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AMERICA AND THE WAR. AMERICA AT WAR WITH AUSTRIA HUNGARY,

W ASHINGTON, December 8th. A joist Congress resolution was intro

duced in the House of Representatives declaring the existence of a state of war

between the United States and Austria. Hungary since noon to-day,

FARLIER CABLES.

REASON DECLARATION

GIRE ENGINEERS.

Ta

1917

We work automatic machines, but we are not thought worthy of being trained to do highly skilled work or to design,

the other complained a girl engineer day. It was the truth. The engineering workshops have been flooded with women

who do simple operations under the super

THE CRIME OF PRUSSIA. KITSCHER'S HISTORY OF CREMANY IN THE "NESETRESTH" "OİNTERY, E Translated by EDEN and CROAR PAUL. With an as troduction by WILLIAM HARUUTE DAWA SON, Volume III (Jarrolds. 128. od net.}

Thu chapters contained in the third Volume of the translation of Treitschke's

was, inevitablet nor was it unjust, for it waa ultimately founded on the judghent which the Germans passed on themselves, a judgment which orista, indeed, even to: days there is a certain school of Germans who are never tired of proclaiming that Germans are not to be trusted with self- governinout, that they are not a

not a political nation; but from this injury to their gelf- steem, for which they are themselves responsible there springs a result which bas had fate effects.

Other nations,

are int government, but, at any rate, we can of the Carlsbad decrees, the conferences of Aachen, of Troppau and of Laibach, best them in war"; they will avenge the slights thrown upon them by the power

whole, whether we regard the main sub necessary to their sell respect, and deeds

mjured self-esteem,

vision of skilled men. Many of them ne great work covering as they do the periosthey say, may be wiser than-We--

intellectually superior to their super

In the early days of the war when are perhaps the most important of of their armies, great military force is

visors.

quick adaptation was a Brst considera

of way, are required in defence of their

If there is one thing that can justly be

that

Lion, this was understandable, but conect with which they deal or the treat ditions inve altered. The war machinement of them. They do not, indeed, mako is now running smoothly, and we ought the same appeal to the general public as demanded from monarchical government, to consider if we cannot utilise the labour do the earlier portions; they contain it is that the King shall know how to Choose his Ministers and shall see to it of women to greater advantage II nothing which can be compared with the

their personal little foresight had been exercised three brilliant sketch of the early growth of ambitions are not allowed to interfa years ago, and girls of fifteen of sixteen

with the service of the State In this had been apprenticed to the highly skillel Frassia, or with the description of the wit

industry

War of Liberation and the Congress of primary task Frederick William failed; sections of the engineering

be was not even able to keep in the ser great and increasing number of

Army fidance, is neccesarily wanting the borojo formers who during the French occupa Instead, however, we have thousands of element is no longer there. For the hero The Washington Correspondent of the young man in their teens and early wenties in wunition works who cannot Associated Press learns that in a can be spared.

The Government advertise for women who are willing to be trained at certain and as hitters, electricians, centres draughtswomen, but everyone knows that

NEW YORK, December 5th:

versation with the lenders of Congress before leaving the Capitol on Tuesday,

would have been liberated for the Vienna; the site of triumph,of convice of the Crown the great band of re

of the author's narrative is Prussia, and ton had rebuilt the State; Stein was in this volume we enter on an epoch when allowed to remain in retirement, Hua Prussin ceases to be heroic; we have no and Bulow resigned, and their places bolt and Hardenberg quarrelied. Boyes longer to do with great statesmen, but were taken with timid

instead of gen

by

reactionaries, courtiers, police officials and feudalists. He was not even able

the period of to keep control of princes of his back with ance of steady purpose

AND that

and eralapters i

German history to which tion of war against Austria was advised They will be specialists in the narrowest shame and regret

sense. Specialisation is necessary now.

even

own

Event fear

President Wilson said that the declare these recruits will be one-job Artisans patriotic German must look 12 every house, and as the years passed all sembl largely because it might be necessary adays, but the successful specialist is broken promises nees and Court and every man of character and

aid Italy

AMERICA'B BLACK LIST.

WASHINGTON, December 8th:

or

has

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wide craft

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political nim disappeared. record, of the

hopes

triumph. cowardice. lupa

should be carefully studied by read with pleasure by none but it is all who wish to understand Germany of to-day, for the effects of what was then dous still subsist. In the life of nations crimes and blunders can never be eatirely made gooil; even when the cause of them has been removed the effect remains W know this ourselves, England never has and never will entirely retrieve the lost opportunities missed at the Restoration nor will

the ministrative laxity of

country was made as dull as the

And all this was quite unnecessary. tarned his back on this renegade State.

Troitschke tries to some extent to excul pate the King by showing that the real motive force was Metternich. Of course it was, but this only made things Metternich knew quite well that the triumph of Nationalism and Liberalisas would be fatal to the existence of Aus- trin; unturally, therefore, he used every effort to oppose it: The ludicrous thing Prussia, which stood to gain by vils was that he found his chief abettor in

Treitschke

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RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. AUSTRIAN EMPEROR HOPES FOR PEACE

AMSTERDAY, December 5th

A message from Vienna states that the Emperor Kart, addressing the Austro Hungarian Delegation, after referring to "the glorious victories of our armies and this daring of our fleet," said that Austria-Hungary was ready for a honourable peace, and he hoped that the

Auccessful

Germany can never be the sanie, that they would have been had not Frussin been guilty of the great repudiation by which she for a generation lapsed from the task which ghe, and she alone, could carry out, and consented to be the mere obsequious

menial of Austrin.

the Germans. the national ambitions

department, the designing and drawing

tempt to defend the King, all that he officer, and the shops, Ingenuity in de

hich does is to plead extenuating circum- rising quick manipulative methods is the

stances. The King was getting to feel old aim of the craftsmona, quickness of per

(he was, in fact, scarcely afty); be hail ception and imagination to Puke pri

never recovered froin the death of his tice conform with theoretical reasoning

wife. All this is true enough, though the test of the designer, and the recog

The four years with which this voluine irrelevant, and it might pass if he bad nised qualities of good leudership, tact,

out equal measure to the other sympathy, francs, and, a wide know is concerned are really pupled with actor of the time. This, bo does not do ledge of theory and practice, combined struggle over the Prussian constitution. with business shrewdness, are demanded It is a story which should be remembered Let us concede, as we may well do, that

hia kindly, charitable judgment on the. from the manager of organiser Much now seed from plus, the E Mar King is the right one, in what a light shop work is unsuitable for women. The leon had escaped Elba, King by

proclamation promised and does this foundry heavy for instance, se engine, erecting ships seneral representativ probly as the ment, on other the verity of his judg

TOWN and

the completion

great such allowances, but whom he tries of the

by strength.

forms that had taken place. By thìn hộ

The strictest standard of political wisdom!* definitely placed Pragain at the bend of For Bavaria, which had to meet difficul tfes much greater than that of Prussia, wood-working shops, where the work is the raw that the introduction 7 he has only words such as

every on Parliament would have an Government are essentially dishonest.

national movement of the time, for

scandalous? the acts of the Havarian effect far beyond the frontier of the petty, and void of all prospect of sue Monarchy and would imply the vietoves, t of the Liberal and National

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movement

throughout Germany The promise was The task which Treitschke had bofore

But there are other shops, such as the light and which demand a very high degree of skill and care. They They specially suitable for wonen. attracts the educated woman. She is the drawing office, however, th

that attracts prepared to work in the shops it her The idea, founded on sex

destination is the drawing office. made, the armies went out to battle, and him in writing this portion of his history men in Belgium; then there began the dangerous, he was the professed "pologist of the mathematical knowledge. and in science

procrastination; there were un Prussian: Stato, his policy of

obicet

to show is discredited. The invasion of the draws doubted difficulties to be overcome, but that it was only from the point of

View Fing and designing offices by women would the geuzine purpose ta

of Prussia that the history of Germany overcome the be a great stimulus to invention, as they was not there. The delay, was fatal i could be written, and he deliberately chal- would bring fresh and unbiissed minds left time for the growth of the forces of lenged the view of anti-Prussian hins to bear on old

vexed

problems reaction; an excuse was given by the which

had

traditional for fifty From

the drawing board ex

ward to the manager a

historians. For history

brilliant woman engineer, an

Many ·women then the heat of Metternicht dent, telegraphing on the 4th instant, haye very great administrativa and his promise to the Austrian states with us there was the convention of the critical interview at Teplitz.the King. Then the hands of the Liberals, states:-The Armistice Delegations met executive well as men. All the man that he would not introduce & Par Whis historians; this convention continn at Vilon yesterday. It was decided to pline equally consider only the question of the Armistios and to leave the peace discussion to European Conference.

RP GENERAL KORNILOFFF'S WHERE ABOUTS

Russian peace negotiations would be women cannot compete wire that returned victorious from the campaign in was, therefore, one of peculiar difficulty::

WARLIER CABLES.

MEETING OF DELEGATIONS

LONDON, December 5th

the and then the

of the studenta. years of

Libecome

The Daily Mail's Petrograd Corresponk would be a natural step forhildish demon to more and in Germany, as la England, had been

400 Cancasing troops from Bykoff, reached Orsha yesterday morning.

THE RUSSIAN ARMY'S

CONDITIONS

LONDON December 5th, The Daily Chronicle's Correspondent at Petrograd states: Most of the Russian Delegates negotiating the Armistice aze civilians,

If the pourparlers break down it is improbable that the bulk of the Russian Army can be restored to nighting con dition, for whatever the Bolshevik autho

and can secure disci

qualities that together make a leader of industry are to be found in the matron of a large hospital or the headmistress of school. It is significant that the num- ber of women on boards of directors is steadily growing, and the obvious deduc

entrance into any sphere of activity their

J. F., in the Daily Mail.

ROUMANIA: AVENGING HAND OF THE JUDGE

ABOVE

more

gave

was a Liberal convention, just us

liament but only an Assembly of Estates ed even after the foundation of the

it will not be changed. It was and it

thened In this revision

His fault was one unpardonatie in Tiberalism that Bismarck was waging in

IL WOR

on-

the Reichstag, and it was one of the in- fluences that produced the new Germany that we now know so well.

and even that was not done. Instead, pire, and it took many years before the Prussia joined in the conspiracy which cultured bourgeoisie learned that the at was to keep back all political developtitude towards their own

institutions ré-, revision ment in Germany and Eastern Europe quired a complete revision.

General Korniloff, who escaped with tion is that when once women gain an the ignoble part of a "humble third in Liberals has been the Pan-Germans, for a generation, and was willing to play has now taken place, the dominion of the overthrown, and in its the union of the Eastern Powery, so

have that ineralises in Mostra do mesta, labui. then vordiet of the world on this change for Pan-

Pan-Germanism is the logical de of policy has long ago been given; and Treilschke velopment

theprinciples which of Treitschke's history will remain, ore of the most lamentable the

factor, and it was, a KAISER ON CONQUEST OF defections of which history records. And was an

no ingenuity can l

landmark also in German political life; hide fact that the was a part of the struggle against

the one person responsible was the

at bottom cowardice, tellectual and moral 1: cowardice caused him to distrust own subjects. Un Sept, and the Kaiser addressed | his own advisors, ev the troops who took part in the autumn thought, an idea, an inspiration beyond

every one

According to the report by Herr Karl and narrow mind which could aspire to Rosner in the Lokalanzeiger the Kaiser little except military affairs, and of them political side, on freedom and the con spoke of the Hohenzollern who succeeded at bottom anderstood nothing beyond that stitution it neglects the other Reuter's Correspondent at Petrograd a great and achle minded Prince on the which belongs to the sphers of a sergeant public life, order, government, adminis states: General Dukhonin declined to throne of Roumania, and who, despite all major drill and uniforms. And this tration. The device by which Treitschke leave Headquarters, although he was traditions, did not know how to keep mal sold the liberties, and hopes of the seat that voice the unfavourable judg

faith The Kaiser further described King

Stato

on return try and got nothing ment, everyone must given the opportunity

Four shock Maximalist Battalions have Ferdinand of Roumania as “the renegade

aan policy is to write up Prussian ad- Treitschke again and points out, ministration. In this he has done useful been sent to Kieff.

my who, at the time when Germany was the ex Ministers who signed the Mani engaged in a terrible war Joined, the and with full justice, how great a store-historical work, and he devotes much

histothe fests on Friday and were ordered to be enemies of the Empire as a now oppon

· of administrative capacity and space to the reform of the finances

the

of

the new Prussian of honour at Brussels, Belgium interned int Kreustadt have fled.bello Cal insight there was in Germa

nation emerged from the was of Customs system,

hopeful in there is much exaggeration.

It is quite that

the whole Prussian" finance to watch

while was well managed, and that good work were mismanaged by the selfe was done in embodying the new provinces

It is the plump, well-developed man who cuts the melons and, has the fun socially

Scrawny, akiony people are seldom popalar. We all admire fine figures No dressmaker can hide • bony, skinny form

You ought to test the one guarenteed reliable treatment which has,

made

good for years in England, which has akan America by storm and which has been awarded a gold medal and diploma.

Nothing in history has ever

who

had a

The real novelty of his treatment is that he turns the attention of the reader to the administrative side of the State,

rity may be it is indisputable that the campaign of 1918 in. Roumania those which found a place in that gice Tiberalism always concentrates on the

masses of the people ardently desire

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He next spoke of the eternal miracle liberation eager of German strength which once again in five years it was face of this enemy has been brillantly and proved. You carried out a brilliant its

vide

ady heartless true

che parlanowanamenten bera, howe

A wireless message from Petrograd campaign," he said. All the tribes Felt till it became content in the old structure of the Monarchy but

în

the marvellous success of this now treat- ment, which, according to report has made more thin folks plump than all the ** tonicg" and ineffective dicinen for fifty years.

states: The All-Russian Congress of shared in the victory which get Transyl to believe that it was by some peculiar after all. Prussia was not the only State There's a resson amp, well formed red ants and Deputies resolved that wants free sgain, and which was carried dispensation barren of the qualities re-which after the great war had tasks of

Plamp, men and women assimilate what they eat. The dilatory action of M. Kerensky a across the mountain passes into the enemy quired for self-government. Thin, scraway once do 20s,

For thirty years Germany remained to canty out, and it is precisely bourgeois Government regarding the due-

the domain of taxation that the sap- This, new discovery sims to supply the tribution of land was criminal They country, his capital falling into your for all the Press of Western Europe, the port of a publicly elected representare hands. Your victorious advance was classical land of every kind of political assembly would have been of the highest thing the thin

folks lack, that is the demand that ail land of any agricultural followed by those at home with respectful contemptibility, utterly unworthy of the value to the administration. Zinier power to assimilate food,

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PARACHUTE DESCENT FROM to which the victors of Rosmania, he

good natured naighbour lin in dedicated to Bir Rower Hany,

FRANCO-AMERICAN PROTESTS said, bad contributed, corcluded a rac

mposed of

reple

BURNING BALLOON; G.C.M.G., and Dr. A. BowIE.

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time over beer, tobacco, LONDON, December 5th What the Lord of Hosts may still an

Junglecognize Considerable excitement was caused in ons had comfort South west London some weeks ago, when - The Times Correspondent at Petrograd- have in store we do not know but, ecme writing on the Wih ultimo, states that in what may, we are able confidently to look

and an observation balloon was observed to be consequence of the protests by the French the world in the face. We did not will li

libert

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Surrey side, and when over midstream Allied diplomats, declaring that he can and heat the enemy. In that way will w

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