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AMERICAN GOLD FOR JAPAN

THE RECENT EXCITEMENT ATS

DE WASHINGTON.

AT THE FRONT.

{BY COLONEL A. M. MURRAY.] In this article Colonel A. M. Murray, Amorizan papers just to mud contain B., the Military Correspondent of the further details of the excitement caused: (and already reported by cable) by the Daily News (London), who has recently discovery in Washington that large returned from a visit to the British Head amounts of gold are being sent from quarters in France, describes the magni- America to Japan. A Washington ilisficent organization and the perfect coor patch dated May 25th reads

dination of efforts which have made pos- sible the great advance of the past few weeks:-

disconcerting discovery that for the last month Japan has been withdrawing gold from the United States at the rate of

$150,000,000 a year.

PREMIER'S ADVICE TO LABOUR.

GET A REALLY NEW WORLD

AFTER THE WAR

report was, issucit on May 9th by the Labour party of the speech delivered. by Prime Minister to a deputation which presented him with the resolutions on aftar-war problems passed at the confer

ADMIRAL JELLICOE ON

U-BOATS.A

SERIOUS BUT NOWISE INSUPERS

ABLE.

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe discussed the. marine menace and other naval prob- lems in striking interview with the Londen correspondent of the Associated Presa..

of the Labour party at Manchester. Mr. Lloyd George said:" There is no doubt that the present was presents an "Our food situation is by no means so industrial and economic conditions of

it is," said Sir John Jellicoe, but, on

many of our own people realize,

There is no very marked method of combating the submarine evil. What has... been accomplished, is the result of inven tions and processes which take time to develop, and the Government is well aware of the fact that immediate results could not he expected,

Treasury officials engrossed in the far-reaching programme of international finansing upon which this country has What first strikes the mind on arrival entere turned their chief attention at the Western front is the immense area opportunity for the reconstruction of the desperate as the Germans want 10 believe to-day to the unexpected and somewhat over which our armies are fighting. The this country such as has never been prethe other hand, it is more serious than

scale of operations is colossal, and the

It is therefore very important that contemplation of it alone quite takested in the life of the world. away the breath. If the visitor, who is the imprint which is left should be a clear furnished with a white as hy the one and one which we shall be able to courtesy of General Headquarters, thinks on reaching the front to find out his friends, and stand with theth in the trenches, he will be disappointed, not be. cause any official obstruction is placed in his way, for accredited visitors to G.H.Q are free to go where they like, but dwing to the length of front occupied, the diff culty of localising a particular unit, and the distance which has to be covered The best course for hefore reaching t. the visitor to adopt is to place himself in the hands of an Army Corps, or Divi- sional Commander, as circumstances inay

Gold exports to Japan within the fast three or four weeks, it was stated authoritatively, have been $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. Since January 1st they have totalled $5,000,000. To the last eight months they have reached an aggregate of thirty days, the Government has been thirty days, the Govrnment has been informed, they will approximate 60. per cent, of the entire sum already export in 1917, or about $18,000,000.

There is every, indication that the big shipments will continue for several

The increasing armament of our

read in the future with some measure of pleasure and inspiration. That is why You are doing wisely, if I may say so, as representatives of the party which has very largely in its custody the future of this sand,, in taking thought months-- certainly months beforehand for what the future of the country ought to be antile marine has made submarines far more cautious, nad more submerged when the war is over.

attacks are taking place. Of course, this has one advantage, inasmuch as the raiders must depend on their torpecious for such attacks, and, being able to carry only a limited number, must return to

NO TIME TO LOSE.

There is no time to lose. I am not here to prophesy when the war will be over.. I saw that very competent persons

months at least, and in an increasingly permit, do what he say go where he in the House of Commons indicated the port sooner than when they made their

PERFECT ORGANISATION:

come.

the this year. I do not challenge their

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EXACT NUMBA.

have been made to the Government looking ties which he offers, without attempting judgment, int whether it comes to an end to go outside bis directions. No help call to the shipment from San Francisco to be got from the fighting man, who looks this as even if it does not, every Your Navy Department knows just. Japan next month of a large consign to his front, not to his right or left, antite of the time will be sp at well how many submarines we have sunk, but which is devoted to thinking ou the the exact number of U-boats which have ment of gold

Shipments are being inade by barking asks for information instead of giving conditions under which the millions of actually never returned to port is know

lives which will survive the war are tonly to the German Admiralty interests with the full knowledge of the The next thought which comes into the

Against a submerged attack a host of Japanese Government. In at least ons mind of the soldier and civilian alike is be spent in this land for generations to

come, for I firmly believe that what is small craft forms the best protection. instance the Japanese Government, the magnitude of the organisation of both known as the after the war settlement is The danger of showing a periscope when through an Attaché of the Embassy here,personnel and material. Along roads the settlement that will direct the the submarine may have a bomb, dropped has approached officials of this Govern-leading from the various sen bases to the destinies of all classes for generations to on it or be ramined is one which our ment with a view to facilitating the railheads at the front are thousand upon

enemy does not like to face. trans-Pacific movement,

thousand of motor lorries going up and I believe the country will be in a more I have already warned your Navy Officials here not account for the down the lines of communication in enthusiastic mood, in a more exalted Department that submarine minelayers seemingly large movement on the ground never ending procession, some carrying mood for the time being in a greater may visit your coast, dump their cargo, that it is to restore the balance in trade food, others stores, others ammunition mood for doing big things, and, unless and return But the damage they do will Investigators are checking the foreign others human loads of sick and wounded the opportunity is seized immediately not prove extensive, ns each in: carries commerce statistics to learn whether the men, moving sometimes in detachments of after the war, I believe it will pass away, only about thirty mines. These mine big shipments are due to economic laws, ten, twenty, and thirty vehicles, at other I will not say for ever, but it will pass layers have dropped their mines every- It is admitted that such may be the casetimes in twos and three, and singly, but away far beyonti either your ken or mine, where about our coasts, and if I had the but officials are somewhat sceptical of always moving, silently, mechanically and, perhaps beyond our children's exact figures, at band of the number we continuously, without word of command. Therefore you are doing well in giving have swept up and destroyed you would and guided only by improvised sign-posts your time and thought to considering, he astonished, and by road guide, stationed at all erass and considering deeply, and considering ronds, who indicate by a wave of the land on a bold scale, on a daring sale, what the route to be followed. There is you are going to do after the war. noise, ne shouting, no congestion. So clearly are the routes marked out that a boy who keeps his eyes open could find his way from Calais to Arrus as easily ay he could in the tube railways from Hammersmith to

Holborn

this

British officials, including Lord Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of Eng land, have noted with some surprise the tendency of American gold to flów west ward, and have discussed the situation with Treasury officials. The British agree that it is the interest of all concerned that the United States conserve its supply of gold, although it has at present the largest store ever held within. a single nation's boundaries and greatly in excess of actual requirements. They thought that a way should be found to discourage heavy withdrawals.

In that vast collection of transport

The most striking feature of the change in our historie naval policy resulting from the illegal use of submarines and from the fact that the enemy surface ships have been driven from the sea is that we have been compelled to abandon a definite offensive policy for one which may be called on offensive defensive, since our only active enemy is the submarino engaged in piracy and murder.

PROTECTION

AUDACIOUR PROPOSALS. "I am not afraid of the audacity of these proposals. I believe the settlenient after the war will succeed in proportion to its audacity. The readier, we are to cut away from the past, the hotter are we waggons and ambulance traius the writer likely to succeed. I hope that every class will not be ankering back to pre-war never once observed any sign of confa conditions. I just drop that as a hint, sion. Everyone seemed to know what beard I hope the working class will not be **We must give our mercantile fleet » was doing, where he was going, and how the class that will get such an example, measure of protection which would not be Under present laws there is no way to reach his destination. All this points because if every class insists on getting dreamed of if the Germans merely used of preventing the export of guld from to successful departmental co-ordination, back to pre-war conditions thon God help their U-boat for legitimate naval warfare the United States, Anyone who has it, for not one department, but many, are

this country I say so ih all solemnity." and so many of our smaller warships may ship it. Only by legislation, so far wuncerned in supplying our armies in the

I could have presumed to have must be used for this purpose that the naither needed or contemplated, it is field. Orders are clearly all carefully been the adviser of the working classes, tip and run raid becomes a possibility, said, could the President be empowered considered before being issued, and time I would say this--Andheity is the thing while our own blockading efforts suffer.

Think | This again hrings us back to the to place an embarge on gold. tables revised from day to day When for you. Think out new ways

trans-Pacific movement has liretion is right execution reached a stage where the amount of gold There is no muddling through this fine available for expert at Ban Francisco has Decentralisation is the keynote to the decreased to approximately $150,000,000. whole system, and it is thorough. W Because of the shrinkage the Government are sometimes told that our officers are has temporarily suspended the courtesy Be it so. Let them be what are. Don't sportsmen firat and soldiers afterwards, of transfer by telegraph of credits for seek to Prussianise them. They know export. So long as the suspension, holds, their work and do it. What the Tierman shippers must pay the express and insur-organisation is like the writer cannot say ance charges on the golu's transcontin- without going into the enemy's lines, but enital trip from New York to San after visiting our own front he can de Francisco,

clare without hesitation that the organisa Suspension the it was tion British Armies field

make it.

The

is easy out new methods. Think out even new importance of smell craft for the protec

ways of dealing with old problemstion of the mercantile marine, but they Don't always be thinking of getting back cannot end the submariae menace by nierely keeping the U-boats beneath the to where you were before the war. Get a

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no other instances were recalled since the war started.

Whatever the cause, Treasury officials are desirous of checking the westward flow. Indications are that they will find a way to do 20.71

STATEMENT BY JAPANESE BANKERB; LEAG Japan's withdrawal of gold from the United States was explained at the Yokohama Specie Bank in New York as being purely for adjustment of trade balanco. It was said that the war has mnde Japan a great credit nation and that her exports greatly exceeded her imports,

AMERICAN MISSION TO JAPAN

REPORTED DECISION. According to a Washington dispatch to the New York Sun, President Wilson has decided to dispatch a mission to Japan and is now engaged in the selection

that he proposed to re-organize the do

Mr. Lloyd George went on to indicate destroying the boats, and we mean to Reconstruction Committees which bad

Zeebrugge forms another of our probs been annointed by the late Government to

Jenis It is imcult to deal with now. deal with after the war problems, and owing to the German occupation and he hoped to set these committers to work fortification of the Belgien const under new conditions and with new instructions.

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The fortified Belgian const is a fact which we have to face, and the destroyers maintained there have made our work of guarding the Straits of Dover more difficult The Germans in their “tip” und SPIRIT OF COMRADESHIP."

THE WORLD'S POTATO CROP, run" raids, during which they have com There is a remarkable absence of olf-

mitted additional illegality and the cialdom at the front. Officers in high

Complete statistics of the world crop inhumanity of bombarding open towns, command in the field seem to have, for of potatoes for 1916 are not available, but have the great advantage of choosing the gotten that they ever sat in arm chairs the yields of seven of the principal pro-time of attack, and when as many as at the War Office. There is an abundant during countries compare in bushels with thirty destroyers can attack a patrol line, you may gain some idea of the number of supply of red tape in Whitehall, but the previous years as follows:-

1016. vessels we need on guard constantly to there is none in France. As to Jack-bont condescension, there is nothing of the kind Germany 711,610,000 1,084,149,000 stop every raid." to be found. Nor is any affectation of France 335,507,000 Stall officers, who are as frank and un United Kingdom, 201,148,000 secrecy observable among General and United States 285,437,000. pretending in conversation as circum Netherlands 73,085,000 stances admit. Then as regards the re Canada 61,126,000 gimental ranks, the rigid code of peace

Switzerland discipline, necessary as the writer believes it to be under pre-war conditions of mili

Total. Lary service has dropped out in the, pre-s sence of the enemy, and has been replaced

is usually about by k more elastic, but not less effective, The world crop. disciplinary system, which has taken the 5,800,000,000 bushels of countries not form of a species of freemasonry linking reported, the principal producers are in 1913 wus officers and men together by a sympathetic Russia, whose crop

1,330,000,000 bushels, Austria-Hungary. bond of mutual understanding.

with 628,000,000, Belgium 120,000,000, Italy 06,000,000, Sweden, Norway and Deamark with a total of 125,000,000 and

The

of a table person as special Envoy spirit of comradeship goerated by the It is reported to be the intention of Presiar has broken down all class barriers, and established relations of mutual

The

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281,402,000

87.756.000

-62,604,000

ENGINE-ROOM HEROES.

22,040,000 38,088,000 RESOURCEFUL RESQUE WORK AFTER

THE ZULU" WAS MINED. ,753,561,000 3,108,750,000

The King has conferred the Albert Medal (accond class) on-

Michael Joyce, engine-room clase), now acting chief enging-room- artificer (2nd class), and

Walter Kimber, stoker petty officer (now chief stoker)

3rd

HMS. Zudu was mined on November

to the mission to Japan so that it was tween leaders and followers. What like bushels in 1913, Canada's erop has been bottom of the after part of the engine. dent Wilson to make the appointments respect and even affectionate regard, he Argentina and Chile with 47,000,000 8th, 1916, As a result of the explosion the reach Tokyo about the time the Japanese wise impressed the writer was the excel-short for two years, the record production room was blown out and the whale.com- mission arrives at Washington.lent relations which now exist between | of 35,600,000 bushels in 1014. being legs., Partment reduced to a mass of débris and” principal objects of the American mission Staff and regimental officers. If a gulf than a million bushels ahead of 1912. to Japan are said to be for the nur existed between the two before, and dur of arriving at a better understanding be tween the United States and Japan, and Also to discuss international measures to be adopted on the restoration of peace.

With regard to the foregoing, the Foreign Office in Tokyo is not yet in ro ceipt of any information,]

SHIPPING NEWS.E

The Kurohime Maru, a 0,300 ton vessel of the Itaya Steamship Company, has been sold to a shipping company in Italy for Y3,150,000,

She was built at Glasgow twelve years ago, and was bought by the Itayn S. Co, for Y.350,000,

There is no reason to expect these coun tries will average any better than those already reported, or little more than

balf crop.

broken steam and water pipes. Im madiately after the explosion Joyce and Kimber proceeded to the engine-room, the former having just come off watch. The latter had just left the boiler room after he had seen that the oil burnera were shut off and everything was in order, and had sent his hands on deckAL

ing the earlier stages of the war, it bas now been bridged, and all are working together in the true Nelson spirit of i Band of Brothers. The fighting man has ceased to be the mechanical executor of Stall orders. Strategy must necessarily remain in the hands of the Higher Com which the Germans send into our lines at Hearing the sound of means coming from mand, but b'fore a tactical operation is least five are sent across to them,

inside the engine ran they both atteropt undertaken consultation takes place be- The Intelligence Department-the eyes ed to enter it by the foremost hatch and tween Divisional, Brigade, and Regi- and ears of the Army has been brought ladder. As the heat in the engine-room mental Commanders, the latter more often to a high state of efficiency under its pre was intense, and volumes of steam were than not having the most to say in the sent chief. How he obtains his informa coming up forward, they then lifted one order subsequently issued for their guid- tion is not a matter either for disenssion of the square ventilating hatches farther Ance. All this is to the good, and is or inquiry. It is sufficient to know that aft on the top of the engine-room casing tactical ascendancy of our enemy, chief contributory cause to the increasing he can point with his finger on the map (port side), and climbed into the rapidly. to the exact position occupied by every flooding compartment over the steam one of the German divisions which are pipes, which were extremely hot. Scram. now facing the British Tront What is bling over the debras, they discovered interesting to know, and what ought to well over on the aturboard side Stoker be known by all our Allies, is that while Petty Officer Smith with his head just the British from, as the crow flies, and out of the water. A rope was lowered without reckoning enclaves and salients,

BRITISH ARTILEY PEEPÓNDELINGE Of all sights which meet the eye at the Japan records were broken recently by front the most amazing is that of the the acle of a cargo boat of 3000 tons, by huge array of guns which are seen in the Osaka Iron Works to the South Man every direction in the vicinity of the fight churian 8.S. Company, at the rate of ing line. Nothing more impresses the Y.60 per ton. It is stated that this onlooker with the beligerent power of is not much, more than 90 miles long, the from the upper deck, and with great |Y.100 higher than any reached in Jupan Great Britain's armies than the sight of French front bring three times longer since the opening of the war, these monster pieces of ordrance which we are holding up nearly as many for are crushing Prussian militariam beneath mag divisions as our Allies are doing, The Clerman Government, which had re contemplated lonning shipowners the weight of their fire. To describe what Last week there were 675 enemy divisions 300,000,000 marks for the rebuilding our guns are doing would require a whole facing the British front, as against 70 article to itself, but after visiting many facing the French. The wider this in- of the Gerinar merchant marine, batteries in action the writer declares his formation is circulated the better, because

reported By is now new project as a result of the seizure of conviction that not a single round of am- it is sometimes hinted that we are not munition a uselessly expended. Our doing all we ought to do in France, the German ships in North and South Ame- artillery preponderance is unmistakable contrary being the truth Numbers of rica. It will allow shipowners large in- and it is correct to say that for every shell fighting men, Dot length of front, deter demnities, which will almost completely cover their losses.

(Continued at for next column.)

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difficulty Smith, who was entangled in fractured pipes and other wreckage, was hauled up alive. At the same time Stoker

in the water on the port side of the engine, Petty Officer Powell was found floating room.The rope was lowered again and passed around Powell, who, however, was found to be dead on reaching the deck. The water was so high that further efforts to discover the remaisire artificer left in the engine room would have been uselas, and the attempt had to be abandoned,