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ri win 5jah17 jing seriously debacd by th german lli i authorities the value of a dreaj- i nought is roughly 15000000 the sef i per fl ff i sale of thirteen dreadnoughts which tilal lulill a lililj 1 j a that germany could hope to save from a battle with us would bring her in in round figures about 200000000 there will be a lot of bargaining done at the peace conference aril if objection were taken to the sale by germany of her escaped dread noughts the amount thus secured might be included as one of the items in the peace balarcesheet fv bather than risk a crush 1ng naval defeat german ships will have to go be fore the allies v ill make peace the value of germanys fleet may he roughly estimated at 1 000000- 000 at least it cost germany this amount to build it for all the use it is at the present moment that fleet from our point of view we should of course prefer to fight the german navy to a finish but it would be absurd for us to expect that j such a battle would not be attended i for overseas construction with the exception of the submarines by heavy losses on our side which and the torpedoboat destroyers j josses would be fewer in proportion might just as well never have been built at all it is suggested that in desperation holland denmark spain and china there are others but they are not worth mentioning in this considera tion customers in plenty there is a good market then for any nation with battleships for sale any units if she wants to sell war ships to america chili brazil or denmark she must get them to those countries it is easy of course in the case of the countries with a baltic siiboard safely to pass over a few dread noughts for there germany has only to fear our submarines but it is not easy in the case of america south america or china the lastnamed power may be left out of ihe reckon ing it is impossible to conceive of any circumstances in which germany could pass one of her ships through our cordon in the north sea and the mediterranean but the possibilities as regards america and south america are not conditiona1 by the same handicap the german fleet need only thread the german fleet will come out and make a fight for it but there is the slightest reason for believing that such a tragic course will be a- dopted far more likely is it that bankrupt germany will lookcarefully rouirl to se whether her doomed dreadnoughts cannot be turned to commercial value gained by a loss when tha goeben and the breslau stood in danger of being cornered in the mediterranean they did not stand and fight but ran into the dardanel les where they were safe and at once passed into the possession of turkey thereby removing the last scruples of that power to joining the cause of the central empires by this move the jge lo two important warships butlhey gatned the adhesion ot a to the number of combatant enemy dreadnoughts engaged if a pro portion of the german fleet was sim ply bent on escaping to neutral ports then our losses would be so much less and we wouh have in consequence little reason to deplore the business attitude governing the strategy of the germans it it be objected that this sugges tion of germany selling any part of her fleet is improbable i would ask whether it is any more improbable than that tho german fleet would de liberately sacrifice itself in a battle to the finish with us or any more improbable than that it would remain in the kiel canal in order that at the conclusion of the war it might be meekly handed over to the allies no the probabilities are that ger many will either try to get part of her fleet interned in neutral harbors in order to sell those units for each which in her hardup state she will badly need or will sink her 1000- 000000 fleet herself i cannot ima gine the germans with their saving habits of mind doing any such waste ful thing and i am therefore driven to the conclusion that they will adopt the suggestion which is already being i debated that they should sell por tions of their fleet to willing neutral customers loivion answers million bayonets but if the german fleet neither comes out to fight nor chooses to re main in harbor what alternative is there left to it germany if the worst comes to the worst can sell her fleet the idea is not so laughable as it may sound anl the sapient folk who may ask with derision to whom can germany sell her fleet may be promptly and effectively answered germany can sell her fleet to the na tions not at war what are these nations they are american the various republics of south america norway sweden its way through the north sea how could it do this without run ning the risk of a great naval battle the answer is it could not hope to how the war started a famous novelist hits off a clever bit of dialogue mr booth tarkington the well- known novelist summarizes the cor respondence and conversations that preceded the war in the following brilliant and strikingly apt manner studying the case the public dis covered that there is a horrible kind of jargon in use among diplomatists it should be done away with as soon as possible for it is seventeenth cen- and will probably be found necessary so long as nations remain duellists our public was shocked to find that governments use euphonies to cover blasphemies they talk freely of throatcutting earsplitting aril dis embowelling but always in words that suggest the degeneracy of some mor bidly truculent college professor suave as cold cream and sinister as sitting bull now disentangling the meanings and releasing them from diplomatic usage we found that the following bit of dialogue had preeed ed thewar austria to serbia you scound rel get down on your knees and eat ten mouthfuls of dirt do it in one minute or ill shoot russia to austria ill shoot if you do to serbia eat all the dirt tury not twentieth but it belongs to tii erepuis1vttouttesres-0f-the-dtii0-j- -strurtiolw- tliemiasof tentoj0 done under fire and though there have escape meeting our fleet but it would you possibly can do your best to be in that meeting that germany could keep him from shooting i dont want to have to shoot england france rely on some of her warships getting through our cordon assume the german fleet escorted by torpedodestroyer flotillas and ac companied by submarine flotillas sallied out of the kiel canal into the north sea and divvied into two por germany may be ifrom the middle west tarved to defeat will britains navy defeat the teutonic powers a gentleman just from holland says the german population is underfed there is a possibility which we eught not to calculate upon inamilij tary sense that the germir armies will be defeated by starvation it is in end to the war that british sub- ts would rejoice to see for it would mean that it was the british navy that finally brought the teutonic powers to their knees it is conceiv- able that four million german soldiers in france in poland and elsewhere strong rugged men plentifully equip between ontario and tisii columbia many items from provinces where ontario boys and girls arc living calgary has adopted the daylight saving plan farmers elevator company arc letting more contracts in calgary lake of the woods milling co con template establishing a mii in moose jaw john booth and little daughter were drowned in the assiniboine river at litle souris pte herbert maybank of winnipeg reported missing after battle cf st eoi was killed in action three hundred delegates attended the final banquet of the retailers pod with arms and ammunition should colivcntion itl re ina rccelt throw up their hands and own their w j mason winnipeg who aeci- if they have not food it does denially sho ara ki h fellow re turned soldier was exonerated by a coroners jury winnipeg is no longer the head quarters for musketry training school in the west the final classes hence forth will bo held in ottawa the girl students cf mount royal college calgary presented the wonderful rose and the man in the moon for the benefit of soldiers com forts winnipeg has secured a nurse who i will instruct the district nurses of germany was starving that the wo- men and little children were without m hyken an rura food the prayers of the congrega- 1 heahh p p for u n j tion were asked the sympathy of the cam f kcrmlyss manitoba neutral world was required sub- 1 the first cot age hospital can- sequentlv it appeared that the gir- aa spiorted by a municipality was mans were not starving that their p last n b aitu complaints were ordered by the gov- the hospital is supported by means of defeat i not matter how skilfully they are led j or how gallantly they light if tiny tight well and have food their women folk and children at home may be starving arvl to save their lives the german armies may discontinue the struggle stories from germany today every story that comes from germany is a story cf food shortage a year ago there werej similar stories it was said that crnmnt whose object was to induce town assessment g icantic steam shovels weighing sixtyfive tons each capable of eating up the earth at the rate ot 150 to 200 ciiblc yards an hour and sell propelling extension track pile drivers are part of the equipment recently pur chased by the government for col c w p ramsay of the canadian over seas railway construction corps this plant was selected by col ramsays colleagues in the engineering depart ment of the canadian pacific railway and is being prepared by that company at the request of the government for shipment abroad the canadian over seas railway construction corps la3 already built many miles of track at strategic points and is all the while engaged in surveys for further con- been so many narrow escapes there have been no serious casualties out of the noncommissioned oscers and sappers that enlisted en tho foundation of the corps is have al- ready received commissions in the royal engineers a remarkable tribute to their efficiency while col ramsay nnd major harvey have been mention ed in dispatches the splendid work of these canadian engineers has been highly appreciated by the allied com manders the united states to bring influence mrs n mcclung in an address to bear to mitigate the rigors of the bcforc 4 p e of vegrcvil e a lta british blockade because the alarms recently said sue was proud to live of famine a year ago were proved j a province where women were groundless it docs not follow that handed the vote without fuss or similar stories today are not to be trouble believs todays stories do not some vancouver woman whose come from off icial sources only they name ls not known to the local como from neutral observers in ger- authonfces will be the possessor of many and from neutral countries i 10000 if she corresponds with the one of the most interesting is from solicitor of her brother michael clif- mr e f r delancv formerly con- 1 ford who died in new york recently sill for the netherlands in chicago i at the age of 07 years and now general agent for the hoi- the following is a list of those who landamerican line he returned recently successfully completed an from holland to new york a few officers training course in winnipeg days ago after his marriage to a h ritchicm p r bearek ii m mcgibbon r v rounding e d cox- worth c ii gordon f h sidney h bowen rev geo- kierstead francis c locke who recently cut the cable wires and damaged tele- dutch lady censers conceal facts interviewed by the new york herald he made some important re velations he said that in germany j graph instruments in the local relay the civilian population is underfed office of the british governments all- and the aged ill and weak are dying red cable routs running from austra- by thousands because they cannot ob- 1 lia to london eng was sentenced at tain the necessary sustenance fool calgary to a years imprisonment for riots are of daily occurrence every- the act where in geimany and in dusseldorf men and women repeatedly have rioted to be beaten back by armed soldiers and in many cases severely wounded every ounce of food which enters germany and but little is go ing in is distributed from berlin the most rigorous censorship is maintain ed now and italy to austria please wait a minute germany austria is your brother he does exactly what you tell him to do ask him to wait just aminute longer before he shoots we can arrange lions the one to give our fleet battle i this to satisfy austria if youll get him not to shoot geimany no serbia on his knees and swallow ing there ive eaten nine mouth- remember that it is unlikely that an1 iwil1 eat the tenth if youll we should risk dividing our fleet to j give me just a few seconds for diges- pursue the escaping units or that we j tion austria no your minute is up and the other to make good its escape would anybody dare prophesy that some units would not succeed in get ting away should venture too far out of the north sea for fear of being led into i a minefield in these circumstances i moot england and france imploring ger- german soldiers well fed britain not far behind in providing liberal rations soldiers in war must be wellfed no matter what happens to the popu lation at home with all that we read in newspapers about the suffering 1o multitudes ot germany nobody inti mates that the german soldiers are hungry says martin marshall in les lies weekly the importance of the commissary department has long been recognized and the bestfed army is usually the most cheerful and courageous the german general staff is probably the most systematic and abundant pro vider of viands in the world but the british are not far behind men who have been along the brit ish front say that not even the impos- sibility of getting a drink causes tion of food in war time is therefore german southwest africa this in- increased and much is wasted that tailed years of scientific labor costing is one reason why the prices of food a sum equal to the value of thousands have soared in all the european coun- of square miles of useful map mak- tries though another reason may ing to find out where the meridian well be that on the average people have more money to spend now than i they did before the war when we consider the vast quanti ties of food taken for army use really lay absurd incidents arose over the de limitation of the boundary between the united states and canada one of the main difficulties arose as to when we remember that there is only j what was meant in the treaty by a one standard ration for all soldiers of j main channel between vancouver any nationality and that the poorest jand the mainland there is an archipel- laborer who has responded to his ago anil among them at least three countrys call is just as well fed as j channels that might be called main secretly your father would ever for- the dukes son who has shouldered a j channels chief among these isl- 1 give us i am sure ho would rifleif any such thing has happen- j am was 0 called san juan in dear replied the girl without hesita- 1 ed and that this average or universal 1859 a pig was shot by an american ti and would he give us a ration is far above the average ration on san juan and the american was house of our own yes dariing kings privy council only the humble instrument of the cabinet time was when the kings privy to keep the true state of affairs council was the great governing body from the world but in holland the of england but since the days of the general knowledge of exact conim- first charles it has fallen from its tions is becoming known and the peol high estate until it in now a mere pleple understand why germany is h of its former great- fighing so desperately at verdun and ncss with 110 influence and controlling why the auslnans are smashing at nothing thot in the amaiisst iegrce italy it is essential for the con- affccts legislation it is an orna mental body whose old powers have fallen to a select committee of its tinuancc of the war that a great vic tory be won by the central powers so n7llt i f b members known as the cab the tings and the bands may play in the streets a dream shattered sue sweet you think that aid the swain do if we got married many please stop him you are the only one who can wont you say a word to stop him germany no russia beginning to load his old- fashioned shotgun i hope youll slop him the chances of units of the german fleet escaping would bo wholly in germanys favor once they reached a neutral port of course they would be interned but that is just what they would want for we couiv not touch them then and they could wait until the end of the i jhinsrs over and see if there isnt a war when germany might have every beucr v v hope of selling them austria perhaps we could if n germany interrupting russia already being debated quit loaling that it is all very well to say that gor- russia i cant while things are in many would not be allowed to save j this shape but i will quit loading at any part of her fleet by selling it but once if austria will promise not to you know the old story of the man shoot serbia sentenced to be hanged when his i germany interrupting i love friends said to him dont worry peace and i have done more than mor- they cant hang you he replied tal may to preserve it the sword is quite so but they are going to forced into my hands evidently by supposing germany got two dread- god and i defend myself draws niughts interned in hollanc two in two welloiled and loaded pumpguns denmark two in sweden four injof a magnificent new model and be america and five in south america gins to shoot while france and eng do you think it would be easy for the land run home to get their guns much grumbling as does the lack of i ha to p if thc war lasts strawberry jam the issue of jam is a or tw0 lon of all the population in times of peace haled before a british magistrate and an income big enough for us to both in quantity and quality we do not have to be possessed of vivid im aginations to picture what is going to allies to overcome all the scruples of those nations to parting with them we could if w liked compel ger many to give them up to us but the question is would we at any rate there is reason to be lieve that the idea of selling her fleet or such parts of it as she could savo from a battle in thc north sea is ono of the contingencies which is now be- on an institution in thc british service all the armies use a vast quantity of chocolate in one form or another us ually highly sweetened coffee is thc soldiers drink the world around seo here austria cant we talk but the britisher substitutes tea on many occasions and the habit is said to be spreading to his french com rades russian soldiers are inveter ate tea drinkers as is everybody in russia thc germans have shown the great est ingenuity in replenishing their food stores it is said that they were even able to trade the turks ammuni tion for foodstuffs although turkey was short of eatables before the road was opened from berlin to constant- nople in all the vast area of terri tory that the germans have taken they have not missed anything in the form of food northern france has contributed its quota being a fine fruit country it has helped to make up the equivalent of thc english jam even serbia impoverished by three wars contributed 90000 pigs to ger manys depicted stock men leading active lives largely in the open air are usually big eaters nnd soldiers on duty must be in the best of health thcreforo army rations must be liberal in size as well as varied in composition the consump- bounbry making lad search as we might we could firl no true substitute for this dialogue we have read and listened eagerly yes anxiously and hopefully to everything the germans had to say we wanted to seo tle case of their government in a happier light ljut nothing altered thf substance of the governmental conversation jubt giv- of exact maps the rock on which treaties split lack of geographical knowledge has cost the nations of the world millions of dollars in treaty making declared sir thomas holdrich the british armys greatest geographical author ity in a lecture before the royal geographical socity on problems in boundary making lack of exact knowledge he said is the first rock on which boundary treaties split where maps did not exist and where it was out of the question to wait for them to be made the arbitrators have been forced re peatedly into adopting tho worst of expedients the straight lino the disadvantages of the straight lino have been illustrated in soveral oinstances lately notably in boundary disputes in central and southern af rica in one case an awkward inter national complication arose when it was found that a wide tract of valu able land had been erroneously as signed to england nnd had to be transferred to belgium then there was tho adoption of a definite meridian which crossed the kalahari desert thc eastern limit of threatened with imprisonment this live on in comfort 7 the maid nod put a climax to the dispute ameri- ded decidedly and would he take can honor was touched and troops j mo into the firm certainly hed were landed from both sides it do that and let me run the busi- looked as if the pig incident would ness to please myself why of lead to war but the position was savj course he would silly boy she ed by arbitration the award gave snuggled into his shirt front but he the whole archipelago to the unite- 1 put her coldly from him lean nev- states marry you miss brown lie said sad ly your fnilor is too anxious to get you off his hands why he changed his name in correcting the exercises of her class a teacher recently observed a new nam inscribed on one of the pap ers will evans she looko around feared he would get caught dinah the faithful colored servant of an american family had at last attained her ambition she was the proud possessor of a husband well dinah said her late mistress meet ing her some time after the cere mony i hope you are finding your he class but could see no new boy new life all you expected yas not a lutle puzzled she requested will mum replied dinah gleefully i evans to stand up jumped will matrimony sure nm the proper state jones and tho teacher got more puz- of life for folks aint it and your i zled still your names jones she husband went on the lady is he not evans will looked not a good provider yas mum he me abashed nnd shifted uneasily sure nm then she went on sadly from one foot to the other please hes a mightly good provider right maam he said its owing to fam enough but im powful skewed that hes gwinc to get kotched at it impressive sight bliggins always has on air of in dustry about him yea but ho is ono of those peo ple who can get credit for making a garden when they nro only digging fishing worms ily trouble i didnt do it please maam but she said sternly i repeat your name is jones pi ase maam said the boy its change now mas married the lodger lodger i cant stay here any longer mrs binks landlady why not sir what is the com plaint lodger lung crmplaint your baby howls too much its duties are now limito to such formal and mechanical work as is suing proclamations granting char ters and the making of orders with a few decorative functions such as attending at formal acts of state or the receiving cf a new minister on his assuming office it is at its best the humble instru ment of the cabinet promulgating the laws in the making of which it has no voice whatever it has however one claim to distinction it often has the king himself to preside over its meetings an honor which the cabinet can never boast the office of the privy council is in the treasury buildings in whitehall but its meetings are held wherever his majesty is residing at tho time at buckingham palace at windsor or at sandringham and the siimmons to it takes this simple form let the messenger acquaint tha lords and others of his majestys most honor able privy council that a council is appointed to meet at the court at at such a time on such a day out of 300 councilors seldom more than half a ozen are summoned to at tend and at some meetings no more than three are actually present the king receives these right hon orable gentlemen in whatever room he may chance to bo in the most in formal manner possible and tho busi ness all prepared beforehand by the clerk is quickly dispatched a few minutes of pleasant gossip nnd fi council is al an end fii- it is commonly supposed that tho lord mayor cf london is during his term of office r member of the privy council but tho impression is errone ous although londons chief mag istrate bears tho prefix right hon orable he iras no part in the privy councils deliberations as one lord mayor found to his dismay when ho presented himself nt a meeting of the council oivl was politely told by j the clerk that he could not romain ixssww