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THE CARD PART

Mrs. S.--I have strack upon a brilliant idea. The men, I hear. are playing golf and tennis for War Bond Tickets Hubby has quite a few chances already, so instead of the usual silver trinkets I have decided at all my card parties, until the end of the year, to give War Bond ticketa as prizes. Wouldn't it be lovely if one of my guests won the $25,000- and at this rata of exchange, too? 7

Mrs. G.--Capital. I think we might all do the same- und we'll not have that nasty feeling of just wasting our money on trash for half of every five dollars spent on War Bond tickets goes to help the wounded.

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General

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. LETTS REFUSE TO FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH.

British.

MANIFESTO TO THE GOVERN MENTS OF EUROPE.

AMSTERDAM, September 21st. A meeting of meräbers of the Russian

INDEPENDENCE AND LIES ABOUT OUR BULLETS

SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[BY ARNOLD BENNETT.]

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EXCUSE FOR NEW GERMAN CRIME

The Ministry of Information has issued through its Wireless Service the following note referring to German mis-statements as to bullets used in the British Armies.

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Duma and Imperial Council held at Kieffy opinion the great problem, among projectiles calculated to cause unnecessary

resolved to issue a manifesto appealing to all the Governments of Europe to end the Bolshevist terror.

PROTECTION OF UKRAINIANS,

The news, hoa now gone through the whole world that the British Governi

Is the German Government contemplat- ment publicly and formally accepts the ing some fresh barbarous innovation like the use of poison gra? The question is idea of a League of Nations as a proper

suggested by the persistent allegations idea, an iden which must be realised, that the British Armies made use of un- This is something. It is true that the lawful bullets. Not content with dis- seminating this falsehood through its news AMSTERDAM, September 21st. Bishop of Oxford, in the House of Lords agencies, the German Government recent According to the German papers, the debate, said that to listen to certain peersly addressed a formal protest against the

se of this bullet to the British Govern recent Bolshevist defeat on the northern sent a chill to the heart." It was the ment, asserting that the British missile front was due to mutiny of the Lettish lukewarniness and the timidity of those is employed in contravention of Article regiments who refused to dght against the peers that sent a chill to the episcopal The Hague Declaration of 1999.

of The Hague Convention of 1607 and The heart. Those peers were wrong. But the British Foreign Office, through a neutral Bishop also was wrong. Champions of Government, has sent a reply disposing the idea of a League of Nations have no of this protest in conclusive fashion, business to bo feeling a chill at the heart.

and showing clearly that there has been Their business is to face the great prob- no infraction on the English side of the lem courageously, and to go ahead. In articles of The Hague Convention and Declaration, which prohibit the use of many very serious problems inherent in suffering, and particularly of a missile the idea, is the problem of getting the which expands or Battens easily in the nations to abandon the things known as

human body, as would be the case with sovereignty. and "independence."

bullet with a

a hard envelope that does. For the things, in the old absolute sense not entirely cover the core og is pierced

E the words just used, will have to be with incisions. abandoned, and the nations--none more

The British Service ammunition does so than Britain-hate to abandon them. not offend in either respect. The British bullet has a core made in two parts, but Only the day before the House of Lords the core is completely covered and the debate Lord Parker wrote a considerable envelope is not pierced with incisions. Ratten letter to the Times, expressing the viewThe bullet does not expand or that a League of Nations might be formed easily, nor does it produce unnecessarily without the separate nations giving. up severe or painful wounds For these rea their absolute sovereignty and independ-ons the British Government states that it regards the German Government's He did not explain how, and I am ready to prophesy that he never will ex- protest absolutely unjustified, and it plain how Lord Parker is 'n legal peer

emphasically refuses to discontinue the of much experience, but even he will be use of a bullet which is quite as humans as that employed in any other army, and unable to find a method by which a

which complies both in the spirit and the nation, having consented to act on a com.

leteer with The Hague regulations. mitter, and having transferred a part of its anthority to that committee, can still act in complete individual freedom and can still keep the whols of its autho- rity intact. The conception of national sovereignty and national independence AMSTERDAM, September 21st.

as we have hitherto understood it cannot A semi-official Berlin telegram says that survive if the League of Nations is to be We may as well stand steadily hida success, Germany negotiations betsgen

in front of this fact and look it straight Austria-Hungary regarding Poland are

in the eyes. still without result. Gefrany, as before. rejects the so-called Austro-Polish solu-

AMSTERDAM. September 21st.

The Ukranian Cabinet has decided to

in

send a protest to all countries against the arrest and shooting of Ukranians Russia; also to request Germany to pro tect the Ukranians in Russia.

RUSSIA'S FINANCES.

PARIS. September 20th.

A Havas message says:--Russian con pons for 1818 are already duc. A rock like confidence is indicated in the ulti mate reestablishment of Russia's finances, FCTURE OF POLAND.

tion.

GERMANY MUST PAY FULL COMPENSATION.

PARIS, September 30th. A., Havas message says:--Lord North- cliffe, speaking to the officers and men of the Newfoundland Forestry Companies, said the world will hold German railways and mines as part payment for the hor: rible destruction of cities, villages and churches in France and Belgium. Peace will be dictated by the Eatente in Berlint Town for town. jewel for jewel, picture for picture, Germany must pay full com pensation.

|DUTCH PARLIAMENT OPENED QUEEN WILHELMINA'S SPEECH.

aggressors.

ence.

A STATE OF BARBARISM,

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If the German protest were really dictated by humanitarian motives, this clear and simple answer should be the end But the British Govern- of the matter. ment has had to learn from experience. it knows that a German accusation of this kind is usually put forward as the excuse for some prepared and concerted violation of the laws and custons of war, The Foreign Ofice has, therefore, caused the German Government to te notified that, if any such fresh outrage is com. mitted, prompt and stern reprisals will follow.

In prehistorie times, and in historic times too, large numbers of individual sovereign and independent. If they said at once that no nation agreeing to persons regarded themselves as absolutely wanted anything they went and took it

join an international committee for the by force when they could. If they ordering of the earth can remain in- thought they had a grievance they went dependent. Independence of the rest of and put the grievance right by force the world must become dependence upon when they could. They refused to listen the rest of the world. And the amount to anybody else about their private of independence left, like the amount of affaira. They were their own justice. sovereignty left, will turn

upon the Even to day many individuals stick to degree of closeness of international re- this theory in some important details.

lations. If a nation is prepared to exist Thus many & husband, convinced of his utterly apart from other nations, it can wife's adulters, thinks himself entitled hens independent and a sovereign as it to kill the adniterer of course, without es. If it wants to share in the advan- trial--and to be admired and let off by tages of society it must pay the price of a jury for doing so. And many juries suciety are inclined to admite such busbands, and some juries do let them off

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WHAT THE EZAGUE WILL DO.

This is pure, barbarism. The vast

Do not imagine that a nation belonging majority of people admit that, it is to a League of Nations will be able to do barbarism, and recognise that real free just as it chooses even within its own The HAOUR, September 21st. dom is only to be attained by the con- berders. The greatest international re- The Queen opened the States General with certed action of society. They are awarelation is the relation of trade, and the con- a speech which expressed sympathy with that to take the law into your own. ditions of trade will not be at the mercy the extraordinary distress among the hands is a sure way of destroying law. of individual whim. Nations, for instance, people of the Netherlands. Hem Majesty They drastically limit their individual will assuredly not be permitted to incon referred to the increasing seriousness of the economic difficulties owing to causes sovereignty and independence by refer-venience other nations by playing the connected with the war, and reiterated ring disputes to a committee of them- perfect irresponsible autocrat in their Holland's neutrality, but firm resolve to selves, and they abide by the decisions of own harbours. And if a nation happens to bare a monopoly of a particular raw defend her independence against all that committee. Occasionally the com

mittee does grave injustice. It is accepted commodity which the world needs, it will as being less inconvenient and unpleasant not-be permitted to extort from the world Why a fantastic ransom for that commodity. than the old stats of barbarism. to-day, and for long years past, an Eng These are just samples.

Again, take the air. Much of the lishman has not been free to do as he likes in his own house. His individual world's trafic will in future be done in authority has been whittled away-on all the air. Will a nation then be permitted sides; yet real freedom, real security, to say: The air over my lands is my and real happiness have increased despite own air, and I shall make my own private the limitation of certain sorts of freedom,Laws about passage through my air" It and the old state of barbarism,, among positively, will not. New legislation would include the individuals. will never be allowed to establishment of a Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences, also a Department of return." Labour, and the draining of the Zuyder: Zec.

All reasonable efforts would be taken to lessen the burden of the mobilisation, and also to secure equality in the distribu- tion of accessaries.

Full attention would immediately be devoted to strengthening the dislocated commerce and industry in Holland and the Colonies after the war.

The limitation of expenditure for de

fences was necessary.

would be undertaken.

THE BAKU. EXPEDITION. "QUIXOTIC ENTERPRISES."

LONDON, September 20th.

THE RIGHT OF MIGHT But nations, considered as individuals,

"Ah!" you exclaim. But there is one point on which sovereignty and in- dependence will continue inviolable. Territorial integrity! A national's ter-

The

In the Indies the fight against the are still living in the old state fritory is its own for ever, and no super- alcohol and opium habits would energeti barbarism. Each is determined to be national authority can take away its

Well, I doubt it. cally continue, and the organisation of a absolutely unfettered in the exercise of territory." colonial military force based on the its sovereign right to act according to nations will kick hard against any ia- economic development of the population whim. We nearly all say: Myternational meddling with territorial country right or wrong." just as in the integrity. But the logic of the world old epoch of family feuds people used to situation will compel them to stop kick- day: My family right of wrong." Weing and to acquiesce in the inevitable. nearly all say: * What! allow

In the first place, there are cases in which lot of foreigners to dictate to us?ownership of territory is disputed, or has never been satisfactorily established. A Absurd!"

League of Nations will settle these cases. A League of Nations ought, without doubt, to settle the final partition of Central Africa, And in the second place, if territorial integrity is to be for ever respected there can be no change in the ever injustice existed at the moment surface-tenure of the world, and what- when a League was formed, would there- fodbe perpetuated. Such an idea is absurd. It is contrary to the very prin siple of evolution itself.

RECRUITING IN IRELAND

EXTENDED.

LONDON, September 21st-

There is some criticism here regarding And set in saying that we say precisely the British expedition to Baku, the issue what Prussia says, and we uphold pre of which is described as a warning against cisely what Prussia is fighting for name quixotic enterprises. As regards the coply, the right of an individual nation to duct of the Armenians at Baku it is do as it likes over the earth, & nation pointed out that the Armenian hillmen have shown themselves good fighters, but can only do as it likes by the exercise of to Armenians of the plains and the towns physical force, and to uphold absolute

sovereignty and independence is are very different..

lengthen the reign of physical force.

The only antidote to physical force among nations is submission to the decrees of an international committee,

Transfers of territory from one nation When that condition of mind is reached, physical force will be unnecessary. In to another will inevitably occur. They It is officially announced that the re dividuals used to go about with guns and are bound to occur. They ought to occur. cruiting period in Ireland has been

we shall enjoy & continuance of the extended from October 10th to October rapiers. They were obliged to do so so If a League is not brought into existence long as they would not permit their in- Should recruiting fail and conscription dividual freedom of action, to be in- institution of war, with all its wondrous become necessary, the preliminary steps fringed. Whey they consented to abandon blessings, and the transfers, will occur to enforce conscription can only be taken complete freedom of action, they could through war. If a League is born and when Parliament is sitting. Therefore, abandon guns and rapiers also and the thrives, the transfers will occur through steps cannot be taken before October 15th average duration of life increased? So the edicts of the League, and hence the will it be with nations. The one proof League, will override territorial inte of the success of a League of Nations grity.

You cry out upon such a horrible pros- will be not the limitation-but the total abandonment of armainents intended for pect? Well, if you prefer war, have it. the settlement of international quarrels. If you prefer the ideal of individual Individuals have not limited the size of absolute sovereignty and independence, The death is announced of, Liza Leh-guns and rapiers for individual use-theyths absolute right to do what you choose so far as physical force allows if you mann, the composer.

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OBITUARY.

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LONDON, September 21st

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LONDON, September 21st.

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