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**CONSCIENTIOUS SHIRKERS THEGERMANS AND THE DEAD. HERE ZIMMERMANN'S DEFENCE. “Conscience doth make cocards of them The German Foreign Secretary, Herr Zimmermann, referred in the Reichising"

AFTER THE WAR WE MUST

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THE PROBLEM WHICH WILL FOLLOW THE WAR

The Conscientious Objector, as he is on lay 11th, says the Times to Lord "One great service the Russian Revolution Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board,.

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Robert Cecil's reply in the House of Commons to questions about the German Corpse Utilization Establishments. Herr Heckscher, the Nautical Deputy and head of Herr Ballin's Intelligence Depart went at Hamburg, was put up to aäk what the Imperial Chancellor intends to do in order to counteract this most pitiful of all English calumnies Herr

Zimmermann said: -:

with a look of satisfaction.......... The first impression of a soldier se

The New Lulestaan. gropes his way back into civil jaterests

FIGHTING. THE SUBMARINE.

18 THE PROBLEM SOLVED!

WASHINGTON, May 6th. William L Saunders of Now, York,

is

Washington to explain coming to Wa is doing it is that it is diminishing the incredulity of the average man in regard exactly what he meant when he indicated le, the better future of the world. Mention of the submarine problem probably

to the newspapers yesterday that a solu are bringing out their Utopias from their had been found. capboards again and are dusting them Daniels on the telephone from New York He called Secretary

to-day and said that he would be in submit a report to make clear the progreas Washington soon, perkups to-morrow, to of the Naval Consulting Board in inven- is that England is about to be reconstructions for conquering submarines. ed by secret committeos, the second, that there is no very great likelihood of its information would be made public as to Secretary Daniels said that, while no But here, where there is always free scope for the fanatic, the, Conscientious

being reconstructed at nigl.”

The Mition, the nature of experiments which have Objector comics and goes, as he pleases, The assertion that soldiers' bodies' and regards his own infamous conduct (Soldatenleichen) were used for the pro-

Two hundred and fifty years ago the b-in-progress, he was satisfied that with a smirk of proud satisfaction. unction of fat sculls first appeared in greater part of the City of London was American ingenuity eventually would

The very name which has been invented the French Frese, and passed from the reduced by fire to a condition not altoge check the undersen boats. for him is the badge of disgrace. The French Press into English and neutral ther unlike that of the zone of desolation I have great faith that American conscience, to which he appeals, is his newspapers. The inventors of the asser over which the arnies have been fighting fingonity will find a means of comb

on the Western Front," says the Newting the submarines," he said. "Although own and very serviceable. He has trained tion seem to have made use of the fact i Slatesman. -GIR

I have in mind no special device among. it to come to heel, like a whipped cur, that there are Corps Utilization Com So long as the Great Fire lusted the hundreds which have been proposed "Consesence is a dangerous thing it Danies Kadaververwerlungsgesellschaf- everybody was too busy work of the to us to fight the menace, 1 truly believe makes a man a coward, anys the voten) in Germany. No reasonable person most urgent national importance to be something will be developed that will be thus proving that he possessed the gift among our enemies can have been in any able to think about reconstruction Im effective against the under-water boats. of prophecy. For it is cowardice, and uncertainty about the fact that this has mediately it was over, Sir Christopher Experts of the Navel Consulting cowardico alone, which holds back the to do with the bodies of animals and not Wrep, and doubtless others, were prompt Board and of the Navy Department are

of human beings (Liorische, nicht mensch with the wisest possible projects for working hard experimenting with devices. all decent men. Though he does his best liche, Kadaver) The fact that the word reasonable town-planning, which would which may go a long way toward giving to deceive himself, and the tribunals, his cadavre in French is used for human not only have given us a beautiful wus victory. Some probably, have merit, true motive cannot be disguised. He is beings and animals has been exploited city, but would probably also have spared and others not, bat all are being given afraid of discomfort, he is afraid of risk, by our enemies. We have rectified this the inhabitants some of the insanitation fair tests. The precise nature of way he is afraid of death. And so he gladly subtle misunderstanding, which, against and distuse of the eighteenth century cannot be disclosed, of course. permits his follows to fight in Francs, its better knowledge, has been used by the and saved us, in the nineteenth century, while ho stays at home to chatter plate creme Press to mislead public opinion much of the cost of very imperfectly a great deal of experimental work done

The Navy Department itself has tudes, and ta thank God that he has rises in neutral countries, in su far as there widening the congested City lanes with devices for the comental work both for above the blatant crime of " miliis tangible slanderous intention, criminal tariam

the plans came too late. Before tion of submarines and also with interior proceedings will be taken

the Government could take action, beface doferte for warships against torpedoes And now that at laat he has come before Herr Zimmermann went on to abuse the necessary legal formalities could be and mines American ships of recent the camera and been forced to reveal to Lord Robert Cecil for having said that overcome, the interests got to work design aro a complete departure in some the world his ignoble trails, he is robbed there is nothing incredible in the every man started to rebuill on his own respects from anything niloat; so far as of all pretence Had we been asked to charge against the German military free-hold (business; as usual "'); and the known; that it has been said confidently invent him, we should have made him no authorities" especially ns the Deputy tortuous, dark, crowded old City, rop by high navy officials that it would unke other than he is. Be bears upon him afl Dillon had expressly called attention to peared, of brick instead of lath and plasat last chreu torpedoes to sink. battle the marks of the degenerate. He has the facts."

to but otherwise with most of the ship constructed according to the plane an ill-balanced head and so chin. The It will observed that the German | ordineval imperfections. Only the for the four ships just about to be laid empty grin of vanity is upon his face. Foreign Secretary, in spite of his violent Cathedral and the churches got the bene down His sanguine eye proclaims him one who language and threats to neutrals, does not fit of Sir Christopher Wren's deliberato affects to believe that he is not as other give any direct denial whatever to the planning and of all the hurried rebuild nen areas, indeed, happily he is not. allegation concerning the German use of tag, only the Cathedral and the churches He will grasp, greedily, at all he can human corpses. By the use of the phrase have endured. Practically all the rest get, and pay nothing to it. He reads menschliche Kadaver,” he himself dis of the listy reconstruction bad, during the casualty lists with a pleased equani poses of the false statement previously the ensuing generations, at vast, cxpense, mity because he knows that the name of sent out by German Wireless that the to be done over again, and done different himself and his friends will never ap word Wadaver only refers to animals,

15% pear in them, and he gladly accepts the and he also makes nonsense of his own sacrifices of others, as one who has got reference to the French word cadavre. something for nothing Eager to hide Moreover, as Herr Zimmermann inust be behind the protecting shield of the British aware, the allegations do not concern the Army, he belittles its courage and laughs existence of Corpse Utilization Companies at its wounds. And to all demands that in Germany, but the German admission he should take his share in the salvation of the existence of Corps Utilization of the Empire he murmurs that his "oon Establishments in the field. science" will not let him. He would have you think that he bursts with bravery. He will brag of his strength and prowess like a very Bobadil, But his conscience will not allow him to shed the blood of a fellow man has

cowards use."

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But

TOO LATE.

...

AFTER THE WAR

After the ur we shall have to rebuild the Stale. We shall, presumably, thanks to the sacrifices of our Army and our Navy, have escaped material devasta tion. But the social tisane out of which the State is woven, and upon which every individual life unwittingly depends, will fiase be strained and twisted under wat pressure, even as the cage of iron girders that constitutes the framework of a modern building is contorted out of shape by a fire that leaves the building stand ing Moreover, not a little of the weft will have been ́

to

Conscience," which is "but a word that the title page of a book published, we floods olema actuala ced

POLITICIAN'S DELIGHT,

He is at once the creation and the delight of the politician. He is a gallant man of his hands at the polling-booth

the

Paralleling the effort to meet the Ger man submarines are the efforts of the nuvy to make American submarines even more efficient Various schemes have been proposed calculated to give American under sea craft practically unlimited sub merged radius and a tremendous increage in submerged speed. It is regarded us certain that if American inventive genius is successful at any time during the pre- sent was in finding a means to check the operations of German submarines, the information will be shared promptly with Great Britain France, and the other allies of the United States. The British and French Admiralty has placed, at the disposal of the Navy Department the results of any hopeful experiments made by them to the same end during the war. Thousands of suggestions have poured into. the foreign Governments from their citizens, and none has been cast aside without careful inspection.

SAUNDERS BULAN NOT OFFICIAL.

As to the meaning of the word "Kadarer," we published on April 26th a German certificate which proves clearly that Kodaver is the word used by German atomists for the dead human body. A respondens at Zurich has now sent us

ie The radhvident brennstruction will be Berlin (5th edition, 1881) by Dr. quick and largely undeliberate In Gurlt, Professor of Surgery at Berlin undred hidden witys we shall all be start University. It is called "Leitfaden füing to repair the damage where it touches Opera onnuelangen. der Verwertkany brim Mesides Mer-readjust the strains to bear the industrial Cam Cadaver and our gun jiroperty and prospects, and He will vote with the best of them, even when (Guiding principles for opera dislocations of peace and the pressure of in the ballot's mouth. For him the Lions the dead body and their utili taxation, the very morning we read in the whole duty of the citizen is to put his zation in the treatment of the living newspapers that the preliminaries of mark upon a piece of paper and to see himan being). As our correspondent poure have been agred to. Unless wo that others of his sort de the like. In observes, Kadarer dolly signifies the adage, somehow, even during the stress this desperate adventure he has no rivul dead human body as dainguished from of war, also to think out plans and come He is a safe and useful min at elections, the living human borly,

to timely decision upon the various seal and the politicians are ready to serve.

A document of special interest in conreconstructions that ought to follow the and pamper him not only for services nection with the German Corpse Utilis war, the nation will find itself repenting rendered hut for all the good that he zation" establishments was recently found on a larger scale, and with even more many do their cause in the future

on the Western front. It runs :-

[calamitons results on ational life, the dreary experience of the rebuilding af the City of London after 1666, without even a St. Paul's to the credit of the na-marines had been tested, and, while they tional forethought. We

were not as optimistic as Mr. Saunders, several of them agreed that he might be justified in his opinion.

bour all would be well.

A.HQ 21/12/1910.

DE HEADQUARTERS 6TH ARMY

ARMY IMILY ORDERS, 21/12/1916. Delivery to Corpse Utilization Estah- listuents

It has become necessary date more to lay stress on the fact that when corpses are sent to the corpse utilization estab sliments returns as to the unit, date of death, illness, and information as to epidemics, if any, are to be furnished at the same time,

(Signed) V.S.dOK. J. A. BRAUN The German original of this document is in the possession of the British military authorities There is reason to believe that it will shortly be published in

THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE We did not, as a nation, expet the Outbreak of War, and we were, not in excusably, taken unawares. Such a bar barity as war, we hoped, was growing ol solete, and it seether as if any deliberate preparation for it might precipitate entastrophe that could otherwise be avoid ed. But we de expect the Outbreak of Peace in fact, we know that it must come and we can ever calculate, with no very great margin of error, the rear of its arrival When it comes, it will come suddenly, and its results will be upon us with a rash one of

William L. Shundore, Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, whose statemenį that a pinn of aggressive operation against, submarines that could end, the different opinions to be expressed by U-boat menace had been developed caused other members of the board, explained his position more exactly yesterday and cleared up a misunderstanding that had resulted from his interview. He said that. he simply and stated his personal belief in the ability of recent inventions used conjunction with known agencies tu ter- 2 minate the activity of German sub- marines, and he required this belief

Other members of the board continued. to disagree with frag

ders, but some of them admitted

w inventions. that promised to be effectave against sub-

AWKWARD QUESTIONS.

If a nation is breve only in the war and timid in peace, prodigal of its lives and parsimonious of its comfort if it leaves its chivalry and spiritual disin toreateduess on the field of battle, with the fragments of carnal humanity, won't it be judged by the very ideals it has it self erected and for which it has called upon its children to die? says a There will then be no time, as Bir writer in the Nation-one who apparent- Christopher Wren found amid the rapid has served in the Army." Dare ons ly rising scaffolding of the private re- hope for the victory withunt the self- building after the Great Fire, to consider surrender↑ plans and formulate projects, The One has a feeling that one day wa Cabinet, and all the Government Depart may be asked awkward questions by ments will be too busy dealing with the ghosts who thirty years hence will be in exigencies of the moment. The first Parthe prime of life, or death, whichever it liament after the Declaration of Peace 15 Hullo, chus! Not seen you since will be choked with Private Bills Unless the push. So we floored the Gerries! public opinion concentraten, in advance, And then hot then? That is tho and unless responsible stateamen take, ip would, at the expense of a grateful on certain lines of social reconstruction, question,

this connection, some indispensable des The foundation of reconstruction sions within the next six months or so, must be some kind of conversion of the public mind, Intellectually, one is in-

CONVERSION OF THE PUBLIC MIND,

He is the delight of the demagogues. Hey lad their creation. He has been fostered delicately from his cradle up- wards. All thought or sacrifice and duty has been kept from him sedulously the schools where he has been bred, the word patriotism has been suppressed us something obscene. It is a word which may not be heard upon conscientious lips, To get and not to give is the essence of life as it should be lived by the well trained voter. In England, along among the untrics, has the national emblem seemed a token of dishonour. We all remcraber how in the days before the war, that golden age of the demagogues, the Union Jack was not permitted to Huff upon the chaste roof of our Board schools. facsimile, Ita mere presence, it was said, woubl encourage** Chauvinism," or the wicked desire to defend ourselves against foreign. aggression. Therefore the boys and him und rewarded amply with comfort- girls who lived in hopes of becoming able privileges. If he wanted leave it voters must be kept in ignorance of the was his for the asking; and if the soldier Empire and its duties. They must be was forced to pay a railway fare if he told that warfare was a plain imeps wished to see his parents before going to sibility, that human greed and human France, and perhaps to death, the con- ambition might be purged from our minda scientious one might travel free as far by a text book, and that so long as you as Edinburgh, and talk trenson, if he loved yourself far better than your neighGovernment. Nor need he feel the sharp And not only was the Unim Jackthorn of hunger. He may buy what food sternly suppressed, but the anniversary, be choose and accept with an easy non- ealled Empire Day, respected in all our cbalance the free gifts of friends and the prospect is that chaos cores againclined to think it will be a world of Dominions over-sen, was in England admirers to solemnly ignored. Pride in the parish So long as the war lasts, then the Con such people the emergencies that Peace of the best will be dead. If there is to Is there any way to bring home to second-bests after the war, for so many pump or in the neatly asphalted play scientious Objector may grin at the hard will create? It is a pretty severe shock, be any real reconstruction, it will not be ground of the school might be a good ships of others. Not for him the weary not to wage eamers only, but to every enough for those of us who are left to do thing Pride in the Empire, which has march, the order to go over the parapet family in a small manufacturing to the war in the kid of spirit which pos the kind of things we used to do before been built upon British energy and in the early morning, a timely and hon when its greatest factory, where a fifth or cemented with British blood, was a thing ourable grave upon foreigu soil. A game a tenth of its census population works, sowed us before the war: "The first con zccursed, which did not stimulate the of football is his heaviest toil, comfort suddenly shuts down. One day, this year dition of it is that we should recognise delicate conscience, and might persuade able quarters at Princetown his only or next, the Cabinet will come to a sudden that what we did was ineffective, because the wrong-headed boy to join the Army. restraint. If he grows soft in body, as in decision to shut down--and, for financial the spirit in which we did it was wrong. Thus would a vote be lost to England, a mind, what does it matter. He will still reasons, necessarily with the least poe. What is necessary is not to proceed more loss for which a hundred glorious preserve strength enough to mark asible delay the employment of more than rapidly along the road on which we were victories would hardly compensate velice of the whole country who are now either collect ourselves in order that we may voting paper. That is his hope and half the entire wage earning population travelling before, but to stand still and

But on that legendary day, when the with the colours or in munition factories proceed along a different road ar By these subtle means the Conscientions Army comes home, his hope will be be This will put our industrial system to a It is not a question, as some good Objector was deliberately encouraged lied, his belief falsifed. If there be strain so severe as to be altogether with people seem to suppose, of restoring pre- Soft and pliable as he seemed, he was justice still left in this world, assuredly out parallel.

as though the world had carefully cherished by the inferetted the Conscientious Objector shall never be Amid this gigantic General Post been an Eden of peaces and contentment, politician. And when the war broke out, allowed again to approach the polling of wage-earners, we shall have to face the and industry, and education, We must ho bécême still

more pampered booth. How shall he be permitted to use inevitable non-fulfilment of the nation's im a Russia has shown, at reconstruct- favourite. Laws were passed to save him the rights of citizenship: who did not pledge to restore the Trade Union con- ng And it is not a question of making from annoyance. Whatever happened to think that citizenship was worth fighting ditions patriotically abandoned by the the minimum changes needed to meet the situation into which we have heon the Empire, which had been screened for? Thus shall his fear and his levity Trade Unions in the nation's hour of new si from his sore eyes, no trouble should be he properly rewarded, he shall be de need, and we shall have to rebuild, after Aung, fall him. He should be preserved from prived of the one function for which he such a betrayal, the sadly strained fabric. It is to apply to our domestic organ- the disbonour of a British uniforms: he thinks he was born and bred Thus shall wealth production of employers and em and industry and education, the ideas of cordial co-operation in industrial usation, to pólítics, and local government, should be kept far from the zone of the he be punished for having brought into layed. What employer, what Trade which, in the brilliance of our material German shells And if he were asked to contempt an honest word, for having Union secretary can face the prospect success, we had allowed to be overlaid, but amuse his leisure with a little light work dared to interpret conscience" in the with equanimity 1 asks the New States which, when challenged by their opposite, it should be made as easy as possible for sole sense of a thing which makes gowards.} man

we found to be home for which we wera (Contioned at foot of next column.)

prepared to die.

WHEN THE ABMY RETURNS.

of us all

WHEN THE WORKS SHUT DOWN.

(Continued at foot of next column.)