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Sir Eris Geddes was the principal guest' of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and On August Bad; 1918, Ludsidor, Manufacturers at luncheon on May 9th. who then had his headquarters nt the Kaiser nt He made an important speech, devoting Avesnes, attached to

officer, whose the greater part of his remarks to the Spu special liaison report of the Gables Committee. Pre fonction, it was to stendy the "totter viously he WILS prosented on Bebalding confidence in the sapremo leadership of of the Chamber with a specially made axe.the army. This officer, Lieut.-Colonel whith, it was humorously pointed out, was Niemann, hell this. olice till Germany's Sheffiell nude, both haft and blude.

timal collapse; and his memoirs, the pallien There had been allegations of innestion of which commenced in the Tag today. enracies in regard to the report, sul Sir likely to prove one of the most Erie, but his colleagues and himself could ilituminating contributions to the history of find no material way in which they thought the culminating crisis, of the war. that either their report was wrong or that

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ment a given effect to reductions of who could supply him with information" 282,600,000. If the Chancellor of the Ex- and ideas which would be useful to him in chequer acted in the spirit of his Budget the fulfilment of his mission. Hindenburg speech, heavy reductions, in the coming year was vague and referred hita for details to might be looked to with confidence." "Re-Ludendorff. The Quartermaster-General

obvious overstrain. The lieutenant-colonel || BURATO bad already preparel himself with a pro- grumme which, ig plain, brief language, evidently amounts to an laissin of the uevessity for Germany of awearly, peacE. Ludendorff. expressel - agreement in TIENTSIN principle with Neman's representations, but said that he was opposed to making | BANGKOK concessious, as that would do more harm than good,” ... ...

ferring to Navy economies, Sir Eric said: Nemanu found in a condition of painfull,HAIPHONG LINES Winer umodation, sailinge from both ports every Friday.

and distant War Tery reinte possibility; to-day, as far as the Nary is Concerned, the sea and sky are both bite." You cannot get industry going with this loud of debt hanging and its neck," concluded Sir Eric. The only thing that matters in this country is to get down taxation, or we die.".

Sir Eric said the Gedles Committee was in no sense a hostile body, but the members of it undertook their task as friends of the To this Niemann, retorted that peace Government, and on the whole their report opertures were not to le expated from the had received the general approbation of the Entents, and that any proposals from Government. There had been allegations Germany would have "chine of success of inacuracies, notably in the memoraudem unless they were backed up by renuncia,“ issued by the Admiralty, Tut the allegations. He urged that Great Britain, who tious contained in that document had cot was the backbone of the elition,, might been proved. On the information whichle placates by concessions on naval and Was given them, and on such information colonial questions, and that America would as had been made public since, on brot be deceived by the loption of President Fives his colleagues and himself could find Wilson's Utopius eas, which in practice no material way in which they thought that would be as innomous as the programnie either their report was wrong, or that it of The Hague. Peace Conference. Luden could not be acted upon. What bad thedor, however, merely repeated that Government been able todo The Governin his opinion any sort of conces- ment showed a reduction of £218,000,000 | sions to Britain on arsl urnaments altogether on the whole budgeted ex- would be dangerous. Nieman pressed his penditure on supply services. Of this argument farther, but found the general £75,000,000 was offered by the departmentę į adamant in refusing to agree to bind him- themselves, prior to the appointment of a Committee; 24,000,000 was due to the setting of the Irish Free State, and rongbly, £72,000,000 was a falling off in

which supplementary estimates

was anticipated during the year. This left only. Home £50,000,000 further actual economy on recurrent services effected after the com- Niemann nest/went to Colonel Bauer, mittee had been set up. The Committee and he confirms popular idea that this recommended means of reducing the ex-officer had enormons influence 'over Luden- penditure of £500,000,000 by £100,000,000. | duxff, and in political matters assumed an The Government had given effect to the re- almost dictatorial position. When Pro ductions of £25,000,000. If the Chancellor fessor Delbrück sail that Bauer told the of the Exchequer acted-as Sir Erie firmly people in Berlin that Ludendorff must be believed be was determinel to act-in the replaced, as he had had a hersoas collapse. spirit of his Budget speech, heavy reductions the colonel wrote to the papers in lightly in the coniing year might be looked to withdenying that he hail said anything of the confidence, but he ventured to predict that kind. diot it now appears that on August these reductions were bound to coine in the 2nd be talked to Niemann very much in two great groups which the Committee had this sense, declaring that Ludendorf or called the Defence Force and Social Services gently needed a prolonged rest, and that Expenditure. The Committee held the the question of fin ling a successor for him view that full economies could not be made must be seriously considered. until one Minister was responsible to Par liament and to the country for the whole expenditure on defence.

FIGHTING SERVICES.

self in any way with regard to Britain. Moreover, Luddeudorff was still set ob keeping the Russian Baltic Provinces under German induence and maintaining some kind of exception:Lrelationship to Finland. He also had hopes from the renewal of the attack on Amiens.

Visiting General von Bartenfresser, Jinad of the foreign political section of the staff, Nierung found him obsessel with the iden of aequisitions in the East, and left him with the impression that the bear's akin was being prematurely divided. Eventually Nieman's went off to Spa without very clear ideas as to what headquarters really wanted.

A DUKE'S BOYHOOD. lp presenting a Highland and Agricul tural Society long service medal to Donald Gow, sixty-three years & shop, herd at the Blair Atholl states, Perth- shire, the Duke of Atholl mid some of his earliest recollections as a hoy took him back to nights when his brother (the) late Lord George Murray) and himself slipped out of Klair Castle in their night clothes" with bows and arrows to stalk the sheep in the parks. "The arrows could always be retrieved the following. day from Gow whose rage at seeing them sticking in the sheep was not always pacified by a bribe of tobacco,

It could not be too clearly understood that the Committee's recommendation of a reduction of £21,000,000 in the Navy Estimates involved ne reduction whatever in the number of fighting "ships, and Ekewise no reduction in the number of men required to man those ships, on the es- timates. It has been represented," said Sir Eric, that our recommendations would have destroyed the Navy, lint on the facts I have given, and they are, we believe," incontrovertible, the fighting ships of the Navy from battle cruiser to submarine, would have been exactly on the same footing as before the war, and in acord ance with the view of our wayal advisers necessary on modern standards to maintain the standard of efficiency aimed at by the Government. A regards the Navy, we recommended a reduction of £21,000,000 plus au avings which resulted from the Washington Conference. The Navy has given a reduction of £16,000,000, includ- ing the Washington Conference. In the expenditure which we allowed, moreover, children for higher positions and advance- included £12,000,000 for battleships inent in industry, when in the very doing of alone, which cannot, we, understand, be it he was going to kill the industry and the proceeded with this year, which accounts commerce to which those children would. for the major portion of their alleged whare to look for a livelihood. "The ings. So far as Tean see, the naval real Chancellor," observed Sir Eric, promises economy is only some £4,000,000 per anus further great reductions during the mum, and war is a very remote and distant current year. We welcome his promise. possibility; to-day, as far as the Nary is We point out to him that until those alter- concerned, the sea and sky are both blue." native recommendations which he regards As regarded' the Army, the Committee res essential are' found, we look to him to commended a 'rediction of £30,000,000 | make reductions in ways which have already plus any reductions due to a revision of been pointed out to him, but if there are carrisons abroad. The Army had given a better, alternatives we welcome those im reduction of approximately half this suma,provements on what we have ourselves including adjustment in various garrisons suggested. Apart from our recommenda abroad. It could not be too clearly printedtions, however, there are certain broad con- out again in this connection that the Com-siderations which arust appes) to business wittee's recommendations did not involve men, No one can predict with confidence the reduction of any of the normal require the trend in the cost of liting, but the cost'' ments abroad of organised fighting units of living figure taken for the estimates was of the Army. So far as man-power was 100 per cent. above the pre-war level. concerned, both in the case of the Navy and To-day the cost of living figure in 82 per the Army, their recommendations were cent. above the pre-war rel. Unless great mainly directed to a lopping-off of the ex-vigilance is exercised, not only by the crescences and a cutting down of the lavish Treasury, but also by the House of Com- use of man.power which the years of war mons and the taxpayer, qurnaval, military, had brought about.

Air Force, and educational experts will very Sir Eric Geddes proceeded to refer to the soon find avenues down which this saving proposed röduction for education. We can pass. The real economists in the have been represented," he said, "as de House of Commons will watch this, and sirous of ruthlessly cutting down education, support the Chancellor in retrieving the of depriving children of adequate equipment saving."

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for their career in life, and we repudiate any You cannot get industry going with this mich sugestions, We do point out, how load of debt hanging around its neck. It ever, that in education, as in all other is strangling industry, declared "Bir Etic- services, waste can creep in." He did not The only thing that matters in this deay for a moment that improved education country is to get down taxation, or we die. was highly desirable, but it was the work of We must ran risks, but to my mind the svisionary with only one eye to educate risk which is now being up is the risk of

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