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HOW THE GERMAN LINE CAN BE BROKEN.“

BLIND THE ENEMY BY DOUBLING

OUR AEROPLANES.

Recently we asked a high ranking military man connected with the Franco- British visiting commission if there was any hope of breaking the German line and forcing a retreat along the whole front (says the Scientific American). Certainly there is." But how?" we asked, and we commend his quick reply to the immediate attention and action of Congress. If the United States would place at our disposal 5,000 aeroplanes, manned by skilled aviators, we could break through by a surprise attack in great force and roll back the whole line. The disaster would be so widespread that

strength with which the Western line is He explained that a curve showing the held would run approxiniately level with a big bulge on each side where the Gor man and the Allied forces are fighting at Messines, Arras, Craonne, and so on "Under existing conditions," he said,

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WORK FOR THE NEW, FOOD CONTROLLER

HIGH PRICES: AND LABOUR UNDEST.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, Juns 25th

LABOUR UNREST.

NO DELAY IN THE INQUIRY.

PRIME MINISTER AND CHEAPER

FOOD.

never before known that the industrial machine was capable of bearing. Five millions of men and more in the prime of life the picked young men of the country-had been withdrawn from in- dustry. It was true we had alwar a

MONDAY, AUGUST 6ra. 1917.

GERMAN BRUTALITY. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF

„BRITISH SEAMEN.

The men of the German submarine took one of the two ship's life boats to get aboard the as. Iefugio on the 12th inst.. and, when they had done with it, kicked hole in its bottom, which the steward afterwards plugged with his shirt and divided the crew of 36 (5 Spaniùrdì,9 Arabs, 5 blacks and 24 British) into the

two boats. The weather was very rough

The following is yet another authentic Addressing the Commissioners appoint story received from the Chief Irish cd to inquire into the causes of labour Superintendent of the British and. For- NEW FOOD CONTROL. B

unrest, recently, the industrial machine,eign Sailors Society regarding German Lord Devonport has disappeared from had been working at exceptionally high brutality to helpless merchant seamen view: as Food Controller and Lord pressure; a pressure quite unknown in Rhondda reigns in his stead. Public con- times of peace in Great Britain, or any fidence in the ability of the Government other land, in fact a pressure it was to manage the food supply of the country on equitable terms for all has been badly shaken by the weakness and the wobbling of the Ministry of Food daring the last six months. eternal in the human breast

But as "Hope springs reliance is peace would follow within a few weeks pinced on the new Joseph,ia Egypt. million, women now engaged in industrial and wet; and the exposure and want of

He can, if he does nothing else, avoid the more glaring a previously followed by me water soon toll upon them. The two

us a free hand. errors of his predecessor's policy. As

But still the pressure was enormous boats had to be kept together by towing, Mr D. A Thomes, a millionaire Welsh With diminished numbers in this indus- but the rope broke owing to the envy colliery proprietor, Lord Rhondda has a

trial army, they had in many "thises to great reputation for ability and for the maintain the output and in many cases straight to sun and sailing fast when the sea. The Captain's boat was heading babit of getting his own way. And lie to increase it. Consequently there hasteward (Mr. W. R. Wilson) in the second his good faith the public expect him to gue, of exhaustion, with all the irritation sion with its artillery to a certain

that ensued in cases of that kind, and he darkness of the night and found them selected

position than the Germana put an end to profiteering.

had no doubt, owing to the innumerable all exhausted and in a stupor, and woke GREEDY PROFITEENS.

changes which had to be effected in order them up, get the boat turned in the to adapt the peace machine to war exigen. opposite direction (S.E.) and rowed dies, there had been a good deal of tric towards land. It was a fearful effort tian. They were dealing first of all not said one died from exhaustion. They with hard metal, but with flesh and soon sighted land and one boat got bluud, and he had no doubt that many ashore.

any stupidities perhaps committed, mistakes had been made. There had been

things were almost inevitable when one many errors perhaps on both sides. Such under which they had been working considered the whole of the conditions during the last two or three years. The marvel was that there had been so few of these difficulties,

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We no sooner move even a single divi-knows at the outset that as ad earnest of been a good dent of overstrain, of a boat swam to the Caplain's boat in the

counter with a similar concentration. But if our hemplane strength were

The artificial inflation of prices which went on so merrily of late will not be tolerated any longer. It hay bout the chief cause of Labour unrest, and the cabinet are well aware that if it is not stopped the consequence will be dis

suddenly doubled we could hold the aerial forces of Germany so far back of the front that it would be possible to concentrate an army of 500.000 min at a Belected point, without the Germans havnstrous. ing the slightest inkling of what was unable or unwilling to tackle the greedy ance, our troop could break through in oing on. With such a local proponder force, and before the enemy knew what was going on we would be astride his communications. To save his armies from envelopment and destruction he would have to make a retreat which in any case would be disastrous, and might be absolutely fatal”

naturally regards this, where it is due to exploitation, as equivalent to highway robbery with violence.

THW RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.

Hut the results accomplished had been beyond the anticipations ho might almost say the dreams of any men, oven those who were perfectly acquainted with the possibility of the industrial commu- nity of this country. It had been un- doubtedly a great surprise to our enemies and a disappointment to them. They never thought Great Britain was capable of adapting itself so readily to such gigantic demands. It had been a great source of joy to our friends and a source of enormous pride to every man who loved his native land to see that Britain when the pressure came, was capable of giving such a response.

LEGITIMATE GRIEVANCES. All the same there had been trouble and there had been some friction.

Their function, the function which they had soon so good as to undertake on behalf of the Government, was to investigate the causes of thig disquiet. Even when it had not ended in strikes one heard mur murings and grumblings They did not como merely from men who for political

rocks when a crew, organised by Rev. A. the Coastguarda under Mr. F. J. King. Munro, assisted by Di O'Doherty and brought the poor fellows to land. The men wore helpless and could do nothing, many were unconscious, but willing hands soon gathered and assisted the men from the hosts and brought them ashore, where nourishment in abundance was provided (though some had to be spoon-fed.) Eleven died as the result of the exposure. The twenty-five survivors were taken under the care of the local Branch of the British and Foreign Bailors' Society. The Society, as usual, supplied food and beds and fresh outäts to the poor worn out men, some of whom were still in a dazed condition and glad to lie down. All except two were able to travel next day for Laverpool. The two had to remain behind for a few days, on one (a black man from Jamaica) was too ill to leave, and the other by Doctor's. orders, elected to stay with him.

The other boat was drifting near the

We understand the Refugio, owned by Messrs. John Cory & Sons, Cardiff, fought the submarine for 24 hours, and if the mon could have kept it up just a little longer they might have been victorious..

The Captain became really mad as the result of the experience, and the steward was compelled to take command.

or other reasons were interested rather in promoting disquiet; they eams from

The crews from about 350 torpedoed men who were honestly anxious to elu ships have been received into this the country in the prosecution of the war Society's care The demand for clothing Such investigations as he had been able of all kinds is exceptionally heavy, to unke is a fairly busy life had con especially along certain sections of the vinced him that there were grievances Irish and English coasts Supplies may which ought to be dealt with. was undoubtedly in the intercats of the Bailors"

And it may be sent to the British and Foreign country that that should be done, because Sailors Palace, 678-680, Commercial Society Headquarters, The unless all legitimate causes of unrest were Road, London, E, or to any of its removed, it would impair the efficiency branches of the industrial machine, to put it at its lowest. To impede national efficiency at a time when we needed the whole of our strength was something that ought to be attended to at once, even as a War measure.

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inquiry should be conducted in private. After all, there would be workmen's and

employers' representatives present, and each would be able, apart altogether fron the well-known charcter of the chairman, to see that the evidence received absolute fair playa men

He expressed a desire on behalf of the Government that the recommendations of

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Lord Devonport seemed to be

markets in order to fill their pockets gangs who deliberately manipulated the Their identity was known in the City and the result of their thimblerigging practices was patent to everybody. See ng that the whole of the stocks of food in the country and the quantities on the way here from abroad are accurately known to the Food Controller and his Nothing could be more true: time and staff, it is obviously not beyond the wit again this war has brought home to us of man to ensure that the difference be the fact that the control of the air is an iween the wholesale and retail price is sential to victory in the modern battle. not such that prodatory middlemen At Verdun, on the Bomme, at Arras, on should be able to rob the consumer the Craonne Plateau and at Vimy Ridge. Since the outbreak of war the average and again at Massines, it was the airmen cost of food stuffs has increased by over of the Butente forces, whose preponder-109 per cent. The man in the street *ance, skill and daring insured the victory of the attackers. Still, the German com. manders were fully aware of the impend- *ing attacks and were able to concentrate the necessary troops on the given sectors

Closely associated with the emouldering at least to stave off a disastrous break anger of the people over the high cost of *in their lines, even though they suffered living is the question of Labour unrest, Theavy defeat. The mere fact that the The working classes suspect that they are Entente airmen were not in sufficient being used to make rich men richer, and fores utterly to prevent the Germans from also to entrench Capital (with a capital taking the air gave the latter an oppor- more solidly than ever in position. tunity, slight as ᎥᏞ may have been, to Hence the recent deputation to the Erime execute reconnaissance fight for the Minister. But Mr. Lloyd George is most part back of the German lines. nover at a loss. He met complaints hy

It has been pointed out before in the appointing eight Commissions of Ea lumns of this journal that the contral quiry into Labour Unrest. Whether any of the air is only a relative term; and good will ensue is problematical.

Each even if the Batente airmen have enjoyed Commission consists of 24 members; and the control of the air from time to time it the 182 persons deputed to look for has never been in such a degree as to trouble or the causes of trouble have

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the German forces altogether, each the right of drawing up a report Always has it been possible for the More reinarkable still, the Premier Teuton fliers to carry out reconnaissance ordered them to present their findings flights, even if only behind their own within three weeks. The terms of refer fines and protected by their own antiente are the Munitions Act, high prices, aircraft batteries. So every attack of the profiteering, Trade Union regulations. Allied armies has been prepared with the relations of employers to employé, Con- more or less complete knowledge of the scription, hours of labour, overtime, the German commanders, and ith every position of women in industry, agitators, opportunity for the intter to tak

take proper over-fatigue, and so on. Whatever else mesaures; to fall back on.

happene, if any of the Commissioners get is not necessary

to the end of their task in the specified imagination for a a picture of what 5.000 time they should be able to report feel American aviators would mean in the ingly about over-fatigue. They are ask war's decisive battle; for, on a malled to do in three weeks what has occupied soale, the British army enjoyed practical Royal Commissions as many years.

Dealing with the proposed work of the control of the air at the recent battle of GERMAN TITLES ABOLISHED,

Commissioners, the Prime Minister said Messines. The intrepid airmen of the The King's décision that those the Government wished the inquiry to be Royal Flying Corps, we read, did not Princes of his family who are his sub- a thorough one. All they wished to know. Satop at their usual tasks of reconnais feet, and boar German names and titles as a Government was, *** What

sance artillery spotting and combatting should relinquish these titles and hence the facts! They wished the inquiry the Commission should be made at the bostile machines

they carried on forth adopt British surnames ments to be an impartial one, and he felt cer- systematic raids for behind the German with approval. After all that hes baptain from the category of the Commis earliest practicable date. They were lines, dropped boobs on railroads with pened in the last two or three years sioners that that would be the case taxious not merely that the Commis automobiles with deadly machine-gun verything Teutonic in name or origin favour, affection or ill-will, to quote a own recommendations as to the best way demoralizing effect, attacked general-stat people look askance at anything and should be conducted without fear or sioners should investigate the cause of unrest, but that they should make their fire, attacked infantry on the march and The King has shown his tact by abolish phrase to which they were accustomed in of dealing with them, whether they be in the trenches, dropped bombs on Ger ing the pretensions to precedence in rank the House of Commons. They wanted to man aerodromes, and in every possible way over our old nobility of the sons and know what the real truth was about the economic or non-coonomic. Sometimes, it inflicted heavy losses on an enemy already daughters of princes and princelings who causes of unrest; unless they knew that might be the question of hours of labour, fully occupied with land forces employ flourished during the Victorian régime, they could not take steps to redress them, sometimes it might be trade union regula. ing every machinery known to the modern In due course the only princes and

tions, sometimes it might be complaints soldier. So, basing our judgment on what princesses will be the children and grand that it should be interpreted in a men, sometimes it might be the Munitions As to the reference they were auxious as to the action of employers or of fore the British airmen necomplished et children (in the male line) M dessines, it is not difficult to speculate Sovereign, and only these will have the technical sense, because unless that were They were anxious that all those ques thoroughly broad spirit and not in a Act or the method of its administration: as to the results of a battle in which ten, right to be called Royal Highness done they could not be properly advised tions should be investigated thoroughly. twenty or thirty times as many mer connection with this subject Spects to conditiona, plants would take a part stor raises again the question whether rather to the chairman than to tacir food or the question of profiteering

That was a word Sometimes it might be the high Not so much is it troops that our it would not be a good thing if the cadet colleagues. They suggested that investi Those were things the Allies require at present as it is aero members of the Royal family had a surgations should not be conducted in too ant Sometimes it might be found that they wanted to find planes and airmen; for given absolute name which should be also unmistakably formal a manner but that all needs unrest was due to attempts made to take control of the air, a decisive defeat could British The journal suggeste "Lancas should be sought which would enable the advantage of legitimate be inflicted right now on the German ter from the King's title of Duke of Commissioners to inform themselves as

grievances to. forces by the Entente troops. With his Lancaster,

up general discontent. That they also artillery obliged to shoot at unseca, STORMY PETRELS

to the facts, not necessarily by having wanted to find out The Labour Minis elusive

witnesses before them and examining ter had just suggested to him that there The refusal of British seamen to carry them and rose-examining the--though was a good deal of discontent in some to the hig batteries, machine gun positions, panions

white-gun, anamsay MacDonald and his com

the Independent Labour that was the most obvious method of cases attributable to the efforts to keep supply stations, ammunition dumps and Party to Russia, raises several important doing it but by any means that would up the Army, and to the substitution of other military establishments subjected to points. It is very gratifying that Bri suggest the best way of ascertaining the those who were unfitted to go into the

Hurricane of accurate, devastating fire; tish sailors, in common

facts in any particular area. with his men in constant terror of aere opinion, generally abhor the Pacifist for themselves, and get to know what the recommendations of the Commission. with British should see for themselves, make inquiries thoroughly investigated, and they wanted Army. All these questions they wanted planes dropping out of the skies and doctrines held by these men and endorsed was really happening and why it was He did not mean to say that the Govern fying less than 100 feet above the earth, their followers small section. pouring streams of accurate machine English workers havery wash scene happening. He would suggest for that ment proposed to wait for the report of Kun fire into their ranks; with relieving Messrs. MacDonald and Company present the proceedings should be held in public. certain things His right hon. friend the very reason that it was undesirable that the Commission before they dealt with troops attacked with machine-gun fire lows of Englishmen. That, of course nesses to speak with freedom and to tell time engaged in very important negotia bying their peculiar views the war They would find it dificult to get wit Minister of Munitions was at the present avintors before they even reached trenches indeed, just as they were leavis a perfectly reasonable attitude. But, them exactly what was happening if they tions with the Amalgamated Society of ing the troep trains; with his commanice unfortunately, the ban gives the Pacifists new that their names would be known Engineers in reference to some sections tions, both rail and road, utterly dis an international importance to which and the character of the evidence which of the Munitions Act. And he (the organized by continuous bombing and they have no rightful claim. It suggests they might give would also be known. Prime Minister) was hoping that certain bursts of machine-gun fire and accurat that they have something to say that we He did not auggest that there would be sections of that Act which perhaps might shelling and with his utter lack of know are afraid the Russiang will hear. The ledge of what the enemy was preparing suggestion is abstard; but there is the any victimization he did not think for have been very necessary at the time for hire hack of his own lines, the German Int Although the seamen did not in one moment that anyone dare victimize might now have served their purpose in commander on any given sector would be tend it, their action strikes at freedom on such a very important subject but purposes, and be found to be not so neces: anyone giving evidence to a Commission the organization of labour for national in a perilous, hopeless position. Surely of speech and of thought, and the liberty at the same time the witnesses themselves sary, he would be unable to withstand the of the subject. Looking to the future, might feel a little bit disinclined to talk onslaught of a half million fresh infantry after the war, are we to have certain with the same freedom that they other INVESTIGATION OF PROFITNE of whose presence he had no previous classes of workers exercising control over wish would, and for that reason he There was another cause o of industrial correspond persons whose opinions are obnoxious to strongly urged that the proceedings anrest, which the Government certainly All this con

accomplished by 5,000 to decline to carry directors who refuse American airmen. We have the manu their demands for more wages or shorter REASONS FOR PRIVATN, INQUIRY. mission before dealing with, suû that was facturing Facilities ready for the under hours! That way leads direct to He had another reason. He was very the question of high prices of food and taking, and we have the invaluable fund anarchy. Already the Trade Unions per snxious that too much time should not might be partly responsible for it. The the suggestion made that profiteering of knowledge of the greatest seronautical ceive that a mistake has been made, and, le occupied with the inquiries, becsuss constructors in the Allied countries at our indeed, some of the leaders are saying so obviously the longer they lasted the Itse searching investigation of that subject,

Cabinet had already started disposal, ensuring an American producH.B

useful they would be. If there were real grievances, then the sooner they were and they hoped in a very short time to remedied the botter. Therefore he urged make proposals which would have the is why" MONTSERRAT Lime Juice Are we going to miss this one oppor- them to conclude their inquiries at the effect of reducing very substantially the That is the question which suficient volunteers for aviation service tanity of winning a speedy victoryy earliest possible moment consistent with cost of some of the necessities of life to 18 such a favourite.

ascertaining the truth For those the people of this country. At the same answered by Congress in the immediate reasons he would strongly urge that the time, he had no doubt that they would have just arrived from London.

come up stainst those grievances in the (Continued at foot of meet column:) course of their investigation.

known its; with his every move

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Knowledge and therefore themt Are the railwayman, for instance, should be private. would not wait for the report of the Com

ing forces of re

in the future that will be the equal of any the world over. We have the facili “ties for training the men and we have

to prepare an army of flyers several times

that required to

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