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Isized sandwich; that

was my ration of the big-holed Em- menthal for one month.

Strangely enough, it is the PEASANTS SUPPRESS CITY peasant who is responsible, in

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the main. for the high price of meat and the scarcity of cheese. The Swiss Government Basel, Switzerland, August 1 would have imported, meat long The Swiss are playing their before now if the peasant had country people off against their given his permission. American, city people in their effort to South American and Australian maintain order in their country beef are all within the range of With crowds of working people passibilities in Switzerland. as from the factories, making vague they are in all the other countries demands for a betterment of of Europe but the Swiss peasant living conditions mainly, lower has issued his ultimatum to the prices and with machine guns effect that the Government must hidden in positions near central not permit any competition in points in the town, the Govern-the

meat line. He. the

enter

ment is depending upon soldiers peasant, has raised his beef brought in from the country and has paid high prices for districts to handle mobs and riots. the raw material from which the Russia has taught Switzerland beef was produced. If foreign a lesson which the rulers were meats are allowed to quick to put into service. The Switzerland the price of the discovery, in Russia, that the peasant's beef will fall and be peasants were not Bolsheviki and will lose a part of the money and that, in retaliation for Bolshevik effort which he had put into his excesses and lack of productive-herds. No. high tariff wall to ness, they had declined to send protect home industry was ever Tood to the cities, was one that so efficient in any land as is the the Swiss Government seized Swiss embargo, existing at this upon with appreciation.

writing against the importation

The press has make it clear, of meats. through many past months, that: The peasant is getting his high the interests of the peasants and price for meat from those who of the city factory hands were can afford to pay it, but as the not identical, that is, if factory plan works now it is necessary hands got to acting up. I talked for him to go out on occasion with only the other day with a Swiss his gun in military formation to factory owner one of the richest shoot against those who are too in Switzerland-of how the train-poor to pay bis high prices and ing of the wiss peasants had who rebel against them. been achieved.

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In the grea: strike which we between the Government and the had last November," he said. "Ipeasant that, so long as the Gov- had charge of a large force of jerament protects the peasant in peasant troops in the factory dis- the high price of meat the peasant trict, near Zurich. One of the will protect the Government factories there is owned by the against Bolshevism. present Swiss Minister to Wash-l

The cheese question is another ington. We drummed into the in which the peasant takes a heads of the peasant soldiers that hand. Though che se is sorely the city workmen were likely to needed in. Swizerland-there is a ruin Switzerland and bring it to not enough to go around-the Russia's position. Those peasant peasants are allowed to sell their

ops of ours were ready to goat cheeses to exporters, any mob that formed. The looked prices the exporters" choose to upon the strikers as their pay. These prices are extremely actual enemies and my men were high; the outside world looks terribly disappointed when. at upon Emmenthal cheese as a last, they were called away from luxury and will pay fancy prices Zurich without having seen any for

il prices which Swiss fighting. I could bave depecded citizens would not endure. Only on the last one of them to obey a small part of the Emmenthal any orders I gave. If trouble cheese, therefore, remains rises again in Switzerland I know Switzerland. The price is low for that, my men from the country the small quantity that is sold districts will be anxious to come there, but the monthly ration is to the cities and settle it by force so small that it hardly counts if necessary. We can.stake our with a hearty day labourer for

on them."

even one midday meal. That conversation took place

all

in

The Swiss peasant, as a soldier,

the

two weeks ago. To-day Basel is being paid his price, and, up to and Zurich are both beset by this writing he has faithfully strikers, the car lines hage ceas kept his end of the bargain, even ed operation, many shops are to maintaining a peace that closed and the country soldiers involves the services of are on the scene, ready to tran-morgue. But & vicious circle is quillize their city cousins.

produced. The price which he is I discover, however, that a Sange complication grows out of being paid is taken out of the the Swiss system of dividing the pockets of men who are protest- ing. The longer the arrangement population.

contiques the more serious the

increasing drain on the factory hands with a consequent increase in irritation.

condition becomes because of the

The strikers are, in the main, demonstrating against high prices and the scarcity of certain foods. Meat, for instace, is not within the common reach of the Swiss factory hands, though their wages have been raised considerably, time and again, within the past

NOVEL WAR WORK. few months. Cheese, which is a

Employees at Geasden Eagine ataple in the diet of the ordinary Works, Metropolitan Railway, Swiss, is scared. The cheap cheese, renovated during the war over made of skimmed milk, is high in £3,000 worth of old pipes and sent price and hard to find. The better them to military hospitals, while cheese, known as Emmenthal, is issued on cheese tickets. My 25,000 cigarettes and a quantity by the sale of old silver mounts, monthly ticket enabled me to buy of tobacco were purchased for the just enough cheese for one good wounded.

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On August 15 the American Pacific Fleet was due to arrive at San Francisco, its headquarters for the fature. Its passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,through the Panama Canal, will be for, posterity one of the landmarks in world history. From this generation its meaning should not be bidden. In 1898, during- the war with Spain, the American battleship Oregon, steaming with all baste, took nine weeks and three days to make the passage batween San Francisco and Key West, Florida, via the Magellan Straits. Last nionth the Ameri- can Pacific Fleet six Dread- noughts aud numerous other vessels, muste ing some 200 in all-entered the eastern end of the Panama Canal at dawn on the 26th, and by that evening was at anchor in Pacific waters; That is a stupendous reduction in the time necessary for intercom- munication by water between the two greatest oceans of the world. Its effect upon American naval strategy is manifest. for it has now been shown that the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets of the United States can be acting as a single unit in either ocean within a very few hours.

Object-lessons of this kind should not be needed to show that the world in which we live is a narrowed world. Already the old conceptions of world geography are wholly out of date, and none is more in need of revision thau the traditional idea of the Pacific. A very few years ago it was looked upon as a veritable barrier between the Eastern Hemisphere. Some- where beyond China and Japan. in the vast wastes of the Pacific, the popular imagination had set a kind of geographical No-man's- land. and there the East faded into the sea and the West began. These nar- Tow conceptions of.. world geography obtain no more, but we doubt whether there has yet been a corresponding revolution in the political thought of this country. The Pacific and its problems still seem infinitely remote. Few realize that that great ocean throws the life of The United States and Canada into actual contact with the Far East, that it links their in- terests with those of Australia and New Zealand, and that its great distances make the groups of is. Hands that are scattered about it valuable and necessary stages on the way of the traveller across it. Germany saw this before the war. Her so-called "colonies" in the Pacific were not colonies at all in the British or the American sense. but strategic settlements where her ships of war or commerce might coal or water or have some hope of shelter in the event. of

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