LEAGUE OF NATIONS VIEWS OF THE LABOUR MEMBER OF THE WAR CABINET. Speaking upon the question of a League of Nations at East Ham, recently, ir. George Barnes, the Labour member of the War Cabinet, laid down the principle that sach a league must be binding upon all Powers, and that all nations must agree to submit disputes to e tribunal for. settlement. Mr. Barnes also declared that there must be agreement upon reduc tion of armaments suppression of private capitalism in their manufacture, and the Januguration of mo international machinery by which effect could he promptly given to international decrees.
It was difficult, he wench would include on, to envisage a League of Nations Germany and Austria as well as Great Britain and France but we must look beyond the smoke of the present battle. We must subordinate the natural feeling. of repugnance for Germans, and look forward to the time when there would chastened German people, convinced as by wor that war was wasteful' as well as wicked
and that it was bad for them 419 as for others. Their present de pravity might be only a passing phase. The inclusion of Germany in the League of Nations should not be regarded as a favour to Germany, but rather as same thing to which she should be required to subscribe. In fact, it might well be one of the terms imposed upon her at i penes conference. Notions & eaceably of reduce arma dispored League ments while a nation of seventy millions fof people was left outside to form a rival League of Nations, and again set the pace! in the building of battleships and all the devilty of war preparations?
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BATTLE STORIES FROM THE
WESTERN FRONT. PRESERVING THE COMMUNICATIONS:
[BY]
GEN. SMUTS AND ALLIED.
AIMS
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIPLOMACY.
THE RESCUE OF THE ARMENIANS.
HOW BRITAIN HELPED THE; REFUGEES.
General Sniuta acknowledging his ad [BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GEORGE YOUNG-
RUJMED, K.6.1-O, KOL-E] mission to the freedom of the city of Glasgow, recently, said we were at the During one of the earlier years of the very climax of the whole accumulated War, news came to Egypt that large num. efforts of four years' warfare. Britain's bers of Armenians, mostly old men armies were now standing in the breach, women and children, fleeing from the not only for themselves, but for the whole Turks, had reached the coasts of Syrin of unkind. The enemy knew that we and were imploring help from the Allies. As Syrin was by tacit consent in those were not only the military, but the
three moral, economic, and industrial main. days in the French sphere of influence it stay of the whole Alliance, and, that was decided to send up two or therefore if Britain were broken the rest French men-of-war to see what could be dane. So successful were the French would break themselves. We had to prove that neither as an army aor es ain their errand of mercy that they sud- nation would we ever tire until we und denly sailed into Port Said one Sunday. done our duty and finished our work, morning bringing 5,000 of these Armonian The country was indebted to the present refugees. Having no shore establishments Prime Minister, in the highest degrees for themselves, the French asked the British his unceasing labours in bringing about to take over and feed, house, and clothe the unity of command. The Prime these wretched people. Even in ordinary Minister, said General Smuts, "has his times to suddenly have to provide for faults (laughter) but remember they 5,000 hungry and destitute persons of are the faults of genius. When, at a both sexes is no easy undertaking, but time of supreme crisis, a man comes for to do so in the middle of a campaign,
a great undertaking. MAN ward, a real man of genius, to guide the where such a call was least expected, was affairs of the nation, I pray you do not look at little mistakes, but look at big work." (Cheers.)
When you retire' said a Bignal Bapper, wounded in the recent fighting
communications you are apt to get your tangled up. It isn't easy, even for a soldier not concerned in the actual job of signalling, to understand just how it becomes difficult. When you make un advance you can lay out lines as you go, when you retire you can't very well do that. You've got to get in advance of the retiring line and lay cable from an arranged place to your headquarters wherever they may be. It's not only that, but you're getting less and less room for play, Jess and less time for your job.
"Now, just you listen and I'll try to give you an idea of how the lines of an Take it Erst from the Army Army go- Headquarters. There are lines running from the Army to other Armies and to G.H.Q., but there are others going to the
However Bir John Maxwell, who then smaller units, next in order of descent,
commauded in Egypt, being a man of the Army Corps-maybe two. You'll
resource and quick to overcome difficul ties, at once accepted the responsibility have a few lines going to each. After
immediately set about facing the The British were an optimistic people. your Corps you come to Divisions maybe They had always been successful, un-
exceedingly good chance By two to each Corps. Now, take it in
happened to be at Port Said a first It was no less necessary that there must single linea. You've two lines from the fortunately (much laughter) and they class Staff Officer, Colonel Elgood of the be an international police to ensure ready Army to the two Corps; the two lines believed they never could fail. Well Devonshire Regiment, and on him fell the His brunt of the work. To assist were called obedience to the world's decrees. The
spread out to four going to the Divisions Ludendorff had un eye-opener. Jessening armaments was necessary for Each Division has, say, four brigades, offensive bad been like a blinding flash in the services of a Colonel in the Royal
of the world's safety, and in this connection
80 your original line has now spread out of lightning on a dark night, and in Engineers who was just going on a long- there must be agreement among the na tions to eliminate the clement of private to sixteen branches. Each Brigade has that way he had done us the greatest pos earned leave, and between them they
sible service. He (General Smuts) had tackled the job. profits from their manufacture. It was four battalions, say--I'm not giving you been astonished at the curious perspec not too much to say that this war had the proper figures and they vary, anyhowite of many people in this country who to some extent been caused by the spread that your line has now spread out of
It's a tree-like said, "Oh do not be too hard on the armaments among the nations by pri to sixty-four lines.
But cate profiteers. Armaments should, after growth, if you understand me, trunk, Becho. Do not try to secure an immode the ware manufactured only by the branches, minor branches twigs I'm rated and impossible victory.” nation in national workshops in so far as talking roughly of the infantry, without Lidendoff's offensive showed where and
LEBBENING OF ARMAMENTS.
WFLAT * VICTORY "!" MEANS.
First was chosen a clean bit of ground on the Canal Bank opposite Fort Said, and quite isolated from it; for no one might not introduce amongst the troops knew what diseases these poor people
and cholera had and civil population Indeed, smallpox
Been
rife in the countries At the same time
bothering over Artillery or any auxiliary what the real danger was. We should whence they camera for tentage.for
they were needed for national intend-forces.
in international workshops if
But the Tor-international purposes British Navy would have to be kept strong during the transitionary period. It was true that we should be called upon to give up part of;
Our autional sovereignty, but others would be called apon to do the sanie. After all, this but
followed the line of evolution.
A start could be made by the Entente Powers calling & Conference and building upon the conclusions reached at lingue in 1800 and 1907. Why should it not be possible now to adopt the sugges- Lion made by the American Delegation to establish a standing Court at The Hagno decide upon interpretation of laws and covenants, and to adjudicate upon ques lions waiting decision arising out of the war
Mr. Bar also suggested, why not call in the mid aid
悩み
And at the same time,
COMMUNICATION: IN AN ADVANCE.
have to exert ourselves as we had never exerted ourselves before in our hid whole bistory. were star deal unhealthy and un- wholesome pacificism. He often met pacifist friends who had been misled by false sentiment, by a false judgment as to Gorman nimis. They misread the whole
run
a wire was sent to n large camp to be pitched for the 5,000; these most promptly arrived by Next it was The part of an Army that moves
special, tania that sight quickest in an advance is the foremost
necessary to run a water pipe under the fringe, your platoons They go forward
Canal, for there is no fresh water on the behind the barrage, and as soon as the
cast bank; indeed all there is for drink- position they take is consolidated, you'll
ing purposes on the right, bank comes by have the Brigade HQ's coming up besituation, and it only required some flask miles from the Nile, and has then to go the sweet water Canal many hundreds of hind While the advance is going on the of lightning like Ludendorff's
20through filtration beds and general puri messages are gut through by runners, but make them realise the danger, and fication before it can be safely used for drinking flaving run the water under it isn't long before you have men going to make them feel just as
the rest of
us. The the Canal, which is itself, perhaps
it nood up to the lines, running out wires as they riotically as B Now, it's an easy thing to lay out spirit of the British nation at this hour hardly be mentioned, undiluted salt ot Not content with setting up wires when you're going forward- if it was to hiur the best pledge of the victory the oven comes to simplifying mattres, the Division that was coming Victory was a vague mere tape for drinking water, they also can take the place of one of the Brigades, term, and there were people who meant installed bathing places by the dozen both and the Corps can take the place of the by an Allied victory that we must comfor the men and for women with over Division. You can join up new lines to pletely smash Germany across the thine hd shower baths Cables were
Camodel the old ones and let the loops back stay and dictate terms of peace at Berlin, under the Canal and electric light was until you've time to lay shorter lines: He was not of that opinion We wer installed all over the
The camp itself was a of organ of international jurists to examine the It used to be a great dodge, in train- not fighting to become the dominant mili-
ization. Hom
were 5,000 miserable. ground with a view to being prepared ing times at the beginning of the war, fary province of the world. That was refugees who talked no language known with further definite proposals on the to keep up electric signals while a whole. Germany's idea-of victory. roning of peace! The Hague is neutral
se disposed and reguinted that at any ground, there are the buildings opened division was on the move. One cable cart General Smuts referred to another to any Englishman, and yet had to be
for the purposes-
oses of
would go forward with the brigades and matter, which he said he considered of rate as a first necessity they could be fed. peace, and in the findings of the two conventions is lay cable, while another cart would come great importance. deeply regret, the camp was therefore laid out in to be found the framework of this inter behind with the Division and pick up be said the disclosures that have been squares, and in each square were twenty- national organisation. The Hague Con the calls which the one in advance had made, because if this war is going to end five tents, with little paths between each aquaro. ference of 1910 was to have been called lard. You got your complete electric ultimately it will be necessary from time tent and brond roads between ench by America. America night well ask!
circuit by the ling, through instruments to time for combatants to try informally In each tent were billeted 10 Armonians Holland now to take the initiative in call. n each cable-cart, returning by earth to get into touch with one another, and over ench spare of twenty-five tents ing upon the Allied Governments to con- through Uie steel tires on the wheels. But When, many years age, I was Attorney was appointed the most venerable looking Fer there not in substitution for, but that was for more open warfare than General to Presiden Kruger 1-a patriarch, in charge. And to each square as preliminary to, the third Hague Con
} we've seen in France.
very young man, and inclined, of course, was given a different coloured flag, red, ference which will I hope, be held after
blue, magenta, and so on through all all As well as using your electric signals,
to be aggressive. He told me that the
colours and most of the half-colours that without in you'd have visual methods and despatch way to deal with your opponent was to
ever
These colours flew existed. any way slackening our efforts to German, and in fact it might even induce Gemony to review ber position in the bit hurried. The thing that tickles up The people are, I believe, rendy the Signal Service is to have to do the everywhere
The time may come when job in a retirement.
:
The war This could be tenent riders. Oh, an advance is all right if a smack him hard on one check and rub from every tent in that square, and from
thu
peoples will not be content with mere lip service by stateamen to the Longue of Na tions as a pious aspiration, but will insist upon something being done to realise it, Why not anticipate that pressure by boldly facing the situation and translat ing rhetorical language into definite prac. tical propositions?"
LABOUR, AND PEACE
COMMUNICATION IN A RETIREMENT.
him gently, on the other (Laughter.) ng staff in the centre of it.
So those 260 Armenians belonged fier- This war is much more than & military war, and we shall have to use our diplomauently to the red or blue, or yellow, this Carrying macy and all the other forces at our or any coloured flag. disposal in order to bring it to a vistori clever device further, the drinking taps Since the early days of the war we'veous end. Without private and informal and the bathing places, both for males had to alter our ways of signalling time comparison of notes how are you going and females belonging to each square bore and again. Tos a bit haphazard in to know what your enemy is prepared the colour flag of the square. Thus with the early days, butve learned since. to concede? The highest objects of peace out a spoken word each Armenian knew
exactly where to go for his The thing that altered outhods most will be caved not only by the gallantry drinking water. was the solidifying of the fig.theof our annies but by the weapons of cooning of trench warfare. It came huc diplomacy when the time is ripe for be found that when you left lines lying oaining a satisfactory peace for the uut in the open you were only asking for Allies.” (Cheers,) trouble. With the increased weight of
There had been much talk in this and other countries about a Stockholm Con ference. He believed that, the Stockholm Conference apert, there was a growing shell-fire a line in the open had a dog's feeling on the part of organised labour. And demoorney
than they had done so far
the
1 ablutions and
But the climax in ingenuity was reach ed in arranging for the feeding opera tions of this multitude. A small area of ground about the size of two lawn-tennis courta was laid aut near the centre of the camp, this area was divided up
into squares on the exact plan of the main camp, each square in this miniature being about one yard square, Standing in coloured flag of the square in the rend camp which it
it represented. A certain fixed hours morning and evening baskets were placed in the middle of these miniature squares containing the lived in the square wheh bore that parti- exact rations for the 250 Armenians who
eular Colour.
fusion, was the multitudo fed
Next came the
in the Allied countries: chance of lasting, and the linesmen that done by runners and despatch-riders.
sy for myself that I carried that Governments should consult more had to keep these lines in repair had a can labour and democracy outside organised small chance of surviving.
Govern, Like everything else in this trenchhundreds of message in that first week,ach of the miniature squares was ther
and not only that but I found myself in ments. Of course the Government of war, signals became moro permanent. each country
alone discuss
peace Instead of putting up lines for a day's a trench one day pumping lead into the terms for each country; but surely it us we had to put them up to last for enemy. It was a reignty queer job for a
Signal Sappen aga would be of general advantage that direct months. Our poles to carry the wires
In times like this it's the human more representatives
of the peoples--such 25
than the mechanical factor to into their Samuel Gompers from the United Bot more and more permanent, and lines
were more often ind underground in the fact and the braid come into States of America, and A. Albert Thornus, watertight ducts. of France should
own again. I show you what I mean, bring into the discus-
Now when the Germans came at us
Each square sent a fatigue party of sion of the future peace of the world the real live feeling which they alone could in this last push the things that were our During the time I had to join in with give from direct contact with ple. strength in trench warfare were a weak-the others in stopping the German rush, boys or women who fetched their own
people.
we had to retire. I retired with about baskets and thus simply, and without con The conference would afford an opporus in the retirement. I'm not crabbingar me ho were using a machine gun
and question of clothing tunity to tide over the differences which I'm daly putting it forward to show had arisen between the Allied Govern- / the difficulty. A tran-car is a fine thing and the Gerrics, were thick and quick on bedding. Happily this was in mid-sum when in Egypt the loss clothing one ments and the people over this permanent, carries a lot of people, is
The gun team found a depression in
wears the better; buldier's blanket apiece but the nights may turn vexed
question of an international con-easy to work as long as it's on it's per
the ground and the N.C.0. in charge
chilly. Thus, a ference. It might, as a matter of fact, manent way. But take it off its track thought he couldn't find a better place to was issued throughout the camp and the paitake of the character of an interna- and you make it useless. A motor-car's tional conference of all the Allies, with better for getting you into odd places, a defend. So he got down here with his and being soft and warm with a good provision for other countries coming in horse will take you what gun and his stamunition. But the Gerries tent overhead the poor refugees felt werk almost on top of us and we hadn't happy indeed. For clothing an appeal later on to benefit by what was done For Tess, but your own feet will take you whatever else might be done or left un- done, the highest wisdom as well na the where all else will fail. It's the same neighbours enough to stop them with the was made to the hundreds of rich permanent signal lines rifle. The great thing was to get the Armenians who had lived and prospered la argest charity demanded that a league with your for the safety of the world could not per They're all right when things are solid,achine gun into action, while the Ger in Egypt and under British rule and manently shut out any nation except one but when a state of flux comes it's best mans vero still a bit off. The infantry these catre nobly forward and were un- TED were fumbling about with, the gun remitting in their endeavours to help an open arms against it.
The civilized world," said Me feet. Barnes
You see, the further we had to retire Jring by their side firing into the enemy
in
of the ways
tion
or
before it is too
our heels, da
mer,
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bis wonderful feat in organization would""
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must go on to destrue-the more cramped wo became" for room, I couldn't stop them and the: Sergeante have take some weeks or perhaps months the good work Not so, however. arrest
too late. Either there must ing system of electric signals got engulf the bank. It was touch and go and it time; it so happened that the northern the following Sunday at my inspection whange and far from
Said was under my
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so on. Our chaps might hold a bit of before the gun was ready.
Then one of the Tommies let out s Colonel Elgood was one of my Staff Oft and performing some sort of work The PM will be called to rent,
All broken, chattei and damaged packaren which we sprang. A step forward
younger men were being drilled and clear the undergrowth of prejudice and the line for a bit, but by their side some insularity, and enable is the more clearly of their pals might be driven in. That yell. He stood up and showed herself as to see through towards the fuller light would let the enemy get back to one of plain as could be. He'd picked up a It was Bunday when the Armenians turned into soldiers; the women were am tre to be left in the Godowns, whare
car cane the brigade HQ So the fellows that small bully-beef tin that someone bad were handed over to us by the French, ployed in washing, making, clothes, and exstained, Stake down there they will Let us take that atep dow, by it a had stuck it would have to retire and no | droped, and he acted with it 28 if it. On Tuesday when I went.grer to see how in other feminine occupations; and the presented within 10 days of arrival, otheratINE a Hague Conference, and giving
were a bofab. He pulled out a fake things were going on everyone was nuder older men were formed into regular or her will not be recognized. mandate to draw up rules and provisions time would be spared to pick up cables.
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his head in a night, but certainly Colonel * JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.LTD. the Entrate Powers, and to devise a means be able to lay lines. So most of the work right into the crowd of Gerries. They on Thursday, that is within four days. Banitary and otherwise,
u the most complete working order. scattered the gun opened out. That chap by which in the future unwarranted ag of getting messages through would be scattered hike scared rabbits and as they the camp stood perfectly organized, and Jonah may have grown a guurd over
Elgood grew a camp for 5,000 Armenianator: General Managere in four daya, (Continued at foot of next Colums.)
Hongkong, 1810 July, 1828, gression may be mot by prompt and effec tive punishment."
gave on the cos necessary second" (Cheers.)
(Continued at foot of nezs Column.)"
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