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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1916. A VANISHED RACE.

LAST WEEKS OF THE DERBY SCHEilE. 1 Guinea, and have been disarmed and interned tlip Rnanish authorities. (P. 8) STOP PRESS NEWS. r-fter it has appeared but of anticipating it.

Everyone nowadays talks of the strategical initiative; but there is such a thing as the strategical initiative of invention, and here Mr. Baltour's answer fails to satisfy. It The Ottawa Fire. One member of the Canadian House of 4: Commons lost his life in the fire which destroyed the Parliament Buildings. Six THE LAST AMERICAN WOOD PIGEON.

(From a Corbespondbnt.) nninYlflt.l GROUPS TO CLOSE ox march (From the Press Bureau.) would of course have been quite impossible slaughter of the innocents by German Zeppelins. The fighting services," he reminds us, are not permitted to write letters to tho papers on such a subject, but he says "I believe they will never sink to such deeds of infamy." It is just as well that such an expression of opinion should come from such a source. Wo ourselves find it difficult to understand how human beings can bring themselves deliberately to deal out indiscriminate! death to men, women, and children innocent of all offence and incap other "persons are known to hare perished. it meant when it was passing it. but the local tribunals which are to administer thisAct are not courts of law, and they and tho government departments which instruct them are bound hy every pledge given by the Government in connect ion with the Act.

I learn that a pamphlet is being prepared by a well-kno'vn member of Parliament which collects all these together and sets them out as a guide to the administration of the Act-as it 'ought to be. It will be a very useful compendium. The Critical Class ot Derby Recruits. In the meantime the existing Jocal tribunals under the Derby scheme in London, lhe thoorv that the hre was due to an incen Febiu-ary for him to give details of new types that li.e may have under construction, and of the details of any new types the public must A w. time aao there aiea M.

diary is not accepted by the police. A radons, at the ripe age of 23 years, a lhe ar Office issue th fr.H,-.-. munitions luctorv in untano ana anotner factory engaged on war work have been burnt necessarily remain in ignorance. Still, what passed pigeon-the last down." and an unsuccessful attempt to destroy wood pigeons, ana a kihuw 1 nflfllTIA And the Victoria Bridge across the it. the public can legitimately do is to insist on Cesar's motto, that so long as anything remains to be done nothing has been done.

13 reported. (p. 9) power to overtnrow tne in his perversity to destroy the strongest and most prolific races. able of resistance, and then, with a strange The Plight of Poland. nconsistency, some people, in their indigna Correspondence relative to a proposed The passenger pigeon was a i ----ustained flight, bearing with ease the greatest scheme for the relief of Poland was issued tion at this infamy, are ready to call on our fighting men to do the like.

There is one i. it or nninp in luk extremes of climate, ana equau, and doubtless elsewhere, are waiting anxiously) for tho new instructions which are being prepared. The particular cause of anxiety is that the time is drawing near for the calling up of the last groups of single men. In these classes are accumulated a great mass by the Foreign Office last night. Sir Edward Grey states that in face of the accumulating evidence of German and Austrian requisi A restless and critical public is the greatest ally of a Government Department, if only it would think so.

What, for example, was the ideal for tho British navy after the victories of the Falkland Islands and the Dogger Bank? Surely a constant harrying of the enemy, a tightening blockade, and if ricefields of South Carolina or tne rcau ground, and one only, on which such an act could bo justified that it put an end to the With regard to the Militarv it should be realised tlint single men under tho D.rln- -close on the 2nd Marrli, date all such men liable f.r brought automatically into Reserve hy the operation of Men coming under tho Act ficd according to ago in attested men wrrc in gru.i, -mencing on Ilrd March." i called up correspondingly that have been called up. The reason for calling tb.o:-. simply for administrative jn: confusion. They arc- as fnil.v.v... of New York, and so suitea to iu Vvsw- of life that one breeding migration oi uo whole horrible business.

But. as Sir Evelyn- tions in Poland he fears it would be impossible to enter into any arrangement in re Wood points out, there is not the smallest of ''postponed" cases. Whenever a single computed to contain mrus ww thev nested often broke under gard to any scheme until the enemy governments have prohibited the export of all food reason to suppose that it wnnld have man in the earlier groups has put forward and made good a case for exemption he has possible an offensive against the headquarters their weight, and the whirr of wings was like a stuffs from Russian Poland and have guar any such effect, whereas is would certainly of the enemy's sea-power. hat we have hurrioane. been put back into the last groups ot smgie anteed that native stocks ot foodstutts shall not be drawn upon to maintain the occupy The pigeons wore a pleasant cflange arei, called the strategical initiative of invention have the effect of degrading and exasperating the whole conduct of war.

The Germans do men. All these cases will shortly have to re and the nesting woods wnen wey wre xCj considered by the local tribunals, and they would have been the preparation of new ing armies. IP- ') still at least pretend that their abominations are at present without guidance as to how types capable of carrying those victories a for flight became a huge camp. or weeh.s everyone ate pigeon, and as many birds as Mr. Acland and the Strain of the War.

they should deal with them. There will thus Addresrinu a farmers' meeting at Stafford possible were salted for winter use. The rail be a great congestion of these reserved cases, have a definite military object, and that if their missiles miss camps and munition works or railways it is by pure accident. Sir stage further. Instead, we seem to have been acting mainly on the defensive, and to have been content to defeat tho various de ways that brought down more and more trappers and tho tribunals will be swamped with them on Saturday, Mr.

F. D. Acland said we were still in an" uncommonly difficult position in unless some fuller and clearer instructions Ye i- 1555 1ES4 1SS) 1S32 1S31 ISS'l 1ST? 1S77 ISTt 1375 ecard to tho war. and things were not so and provided a ready maritet lor ine proauve increased the slaughter tremendously. The Year or nirth 1897 1896 1895 189 1893 1892 1891 1893 1839 1888 1887 1886 BAXENDALES FOR RUSTLESS AND STAINLESS CGTLERY.

MII.I.VK FTREKT. A TH KSTKR. Clns. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 are got out. vices of the enemy.

It shows no lack of favourable to us as we believed they were a Evelyn Wood appears inclined to give them the full benefit of the doubt, though, to most of us and even, we should suppose, to most Two typical liard cases anions attested men birds brought 6d.or Is. per dozen, but they were appreciation of the tremendous service of the vear ago. lime was on our siae, out omy 11 which have been put back bv a London tri- so ejLsrilv taken at nesting-time, or were netteu we used it properly and did not waste it. Hp believed the strain of the war would get rjunal to tho last groups of single men were in such numbers by olap-nets with a decoy, that navy to say that success in these objects hardly satisfies the ambition of the average Germans, the excuse has worn too thin. But given to mo to-night.

One was that of a the sport was well worth while. if reprisals were undertaken it would be with steaddy greater. Farmers who grew crops or bred stock which saved us from the neces- civil servant earning 80 a vear who sup Englishman, as it certainly does not of the In 1859 the town of Hartford, jaicnigan, sent on the definite object of doing on purpose what TERRY CO. SERVICE WRIST WATCHES (Luminous Dials). KING STREET (Cornnr of Cross MANCHEfTTER.

ports a mother and sister. Another was that British sailor. Far better an unreasonable sitv of imnortinc food were wonting as three carloads a day for forty days a total of over 11.500.000 birds, and this at a time when or a labourer earning 1 a week who sup tho Germans at least profess to do by inad definitely for our success in the war as the ambition where the fleet is concerned than a vertence. And all the time it remains true, men in the trenches. (p.

12) their diminution was so marked that protection ports two sisters, both seriously ill. The method in all mch cases has been simply to too easy satisfaction. for the race was under discussion, lhe bare Regulation ot Fuel Supplies. Nothing must be taken for granted in war, put them back to the last groups of single in the words of the great French soldier quoted by Sir Evelyn Wood, that reprisals idea of its necessity was general scoffed at men; hence the Ereat accumulation and the The difficulties with recard to tho fuel ORDERS TO ARMIES 1 THE FIELD. GENERA STAFF 1'IIAN The following Order in niin, 111 and least of all in naval war.

Wu need for TO-DAY'S PAPER. what efforts were made were only half-hearted, are always useless." What is needed is in prospect of congestion when these last groups supplies having become most pressing in some the direction of our naval policy every ounce aro called up. areas, the Hoard of Trade has appointed creased determination and energy in the of our energy, every counsel of experience, and the flocks continued to diminish with ever-increasing rapidity. Tn 1876 there was still a breeding-place 28 committees for the colliorv drstricts, on the proper business of attack. The New Tribunals.

and, above all, every impulse of restless nomination of the various coalowners' nssoci in miles long by thre- or four wide. In 1881 January 27, appeared ations, with the object of securing that the ingenuity and of spirit of innovation in The local authorities here are rapidly mak resources ot their districts in coal and coko which tho British genius excels. It i ing arrangements for calling special meet An Appeal to Reason. ire utilised to the advantage, and that Leaders WHVT OP THE NAVY The Starving of Poland Reprisals An Appeal to Reason Illustrations Preparing for the Evacuation of flallinnli. Thn Tr-nviof Found the Wrecked notorious that our full store of these qualities the biggest was only eiglt miles long.

London Gazette" on Saturday: Zoological Gardens got their last representative whereag bis Majesty ha, in 1883. Cincinnati obtained the bird that has fl a ch h( U)p just died in 1892. A wild specimen, fell to the Bni, ings of their councillors to appoint the tri At the meeting of the Eccles Town Council the requirements of important industries arc fully met. preference being given to 'those bunals under the Military Service Act. Many is not being drawn upon.

the First Sea Lord, soon after the beginning of the connected with the war. A central com have been fixed for Monday or Tuesday even gun at Detroit on September 14, 1908, and 85.000 the 23rd Deceniber. 1915. 0m i. which is to be held to-day a caso in which an important point of principle as well as common sense is seriously at stake will come tnittee lias also been appointed.

(p. 9) ing, and as time is very short rapid con Zeppelin 8 war, resigned, Lord Fisher was recalled to the Admiralty because by general consent he had the qualities which are most necessary Four Persons Killed by a Tramcar. sultations aro going on meanwhile as to tho composition of tho tribunals. On tho wholo up for final consideration. The Eccles Edu Special Articles In the momentary absence of the driver, tho Derby tribunals worked better in Lon for tho successful prosecution of a war.

It a tramcar at Gateshpad on Saturday nicht cation Committee recently decided that they would no longer pay their share of the salary Callers and Conscription 12 Teachers and the War 5 began to run backwards down a hill. At a was unfortunate that at that time Mr A Vanished Race: The Last American rurvo it left the metals, and then turned don as might be expected than in some parts of the country. But even hero they must ho enlarged and strengthened, as the Local Government Board has recommended, Chcrchii.l was also at tho Admiralty. The of a young man who was employed in the Borough Treasurer's offico and who had de reward hi-s faded to una anotner. lateiy Chief of the Inipcria, has it gone that all the natural histories retain AnfJ whareM it 5s to it in their pages without comment.

The pigeon Bpecific dut.5e8 lo tho l)f trappers, like the pelt hunters who went before General suffi nnd to lll0 Uv them and killed off tho buffalo, would not and Imperial General Staff: will not credit the result of their folly. They And whereas undor tho r0.VPr, believe that the great flocks have but altered thJ 0rder in Coumil d.ltei, tt4V 10.h A.ls...; their migration for a time to Mexico and will 15M tho Sectetary of Slate lias soon return. They are keeping their hands 111 to the chicf of the imrPrial by exterminating in the meantime other valu- dlltv of is3uin m.dprs in able birds whose loss they will soon have equal options cause to regret. 1 NoWj thercfore, llis Majesty, by and witi, Wood-piireon 6 over. rso pa.ssenaers were seriously hurt two masterful minds antagonised each other In Search of Kconomy 4 but four passers-by wero killed.

(p. 6) clined to attest under tho group system for tho purposes of an act of compulsion Mr. Russell Rea, M.P. 8 unci one of tho two had to go. "What hap He is, wo gather, a conscientious objector The Murder by a Canadian Officer.

I learn that there is a strong feeling in spvcral London districts that a barrister The War- The trial of Lieutenant Codere, an officer Cicriuaii NVitj to Roumania 7 of tho typo whose case is at least to receive full consideration under the terms of the should be nut on every tribunal, and in in a Canadian regiment, for tho murder of Berlin and the Lost Zeppelin 7 Compulsory Service Act, which is now the Cainpaipn Conditions in Mesopotamia 8 1 sc-geant in tho same regiment concluded at Winchester on Saturday. The defence of aw of the land. The Eccles Finance Com- Two German Aeroplanes Phot Down 7 quiries arc being made for barristers willing to serve. The courts at present aro (as described in your columns yesterday) juries without the guidance of a judge. A barrister could cive tho same kind of help to insanity set up on tho prisoner's behalf was Orman Flight from Camerooos 8 rejected by the nirv.

and Mr. Justice far mittec supported the decision of tho Educa tion Committee, and the plain result un The Crime 7 pen.ed, however, was that both went, and neither returned. This was a greater loss of energy and driving power than was right for the Department or safe for the country. Lord Fisher, having left the Admiralty mainly because Mr. Cuchchili.

was there, should, now that Mr. Churchill has gone, be brought back. It is absurd that becauso we could not use both in tli.o same department therefore we must use neither. In what capacity he returns matters very little to the country, nor, we should think, to Lord Fisher ling, who described the crime as one that tho tribunal as the learned clerk gives to a Kifrlitinp in 8 EIKES AND EXPLOSIONS ON SHIPS. HOARD OF TRADE WARNING.

had been carefully thouaht out, passed sen ess the Town Council, having had Lancashire Men's Farewell to Gallipoli 5 01 111s i-rivy uouneil, tii and it is hereby ordered us follows: The Chief of the Iniperiiil General Staff shall, in addition to performing duties as may from time to tiir.u. In assigned In him under the Order in Council dated' the 10s 1 August, bo responsible f'ir i.suinp orders of the Government in regard tn niilitary Derations. The Deputy Chief -f the Imperial General tence of death. (r 12 bench of lay magistrates. It is difficult to say to what extent exemp lttlo more time for reflection, to-day Mr.

Russell Rea. M.P. takes a wiser view will be that tion will he claimed hero on conscientious What Lancashire lien See in the Salonika Lines Manchester and Saltord The death is announced of Mr. Russell the young man has been discharged without grounds, but there are reasons for thinking that the cases will he much morn numerous The Board of Trade desire to call the atten Rea, the Liberal member for South Shields even having been granted tho hearing to The Liquor Control Order 7 than is irenerallv expected. Unless care is who was regarded as the "father" of the tion of shipowners and merchants to the numerous cases of fire and explosion which The City nnd Air-raid Insurance 3 or to those who aro now at tho Admiralty.

Staff shall be jf.ponrihlc for the pcrfnrmati-'c Miners Eight Hours Bill. (p. g) which he is entitled by the Compulsion Act Surely it will bo evident to the Town Counci have occurred under circumstances pointing to of such of the duties the depm uncut as The point is that at a time when the utmost strength is required strength is being wasted. The Chief Scout 3 Professor Itottomley's Offer 3 Women's War Work 3 and, after thinking tho matter over, to both foul play, not only on British ships, but also Chief of the Imperial General Staff may assign on neutral ships carrying cargoes on British t0 him from time to time. its committees that it is quito unnecessary What of the Navy or though Lord Fisher is chairman of the St.

Mark's Ward 2 account or to the United Kingdom. AlJIEMC I-'ITZBQV. for them to go beyond Parliament in their Inventions Board and his abilities are not, taken the appellate tribunals will become congested with the number of appeals. Mr. William Jeans.

Mr. "William Jeans, tho well-known journalist, died to-day at Reigato at the age of 74. A few weeks ago ho was knocked down and run over by a motor-car. This accident -lias cut short a period of happy retirement. Mr.

Jeans was London editor The adventures of the Appam draw atten- Great ingenuity is used by the enemy agents, dealings with the extraordinarily difficult General The New L'ouor Order for Lancashire therefore, wholly lost to the country, this tion to a real danger in the posses' and in one instance it was found that the wood used for packing purposes had been so treated matter of tho conscientious obiector." This Board has no executive power, and it is not and Chtwhirc 7 TO THE UNCONQUERABLE ON GALLIPOLI. sion of an acknowledged naval supremacy where the common sense of the case should oncerned specially with tho navy. It gives as to burst into flame under the slightest Last Weeks of the Derhy Scheme 6 It is harder for the leader to keep his lead be considered. The principle is important Another Canadian Fire 9 TThe following poem is of special inu'wsl in than for the weaker enemy to decrease it; opportunity for the inventor, but it docs not determine a policy and direct invention and Land Tot Soldii-rs: A Great Scheme of Shipowners and merchants and all persons view of the fact that it was written by the wife enough, and on that alone we should say for the weaker has a constant incentive to State Purchase 3 interested in the shipment of carco at foreign of a Uritisn general associatea wim ine uirec- construction to that end. Lord Fisher's ingenuity, surprise, and new invention tion of the Dardanelles campaign.

of the Dundee Advertiser" for forty years, and also acted as correspondent for other newspapers. Even outside tho newspaper Mr. Acland and the War's Progress 12 that the proposal was both unwise and unfair, a product rather of hasty thinking and ports are advised to satisfy themselves that no mmenso experience, energy, and driving whereas the stronger is apt to be satisfied The Zeppelin Raid 9 Shinier hy an Officer 12 firm in which there is any enemy interest shall Your comrades arc sadly leaving you nw, nave anything to do with the handling of the They are stealing away, silently bidding you world Mr. Jeans will be rememhcretl as one power arc not used in such a position, and with things as they are. That is human of tho few journalists to whom Mr.

Herbert the nation cannot afford to waste them Wineshy Appeal: Judge and Evidence of catchwords than of a serious attempt to assist ever so little in the successful conduct of tho war. But when tho whole difficult problem farewell nnturo under all circumstances, but tho ten ship or cargo in which they are interested. family Likeness uiadstone then member tor confided his father's scheme for an Irish settlement. dency and the danger are increased when the Regulation of Fuel Supplies 9 of the conscientious objector has been taken Night after night they go, Shadows turning their backs on jour immortal glory, Leaving you, the victors," on the heights This was in December, 1885, just at the time control is exercised by Government depart TUB KING AND QUEEN. The Starving- of Poland.

4 Fires on Board of Trade 6 British Operations in Wheat 9 that Lord Salisbury had discovered leanings ments, which, whatever their other virtues ii difficult point is raised in the corre in tho Homo Rule direction. The public I.L.r. Meeting Broken Up Tlir TCinrT and Onorn Pi-iTinnoc IVfairr onrt 1 VOU have WOn. may be, are rarely distinguished by the inno right out of tho hands of anyone except a set of specially constituted authorities, why should any sensible men with real work to handle go out of their way to deal with it? spondence between the American Tolish mind was greatly moved by tho announcement, and whether Mr. Herbert Gladstone vating, restless, revolutionary spirit which .1 Tl.

'i 1 ft Runaway Tram Overturns 5 Football 2 societies anti tne iirmsn uovornment. it has brings about -the great changes in the -world long been known that the distress and misery (as lie then was) or the journalists wero to blamo. for the form in which tho news was published will perhaps for ever remain an Commercial Fuel for Industries Poland aro more terrible, if that were The impulse to create and to change is individual, rarely collective. Ponular wisdom The point need not be emphasised, since it would be decidedly unfair to assume that the Eccles councillors will not prove themselves Banks' New Arrangement unsettled question. As Lord Morley re rrincess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, attended them JUr' at tho Albeit Hall, London, on Saturday (Thossad Crusaders!) afternoon a performance by the Royal Choral Do you look out from those mounds Society of Verdi's Requiem in memory of Crested so proudly with your last order-the those who have fallen during the war.

8liSht CT0SS It was the first public appearance of their A long look jf farewell, a long questioning Majesties for some time, and a large crowd look, you gjive them, outside the hall gave them a hearty greet- An envoi from tho dead, ing. Inside the great hall was packed with For they will see again, the women you love, possible, than those experienced even by Belgium herself; the fighting has been on marks: "It would seem to need at least the 1 I up lue saving mat necessity Money Market 10 sensible men and leave this particular case is the mother of invention, meamnp hy Stock Markets 10 1 a greater scale, has been much more per genius of Bismarck to perform with precision and success the delicate office of inspiring the to the tribunals. And possibly no one necessity the sense of being handicapped Manchester Market sistent, und has surged backwards and for bo more obliged to them than the Education The German navy has this sense; ours or Liverpool Cotton Market American Markets wards iu a way that Belgium has not known. and Financo Committees, who have now had at any rate the Government Department a Jiugo auuience wmcn nimost wuoiiy wore The children, the flowers and trees or norae, Tho Polish Societies ask that the British time to understand tho Act, which had not Mancnester bnipprog which controls it has not and that is what mourning, ana the internal decorations of But they envy you, those mournful phantoms, blockade be lifted so that American relief passed through Parliament at tho time their II I main I on t.boTT afpal n.wav in the darkness. Public Companies I supplies may be sent to Poland by way of The performance, with Ssir Frederick Bridge earlier decision was reached.

as conductor, was a magnificent one. and tho Correspondence tho Baltic (that is to say, through Dantzig, Royai party stayed to tho ond. far as public discussion has gone there might be no German navy. Yet in spite of its losses Closing of Museums 4 up the River istula). Now, of tho anxiety of this country to do all it can to assist the OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.

Kival livening fctars (air. f. A. Bruton) 4 it is still a very formidable fighting force, modern oracle on the journalistic tripod. Tho fact was that what was meant to be a blameless negative as to Mr.

Gladstone's intentions soon blossomed into a giant positive." Unlike the majority of Parliamentary lobbyists, Mr. Jeans's ways were downright and direct almost to brusqueness. Directness of purpose and method was, indeed, his distinguishing characteristic, and this quality the reflection of his sterling character often enabled him to surprise secrets which elaborate ambushes and traps would fail to capture. After his retirement Mr. J.oans wrote an interesting book of reminiscences, which for journalists ranks only second in recent years to the reminiscences of Mr.

Richard "Vhiteing, who is still happily with us. I lie I'osition of British iniojects in 4. Poles there is no question; a good deal of As they" stealthily glide out over tho dark water, Under the threatening shade of mign.y Samothrace. For they go relinquishing the grandeur of tha dream so nearly in their grasp, Reluctantly they go blotted out in the dark night, In the dark mist that covers the stars. December, 1915.

(BY PKIVATE WIRE.) London, Sunday Night. Drinking Amongst Women (Rev. A. GENERAL HUBERT GOUGH KNIGHTED. The Court Circular on Saturday night an money has already been subscribed here, and and it is not to be supposed that it has acquiesced once and for all in its exclusion Leathley Heap) 4 the same spirit would impel us to assist tho Trade After the War (Councillor Derwent i war (Councillor Derwent 1 nc tv, a.

Situation in China. nounced that Lieutenant General Hubert de la mpson and others) 4. 1 fr UJe American Poles in getting supplies through For the past fortnight no reliable news hi ueiiuuii Liiab exclusion, me more P. Gough had the honour of being received by improbable it is that Germany has given up INDEX about tho situation in Yunnan has reached this country. As the result of inquiries in to their countrymen.

But the question is not so simple. Tho Germans ond Austrians havo not merely been the resources of Poland for the benefit of their armies of the sea as lost. Indeed, we know that she the King, when his Majesty conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, and invested him with the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. TO CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. has not.

If she had she would not willingly an authoritative quarter I am informed that have faced the enormous risks of her sub President Yuan Shih-kai continues to he con occupation, but they have actually marine campaign, nor incurred the disgrace, fident that ho has the situation well in hand. Page. FiiKir Anr.ourcrinents.. 1 Thi'a'rOf. Oiic-its 1 nnd 1 1 1 been exporting its stores to their which she knows to be a real, ponderable The troops loyal to him in the province of own countries.

Mr. Asonrrn mentions thing, of insulting by her air raids our a A Panic in Flicker Alley. There is to be a meeting to-morrow of representatives of the variouR interests in the picture film trade to consider what is to be done about the alarming rumour that the Partnerships 2 Financial 'l To ie Let and 2 Holiday 2 l'n'iniscs T.i he Let ami W.mted. Salis by Pnvaz? Ori- tr.ict 1 and Deaths 12 H. ior uiEiance, xnat nom, one district in HONOUR FOR BRITISH NURSE WITH FRENCH ARMY.

(Reuter's Cobeespondent.) Paris, Sunday. An interesting ceremony took place at Steen- Szechuan came into contact with the Yunnan rebels at the important city of Suifu and Poland 4,500 waggon-loads of potatoes havo W. boasted island immunity from war. Further, she must know that, her maritime resources being so much inferior to ours, she has no scored a victory. It is confirmed that the been taken to Vienna, and that supplies of (.

out r.i-H.u-.:n; troops sent from Canton have occupied the Government is going to prohibit the importa i all kinds have been sent into Austria. The Germans and Austrians are deliberately chance of winning access to the 6ea during city of Mengtsz, on the Tonkin-Yunnan rail tion of foreign picture films. Film manufacturers and film exhibitors the war by increased efforts along the lines already laid down. She must strike out new starving Poland, and if American supplies voorde, near Hazcbrouck. where Miss Florence Burn, a British nurse attached to the French army, was decorated with a bronze medal conferred upon her by the French Government.

The medal was awarded to Miss Burn for her- services in nursing infectious cases at a temporary hospital. aro vitally affected. If tho Government were PEKIN AND THE REBELS IN MONGOLIA. (Reuter's Correspondent.) Pekin-, Fmdat. A third division has left Chunking for ih south.

Northern troops have also left Fuslinn and Lu-Chow to attack the rebels at Sui-Fa in co-operation with the Szechuan troops. It is officially stated that tho report emanating from Mukden that an advance oi Mongolian insurgents was besieping Ta-Ttin-Fu is entirely untrue. On the contrary, 1,000 disbanded troops of Outer Mongolia who looted Saratsi and other places in Northern Shansi have been dispersed, and order hu been restored in Mongolia. JAPAN AND CHINA. No confirmation states the Anglo-Chinese News Agency, is obtainable at Shanghai ti the report from Petrograd that the Japanese have renewed their demands on China.

is generally believed that no such demands have been made, and the report is accordingly discredited: THE GUARDIAN. were allowed to go freely they would un .1 1 i 1 1 .1 i i. lines for herself. The submarine blockade to take this step 90 per cent of the picture theatres in the country would havo to close was one such line, but it may not be the only uouui-euiy i-iiise uuiuiimgo or me lact to sweep off so much of the supplies of the MAX CH F. li FEBRUARY 7, 1916 in a couple or months, a business representing between twenty and thirty million nf one.

it has tailed anotner must be found, country as they had previously spared. Mr ine uermans are not by any means a capital would be held up, and half a million people would be thrown out of work. There Asquith insists that two conditions must be creative race in the realm of new ideas like fulfilled before we can let through supplies are, of course, some excellent films nrodunvl the English nnd the French, hut the com SUMMARY OF NEWS. The Liquor Order. All the remaining stocks must be devoted to the use of the population, and Germany and by English manufacturers, but they do not meet more than 20 per cent of the demand of the trade to-day.

parativo sterility of their mentality makes them quicker to adopt and develop the ideas The Order of the Liquor Control Board for Austria must provide a daily ration equiva of others. It would, for example, be verv like them if, after the battles of the Dogger lent to the amount of the foodstuffs Lancashire (iiuiuding Manchester), Cheshire, and Flintshire was issued on Saturday. The 1 Bank and the Falkland Islands had shown which they have already seized. If the second condition be insisted on, it is very likely The Mystery of the Imported Film Rumour. The only hope of the film trade is that the rumour that has scared them is nothing more than a rumour, but a whole group of news that the British idea of the "all-big-gun' nouii, during which public-houses may be opened are reduced to five and a half on way.

This will cut off the capital of Yunnan from communication with Tonkin. Government troops from Kwangsi aro also on their way to attack Yunnan. From the same source I learn that Outer Mongolia is quiet again. During the middle of January the Mongolian brigands were out on their annual spree of plundering Chinese villages. The brigands on the approach of Government troops fled in different directions.

What was reported from Petrograd as a would thus seem a mere local disturbance. Working ot the Compulsion Act. I understand that an organised effort is being made to watch the interests of men liable to compulsion under the Military Service Act. Several existing organisations are already in touch with each other in the matter, and are working together. The danger as always is to the poor and ignorant, who may not know when they have real grounds of application for exemption, and may let a perfectly good case go by default.

The Act itself is -very vague, and so is the wording of the instructions issued a day or two ago by the Local Government Board for the euidance of the local tribunals. For that the roles will starve, for Germans and battleship was sound, they had set themselves RUNAWAY TRAM OVERTURN'S. week-days and four and a half on Sundays. to fit their battleships with bigger guns still Austrians alike will allow all Russian Poland to die before they will restore anything that Tho Order will come into force a week to- papers has insisted that it is based on the The rumours of a German Dreadnough 3b.t- (pp. 7 4 8) they have seized and enjoyed.

It might recommendation of "a committee" advising the Government. The film trade was taken On the Western Front. wuiie to waive carrying guns heavier than any naval guns yet seen are not absurd, as Mr. Balfour's answer to a question in Parliament just before the recess showed. He doubted the second demand, just though it is in The report from British Headquarters last by surprise when the impart duty was put on, and now they are afraid there may be something in it this time too.

But at the nignt sraies mat on baturdav 28 combats look place in tlu; air, and that six German order to save our allies the Poles from the worst of their sufferings. The first demand is another matter: the Germans and Austrians aeroplanes were put out oi action. Saturday whether this was the most probable of the various conjectures made about German ship moment tney are uopeiessiy the dark as to what "committee" is planning their ruin infill pui iciers to tne air may be loth to forego even for the future And so, it seems, are some of the Govern exploits ot Sergeain Guvacnter, who on Saturday brought down in flames a German building, and after pointing out that every dockyard, public and private, was being used PRIVATE S. W. HERFORD.

We learn with great regret of the death, which, took place in France on Friday week, of Mr. Siegfried Wedgwood Herford, the only son of Professor and Mrs. C. H. Herford, of Manchester.

The news of their son's death only reached them on Saturday in a letter of the chaplain who buried him. Mr. Siegfried Herford, who was only 24 years of age, was a man of beautiful character and much promise. Hia genius was not, like his father's, literary, but mechanical. He took a first class in honours in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester and won the Eesearch Fellowship, which he employed for two years in experimental work in connection with aeroplanes at the War Office establishment at Farn-borough.

After serving for some time on the motor ambulance service in France be enlisted a year ago as a private in the "Sportsmen's" Battalion of the Koyal Fusiliers, in which his friend 0. Montague had also enlisted as a private. He was a man of great strength and stature, and was known as probably the best rock-climber in England. To his friends no was endeared by the simplicity and ohann of his nature. Sec.

Lieut. THEODORE HERFORD (wounded). Information has been received that Second Lieutenant Theodore Herford (first cousin of the late Private Herford), of the Boyal Engineers, son of Mrs. Herford, of Withington, has been wounded in France. He was educated at Manchester University and by profession an architect.

He originally enlisted in the First Life Oaarda. Aoter son of the Ber. Travis aerford, has also been wounded and ia now in a hospital in London. the plunder of what remains in Poland hut ment aepartments wmcn reasonably might be expected to know something about aeroplane near rise, making the fifth enemv to its utmost capacity, he continued: they can hardly refuse if the American Gov FOUR PASSERS-BY KILLED. Four persons were killed at Gateshead on Saturday by a runaway tramcar.

The car ro backwards downhill, a distance of a couple of hundred yards, in the temporary absence of tha driver, and then left the lines at a sharp bend and turned' completely oyer. The killed not passengers in the car, but passers-by who were involved in the accident. Their names were Private Edward Hutchinson, 1st Durham Light Infantry, of Shildon; Vaisey Morrell, blacksmith, of Gatw head Jane Morrell, his wife, and Foster Morrell, their seven-year-old son. In addition, Elizabeth Eowe, 20, of Gateshead, the conductress of the car, and Private 0. Foster, Durham.

Light Infantry, living at Stanhope, were severely injured, suffering from fractured legs. They were both on the platform at the time of the accident, and were pinned in by the wreckage that they couw not Be moved until jacks were prooured. TVlo. wnr ma frill atlrt it WSS This being so, it is manifestly impossible to ernment publicly makes the request and Home Office certainly is not responsible the Board of Trade repudiate all knowledge of any Bach committee (films would hardl machine which he has vanquished; and last night's French official message mentions destructive firing by the British and French artillery on the German trenches in add to the magnitude of our preparations. The points out that the very existence of the Poles depends on their abandoning this cruel most we can do is to alter their character.

example, there are only six lines of instructions as to cases of "serious hardahin." Nothing, however, has yet occurred which, would Belgium. (p. 7) within Mr. Runciman's scheme for the import of "bulky" articles), and that unofficial body the War Savings Committee policy of confiscation. The American Govern.

justify the Admiralty thinking that any Germany and the United States. 1 though that is the most important clause in the Act one under which the great majority of claims for exemption will be made, atiart ment might at least find out without delav serious error 01 judgment nas been so fax com a wasnington corresponaent th, what attitude the Central Powers would adopt muted in connection, with the various types of from those of starred men and reserved occu there is a better prospect of a settlement of the Lusitania dispute between C-rmanv and ships which are under construction. towards sucn a suggestion. utss uiBua liu at all about picture theatres or picture films. Is it possible that the Cabinet have discussed it and that the news was 'carried to PIaJ Street by Mr.

Birrell's "gentlemen beneaS pations. The administration of the Act will me umieu outics. says mat uermanv That the Admiralty is not deficient in have to be closely watched by Parliament, bv latest -ote, wnua not usme tho the press, and by labour organisations if cross i i LUC UU4B 1 illegal as regards the torpedoing, states inventiveness the defeat of the submarine blockade in home waters showed, but there MR. ASQUITH. that the other passengers escaped with nothing was some interval between the appearance of the danger and that of its antidotes, and this interval was costly in the losses of our mer Reprisals.

Sib Evelyn "Wood is one of our most distinguished living soldiers, and in a letter to the Times" he protests, as 'the oldest "midshipman, Field Marshal, and student of war," against the suggestion, to "which Lord Rosebery has unhappily lent his name, that tnat tne Killing ox Americans was without intent on the part of Germany. (p The Passing ot Cameroon. The Spanish Government announces that 900 German Europeans and 14,000 German natives hare fled over the border from the German colony of Cameroon into Spanish anomalies ana iajusvu are db prevented. A very important point is that the tribunals are morally bound by all declarations and pledges given in Parliament or elsewhere by the' Government during the passing of the Act. Such pledges would not bind or even influence courts of law, which construe any Act of Parliament strictly according to its terms and not by what Parliament said that worse than cuts and.

shock. At the request of the Aimy Council Mr. A. Mount, 'has' accepted the position civil member (unpaid) on the Claims Coni sion in' Frande inBucoeasion to Mr. Jcsfipn cantile tonnage.

What one would like to feel more sure about is that the Admiralty The Prime Minister left LondoB on Saturday to spend- th week-end in the country. He has arranged to receive at 10, Downing Street! on Thursday afternoon, a deputation on the subject is not only capable of disposing of a danger this country should retaliate in kind for the 01 toe closing 01 puouc museums..