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AMERICA AT WAR.

[BY 1810 Y. MAROCSSON.]

Mr. Marcasson, who is one of America's most distinguished journalists, has recently

since the beginning of the war, He has

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THE LONE GUN.

ALL IN THE NIGHT'S WORK.

BY BUBALTERN

Draw well in to the left, Sergeans,

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THREE YEARS OF WAR.

A CHANGED. WORLD: N

Taw AN ENGLISHMAN."] Three years ago today we took the great

PEACE WITH SECURITY... ALLIES WAR AIMS RE-STATED.

A debate in the House of Commons on the Reichstag war aims resolution recently

returned to England, It is his fourth trip and then swing in through that gateway. resolve, and disappointed, in a moment was noteworthy for uncompromising de visited nearly all the Allied fronts. This will need careful driving-ditches on the saguine arrogance of Germany The larations by Mr. Bonar law and Med

fact, combined with his long experience as a writer on hitsiness organization, gives his article speciul value and significance, When left America last January the (war, so far as the average, citizen was con cerned, was a remote and faraway thing The country seemed domed to benevolent 'neurality.

I returned in June to find the nation in arms. The first expeditionary force, our own First Seven Divisions, was on its way to France; New York Harbour was alive with war craft; the city itself ward a flutter with flags in which the Union Jack had conspicuous part; the streets were sprinkled with khaki. Within three months the country had gefred itself.

to war,

war!*

I was afraid that, I would find our people infected with short optimism; inert with the self-sufficiency that the Business as Usual fallacy hegets. Instead, the eastern seaboard was keen with the realisation that. the country was at gripe with a malignant enemy and that every pound of human and machine power would have to be harnesse Go overcome him. To sweltering heat Washington seethed with activity.

either side. to follow me.”

Then, tell the lead-driver

Asquil

The pacifist group had mustered its fulltrength, counting (with tellers) 21 on a division, when Mr. Ramsay Mae Domid rose to open the debate: The Consolidated Fund Bill to provide the sinews of war for the next three mouthe ar, MacDonald, challenged it with "an was the business under discussion, and Amendment, weiling and adopting part of the Reichstag resolution, and calling. upon the Government, in conjunction with the Allies to rostite their pence terms accordingly.

Very well, sir."Kaiser's was a brilliant, dream of sudden On the ridge in front, the Boche and we were watching sách other; the machine and happy conquest. “ guns were tapping out their brazen meg a few weeks France should lie at the sages, traversing the tops of parapeta, proud feet of his victorious host The searching No Man's Land, playing on destruction of Russia should follow with roads and tracks likely to be used at gind clerics, and before the leaves were right; the starlights were susting their off the trees the German soldiers would radiance over the trenches; an occa-be quietly, at home and all the world sional shell whistled overhead." It was

the would be cislaved by the Huns. gun and its eight hora tenan across

hell-holed and sodeu fields.

"It was a pretty dream, which has not the

come true, and as we look back upon the No light, so even a mulch, could be used, for we events of the last three years we may take team had been lucky to escape the in dream was rudely disturbed. Belgin were under direct observation, and the put a filtle credit to ourselves that the Mr. MpaDonald's

familiar lines.

Argument followed He held that he termittent bullets that zipped cross the proved a heroism which cannot be match. Reichstag was the representative of the

ed in the annals of the past; France, with German people, and that resolutions pass road by which it had com

u supelb courage, rose to the level of hered by an overwhelming majority must opportunity and England's Contemp-akes to indicate the opinion of the tib little Army," showed that it was still Such declarations were going ta sound in bravery and endurance, despite the gateway to pence, and he appeated the politiciatis. So it is that we are at for a reciprocal one from the British

the earth over, and though the ultimate war, after three years of hard fighting all House of Commons, Mr. Trevelyan spoke

in the same strain. issue is not uncertain, though victory-UNITY OF JARMAMENT. shalt not elude us, we have many a weary mile to travel.

Through the gateway came the team, horses steaming so that their drivers were not able to see where they were going, the RUB cutting deep furrows in the saturated earth. In and on the shell holes the term by a fair a breadth: I kegan to hope that the twisted missing disaster very few yards journey would be easier than I had feared, and that the gun, hounding and jumping behind the gallant, horses, would be pinced in position without mishap.

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But even as I began to hope, an urgent wheel-horse after a pincky attempt to whisper, Hal!" raw along the ride keep it legs, fall panting, half in and half out of a shell hole. The team palled up with a jerk, the thrown driver picked himself up, hurt. The horse was unin rejured, save that it was badly windest.

What bas Amerien done? What will Siday What is the limit of her srees? These are the questions that our Allies are asking. In the answer lies part of the Key to Peace,

MOBLLISING BUSINESS BRAINH,

Lahook those frases and change the Wheelers: we'll try it with the six horses And on-handle that gua and timber back a bit, so me to get a fresh start

It was done in the darkness, the fallen its fellow, was led to the site.

The first miracje in the drama forse at Inns jerked to its feet and, with professors, and which Germany pretendalon had given way to the counsely of

American war is that, tot considerabl extent, she has violated the trásition that no nation has ever profited by the ex perience of another nation. There are two illuminating examples. The first is that she went in for conscription from the art, This has made the mobilisation of industry simple and immediate

Those

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Both members had a cold, though atten tive and courteous audience. It was, with We look to-day upon a changed world. aft obvious sense of relief that the House Events have marched so swiftly upon one turned to Mr Asquith, who was waruly the history of which we are a part. Button Bench to emphasize anew the essential another's heels that we hardly understand cheered on rising from the Front Opposi one truth stands out with satisfactory disarity of Parliament. actress: the Germany which confronts heard his ech and that of Mr. Bouir Among those who us to-day is not the Germany which chal-aw were the four Russian delegates from

nged Europe to the combat. Three the Workmen's and Soldiers Conseil

Mr. Asquith begnu by denying that the years of hard fighting have marvellously chastened her temper. She does not go group for which the two members ba into the battle with the san zest nor with the same purpose as heretofore. Wes

spoken had a monopoly of a desire for Giring his interpretation of re led After which delighted our toes far as the policy of the Governmgat bear ac more of that marvellous hinget events in Germany, he declared that,

was concerned, the counsels of modera. that she would enforce upon desile AN AWKWARD MOMENT.

world. The paid rhetoricians are dumb.

extremists. Oare more we started and eurried on

Our ears are ikeatened no longer with theinted, in the suprente Interest of man-

Peace had to come, Mr

Asquith on precariously to within 20 yards of the venal dithyrambics of Sven Bedin and find, but subject to the all-important en position, when the lead horses jibbed at Houston Chamberlain. The raucous voice dition that it did not defeat the purposes the gleam of water in a ditch in front of which shouted Victory after victory for which the free nations of the world the They threw off the left, thefter victory upon the house-topsis entered upon the war. others, perforce, followed when they ominously silent. Germany, we are told were well-known The Allies were fight halted the gun was hanging over the edge stands upon her defence, a trost impropering for nothing at freelom and for of an sin shell holesat an angle of nearly atitude for a nation to assuine which set nothing short of freedom. It was a night. degrees, and the horses were just any. but to conquer and annex the universe.. mare, he excised passionately, to sup- Planks were put under the wheel of the

pose that they were going to spend the lives of their best sons, and to near an ghostly gleam of that water feightened the gan, and a fresh attempt rude, but the

almost immeasurable mortgage of ther timid, creatures and they haulked ench

resources for Imperialistic and unexa time. It was in nwkward moment, for time was getting on, the gun was sinking deeper into the soft ground, and at any The Council of National Defence is a machine-guns Another pair of lead second the place might be swept by conspicuous illustration is personnel horses was tried, with no better fortune, tells the whole story of an industrial and things began to look desperate, until preparedness that is insurance against: we tried the experiment of unhooking a confusion, inficiency, and delay. On its pair and jumping them separately, back advisory commission you have Daniel Wards and forwards, across the dich Willard, who repe from day labourer to beIt was a strange expellies, here in unprepared. They are ready at last president of the Baltimore and Ohio the darkness, and with the Bochy within Railway Howard E. Coffin, the clear rille range: but it succeeded. The fourth visioned engineer whe vied with Ford as air was hooked on, apare man was master-prodneer of motor cars; Bernard mounted on the off lead horse, and, at the Baruch, Wall-street- wizard, Julius Rosenwald, staunch American despite his name, who began asimessenger boy and became head of the world's greatest mail order establishment, and so on down the line of financial chieftains and productive marvels.

The steund is that almost from the day war was declared the Government began to draft the best business brains Realising that the conduct of war now is a colossal piece of merchandising that re presents every process of industry from raw material to finished product, it enlist. ed men of the Rhondda, Geddes, Maclay, Rothermere, and Stanley typic, It meant that Yankee punch was put into the war machine and at once.

how.

AMERICA'S NOBLE PROTEST.

that no peace would be worth having It followed, in Ar. Asquith's judgment, which restored under seine thin, disguis the status que bellum, and left coun tries like Belgium, Serbia, and Grece at the mercy of dynastic intrigues or under the constant menace of military coercion. He submitted that in any rearrangements of the map the governing principle ought to affected. In the inditime, u should and be ascertained, the will of the populations. beloping the advent of peace if we were to give the impression that there was any faltering in our determination is any cbt of our ability to carry the burde which we had taken up with a clear cor science for great ends.

because the battle of the Marne made her And Germany tras changed not merely ultimate triumph impossible, but becaassionist aims she has revolted the moral sense of ball the peoples. Not even the triple beast of insolence is proof against a universal re under foot all the laws, human and probation. And Germany, by stamping divine, has set herself beyond the pale of civilisation. She is in spirit and in truth Thre the enemy of the human race. years ago her enemies were few in number and they have marvellously increased. A German writer las estimated that on the side of the Huns there are arrayed 150,000,000 and that on the side of those word, the team moved as one. It was allied against the Huns there stand splendid sight to see the great horses, 10,000,000. In other words, we and our the ditch, the gun following like a live to against the Kaiser and his friends. straining in the traces, splashing through sympathisers are in the proportion of 9 thing and it was good driving, too, for That is what three years of war bave they had to drive straight between two necomplished and we have no right to be huge holes, practically into a pool, and displeased at the result, holt immediately the gun cleared th

We have the greater reason to be pleased

UR ZONAI LA'S STATEMENT.

squith resumed bis seat. Cheers broke There was prolonged cheering when Mr. oat again when Mr. Bonar Law rose to speak for the Government, He decla red that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his

Why was America ready to produce war ditchBnd all their light was an occa because our Allies have come to our aid friends were living in a world of unrealiter: supplies? For one thing, she had, becnsional Very flare that left the darkness without any thought of self-interest. They and had no conception of the real issue

pouring munitions into Europe for three more intense,

years.

THE AIRCRAFT PROGRAMME.

The gon

All in this day's or rather night's, work: but a night's work the result of which will be very disconcerting to the Boche when he becomes aware of it.

Another ignifeant reason Windled strenuous work in the mudany by their reverence for the moral attention to the omission from the amend

Wasaniimbered, and man. are moved to take up arms against Ger ha through the Naval Consulting Board

which was being fought out. He called fruelous of the Council of National Po its final position: The team drove law. The enormities which the Huns have

fance) a survey of 10,000 industrial way the gun was einerrd so that the committed, the wanton cruelties toward of the passage in the Reichsing re

solution demanding the freedom of the plants had been made with a view enterprising Boche should not discover its women and children of which they have of finding out their capacity for War leit it, until the next night.

whereabouts when daylight came; and we been guilty, the shameful, shameless de

fas- The meaning of that was that in war the nation with naval power was not work.

portations from Belgium and France, the to use it, but the nation with military careful devastation of the countries power was to be subject to no restrictions. through which they pass, the deliberate murder of neutral non combatants-all these erines have started a peaceful world into warfare. The Americans, in taking up armis, have uttered a noble, selfless pro- test against Germany's contempt of all the laws which should govern the conduct of nationis, and thus we have a good hope that, when Germany is beaten, the reign of lawlessness will cease for ever upon the

This, then, is the supreme achievement

The aircraft programme is typical of the way America bas, gone into the war. The

week I left Congress voted £150,000,000 for airemit. This mean n fleet of 24.000 machines. You get the mesuing of this revolution (it is nothing less! when I say that during the eight sears previous to 1916 the United States Army had ordered a total of 59 acre planes, dividing them between six fac

A PANORAMA GF RESOURCE The question uppermost in British and French minds just now is: How many men con America Send to France, and when For obvious reasons I cannot dis-earth, close all the facts

many never put down her peace aims? Why, Mr. Bouar Law asked, had Ger- Those of the Allies might have gone too far, but at all events they had had the courage to state them before the world. Germany had never done anything of the kind, because she did not mean what Mr MacDonald and his friends said she meant. In essence, our ains were the same to-day as they were at the time of Mr. Asquith's Guildhall declaration. We were fighting for freedom for ourselves,

Germany

tories, and had got delivery of bad But this much can be said. The first of the last three years. We have restored right of other nations besides for the

Coffin made the aircraft programine possible. He is long, lank, Lincoln, like unit of 680,000 men in the draft of in senetur, and he is all hustle. Like 10,000,000 registered under conscription wise he is chairman of the Board of Air (there are 20,000,000 men of military age craf Production of the Council of in the United States) has been drawn. National Defence. To get such an im The National Guard (corresponding to mense appropriation he had to educate the English Territorials) has been re Congress and the people. He went about crafted to its war strength and has gone it just as he had gone about a great moter into camp. More than half of these men "selling campaign.

He unloosed are fresh from the Mexican border and Blood of publicity; he proved that in are fit.

aeroplanes and still more aeroplanes " lay one great hope of ultimate victory

over the Germans.

The Regular Army has been increased to 20,000 men. Before the end of the year America can have half a million men in France and by the spring it can be in- creased to a million.

Is America at war! Here are a few

to the world a respect for that decent life their own lives in their own way. morality which a German conquest would We were fighting to drive the Germans have abolished. Bad the Kaiser won the out of Belgium and Northern France. We speedy victory which be expected his weil were fighting for peace and security Jer would have been imposed upon us as good ace in the time to come. We should have been forced to accept should have lost the war if we had no Mr. Bonar Law maintained that we humility of spirit, the German exetrine security that the same danger thich had of cruelty for our own. We should have ruined this generation might not ruin been asked to believe that murder and pillage were the necessary companions of crisis as a dangerous one, and admitted

He our children. spoker of the present warfare, and that no torture, wantonly that what had inflicted, was inadmissible, if only it had happened in Russia had struck terror in the hearts of its victims. however, that Russia had not said her last a great difference. He believed, word in the war. Still, let there be no oistake. The resources of the Allies were which weight that we have found Allies unless our hearts failed us now, we should So just, indeed, are the purposes for sufficient to make absolutely certain that, secure the resale for which we entered the any doubt as to the airs of the victory war. not fighting a war of conquest. We had by 148 votes to 19. which we shall presently achieve. We are In the end the amendment.

was rejected no desire three years ago to draw the sword. When in August, 1914, Belgium was ruthlessly invaded we went to her aid, as in dirty bound. Ever since we

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Realising that the only means of of £400,000,000 was over-subscribed by all the world over; nor need we be in achieving quantity output in seroplanes nearly £200,000,000, and, with the excep- was to get a standardised engine, Coffin the over-subscribing: O.T.C. training tion of New York, the Middle West led assembled the best engineers of the coud camps are training officers; we have estab. try in Washington, isolated them at the fished a Bureau of Export Licchces, Bureau of Standards; and said in his which tras put a control on every pound characteristic American fashion, Goto of food and scrap of raw material that it." Ordinarity it takes six months to complete the model of an engine from the goes to a neutral country; a regiment of have been the champions of justice and principle we shall feinforce in the years bring up the system rady, di gives tons to the exhausted nerves, wrrente al Weddi time the rough drawings are made. These ur engineers in camped in England and Recency. And from the past we may men had an engine, ready for testing in ambulance units are in Frances and more the help of our loyal Allies in Europe, more are preparing to come; medical and judge the future. We have begun, with How can you keep pace with sero are nearly ready to start our destroyers Asia, and America, the task of punishing

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in the Navy has been incressed and every ship has its ment is condign and complete. Coffin before I left America.·

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we can turn out aeroplanes almost as fast iting camps-emulating the example of the Allies, havé all, taken up the sword chains of friendship which are indis- as moderate-priced motorcars," he Oxford and Cambridge; everywhere grows plied.

Nine aviation schools have been estab- the feeling that the country is embarked may be expressed in four words: the soluble And if a year hence we are still punishment of Germany. How best she atuar se shall face the hardship with lished six for the Army and three for the war of self-preservation.

may be punished we shall decide at the beerful confidence because we know England; the lagt farthing is pledged.. Navy. The country is becoming a valore significant than all this is the horn of wealth and territory is a part save the law ofanations from extinc conference of peace. That she must 680 only by countering force by force cam can Bring units to France. The aeroplane, Posing of the dollar patriot of the natural penalty which she must on, because we are resolved, in the words

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