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THE FRIGHT THAT CAMB BACK.

Mr. Lloyd George presided at the

"There are things, sir, invisible to annual dower fetival at the Welsh that are as real as this table Baptist Chapel Catle Street, Woung man struck the table a blow h which his daughter was married the pre- proved it to be an undeniable reali, vious week,

and looked at the doctor défiant a almost en though be expected contradio- tion; but that wise, grey benefactor merely adjusted a pair of gold eyeglas nodded.

STOCKHOLM. After my late experiences in France. where every man is a soldier and most of the women wear mourning where the 'shells, the fields torn by led with to speak Welsh. To come to a Welsh upon the bridge of his shapely nose and towns and villages are

trenches, and the whole land filled with the rubble and waste of war, this beautiful Scandinavia scems to belong to another world-the happy world that we knew before the mad fury of Attila turned it into a shambles.

The recollection of the charred stumps of Mamots Wood is like the shuddering remembrance of a horrid nightmare in the green silences of Norway's vast foreats. The ghastly wreckage of the Bomme Valley seems impossible amid the loveliness of these placid, mountain lakes, and in the great peace of lofty summits, kurrounded by eternal ice and snow, one feels like Bomnin Rolland, high above

That was the

Speaking in Welsh, the Prime Minister said that it was a comfort to him to come among his own people to read and chapel was like a cheap trip to the hills of Wales. (Laughter.) He referred to the war as the greatest catastrophe since the days of the Deluge. There was not a country in the whole world where the After the dove of peace could rest. Biblical Deluge here was very signis Reant promise that never again could such a thing happen symbol for today. It was a covenant than between God and man. To-day we wanted the covenant renewed, but it must be a covenant, not between God and man only but hetween nation and nation.

If the dove were sent out to-day he was afraid it would come back. It had gone forth once. As a matter of fact. The dreamers of this happy land were President Wilson, be believed, had sent beautifully inspired in inviting comt, and Bethmann Hollweg had tried to batants out of the carnage to rest their minds here in the discussion of philoso- If the delegates had phio abstractions. been true representatives of the entire belligerent nations, agreed проп ritual- by aceptable bases, nothing could have been more upt than a conference in this beautiful and remote Venice of the north, with its dreamland barriers of ice bound mountain and enchanted wood. But one despairs to think what good can come, even here, of abstract debates he tween idealists who represent only small minorities and sets, while the vast an bitions which raised the terrible. conflict remain undefeated and undeterred.

the human scramble.

do something of the sort. But he sent forth not a dove, but a hawk, and he was not sure that he would not send an other. (Laughter.) There would be on

to this Deluge, but the water, not yet gone down. What would happen afterwards! Never, be thought, would they require more thought, wisdom, pre-

The paration, and providence than when the presunt Deluge had disappeared. new world must be different from the nic.

and France refuse to send delegates the Russian revolutionaries will certainly take the business out of the Dutch- Scandinavian committee's hands and sum- mon the congress at Stockholm on their own account.

MR. BRANTING'S DREAM. We Socialists have no monopoly of war weariness or peaceful aspiration. All the belligerent peoples, all neutrals--the en tire world gasp for pence. But how.can Socialists create peace while the

At this point Huysmans interpolated authors of the war rewain powerful, triumphant, and undiscouraged!

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Most people who think," he sa " arrive at a somewhat similar belief im later years than you have reached; but I should like to hear what incidens h spired your assertion. Quite in a frigad. y way, "you know,"

"Well, it happened in ʼn village, of

the remnant of one, which we occupied during the recent advance. The GermanE trenches were only a few hundred yards that when we moved about there beyond it, and ours ran through it, spots where we were snipel from thate front as well as shelled from their reas The place that troubled me, as company- runner with plenty of dodging around with messages, was a bend in the ruinou street just where you came in sight of open country, marked by nwell that had so far escaped destruction. Sottrbow, I could not pass by that wall: 1 Pakam though some invigibt auch red force lurked behind it that id nulimited

power to harm, „me, Some of the othe fellows felt it, for they would creep b the wall and ship urmosa the mud wil']: the utmost, anomern, ruling the snipety

who then had a running target for instant-as a joke.

"If E. to get by this wall, I th to make a detour; but bue, in the da I came unwittingly very close to it, suffered fire minutes of fear such had never known, double intense beongse it was so inexplicable."

He paused, and the doctor looked at him. Evidently there was more to follo of this strange story.

"Did you ever actually pass or explöse this mysterious barrier

The young man still hesitated. Then be said: "I would rather not tell you, with half the tale untold. And shortly afterwards he took his leave

But here Branting dryly interposed the remark that the liberties of prace might not always be conducive to liberty in timosantly. of war.

*

A week went by, during which the doctor often theorised over the unfinished tale, and then, one evening, he received a argent summons from the young man's home. He found his patient sitting in an easy chair, talking to himself inces-

"Let me our let me out,'" he said ex- West suggested that the readiness of citedly. "I can't find the door-tell me How did. D the German and Austrian Governments where it is, quick. the to allow their delegates to come to Stock: get in? I don't remember. No. holar might not be altogether unconnected body speaks to me, boily understanda with the growing effectiveness of the

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man direction, would amply supply all her needs, but Branting, with a slow, wise smile, observed that as a Socialist he rather believed in the materialistic in- which the point of view was frequently wearily across his brow. influenced by the state of the stomach. "There was a great noise," he said. Perverse and

Huysmans thought it monstrous thatt flung me over. And

a clammy, dark slippery as Macdonald has been at home,

It didn't seem real his past atterances must have compelled Great Britain should think of annexing thing caught me

"Of course. for Cachin, he is too keenly French to ed out was & matter concerning thing.

It was not real," ex bim at least to stand by Branting. As court that this was & matter concerning thing that hold me a foully smelling have sacrificed any serap of his country's not Great Britain but the free and inde-

as regards claimed the doctor, seizing the point in- rightful claims, and both men are at last pendent States allied to Britain, Brant

ing readily conceded that clever That Macdonald should have been South Africa, at any rate, the question stantly. It was just your too active prevented from even fulfilling the mission was one for General Smuts and General imagination. Now think: when you were a tiny chap did you ever have a severe to the Russian Government with which Botha rather than for Mr. Lloyd George.

Huysmans thought that Britain's pro- fright?' the British Government entrusted him is at once tragic and comical.

posal for sharing out Austria was utterly

but

him unthinkable;

assured The prevention of Macdonald's depar that no such proposal had been mentioned ture will not benefit England.

up to the time of our leaving England; makes me so wild is that it will only Britain had merely suggested autonomy

according to nationalities. benefit Macdonald.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH BRANTING.

What

Last evening I had a long interview with Mr. Branting, the distinguished Socialist statesman, and probable Swedish Premier

of the near future.

To-day, with Mr. Julius Weat, the dele had four hours talk with Mr. Brant Fate of the Fabian Society to Petrograd.

old ing and Huysmans, the secretary of the In fairness to "International." both I will transmit the general effect of the talk without comment

Branting who is unquestionably a sin cere fricad of the Allies, strongly urges that Great Britain and France should be represented by delegates of every Social ist section at the future plenary Later national Congress at Stockholm which it is the object of the present separate pre- liminary conferences to produce. *He believes that Great Britain's aloofness helps the propaganda of Lenin and Grimm, who are making a great impres not sion in Russia and other countries, ably Denmark. Lenin, it may be needful to remind my readers, is the Russian re- fugee who obtained a passport from the Kaiser's Government to cross Germany

Grimm on his return to Petrograd

is the secretary of a new society called the Commission de Berne, whose creed is that no Socialist should under any circums stances fight in defenes of territory, but should make war only against Govern

ments.

A GERMAN AGENT, Branting is very proud of the "scoop scored by his paper, the Sucial-Democrat, in securing and publishing a secret letter from Hoffmann, ex-President of the Swiss. Republic, giving Grimm full power to negotiate with the Russian Provisional Government for a separate peace, and promising that no offensive will be under. taken against Russia while negotiations aro possible.

This sensational exposure, as Branting saya, conclusively proves Grium's posi tion as a German, agent and obviously demands an explanation from Hoffmann, Switzerland's Foreign Minister.

We

Haysmans asked what Great Britain would say if Austria proposed similar treatment for Ireland.

We replied by explaining some differ ences as to the peace proposals enunciated by the German majority.

The patient considered. "Yes; once a huge smooth wet dog sprang out at me From a "barn, knocked me down, and licked me. They say I was ill for weeks after."

Alt," said the doctor, now we hase it all straightened up. Some resemblance between your wall and the scone of your scare flipped open that particular pigeon hole of your brain, and is recorus, sud- Huysmans declared they closely re-denly exposed, upset your balance at once.

The shell-burst did the rest.” sembled those set forth by Hoffmann in

"And the the aforesaid sceret letter to Grimm in terms evidently approved by Bethmann Hollweg. He also called attention to the fact that while Scheidemann proposed peace without annexations" he conced- ed the possible rectification of frontiers, under which cover the German Socialists might agree to a reasonable settlement in Alsace Lorraine and Poland.

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I asked Branting whether he regarded the German mejority's statement of torris as satisfactory, and he replied that he much otherwise; but considered them Scheidemann was evidently prepared for an abatement under a plenary congress debate.

Branting and Huysmans both expressed the conviction impressed on them by the Scheidemann group, as distinguished. from the Sudekum Imperialists, that they were absolutely sincere in believing at the outbreak of war in the Russian menace and the peril of encirclement,

Branting thinks that by a congress volo the German Socialists could be greatly internal energetic influenced towards action in their own country against their imperialistić rulers.

Huysmans, however, thought there was no possibility of dethroning the Hohen-

the Thing, doctor?" Was the dog, the dear old fur dog. that had been in the pond and wanted a garae with the first fully little boy be came across-who bappened to be you. Good-bye-have a lie down and a goo nap and to-morrow at 11.30 precisely you will ring sun to say how well you

The young man, after the doctor's con- fident grip of the hand, sat back in his easy chair, smiling, and in five minutes drifted into the sweet relief of alcer, to wake with the barrier down.-Daily Mail,

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TO AN OLD SUIT,

An August need within our borders, When war. economy became I was assured no kind of shame

Would be his meed who ceased the orders Which erst had kept bim smartly did. And made his gentle alor glad. Rather great merit he should earn

By whom new bills might be evaded, And at that word behold me turn

To you, whose bloom was somewhat.

bilernsy, Branting urgently asked no los faded, a useful start report to Great Britain his plea for the In playing thus a patriot's part. liberation of the hundred or two of Swedish ships held up on various claims How nobly have we carried on

And done our little bit together in British and American ports.. Sweden had honestly done her best to accede to For if your nuttish charm has gon Eritain's reasonable claitas, and the con-

You still defy the wind and weather. veyance of goods to Germany had now been altogether stopped. Ships hitherto And, with your aid my virtue gleams retained in Baltic ports for fear of sub As brightly as your polished seams. The effect of this discovery that Lenin

marines had been released for trafic with and Grimm are aeting directly for the England despite Zeppelins which have So I have registered a vow Kaiser's Government must, tend to check flown over Norway and been fired on. In their propaganda. (Petrograd on Satur return Sweden asks for the release of the day reported that Grimm has eru pelled. But nothing can deter the Workshups is British ports, without which the Swedish workers, already redared to men's Committee from holding the ter Bread tickets and largely unemployed; national congress, and if Great Britain will be in grave danger of wholesale

AContinued at foot of nest-colump.)

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