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PRFEN, TUESDAY, MAY 19TH. 1818.

THE GREAT FIGHT AGAINST GERMAN FICTION.

German lies NOWN throughout the really aroused, as it must surely he, to United States, Turkish lies sown in the gravity of the opposition will agree Byria, Palestine, and Asia Minor and the borders of Persia, Austrian lies, full to the supreme problem of the war, on of Potadam flavour, sown in Northern which victory or defeat depends, being Italy, Oriental lies sown in the bazaars of India, all sorts of los that Jood like regarded as a departmental matter. It truth sown in Europe, Asia, Africa, and is the greatest issue which has arisen in America all these the Department of Information is seeking to kill..

While I was in there s day or two agd they were sending out beautifully printi ed and illustrated magazines, with the articles in languages of the peoplea for whom they were intended and pictures with messages that know no frontiers They were sending out articles, para graphs, photographs, maps, messages, cinemas, women, and men. They sent out Sir F. E. Smith. They are sending out Miss Annie Swan, the novelist, and Miss Violet Markham to speak to American people.

years, and, presumably, the Govern ment's policy will be explained by the Prime Minister. Unfortunately, it is the Inst day before the Easter recess. If M.P.'s anxiety to get away conquers their duty to their country, the result of the whole struggle may be imperilled, for the war-Navy, Army, munitions, and food resolves itself into quc word-Ship”.

OUR GALLANT MERCHANT SEAMEN.

GERMAN PERIL IN SIBERIA

Mr. Balfour's analysis of an extra- ordinarily complex and difficult position was a masterly one (says The Times). Ho

optimist about Russia, though not about began by confessing that he was her immediate future. He sketched the dark Russian picture with a sure hand, and reminded his critics that while Russia was still suffering from invasion by her enemy, the was only nominally out of the war.

THE SHIPPING CRISIS

MR. BALFOUR'S WARNING. A YEAR'S LOST OPPORTUNITY,

FIRST SEA LORD ON GERMANY'S Mr. Charles T. King writes in the

In the House of Commons on March [BY ARCHIBALD HUND.]

MISTAKE, Daily Express The Department of

14th, Mr. Balfour replied to questiona Information is situated on the second Tomorrow the House of Commons will

interven Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, First about the prospect of Japanese floor of the Foreign Office and elsewhere, discuts the shipbuilding crisis. The

Sea Lord, moving the adoption of the tion in Asiatic Russia, in a deeply in- and to judge by a map of the world indicating its branches in red, its ont debate will arise on the Navy Estimates- posta are everywhere from Ireland fʊ2 motion to reduce the amount is down report at the annual Court of Governors teresting speech. Although he had

cennia and from Manchuria westward to San Francisco. The director of the and in normaal circumstances the First of the Seamen's Hospital Society, held nothing in the nature of a final decision Department of Information is Colonel Lard would deal with the subject. But in the Princes Restaurant, Piccarilly to announce, he was able to render a John Buchan lo has left off writing it is more thurs doubtful if the Houco said the object for which they were great public service by laying before the fiction, and is engaged in killing fiction.

gathered together was one which could House the broad principles which ought to auimate the British Government an not but appeal to the instinct of every coming to a decision. Englishman, for, although before the war we were perpetually being told how our island Empire depended upon our sea- borne traffic not only for its food but also for the raw material necessary for its industries, the war bad given us a practical lesson in that direction which the unhceding could not pass by. The enemy, quick to perceive any chink in our armour, had thought fis to attack in what he thought would be our weak spot, and had attacked us in such a manner Mr. Balfour proceeded to show how ng no civilised being would have thought fallacious was Mr. Lees Smith's idea that a Japanese expedition would dismember The country will learn, in the course probable; but he had found that the of the debate, whether the Department weakness in our armour was lees weak Russia. Ho declared that the view of which has failed in a task which lay out than he expected. (Cheers.) He thought those who thought that the time might side ita traditions and methods, is, to be that the very menace of his murderous come for Japanese aid was that Japan permitted, under whatever leadership submarind warfare would prevent our would neb, as the friend, and not as the whether Lord Pirric's or otherwise to merebant ships from putting to sea, but enemy, of Russia, with preservation, and MILLIONS MONTH.

and did not realise that dogged persever. the question of the ability of Germany to In adition, a constant stream of in retain control, contrary to the unanim apparently he had not studied history not plunder, as her object. formation is flowing from the departous opinion of masters and men in the ance in the paths of duty and that per injure the Allied course in Siberia, Mr. ment into all sorts of daily, weekly, and shipyards and engine shops, and, in parsistency of effort for which our race hadalfour agreed that it was highly im monthly local newspapers in all sorts ticular, of shipowners, who perhaps been so conspicuous throughout the pages robable that she would try to send a of towns all over the world About better than any other section of the com- of European history. (Hear, bear.) He great organized military force from 700,000 copies of the War Pictorial have munity, realise the character of the peril. thought perhaps that we were effete, and Rigs to Vladivostok. But he asked the been sent out. Over a million copies of The nimount of shipping lost by enemy that our effoteness would be visible in House to face the prospect, with Russia lying derelict. upon the waters of Ger certain pamphlets of truth have been action will be revealed, but those figures our merchant navy, but he had made man penetration from end to end. That, printed abroad under the inftience of will be misleading unless disclosure is a mistake (Cheers.) Our merchant navy ho arged with great gravity, would be the department to save the strain also made of the heavy and increasing had proved itself to be as it always was disastrous for Aussia, and paper here and to minimise carriage deductions due to marine casualties col manned by men who knew not fear the Allies,

Great blacks of appeals to German lisions, groundings, and so on. On this and who realising their duties, had Mr. Balfour doubted whether the extent. workmen have been placed under the occasion the nation ought to learn all borna a share of this war in a manner to which this peneration had already gone noses of Gorman workmen by means the truth, and be convinced that adequate which, in spite of the unexpectedness of was fully realized. He suspected that a which will make a fascinating story and immediate mensures aro being taken the enemy's methods, Tas beyond all Gernian officer was much sader travelling when the war is over. Every month despatch of publications from the Do to rescue it from the worst terrors of praise and worthily uphold the best tradi-through Russta than an Allied officer. partment of Information, exoeds four war one's opportunity has been lost, tions of the sea: (Cheers.) No longer That, of course, was not because the A year's been lost, could it be said that the merchant seaman Russians loved the Germans, but been use millions. Six Oriental papers printed in the dative languages are sent out owing to bad organisation and misdirect might follow his trade in comparative German penetration had struck at the They counteract among Mahomedans the ed effort, our aggregate fighting power safely when the seas had been swept of root of Russian power. Let the House German lie that Britain wants to crush being reduced by 20 per cent. Mark the the enemy's cruisers. He had now to ponder the meaning of his information In May last 8it combat a menace more threatening, more that the only bank allowed at Moscow sequence of events. their religion. less service all over the world. They who is a shipowner, shipbuilder, and ex- of the piracies of the Middle Ages desired to resist this German penetration, There is a constant cabling and wire-Joseph Maclay, the Shipping Controller, ruthlete, and more barbarous than any was a German bank! It was his belief that the Bolshevist Government sincerely send out about one and a half million perienced organiser, was informed that (Hear, bear.) Let us, then, make it our but he pointed out that every instrument. words that are flashed over and under he would no longer have anything to do duty that the future of the merchant sea which mado resistance possible had been the cens every month British officers with constraction. That task was turned man was assured. (Cheers.)

destroyed The motion, supported by Lord Inch- are now on their way to Russia with over to the Admiralty, and Sir Eric ten complete cinema ontfits to show the Geddes became Controller. Major cape and Six Maurice de Bunsen, as truth in that vast country, where the General Collard, another railway official, carried by acclamation. people have been the victims of so

had been in May given charge of mer Lying tongue de of

111 chant work, and very soon there came What is the refute German fies and aid in wirktitig mont, for what was seriously described the war

however, is only as anziliary shipbuilding.

Report

STATISTICAL * CURVES

I picked up a broad, beautifully illu- strated magazine, and found it was all photographs embedded in Arabic text In the middle, right aerose two pages, was a superb photograph of Jerusalem, This was one of our special Palestino editions.

Discussing

to

to existence a khaki-clad sub-depart | workers are absent. According to state any hope of gain. Good H

Accordingly, Mr. Balfour explained, the Allies of Russia had inevitably to ask themselves whether they could not | supply what she lacked. That was done in iussia's own interest, and not with

meats which have reached Mr. Acland with Russia in this war do not suggest Mr. Batfour exclaimed, our relations Allon, the M. P. for a Scottish shipbuild gain !" No, it was done because the

of it on Cabinet, through. 31

long vision. It has set up machinery.

Department of Information, is show If a railwayman had been placed on ng constituency at the present mo Allies believed that if Germany spread truth which it is hoped will have a good the woolsuck, would surprise have been ment combing out is still going on in the her tentacles through the whole of Lussia sffect all over the world when this war, felt it peculiar, decisions were givent Bhipyards." Mr. Allen was, I find, she would secure the whole of Russia's

long and terrible as it is, has become but an incident in the story of freedom.

GERMAN TRADE,

SELLING GOODS " MADE IN-

ENGLAND."

What happened Mr. Gerard France-reffected the result in his treech on Thursday

a lawyer had undertaken to do a major operation on a patient, and that patient died, would any surprise be expressed The shipbuilding industry, from the top downwards is highly technical; that de finition applics to masters and men. They were humiliated by the suggestion that they were unable to build ships and needed instruction; and, Inter on, they Instructive details in respect to Ger. were reduced to a state of despair, when many's economie offensive in Holland confusing and contradictory orders reach- have come to my knowledge (writes Theed them from the Admiralty, and other Tines Correspondent at The Hague) orders as to Inbour conditions poured on Great efforts are being made by German them from Do fewer than five unco hrms to secure contracts for delivery of ordinated, and indeed competing, depart goods in Holland over a period of two ments. years after the war, with a proviso, that the contract prices shall be decreased as

There was a steady increase in ship- production cheapers. Big contracts are being negotiated for delivery of straw building during 1916; it was not a rapid and felt hats. To accommodate the and suficient increase, but it was going Datch demand, the felt hats, though supp. At the end of 1010, when the control plied by German firms, are to be marked me into the hands of the Shipping

Controller, that increase went Made in England" or "British man steadily. Those who have seen facture" I am informed that one big the line of shipbuilding know that in contract for two years for the delivery of straw hats commences whilst nominally the middle of 1917, when the control passed from the Shipping Controller into of German manufacture these straw the hands of the Admiralty, the line, are of Italian origin, the Italian trade instead of steadily going up, began to mark baving been covered with a Geramn wobble. First it went up, and then down. mark. It is believed that these hats wera stolen or commandeered in the part of The House of Commons will probably ho That statement suggests reflections. Italy overrun by Austrian and German presented -to-morrow... with further

troops.

German are also making every effort to buy up office supplies of British manu facture, such as fountain pens, in neutral

countries. These articles are taken to

Germany and sent back to neutral firms of German manufacture. As Germans firms cannot deliver goods of German manufacture, they are resorting to this trick to keep their customers Their letters contain repeated suggestions that whilst Britain cannot deliver goods for man firms do so at great inconvenience, and ought therefore to be granted long contracts. MAR

It appears that the Germans, after long negotiations have now completed their organization for the promotion of export trade after the war-export in particular to enemy countries,

The Münchner Neueste Nachrichten announces that the Foreign Trade Company (Limited) was formally estab lished last week at Berlin in the offices of the new Reichswirtschaftsamt and adda

The object of the company is to pro vide German industry and Germap trade

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Toller, that h

on

curves" of shipbuilding, as well na with figures of shipbuilding losses. Let us hope that they will meet the criticism levelled by shipbuilders at that the December output might be some recent figurez. They suggest the subject of inquiry and they were surprised at the expedition in complet ing ships on the last day of February, According to Mr. Barnes, the record was littly better than January-50,000 tons; but according to Dr. Macnamara, speaking later, the figure was just over 10,000 tons. Was there a miracle on the last day of the month of which the world has heard nothing? Also it would be interesting to know if large barges were included asahips." That opens up an important field of investigation because

we must be certain that we are really since we live on ships and not "curves.” getting ships.

The serious thing is that we have lost a year, while the enemy has gained ou we have not been building ships as they were to have been built, and the Germans have been sinking them faster than many

accurately informed.

CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE. Consequently, this is the position at the moment of crisis:

huge resources, especially of the richest part, Western Siberia

Looking ahead, Mr. Balfour expressed Bahis belieb that Germany would foster the 1. The 80,000 men to whom Earl present chaos in Russia, and eventually Curzon referred a full year ago have re-establish the autocracy. If that pro- not been supplied, and the number of phecy came to pass, he added grimly, workers in the shipyards engaged on then indeed all our dreams of Kussian merchant work is ittle greater than at liberty and development would be gone. the beginning of 1917.

So he could not see how, without external The many thousand skilled workers an invasion. The only question, Russia was going to resist this

who joined the Army in the early period of the war, when our sea-power therefore, for the Allies was to ask them was thought not to matter so long as Elves if any of them could help Russia we were strong in land-power, have not in her extremity. He agreed that there been returned by the military autho might be feelings which rendered assist 18. Dribitts are just being released ance by the only country which could

over which statesmen would depends on shipbuilding, the military But he had no doubt that the Allies authorities have been going on with the ought to do what they could, and he did process of combing out the ship-not reject a priori any suggestion or yards and engine shops solution which offered the slightest hope Though it is no good getting of their doing any good. Mr. Balfour ships of war if the Inc-blood of the ended his speech, which made a great nation is to be stopped, as Mr. Bonar impression on the House, by eulogizing Law numitted last week, about 70 per the perfect loyalty with which Japan cent of the available supply of labour had acted during the war and by de now m the anipyards is, according to claring emphatically that no decision of the Hon. Alexander Shaw, M., the the Allies would be hostile to Russia or representative of another shipbuilding the revolution. constituency, being occupied with work

3. Simultaneously, though everything/Blve it in the East a question of ult

for the Navy. That statement may be

It is an interesting sign of the times

a slight exaggeration. It has, however, THE FUTURE OF EMBASSIES never been revealed how the competing naval and mercantile demands have been adjusted since May last, before that date the Asquith Cabinet made that the fines prints the following let- itself responsible, holding the balance ter signed “Olim," in large type: -- between the two classes of work.

The shipbuilding industry is cramped by harassing regulations and treedom conflicting orders, and asus for greater

The newspapers speak of embassies likely to be vacant. Docs not this offer a favourable opportunity for doing away with them altogether, in agreement of course, with those countries with which be tragioni unless, first, the central or sador is a pompons and expensive form What is the outlook it threatens to wo new exchange embassies? An Ambus. gunisation is at once reformed radically of envy. His one exceptional privilege, second, an independent Minister is so far as I know, is the right to demand industry thoroughly and can insist ca pointed for shipbuilding who knows, the

personal audience of the Sovereign to whom he is accredited What this is getting labour, third, shipbuilders and practically worth we see from Mr. workmen are encouraged, a sympathetic Gerard's narrative of his vain efforts to atmosphere being created; fourth, the obtain an audience of the Emperor background, not being developed out of the the most important Sovereigns with re- national shipyards are delegated to the William during this war. Moreover,

matter of labour or material; and, ffth, some light advantage are the two expense of the private yards either in the gard to whom this access might be of

the War Cabinet priority for the time, with whom we can never resume Ambas rerchant shipbuilding is accorded by Emperors with whom we are fighting, and over all other war efforts, Navy, Armorial lations, which imply some and munitions. If the House of Com thing kindly and personal. But an envoy mons is satisfied with optimistic proin these days wants to see the Foreign pieces, supported by more curves Secretary, not the Sovereign, and indeed

with the possibility of participation in Persons anticipated Over a year ago it and charts, it will be running the risk the Minister of a great State at a criti-

to the countries hitherto our ends The company has a semi-offeral character, and has been founded by great economic leagues of trade and industry, of which the most influential have been the Cen tral Union of the German Wholesale Trade and the Union of Exporters. The directorate will consist of eight repre sentatives of trade and industry and tors will be nominated by the cure eight deputy directors, and these direc

chaftsams on the adzice of the various trade leagues.**

“whirlwind shipbuilding campaign urged in The Daily that was necessary to este us from compulsory food rationing That meant that action should have been taken on the lines Sir Joseph Maclay had laid down. Earl Curzon, in the House of Lords, stated that that Minister was prepared to give

3,300,000 tons of ships a year if he was provided with the necessary material energy of the Government the steel has and 80,000 more men. Owing to the been available for come time, but the (Continued at foot of next column)

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complacency is only less serious than that weight and right of access as an Ambag- of a party wrangle over the matter sidor. An Ambassador, requires a very Neither the late nor the present Govern large salary, and yet can rarely live on meat is blameless; both were over-im- it, as so much of splendour is expected pressed by the value of land power, and of him. And he is apt to be puncti everything was put into the Army and lions and exacting about his rights, and munitions. Now the chance occurs of precedence, matters which are sinking undertaking a really effective shipbuilding into the background. He is indeed, ing campaign and retrieving the position. the survival of the dead past But there will get worse before it gets better, as the food rationing regulations will reveal in the course of the next six or eight weeks-Daily Telegraphi

Convenience and economy both flictate the abolition of these functionarits, and the relations of countries would no- saffer