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BRITAIN FEARS AN INVASION,
.. ., ,,A5QU,1TH..H1NTS-, .
London.--Colonel Winston Spencer
Churchill, attacking the administration’.
of the army, told the House of Com-
mons today that "of the 5,041,000 men‘
who King.George -said had. been re-
cruited, l,700,000 were-unaccounted for.
He demanded a Parliamentary investi-
gation, secret, if necessary. I
Colonel Churchill was unsparing in
his remarks on the management of
Britain's land forces.
Colonel Churchill complained that
the supply of rifles was inadequate,
with the result that the British were
holding and lighting a smaller number
of opposing troops than the resources
of this nation would justify.
Broadly speeaking, he asserted, half
the total strength of the British army
was at home, and for every six men
taken for war service only one effec-
tive infantry rifle was placed over the
parapet at the front.
Premier Asquith argued that the
possibility of an invasion must be
taken into consideration. Mr. Asquith
said:
“It is a risk thatcannot be left out
of account, and we must always ef-
fectively provide for it and must be
guided by the opinion of those who
can decide what number of men are
absolutely necessary to render the
country secure against invasion."
He declared the Government was
taking the most effective steps in con-
sultation with the proper authorities
to ascertain the possibility of utilizing
a. large proportion of men on the
fighting line.
Mr. Asquith added that a notable
reduction was being made in the num-
ber of officers on the staffs at home.
RUSSIAN PURCHASES FROM
‘ JAPAN.
Accordin to the result of investi-
gations anngounced on Monday by the
Finance Department, Russian orders
already booked for this year by the
Japanese Government amount to about
80,000,000 yen with the War Depart-
ment and to about 10,000,000 yen with
the Naval Department. When the price
of the three warships recently sold to
Russia is taken into account, the total
amount due to the Japanese Govern-
ment is about 117,000,000 yen. In ad-
dition to this, there are orders for-
Russian war supplies secured by Jap-
anese merchants and manufacturers
are valued at 2!.lI)C')llt
yen,..Kobe, Japan Chronicle.
PERFIDIOUS ALBION.
HE worthy bishop of Meaux,
Jacques Benigne Bosseut, born in
1521 and died in 1704, one of the most
forceful and attractive P1llPit 0l’3t.0l‘S
of his time, in preaching a sermon gave
utterance to the well-known French
Dhras “England: ah: Peffldiovs Eng-
land" (“l’Anglcterr.e; ah, la perhde An-
gleterre”).
i no, in her “Memoirs,” re-
;e3s“‘,‘,f‘JS,,'i;',.f”s II. of Fngland and his
queen in the following phrase: “I
really 'think, like yourself,
King and Queen of England are much
that the ,
ISSUES- AND EVENTS
better off at St. Germain than in their
perfidious realm.’ -
Boileau, a French odist, on the other '
hand,"upon hearing of an intention'of
Cromwell to force a war with France,
refers to “these parricides, aided by our
(French) perfidious soldiers.” - -
But the most formal use of the term,
which the French were wont to apply
to their English neighbors, occurred in
the French assembly, 122 years ago, in
a speech by Barere:
“Do not trust to their (the English)
artful language,” said Barere, “which
is an additional crime, truly worthy of
JUSTICE IN
WAR TIME
By the Hon. Bertrand Russell,
Author’ of German Social
Democracy, etc., etc.
Bertrand Russell, author of
“Justice in War Time,” is well
known in the United States by
his books and lectures on phil-
osophy.
“Justice in War Time” is an
English Pacilist’s View on the
War, setting forth high ideals
for peace and the welfare of
the human race. -The author
gives evidence of good, sound
judgment and we highly re-
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ers.
“Justice in War Time”
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ISSUES AND EVENTS
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their perlidious character and their
Machiavelian - government.”-Washing-
ton Post.
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NEW: SUPER-ZEPPELIN
FEET LONG.
Zurich, Switzerland.--Reports have
reached Zurich from Romanshorn, a
Swiss town on Lake Constance, that a
new super-Zeppelin, 750 feet long, has
been seen when making trial flights
over the lake.
The total capacity of the airship is
54,000 cubic meters, or about double
that of Zeppelins of the earlier type.
The new craft is fitted with seven
motors, four armored gondolas, ma-
chine guns, small cannon and apparatus
for dropping bombs and discharging
aerial torpedoes. It weighs forty tons,
is able to rise 15,000 feet and has a
long range of action.
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GERMAN PAPER PRINTS SOL-
DIER’S ACCOUNT OF PRISON
CAMPS.
Berlin (by wireless to Sayville).-
The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
publishes the following ‘account of
conditions in French prison camps,
which was obtained from a badly
wounded German soldier who has been
sent home: ‘
“This soldier states that helpless
wounded men were stripped of their
belongings while on the way to the
prison camps and were hooted by mobs.
In the hospital to which he was taken
there was only one surgeon for 200
badly wounded men. ‘
“Prisoners were compelled to work
regardless of the condition of their
health. A French surgeon was re-
moved by the commander of a ‘camp
because he objected to the action of
the prison authorities in compelling
the wounded men to work.
“Cripples were usually hidden in the
lofts of the hospitals. Prisoners were
sent from one hospital to another, and
parcels forwarded-from Germany did
not -reach them. ome sorely needed
reforms were introduced in one hos-
pital following the'arrival of a surgeon
IS 750
who had seen German prison camps."
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