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BELATED PLEA FOR TRUTH.

These generalisations, brue as they may have been three or three and a half years ngo, make no allowance for the stress of unsuccessful war on the human soul, and oven a critic like Dr. Hermann Rosetaaier, the former political editor of the Berlin Morgenpost and one of the sanest of German journalists, has been forced admit that though the Junkers are supreme, the people have shown signs of revolt, engi

THESDAY DECEMBER 18TH, 18

LOSSES THROUGH SUB

MARINES.

REPLACING THE WASTAGE.

It has been declared by many writers In the House of Lords on November who know Germany well, and who profess18 Lord Beresford asked His Majesty's Government what steps they also an intimate knowledge of the Ger had taken to replace the enormous man psychology, that only a miracle could amount of mercantile marine tonnage lost precipitate a German revolution. The dating 1817; and whether, approximately people, it is declared by the writers, the total of British, Allied, and neutral tonnaga lost from all causes and out of have been disciplined for generations by rimning owing to serious submarine. the Jackboot, and no longer have any damage would probably be four times a soul of their own. The sabro is the much as the Prime Minister expected cteraal menace whether it is that of the would be built this year in this country

The Prime Minister had said that we soldier or of the policeman

should build four times the amount of tonnage this quarter more than we did last year, but he omitted to say that last fear we build only 525,000 tons, against a normal turnout of 2,000,000 tons, The tatal losses by submarines, mines, and other causes was 7,920,000 tone, and the Prime Minister estimated that we should build 2,000,000 tons during the year whilst the British, Allied, and neutral buildings by the end of the year would THE BREAKING POINT.

be about 3,000,000 tons, so that our post- There is, from this point of view, a tion at the beginning of January next singularly instructive article in the latest would be that we should be 5,000,000 tons issue to hand of the deck-Volksbote by short of what we were in 1913. In 1916 a writer (who remains anonymous) of we lost 2,25,000 tons by submarines and whom more should be bearti mines, and this year up to date we had lost 5,000,000 tons. It might be said that All the abusive language indulged in the United States would make up the by the Vorddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung deficiency, but prominent men from that alters nothing in the circumstances that it was only through this Russian Czar country had told him it could not. This and Kaiser correspondence, the publica question affected the food supply. In tion of which comes twelve years too late, serious state of things early next year, his opinion, in order to avoid a very that the German people learns what the views that were to determine during this country should be rationed at once Bülow's days the future position of Ger. The Earl of Lytton said it was not in many in the concert of the Powers. In the public interest to give the noble lord the

for the democratisation of struggle Germany the pivot on which everything the information he asked for. The Government were not prepared to make now turns (as could not be otherwise the fourth year of the war) is represented the Germans a present of information which they were firmly convinced they by the problems of foreign policy and by had not got and would be very grateful the question how to arrive at a peace that for. It was certainly true that our ship shall be acceptable to the people, building had fallen behind, and increas.

There is very sound sense in all this and still wiser counsel follows though it is almost hopeless to expect that it will have any effect on the great Panjandrum of Potadara

were

in

wo

are

ingly fallen behind. It would not have been possible to have met the enormous requirements of the Army in France and have maintained the pre-war standard of shinbuilding. He was able, however to assure the Huse that the position ad zot only very much improved in the last six months, but had improved on an in-

Even 2 Bismarck, who, after all, was an autocrat if any one ever was, alwaa exerted himself to solidify the German Austrian treaty of alliance, not as crensing senle (Hear, hest.) The whole treaty between rulers, but is one of the

problem was one of determining how far peoples and parliaments. To-day must approach the nations with front we should use available lab nr for offen tive action and how far for additional nees and truth, even the enemy aations, shipbuilding. It was essential that the We must abandon the idea that they position should be considered as a whole, nothing and ever will be nothing but what the Romans called the misera con- tribuens pleks

(the poor, tax-paying masses)--that is, the people whose lot it is to suffer and sacrifice, to be silent, and bear with laaib-like docility all that the great and

and mighty ones deem fit to deter mine and to concoct without even deign ing to

what it is that they the people have resolved to do with them. We have

and that was now being done by the ad. miralty through the Shipping Controller. With regard to steel, there had an doubtedly been a considerable shortage, but it was now made good, and they were without anxiety. As labour diffien ties, they were not due to unrest but to an insuficiency of labour to meet all re quirements. Much labour and time

been rushed into an unnecessary and could be expended upon increasing our

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not be baulked by then when the yards were completed the new to secure a apody shipsould come in very rapidly Although peace over though it must be one that the shipbuilding programine had been falls far short of the expectations of some delayed the Government had good of us. Moreover, we shall act. The ground for believing that the increase in people will have their way, whether it the fatore would be satisfactory. pleases the great ones or not

Turning to the offensive side the The indiscretions of Reichstag deputies who have been revealing the secrets of the weekly returns showed that the losses prison house to the emissaries of the from submarine action had been declin Bocialist Press, to the imminenting very satisfactorily since April last, danger of the State," are to be visited on whilst, at the same time, the rate at which the journalists at large. The Berlin we had been able to destroy submarines Tageblatt says

was increasing equally satisfactory (Hear, hear.)

The Reichstag's Main Committee sees the necessity for protecting itself better than hitherto against indiscretions at future meetings. To ensure this then trance to the corridor leading to the con- ference chamber is being completely bar red

Lord Beresford observed that if the Government thought it unwise to publish the figures relating to tonnage he must bow to their decision. His point was that if the submarines were all eliminat- two massive wooden doors reined we were still in a serious position, and by a thick layer of oakum and we should be in a more serious position into a vestibule to which only next spring unless the increasing of ton- authorised Government renage was accomplished more rapidly than

The subject was then dropped.

FELST be admitted.

The Pres had been the case to the present:

have to wait in dutiful obedience before the threshold of this holy of holies.. This arrangement is more than grotesqu The indiscretions" which have been perpetrated refer only to the participants in the meetings-deputies and Govern ment representatives and not to parlia mentary journalists, who, after all, can only publish such details as are furnished them.

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The following interesting illustration

A VERY MIXED BAG.

CURIOSITIES OF TRADE WITH

THE ENEMY

A recent issue of the London Gazette contains a long list of goods which have. been seized this year as being of sus of social amenities in German life is re-pected enemy origin. It is a strangely corded by the Hanover Folkerille :-

miscellancious collection of wares that A disgracefal scene

cene occurred on Sun has been dealt with The first to attract day evening in the refreshment rooms at attention is à consigament of soldiers the Dortmund racecourse. The son of boots sent from Colón to a commanding

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VIA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULUGTO SAN FRANCISCO,

JAN. 26, 1918.

pancake (an eggless one). The man hay vince, taken from a ship arriving from ing proceeded to the billiard room while Holland, One naturally asks now it the food

preparation the wife of came to England, seeing that Sterkrada Dort was in

watchmakar, feeling still un is not far from the Dutch frontier satisfied, although she had

A large number of consignments sained a war portion of horring und potatoes, usurped the best assigned to books and music, chiefly from Scandi- Duelle, and the moment the pancake was avis, and most of it addressed to the We served ate it with a varicious appetite. United States, is also included On Duelle's return a

altercation know that music is always suspected, be- the cause it may convey cypher messages. A

College in the States, is also included,

anone between the Waltre parcel of pen-nibs from Leyden to Vessa

woman, exasperated by

remarks, but missed him.

ing

with anger,

མ

at his dwe also read of chemicals, photo-

the glass, and, gravares, chromographs, blankets, cloth,

up part of the broken rim, violin strings, brilliantine, and perfumes

In the women and with

it from every corner of the globe, and

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sliced off hall her nose. In curious entry is colouring matter for half a dozen customers were at Easter egga, from Switzerland to New him. He was knocked down, kicked, and York trampled on, and leit

imported in contravention of the laws

bleeding on the foor nonscious and A seccud list is concerned with FYA HAPPY example of the Hunnishness of relating to trading with the enemy.

18 recorded in the,

Berlin

Here the first item is a parcel of musical Two women, employed in a railway boxes from Switzerland to Amsterdam: goods station at & da

e daily-yage oz

and one of the curiosites of the schedule

abstractod two potatoes an

from a box syait is a parcel of butter and soap consigned ing transportation. For this rime they

Hal from Buenos Ayres to the Red Cross at

were each sentencedi

magistrate to a fortnight

although both prisoners

fighting af the front:

fami

Copenhagen.

young children

On the

of £2, and actually allowed to retain pos hand, a town connoillor of the

Same pasion of his ill-gotten spoils. Thus the municipality, a man of considerah

f food hog flourishes while the half- wealth bought up

up large quantities

famished labouring class, receives kicks meat and vegetables at prices utterly be instead of victuals. Nevertheless,

those yond the reach of the class to which these is authority continue their commands to women belong. He was discovered in the common people to hold out. If they set of conciling his hound in his cellar believe that they can or will do so under but he was let off with the ridiculous une fuis regime they are endowed indeed,

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