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OUR LONDON LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

LONDON, February 11th BOW FOOD CONTROL HAS INTRODUCED STATE

SOCIALISM.

Food supply and distribution are the questions of the hour to the exclusion of almost everything else of domatic interest, A fortnight-hener (on February 25th) London and the Home Counties will be ca compulsory rations for primary food stuffs. The rent of Great Britain will

soon follow.

What strikes one about the whole busi- ness is the extraordinary absence of

THE

THE TRAGEDY OF RUSSIA

THE ARMY AND ITS LOSSES:

** {BY PROFESSOR BERNARD PARES:]

[Professor Pares, the Official Corre spondent of the British Government at the Lussion front, writes with complete and intimate knowledge of Russia's early part in the war and of the causes that led to her great debacle.

First, one can understand nothing with

HÙNG NG DAU FTSE

GERMAN PRIZE COURT METHODS.

ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER."

The incorrigible incapneity of the Ger-

SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1918,

A. GRAPHIC SPY CODE,

Modern art has played into the enemy hands in a way such as the art of the past could never have been guilty. The man to abide by agreements into which technique: of our modernists has accus- he has entered, in other words, his distomed us to maay lines and strokes that honesty, is well exemplified by the case to, the uninitinted scem at best irrelevant of the Lupas in which judgment was and at worst the attempts of a tyro who gladly accept the invitation of The delivered by the Prize Court of Appeal fails to say easily what he aims to impart. July News to put before its readers the at Hamburg last year, though the But the watchful and resourceful German points which, in my opinion, must need authorized judgment has only recently spy finds in them a camouflage for his code-message, and so he sends to Germany understanding in Russia's present tribecome available in England,

by way of Spain information about our The Lupus was 4 Norwegian vessel, and defences in the Caribbean. And it all blos,

was captured by a German submarine goes as part of the design of a magazine- while on a voyaga to Rotterdam with 300 over issued in Porto Rico. The artist and plotter, Werner. B. R. W. Sturzel, is sardinies and herrings. These goods word admits that he is a special intelligence consigned to the Netherlands Oversea ment assigned to get, information to

ngent of the Imperial German Govern Trust or order.” It was admitted by Berlin. The New York Tribune gives a the Court that the association of Dutch reproduction of the magazine cover, and merchants called the Netherlands Oversta Bayswate Trust, has for its object to render possible ingenious trick to get secret information the importation by sea of goods addressed 26 Germany via Spain was in the form to Holland by guaranteeing to the belli of a line-and-wash drawing he made for gerent States, namely, England and Ger- which appeared as the cover design of the Puerto Rico Ilustrado in 1917, aud many, that goods imported to Holland that periodical in the issue of January through its agency will not be re-exported 5th of this year. This paper has a large circulation in Spain, and Sturzel was by the actual consignees, but remain in aware that, through no incriminating Holland." By the German Prize Regula effort on his part, his cryptic illustration tion No. 21 a hostile destination may be would fall into proper hands in Barcs lona, Valencia, or Cartagens, and presumed of things which are absolute eventually reach, the German destination. contraband if the shipment is consigned Altongh Sturzel posed as a business to order, unless circumstances contradict man, he was exceedingly versatile, and used his talents to further his espionage. this presumption. One would have up activities. posed, then, that the Netherlands Oversea rust, having given its guarantee to the German Government, the fact that the gonds in question were consigned to it would have been sufficient to prevent their condemnation unless it could be clearly shown that the goods had passed, or were going to pass, through the hands of the Netherlands Oversea Trust into British territory or to some agent for British bayers.

serious grumbling at the change which all out knowledge of the colossal Russian boxes of pyrites and 68 boxes of preserved are now at Fort Oglethorpe, where be

this interference with individual liberty casualties, and also a lively sense of their inevitable bearing. After ten months of and wonfort involves. There is a great,

war the Russians, according to the statis leal of criticism with regard to the great.

ties then given me by their War Office, wise and eminent persons who have arranged our dietary for us whether we had low 2,800,000 men in killed, wounded, like it or not, but otherwise the position and prisoners. In the Galician drive of is being accepted with stoicism. Ration- 1915, during which I was more or less ing is regarded as a necessary war mea

throughout in the first line of the retreat, sure, and that being so there is of cours

the acknowledged loss full far short of the no use flying in the face of circumstances

Teer and reality. The army owned to a loss of which cannot be controlled. peasant will share alike so far as the

150,000 out of 560,000; but more often than quantity of food is concerned, and there is athing left but for everyone to accept not I found the company of 250 reduced the situation with becoming cheerfulness.

to 10, and that was only half-way through. But how it will end, Lord knows as Pepys used to write; and meanwhile we the reirent (on the San). One cannot have the satisfaction that we are only now forget the wholesale nightmare of the starting at the point in food economy which the Germans had to initiate rather men sent up, untrained and without more than two years ago, while our allow-rifles, and returning as cripples two days ance per head is considerably more thun they have had since the early days of the

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Painting and drawing were among his accomplishments, and by the aid of his talent he managed to create for the Puerto Lien Huntrada the head of an Arabian woman, entitled Tipo Arabs,' which the Porto Rican authorities believe literally teems with code-letters and hieroglyphics decipherable only in Ger many or by Sturzel.

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Government responsibility for food -supply, its distribution, and its consump- tion, introduces the country, at one bound to the biggest experiment in State Socialism ever dreamt of hitherto, For we have the State controlling our daily lives in the most vital way it is possible

Persons fainitiar with the handling to Stain:

The

now regulates

No such evidence was brought before the of codes and cryptograms have expressed supplies, but it keeps an inventory of

Court, yet the goods were condemned, the belief that in his cover-design Sturzel every ton of corn, every chest of tea, every cwk of butter or margar the wholesale

Why? Because, said the Court, it is may have revealed important informa every head

well known, and is also admitted by the tion to the enemy, especially as to Ameri- of stock in the country.

claimants, that in the administration of can activities and defences in the Carih merchant has been pushed out of business

English bean. This was given particular signi- with the loss of good will and everything

Meanwhile, the War Minister Sukhom this association a strong else and his place has been taken by linov refused all offers of munitions from influence, kind of English co-manage ficance, since it was known that German Government officials who are the inter- unofficial factories; and later the Public ment, asserts itself, even against the agents have been active in their efforts mediaries between producers and retailers,

Munitions Committees, which Guchkov desire and inclination of the Dutch mem-to proenre a submarine base in Caribbean. Furthermore, the State decides how much (Petrograd) and Prince Lvov (Moscow) bers, from which Holland, weak in com- and West-Indian waters, and that the many sympathizers in the producer may charge for what he forced on the Government, were starved parison with England, week in compari Kaiser had bring to market, and fixes the price by it, as far as possible, of any opporson with England, cannot withdraw and Venezuela.

to be specially it retailers may ask so that the latter are tunity of cffective work. It was the scarcely needs

Some personal facts about the fabrica emphasized that in political questions the little more than agents working on com Geboral and Chief artillery in Petrograd British Government has pro inconsiderate. Just the time that the Government

itself and tor are added Finally, goods are and the Director of

to be. ck and taken home the State still

prove that urged me to beg for them every pos towards neutrals in a manner regardless agents began to lay their plans to trap keeps an eye on them

how much

nal law. Sturzel, Cipriano Castro, the ex-Dicta- says bread, butter, ment, and sugar may be help from England, and this. I did, of the principles of international

on reaching London, in a memorandum in Even if, therefore, an absolutely neutral tor of Venezuela, was ordered out of witen day by day and week by week.

which I represented revolution and also attitude on the part of the Netherlands Trinidad by the British Government and THE CLD ORDER CHANGETH

In the whole course of our history there chaos as inevitable. I was in this sup Oversous Trust is not doubted, and one immediately returned to Porto Rico, purted by the mililitry knowledge and assumes that it endeavours to the best ofwhere he had made his home for ten hot more been anything approaching it conspicuous ability of General Knox, who, its ability, -- Germany, to prevent months before the United States declared colossal experiment in Stato. leaves prewar Socialist speakers and before and since, almost exclusively as far as possible the export to England war on Germany, com a gl

devoted himself to the supplying of the of contraband received in Holland under Sturzel was sent to Porto Rico about writers who used to wax eloquent about tragical needs of the Russian soldier. cover of its address, no guarantee is the time the European War began and

collective uction, co-operative man

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forth fairly gasping Lord Kitchener and Mr. Lloyd George

that under the paramount with wonderment. Although essentially 5 both did all that was humanly possible Frizs Court, the tone conviction of the was employed by one of the biggest Ger Revolution, State control of food has come for the Russian Army, as much as the British influence goods the need for which man. business homes on the island. Ho always had an abundance of money and upon us without noise or flourish of most devoted Russian Minister could have in England is just now, and has been for was a liberal spender. It was the belief trumpets, or any violent controversy and done under the conditions. Lord Kitchener many months prat, especially great as the Secret Service agents who were

for example, pyriten for the manufacture

Excellent implies not merely good or in this way the ingrained traditions and lost his life later on his way to Russia, of munitions, will not be exported from watching him that he was in the pay of very good, but exceptionally good. This etttled habits of 40 millions of people and with him perished one of the beat Holland to England in spite of all prosion always that his parents were wealthy other beiges Syrup time and again triinelinstrasse. Sturzel gave the impresor-excellent has Deen apped to have been brushed aside as of no parti- officers of the British Army, General cular importance. From being the most Ellershave, who had charge of this work, individualistic nation in Europe we are Socialistic, with the State enthroned as a benevolent despot. Thus in the feverish atres of war the old order changeth, yielding place to new.'!.

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a body of neutral merchants whose bond generously to the children far away from munitioning of Russia fides were not impugned would break their

However, the criminal incompetence of guarantee because of some imagi

́imaginary paramount British influence. The the Russian Government continued, and with the same results. In May, 1010, 1 German Court, therefore, swept away the was present at a Russian offensive on Lake guarantee, treated it a scrap of An interesting description, is given of which afflict men and women, such ex Naroch, of which no news reached the paper, and condemned goods consigned the recent destruction of a German sub- Pains after eating, biousness, head- CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLE Financial circles have been greatly public, and hardly any reached or our and though the presumption raised by theiying on the sen bed and sent a wireless languor, have their origin in paired to neutrals without a shred of evidence, marine. A sea-plane spotted the bunt, constipation, a leding of falness alter Denis, 1098 of appetite, and interested in a High Court action brought representatives at the Imperis! Headquar as a test case by a German nanied Wein- tore. We had now some artillery to co by, the fact that the Netherlands Oversen which were ten miles away. Then the other of the organs of digestion.

words or order was clearly rebutted message to a destroyer and trawlers, or faulty action on the part of one or berger against the Commitice of the centrate at a given point. With this We Trust was the consignee.

It is London Stock Exchange for refusing to attacked for a month, advanced a mile

plane circled around until the British an just such conditions that Mother re-elect him as a member of the House on

and a half, and lost 50 per cent, of our

naval craft appeared. They included Seiger's Syrup is most helpful. It tones, the ground that he is an alien enemy by men. Prretically all our artillery and

four trawlers, which were formed in strengthens

regulates the action of birth. Unlike many who took out replants were then taken from us. The Let Englishmen, when they judge the Rue quadrangle and got out sweeps, steaming these important organs, enabling you to naturalisation papera shortly before the Germans fell on us a day, or two later, sian army and people, ponder, the full towards each other digest what you eat, and to obtain

Weinberger, a native of Nuremberg, and it was again a sheer butchery, con meaning of this German answer. has been naturalised in this country since ducted systematically with a full known into as November 1917, I was pre-engaged the bow and stern of the sub-strength and the vigour of health in the 1892. he has resided here since 1887, and he has been a member of the Stock ledge of our impotence. Of our troops, Exchange for 20

which had again been brought up to full No doubt on these facts he considered strength, all battalions in the front line that he had a very good case against the

were reduced by nine-tenths (I took in Committee: but Mr. Justice Astbury, parallel columns, full details from all the sitting in the Chancery Division, decided four commanding officers), and that with. again t him, and held that the Committes out being able to inflict any loss in

the Stock Exchange" chosen by their reply: fellow members to regulate the affairs of that great institution are the sole judges impressive. The enemy opened fire at numbers of the Russian army, and then replied (-“ Thanks, we'll give him their functions naturally you may expect. The details are instructive and deeply eight and ten times, Please realise the gnalled Got him." The destroyer With your digestive organs performing |

of eligibility or non-eligibi udgment is for mem

As the trawlers met, wires from them nourishment from it. Thus you secure. marine and began to pass under her only way in which they can be obtained. The U-boat released two mines which the other Seigel's Syrup is excellent for trawlers ignored, one of the officers stomach and liver troubles, because it is remarking: Her eggs can wait a made from more than ten varieties of medicinal extracts of roots, barks, and Finally the trawlers held the undersen leaves, which, in combination, exert a man attempted to get free the seaplane stimulating them to healthy activity. craft with their cables. When the Cler remarkably beneficial effect on the organa of digestion, toning, strengthening, and

sent with the fighting staff in a four-days action in the Carpathians. We surprised the Germans at daybreak, and pierced their line; if anyone won, we did. Our losses were between 80 and 75 per cent minute."

found that the average units with whom Shortly before the break up of the army 1 lived had been renewed entirely between

utes to come up and breathe, but no longer and p

Time passed and Fritz had not moved.

to look well, feel well and be well.

Here is statement of what it did

writes from 15, Perkins Street, Port Elizabeth: Allow me to add my testimony to that of the large number

who had got their claws into Rens up to within two miles range, and his field said, "It is not fighting it is slaughter The destroyer wigwagged a signal, and in the case of Mr. A.T. Wishart, who

"bership. The effect of this

greatly to strengthen

the hands of those dealing with the pest of enemy financial undertakings before the war, and are only waiting for the conclusion the struggle to start operations again if they are given the choper

JELLICUE 8 PROPHECY

The late First Son Lord has joined the prophets on the subject of submarine war farm by enying in a speech a few days ago that the U-boats will be dested by Angust. It is to be hoped this prediction will not be falsified. At the same time nobody is now disposed to attach too much

4.30 m, knowing he bad nothing against tell yourself that every place has been him. He had brought his heavy artillery filled tight or ten times. As one soldier artillery into the actual front line of Mentem mortalia tangunt (How all that one of the trawlers slipped a small tin trenches, from which he pounded our is of death stirs the mind). Who in this of high explosive to one of the faut wires elementary entrenchments (some of them enormous human tragedy could ask that and let it slide down upon the hull of the on marah) at 400 yards range. He the simplest peasant should think first submarine. A firing key was depressed stopped for five minutes at the end of each of the map of Europe and the aims of and a grey mound of water was followed, bour and sent out a few skirmishers to see sound policy? Yet he did and even the by a muffled explosion: The seaplane if there was still any riflery reply from Bolsheviks are now putting as their ulti circled twice around the patch of oil on our lines. He gave us five hours of this matum to Germany the rights of non the surface and then notified the destroyer pounding; then he let off every weapon in Russian peoples, to whom they themselves that the enemy was destroyed. his trenches in a final blast-field-guns are willing to give independence. It was The gunner in the plane then turned trench mortars, machine guns, rifles, and in no servile obedience, in no spirit of loose with a band of cartridges at the two eren poison gases. After that his men mere docility, that these loses have mines released by the U-boat the first came up, according to the testimony of heen met for over three years of pound being destroyed almost instantly and the all four Rusian Commanders with their ing At night, when technique counted

importance to war-time pronouncements rifles slung over their backs. They well for less, the Kussian soldier with second exploding a few seconds later,

It

“NOT FIGHTING BUT SLAUGHTER.”

HOARDING.

of people who write you of the benefits they receive from Mother Seigel's Syrup. many years, I feel qualified to give an As a user of this well-known remedy for

mend its use to anyone suffering from opinion, and can conscientiously recomm- Indigestion.MAR

siderably from this distressing ailment,

Previously to using it, I suffered con for which I used many prescriptions as well as numerous advertised medicines. and while some of them gave temporary relief, none of them could compare with the effective and speedy relief experienced Syrup Having derived such great bene- fits from its use, there is no wonder that I always speak of it in the highest terms. I am seldom without it, as I find a timely dose is an excellent preventative for In digestion and its kindred ailments. Fut Mother Seigel's Sprup to the test in your own case to day.

as to the future, We live and learn in know they were advancing into a space bayonet throughout resumed the initia such matters. It is only a few months where everything was annihilated More tive. Getting dark brother," I have since the Prime Minister declared that he Russian infantry advanced into the gap, heard him shout across to the enemy, an EXEMPLARY SENTENCE FOR FOOD After a few doses of Mother Soigel's had no further lear about the U-boats; and the Germans retreated until they the shell-fire died down and at night 1 and Sir Eric Geddes has spoken to the old bring these troops, under the same have known almost annihilated units infly 64me is more impressive to learn that we fire as their predecessors. The Germans out with the bayonet and take more than Oscar Harmer, manager of a machine are now sinking enemy submarines as fastere stopped by Russian infantry, with their own number of prisoners. And the tool works at Coventry was charged, re as they are being built, though the wea loss of only two miles depth. Our mainspring of all this was a spirit of cently, with food hoarding and convicted ther is extremely unsuitable during the losses for this day were 75 per cent. comradeship to Russia's allies in a war in five cases. Evidence was given that 400 winter for fighting them. Another point

which was left to be a war of liberation. pounds of tea, 144 pounds of sugar, is that Naval officers regard it as very

What can I say of the Russian army thirty-seven tins of gardines, fourteen. significant that the Kaiser has offered special decoration to every member of the prisoner who had served against the It has done its duty and has perished hams, and 13 pounds of batter were found crew of a submarine who survives three British. And what do you fear most night times over in the doing of it. It is in his house plans for voyages: Moreover, the German Press is I asked in conclusion. Only artillery for us to understand the position thus The bench sentenced him to one month's allowed to say that it is

la extremely

he replied, and where do you fest ar created. The sin was the sin of the auto-imprisonment, imposed a penalty of £500, ful whether England can be beaten by the tillery 1 Only on the Western from tcracy, as are three quarters of the trembles and £50 costs with a further two months U-hosts, which is a decidedly nasty iar to And why only on the Western front?" from which Russia is now soform helming the ine was not paid BY WEEKLY PRESS, JULY to Daomitmen

suffering. But imprisonment, running concurrently, if Tirpitz author of frightfulness Because there are two sides to it" (weil war wearinces, which for the now many The defendant fainted when the sea- 1817, again shipping, and bis followers, for inn dort gegenseitig ist). Yes, on the made hole of victory by this method that Western front we give as much as we get cipated million of Russia blurs out almost tence was pasted. Notice of appeal was

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doubt

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into the war

At this action. I examined a German

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