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ON THE VERGE OF WAR WITH TURKEY

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

LONDON, September 28th.

THE YEAR EAST CRISIS.

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AFTER THE HOMIDAYS,

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The papers suure us that London is Alling ap again phrase still Although it has a decided Victorian sound about it, reminiscent of the comfortable times when London was supposed to be deserted unless certain great and notable people were back from the country or some fashionable resort and settled again in their West-End mansiona. Bat so many of the said mansions are now-a-days shut up as too "expensive to maintain, or they are being converted into flats, that the phrase has lost its meaning in the former senso.

WORLD'S NEED OF GOOD WILL.

APPEAL TO ALL CLASSES.

Amanifeste On The Need for Good Will, prepared by the Industrial League and Council, aut signed by a large number of persons who endorse its work for the improvement of relations between employers and employed, has been issued. was that of the Prime Minister. Members One of the earliest signatures received

of the Government, members of Parliament, well-known Labour leaders have also subscribed their names to the document, The text is as follows:-

All thinking men and women, agree. that the world is in desperate need of necessity if we are to gain a world of good will, that co-operation is

a vital

realizes with something akin to distress peace, prosperity, and happiness. Everyone that even, the terrible war through which we have so recently passed as not satisfied the human appetite for revenge an oppression abrol and clissension of those who died, at home. The memo

memory the thought of the ideals for which they laid

Some of our newspaper guides have done themselves harm and the country no good by their handling of the Near East crisis.

Now, what is meant is that the holidays I am thinking particularly of the ex-

are over, or at least they are on the last Northcliffe Press, for, of course, the round. The season's sailings of the Royal Northcliffe Press is dead. There was the Sovereign to Margate and Ramsgate und usual pose of taking charge of the country back, which are now as ever before a popu- lar Summer trip, cease next week-s sure and directing statesmen what they must do. sign to Londoners of the artinil of Antumn. This time the slogan was, "Stop the New Ministers, most of whom have never beca War." But the Daily Mail and its allied far from Whitehall since the rising of papers speedily discovered that although Parlament, are once, more becoming in not a living soul in England wants war-the mersed in the work of their Departments; mare mention of the word is abhorreat-yet and the Cabinet, which is really never outd down. their lives, do not avail to stay. spread of condiet in one or another of session, has been holding frequent meet-of its many forms. It may be that the ings over the Near East crisis.

real cause of our inability to restore tran- The theatres which have not yet put on quility to Europe is our failure to grasp their Autumn plays are making haste to the measure of our individual respon complete their arrangements. The coming world, after all, is nude up "season" in London in the social and

and are represented pleasure-going sense bids fair to be full of Statery by ascetitions created for polition life had, gaiety, somewhat more soricus in or industrial ends. What we desire auri tone, perhape, than those joyous days before demand is that the States should keep the What we the war-times that have gone beyond any peace as between themselves. possibility of recovery-but much brighter forget is that a State is no more than an

individunts than in

aggregate of any year since the

allegiance giving catastrophe

to some form of government. There can be no wa where individuals are united in the pursuit of peace. There can be no peace where large bodies of men are bent upon ourselves and foreign nations, and at real secret of future prospersity home between Capital and Labour is the

there is something worse than war, and that is peace at any price. Fortunately, the country refused to be rattled by the ery, and its authors are now in that position of the man at a council meeting who speaks too soon,before he knows the facts.

At first what was apparent was that the Greaks were being bundled neck and crop out of Asia Minor by their ancient foes, the Turks. To tell the truth, nobody here was a bit sorry. On the contrary, what puzzled people, and still puzzles them. is how it came about that the Prime Minister has for some years past backed Greece. It has been an obsession with him.

world

The

of.

The reason is known, of course; but this music did not know Sir Charles. Saatler. war. A perfect human relation between

is not the time to discuss it.

In CHARLES SANZLET?

Contemporary musicians and lorers of

The concrete fact was soon grasped by of 88. He made his first appearance and whose death is just taken at the greatage the public, however, that it was against achieved his brst success in the year of the British interests to allow the Turks to get Indian mutiny. After tapt for many years astride the Dardanelles again, and open he was acknowledged supreme in his own or shut that historie waterway at their sphere as a baritone, the greatest that this, pleasure or as a result of intrigue by one country has ever produced. I hear the those that are vital to the well being of the

or other of the Powers. To do that would be to crifice everything for which we died on Gallipoli. This view had escaped the "Stop the New War"-mongers, and and they have since been obliged to drop their slogue: The country is behind the Clovernment in the resolve to prevent the Turks from ever again holding the key of Constantinople,

TALKING TO THE PRESS,

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they divide themselves they look every 1: is also a maiter for from the view-point of their own individual regret that he was too old to take a place preferences. The result is that the industry Leron la have well Billed as the champion suffers. With it human relationships auffer. of English opera, a fashion that has become State. If the rulers think only in terms "As it is with industry, so it is with the manifest only in recent years. No doubt of their own country then sooner or later some of the okler generation of readers on

the result is war. Only na they take wide your side will be able to recall with views and develop a large vision, consider- exquisite pleasure occasions when they ing pihers as well as themselves is listened spell-bound to the great baritone's pence maintained. We had States, with divergent aims working in complete 'bar.

POST OFFICES AND PUBLICITY.

As showing the changed attitude of statesmen towards the Press, and the, ae-gift of song. knowledged position of power possessed by newspapers, Mr. Lloyd George invited journalists to meet him. The statement he then made, the only one so far on British policy, put the whole question in right per spective. Freviously he had met the Lebour leaders in private conference, but what was said there was not published The meeting with the Prese representatives took place in the Cabinet room in Downing Street. It was quite informal. The Prime Minister sat at the middle of the table, with a few colleagues around him and a bunch of private secretaries behind. The room was crowded, Mr. Austin Chamberlain sharing An armchair with a reporter.

mony.

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ACTRESSES, BEAUTIES, STUDIES. DRAWINGB. :

We know today that good will among men is the one thing that can civilization. But this good will is not, and cannot be limited to statesmen and their military advisers. The real ruler of the GREAT CHOICE AND VARIETY. world to-day is commerce. It is only the worker who can build up what the soldier bus

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never was a time in the whole

I have had the opportunity to see in advance a circular of considerable length which is being sent out to every postmaster in the country dealing with the scheme for permitting the display of advertisements in post-offices and public offices in all parts of Great Britain. The country has been divided into fire districts for this purpose. history of the world when the industrialist had so much to offer or the world at large The instructions officially issued are of an

great need of his services. elaborate nature to regulate the new depar had so

Europe has received a staggering blow ture in the domain of publicity; but a Millions of its best citizens have been lost. certain amount of latitude is allowed the The foundations of its commercial life have taste and discretion" of local postunas-beca shaken as though by an earthquake, The whole continent is full of suspicion and mistrust. Its energy looks in vain for proper outlet. Men lack necessities and oppurtunities, while there is a vast demand Oi produces, will, that demand can be met, distress can be relieved, employment.com be widened.

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Mr. Lloyd. George spoke with gravity,

It is intersting to rete the class of very slowly, and with frequent paoses like notices which are barred. Among the a man dictuling a letter. Now and then heare advertisements of alcoholic liquors, stopped and had a whispered conversation lotteries, betting, gaming. The State with his colleagues. Once he stopped and makes a mighty revenue out of the data asked the journalists to make it quite clear on liquor, but it seems that the State that the British Government desires the declines to make any revenue by afford. freedom of the Straits to be under the ing facilities for advertising the stuff on No doubt control of the League of Nations.

which the doties are levied.

THE MAIN POINTS.

Given

B

we are to

We in Great Britain have the fac tories, the works, the skilled men, the able direction. One of the most vital it will satisfy the "Nonconformist cou- things wanting is that good will which science, though the distinction is hard the real motive power. to define: Cinema and theatrical notices are permitted. The panels along the counters of post-offices are to be atailable for advertisements, and any odd space on the walls

The Prime Minister's statement 128 cabled to you the same day, but it will not be amiss if I say he was particularly anxious that there should be no mis- understanding that the freedom of the Straits was, so far as this country and the Some of us have a difficulty at times as Empire are concerned, part of the freedom of things are, with scores of official notices the seas for which Britain fought in the war. plastered up in post offices, to discover Another important question he emphasised where to buy a stamp or send a telegram. was who could take the responsibility of It will be more dificult still when every withdrawing the defence of the neatral post-office is a picture gallery of Some zone when such a withdrawal would be bady's Wonderful Soup, and Somebody the signal for the spreading of the war with Else's cough mixture! all its Eastern horrors into Europe. ID CYEMPLOYMENT." stead of being provocative, is some tried to allege, the Government were doing every thing possible to prevent the spread of the war into Europe, and, moreover, that part of Europe in which the world-war begab.

obtain it every class, employer and em ployed alike, must admit the theory of you to fulfil its obligations. peromil responsibility, and must fades

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"If every man would so shape his acts in times when industrial crises threaten that he can feel he is fulfilling his respon sibility to those who died for their country

path the quarrels that lave and the would not rer. We can' an afford industry so dheult in the past few years effort to forget the past and make en deavour to mould the future for the com. on good. Men in every political party look forward to the time when there shall a real settlement in Europe. Not until we achieve anity at home can we kope abroad. Not until all

classes of the community recognize not only their right but also their obligations, shall wo achiere unity at home,”

"

It is being said by those in a position toto nobieva unity judge that the coming winter wil be a hard and trying one for vast masses of the population as a consequence of unemploy, ment. My own knowledge of the condi tions prevailing in numerous important trades confirms this forecast. It is therefore. worth while to note what the Government are doing to try to meet the situation..

Mr. Lloyd George has been criticised for cabling to the Dominions making them to send troops for the defence of Gallipoli if the need arose. He did this at the outset of the trouble, when the possibilities of the Urgent letters have been sent out to local Turkish victory over the Greeks began to authorities' to use their best endeavours to dawn upon the public. There was get our schemes of a pubhe utility suspicion that he was recklessly preparing character in order to provide work for to engage us in a new war in the Near East unemployed in their respective areas. on a huge scale. But, later, the truth be The State will contribute 66 per cent of came apparent-firstly, that if there was to the total cost, and provide the money for a be another war the Dominions having spent loan for the remainder, repayment, being so much in that region in men and spread over a period. This should ease the treasure should not be left out of situation. The worst of such schemes is participation, or at least that they should that they only provide mavvy work. The be asked to cu-operate if they desired. do not help the mau unable to wield pick Secondly, there is the fact which is, and shovel the brain worker, for instance, however, only hinted at here that our who is physically incapable of sustained friends across the Channel have not exactly exertion as a labourer: Still, I think it played the game with us throughout. They must be conceded that the Gorerament are backed the Turks, and when the latter not unsympathetic, and are doing their best beat the Greek Army to pulp they withdrew in the circumstances.-H.B. all French soldiers from the neutral zone,

CAN PEACE BE ASSURED }

VIEWS OF A BERVIČE JOURNAL.

„Lord · Pobert. Cecil's plan for binding the nations of the world into a pact of assurance against war has been accepted with a good deal of favour from those who have not yet lost faith in man's humanity to man. The suggestion that the various nations should be ranged into three groups European, South American, and Asiatic and that these nations should bind themselves to take united action against As soon as a couple of nations rash into aggressors, seems to be an ideal policy. war, other countries remaining within the pact will immediately intervene to make it impossible for either of the belligerents to be victorious. -

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