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PRING OF ARMISTICE.

ENGLAND AS SEEN BY RETURNING TROOPS.

In the striking article printed below, from the Daily Chronicle, Mr. Philip Gibbs describes how our returding soldiers, back from the desert of old battlefields, 'are seeing England in golden May with new eyes, and are making pilgrimages to old familiar haunts to recapture the spirit that lived before the war-

In a world still full of trouble, and so saddened by memories that even the word "Victory has a mocking sound, it is at least comforting to home-coming Englishmen that their country is as beautiful now, in this golden weather of May, as their vision of it was when they thought back to if a year ago two, three, four years ago from a ditch in Flan- ders under shellfire, or from a dirty billet in a. French village.

More beautiful. Coming back to it after lang exile, with one red and four blue cherruns on the sleeve of the tunic they have put away, they see England with new eyes, and are astounded by its foveliness.

Before they went away, from the city office, or the village. shop. or the little farm besond

the village, they had not seen England by the light of contrasts They lived in it, but did not look at it. They took it all for grant- ed, as boys take everything. Bat since then they have seen other countries, and places not pleasant

human

life. or lovely for Thousands of them on the lived Western front, have

and

month after month even year after year, in that desert of old battlefields around Amiens and Bapaume and Peronne. beyond and between the Somme.

and Poperinghe

Ypres Passchendaele, up in Flanders. where Spring made no difference to the trees because they were only slashed and naked stumps sticking out of mangled earth, and where every village had been made a scrap-heap of broken brick, and every field a graveyard ploughed and ploughed again by

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the joyous humdrum of the old | They laugh at some fantastic days of peace?

remembrance-unbelievable here") in Piccadills, where the buses go streaming by, and where the trees in the Green Park are all feathery in full and glorious foliage, · London! good to be alive in London, with

Other men coming back to Englan, and to London. have been

THE NOTE OF MOURNING. baked on the sunscorched plains

It is a pity that there are so of Salonica, or have lain fever many women in black who pass stricken in evil-smelling villages the bandstand; and sit among the somewhere in Palestine. So now crowds on the green chairs, back, home again, they look at

staring into the sunlight as England with a kind of hunger in though they found no joy in it.the sun shining. their eyes, and find it wonderful There is a reminder of the thing 80 fresh and radiant, so green. that has passed, and of the scars so English!

Why, even London. "dear old it has left. in blue-dressed men. young men, who drag themselves

dirty London, is a magic citron crutches through the park, with this sun of May shining on and have only one one leg to get its roofs and its windows, so that across the low.railings before y it is glinting and golden. From ing on the grass. the tops of omnibuses and tram- cars, if they have the luck to get there in the scramble, these home

It is

RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL SUPERIORITY.

WHERE THE JAPANESE MAKE A MISTAKE

The

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But the little tables are spread again in Kensigton Gardens, and they are painting up the tea- difference between racial and as the houre.

It is good to sit there individual superiority and urges -comers-" revenants."

French would call them, with a

again, as five years ago in May. the necessity for Japanese draw- touch of ghostliness in the word The girls are just as pretty using a clearer line between the for men who have come back

they group themselves ander the two. Our contemporary says:--

"From ancient times. the Japan from another life look down into

trees, slanting their parasols to the London gardens and find keep the sun out of their eyes. ese people Lave worshipped their them dream-like. The lilac isogie of them must be the little ancestors and respected tradit blossoming, and the scent of red pig-tailed girls grown up into ions. Consequently, it is quite may comes over the garden fence, elegant young ladies-whom I natural that they should boast of and is wafted up by the breeze.

used to watch with their dolls, the beauty and the goodness In the suburbs the chestnut and their lesson-books, and their of the national character of their trees on each side of the road are elder brothers, in the spring country." and believe in the like Christmas trees with all their of 1914. "They used to take snap-superiority of the Japanese race. candles lighted. A week ago the Shots of Peter Pin, and row with But as Japan consists of one fruit blossom- pear, and apple.wild cars on the Serpentine, and race, the people are apt to mix and cherry-was like snow on play tomboy games of "rounters" up racial questions and national. the branches. The wind is blow-under the trees against the pond. Further,

they view racial ing it down, and the petals are Five year have made a difference superiority und individual scattered like confetti in the

And where are their superiority in the same, light. bridal pageant of a May Queen.

jokier, brothers?... 1 met some This common prejudice has SENTIMENTAL JOUKSEYS.

of them in Ypres and along the caused the Korean riots and These little London gardens

Menip road. und ditches incited the anti-Japanese feeling belong to us alone. One did not

up by Bapaume, and later, in-ajin China. find them in France or Flanders thin brown line which Earred the By contrasting our people with road to Amiens. They are most-the Americans, we can discern though there was beauty there. too, in villages behind the lines, And London, the great old cits the very thought of which gave nostalgia, and heartsichness, to men who had long been exiled from its life, in the amok of war. or in a horse-box at Ruhleben, or

behind the barbed wire fencing of

its light and colour, in its sparkle and gleam. while this spell of sunshine--that may be gone to morrow-twinkles in the metal work of its tide of traffic, and makes/ even mean streets glamorous.

Some of us who have come back-even I have not seen a

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the younger brothers who sit how our ideas in the matter are with their straw hats tilted. different from those entertained opposite their pretty sisters, in by the people of foreign countries. Kensington Gardens.

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are diferent cmwt's front those constitute a country. Therefore, anrealisable. They regard the ting in the riots. The origin of a prison camp. is astonishing in knew. surging up the although the American people position of their country

Strand and. Fleet-street.

as the anti-Japanese movement in #WING New may take a different attitude depending upon the individual China is also traceable to this Zealand and Canadian soldiers towards foreigners, they have no value of themselves.

prejudice. Even children of three have taken the place of men who cousciousness of racial discrimina- "On theotherhand, the Japanese years old in our country hold the used to linger round the print tion at least among the white people think that their individual Chinese in wholesale contempt. shops and stroll up St. James-Americans. In consequence.they position advances in consonance They are educated to behave in street by way of Pall Mall. do not respect traditions. What with the advance in the position that way. The Japanese people But in Piccaddill-circus and they respect is simply construc- of the country. They take it that are oblivious of the fact all its tributaric I see faces that tion. There is no class distine it is because the Japanese race is that there are many superior are vaguely familiar to me. tion among thear. None of them superior that Japan has become Chinese individuals. Our coun- though I cannot fix them at once use towardsuthersterms of respect strong. They think that the sup- trymen think that when until anddenly I visualise them other thau Mr. except titles. eriority of a country brings shout a country becomes weak. in field caps and khaki. They The American people beast that the superiority of a nation, irres her nationals also become in- are ja eivvies," now-and though Germany is of one race, it pective of the individuality of the dividually inferior. Such an idea thank the Lord for that they has many classes, while America race. There are many personses this comes from Japan's hay say-and they are the heroes of contains many races, but has only the war, wondering what they one class. As a result, when among the Japanese who regarding been isolated from foreign

the Japanese people as superior intercourse for a long time. shall do in the way of a job. I America takes some positive like to see the greetings of these action towards other countries, to any other people or race, and must always bear in mi

they never question the individual men who come face to face in she always makes it a principle size of themselves. This way

Loadou spring for four dreary and dreadful years-are making pilgrimages to old haunts, like sentimental journeys, to recapture the spirit that lived before the war. The rhododendrons are on fire again in Hyde Park, and band of red-coats is playing there, and children are dancing round the bandstand, just as in the old days before the world went mad, and before death made great havesting of youth.

Piccadilly,

to transcend national questions of thinking is the motive of the not do so, Hallo, old man, you're out "This is because the Americans milation policy in Kores, and of it, then ?7

upheld liberty, justice and so it is the reason why the Yes, at last, Do you re humanity as the reasons for Japanese residents in Kotes member where. wej last declaring war upon Germany, treated the Korgans. In 1

That shell-hole we Otherwise the unity of American nation would

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