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T NÊN DARE STAREKATON BORN OF STANZEN

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and

of Chief Justice

he asks to be transferred to a combatant

unit, be some do.

A con.

The

AN ARMY OF LABOUR. I may add, while on this subject, that I M Maurice Barrès, the famous French" GOD SPEED” OF THE BAR... BEHIND THE LINES IN FRANCE.

heard nothing to their discredit. Whats Academician

Daily

On the opening day of Hilary law sit (FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO "THE TIMES." have behaved quite well in France, whore -

ever may be the case in England, they The Great General Staff wished to tings, and in the appropriate setting of assure for Germany, the economic empire his own particular court at Temple Bar, Modern war is modern industry, they have enjoyed no privileges, and of the world, the domination of the ion, the Lord Chief Justice of England organized for a single definite purpose have had to perform the same kind of

*judge-lawyers,; universe. In order to succeed it was not in the orced on his impend Behind the Army that fights the enemy labour, under strict, discipline, as the suficient for it to an ite own country: Toeparture to fulfil great national with bomb, bullet, and shell, and in some members of the other companica. There it wanted to disarm the others. While g

organized the military and navaliner Ambastidor Extraordinary, and cases alongside of it, there is another is, moreover, some advantage in keeping

in America ta High Commis supremacy of Germany it aimed at the mister Plenipotentiary, organizing the military and social forcer Gordon Hurture fose and said Bray whose weapons are the pickaxe, in the Corps a small permanent contin of competing or adverso Powers How Before the work of the term begins, I crowbar, spade, and pulley. This Army gent of men of British birth who are did it set to work? How did it pursue desire, in the unavoidable absence of the of Labour is a large one, so large that in the prime of life and health and as throughout the world this methodica! Attorney General, to express be your undermining of the other peoples? Lordship on behalf of the Bar of England the totals, if they could be given here, strong and fit as the soldiers in the

We know that there exists in Berlin

Spirit which have led your Lordship to 300 officers, and which only recently gave accept the great, and exacting office At have no ides of the vast numbers of this mander of a Labour group that na soo its orders to our Bonnets Rouges, to all the same time, I should like to offer to auxiliary host. Nor, I think, bave they na any of his men can be medically the Bolo and Cavalini Press. We learned you the best wishes of everyone of us in lately from the report of Bir E. Goschen your high undertaking. My Lord, we any adequate conception of its complexity passed for the "A" class that man is formerly British Ambassador at Barlin, wish you from our hearts a prosperous and diverso compcaition, nor of the skill, combed away from him for "general that in 1914 the principal German Indus mission and a speedy return. The occa judgment and administrative capacity trial enterprises created & private com-ion is indeed without precedent and with-

scrvice." This happens rather fre pany, with a Government subsidy whose out parallel. Never before in the history which have been brought to bear on itaquently; men of military age who have object was to corrupt the foreign Prega of war, or peace has the King app de organization and control.

appointed

been put in the But that was

"B" lists at home owing Justice of only one part of the machine; we wish to know all the others charge Ambassador Extraordinary and the British war zone in France, and on up wonderfully after a few months of

the dutin

of High Commis The Labour Corps is at work all over to heart, chest, or gastric troubles, pick We know its general structure and its sioner. output. We could avm describe its work Minister Plenipotentiary, but in the fing. That is knowledge we arquired unexampled needs of the present crisis no the lines of communicatione as well, and the good fooding, the regular habits, and only lately by cruel experience. To our other course was open. You had already, ita stat has to keep touch with units, the steady open-air exercise of the www consternation, we have seen the my Lord, in the brief leisure which your some of which are very close to that Labour Corps. They are periodically

office allowed rendered from the rst moment of the war such services to jagged edge of No Man's Land, where examined by the medical authorities, and the life of the countries it wished to bring the State is made it clear that high and the bayonet gleams and the barrage rosre, the front line the Labour Corps see them if the doctors find them good enough, for never forget the scientific method with and regrettable as it which it laid its hand simultaneously on should even for a little time be absent sidings and congested wharves of the every centre.

from us. the country has in you a In every Court it acquired influetics fentative and spokesman and administra-base ports. Assuredly no other military by the bonds of kinship and of marriage tor of such a character that the appro department has to deal with such a priate dutice for you are the most difficult FINANCIAL INTRIGUR

responsible duties which can be found. miscellaneous and cosmopolitan per Germa had organized the draining

My Lord. it is not only in this country sonnel; fur there are black men, brown nway of foreign capital in order to that that conviction prevails. You are men, yellow men, and white men, British fertilize her industries and commerce by as it is manifest, called to your aupreme inducing the great financial houses task by the unanimous voice of all Eng labourers, Chinese, Kafirs, Indians, Banque Commerciale in Italy, Sociétés lish-speaking peoples of the world, and Egyptians, Fijians, German prisoners, de Crédit in France, and Swiss sad Be the satisfaction universally excited on and conscientious objectors, in the highly ring banks) to discount German bills at both sides of the Atlantic by your mixed multitude which digs, bauls, bigh rates on the one hand and on the appointment rats: as all men know, upon pusties, loads and carries, under the other to divert to Germany French the neared belief that the Lord Chief D.L. and his assistants capital which was strking in Switzerland tier of Tngland will bring every Little has been heard of the Labour or Belgium rafuge from the taxation side of a difficult and complies

Corps in this country. It does its work with which it was menaced. Dinomatic lem not only a perfect martiality of unobtrusively, and attracts small notice intrigues were set on foot to obt in the temper, hat also unsurpassed learness of either from the regular newspaper corres fatti on the Paris market of loans vision. We shall look forward every topondents, who are, naturally, intent destined to favore German armemente welcome at the earliest possible moment upon more exciting transactions, or from or those of her allies (Hungarian loan of your fortunate return.

the occasional visitor, who is allowed dis £20.000.000 in 1910; Austro-Hungarün

SERVICE FOR A UNITED NATION.

creet glimpses of the battleground. loan of £40,000,000 in 1911: Ottoman Is The Lord Chief Justice in reply, said: Even the combatants, who pass the toil in 1913, and so on), or to develop her cannot adequately express to you mying, multi-coloured columns on their way economic growth (Bagdad bonds, etc.) thanks for the observations which you have to camp and billet, do not know how At the same tune she profited by her just made, and for the wishes which you numerous these workers are, or how

to CUTLER PALMER & CO.'s industrial and commercial organizate Bar of England. I am on all of the important is their share in the general

to acquire supremier in the economie am deeply grateful

scheme of operations. The Corps is still you to the Bar, and, may add, also to upheres of other peoples.”

In every country Germany created my brother judges, who have never failed a novelty so new that it has hardly as yet asserted its place in the regular mili innumerable companies with a national to asist me to the best of their ability tary system; though one imagines that facada French English Italians in whenever I have been called away to order to exploit German patents for the peform any duties which in normal times the time is not far off when we shall speak

When I

go from us familiarly of the A-L.C, the Army benefit of German firms She acquired are beyond my office

this mining oncessions and quays in oir the country shell at least have the Labour Corps, as we do now of the Army satisfaction of knowing that the law will Service Corps or the RA.M.C. Under porta. Our produce wore shamelessly be administered ne heretofore, that justice cinlined body of unskilled labourers the conditions of modern warfare a dis counterfeited. Thanks to the ercation of will be in the hands of my brother, judges cannot be dispensed with any more than nowerful cartela [tresls] and to that the administration of the work of dumping she wande competition with her the courts will proceed upon the same the tramport contingents, and those who industries impossible

principles as

have

existed so long in this minister to the sick and wounded, and that in the present country;

state of the work of the courts it becomes a little Mr. Solicitor, you have so feli sitously of the relations between this country and America, and in particular of the link

the

strong link, of the law between America and England that 1 COURT INFLUENCE ABROAD

will add to it but few words: With you In Rusia-German influence over the I think it not inappropriate that the Court was singularly helped by the too

holder of my office

Should

proced to simple liberal-mindedness of the Cent America at this

upon the The apostle of peace, protagonist of The mission to which his Majesty has gra- Hague Conference, he played into the ciously appointed me, Aiserica founds it hands of Germany. His efforts tended law upon the common law of England towards the creation of a Bocjety of Their Jaws are based upon the Baine Nations! But this idea was meaning of justice and liberty as ours, They less, and gavo no protection to the the satio origin, the ous tours of the Bare nations except in so far as its aim was th people. They are administered with to struggle against German hegemony the same traditions, and in this struggle, The Hermany. It expended itself in appear to me that there may be more The Hague Congres simply made dupes which is for justice and liberty, it does than is perhaps, apparent at first empty sterila talk, and was even perni- cious since it propagated a false belief Princess; the Baltic and Lithuania comity and pounded the staffs, so that nobility monopolized most of the high the entire Russian General Staff was under the influence of Prussian milf tarism Still Czardom might be found wanting and slip away from fier fis influence or more probably, erum was to you, speaking for the Bar There have been hurling bombs or bullets at the are at work at the base ports, On one ble to pieces; but against any such is no procedent for the present time. Boone, was to be found leagues in the clattering whart I saw a company of

out a Precedents revolution Germany spreading among the exigencies of the circumstances, require it, tear unloading trucks taking were

and daydreaming Socialists and I have had the Nerchist theories of pacific. Inter sallation with the Righetto con embodied, and men anft for general nationalism and was against the feudal before coming to the conclusion that in the aristocracy Result Working through temporary absence from this country of base units while the R. E. had their Ceardom she provoked the military the holder of my office I can nevertheless own special employment companies" of now navyles, quarrymen, and others. It wee betrayals, and through the Ctarina was, properly undertake the duties perhaps, about to chtain a separate pesos estrusted to me. I will add what weighed not, however till the close of last year so much with me was that the service that the whole unskilled labour force was Working through Lenin she surrounded which was asked of me was in the national gathered up and pooled under a single with her own officers the Extremist troops interest, not for a motion of the nation, directorate. This was more ponomically

let loose civil wardy

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proofs Cast your ore over each of the peonles among whom for three yere we have been watching with anguish the pulsations of publis opinion,

THE OLD SYSTEM.

THE GERMAN PRISONERS. In one way and another the British Labour Corps makes up a large aggr gate; but it is not large enough. There so much work to be done that the whole number of available men enrolled in these islands cannot do half of it. The Labour Directorate taps a useful reservoir among the German prisoners of war. siderable proportion of these captives, instead of being sent over to England and Scotland, are imployed in the zone of the armies as an integral part of the Labour Director's organization. expense of conveying them to Great Britain, and providing for them there is saved; they can be more cheaply and conveniently accommodated among the millions of men for whom the War Office has already to find food and lodging in Northern France; they earn their rations by regular daily labour, and no doubt are all the healthier and happier for it; and they can be guarded and escorted much more easily and securely in tho midst of this military community than in the neighbourhood of English towns and villages. It is almost needless to add that they are extremely well treated. They are housed in commodious wooden hute, warmed und lighted, and their rations are sufficient in quantity and of bread daily, 120% of fresh or frozen meat the best quality. They receive 9oz, of five days a week, salt herrings or sptats twice week, ten or coffee, hugar, potatoes, rice, pens or beans, margarino, jam, and cheese, with an extra, allowance. of bread, rice or ostoval, and edible fat. when engaged on hard manual labour. No one can complain of this dietary; certainly the German prisoners do not but on the contrary seem entirely content and even cheerful, as they may well be, when they contrast their own lot with that of our poor fellows in some of the German prison camps

This is one of the lessons of the present conflict, but it was not fully grasped till a few months ago, when the Labour Directorate assumed ite definite shape. At the outset we were badly handicapped, for we had no reserve force of enrolled second-line men such as the elderly warriors of the French and Italian territorial services, who have fetched and The companies are under the command carried, hown and dered, and made of British officers, who isane their orders themselves generally useful behind the through the Feldwebel, and ether German fighting lines of our Allies. Ja default non-commissioned officers, and the dis of the indomitable dug-outs, in shabby cipline is said to be maintained with bluc uniforms, who cleared up the Marne Prussian rigour. If, battlefielda, and the tough old, peasants Ra, se moral and phas our soldiers tell who toiled at the mountain roads to the man troops are falling, the sale of the Trentino, we did our beat with various prisoners for labour purposes may decline provide skilled artising and artificers and they are being sensibly and profit- makeshifts and temporary expedients in the future. But so far they have The Royal Engineers were supposed to furnished us with serviceable material,

in peace, The Czarina was a German selection of the holder of when these were wanted; and for mere ably employed, with no hardship to

office to proceed to America When I fatigue work of any kind, from themselves. They are paid a small wage, was invited to undertake this great task digging a grave for a dead enemy to which goes to provide them with extra T need not tell the members of my pro laying the track for a new railway, there comforts at the canteen and fession that I gave most anxious thought were always the stout arms and tough terms of our reciprocal arrangerthe to the question we the duties whilst, at battalions were dangerously depleted by regarded as something more than a scrap The with Germany, which it may be hoped is that shoulders of the infantry private. I should discharge these the same time,

these demands upon them in the earlier of paper by the Government of that cour To To part of this; and many a fine, smart,try, they are not employed within 183 4s no precedent well-drilled young soldier, who ought to miles of the front line. Many of them

You have said then my present office, me that is not an answer as

be made if

authorities

or tim Germans and

„

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

stores alongside of British. Asiatic and African sections of the Labour Dire and

icy host,

*COSMOPOLITAN CORPS,

It was the sight of these polyglot and many-hued detachments, working busily. and as it seemed, cheerfully, in concert, which first brought home to me an the bist, and characteristic feature in system is a cosmo-

ovet body made por e representa

diverse lands, and speaks several langu ages. So much labour is required behind. our lines in France and Flanders that

In Greece. A King who wa Queengan particular class, but for a united nation and reaching units of tasks which by education; Prussian

with one voice Therefore relieve fighting of races widely General Staff trained at Potsdam. So not only I bat, let me add, many of my are better entrusted to others. The sundered nationalities. It comes from Greece is paralysed in her movement brother judges, if not all, have contri- drilled soldier is too costly an articles towards the intente, and from that buted service during this war which 18 and too badly wanted at the front, to he spring consequentes:

of incalculable outside the judicial sphere. Judges like kept away from the distinctively pro gravity in their influence on the war. other citizens, if I can say is that when carefully and expensively trained,

citizens, are anxious to do all that fossional work for which he has been we still need more hands, after taking But Germany blunders up against the 'in in power of a great patriot, the first states the time comes I shall consider myself

Es many men as we can spare from home With the fortunate it. men of Europe Venizelos

upon my return to this coun-

and as many German prisoners as it is thought advisable to employ Sothe disappearance of the King German pro try I shall have earned some portion of

In theory, all the "A" men of the coloured world has been drawn upon to shigo is broken

the attributes which you have been good men in power; she has influence, too, the labours in which we are all now sngaged in active military duties. The men, and almost as large number of In Italy-Germany has got a grip on enough to ascribe to me. I trust that in try not assigned to indispensable make good the deficit. The Labour Corps civil occupations are or should be now includes many thousands of China- with the official Socialist Party banking aged they are conducing to reach Labour Companies are coraposed of those Patiens, Nagas, Bantals, Ranchia, and

which

will be a lasting peace for

for which and cocnomic inluence she poses America and ourselves are continuing to who are either above military age or other Indians, together with a strong which it is impossible to exaggerate labour and that when that peace has come are from one cause or another, considered force of Kafirs Zulis, Basutos, and The defentista and the Socialistic

America and this country will thereafter unfit for combatant service, Thus negroes, a numerous contingent of Party only lost, the game because of the cofor the establishment of peace for birth or origin when called up are now Fijians. North Eastern France is just work for the abolition of naturalised British subjects of Alien Egyptians and Sudanese, and even a few invasion of Venetia

In France Despite the crimes of 1870 the beheft of humanity and those higher and the standing protest of Alsace laws of morality and humanity which I Lorraine Germany had obtained the believe, will be safeguarded by the puri most redoubtable co-operation. The fine fring and ennobling sacrifices which have scholarly brain, of the Socialist Jaurès been made by this country, and which are was penetrated and poisoned by Ger- now being made and must be made in the manism, while the financier Caillaux beld future by America. it ta be impolitip and even inɛensatę, not to rally to the industrial and commercial supremacy of Germany. Caillaux and Jaures before the war were in favour of agreements with Gerany. During the war what would Jaures have done! To day Caillaux is sent for trial on the

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being drafted into the Labour Corps, now a gathering ground of races and the presence of such persegis not being as peoples. All the continents and islands role welcomed in the fighting ranks of the globe seen to have tent in their Those favoured individuals the con- contribution to the toiling and fighting scientious objectors have been similarly multitude engaged upon the task of treated, and they form a section, though smothering the great Tentoric conspiracy it may be added a quite inconsiderable against freedom and order, and the men one in point of numbers, of the DT's from Asia and Africa, who are labour- army of toilers. In England. I believe ing diligentely under British officers, are charge of having sought the destruction there is no idea that the Labour serving the common cause no less effectus of our alliances and seconded the pro- Battalions consist mainly of conscien- ally, than the gallant black troops from Tess of the enemy's arms. And the ous objectors. This is very far from Senegal and Dakar whom France has deputy Jean Longuet grandson of the sing the case. They are less numerous not hesitated to put into action against Gerwan Karl Mars, is chief of a fren than the Aliens and do not altogethe best battalions of the Prussian tion of the Socialist. Party.

ther make up more than a few companies, Guerd