The Observer from London, Greater London, England • 6

THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JUST: SO, 1907. THEATRES. THEATRES. ENGLAND AND GERMANY, NATIONAL WAR TRAINING OF GERMAN STATE ECONOMY. HABRIBON.

NOTES AT RANDOM. If the eminent A inlaaaaiadiVwr and ladtnferietis mSdmlt who are conducting tha Confe'renoe at" TOif Hague were gifted with) a aenaa of humour they Would go their several ways with an outburst of laughter. They are met together to diaouaa Pease, and war is ever upon their tongue. the on subject which ia strictly forbidden there ia the subject which stands in' majuscules at the head of their programme. Peace I What is Peace to these emissaries of war I Hypocrisy seems to dog the footetepa of international politics.

Nor is the reason' far to seek. The nations watoh each other's movement with suspicion, and from suspicion hypocrisy descends in a direct line. Moreover, nothing oan be more oongwniaJ to falsehood than a Peace Conference. From' the very beginning it is foredoomed to failure. A thousand years may change the habit' of the world.

To-day none but the weak are willing to put their armour off. The Conference, then, is worth liatening.to only vshea it discusses the customs, of war, and tha debate which Mr. Choate inaugurated on Friday, last should be gravely considered by all those who take aa interest in the welfare of Tha representative of America proposed that private property of all the signatory Powers, except contraband of war, will be exempt on the sea from capture or seizure by the armed vessels or military forces of the aforesaid Powers." To this proposal America clings with a stern tenacity, and Mr. iOYAL OFEEA. COVKNT QABDBK.

A TRAVIATA, TO-MORROW fHona.T), at KBO iff PenUy. Severlnel MM. Oarnao, lUvarrlnl, ntnrlaJ. Sampler), and Soottl. Conductor, Slrnor Caamnealnl.

On i oceaaW the price of iveaeatn stalls win 3. AD ASIA BUTTERFLY, TCJESDAY, at 8. Mmea. llarea Uaftuin tSalatt.f tiiTi 1 cT i areaunn, Mjeone, nim, yito, livelier UK. Oarpl, Zooani, inaaolor.

Buraor CAVALLERIA RUSTIOANA, WEDNESDAY, at 7.45, followed hy FEDORA. Mmee. Olaehetti, Oleeson-WMta, EepplIU, Baverlna MM. Caruso. 6cndl.nl.

ttaraoiu. OraDoe, Zuuhl, aienoll, Yeuturinl, N.varrtal, Llercuar, ud Carpi. Conductors. Blgnor Campanlal ud bMgaor Panties. A BOHEME, THURSDAY, at 8.50.

Mutes. Melba, JLJ Zr-ppllll; MM. Caruso. Olllbart, Mucogi, CelleM, Zncchl, ud Bcandlanl. Conductor, bltfnor Caaipsninl.

On tola occasion lbs price of orchestra, alalia will W23l RIGOLETl'O, FRIDAY, at 8.30. JImo. Selma Kan, Bulla. Bei-erina, Miss, ud Do Clsneroe; MM. Bsasl, Journst.

QUI. bert. lucclil, Crabbe, A'avarrinl, ud sauunareo. Conductor, Signer Patiliz. 4 IDA, SATURDAY at 8.

Dimes. Destinn and Klrkby Lupn; MM. Qartisn. Journal, Alircoux. Zuechl, ud ScottL Cob.

or HlxDor CamvanluL IKICS OJ? ADMISSION (except aa otherwise advertised): Boies, ig. and 2Kl. Oreta. Stalls. 1 la.

Balcony a'talla. Ataphl Stalls. Ida. It. 64.

and 5a. Aaapaitbeafre (unreserved), Sb. 6d. Box-olllce ID to 10. T.

JAMES'S. GEORGE ALEXANDER. WSXT lcVKVTNQ. at fl VI. XiABX STOUTS.

LAST BIOHTB. JOHN QLAYDE'S HONOUR. By Alfred Sutro. Mr. OEORQB ALEXANDER.

Mils HVA MOOBB. 3i at in Ea wed.vbsday jojxt, a.30. ST. JAMES'S, KINO PALL MALL. Tel 3903 Garrard.

AHRICK. MR. ARTHUR BOURCHIER and HISS VIOLET VANBUUQ1L Evarv JtTanlna- at HSn in IHH WALLS OP JERICHO, Tho encceaaf ul play In four acts araum Buira. MATISBB every WKDKmDAY ud SATURDAY, at (.30. USB OP YORK'S THEATRE, BL Martlu'e-lane, W.O.

Bala Leasee ud Manager, Char Lea Jrahnaa, KVBBY EVENISQ. at LU. CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS GRACB GKOHGE ud company In D1VORCONS. Vrasaded, at 8.1S, 07 BARCLAY QAMMOK and a Pius, by arraniam.nl wiiu Jirrai jiiubhcijuc aba, jjariai. MATINEB every TllbKSBAY and attll (10MEDY THEATHB, Pantontmt, Tlajmariot.

Sola Laawa, Mr. Arthur Chudlalcn. under tlie Miinnfrcuieut of 31r. Arthur Obudlalaa, VVVUV wWTVti .1. CHARLES FROHMAN MARIE TEMPEST 111 THE TRUTH.

A Coniedr In Four Acta, by Clrile Fftoh. MATIN EB EVEKV WKDXESDAY and SATCRDAT. at E.S0. THE HICKS THEATRE, W. Sola Leasee and 5Un.tscr.CUARI.Ed r'ROUMAX.

Klshtlj at 6.45, OIIAKLKa FJtUHMAN preaanta BREWSTER'S MILLION'S. GERALD Dtl aa IIRKWSTF.R At 8. 16. HILDA TIIEVKLYAN In "The br Arthur FOLLO. TOM JONES, Banrr Lowenfald, Sola Proprlatar.

Tom B. Dalria, Sole Laaiaa and ataauar. KVKR1' KVKNIKO. ai6ju.m Production of TOM JONES, SLTbampaon and Robert Oourtnaldxa. Lrrloa by Ghariaa Tj MATW.

EVJJKY clATCRUAX atZlS, HAFTESBURY THEATRE. T.ATIV TATTBHR tJ XTSBX BVKNIKO, at 8.15, MATIMSB KVERY THUB8SAT, at 3. THS STRONGEST CAST IV IXTOOV Mr. 0OUBTI0B POUNDS, Mr. WALTBS FABBMOBB, Mlai CLAUDIA LASBLL, Jllai KABIB OBOROa.

THE PLAYHOUSE, Northumberland-arenas. Leoace and Manager, Mr. Cyril Mauda EVGItr EVEXIVG. at 9. THK HAUL OF PAWTUOKKT.

OTRrL 31At7UE and Mlu Alexandra Oarlbla Pnnded at 8.20 by THK DliUMS OF ODflB. MATINEE EVERY WEDNESDAY, at 2.Z0. AU eeata. Including siUcry. cau be booked.

Tel. 14043 and 14043 Ocrrard, YRIC THEATRE. Mr. LEWIS WALLER, ueaaea, axr. vruuam ureec under the manacement of Mr.

Tom B. DaTla at B.M, LANCARrr. LAST 3 NIGHTS, LAST MATINEE, WEU.VESDAr JfEXT, at CM Ob TIIUBSCAT NEXT, July 4th, will be Sarins' (far 12 perferaianejea unlyl UEAUOA1RE. MATCfEKd, JULY 6, 10, and 13, at 130. ALT'S THEATRE.

Leicester-square. EVERY EVENING, at 8. 15. MATINEE EVEJiY SATURDAY, at 9.30. A uaw oLay, with mualc, entitled TUB MERRY WIDOW Die Liutcc Wliwo "I Produced by Mr.

Georce Edaardaa. GAIETY THEATRE. V3T Manager, Mr. Gaona Sdwardaa. EVERY VESTING at 8 (doon open 7.401, a new moalcal play.

Till! nim.H up finrrpxnvnn itttlad UATIHSa WEDNESDAY NEXT, at 2.0 (tloora opea LWt Boi-qBco opes dally from 10 all 10. PRINCE OF WALES' THEATRE. Lessee ud Haoacer, Prank CuRoa, EVERY EVENING, at rRANK CCRZ0N8 New Musical ProdncUon. MISS HOOK OF HOLLAND. MATTER EVERY WEDNESDAY.

atZ TSRBY'B THEATRE. Proprietor. Edward Terry. Lcaaee. Jamca Welcb.

Manater, Qaston Mayer. TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING. at8.S0, "MAS. tVIGGS OK THE CABBAGE PATCli" Funuteit play In LundolL "AaanBlBIsf ibeer AILY Man. Xotblnft abort of perfeeC' TI3IES.

TV I aeldom lanh at the theatre ol to4lay. DAILY It a. MRS. MADGE CABR COOK aa MRS. WIQQB.

MATINKE fiVEHY WEDNKSDAY and SATURDAY, at 1.50, Terrj'i Tbeatra adlolus Saroy Hotel, Strand. Telephone Zm Garrard. UTAUDEVILLE THE TRE. Leaaeea and Maiinffrrr A ud S. GattL EVERY EVENING, at S.0, Xeaara.

A AS II GATTl'S PRODUCTION OF MRS. IOXDIiKBURY'S PAST. By F. 0. Buraand.

under the direction of Mr. Cuarlea Hawtray. Praecded, at i.30. by THE ANONYMOUS LETTER. MATINEES WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at 2.30.

ALDORF THEATRE, Aldwych. Strand. W.O. EVERY EVENING at 8.50. A New Plar.

In Three Aeiii. hv (Ihiuiniee PaUoojc THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE. Frank Cooper, Oharlea Cartwrisbt, Henry Vlbart, Cbarlea Oollattal Mlaaca Avne, Hewitt. Fannie Ward. Preceded at 8.30 hr Mr Charles Collctte In a Mualeal Moaoloaua MATINEE, NEXT WEDNE3I1AY.

at 2Ja Oaud after SATURDAY NEAT this PLAY 111 bo TRANSFER RED to the Aldwych Theatre. Boi-ofllco opea 10 to 10. Tel 3830 Ger. LYCEUM THEATRE. NIGHTLY, at 8.

ANOTHER TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS I ENTHUaiAATIO BE0B1TJON I Of the New Momantle Military Drama, THE MIDMtillT WEDDISOT By Waller Howard. MATINEE Erery at Z.30. Stalls. Sa. Baoond BUTia.

Sa. First Girds. 2a. ad. Pit, la.

Gallery, fid. Box-ofBea opaa 1Q to 10. Tel 71B Garrard. EMPIRE, LEICESTER SQUARE. NEW BALLET.

BIR ROGER DE COVEBLBY. MLLB. ADELINE GBNEB. Prrmlera Danaeuse, ADELMANS TKIO. "MB.

RYMACK," BARBKR RITCHIE TltloTMISS CLARA ALBJCANDEX. KIlEMrLA BKOd KEEN AND WAL1.KK. HKnOK LANDS 310TOE TKACK on the UIO GRAPH, THE HEBUVAJfTE, at EVERY EVENING at 8.0. Muarer, Mr. H.

J. HrrOITINa. ALACE. YVETTE GUILRERT. R.

G. KNOWLES. DE DIO, BOflANNYS, Ac SCOTTISH MOTOR TRIALS on BIOSCOPE, kc. EVENINGS, 8.0 (doura 7.45). MATINEE.

FULL PROGRAMME, SATURDAY at 2.0. Manajrlng Director, MR. ALFRED BUTT. ALHAMBKA. THE FAMOUS ZANCIGS.

QUEEN OF SPADES." GRAND BALLET. Slfmnrina Mnri itonlln, Danaettae. Varlitlea by YII'LIANS r'A'IILY SEXTETTE, NEW BALLET. LES Gir.NAC. FIVE WH1TELEYS.

"UKBANORA." ailOKT-SIGU'lKD UlCLIsT, VICTORIA 1'ALLS, RHODESIA. Sc. Doors 7.4E. Manarcr. GEORGE SCOTT.

THE TIVOLI. LITTLE TICH. FRAGSON. l'RIOE and RKVOST, Ed. E.

Ford, France and Stewart, May Belfort, Aniv CleTere, Maud Courtlicv, Arthur Ui'ece. The Sister InKTore, John Kufkaaip. MARCEL AND llOlllS. Ruby fielder, Uhaxlca Whltt and AGNES r'KASKtt AND M. 1C MORAND.

Opea 7.3a SATURDAY MATINEES 2.15. URY ST. EDMUNDS. IT1HE GREAT HISTORICAL PAGEANT where ha can find everything suited to his re quirements, where he can meet his ocraradee of both services, and where he can procure a good bed room and a comfortable meal warmth, light and good cheer at a reasonable figure. The rules for the moriagemeoit of the Olnb will follow those of dfchar London clubs.

A Council and Association have been formed. which will be responsible for its direction, and there will be su oomm ibtees for the man agemeot of different portions of the organisa tion formed from members, so that it may be managed in accordance worth their wishes, There will be a large number of bedrooms "the CQub wall start with 200 lockers for kit, and safes, reading and writing rooms, a library, billiard rooms, bath rooms, smoking and dining rooms and a spacious central hall. There will be no bar; but the restaurant arrange' meats will be of an ample and convenient kind, and liquid refreshments, teetotal or otherwise, will be similar to those obtainable in sergeants' messes and recreation rooms generally. The dimemsdona oi the lounge hall, which is the generial room of the institution, are 100 feet by SO feet. The dining room measures 140 feat fay 20 feet.

Two rriroasee afford access to the bedroom floors, and are placed bo as to avoid trapping in the event of fire. There will be no element of charity about the dub Naval depflrtta, gunnery and torpedo schools and active destroyers, divisions of the Marines and regiments will pay an annual subscription of eight, guineas per unit oi 800 men, while men belonging to ships or regiments which have not ubsoribed can become members on payment of Is. a month, or 2s. Bd. a year.

The Union Jack Olub is, in fact, the first publio expression of England's debt of grati tude to the forces which protect her. It fills a national want and fulfils a national duty, It is a welcome sign that at last England is growing conscious of her national obligation rto the Services, and to the paramount importance of raising tho status and dignity of the military profession. Tho Club will serve not only ns a memorial to the dead, but as an inspiration to the living assisting the simple men of the Line and sailors of the sea in their daily lives, providing a healthy alternative to the streets and the sordid life of the public-house, steeling them to a higher conception of purpose and decorum, teaching them the better to do their duty. The Una on Jack Club will impart lustre to the dignity of the coat rod a more oonsoious pride to the wearer of it. It is a irrcat step forward in nromotins that proper publio appreciation of the Services which is so sadly lacking in England, and which is so marked a characteristic of Con tinental peoples, lit will help the soldier and sailor bo realise themselves, and the public the better to realise them.

With time, no doubt, the Olub will evolve a new code of professional publio conduct and bearing. A feeling of added dignity will grow, and with it the desire to assert it. In time, maybe, a soldier's etiquette will arise, rendering it undesirable for the red coat to be seen in a public-house or loafing on the benches in the park. As an educational institution, both for the public and the men concerned, the Union Jack Club is a first-class thing. Shall we not therefore give toward it? Is it to be recorded that England, already oblivious of the valiant services performed by tho Army during one of tho greatest crises in her history, failed to raise 6,000 because she was too callous of her national duty, too un generous, too heedless of the lessons of the South African war, or so indifferent to the memory of the dead and the welfare of the living? Is the country which subscribed its million shillings in tributary obole to the first cricketer in the land to fail in contributing a sum sufficient to provide a comfortable, club free of liability to the professional men who defend it? The very idea is inconceivable Our first and last refuge in peril is the Army and the Navy.

We cannot grudge the thew and sinew of war a suitable home in the heart of the greatest and richest city in the world. We cannot afford to have it said that the King of England was forced to open the first soldiers' club founded in England with a 6,000 liability in this age of capitalism and prodigious luxury. We cannot allow the fact to bo telegraphed throughout the world that the traditional nation of shopkeepers cares so little for its soldiers and so much for its own snug welfare as to refuse some reasonable meed of comfort to its heroic Army. It can never be. And we feel connden'fc it will not be.

We are optimists. The money will be. found for King and country. If Britons never shall be slaves, neither shall it be written that they are spiritless nickelpinchers." From fcbe Observer of 1807. Sunday, Ju S3, 1807.

No. SOS. Priu Sixptncc: Tha rumoured abolition of Lotteries haa aroated no mail degree of alarm in the minds of many individuals. We have always considered Lotteries so beneficial to tho State in various ways, that we trust so important a measure as their abolition will not be carried into effect without the most mature deliberation. In the Gazette of Tuesday night, it is stated, that an Address to His Majesty, signed by the Provost, Fellows, Scholars of Trinity College, Dublin, had been inserted by miitake, no such Address having been sont At Newry a fow days ago a melancholy duel took place.

Tho OSicera were seated after dinner, when tho subject of tactics, was introduced. Col. and Capt. differed about the best mode of manoeuvring a regiment, on which tho Colonel insisted that the Captain should fight him. The door was secured pistols produced ne firoufi(2 measured far the room was so small, that when wheeling round to fire, tho muzzles of the pistols almost touched, and tho Colonel shot the Captain in tho abdomen, of which wound ho died in an hour afterwards.

The Captain has left a wile and six children. Tho Colonel fled. Yesterday a woman who for many yean, efcajruaeed is. male attare. served aa a sailor in the Navy, and who haa eince distinguished hears ell aa a zealous partisan of Sir iiurdett, attended at the Westminster pouce omee to nruecuta 'her landlord for besvtisgr hex.

A enmOTomiae was. however, effected. Laat week tha wife of a labourer named James Tntt, was delivered pi three children, at Buatmarao. Ac the time of her deliverr she had six children that could not iradk, and fourW them under trratre months old. THE WEEK'S POLITICAL DIARY.

The Prime Minister's resolution on the House of Lords was carried by 432 to 147. The Speaker received tho degree of Doctor oi Civil Law at Oxford. Tho preamble to the Metropolitan Water Board (Charge) Bill was declared proved. The Hybrid Committee ol the House- rejected the L.C.C. Eloctrio Lighting Bill.

Mr. Lloyd-George announced that Colonial Commer. aial Agent would oo appointed by the Board of Trade. The Foreign Secretary explained that negotiations were still in progress for the conclusion of an Anglo-Russian agreement. HIB MAJESTTB THEATRE BYKrlT BVKNINI Hr.

TREE A WOMAN OF Four Niihia. Laiarii LAST MATnrBS WEDNESDAY 2TSZT, at Ut fill hta. nw a lirar ui mi irAiiae tPl BOO UPON THE LiTOH. DraautlaaA by F. Klnaoy PeUa from Robert Louis BtaTanaea'a story "La Biro da On FRIDAY NEXT, July I (The Last Nurtit of the maul uamt TH8 door Upon tiIb YItBh.

work, aaonadaat wnMSiyzlr vwma -ints An iixck, taa tnird act or a XSfrAsVS? N0. IMl'ORTASOB. the laat act of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, and a tceue from THE WINTER TALK. Usual prices. AYMARKKT THEATRE.

"wcg buu iuainicer. air. a reaeneK HvtruoB. 'M1 WIFE Kr" A Comedy, In 3 acta, by Michael Morton. Mr, AUBREY BMITFI, Mr.

A. F- MATTHEWS. Sr- BOLMAN CLAHit. Mr. II.

MARSH ALLBlJ, fir VSW, Mr- ATUOL STEWART, MIsa JlILLIli LrdARDB and Mlsa MARIE LOHR. y.rfiAti!'; 0ASE ov ARSON, ar DEVUI SS In seven charaetera. MATINEE EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, at 8.30. alAVOY. at2S.

Also July 8. 10. 12, 15, 16, 18, 20. 23, 84, 88. MATINEES, July 13, ud July IT, OAVOY.

WEDNESDAY, at 8.29, THK GONDOLIERS. Also July 8, 19, 27, at 8.85, FRIDAY, at 885, PATIENCE. Also July 1L 83. at 888. MATINEE, SATURDAY, July 88, at LSI.

SATURDAY, at 830, THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. Also July 1J, 17, 2J, at 881. gAVOY. gAYOY. CRITERION THEATRE.

Ufatt door to Piccadilly Clrena Tab BtaalaaJ lcaaee. Sir Oharlea Wyndham. EVERY EVENING, atlSoT CHARLES WYNDHAM and Mia MARY MOORE ud Oompaay In THE LIARS. Ranry Anaar Joaea, MATUrBB arary WEDNESDAY, at ISO? Tala, 1.84 Gerrard. EW THEATRE.

Proprietor, Sir CharlaB WyncUiam. TTnrler thi, ninuamanfc .1 JULIA NEILSON and FRED TERRY. EVERY EVENING, at s. (605TB PEBFORHAKOB.) THE SCARLET P1MPBKNEL. MATINEE EVERY WEDNESDAY ud SATURDAY, at 8.30.

Bojjmco open 10 to 10. Telephone 2(73 Gerrard. BALKAN STATES EXHIBITION, EARL'S COURT, Opcu 11 a.m. to 11 i in. is.

Season Tickets 10s. 6il. Wetkli Tickata 2s. 6d SERVIAN SEUTlllN-viL'LENS PALAOE. BULGARIAN SKCTIoN lMl'EUIAL COURT.

MON TEN Eli IN SECi'l ON UCAL HALL, WORKING TOBACCO. CAIU'ET AND OTHER EXHIBITS. Mauufuctiiris. I'rmlucUi. ArU and industries, IS THE IIAI.eL.lN VILLAGE.

rEASAXT dancers ami gii'sy MUbiciANR free. Throiiltlt the Itiitkaoa in 10 minutes. THE HAND OF IRISH GUARDS. LONHON JiXIIIlliTlO.NS MILITARY BAND. OLD JAPAN," IN THE EMPRESS HALL.

With Its Temples, Monuments. Teahuuaui, ud Geisha, A CULONY OF ART MISSIONARIES. JAPANESE THEATRE FKBE. THE FISHING CORMORANTS PRES. YCHY yiOHY yicHY CELESTLNS CELESTINS NATURAL MINERAL WATER fur OOUT.

OltAVEU RHEUMATISM. a WELL with WINES or SPIRITS. CELE8TINS Sole Axants for tha STATE SPRINGS of VIOHTt-INURAM a BOYLB (Limited, 26, Upper Thamaa straet, LtlNUO-V, E.C Of all Cbsmlsla. Wiue Merchaats, Btoraa, kc. EBRYWEATHER' "VERY BEST" WATERING HO SB Ststt Lanath stamard MerrTweathen' unequalled In onajjty.

Tsatlmoalal. Tha hoaa I had TEN years ago la as good aa ever ud I VB BY-BHST London." wE4r to lasi tcu. Order direct and arold rubhlah. 63, LONG-AOBB, LONDON, W.O. QLARIDGE'S HOTEL, LONDON, Contalni MAGNIFICENT SUITES OF BOOMS, all on the Groand Floor ud connected with the BEAUTIFUL FOYER, ultabla for WEDDJNG BREAKFASTS, BALLS, ud other Private Entartalameata O.

BBANQRZKX, Ganeral Manager. JLbe Wleawer. An ixnprovemsnii In the wsathar la probabls. but it is anticipated that the temperature will still remain below the normal. The following forecasts have been issued by the Meteorological Office for the 24 hours ending midnight to-night ENGLAND, B.

(London and Channel), MIDLAND coiNTies, N.w. (and N. Wales). 8.W. (and Wales), and IRELAND, S.

Light variable westerly breezes at tint, becoming easterly later generally I air or nne, BUg-nt local showers cool. ENGLAND. N.E. SCOTLAND. W.

and and IRELAND, N.Ligtit Variable easterly breezes; generally I air or nne cooL zOjVdoa'. juxe so, jsot. FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Before darkness gathers in to-nipht dn fchis porversity of summer it is not safe to speak of aunsot it is earneatly to be hoped that the 6.000 still wiftriDinjT bo enable the King to open the Union Jade Club free of debt on Monday next will generously be provided by tho British publio. TJhs special fund opened by ibhe Daily Mail has met with warm and cheerful 'response but more remains to be doue, and we appeal to our read era of all parties and classes to pay loyal testimony to 'the honour of the two services for whose benefit the Club, as a fitting tribute to the dead, has been conceived and founded.

As Sir Edward Ward, President of the Club Council, has said The Club is the earnest and the embodiment of a definite aim to raise tho status and promote tho comfort and hap piness of tho men who serve Sovereign and country to-day, and to strengthen the ties between the sister services." It is thus a truly national and patriotic institution. As people, counties and towns have not yet fully realised tue national character of this memorial to the fallen, tha great want it fills in the Army and the Aavy, and the educational and elevating purpose of its conception, we make no apology for once more explaining both its nature and uses. In the first place it will be open to all sailors, soldiers and marinas. entirely social in character, national and not in any sense metropolitan, for the benefit, that is, of men stationed in this capital. The main object of the Olub is to provide reasonable aoenrnmodation for sailors, soldiers and marines staying in London on furlough or passing through the number of whom, in the course of a year, is estimated to be about 200,000 from all parts of the United Kingdom.

It is intended purely as a club, so that Jack and Tommy may enjoy all the privileges of any other well-ordered club in town and it i will provide for the man on leave or adrift in London a home and congenial rendezvous BY AUSTIN I corns now to the reason of modern German State economy and its reflective action upon the life of tha body politic By the former I mean tha economic interests of the nation trade, commerce, and their political adjuncts, the Army and the Navy, which may be classified aa Power; and by the latter the national education and feeling which derive from it, or the expression ol the national will to aupport and assert it. And first I will take the reason, which, indeed, for all comprehension of modem Germany, it ia quintessential to understand. In all history of the evolution of peoples no contrast is more striking than that presented by a study of Goutho's Hermann and Dorothea of the ago which inspired and read it, and of which it was a faithful reflex and that of modern Germany; with its scientific aociqeracy, its ecientifio purpose and propulsion, its aystematised national education, and the new materialistic idea of State reason and direction. The Song of the sublimated Ego In philosophy of Kant and Fichte, in poetry of Goethe and Schiller, in politics of' Old German Liberalism, in practical life of individualism and the Schoppenhaner doctrine of the will to live what la It now but the dirge of an old-world ideology the last stare of Lohengrin incantation I To-day Germany is governed by what may be called the anthropological conception of life by the submersion, that la, of the individual In the man, of the purpose and will of the I in the central aervioe of the whole. This anthropological conception of Ufa is, In fact, the key to all German unity of national and individual design.

Whether the Idealism invoked by the words Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, or that which found anch poetic expression in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, France and Germany, or tha idealism which culminated in Rousaaau and the French Revolution is the cause of rsodern German materialism or not it is not for ma to discuss. It exists in the rule of Krupp and Jiallin, Siemens and Rothschild, Bismarck and Moltlce, the Kaiser and his economic Navy professors, in the materialistic Socialism of Karl Marx, and the col-Jecfcfvfst purpose of the German Government. To-day Germany recognises aa the two basic conditions of national Ufa labour and machinery, fit which labour ia the most important. It is the eciencB of mass production and consumption, mass quality, mass organisation and application, the politico-economic power contained in the masses, of which buying and selling are the driving forces of existence and the bed-rock of all national progress and prosperity. In a word, the commercial position and policy of a nation ia the primary object of its existence, as it is its surest index of well-being; while dependent for such existence on the motive force of an -ever increasing masa vitality, and dependent for its safety and progresa on the mass quality ol the armed power behind, it, which is its first and ultimate protection.

The Industrialisation of Germany is thru the root and branch of the whale German economic problem. The new philosophy of life is founded upon it. Tha whole energy of the State is concentrated upon its solution. It is the dynamic force of modern German economy. The following table shows the development of industrialism in the last hundred years: Agricultural population.

18.5 millions 18.3 is.a 18.5 18.5 IS. 5 Non-agricultural population. 8.3 millions 12.4 17.6 24.0 31.5 41.S laia 1835 1855 IBIS 1BSS JSG3 So that when Germany has attained to her 80 million standard of population and Professor Hickmann esti mates that about the year 1924 Germany will have reached that figure something like 61.5 per cent. A the entire population will be employed in industrial pursuits. The question for Germany is thus tho economic problem uf how to employ these growing This is the material view of modern German reason of State.

Understood in its full signi ficance, it gives us the clue to German State economy and attainment, end leads ns logically to the meaning and purpose of German militarism, and to the reason of the Kaiser's oversea forward policy. It shows us a State scientifically providing for, organising and enforcing a national system of eoonomia achievement. and a national will to promote and realise it. In all essentials it is nationally constructive, educa tionally formative, politically and economically cieative. To educate Germans to the economic importance of the Army and to the political importance of commerce is thni the paramount design of tha Emperor a policy.

It is the basis of Pan-Germanism, the origin of the new naval en thusiasm, the reason of all modern national reason, the economic wardrobe of the future. And it is for this reason that the Army and Navy ares, and must be, the pivot of the nation's destiny. THE ECONOMY OF FOBCE. War, then, in the German idea is the ultima ratio of capitalistic action and interaction, and is thus the first and last economic asset of a nation a will and vitality. In Europe, at any rate, the era of what may ba termed non-economic wars closed with the Beligious Wars of the seventeenth century; for later the characteristic cause of wars may be described as monarchical.

Napoleon initiated the purely economic war designed for a national economic purpose. He fought England to ruin her economically, and his fall was the geaetio apotheosis of the British Em pire. The wars of lobb and 1H70 paved the way for the North German capitalistic development, and their direct result is the new German State economy. Since then all wars or troubles of war, whether in China, the Transvaal, East Asia, Egypt, Morocco or Venezuela, have been purely economic, waged for purely material purposes. In war the German national spirit was born, by effect of war, after the Napoleonic dominion, modern German capitalistic development became possible, and with tha spirit of war the now national Uennan economic unity and policy is shaped and held together.

The military education of the people is thus the first duty of the State. It was the capitalistic or economic reason that led the Emperor to found the German Navy, and it is for the purpose of assist ing trie economic policy of oversea exchange that it exists and grows to-day. The greater the German world market grows, the greater is its economic vulnerability, and so the greater grows the need for stronger Aavy. The is now generally re garded in Germany as the first insurance policy for the national credit and attainment. It is because Germans cenceive war, and the power to wage war, to be the Alma Mater at economic prosperity and expansion that the modern German sociocracy existe, grows and will grew concomitantly with the growth of Germany' population, market and national purpose, potentially to inspire and enforce them.

And it is for this that the military spirit of Germany rules aa the energising Idol of Mammon righteousness. THE NEW PAN-GEBMANISM. What else is Pan-Germanism but the national ex pression of this dominating economic creed and panacea It is the desire for greater eeonomio space, more markets, more dominion and national expro priation of weaker economic, civilisstiona. When the Kaiser ascended the throne Germanio constructive 1 unity waa still but a dream, invoking little sympathy among Germans, being but the Golden Garden of the warriors paradise. well, to-day the very meaning of Pan-Germanism has lost both point and substance.

rises by piece the blocks of national solidarity, Imperial coDstructiveness, eeonomio prcjrrcMS and am bition have been set to the State edifice and cemented together, and today, a castle rock of granite, it proudly frowns upon the Continent, one massive architectural design of single aim and conatrnction. There is no longer need for Pan-German, agitation. The buccaneer Navy Professors no longer preach the gospel of battles and battleships, Hohenzollern architectonics and immediate world conquest now AU Germany is All-Germanic. It first astonished us with the outbreak of Anglophobia daring the Baet war. It is revealed in the million membership of the German Navy League it was demonstrated nationally, at tha last General Election.

It has become part and parcel of the modern German education. First of all, said a' distinguished lady to me, I teach my sons to be men of German spirit and Empire. Bo bb good as yon can, as wiso, aa truthful, as useful as you can, as generous and as upright as you but, before all, know that you axe a German, and because a German a soldier, and because a soldier an economic factor in the national Tour duty as a citizen is to know how to fight and die for your country, yonr first thought should always be of Germany and its destiny." And then she told me how other mothers taught their sons In similar spirit, training tbssn to believe in tfie future Jsf Germanio Empire and expansion, in the Kaiteridu or idea of Emperor, in the Army and the Navy and in ths teaching of the School of Treitscbke. Protestant, Jew, Catholic, many a Socialist even one and all are now ardent supporters of the Emperor's Navy, believers in the future of Germany, upholders of the AU Germanio ides of 'Tentonio predestinate ascendancy. To put it succinctly, Pan-Germarrism has merged into itself, and lives, exultant and expectant.

Is the scientific purpose of modern Germany. This acentifio war training of the Gorman people is especially notable at tha present moment, in the face of recent evidence of the decline of the military apirit in France and the loose talk of disarmament now popular in England. We see in Germany a nation oonBC'ous of a great destiny, consciously and conscientiously pursuing -it. We Bad the whole economy of the German State aystematised and applied towards the cultivation of the national war spirit, towards the promotion of ths nations economic end, and towards its ultimate and triumphal realisation. The new generation cut their teeth on the All-Germanic idea.

Their children may live to fulfil it. It ia not a thing which peoples of Utopian tendencies, of idealistic principles, faiths and infallibilities can afford to sneer at, or ignore, or even resent. It enunciates a new philosophy of national life, a now policy of Governmental responsibility, a new conception of the place of the individual within, the State and of his civic duty towards it. It has destroyed ths idealism of Old Germany, hut it haa given the country reason for existence, a cans to promote, a flag, a soul prophetic and a fate). FEELING IN GERMANY.

It is proverbially difficult for a foreigner to gang the feeling of a people not his own towards another, yet, as this is a matter of extreme importance to as, the opinion of one who for the last tea years has enjoyed exceptional opportunity for studying Germany on ths spot may here stand recorded, and, at any rate, it is sincere. In the first place the political changes that have taken place since the year 1900 have naturally exercised a temperate effect upon the German nation, and one no longer meets the braggart Pan-German characteristic of the Boer war period of. Anglophobic effusion; or overhears the sUly talk of British decadence minted for naval. at that time. Tha Boors did not win, Russia did not England did sot abandon France in things, in fine, have not developed with that precipitancy and in that direction which Germans five years ago hopefully anticipated.

It has had a soberising effect generally. Fewer pamphlets describing the war between England and Germany and the crushing defeat of the former are published now. Less is said, less is written a more chastened spirit prevails. But little more can be said. If Jess is said far more is thought, far more prepared for.

I am not speaking of the feeling in the Army, which, aa I wrote in a former article, has for some time been spoiling for a fight, partly, no doubt, owing to the military apirit of restlessness as the natural result of a long period of inactivity, and recently to the martial resentment at what is regarded as the undignified policy of the Emperor at AJgeciraa. I am concerned here with the spirit of the people aa a whole. The conclusions I came to from a recent visit to all parte of Germany after an absence of three years are thess. First of all I found ths Idea that tha ways of England and Germany tend to converge to be almost an idle fixe. The distrust of England is aa, deep rooted as ever, while the feeling that England is everywhere in the way, always in the offing of German maritime venture and adventure, ever with design frustrating German enterprise and ambition, ever ready to spiks the guns of her policy and damp tha powder of her purpose more generally entertained now than at any previous time of which I have knowledge, and the resentment at it far more universal and engrained.

It will, of course, be objected that the English visitant journalists had a regal reception, and the Lard Mayor bully time, and that the Kaiser is coming over in the autumn to sign to the bond of unity. They did have a "bully" time, all of them, and so, no doubt, wUl the German Emperor here. But that, unfortunately, will not alter by one whit the general situation. One of the causes of the' reception accorded to the British journalists is tha German fear of England going over to Protection and the desire to maintain, and keep on good terms with, tha Liberal Government in this country. It is not that Germans seek war with England now, because such a wax would necessarily ba a naval one had we a contiguous boundary to- Germany we would long ago have had it.

The gravity in the situation lies in the official education of the people in the belief that Great Britain is the enemy. It is a serious charge to make, but I question if anyone who knows Germany weU will challenge tha assertion, which can be substantiated by evidence conclusive. The entire German Press is consciously permeated with Anglophobic sentiment. Almost the entire official and military world is Anglopbobe. The Prussian tinker aristocracy is Anglopbobe the whole teaching of modern German history and political economy is Anglophobe, the training of the young is Anglophobe, nor can it be said that the German Foreign Office gives proof positive of much demon stration to the contrary.

The Anglophobia of Germany is caused by the conscious feeling that so long as England rules the main the destiny of Germany is in abeyance. It is not that Germans individually or collectively dislike as as that they feel that the future of England and Germanyis largely one one solution, one conclusioh. It was the doctrine of Pan-Germanism it is the7 State doctrine of modern Germany. It is not a theory that exchange of visits or an enlightened policy oi jMiU joins can serenely wipe off the slate of unwritten decree, and neither can it be thrown in the conjectural paper basket. It is part of the thesis of German btate economy.

What it ia right far us to realise that the German State economy is not a bulbous organism of fortuitous circumstance, but a aystematised, scientific, educational whole. Its motto is aire. pour ne pas ss laititr aire. Its central object is to train the nation to face its destiny. With her mighty army Germany holds the destiny of Europe in her right hind.

Ths L- TSNll nnrtinn Viav Will kVM wit.K Via htinn ever hold it in her left? Mavbe vonncer farm. will have a voice in that matter. Her national pro- blema are economic markets and the and what to do with them. To-day she steers full steam ahead for Germanio liberty and Imperial achievement. Maort aundaay Mis Harrlaaon will lestl Oawaaaii Wt i Its vaUaa aaratl Influenoaa, unoaw aeoiarea in at was x-rosiaect oi sae united states desired that the sense of the Conferenoe should be tested by a vote.

At first sight the proposal seems Inriooast enough. The vague virtue of humanity appears to support It. A sen- guine eye may detent tnerem a switt alleviation or the horrors of war. If private property be pro tooted, then' Qommeroe will not suffer, and even toe beUlfwnta themselves may make light of conflict. But when we-examine the matter more oloaely we shall tee that a great danger larks In Mr.

Cboete'e eppsrently innocent suggestion. The fact is that the horrors of war need ne tion. They are in themselves more eloquent, advocates of peace. than any Conference wiU War-, is neoassary 4hat is true; but it is a necessary evU, and' everything that lessens its evil encourages its fro- quenoy. Men.

will think twice before tbey fane privation and involve, bountry in the direst -straits poverty, and thinking twice leads more often than not to a peaceful Therefore, the Conference, which lightens the hardship and inconvenience of battle, will' do an incalculable injury to the world. M. NelidotT, the Russian delegate, put the quettion' ia the clearest light possible. "Tha said. "must bo considered in aU rta bearings, and.

one ol these ia that the mercantile world's dread of great peon- niary losses is one of tho strongest deterrents of way. The fall in stocks, caused by. war or the prospect of war ia the plainest evidence of this. Commerce ii rearer and more becoming an authoritative factor in intematioaal relations, and in view of these conaideratioris the Crjro-V mittee should reflect before voting on the. Ths argument of M.

NeUdoff cannot be rarfntod. It conunerce be protected, ware will be ligbtJy engage and not readily abamdonad. Bival fleeta and rival. armies will' contend in the spirit of. Thenatiooa" will look on, while theii ohttmpiona fight, eaAubi and without emotion.

Trade will not suffer; stcksVsndr. shares will not be depressed 'and the oast of be the cost of armament. Prom the point of iw of a.o false hurnanitarianism this may ba exbsUeDt, but, Mr. Cboate's proposal accepted, there would be an of peace for aU time. Humanitariasism is, indeed, the' worst aaooW'for re form.

It mars always fir more than it. makes. To do a little good, it does not scruple to do Jaifirees hsrni-f-A clear field and the rigour' of the gairae should be motto in warfare, as in EBpeaau'thu'nMxai' sary. in a-democratic age. The; pebpW which dedm war should feel its burden, and this' burden 'would weighs but a feather's weight if commerce were rininterrBpteaf; and tha two parties to the dispute and sqld though they were involved fa no amis.

On the grounds of prudence the English delegates, ought to oppose'- the suggestion whatever energy ia theirs. And aelintflrest in this foUowa the path of prudence. For England is tie Poarar" which would suffer moat from capture of private property. The ships of Enarad, till hold away upon sea.i They can do moreTdamag to their enemies than They are more able, to protect their county's riommerpjs than the strongest of their rivals." They cauld-in'-eaas' of. war provide a stronger' argument.

in favour of peace-than the', navies of France or Germany. Why, then, should England quietly forgo her advantage' for5.no better -reason the humaniUrianism which. appeals to the imagination of the United States f- 'J. It is, indeed, our supremacy on the sea which has always given us the victory. How sJsouldamhaiahiM able to combat' Napoleon had we been- ternational law from harrying tre'' merchant ships of France? It waa easy for the BadcaU of Sharidan'sy type to eheer at our campaign France was beaten in her sugar islands, slKrillaMid, which could not meet the armies of Napoleon ionLthe Continent, could strike at him and at the Franoa whkfc be held in thrall through their of Europe the question is merely 'ctf 'sjraicIemiaiMA'; To England it is of -vital import.

and we i'cmn'efflyjMpsti that the delegates whom we have sent prove worthy of their trust. And at this moment we cannot eft brd to' surrender -j the smallest advantage. Our fleet ia reduced helowthej proper standard of efficiency, with no better motive thisy to save money and to win The Navy laMgusTtheV proper guardian of our irrtajresta, is lulled to sleep -by. the siren, Sir John Fisher, and economy aeenia "a weightier argument than patriotism. But the phsse.g through, which we pass to-day will be forgotten' to-j? morrow, and so long as we do not destroy by a fooUsh vote the purpose of our Navy, wa may face our namis without doubt and without fear.

-4 We don't understand much about hsauanJJ pontics, but the recent declaration of. by the .80 Cxcch members of the Austaian; ReloaxaU extremely interesting a sign of tial envelopments of the Austrian problem. deration declares that the Bojoesuen- lP' rocojrniao the legal, foundation-, of, the. present Jffin? and affirm their adl-sion to tb. hnrto of the Bohemian Crown; Jgyj.y for the legielativs and Wrsun the EmDeror Francis' i dependence will become one of the problems oi European diplomacy.

Hsssi Masxbak- BAYINGB OF THE WEEK. The Commons shell prevail. The Prime truster. Wo are: all agreed about the fact that die Pg. make rnistakee-usuaUy- every alternate labour is going, and other people may Mr.

Churchill. hnk The Peers have ever been the enemies of Lr, dot Labour is the only, party for whom they have shown say. fear. Mr. Macpherson.

know no wiser maxim of behaviour than and tell me so." Mr. This aefaome (Mr. Haldahe's) ia a very gt advance, on anything hitherto proposed. Lord IwborU- iFt waited to produce a oorcunumty of h99 and finbeoilee, I would take tS starve tbem from time to time, what is known as a Uberal education. Sir Jamoa.

Criehton Browne. The charaoteristio of the British, people P1? sent time is that they condemn in private what publfo they support, The Kev. B. J. Campbell.

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