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FRENCIL ARMY, June 15th For the moment the efforts of the French people seem to be willing to take any trouble," wrote Sir Frederick Milner, The history of the scheme resembles the that veteran fighter on behalf of the history of many excellent, simple schemes are chiefly concentrated on making good

Outside the dark their footing in th dominating positions? castle of officialdom it has fourished. And he would no The message of France, delivered to victims of the war and of national ingra for the public good.

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The sitting began with an ovation for General Pershing: wha for six or seven mingles had to stand in acknowledgment of the applause of the Chamber. M. Ribot then went to the Tribum to outline the course of events in Greece.

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We have no sufferings and wrifices. words strong enough to chastise those ob- jectors, conscientious and unconscientious, Wh suck to evade the job of saving no from the horrors of a Prussian triumph wearisome business of meting out, not But when it comes to the actual detailed, warm-blooded generosity, but the skin niest justice, to the martyrs to whom we do not shine:

suitable for disabled men. owe everything, we Nations, it has been said, are incapable of gratitude. So few people seem to be willing to take any trouble. Our Note how the very core of the Rothband the advisory Committee ever went. And

At 3.30 a.m. the Germans attacked with treatment of disabled soldiers (1 include scheme was cut out, This was as far as The to this day no public appeal to employers

The Rothband two divisions, both newly arrived from sailors in the term), has until lately been infamously mean and neglectful, injustice which these men have had to put has ever been organised.

It ques and Chasseurs, both made of as good Pp with has been rank and wholesale, scheme has been mentioned again and Rounania. Opposite them, on the French and it would have been much worse but again in Parliament. It has been the sub-left, defending the Casemates, were Baa- for the tireless efforts of three private jcct of amendments to the Address

and Sailors has formed the motive of reiterated ques-stuff as the French armies hold. Every- M. Vivians followed M. Ribot, and agencies--the Soldiers

others, they were the awn who bad carried began his account of his visit to America Families Association, the Soldiers and tions to the Ministers whom it ought to one knows the reputation as fighting men the plateau on May 4th and 5th, and had with an analysis of the motives which had Sailors' Help Society--and Sir Frederick concern. And the outward official result of the. Chasseurs Alpins, and as for the christened the trenches they had made th brought the United States into the Kilner himself. (In the interminable list bas been ?.

Was it he asked, gratitude for of honours, by the way, I find no mention of the name of Sir Frederick Milner,:

The chief opponens (active or passive, Landes, the Bordeau, the Bayonne, and 80 on, after places in their owo Basque Lafayette? Then he went on:--

though war-profiteers are not absent from

as you please or he pleases)of the scheme No one could know the special place the list 1)

at the present time is Mr. John Hodge, country-splendidly athletic men, who M.P., Secretary of the British Steel Smel throw grenades with the same accuracy kept for France in the great American

"THE CREDITORS OF THE NATION. heart. There wig nut & speech that I heard that did not evoke the memory of

It is true that the most recent scale of ters Mill, Iron and Tinplate Workers and sporting spirit that distinguishes was brought into the Ministry by Mr.pelota. Basques or Chasseurs, they had the great general; there was not a build pensions in itself a triumph for Sir Association, who as Minister of Labour their playing in their national game of At first they were thrown entirely on ing on which amidst a profusion of flags Frederick-shows a considerable improve Lloyd George presumably in order that need of all their skill of hand and foot.

Their telephone we did not find together the delicate, ment in national fairness towards ma

Mr. Hodge had had immense their own resources. aristocratic features of Washington and tional creditors. And for that inprove he might watch over the interests of Lafayette. It is a great thing for ment the victims will doubtless be thank country is mingle its pride with its ful. But the official spirit which rules administrative experience long before he communications were all cut, they were he immediately mandement by dense clouds of dust, gratitude. And as I looked and listened the entire systern still remains, so far as joined the Government, and in the matter hidden from the view of the postes de con- white plateaux of powdered chalk and I, a son of the French Revolution, said I am aware, practically unchanged. And of official-mindedness

Mr. Hodge's sand, and, until the fearless coureurs had to myself that the septics wore wrong; neither the Government nor the general took a high place in the Ministry, and thrown up by shells from the glaring I saw that Fraper had not in vain public seems yet to have realised that our may be said in that respect to rival even generously and nobly defended her ideal responsibility to the disabled does not end Lord Curzon himself, of justice and honour since to day her with the payment of pensions and gratui- answer to Mr. Wing's question about the dashed back through the heavy barrage sons have only had to stoop to gather lies which at the best are barely sufficient Rothband scheme on the 21st of lest are to report, the commanding allicers the immortal seed Bung by her into the for vital needs, and which by no stretch month in the House of Commons was the directing operations were badly hampered

of fancy can be called adequate rewards perfect classic example of officialiam en-in the use of their guns. for priceless services willingly rendered. trenched behind its barbed wire entangle-machine-guns and even some of the men's ments. He said: "I am not convinced rifles were so choked with dust and grit furrows of humanity."

Was it from admiration of France that Quite apart from pensions, we owe it to that the best interests of disabled men that they were put out of netion, and the United States had joined in the war the disabled to provide them with employ would be served by the preparation of a grenades were the only weapon of which That was where the Basques and their Americans have felt that our people in ment, when they are capable of being cl»

too ardent conflicts in ployed, at proper wages. We owe it to national roll of employers willing to em-effective use could be made. spite of their

No argument. No reasoning. No sym skill at pelota came in. But for all their peace time, would not stand out as weak them that they shall be put in a position ploy such men." That was all. and currupt now. Was it our courage to supplement their pensions, Woowe it to

No affirmation. Simply a nega not altogether stand their ground before Thai Stands sufficiently graven in the thom that, on the one hand, they shall not pathy. No criticism. No promise. No courage and powers of fighting they could tion I am not convinced." It is about the impetus of the first German rush, and annals of our glory. No. What has be exploited by unscrupulous masters, and hope.

that, on the other hand, they shall not

during the first hour of battle, stirred the heart of the American people he compelled, for lack of opportunity, to time Mr. Hodge was convinced about on both plateaux they were driven back is our silence, our calm, our dignity; finish their lives in idleness. To condemn something.

capa But to do Mr. Hodge justice, he has Chasseurs on the right had to face it is our people aroused, the people of

a son to idleness when he has the the workshop and of the plough; it is the city to work, is almost as bad, morally, in fact given a reason for his stolid block double attack, the land-who were the clan of the Marne and the patience of Verdun; it is the spectacle of this capital as to compel him to penal servitude ing of the way to the scheme of the Royal Gret regiment to enter Bukarest, and no thrilled but enlm and dignified; the Nevertheless, it is certain that after the Roll. On March 12th he wrote officially doubt expected to repent their perform- war, unless some large and serious effort from the Ministry of Labour that ity ance at Craonne-advancing from the cust spectacle of Pavis, which German calamny, is made before the war enda, tens of thou thousand disabled soldiers had returned on to the Californian Plateau while the the capital of sands of the disabled will meet with this to civil employment through the Labour other regiment poured across it from the had declared to be

I do not frivolity. Paris is still thrilled, but she alternative fate of unscrupulous explaita Exchanges, and that the demand for such north. But they kept up a tremendous men was greater than the supply. This fight all the time, clinging to each shell- was his ostensible reason, which he took hole and battered fragment of trench with Answering de is calmer than before, as though she weretion or soal destroying idleness.

cure not to give to the House of Com- desperate tenacity and reserving all her enthusiasm for the day know exactly how many disabled men are now being discharged from the Army when, by the strength of our arros,

that Mr. Hodge has quite failed to com- grenade, the one solitary iden in their justice shall be for ever planted on the During certain periods of last year the mons. And the reason thus offered shows mands to surrender with revolver or

rate reached five thousand a week. Per

prehend the underlying idea of the heads being that at any cost they would universe,

How can we explain the American inter.haps to-day the rate may be a little less vention? America could have confined But in any event the numbers are scheme, and quite failed to envisage hold on until supports could come up and Some time ago Mr. Barnes admitted the what will be the future of the disabled counter-attacks be organized. At 7. sote In a word, he has dis details of the Fifth Chasseurs and com- herself to saying that she would no

disabled. Every one of these disabled played a lack of the imaginative insight panics of the 28th Chasseurs moved up

Do longer tolerate the intrigues of the existence of over a quarter of a million after the war.

which is essential to the successful treat from Crauane, advancing at, wide, in- German Ambassador at Washington, that men is the creditor of the nation.

we ever think of them? We think a tement of such a huge problem as that of tervals across the heavy German barrage. From then onwards the French gunnets she could no longer bear to hear the dis-

into the the disabled.

were able-as the clouds of dust were not tant cry of the children treacherously rible lot about getting men

now so thick-not only to screen their own AS AFTER THE-WAN STRUGCIE. Aung into the depths of the seas. America Army; but when once we have got them into the vast and ruthless machine our

men, but to pour on the enemy a volume has said that, but that is not all that

Everybody is quite aware that nt the she has said. It will be her glory in practical interest in them gravely dimin

present time the demand for labour, foruf fire that caused the Germans heavy history that she heard the ery of all the ishes, even if it does not expire.

nearly any sort of labour, exceeds the losses and prevented them from either human raes and that she appealed to.

supply

Everybody is quite aware that advancing or retiring.

On their left, the Piquette Division had universal justice.

At the end of 1915, that is to say, eigh relatively fewer men are now being dis

The enemy came Never have I felt more keenly the truth of this fact than when, in Chicago teen months age, I gave a description of charged from the Army, and relatively had to face four successive waves of the

The achete

On the surface the almost shoulder to shoulder, expecting Army Reserye.. -after Berlin, the greatest German city a proposed national scheme for providing more men are being transferred to the 1 German attack.

employment for the disabled.

an easy prey and before the weight in the world-I repudiated the fraud has since become generally known as the amount of loose labour on the market is evidently that the French would prove which would result from a lying plebis Rothband scheme, from the Manchester exceedingly small. But it is to be remem

bered that large numbers of men in the attack and discharges of liquid flame the cite in Alsace Lorraine. America has by employers who first evolved it. It is a her entry into the war given to the scheme at once quite simple and extremely Army Reserve are in reality employed on Basque Division also gave ground. At civil jobs, and that the hals of those jobs half-past 2 after 11 hours fighting the conflict its deeper meaning, its moral, comprehensive, Briefly, it consists it democratic character. America declares this: First, that the King (or in default will cease when the war ceases. It is to 18th joined up with the first comers of that responsibility for the war falls upon the Prince of Wales) should issue under he remembered that millions of jeks of the 28th, who were coming up as reserves were not yet in position, at once rushed the Central Empires, that the Imperial his own name an appeal to employers to all kinds will cease when the war erases, in support, and the 25th, though they

and that the entire labour market will be that the time has come to settle the con- ber of disabled soldiers for, suck at period in a turrncil and in a state of siege, which out of their communication trenches as hands are criminally bloodstained, and bind themselves to employ a certain myan-

un their left as the multitudes of human beings return flict between autocracy and democracy as may be necessary, and of course at

The scheme of the

From that moment the counter-attack So long as there exists in the world a proper rates of wages-such rates to betute of siege, will increase in intensity soon as they got in touch with the men

from the trenches. lying, perverse power of prey and of settled as wages are settled in, for ex- gression, democracy will be in danger ample, the cotton trade. Second, that the Royal Itoll was not designed to meet an began all along the line, and the encuy aggit after ton, twenty, or thirty years names of all employers satisfactorily existing evil. It was designed det mest leaving masses of dead behind, besides all

an evil which is bound to arise after the answering the royal appeal should be again be called upon to face the incorporated in a Royal Roll. The idea war, and to continue for years after the the machine guns which had fallen into storm of Germanic brutality. No, there ean bo no peace without victory, unless of the scheme has met with extraordinary war if measures are not now taken to their hands earlier in the day, were swept we cease to respect our graves and oar approval. It has been approved by combat it. Anybody can picture the back into the ravines of Vauclere, having one of the rare motor-buses at Piccadilly some of the positions they held at 'clock in the morning, when the attack began. candles. America has come into the war numerous public personages. It has been

large business firms. It has been approvirus between six and seven o'clock determined to fight to the end, giving us approved by hundreds and hundreds of situation by watching the struggle for not only won no ground, but even lost.

od by War Pensions Committees. 1 has

•by• immediate help and resolved, to operate with us until the hour when been approved by the heads of Labour Without special help what change would Their losses were so heavy that what the getting a seat in the motor-bus? None the enemy's shells, is the stench of those univerand justice shall triumph, Bureaux. It has been approved, not a one-armed or a one-legged raan have French have to fear now, even more than Our political and economic difficulties cially by some of his Majesty's Ministers. Well, the labour-market after the war will piles of bodies putrefying in the glare of

be the motor-bus. are growing, sorrow is spreading and And Sir Frederick Milner has said of it: over the cradle the mother thinks of the absolutely agree that it would be a grave We know every sorrow. We tremendous success. mast win or go under. There is nothing éla for us. And are we not in the town where the French Revolution- struggle I within the limits of the city ramparts in vast disorders, exime, and conspiracy while our frontiers were invaded, while 40 of our departments were in revolt? Nevertheless there were men who aros

And morcover marvellous deeds for us. Our hearts all its consequences of human tragedy, to save the country. And we who have and aundry minor criticisms, have been now, while they are actually doing not properly be able to lay the fault, with this splendid heritage of honour and answerably answered. humanity, we who are no longer isolate, it cannot be denied that precisely similar would now beat faster in response to an at the door of Mr. Hodge, or even at the difficulties would arise under any scheme appeal properly made. Our patriotism collective door of the Government. We we around whom are all those who with water, whereas the advantages of one and our sense of honour are stimulated shall have to lay the fault at our ow to live and breathe shall we not for ever all-embracing apical, backed by the un daily by the contents of the newspapers doors. For the Mr. Hodges of this world quick enough to respond to public, prés- wreat from Prussian hands the heavy rivalled prestige of the throne, are over But after the war our lobe of mind will and the Governments of this world are sword of murder and rapine! Do not whelming. It seems to me that if ever a be very diferent. We shall have other sure when the pressure is strong enough. will produce results forget that you owe an account, not only ease has occurred in which a constitu preoccupations. We shall be sick of war to France, of to-day, but also to France tional monarch could beneficially play and all that pertains to war. Our hearts. Only public pressure will

depends on public interest. The absence of yesterday and of to-morrow. When the real part in the national life, the present there will art beat faster when we are from the official mind. Public pressure earth trembles, but when our hearts caves that case. It is out of the anestion reminded of our obligations to our of it means that the public is not really tremble not, our duly is clear. Let us to refer to private documents. All I can martyrs and saviours. It is shameful interested. It means, in the phrase of continue to the end and we shall give say in this conection is that I have seen that we are built that way, but we are Sir Frederick Milner, that to humanity the finest legacy the worl nothing to indicate that the King, would bas ever know

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And be it known that if the schede

You may ask: If this scheme will not THE KING'S ADVISERS.

be argently wanted until later, why It And naturally it has been criticised, should it be procanded with at once too People have said that difficulties Why should it not be postponed? would arise about wages, and about the should not be postponed because human efforts of bad employers to shelter them nature is human nature, and very careless selves behind the King's name, and about and forgetful and ungrateful. We are perishes, if it comes to nothing, we shall

But these critisiems, capable of enthusiasm for our soldiers tratle jealousies.

not be very willing to take his paramount

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people are willing to take any trouble."