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UNTRAINING THE ARMY,

ONE SOLUTION OF A PRESSING. PROBLEM

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WILL AUSTRIA COLLAPSE?

IV-GERMANS AND SLAVE

the moment.

diers back front the Front," said my Germans of Bobensin. For Bohemia is safety of the State,"

Germans

WAR NEWS.

THE ALL-HIGHEST.

is familiar with, the

But an exchangs has. s which are worth

The spirit of the Lord his descended on

because I am the German Emperor. I am the instrument of the All-Power- ful, His sword, His representatives

Misfortune and death to all who regist we do not believe in my mission

will! Misfortune and death to those There is one master, and one only in this country. It i 19 and I shall not tolerate another.

There is que lawine!

TRADE AFTER THE WAR.

rean now beginning to brood over grevils and institutions, cannot be brought into harmony with the Habsburg Empire, în which collectiv mediocrity suppresses national genius and works for general [By DJ DILLON:]

stagnation. But one cannot fairly blame No, sir, am not a Pacifist," remzirked

the Vienna Cabinet for thinking other Even in the Reicharath speech is not wise, or for a

Everyone How the Respectable Gentleman sitting oppowholly free, and a serious demand for the salvation as occurred to the on the spur collected o

adopting such measures of Kaiser's speeches. situ to me in the train.

disruption of the monarchy by the Slay leadors was, therefore, unthinkable. But tion of the Reichsrath and the temporary remetafering:

Besides, the convoca. 1 am not a Pacifist," he repeated, short of that they clamoured for every abandonment of the scheme of Germanis- before I could reply, but I am proud thing that their peoples have for ages tion, an amnesty was proclaimed and an to inform you that I am peculiarly in- been yearning for and striving after appeal secretly made to the chiefs of the terested, neverthless, in the early concin The Czechs and Slovaks, who are all con- Catholic party in Gorunny sion of peace. As founder and first Pretained within the empire of the Hals-

Against the amnesty the Germans utter- sident of the National Institute for Unburgs and have un independent State ed a protest in the Press: It is only training the British Soldier, you will emancipated from the German-yoke, and organised on a grand scale the Czechs

islide-it-to-be-annexed by asked to be to that mition in which high treason is derstand that 1 anticipate the cessation to be allowed to shape their own destinies that this decree brings, aught of hostilities with sotne eagerness. I shall under the agis of the Habsburgs. What have no use for an annesty. There tire then see my labours begin to bear fruit.

What labours?" I asked

the satisfaction of this demand would no traitors in their ranks. Their leaders For the systematic untraining of sol. involve is thoroughly realised only by the have not had to be imprisoned for the Has it not occurred to you that an Austrian Ulster, whose two mutually representative of the Catholic Centre, one of the greatest problems of domubil-hostile races live side by side, and whom which is the most gunerous and best or ization arises from the fact that our stil it is almost impossible to sunder lerri ganised party in the Berlin Reichstag. diers will have beenme quits: unfitted by torially except by forcibly removing one repaired to Vienna to study the situation Mr. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner

or other from the country. their campaigning experiences for the or

No wonder and devise measures for the rescue of the for Australia, addressing a meeting of Herr Erz-business men at Belfast recently on after- dinary amenities of civilian life? It is the German deputy Lodgmums declared lach great Catholic Empire. secarred to you ? Very well, then. This that the Czech question is become a gen-berger, whom I met in Rome during the war problems, said that the difficultie is where 1 come in.. Every soldier on eral Austrian problen He characterised great national crisis that preceded Italy's connected with these problems receiving his discharge will be drafted the intended attitude of the German Par-declaration of war, was received by the be postponed until pence was signed. We into my Institate to undergo asperine men are in the shuler Austrian Emperor and by other promin-must take from the Germans the busines at one and the same time the State, our ent personages in the Austrian expital they had in the past, and prevent them course of antraining.

And what sort of course do your pro-elves the Germans of Austria--and like: Returning to Berlin, he delivered t tell from getting it back.

wise all the Germans of Europe.

And pare to put him through?"

Approximately ing speech in the Reichstag condemning the twe years would be copied in returning. The first thing, obviously, is to accus- they did tom the poor fellow to sleeping under a Against this open challenge the Czechs using hopes on the submarines, which, to fight the energy. That he had come

conduct of the campaign, and the folly of to the Dominion the men who real. I had thought of requisitioning reacted in a public definition of their as they could not be fulfilled, ought certain amount of shipping. Would be Hyde Park for this part of the untrain-standpoint, which the Premier † vainly never to have been raised. And the practilised, and that to a large extent the ing, but, fortunately, I have secured endeavoured to dissuade them from protical consequence of those blunders is. I productive services of these men

he last during that period. while all the building for my Institute which has large molgating. The delegates of the Czech argued. the necessity of renouncing all

world grounds attached that will be ample for people, this declaration runs, are fully claims to so-called

guarantees such time the Germans would be making goods convinced that the present dualist forms annexation, and indemnities, and ef for as unless we put up our hands - The purpose

For the first week of his course every of the monarchy has trented, to the detri Setting

tolerable peace by negotia and told them that they could not euthg soldier will have his bed made up the ment of their common interests, misterium was a terrible attirancekin. We had the aw, the initiative, and. ground in the open air. Members of theirs and valyt-proples, and that for criminal if the Kaiser's view of Ger- the enterprise night staff of the Fustitute will be in att bilion of its national privileges mans's outlooks is well grounded, states-but (overnment hele must be guaranteed. tendance, and a specially-prepared roof and the safeguarding of general progress, unlike if Erzberger's own reading of the He for one hoped that Free Trade is t will be held over each man while het is een indispensable to transform situation he cornet. Foren was imparted was known before the war would neve slumbers. These roots are in seven the monarchy into a federal State, com. Ko it by die approval it received from the wear its head again. graduated sizes. The smallest size will be posed of national States. free and equal. chiefs of the Socialist party. The Chan- used to initiate the sleeper, a larger one Another deputy. M. Kalina, announced cellor was attacked, the Ministers of FILMR. SPEAKER AS A LABOURER,” being used each sceat night until the resale of the Czecli people to strahance and Marine were called upon the end of a week the soldier will n their liberty and independence.

resign, Coalition Cabinet was talked of longer find that the presence of a roaf The Ikrimans or Ruthenians ; pro) as a necessity and the Kaiser, hurriedly In the House of Common recruly, over his head affects him with insomnia. tested against the injust system of admin returned from Vienna to receive reports Mr. J. P. Mason asked the following He will also by that time be inured intration in Caliein and against further on the military situation from Hinden-question amid much lightes: To ask to all the nocturus)" distractions of civi constitutional union with Poland. The | burg and Ludendorff and on the political the Parliamentary Secretary to the lian life. Among other things I have southern Slavs enllyd for the amalgan situation fram Bethmann-Hellweg

Ministry of National Service whether he inhabited by a word, a crisis broke out the like oh is aware that, under a naties datest July Secured a large consignment of cats, and Lion of all terririca by dint of an ingenious contrivance, em Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs in au inde which had not been experience during end, issued from the M.4.8. Offer G. bracing a brazier and a kettle of boiling i pendent State, organism. The Pan-Ger | the war.., The Press, was full of it. The St. Helen's-street, Ipswich, Offer No. 12,

Berlin

water, I anticipate being able to elicit a sustained concert of Caterwauls which should have a very bracing effect on the

nerves

*The next step will be to instil a spirit of gallantry into the men

Well, of all the libels" i pro- tested.

promising and phatic. For the Ger Dans of Europe and their interests had to be considered as well as those of Habsburg Monarchy.

THE PEGPLS AND THE ARMY.

The Austrian Premier. Dr.

quer"

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We must fight and con-

found new business.

by a local officer of the National Service

described Erzberger's indictment as

crushingly logical speech, painfully Mr. Speaker be transferred to new em clear and incisive. It was more than a logment as a labourer at Wolverhampton at 10 per day, is, per week war mere speech it was an achievement,”

But the visible upshot of the crisis was bonus, Sat and Sun, H. D. 48. 10d., on With the centrifugal tendencies of the disappointing. The Chancellor. having the ground that such employment, upon nationalities thus intensified, the Central conferred with the Kaiser, rebuked the instructions of the Director-dienern! estou are busty," said the Respectable Government found itself in a jurlons Erzberger and those who followed him. of National Service, is deemed to be of Gentlemn, reprovingly; pray do pui plight, and a momentous chapter of Ansas men of little faith. The war, la de greater national importance than that

opened unexpectedly, elared, can and will be won on the feld which the recipient of the notier is at nisunderstand me. I am not suggesting trian history was chat nur soldiers are larking in gallantry The friction theretofore inseparable from by forces of the Empire; therefore it must pient engaged, and what stop the on the field of battle. Hat the more gal relations between the Germans on the be carried on with unflagging vigour and resipient of the said notice shimmirë tab. 25 lan: they have been in one sense, the less hand, and the non-Germans on the other hanging confidence. He refused to bind cramply with its instructions. gallant they have necessarily become in hand had never before turned into sheer himself to the formula of a peser without

Mr. C. Beck Through a regrettable another. It is a question of the aerrub hostility: But the mixed machinery of annexations, or to restelet his future free clericul error (ironical laughter, it call female effigies of various kinds, and by/eaubled the dynastyvio rule the State, for of peace or aims of warfat, this stage i Calorek was addressed to Mr Speaker We shall requisition parliamentarism and absolutism which do of netion by laying down anything up notice intended for Mr. B. C. but on the word.

over half harnessing the men to these in wich

a century, is now admittedly the caid. * masner that they cannot escape their class scrapped. company, and by requiring them at the von Seidler, in his recent speech to the Those words give us the measure of Gey Department. Mr. Culpeek, who is engaged same time to carry dutiful fashion Constitution Committee, adals this, and any's strength as the Kaiser and his as a gardener by Mr. Speaker at Camps cloaks umbrellas, vanity bags and such regrets that "all Just endeavours to military advisers envisage it. The Chan As, volunteered for National Service, objects. We shall gradually wean our brave carry through satisfactorily the principis cellor's own estimate was really different and it is proposed to transfer him to the buys from their wild and uncouth ways, embodied in the constitution of equate had given i to Professur von Har steel and inm works of Messrs. Hickman and accustom them to urbane association rights for all nationalities have

Teen pack, who communicated it to his nice(Limited), at Wolverhampton, a with the opposite sex. As before, we shall fruitless." Something wholly w must be in a letter since published.

And BethEAL proceed by stages. A soldier will begin devised. and the only way of devising a un Hellweg's conviction

The Kaiser can with a mere sculptured torse, being pro new Constitution is by taking account of war will be a draw. moted prosently to perhaps the Venus of the wishes of the peoples who refuse to hardly think otherwise. He and Lucien Baltic province the West Prussia of to Mio (of course suitably draped), and subject their nationality to an artificial durft may perhaps still imagine that one day including the mouth of the Vistula later on receiving an introduction to more entity called a State. In other words, of the Allies, will shrink from anal and the once Polish province of Silesia, modern feminite society in the shape Austria as at present organised has lost winter campaign, that American help will the rich coal mines of which are one of come: too late, that interual troubles in the chief sources of Prussia's industrial really ch and winsome bust from a her nisan d'étre. fashionable hairdreaser's window.

The scaiper of those peoples is manifear Great Britain, France, and Russin will prosperity. After that it will be comparatively in the action and inaction of their sol-force the hands of their respective Govern easy to revive the married soldier's diers When the war broke out the usments in a word, that by holding out a domestic instincts. By a happy inspira-trian army was a compact organisation, little longer they can deter us from go Germans will continue after she was to tion advantage will be taken of the sentry. The Chief of the General Stuff, Baron on until they are exhausted... go habit which all soldiers will have Board von Toetzendorf-a general who to visit acquired. A strip of carpet will be laid is also a statesman asked me

MORIBUND DEALISM.

is that the

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SIGNS OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. That state of affairs is abnormal as well as mischievous.. Unless it is upset the

Austria's pituus appoul, and various military centres in order to con That is Germany's evasive answer to superadded. The Allies' essential object

wield the power to achieve their aims, and to this power the will is sure to be

Miso to would, therefore, be to deprive them of democratie Russia's proposal to make this power by military successes or by short work of tyranny at home and of other methods-by hack or by crook. But

It must be accepted the hope of conquest throat.

battlefield displishing the feat on the when the plan of together with all that it involves.

It leaves without surcease of hardship a grandiose offensive from Alexandretta the plight of the peoples of Austria, who or Salonika was definitely abandoned. It are sick to death of the war. Their may yet be brought about by the spontane German troops are passing over to the ous combustion, so to say, of the Austrian Inrge numbers and de- State, the forcible weakening of Germany Russians in liberately. Their non-German politicians and the restoration of fuland, whose have lost faith in the viability of the frontiers should be determined with a of the Siberian regiments and the eager ramshackle State." Their ruling class view to this specific end.

ess of the Austrian soldiers of Slav nais confronted with problems which are d

The signs that the process of spontane Dualism is dying,ous combustion. hus already begun are up- tionality to surrender to their Russinn uittedly insoluble. kinsmen At Shorow the bulk of the cap and trialism cannot yet be established to mistakable. The most significant are the The young Emperor refusal of the Austrian Poles to support tured Austrians were Slavs. Aquestion take its place. addressed 10 the Austrian Minister of hesitates to swear Sdelity, to a Constitu- the Dualistic system of government any

tion which has had its day and cannot longer, and the tactics to which the now National Defence to-day runs thus

on the floor, flanked by a bedstead, cradle, vince myself of the essential unity of the and other familiar (properties,' and the soldier will be required to do two hours forces. But there was no need. I knew sentry duty on this. In place of rifle that they did not the reflect the differ with fixed bayonet he will be around with mers of their respective nations; but to

oerwise; more properties' doing duty for infant

Already the Blav soldiers have eased to real the glas will don a nightshirt over his khaki tunic, Austrians. They are no longer mere mili- tary units responsive to the fat of an **This preliminary duty will prepare him for a severer ordeal. He will now Austrian or of Bohemia, of Poland, of be Hindfolded, and his cars will be behave accordingly.

Itals of the Serbian nation, and they Thus Brusiloff's dually familiarized with the ordinary brillinut victories were won by the valour sounds of domestic life. Several babies, with exceptionally sturdy langs, have been adopted by the Institute, and these, will be operated upon with pins in the sol dier's presence. Older children will also be employed, and we anticipate no diffenity in getting boys sent to us for the free canings which we shall conduct daily.

An expensive item will be the large amount of grockery which will have loi suasind für sich soldier, wie it is felt that a sound so inseparably associated with domestic bliss cannot possibly be suited to you suppose the wen will sub

mit to this 1 asked.

My dear sir, what a question! You must remember these soldiers will pre herve a sense of discipline.

ECHOES IN BERLIN,

required to and 10 amall-sentry-box, Those expedients

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Is the Austrian Minister of National be revised. Yet there is no way of Exam-German troops of the Habsburgs are re Defeten aware that in one of the early ing another. The machinery of govern sorting of surrendering en ingat engagements of the new Russian offensivement has stopped, and that of the army two measures, carried out systematically, the 19th Austrian Infantry Division, co-is kept fitfully going by German officers, would checkmate the Habsburg State

sting almost entirely of Creche, Slovaks, who are becoming less and less able to war and peace. They are reinforced by Slovenes, and other openly dispose usefully of non-German men. the hardships with the enemies of Austr) by refused thankruptcy oldres the country in the face: tria are in which the peoples in Aus- Interest is being paid on Austria's gold- tionary movement there, which has ideas to fight against the Russians and by sur rendering at the earliest possible oppor hearing bonds in paper krons at a dis- as well as interests for its mainsprings.

count of 60 per cent. tunity This was an impressive lesson No other effect of the new democratic Monarchy, as a war factor, is little better diste effects, the relaxation of loyalty to

The Habsburg This revolutionary spirit and its inme ** With the instinet for domesticity re spirit acting on nations and peoples is than a gent force, and as member of the the Throne and the dissolution of the the final overthrow stored, we turn our attention to the so entirely at variance with Austrian anti community of nations it is fast becoming political order, stamp

of the Austrian

bate Famenities of business life. Of these there cipations or so incompatible with the per pithiless form.

To sum up.

The mischiefmakers of

This consummation, however, does not can be one more difficult for the soldier Petuation of the Habsburg Monarchy. in re acquire than the quick-lunch habit. Hence the alarm it produced among the Europe are its German inhabitants, and perhaps yet appear imminent to the In this connection a very ingenious ap ruling classes, and the simplicist ex their power for evil is out of all propor Kaiser or his military adviser. They still Vigorous, see their way to such a peace as will en parolus has been perfected Fortified pedients hurriedly resorted to for the purtion to their numbers.

gog sourceful, and enterprising, they owe a able them to establish the Mid-European by suitable apéritifs the soldier will Fe Pose of laying the spectre.

large part of their strength to the sway Federation, and they imaging that they afford episodic they exercise over foreign peoples and can hold out longer than the Coalition. With a railed off portion of table before. him. At the sound of the huge his lunch material for the journalist, but will not territories Their position may be Whether in thinking thus they have allow will begin to travel towards hiin; and it be even into the main tissue and design that electoral arithmetic which con- tionary ideas, as well as for the vicissí likened that of a minority favoured by ed for the force and progress of revolu will be for him to get what meal he can of erting of teocratic arnish to the fers power on the numerically weak, and tudes of the military and submarine cam as it lies past him.. We expect very Constitution will hardly be mistaken for At this moment the train stopped at in institutions, fuded such a consum

genuins effort to embody the now spirit station. My companion prepared to get ingeun ge this would be State, suicide

From the platform spoke again. My Institute here, he observed. The spirit of nationality, of later-day Swan If you would care to come with me 1

*In the press organ Bohemia, May 20th should be delighted"

I excused myself politely, but looked Count Clam Maritinitz. They are with interest at the building to which identical with the Little Russians. Their 3.45 pm-Fourth Gymkhana Meeting at be pointed. An inscription over the main idom is classified by some philologists as

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suites the strong with impotence. For, paigas, is dubious. Whether they have Germans are become the masters of an affairs may take in Austria, besides their own compact Empire, the also discounted the awkward turn tha other, whers, they Number, only ten tail before the campaign is ended, is likewise out of a population of fifty millions open to question. But what, to my mind, and their principal war sim to knit all admits of no doubt is that, their cast of the South-Eastern States of Europe toge mind being what it is, long before Ger- ther with these two Empires, create a many is really worsted in the struggle, Federation of 180 millions, with an army and as soon as they discern that there is of fifteen million men, and to rule Europe much to lose and nothing whatever to gain and the world. The territorial posses by going on with sions that contributed to enable them to will come forward with such a pesce, hold their own during the three years of formula as will not be rated offhand. this war against the most powerful coali- And I am disposed to think that that tion on record are principally Peland's peace formula will

the

war, they

come sponer than

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