerchiefs Chemises

Nightgowns

Knickers or Combinations, Petticoats

_________Stockings, paim

4

as in peave-time, and he cannot obtain Before he a person must tell-ponecure Icundations In our judg land to fight for our freedom and our

10 in civilian garb In Trafalgar the statutory number of articles he can Square he finds himself faced with monster hoardings reminding English men and highworker on the mend their country has for their services. His ticket at Charing Cross was taken from hin by a girl-collector, so he has been prepared, fox, the sight of neat and at. tractive women bus-conductors, women

themselves If that spirit holds in Russia, the dawn the Imperial Clothing Office what his pre-ment the British people will make a country. Are not those splendid words? everywhere, it is true, and few men underwent possessions are. It he already has great mistak if they allow festa will be no false dawn. The decision will

in be unduly alarmed by these not obtain permit to buy new ones. If tions. They were bound to occur. The stand that the mighty Slav nation shall

test

which we be composed of freemen, of slaves. judge whither the attempt to evolved the Buried propice will foot to over wholesome and stable democracy is going liberties are too precious to be exposed to wall or ill is the loyalty of the nation the mercies of Germans, or handed over men who to the Duma. Thore at least is something to the excesses of extremist at home, which is firmly rooted while everything They will go cautiously

ths later else is fluid The Duma for all the

said in one of the debates geographically of described in the Tlarke Papere when it restrictions imposed upon the franchise, what Cromwell cards. Let us quote the whole pa

nation

n. It is the nucleus upon was proposed that the Constitution le fairly representative

buildings of wood and cement

according

he have as to

urechetics supplicando herbal state rent he will be required to fill up a form and attest his statements over his sigan ture. False returns will be heavily every application for new apparel Finished commissionaires, women chauffeurs and if applicant must turn in the worn-out women employed in man's work of every ticles for which substitutes a sought "description. In the parks and Embank the case of garments to measure appli-, meut Gardens he sens big improvised unties of stuf pennissiofe Tour wives us up high top bend that should be broken and reconstructed from

the Russian sympathy of every cable to the call forth the deepest to

asian as to the English grown an it were, in a night, to house, Cus garments dissible for vari Kives us the highest hopes and is sure to top to bottom. The words are as appli

different sizes,

The authorities hope the Russian ple, is the fact that task

in Parliamentary

of all parties are And if so what do you think the con- this way to create a "uniform" clothing for both men and women. In working with, and through, and for the sequence of that would be! Would it fature only 3 yards of stuff will be Dama So long as that continues, all not be confusion? Would it not be utter allowed for a suit of clothes. In the case will probably go well. If we look at the confusion? Would it not make England ready-made clothing trousers may no history of revolutions, we shall see that like Switzerland, one country against longer be turned up, nor may overcoats there is no instance of a really repre- another as one canton of the Swies is such as that produce but an absolute desolation have belts or pleale. The maximum sentative body committing acts of naruguinst another And if so, what would

lond allowance for cloth may be exceeded only rowness, violence, or faanticism

to reaction and bring about the to the nation-Spectator. downfall of in the case of stout or very large per-

once-promising political for enterprises. The disastrous thing is sons.Dasly Mail,

the enormously increased staffs of Gov ernment offices,

Perhaps he notices, tos, an absence of news bills, and if he buys a morning newspaper he will find that it is either twice as costly or half as large sa in former days. If he reads it he will probably be amazed to see that writers express their views with the utmost freedom concerning the military situation, and are permitted to discuss strategy and tactice without basing their arguments on the assumption that the enemy leaders are fabulous ignoramuses while the Allied commanders are heaven-sent geniuses in whom a docile people must repose un questioning faith.

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Also Recruits of all companies under Tuesday, June thAmbulance Pistoon,

US. Majors No. 1

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Friday, June 8th. No. 3 Company. Also

Recruits of all Companies,

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the hands of any one group. It makes no difference that that group may seem reased over 60 per cent., and of his two ons one is lying wounded in a hospital to profess the highest kinds of reason. in London, the other is fighting someableness and magnanimity If it be hard All where in France. Ask him if he wants put to it to maintain its existence it "Peace." Ho will tell you Les will very likely violate all its principles At nightfall ho will be impressed by and add: "When we've finished tho on the pretext that it is really working the fact that the streets are notsp War" He is use the American politician to maintain them. It may become brilliantly lighted as in peace time, and who proclaimed recently (I am a genuinely blind in it, bigotry, but its tho interplay of searchlight rays on the Pacifist. I believe in Peace-at-any-price-bigotry is nous the less painful and indigo aky may appeal to his aesthetic and the present price is War. That is ruinous for that reason. In the French all sense (if he happens to have one), or may Mr. Smith's attitude, and he will tell Revolution the Terror was by no means the creation of a body representing all send his thoughts flying proudly to you that if he were ten years younger, he France, and using cruelty in order that reported achievements of the Zeppelins, would be out there with bis hoy in the humanity might ultimately prevail. It or else, perhaps, recall to him that by Picardy villages. As it is, he can only was substantially the creation of the the aid of these same searchlights somos do his bit by acting as special con

insculottes of Paris, and Paris was no Tuesday, June 5th Class 16 (Inspector. half-dozen airships met a ghastly end in stable and drilling with the volunteers more representative of all France then Gordon). as many attempts to terrorise London. on Saturday afternoons. Mrs. Smill, than it is to day. If it be said by critics Wednesday, June 6th-Class 10 (Chief

If he is moved to visit the vast areas too, hates war and all that it means, of the Dumo, inside or outside Russia, Inspector Kerr). of destruction created by these aerial but, after all, a few deprivations don't that owing to its electoral basis it is a Thursday, June 7th-Class 14 (Inspector Mesengers (vide German official reporta) mattor very much, and her boys have hopelessly narrow Assembly the answer Friday, June 8th-Class 12 (Inspeetox he will have to seek long to find any shown themselves Englishmen, There's is surely that it was anthems to every Friday, June Londoner who can direct him, and plenty to keep her mind occupied the reactionary The one precaution the Grant) o Gually, after & journey of many miles be household and the visits to her wounded reactionary bureaucrats always wanted will arrive at a little street in an outly boy, and the weekly parcel and daily to take against liberal tendencies was to A

prevent the Duma from meeting. Of ing district where one or two men letter to France, and her visits to the houses and their innocent occupants were hospitals, And, anyhow, we can thank course it has been announced that a Cou stituent Assembly half decide upon the destroyed by bomba And perhaps, God those brutes were never let loose he is a really intelligent German, he may among Englishmen That's a thought to future form of government, and we must wait upon that for every detail. But the ask himself whether all those wondrous keep us going till we've taught them

fact remains that all along the Doma Boastings of the military achievements of their lesson.

aug been the focus of the rising demoera-- has Her daughters are out all day, so, Count Zeppelin were justified by this

tic hopes of Russia. The Present Pro little patch of ruined homes, the tomb of unhappily, the visitors cannot see the visional Government are its nominees slaughtered babes and women. Mary, the elder is a Voluntary Aid We rejoice, therefore, when we see signs

Let us forget for a moment that he is Detachment nurse at a big hospital, and of the race of man who only the other after two years of it is almost as efficient that there will be a continuity of pro- gress, and that the fabric of political

will be built upon what already A won the King's Bench when Messre. Sunday set fire to a village church of a real nurse. Gladys, the younger life Picardy in which two hours earlier they taught herself stenography and typewrit had worshipped with all the outward ing, and has been in the Ministry of Thes special correspondent of the Times G. and C. and Nuthall & Sons, Ltd. Bomblance of piety. Let us forget that he Munitions ever since it started. The sent to Wednesday manera deeply in confectioners, Kingston-on-Thames, claim is of the race that sinks merchant vessels girls felt they had to be doing something teresting account of his visit to Riga ed £183 168 8d, from Mrs. Rita Dennis. chairs at sight. 300 miles from land and leaves with their brothers out there

with M. Gutchkoff, the Minister of War. toun Eiske for supplying tents,

and other

things for a tea giyen to 3,000 the crew and passengers in open boats,

So that in the life of the Smith family. He describes what will seem to many

Lavis that violates nuns in their convents, that an average London family, doing what people a complete inversion of military convalescent soldiers at Smith's la

Private soldiers electing Great Windsor Park enslaves its captives and illtreats it it can for the country, burying its discipline,

and Mrs. Fiske denied

liability, prisoners of war, sinks hospital ship anxiety for the two fighting sons under delegate

21.

all

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Hostess

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giving evidence judge a booklet coo

above

a race that basor and pettier than the hard work, and caring very little whether having om among themselves the that there was an

in the conson of primitive. Savage, leido sacred. Let thaster vement and thus vaid nugar: this, it will be exelsined a revertel the harder th

_of-ment bread of an ambassador

stablished ordar? How can an taining her photograph sperhe portorget, if we can for s moment, the making a jest of potatoless days, eating Army run on these lines keep the explained that the booklet, was got out to unending fist of iniquities that tarnishes and drinking less, perhaps, and spending and beat the enemy? But let us not his country's name, and let us take his leas on its clothes and its pleasures; but, amp to conclusions too quickly, Russia show how the distributed food to 450 across the threshold of a Londoner in some sort of serious way, happy in the au

families per week in Hackney. The food must manage affairs in her own Way home. He has seen how little the knowledge that it is carrying on The essential thing, as Halifax maid, is was sent over by her own country, Aus bas changed the surface of London life until the Defiler of civilisation has been let him now see whet influences it has brought to book wrought upon the people themselves. That is the real London life. Herr Here is the typical household of the Pumpernickel. Did you really expect Emiths a family of six-mother, father, that we lived in sackcloth and ashes amid two sons and two daughters. The father the ruins of our bombed houses! Good carries on with one trusty clerk the bus Heavens Do you know what we call our nes in the city where formerly his sons aviators? We call them Zepp Straf- and four clerks helped him. His meomers." That's a blow to your dignity, greatly reduced, his expenses have in isn't it? It's very nearly Majestatabe- (Continued at foot of next column.). leidigung what

that government must be a natural tralia, and any additional expense she growth. It must be evolved in accord paid ont of her earnings as a dentist. ance with the genius of the people. So In cross-examination the witness declin- long as that principle be observed, ed to give her address, but in reply to the what seems on abstract grounds, or judge she said she now boarded at 9, grounds of logic, an innerfect system Portland-avenue, " may be much the best. We are sctually Mr. Justice Coleridge, in giving judg reassured when we see that government went for the plaintiffs with costa, esid ho is being based on popular co-operation thought a very shabby defenes had been and consent, however strange the methods put up by a lady who posed as a philan may seem. But readers of English his thropist and a wealthy woman.