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GERMANY'S ALLIES IN SPAIN.

ANTI-ENTENTE CAMPAIGN Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, writing from Cadiz. on April 12th, says: --To call Spain pro German would be slander on the Spanish nation. In no neutral country can be found a clearer view of the results which would follow German supcess or warmer feelings towards the Allies The sano and netive elements in the national life are with us. We foust not forget this. But there are other elements which, partly from self-interest and partly from an ingrained

preferetice for Might against Right, have been working against us. Chief among the agencies for the spread of sympathy with the Germans is the Church.

We and the Spanish clergy teaching openly through the hireling newspapers which they control, and privately, that the Germans are the defendera of Order and Property while France, and Bug land are always "making dangerous ex periments and showing their enmity against. Privilege and Parasitism, In a railway carriage the other day & Spanish gentleman at silent while two of his countrymen discussed the war with an Englishman One of the Spaniards at Just pressed him for his opinion. 1 feel, ho said, that my property would. be safer under the German system than it would be if the restless, revolutionary [26-k elements which have done so much harm to France were to increase their in- fluence,

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his wife, for whom the Clerical paper was taken had suddenly begun to read the other, and to read it so thoroughly that he could scarcely ever got a sight of it, She persisted in handing him the Clerical organ, in spite of his assurance that nothing would induce him to read such a rag. One day he lost his temper and made a scene. His wife cried, and in her emotion she admitted that she was doing what she had been told to do by hor "spiritual director, Spanish women are kept in an almost Mahem- meden seclusion,

THURSDAY, JUNE 2187, 1917

WORK OF DOVER PATROL. FIGHTING THE SHOOT AND SCOOT

NAVYZD

The Dover patrol has had a particular-

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difficult task and those who are it has done its work on the lines laid nequainted with nuval affairs know that down for it extremely well. Defeating your inomy in a series of smell engage- ments between light craft is but part of thas gaine of naval warfare Outwitting him in strategy is far more important, German raids on the east and south-east and the whole object of the varions coast fine last October has been to make us disclose certain strategic objectives which we have persistently declined to disclose even at the price of allowing the raiders to make off unpunished.

FLOW FOR BLOW

HOW THE END WILL COME

THERINE BOOEY.

Mr Francis Gribble says cautions critics continually warn us that those who rely upon the blockade of Germany for victory ars leaning upon a broken reed. that Germany cannot be starved into. anything worse than discomfort but, must. be beaten in the field on the western front.

JAPAN AND THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

ADDRESS BY MR NAKASHOJI In an address delivered by Mr. Naras shoji, Minister for Agriculture, and Com merce at the Gubernatorial Conference, "be death with the questions discussed t

the Allies Economie Conference at Paris - Since Japan participated in the Allies'

energetic rearguard actions all the way scriued to the resolutions passed by it, They picture Germany fighting Economic Conference at Paris and sub-

back to the Rhine and then putting up Mr. Nakashoji thinks it is

desperate defence behind that finn! that Japan should adopt measures to only natural

barrier. It is a picture which really he carry, then into practice. The aims of longs to those curly days of the war when the resolutions are

are to protect the even the exporte ignored factors of which economic interests of the Allies against even the layman can now recognise the encroachment by the newy, and to importance. It may or may not be posAs the first step in this direction the contrive their development in the future. Japanese Government has published laws desirable that the local Governors should regarding enemy trading, and it is

The resolutions passed by the Paris see they are brought into operation..

As a matter of fact, however, the raids have not been carried out with impunity of the outstanding events in this regionsible to starve Germany, into submission. be may be scen from the following diary in the last six months,

Only the ralors of Germany know whether last until the next harvest; and perhaps there is enough food in the country to

even they do not know it. Even they at band on the point at which hunger will any rate cannot lay their fingera before cause smouldering discontent to blaze up into destructive flame,

October 28th-Raid on Dover and the Channel British destroyers Flirt and Verbuan Tost

November 1st Gorman destroyers tak- ing four Dutch prizes into Zeebrugge caught by British scouting craft, driven off, and two of the prizes recaptured.

MORAL AND MUNITIONS,

Conference aim at a fully considered

for the development of natural resources Allies on the restoration, of peace, and measure for the extension of trade by the

in the Allied countries, so that they nay be able to maintain their

Buperiority ageinst any commercial combine of the enemy that may be pitted against them on the conclusion of the war. With this end in view investigations are already being undertaken in the Allied countries ud it is necessary for Japan to do the game.

WAR

THE COMMERCIALT

November 10th-Air raid on Zeebrugge, November 12th-Air raid on Ostend. November 15th-Air raid on Zeebrugge. At the same time anyone who troubles November 17th-Air raid on Zeebrugge, to know what is knowledge may feel quite November 23rd.-German raid on the sure that the Rhine fortresses are not north end of the Downs One British going to enable Germany to hold out for drifter hit. Only twelve rounds fired.

terms. The High Command, no doubt;: would prefer that expedient to surrender, Novembor 7th-German raid on Nor- but they also know that it is not a prac There is little doubt that on the uon folk coast. Armed trawler Narval annk tical expedient in the conditions of clusion of peace the Far East will be December 27th-Air raid on Zeebrugge modern warfare--that they canto adopt European commercial competitors, and come a veritable hunting ground for January 22nd- British destroyers it even if the starvation difficulty can bo caught German destroyers off the Dutch Burmounted. To phit paradoxically Japan will also be required to play her cost and off the Schouwer Bank. One even if the Hin line were impregnablo, acid that Japan is well adapted to be en part in the struggle. It can hardly be British destroyer lost, enemy losses unit could not be held in the conditions industrial country, as her territory is not known

is there conditions, not the strength of limited. It will therefore require great which will prevail when it is reached. Lt extensive add her natural resources mind if we want to look into the future dent country in an economic sense. There the fortresses, which we have to bear in efforts to make Japan a really indepen- and consider how the end will come, Food questions apart, Germon's power hope to become economically independent, are various ways by which Janan may of resistance is limited by two things- but in any case it will be necessary for her the moral of troops and the supply to devote much attention to obtuning tinue to be hammered as they are being as well as to effect a development of her of munitions. If the German armies con- supphes of iron, coal, cotton, and wool hammered now it is a safe prediction that chemical industry. As a step towards the these essentials will give out before the realisation of this object the Governmunt food gives out. They will no doubt give is now engaged in the extension of the out the faster because the food is scarce, Steel Works at Wakamata with all for underled workers workers in munition factories aa elac

are inefficient possible promptitude... where, but the collaps will surely come in both departments before the last crust us try to see how this will happen and or the last turnip has been eaten. Let with what unavoidable military results.

January 25th-German raid on South wold, Five minutes' shelling.

February 2nd.Air raid on Zeebrugge, February 3rd,Air raid on Zeebrugge, February 14th-Air raid on Brugca February 16th.-Air raid on Bruges, Three German destroyers and a concealed saliniarine, depot blown up.

February 25th-German raid on the Straits One British destroyer attacks the raiders, but effect of her fire not as certained. Brief bombardment of Mar unr patrols arrived. gate and Broadstairs. Raiders fed before

March 18th-German raid on Straits British destroyer sunk

Much 28th. Firing off Lowestoft Patrol trawler Mascot sunk, v

April 7th-Air raid on Zeebrugge Two enemy destroyers torpedood at sed, One C85, Bunk

April 20th. Raid on Dover. Two Ger man destroyers sunk possibly three.

SIX OR FOUR

An analysis of these raids gives us as ☎ material result of the six months fight ing four British destroyers sunk as against at least six German, and echt British drifters and trawlers

The atmosphere of ecclesiastical control which surrounds the pious Spanish Catholic can hardly be imagined cutside It cannot, on the whole, be described as Spain. It is a sin read a Liberal nows-unsatisfactory. Moreover, it must be re paper, or any newspaper which is not sauctioned by the Church.

membered that the German tactics were solely of the shoot and scoot school fight unless the odds in their favour were They have never attempted to put up a

ormous. That was a thing that had not been expected.;

INCREASED SURRENDERS Hunger by itself is injurious to moral, but not necessarily fatal to it. When hunger is accompanied by retreat, and re perceived to be un occasion of joy to the treat is accelerated by defeat, sud is whole civilised world, the completo collapse of more is imminent, the more so because the Germans, in spite of their iron discipline, are people temperar mentally inclined to collective panic. And when mural gives two consequences will follow wholesale surrender and had some instances of German non-com- wholesale desertion. Latterly we have missioned officers encouraging surrender. instead of resisting it, and a tendency of than to be checked. When oner the Ger that kind is always more likely to sprend man Army is as ready to surrender as line of defences will be tenable anywhere. the Austrian Army has shown itself no

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NAVY'S LONG ARM

A friend of mine spoke with some uns on board a river steamer in Andalusia. One of them ventured a hop, whin the heard that he was English, that big parents were not evil people. He assured ber that they enjoyed excellent reputations. fully, if they are Protestants that means But she said doubt they do not believe in God. They are no lienever the opposing forces came into Simultaneously, with the increase of sur.plied by the British Government to the baptised. This was what she had been taught.

The Spanish people do not respect their priests. They nigger scandal bout them. They call them extortionate, and hard. They grudge them the good living which contrasta 50 shamelessly with the short cominons of the poo

PEAK OF THE CLERGY

before, the war to deal with an enemy who Our torpedo craft flotillas were trained wild follow the example of the Japanese That is, they were to look for a fight destroyers in the Russo-Japanese War

touch.

All these preconceived notions of last October We had to find a means had to be jettisoned after the experience of trapping a shy opponent into action Friday night scerns to indicate that we The outcome of the engagement last have succeeded. We did not hurl flotille at the raiders on this occasion, The five German ships were met by It in simply fear of the clergy which two vessels of the Dover patrol. Even keep the mass of the Spanish people

then only two of the Germans had any under their influence. I heard in one fight in them, the remainder making cathedral town of the bishop's unpopu off at high speed during the short larity In the disastrous floods which engagement, and escaping in the dark- devastated Andalusia this spring, a whole ness. district near his palace was under water. The tradition of the place was that in The two that were sunk were neatly Buch conditions shelter should be found

MODEL DESTROYER WORK.

According to official information: E20-

camp nesr Lake Baikal, he made his way Escaping from a Russian internment across Chine, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, he signed on as a carpenter on a Danish and the United States to Now York, where vestel

renders we may look for an increase in Geneva Red Cross Association, an Aus countries. That sort of thing, though was captured by the Russians, has been the number of desertions into neutral triun oficer, missing since 1915, when he there has been a good deal of it, has arrested at Kirkwall, Shetland Islands, might eventually be fetched out of Hol- been limited by the fear that deserters and interned at Wakefield. land, Denmark, or Switzerland, and dealt with by courts martial. Presently, when German defeat is more visibly as aured that fear will be felt to be ground less, and then we may see strange things: not only soldiers but munition workers crossing the various frontiers, not in thousands and tens of thousands, in quest of safety and bread, the sentries posted to

with them. The Dutch, at least, make turn the fugitives back helping them to tear down the barbed wire and deserting no secret of their apprehension that some them

BUBSTITUTES,

by the homeless in the vast halls and trapped. The Admiralty moancement Bnnons which the bishop did not use He does not err on the side of extravagance embarassment of that sort is in store, for declined to take in the unfortunate when it says the tactics purged were refugees. I was not surprised when I saw a very fine example of destroyer work. him. Yet on a Church festival I watched As a matter of fact, they will probably the town councillors follow him round the be the model for destroyer work in the cathedral carrying candles in their hande, same or similar circumstances for a long and wearing red sashes round their time to come. And what these two have stomachs. They notoriously disliked and done others will be able to do in future, despised him, but they dared not let their as we know from the way the example feelings be seen.

Nef Robinson, V., in dealing with Zep.

pelins was followed

The parties in Spain which aro for better education, for elections fairly There is only one thing to regret in managed, for honesty among oficials for an energetic and enlightened national policy oppose the Church as their most obstinate foo. Sometimes their hatred of obscurantism and tyranny drives them into what seem to us excesses. For the Atheism which prevails among 52 many of the educated and progressive in Spain the clergy are responsible.

ALLIES OF DESPOTISM.

the announcement. And that is that following the bad example of earlier days, the Admiralty have suppressed the names of both of the ships that met and beat the Germons and of the commanding officers. The authorities are ready enough to armonice, both when a ship is lost, Why the guerdon of praise which the country would readily accord the victora is to be withheld passes understandings It is not as though it was any secret to the enemy what classes of destroyer we have now in commission since they tank some of the very newest at Jutland and took prisoners from them..

Within a few hundred miles of the German coast he was detained by the British naval authorities, after travelling round the world to rejoin the elemy

stated, in fect, in the memorandum ad iron as abe has for her own uses. It was dressed to the Chancellor in May, 1915, by six industrial associations that if those iron mines had to be abandoned the

war would Le as good as lost."

14.

A DECISIVE MOVE

phenomena which will expedite the end, That, unquestionably, is one of the and prevent that indefinite series of rearguard actions which some expect, Another is the imminent impossibility of Now those mines are quite near the munitioning the defenders for lack of present line of entrenchments. A short the raw material for munitions after they advance from Verdun in the direction of have been hustled beck a few miles in Mets would cut right into them; so the right direction At present the Ger would a short advance from Verdun in- mang, though their supply of munitions the direction of Longwy, Realising there is less than ours, have enough to enable facts and their importance, Hindenburg them to put up a very formidable fight hangs on in front of Verdun, using that They have found & substitute for copper; point as a pivot while he swings back the they extract glycerine from milk and rest of his line As yet he has not been nuts and sunflower seed and distil it sailed there. But is it to be appposed from the corpses of the slain; and they that he will be left permanently in un- bold mines which produce an abundance troubled occupation of the one district of iron. But those mines are the crux of which it is absolutely imperative for him the situation. The mines which matter to occupy Obviously it is not, and there And as they dominate social, so the

are those of the Bassi de Briey and most is to rehab to suppose that his positions priests seek to dominate political life

of the blast-furnaces which matter are in there for anywhere else for that matter) Monks, friars, and lay priests are active

that neighbourhood some of them in will prove a more dificult ant to crack advocates for Germany. Lately there have been one or two signg, that the

France, some of them in Germany, and a than Vimy Ridge. Whether they are authorities are permitting a difference of

few of them, some of then, worked with stormed or tarned whether then wVROLE opinion. I have read with interest a

German capital, in the Grand Duchy of tion is forced a little sooner or a little pamphlet written by a learned doctor of The reasons for this are not hard to ning right through the middle of the tial is that, where as local decisions are Luxemburg the Lorrains Frontier run later is a matter of detail, The essen- the diocese of Cindad Rodrigo, in which, find. There is the strong disposition of nations that are resolved to curb the Despotism There is the fear of the eights of the iron used for the manu Germany would be conclusive and instan without naming either Germany or the Churches to ally themselves with deposits, From these mines the Germans possible at any point on, the mak, this is are now extracting no less than even a point at which a decision, adverse to criminal tendency of her rulers, it is made modernising" tendencies of clear that was waged in defence of England. There is the detestation against that iron they are absolutely dependent. German grip on the iron mines is relaxed

of France and:

facture of their shells add guns. Upon taneous in the effects, When once, the Justice are just and necessary. There is France for driving out the religious also appearing a series of articles orders. There is the belief that Germany The mines of Silesia do not produce the end will be in sight, because Germany criticising the attitude of the Church. would support the restoration of a Carlist enough iron do not produce nearly will no longer be able to make shella M These are the work of a priest. But in to the throne, which would, so the clergy enough iron-fo enable them to carry on, fest as she will need to fire them off. At general the clergy have done their best believe, give them more power sell. And It is impossible for them to import say-trition will then be speeded up till it to injure and misrepresent the Allied then, there is the vague talk circulated thing like the gently which they require becomes collapse, and the much talked of

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by German agents about the restoration from Sweden, while Austria needs such stand on the Rhine will prove to be the of the Temporal Sovereignty of the Pope (Continued at foot of next column.) obsolete outcome of nervous imaginations,