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General:

THROUGH REUTER'S ACSSOY.]

HOLLAND AND GERMANY. THE DUTCH SURRENDER.

LONDON, April 29th.

The Daily News' correspondent at Rotterdam says that Holland has sur rendered to Germany after a period of twenty four hours, in which the posi tion was suddenly reported to be serious and everyone invited to believe that bo

question of peace and war was in the

balance.

It may safely be accepted that sand and gravel transport will shortly be resumed and that an economic agreement will be announced greatly to the profit of Germany, who will again compel Holland to supply finished goods, in

return for raw materials.

LIFE

WITHOUT MEAT.

[DY GEORGE DERNARD SHAW.]

INDIAN REFORM. VIEWB OF THE EUROPEAN

ASSOCIATION..

It is my patriotic boust, that from the day the war began until the present. hour, I have abstained rigidly from

During his Indian mission Mr. Mon... consuming flesh, fish, fowl, alcohol and tagu, with the Viceroy, has received tobacco. Those envious detractors whose representations on reform which are be- yelp follows every utterance of mine like wildering in the great diversity of views an obscene edo have objected that no shown to be entertained by many different I had abstained equally for the 39 years elements in the population was submitted. preceding the war 1 deserve no credit

in Calcutta on behalf of the European for my conduct. This is obvious 261- sense: they might as well say that as 1 Association, the membership of which 8,000 non-officials of did not pick pockets in the year 1800, comprises some the fact that I did not do so in August, British birth engaged in commercial and 1914, does not make me to that extent an professional pursuits. honest man. But even they must admit While disavowing any want of sym that it entitles me to speak with comopathy for Indian aspirations, the Asso authority on the subject of meatless ciation urges the need for guarantees and days.

safeguards at every stage in the progres Let ne first reassure the aforesaid de-sive realization of responsible govern- tractors on one point. They may fear nicht, which should be extremely gradual. that if they are compelled to abstain from No proposals for definite change should. ment they may all become Bernard

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The second apprehension is more gene ment is less apprehensive that Germany, though less excusable. There is bo wants to force Holland into the war at much misinformation spread nowadays present.

the

Shaws; the most terrible fate, and be put forward until after the conclusion professions are to be believed, that could of the war overtaise them. Let them dismiss all The scope of change after the war. anxiety un this score. There are millions should be confined to the development. of vegetarians in the world, but only one of local government, politically educat Bernard Shaw. A century ago there ing a body of electors; the development. were millions of vegetarians and only of provincial legislative councils in a there were millions of them and only one zation as between the Supreme Govern- one Shelley.

Twenty-six centuries ago purely advisory sense and decentrali Pythagoras You do not attain eminent and the Provincial Governments, cace quite so cheaply as by eating mat and also, possibly, as between the latter GERMANY'S DEMANDS.

caroni instead of mutton chops. The and suberdiante administrative bodies. LONDON, April 20th. country is safe as far as the danger of Any schenis should at present leave the The full domands of Germany upon cerned.

a population of Bernard Shaws is con- constitution, authority, and functions of Otherwise I should perhaps the Governor General in Council un- Holland are not yet known in London, | think twice before destroying my own

touched and the constitution of or even by the Dutch public, but there | monopoly --

Imperial Legislature substantially un- are indications that the Dutch Govern-

changed. Any increase of the association of Indians in the administration should. not be based upon artificial stimulation. but anun eficiency and departmentul ander rover of education, that many needs. Neither in the Supreme nor in carefully-taught people doctors, for ex angle think they must starve unless the Provincial Governments should the they eat ment. They probably attribute executive be responsible to the legislative

however constituted. my own survival to regrettable miracle, assembly, They are so ignorant of how the world member of any executive council should lives that they do not know that the be elected, the idea being quite, unknown British people are now trading on the to British practice."

Similar views have been submitted by vitality they have inherited from genera- tons of ract and women who did not the Bengal and other Chambers of Com eat meat for the conclusive reason that merce. The Calcutta Trades Association they could not afford it, and lived on -submitted an earnest condemnation of bread and cheese, or potatoes and butter the Home Rule propaganda, and took milk, with an occasional serap of bacon exception to the action of Indian re- by way of relish. Crear's soldiers had formers in forcing on the consideration no bully beef. The meat eaters have not of these constitutional changes at a tine

the world, nor peopled it when the war should engage the undivid the mud baths of Kissingen and Mont England or in India. Dore, and are now beleaguered in Harras gate and Bath.

THE AUSTRO-GERMAN COMBINE.

LONDON, April 20th. The great Austro-German combine, out. lined in yesterday's issue, also has as its object to organise a boycott to underwine the financial and commercial position of pro-Entente ucutrals, and also to form a Central Powers Commner

No

cial Block, including friendly neutrals, conquer expiated their cannibalism ined attention of Government, whether in The company will be officially liquidated a year after peace is signed, but will continue unofficially.

AUSTRALIA'S ZINC OUTPUT.

PURCHASED BY IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.

MELBOURNE, April 29th.

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It is a curious fact that if you meddle with meat at all, you cannot eat too it with beaming relish and flourish our little and can hardly eat too much it, but what I say is, be careful. Scien- From the Tartar and the Gaucho we tifically nutritious meals are, in the learn that 9lb. of horseflesh a day is a quantities prescribed by metabolists, healthy diet for an equestrian. From who have never enten them, deadly The the Turkish porte, and the Chilian miner

real secret of meat is that it is two- we learn that the champion weight-lifters thirds water, and not very clean water of the world eat no mest at all. But at that. It instead of serving you this generalization needs a very import steak they gave you the water in ant qualification. An underfed-

or gets

their

Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister hus announced that the Imperial Government has contracted to purchase practically not a man who gets no meat is tumbler and the nitrogen-en-plate, you the whole Australian of nothing but meat. to believe for an He is one who does would merits. but absolutely refuse.

"not only refuse them on

concentrates during the star and for a decade afterwards.

Mr. Hughes added that this is prob ably a record contract for the sale of

fot

Bet enough

he eats. Consequently the civilian who adult. Fortunately Lord Rhondda and

dare

not ration cereals and pulses and piths and the rest as severely as they ration meat. On the other hand, they

zinc, and will greatly benefit Australia ather the saldier is being overfed or allow too little meat. It will, therefore,

and the Empire.

IRELAND AND CONSCRIPTION PRIESTS ATTITUDE

is ignorant enough to believe that his Mr. Clynes do not know this; so they nourishment depends on meat is now in a horrible dilemma. He sees that the soldier is given a much larger meat ration than the civilian. He infers that

pay you to eschew the meat ration. By. civilian starved. And us the soldier abstaining from it you cau combine an.. shows no signs of overfeeding, and is fair of patriotic self-sacrifice with even strong in his testimony that he could much repletion as is good for you. No often do with a little more, the civilian cheaper and pleasanter way of getting on sees death from inunition staring him in with the war dan he suggested. the face, and inclines towards an early and dishonourable peace.

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LONDON, April 29th.

One general caution is important. If A Correspondent of the Daily Chronicle,

you are accustomed to cat or drink any. Now I am by no means sure that his particular substance, whether it be meat. writing from Ireland, says that but for

apprehensions may not presently Lo potatoes, beef, brandy or morphia, you it. the Catholic Church supporting anti- justified. Although I can say nothing will find, when you aret discontinue couscription there would have been about the text-book estimates of how that

the sensation of unfulfilment for

violence and outrage.

much food: we noed except that they are mistake will miss it, and that you will "Much as We all wrong, I affirm with confidence that hunger. You must therefore ration your lament the Catholic Bishops Manifesto, the civilian who attempts to live on his self and live by faith until you get used it is due to their emphatic counsel that meat ration will presently find himself to the now dictary; for if you go on. an invalid, whilst the more sensible per eating until you feel you have had unprecedented anti-conscription demon- son who bodly gives up meat altogether enough you will burst. A second caution strations in practically all-parishes of and makes it his business to get his 61 is that you be not misled by tradition as the country have not yielded a single of unrationed or less stinted food may he regards modern foods. Boup once con case of disorder."

none the worse and possibly a good dealsisted of hoiled bones. Except for the The Times says: Numerous Ameri- better. Only, it must be understood that unpleasant favor, it might na well have can and Canadian

newspapers favour this cannot be done by cating cabbage consisted of boiled cricket bats. You can conscription for Ireland."

The New York Times says: To the instead of beef. A vegetarian is not a still get bone infusion served in Ireland person who lives on vegetables, any more for soup; and very horrible it is But murderers of priests, the ravishers of than a Catholic is a person who lives on thick soups bave long since ceased to nuns, destroyers of churches and cathedrals, slayers of catholice on Good care of what are commanly and use depend on stowed skeleton for their

fully distinguished as greens"

the quality. Nobody who is not a super- Friday, at Mass in Paris, the Irish meatless man needs no more than the titious fool ever puts a bone into thick. Catholic hierarchy now turns in friend human carnivor. If you try to live on soup nowadays. Margarine is another skip, *****

a contemptible Brussels sprouts and rice pudding, you example. It began as will be as poor a specimen as the woman imposture produced by torturing animal THE HUNGARIAN CABINET, who tries to live on rashers and tea Iffat into an imitation of butter. It still you buy a vegetarian cookery book, do has the evil reputation it gained in those AMSTERDAM, April 20th. not concentrate on the tomato and bread-daya. But to-day it is made from nuts. Dr. Wekorle is forming a new Hun- crumb dish because it happens to be easy and vegetable oils; and it is probable garan Cabinet...

to make Above all, do not go to the that after the war butter will be sold as other extreme, and baving ascertained inferior margarine, and that no gentle that dates and lentils are more nutritious Thus do people become vegetarians with will consent to be seen eating it. than beefsteaks, attempt to swallow them

GERMANO-ROUMANIAN PEACE

NEGOTIATIONS.

AMSTERDAM, April 29th. Baron Kuhlmans and Count Burian haye arrived at Bukharest in order to resume the peace negotiations..

PORTUGUESE FREMIER.

LIBBON April 29th, Sidonio Pacs was elected President by universal suffrage

MINISTERIAL AFFAIRS

man

be grave drawbacks.

on a large scale. If you do, your sensa out knowing it. tions will convince you that death from I will not pretend that there may not starvation is pleasanter than death from

Abstention from. overfeeding. The sedentary civilian who can eat more than two dates without the práctico of feeding on dead bodies losing all desire over to eat again, or seems to produce a peculiar ferocity, can ingest a mass of brown lentils, with which is perhaps why all the great con ita usual attendant ration of pebbles guerors of antiquity worked with meat and clay, without losing even his desire less soldiers. And it is the worst form to live, must be another Daniel Lambert. of ferocity that is, virtuous indignation

Compare

for example Byron with Remember therefore, that almost all

Byron made fun of George III; meatless beginners eat too much under and Southey but he did not want to kill them. Shelley thought killing too the erroneous and very dangerous im. pression that they have to make up in good for Eldon and Castlereagh, and quantity for an imaginary Joss in would probably have polished off evory quality Novices in vegetarianism have man in the kingdom above the age of 60 ing too much. been known to starve themsolves by eat if he had had the power. It is all very

characters These gluttons, when well for weakly amiable redued to a mution shop and a potato, my own to be stoked up to meters able ceeded by the go and will be sue suddenly get well, and spend the rest of manline by these terribly vital foods

lives in describing how they once but people with a normal quantity of and were nearly and in them will be made pugnacious, Short geral

killed by it Men, to win bets, have and the naturally pugnacious intensified been known to eat three legs of mutton, into positive Huns, when the water is. Think of the a turkey, six pounds of sausages, and taken out of their diet. 100 oysters at a sitting, with beer ad lib. Serce energy concentrated in an acorn. The man who will dispose of 50 dates You bury it in the ground and it ex- and a Dutch cheese has yet to be displodes into a giant oak Bury a sheep, covered. The vegetarian books are loud and nothing happens but decay. If the Government, instead of leaving the

LONDON, April 29th. newspapers state that Lord. Premier, has withdrawn his resignation. Rhondda in response to an appeal by the

Talk of Mr. Duke's been revived, no's resignation has

will become a

Mr. Edward tried vegetarianism

men-

The name of Lord Midleton is me tioned as the successor of Lord Wim- borne

RIOTING IN AUSTRIA.

CHEERS FOR THE ENTENTE.

LONDON, April 29th."

:

like

in their praises of cheese, English people to bury sheep in their

wheatmeal, wholemen), hominy, haricots, peace pudding, rice, and 80 will not answer for the consequences, insides, compels them to bury beans, I forth. The enthusiastic vegetarian will The vegetarian of today may be the A large crowd of Slovenes mached the windows of German buildings at Laibach 80 into the woods: strip from the hole Bolshevik of tomorrow. The bull is a of a tree a loathsome blanket of livid vegetarian, and if the John Bull takes (an Austrian city 92 miles north-east of fungus, which proclaims itself to overy to the same dist, its tax all the sense as rank poison; and broil and est

resources of the Goment to put a. (Continued de foot of next Column) ring through his nose. E.8.

Trieste), despite the intervention of troops. The crowd sang anti-German songs and cheered for the Entente.