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T)1A SACAI^n, SAtflAin 2 1 , 1 9 1 4 Saturday, November 21, 1914.

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LONDON PAPER & IRISH M.P.’ s.♦re­

charge of Felon^Setting.

The special correspondent of the London“ Daily Mail ” charges Mr. Redmond’s M .P .’ swith having given the British Government thename of an Irishman whom they -wished toprosecute in connection with the Irish NationalPress. He states in yesterday’ s issue of the“ Daily M ail” that when in Ireland recently,“ Several leading Nationalist M .P .’ s expressed the utmost regret at the appearance of sedi­tious literature in Ireland, which they did not hesitate to declare to me, in their opinion, was being financed by German- A m eric an gold* through an agent, whose name I was given.They added that they had directed the atten­tion of the authorities to the matter.’ ’

During the stay of the special correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” in Dublin last September there were several “ Nationalist M .P .’ s ” in the city, but there was only one “ leading Nationalist M .P .” — Mr. John Dillon. Both Mr. Redmond and Mr. Devlin were elsewhere.

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A N E W W E A P O N OF W A R .According to a private message from Berlin

to Copenhagen the Austrians, in their attack on the Serbian positions outside Belgrade, used a remarkable engine of war for the first time. It is constructed on the principle of the ancient Roman catapult and throws bombs filled with stones and explosives at a high tra­jectory into the enemy’s positions with terrible effect, the stones being split up into thousands of pieces and hurled over a wide area.

The range of these weapons is necessarily small, but for the warfare on the Danube they have proved peculiarly effective.

The message adds that numerous transports are coming up the Danube towards Belgrade loaded with empty beer barrels for the newengine.

GERMAN C H A R G E AGAINST BRITISH

TROOPS.It is officially announced from Berlin that

on the body of a dead British officer a book of orders of the 2nd Battalion Scots Fusiliers has been found containing an Order of the Day blaming troops for damage done to French houses and for looting. The Order calls upon officers to prevent devastation by British soldiers.

THE I N T E L L I G E N T SUBMARINES.

A British naval officer in the North Sea writes to the London “ Times ” :—

Sunset is about 10 minutes to 4, when it gets dark and I knock off and have a long evening. It is all right as long as it goes, but we never know and are always ready to move. Their submarines are outside even now, and it seems funny where they get the infor­mation of our movements, but at any rate they are well served, as they knew where the Fleet was when we were in Devonport, and we did not know ourselves.

GERMANS HOLD FRENCH COALMINES.

❖More than half of the coalfields of the Pas

de Calais are now in the hands of the Ger­mans. The coalmines of the district supplied France with 60 million tons annually.

“ new s” in the English

T H E IN V E N T AND SUPPRESS B U R E A U .

On Thursday the London “ Tim es” pub­lished a letter from a British General in the field, denouncing the papers which represented the Germans as in­ferior soldiers, who could not shoot, who ran away, whose armies are composed of old men and boys, etc. Yesterday the “ Times,” in a leading article, attacked the Press Bureau and the Government, pointing out that the Press Bureau has officially sent out all the state­ments the British General denounced as lies. It adds that those who blame the Press should blame the Government.

T H E “ CANOPUS.”

The British cruiser “ Glasgow,” which has arrived at Rio Janeiro with five holes in her hull, states that it was owring to her inferior speed of 16 knots that the “ Canopus” -was unable to come up to take part in the fight. In “ The Fleets at W a r ” the speed of the “ Canopus” is given as 19 knots.

PROFESSOR S T R A C K DEAD.

Professor Strack, of Kiel, the well-known Professor of Ancient History, has died at the front, where he had won the iron cross for valour.

E N G L A N D AND B E L G IU M .

The “ Hamburger Nachricten ” says:—It can be stated on the best authority that

very grave differences exist between Belgium and England. It is said that all personal com­munication between King Albert and the Eng­lish military authorities has ceased. The King desires a direct settlement with Germany, and England is trying to prevent this in all circum­stances.

The London vention.

Times ” says this is an in-

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T H E “ O LYMPIC .”

At the Belfast police court Albert Lear, steward of the “ Olympic ” charged with com­municating documents, and James Kane, a labourer, charged with being in a prohibited area, were remanded for a week.

SHIPPING H E L D UP A T B E L F A S T .The military authorities again detained the

cross-channel steamers in Belfast on Wednes­day night. No explanation is given. This practice is becoming common.

TURKEY AND THE GERMANLANGUAGE.

The Government of Turkey has decided to make the German language a compulsory study in all the State schools of the Turkish Empire.

CHINA AND JA P A N .

Sung-Yu-Ten, the Chinese scholar, is alleged to have been executed in Pekin for advocacy of the restoration of the Monarchy in China.

The news comes through English sources, which hint that Japan is interested in “ pre­serving China,” by restoring the Monarchy.

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HOW G E R M A N SOLDIERS R E G A R D T H E ENGLISH.

The Lubeck Union of Veterans’ Associations has unanimously decided that military honours shall be accorded to French, Belgian, or Rus­sian, but not to English military prisoners who die in hospital at Lubeck.

ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN B U L G A R I A .The recuperation of Bulgaria since the war

lias been wonderful, and her economic situa­tion to-day is excellent, owing to the good harvest and the energy of all classes of the community. On the conclusion of the war last year the soldiers immediately returned to their ordinary work, wuth the result that Bulgaria has to-day to a great extent recovered from the war. Proof of the satisfactory position is to be found in the fact that the Banque Agricole, which fully expected great demands on its £800,000 deposits, found not only that these were not withdrawn, but that, on the contrary, they were increased. The war has, of course, paralysed Bulgaria’s export trade, and the Government has stopped all export of grain, but on the whole the people are not greatly affected.

The view of the Government and of the Bul­garian people is that they have had enough of war, and that they are determined to maintain strict neutrality. It is added that the various rumours of an understanding with Turkey are entirely baseless.

T H E NON-POLITICAL BRITISH A R M Y .

An advertisement appears in the “ Evening Mail ” announcing that a new Dublin com­pany of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers is being formed, none but Unionists admissable. Intending recruits are to apply at the Orange Hall or Messrs. Dixon and Hempenstall, Suffolk Street.

53 L E F T OUT OF 1,400.

Sergeant Donaghey, who has returned from the front, says that out of the 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Regiment, 1,400 strong, only 53 re­turned. Many of the others may be prisoners.

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IR ELAN D*OtA SAtAiftn, SAfhAiti 21, 1914.

Saturday, November 21, 1914.

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C U R R E N C Y .

Current Bargains.— “ I have given my soul and my pen to the Empire.” — Mr. T. P. O’Connor in “ Great Deeds.”

Current Holiness.— The war in which we are engaged is a holy one.— Lady Aberdeen.

Current Allies.—Certain scurrilous rags in Ireland divide their space between attacking John Redmond and preaching sedition.— The “ Globe,” a London Tory paper.

Current Astonishment.— On Tuesday the Rt.Hon. the Lord Mayor paid a surprise visit to the North Strand Volunteer Company.— Castle Journal.

Current Germans.— Their (Germans) cour­age, efficiency, organisation, equipment, and leading are all of the best, and never were sur­passed by any troops ever raised.— A British Brigadier-General in the London “ Times.”

Current Tolerance. — Unionists will notmuch object to Nationalists playing their Party tunes if they are thereby induced to enlist.— Belfast “ News-Letter.”

Current Englishism.— The weak are the prey of the strong.— “ Morning Post.”

T R U T H FROM ORANGIA.If the Nationalists will not enlist because

the war is just they should not do so because they have got Home Rule, for they have not got it. The Unionist Party has declared that when it comes into power it will not allow the Act to stand.— Belfast “ News-Letter.”

T H E R E T U R N OF REASON.The “ Church of Ireland Gazette” this week

trembles on the verge of returning sanity. Although it still has “ reason to believe ” that Irish fishing boats are dropping mines around the Irish coast and that “ German m oney” is circulating, it nevertheless advises it readers to purchase the National Press and attend Nationalist meetings.

By the way, does the “ Church of Ireland Gazette ” still hold by its offer to cede Ireland to the Kaiser if Home Rule ever becomes a fact ?

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N E W R Y JESTERS.The National Foresters in Newry, who call

their branch bv John Mitchel’s name, havei/ /

extended “ congratulations to a number of members of the Branch who have signified their intention of joining the Irish Brigadeunder the leadership of Mr. John E. Red­mond.” This joke against John Redmond is now hoary. The man who publicly pro­fesses to have confidence in John Redmond and when asked why he does not join the Brit­ish Army as John Redmond bade him, replies that he will join the Irish Brigade when John Redmond leads it, but not till then, is just as mean as his leader. The would-be humorists of the John Mitchel Branch of the I.N.F., Newry, forget that they insult the memory of the man by whose name they call their branch when even in jest they speak about joining the British Army.

T H E A D A P T A B L E SAXON.CCJoin for the Empire and Ulster ’ ’ is the

recruiting bill in Derry. In Nationalist dis­tricts it is “ Join for the Empire and Irish Freedom !”

T H E ORDER OF T H E DAY.General John Bull (to Irish Recruits):“ Men, my honour as a soldier is at stake,

but fear n o t ! I shall defend it with the last drop of your blood.”

T H E TW O IMPERIALISTS.

The following dialogue between two gentle­men residents of Whitechapel, London, was overheard by an Irish exile, who immediately communicated it to u s :

F irst:“ W ot do yer think of the ’Hoirish now, Cherry, my bloke, what ho.’Ow did yer like Johnny Redmond’s speech, Didn’ t it make Mother England screech— Wasn’t she glad to know.

Wot did yer think of ’ is loyal speech,Didn’t it make Mother England screech—Ah, but that’s long ago.”

Second :“ AVot do ver think of the Hoirish now,i/ /

’Arry— I read it twice.Wot do yer think of the ’Ome Rule Bill—t/

Johnny says ‘ For it our blood we’ ll spill ’— Carson must get ’ is slice.

Wot did yer think of old Asquith’s pill, Johnny says f For it our blood we’ll spill ’— Crickey, its worth the price.”

F irst:“ W ot do yer think of the Hoirish now, Cherry, they’re green as grass.While Redmond ’ s manning ’ is bold Brigade, W e'll stop at 'ome an’ we’ll mind the trade, Paddy’s a cheerful hass.

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While Redmond ’ s manning ’is bold Brigade, W e ’ll be a guardin’ hold Hengland’s trade,No bullets there— but brass.”

Second:“ ’Arry, I ’m told there’s a fearful slump Over the Hemerald Hisle,Redmond all over the country went,But ’ardly any recruits were sent—None that would be worth while.

W ot with Sin Feeners an’ Volunteers,Settin’ the green island by the ears,Redmond can none beguile.”

B oth :“ Send over Lancers and Grenadiers.All we can spare from war,Get all these ’ ere lazy Paddies pressed—Let all their wretched old rags be suppressed. Cowards ! ho yus, they are.

If the old Hempire must be saved,W ’y then the bloomin’ Huns must be braved— Oh, I would see them far- ”

Here words failed the Imperialists, and they choked with righteous indignation.

R o r y o f T h e H i l l .

LORD A S H B O U R N E FOUND OUT.

Scratch a Gaelic Leaguer and you will find a Fenian no matter what he may call himself. — “ Ulster Echo.”

INCREDIBLE.

No More Patriots at Blackpool.

“ We cannot possibly get through all the recruits in one day, so we have set aside two days for the work,” said Lord Derby, address­ing* a crowded recruiting meeting at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, on Wednesday evening. The two days ended last night, and news had to be sent to his lordship that not one man had presented himself for enlistment. This extra­ordinary fiasco has dumbfounded local military officers. Lord Derby, who had asked for the numbers to be sent him, had confidently anti­cipated at least 500.

This paragraph appeared in the Liverpool “ Daily P os t” on the morning of Nov. 14. Since then not a single recruit has been regis­tered in this leading Lancashire town.

MR. SEAM US O’ CONCUBHAIR.Gaels and Irish Irelanders all over the

country will be pleased to learn of the brilliant success achieved by Mr. Seamus 0 Concubhair at the final examination for solicitors’ appren­tices held recently in Dublin. Mr. O’Connor is a member of the Executive Council of the Irish Volunteers, and was one of the first members of the old Provisional Committee, and it is much to his credit that notwithstanding his strenuous work for the Volunteer Organisation during the last year he was still able to pull off first place at the recent final examination, together with a gold medal for all-round ex­cellence in his answering.

In the nine examinations which he stood for

during his years of apprenticeship, Mr. O’Con­nor has had a brilliant record of successes. Besides securing three gold medals he has four first places, three second, and two third places to his credit— an almost unique record. He served his apprenticeship with Mr. John Gore, Solicitor, Dublin. We extend our heartiest congratulations and wish him long life and prosperity in his profession.

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Manchester Martyrs’ Celebration, Sunday,November 22nd, 1914.

The Dublin Companies wifi parade on Sun­day next to participate in the Manchester Martyrs’ Celebration. The concentration point will be Stephen's Green South, at which all units must arrive not later than 12.30 p.m. The procession will start at 1 o ’clock sharp.

The Battalions will parade as follows:—1st and 2nd Bns. at Parnell Square West,

at 11.45 a.m. sharp.3rd Bn. at Camden Row at 11.30 a.m. sharp.4th Bn. at Larkfield, at 11.30 a.m. sharp.5th Bn. at Camden Row at 12 o ’clock sharp.Company B, 5th Bn. at Ringsend at 11.30

a.m. sharp.Gth Bn. at Inchicore at 11.30 a.m. sharp.Rathfarnham Company at Larkfield at 11.30

a.m. sharp.The Senior Officers of each battalion will

assume command on parade and during the march. Each battalion commander will de­spatch an orderly to Stephen’s Green to re­ceive instructions from the parade commander. The battalion orderlies will meet their batta­lions on the march and conduct them to their allotted positions. Each battalion commander will time his march from the parade ground so as to arrive at Stephen’s Green punctuallyat 12.30 p.m.

All Volunteers will wear equipment but will not carry rations.

All company scouts will parade with their bicycles at Parnell Square West, at 12.15 p.m. sharp and will report to Mr. Delaine, who will take command of the combined scouts. Each scout should be provided with a note book and pencil.

Every company is expected to turn out in full strength.

By Order, Dublin City and County Board,(Signed) M. J. J u d g e (Capt.),

Hon. Sec.A special meeting of County Board will be

held to-day {Saturday) at 7 p.m. sharp.

“ B ” Company, 3rd Battalion.The above Company will parade in Camden

Row Drill Ground on to-morrow (Sunday) at 11.45 a.m. and take part in the Manchester Martyrs’ Demonstration.

“ G ” Company, 1st Battalion.Members of the above Company will parade

on Sunday morning at 12 o ’clock sharp, at 41 Parnell Square, and march to Stephen’s Green to take part in the Manchester Martyrs’ pro­cession. A full and punctual attendance is re­quested. Members to wear full equipment and bring their rifles.

“ G ” Company, 4th Battalion.This Company will parade with full equip­

ment (no rations) at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday at Larkfield, Kimmage, and will take part in the Manchester Martyrs’ Celebration. Absentees from Thursday’s drill please note, as a full attendance is particularly desired.

The Smoking Concert already announced for December 5th, at Larkfield, promises to create a record. In addition to artistes already men­tioned, Prof. Milford, the magical entertainer, will present some new sensations.

It is desirable that those attending wear uniform.

“ A ” Company, 3rd Battalion.All men of the above Company are to

assemble at the Headquarters Parade Ground, Camden Row, on Sunday next the 22nd inst., at 12 o ’clock sharp, with full equipment. Now is the time to prove your manhood.

“ A ” Company, 4th Battalion.The funds of above Company for the pur­

pose of purchasing arms and ammunition laving been retained by the seceding Hon. Treasurer, Mr. O’Neill, N.T., Great Bruns­wick Street, a prize drawing in the form of a Goose Club has been arranged and tickets (price 3d.) are now available. Volunteers wishing to obtain books of tickets can have same on application to H . S. Murray, Hon. Treas., 31 Effra Road, Rathmines.11 A, D, C, and H ” Companies, 1st Battalion.

All Members of the above Companies are re­quested to parade to-morrow (Sunday) at 12 o ’clock at Parnell Square, to take part in the Manchester Martyrs’ Procession.

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The War in Southern Europe.Little interest seems to be taken in the fight­

ing in Servia though it was in Servia that the Avar began. As the fighting in this quarter appears likely ere long to be decisive, some reference to it may prove interesting. It Avill be recalled that it Avas Russia’s intervention on behalf of Servia that precipitated the great war. Why Russia should interfere is another question. It is a question that is concerned with long-desired Russian ambitions. Servia is separated from Russia by two other countries. There is supposed to be some bond of blood between the Russians and the Servians, but Russia did not care if Servia were wiped off the map Avere it not that it suits her purpose to act the part of her protector. Servia has been for years a thorn in the side of Austria. The Seiwians are a turbulent, savage, and un­cultured race. They are brutal and ignorant. They killed their King and Queen under atro­cious circumstances a few years ago. They undoubtedly plotted and carried out the assas­sination of the Archduke heir to the Austrian throne. Their object Avas to precipitate a general war so as to obtain Bosnia and Herze­govina from Austria and also a strip of Albania. They are restlessly and unscrupu­lously ambitious and have been and will al­ways be a menace to Southern Europe.

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Why Russia Went to War.It was to champion this savage race Russia

for her own purposes went to war. She Avanted Servia to be strong so as to be a menace in the rere of Austria. Russia hated Austria for two reasons. One Avas because Russia, already bloated by the greater part of Poland, Avanted for herself as A\rell the fertile Austrian province of Galicia. Secondly, and more important, Russia wanted and still Avants Constantinople, and felt Austria to be the principal bar in the way. With Austria once defeated by a Aric- torious Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria would stand little chance of holding their outlets on the Black Sea. Russia wants a clear strip of land on the western shores of the Black Sea so as to have a short and convenient land route to Constantinople. Both Austria, Roumania, and Bulgaria bar this way at present, and that is why Russia hopes to smash Austria first and to force Roumania and Bulgaria after­wards to yield their Black Sea provinces.

The Position in Servia.‘ How the fortunes of Avar may go in these

areas cannot yet be estimated, but as regards Servia the position appears to be clear. At the beginning of the war the Servians thought the Austrians Avould have thei r hands full fighting the Russians and would not be able to attend to them. Accordingly the Servians in­vaded Bosnia and Herzegovina. They marched up hills and down hills. The joy of the Jingo Press in England and in Ireland Avas un­bounded. Austria, it Avas asserted, could do little against the Russians after being roundly beaten by the little Servians. The flamboyant messages from Nish, the second capital of Servia, became eArery day more hysterical. An Austrian army corps or tAvo Avere regularly destroyed each day. But the Austrians, like the Germans, appear to be tough individuals, and to have a strange knack of renewing them­selves. In any event the Servians are now back in their oAvn country fighting for their very existence. They are a ferocious race, and even the most enthusiastic supporters of the cause of the Allies find it difficult to be sorry for them.

The “ Canopus55 and the “ Goeben.”In. addition to the “ Canopus” there is noAv

a “ Goeben” mystery. The former is as far from being solved as ever. As regards the latter, if the Russian claim that the “ Goeben” Avas damaged is correct, it may be relied upon that the Germans will frankly admit it as they at once admitted the sinking of the “ Yorck.” Considering this is the third time the 44 Goe- ben ” has been reported out of action and the second time that she has been seriously damaged it may be pardonable on the part of reasonable people to be just a little sceptical and to wait and see the real facts.

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CUM ANN NA mBAN.

Croabh Inghinidhe no hEireann.The members of the above Branch are re­

quested to meet at 12 o ’clock on Sunday morn­ing at 6 Harcourt Street, to take part in the Manchester Martyrs’ procession, starting from

/•Stephen’s Green at 12.30 o ’ clock.

The “ Kolnische Zeitung ” publishes a tele­gram from Berlin quoting a statement pub­lished in the “ National Zeitung,” that Japan­ese soldiers were among the prisoners taken by the Germans in the fights during the pre­vious weeks in the neighbourhood of Edytkuh- nen and Stalluponen. The correspondent of the Berlin journal, who telegraphed from In- sterburg, said he saAv three Japanese captives himself; they Avore Japanese uniform, so that there could be no question of their being Mon­golian troops. German officers informed him that the Japanese prisoners were artillerymen, who had been serving the Russian guns. The “ Vossische Zeitung ” learns from Marseilles that 17 transport ships, containing Japanese gunners, are on the way to that port, and will land there very shortly. The fact that both these despatches are telegraphed from Berlin to the “ Kolnische Zeitung ” indicates that the neAvs they contain is believed by the Foreign Office to be correct.

ENGLAND AND THE NORTH SEA

S W E D E N GETS “ PER M ISS IO N .55Following Sweden’ s protest against the clos­

ing of the North Sea to neutral shipping, the British Admiralty has given permission for the Swedish Atlantic liners to make the passage by the North of Scotland.

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B E V L ! N 5S DUPES .Devlin's recruits left on Thursday for Fer-

moy. They belonged in the main to one class — that class that should be the strength and support of a healthy Ireland, viz., the labour­ing class. There Avas something almost tragic in the sight of these poor felloAvs marching through Royal Avenue and Donegal] Place on their Avay to the Great Northern Railway, for they were of those avIio accepted what their political misleaders said and who cheered for their member on every possible occasion. They Avere accompanied by women, young and old, and were surveyed superciliously by the Unionist element, Avho tolerated their singing “ God Save Ireland” and “ Let Erin Remem­ber ” in the principal streets for once. Mixed' indiscriminately with those Avho were seeingc V .1

them off- they had not eA'en the questionable glory of a parade, and it Avas impossible to know Avho Avere the “ heroic recruits” and who were the others. One thing Avas apparent, and that was a conspicuous absence of all those ay ho have been responsible for the inner Avork- ings of the Redmondite policy in Belfast. Where were they? The “ nice young m en” Avho Avanted to be officers, the trimmers who hang around like vultures to support the politi­cal leaders until a vacancy occurs in anything from the Hibernian Insurance branch to the clerkship of the Crown and Peace. Surely it was up to them avIio led these men, to fall into the ranks themselves— but no, thev had not even the pluck to be seen with the “ democracy” in the main streets of the city. One could feel no contempt for these duped recruits. It was a case for pity. There is Nationalism in the Belfast men, and particu­larly in the Belfast labouring classes, and it will soon re-act. But for the gombeen politi­cians, who will carry on as usual, the feeling is scorn.

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T H E O RAN G E Y E O M E N .The Orange Yeomanry, Avhose notorious re­

cord of savagery in 1798 is unequalled even in the history of British Imperialism, have been re-established by the liberationist government. In many parts of County DoAvn the Orange lodges have been embodied and armed. Their purpose is “ to keep order and prevent disturb­ance.” They are thus to combine the role of Yreos. of pre-Union days with the police duties of the Orangemen of 1848.

T H E B A C H E L O R S 5 W A L K ATROCITY.

Concert in the Mansion House.A Concert in aid of the family of the late

Mr. Sylvester Pidgeon, -who A\Tas shot down in Bachelors’ Walk by the British soldiery on July 26th last, Avill be given in the Mansion House, Dublin, on Monday night, under the auspices of the Dublin Typographical Society, of which Mr. Pidgeon was a member. W e trust the Round Room will be crowded to the doors.

AN ENGLISH A U T H O R E S S ON T H E W A R“ Vernon Lee,” the English authoress

(Violet Paget), in a letter addressed to Mme. Schwimmer and published in the New York 4 4 Evening Post, ’ ’ says :—

44 Madame, I am perhaps known to you and to some of the American readers, to whom I pray you hand on this open letter, as that u o a v alas ! very futile thing, an essayist dealing with the various character and varied goodness and greatness of different nations (4Genius Loci,’ 4The Sentimental Traveller,’ and similar vol­umes) ; and a student of contemporary philo­sophical and ethical problems ( 4Gospels of Anarchy, ’ 4Vital Lies ’ ).

Her Earlier Writings.441 therefore require to prove my right of

speaking at the present juncture and about the sole subject of present interest, by telling you that so far back as 1907 I answered in the 4 Westminster Gazette ’ an article by the French academician, Paul Bourget, calling upon England (on the occasion of King' Ed- Avard’s death) to help France to keep Germany in the place befitting her as a civilisation without Latin (or, he was civil enough to add) even Anglo-Saxon order, a civilisation still iwiAvaslied of its muddy dross ( 4 encore mal lave de ses scories’ ), a civilisation expressed by the 4 Bourgeoisisme ’ (I am quoting) of Goethe, the 4 vulgarite ’ of Heine, and alto­gether little better than a 4 semi-barbarism ’ destined to a 4 role subalterne ’ in Europe.

44 The same summer in Avhich I answered this significant manifestation of what the Entente Cordiale Avas beginning to mean to French nationalists (and it gradually turned all except socialistic Frenchmen into avowed or unavowed nationalists) I published two separate translations, one in the 4 Saturday Westminster Gazette,’ and one in the (London) 'Nation,’ of an article in which the Bavarian, extremely anti-Prussian, free-trading econo­mist, Lujo Brentano, pointed out that what enabled the 4 Flottenverein ’ to squeeze money out of unAvilling German voters was England’ s long-standing (since the sixties!) refusal to listen to the wishes of all other Governments (and to the voice of Richard Cobden in his day) and abolish the antiquated rights of cap­ture of private and peaceful property by sea, rights Avhich put the commerce, the industry, and even the victualling of eArery adversary of Great Britain at the mercy of Great Britain’ s enormously superior sea-poAver.

44 Upon this subject of extending to private property on sea the same inviolability which private property has long enjoyed on land, I have continued to wTite, translate, and answer articles and letters during two years in the 4 London Nation,’ the 4 New Statesman,’ and other English papers ; I have similarly written upon the nationalisation of armament factories as a defence against the panics artificially brought about by the (internationalised!) ar­mament Trusts of all countries. In Septem­ber, 1913, I Avrote tAAro articles in the ‘ West­minster Gazette ’ showing that conscription, far from being a form of pational education, A\7as an interruption and impediment to it.

44 Finally, in 1911, being; in France imme­diately after the Agadir incident, and noticing that my French friends were willing for a war against Germany and counting upon Eng­land’ s help (after Mr. Lloyd George’ s Mansion House speech) in such a war, I wrote a letter in the London 'N ation ,’ asking what was the precise meaning of the 4 Entente Cordiale ’ ; which letter coincided with a number of Par­liamentary interrogations leading to the Gov­ernment’s denial of the verv ‘ commitments ’ AArhicli, although not existing in legal form, Ave have iioaat been told put England under an obligation of honour and gratitude to fight for the defence of the north-western coasts of France (see Sir E. Gray’ s speech on beginning of the war). At the same time I have used the advantage of French being second language and of French friends being the most numer­ous I possess after English ones, to seek a hearing in favour of a Franco-German rap- proachement among the French intellectuals and ex-Dreyf'usards ('Correspondence,’ organ of the 4 Union pour La Verite,’ winter of 1911.

Defence of the “ Liberties.”“ This long enumeration of what gives me

a right to speak upon the origin of the present war will show you, and through you, I hope, some of our American friends, the reasons for which, unlike my colleagues of the English 4 Liberal ’ Press, and, alas, a large number of English men of letters, I find myself unable to seek self-justificatory consolation in the colossal and still daily growing myth of a de-

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Saturday, November 21, 1914.

fence not only of England’s ‘ liberties/ but of Europe’s peace, civilisation, and future pro­gress, from a Minotaur of Prussian militarism employing an unwilling, but cowardly and idiotic Germany as the instrument of its in­fernal lusts.

“ ■Madam, your appeal affords me an oppor­tunity, refused from ‘party loyalty’ by every one of the once liberal and radical (as distin­guished from the Socialist) papers of my country, to warn some of my compatriots against this myth of which they are the un­suspecting dupes. This war is not only slaughtering men and destroying the hard- gotten wealth, the miserable little earnings, of Europe’s peoples. This war has strangled truth, and paralysed the power and wish to face i t ; it is a triumph not only of death, but of death’s incestuous parent, the Sin of untruth. I am not speaking of the victory— and atrocity — mongering of the Press of all countries, but of something compared to which the partisan mendacities shared by all belligerents is a joke. I am not even speaking of any line of argument which may, or may not, have been suggested to newspapers whose party is not, as it was during the Boer War, in opposition, but in office.

English Doubts and Scruples.“ What I am speaking of is, I believe, a

spontaneous product of the very doubts and scruples which English Liberals entertained at the beginning of this war, and even publicly expressed before it, had become an accom­plished fact. It is the result of honest people’s inability to believe in the wrongness of a course of action into which they have allowed themselves to be trapped through years of diplomacy feeble on one side, unscrupulous on the other, and allowed themselves to be rushed in an unexpected hour of unresisting perplex­ity. It is the result of the inability of men and women knowing themselves to be sensible, honest, and humane in the relations of indi­vidual life, to believe that, as a collectivity, they can be acting in a manner the reverse of humane, or sensible or honest.

“ For people engaged in war, people called upon to make vast sacrifices for that war, are psychologically incapable of recognising that they are sacrificing themselves and others for nothing at all; for nothing at all which has any logical cogency. Since we are officially fighting for ‘a solemn international obligation’ (Asquith’s speech, Aug. 6, 1914), thirty, nay, ninety years, older than the treaty guarantees of Moroccan independence which we had vio­lated by secret arrangements with France even before we signed them at Algebras (vide E. D. Morel’s ‘Morocco in Diplomacy’ ) ; for a ‘ solemn international obligation’ thirty, nay, ninety years older than the international agreements to protect Persian independence, which we vio­lated a few months after they were made by open co-operation with Russia (vide Brailsford, ‘Fruits of our Russian Alliance,’ 1912); sacri­ficing ourselves, I repeat it, for nothing having any logical cogency or existence, since, while our Prime Minister told us we were fighting for the neutrality and protection of Belgium,

'our Foreign Minister had put it to the House of Commons and nation whether we were not in honour bound to defend the French north­western coasts left defenceless for some months past by France’s loan of her Channel Fleet to replace a fleet of ours in the Mediterranean, so that even if German had respected Belgian neutrality, we should yet, as indeed Sir E. Grey (White Paper Dispatch 119) warned the German Ambassador, ‘ if France and Germany became involved in war, we should be drawn into i t / '

“ That is what I call ‘ fighting for nothing at all,’ or for a perfect topsy-turvy of logic and honour. Closing this parenthesis, I repeat that it is psychologically impossible for a people to admit this to itself. So with every additional sacrifice, with every additional moment of panic,, with every additional knowledge of coming financial ruin, it be­comes more and more difficult to face that tiny unnoticed seed of apathy and unintelligence which has grown into the vast overshadowing horror of this war. And so there has arisen the self-justificatory myth of defence of our prosperity and liberties against a country with which, sole among our larger neighbours, we have never once been at war. And this myth of self-defence had quickly turned into the myth of the defence of disarmament and peace, hence civilisation and progress, against a Prussian militarism which has been made responsible not only for this war, but for the years of warlike expenditure into which the scaremongers of the armament trusts have pushed us, just as their syndicated foreign associates have pushed every continental country.

“ This myth was bound to arise spontane­

ously in the mind of every English Liberal trying to justify himself and his Government for this unintelligible cataclysm. This myth has been sincerely and unanimously enlarged, defined, given shape and voice, by alas, most of the popular English writers of the d ay : Mr. H. G. Wells led off on the very day of the war’ s declaration and with an article declaring ‘that every sword now drawn for England was a sword drawn for peace’ ; the exciting biogra­pher of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ has recently joined in with a characteristic detective romance about a ‘Prussian Conspiracy.’

“ And the poets ! They, e gen more than the prose writers, have bid England save Europe, and, what is more unexpected, deliver poor, helpless Germany from the Prussian monster.‘ Surgeon her, ye Nation !’ one of these son­neteers has written, describing the present war as a cancer-operation to which, the deserving German invalid is being submitted for her ultimate recovery. And what the writers have written and the poets have sung, the British public, suddenly become unexpectedly sensi­tive to phrases and catch-words, has repeated, repeats, and, alas, thinks and feels with abso­lute sincerity. The myth of the German Mino­taur demanding its tribute of human flesh, has' penetrated into the most unlikely minds and places.

“ And it is, madam, just because this spon­taneously generated but artificially nurtured self-justificatory myth now overshadows the imagination of so many of my compatriots, that I welcome more than ever your manifesto calling upon a constantly renewed, a chronic offer of mediation on the part of the really neutral countries under the presidency of the United States. We in England, with the ex­ception of the Independent Labour Party, have no chance of hearing the truth except from the lips of neutral and sister nations; and those among us (and they are numerous and repre­sent our most responsible intelligence, our sin- cerest morality, and most independent political life) who know in silence, or suspect, or are open to receive, the truth, will obtain through such an international organisation as you pro­pose,’ the incomparable help of learning that they are not alone in the world, but cranks and traitors, but are united to the wisdom and true patriotism of every country in defying the myth and facing the truth.

“ Now, madam, upon the defiance of this monstrous myth of British self-justification, upon the defiance of the similar self-justifica- tory myths which have doubtless arisen in every one of the belligerent countries, depends, if not the speedy, at all events the decent and safe, ending of all this butchery and destruc­tion and mendacity. It is not the diplomatists and soldiers who can end it otherwise than in some new sowing of dragon’s teeth. It is the peaceful interests which have been sacrificed, the human affections which have been violated ; it is the network of international co-operation in trade, in art, in science, and in progress which has been rent and trampled in blood and m ud; it is those who need peace and be­lieve in peace through peace, who alone should end this war. And, therefore, in God’s name, let us cry for help against our self-justificatory delusions, to those nations who are still guilt­less and in possession of their judgment and volition.”

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