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] A 4 [ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 35, 1923—PART 5. !Reckless Spendirng’ by Doug’hboys Lauded as Life-Saver for France STERLING HEILI ] PARIS, July 26. | F. has many monu- | By count | Stead Consulted the Spirit World n Days Preceding the Great War s T Gibbs Recalls a Prophecy and Some of the Conflicts of the 1912 Period, and Tells of His Inves- tigations as to Hatred of England Among the People of Germany—Bitter Industrial Struggles in Great Britain, the Suffragette Campaign and the Leadership of Sir Edward Carson in Ulster's Fight Against Home Rule Measure. BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS. N 1912, to which year I have now come in these anecdotes of jour- nalistic life, England was not without troubles at home and abroad, but nothing had happened. or seemed likely to happen (except the imagination of a few anxious iar-seeing people), to touch more han the surface of her tranquillity, to undermine the foundations of her! wealth or to menace her security as a great imperial power. It was a very pleasant place for pleasant people, if they had a social status above that of causal, or sweated, labor. The aristocracy of wealth still went through the social ritual of the year, in country houses and town houses, from the London season to Cowes, from the grouse moors to the Riviera, agreeably bored, and finding life, on the whole, a good game, unless private passion | wrecked it The great middle cla: determinate boundarie: well-to-do, with a comfortable of ease and security, apart from the | ordinary anxieties, tragedies, failures, of private and domestic life 1 called on W. T. Stead one day in his office of the Review of Reviews, which afterward 1 was to edit for year. It was just before lunch time, and Stead had an engagement with Spender of the Westminster Gazette. But he grabbed me by the arm in his genial way, and said, “Listen to this for a minute, and tell me what you think of it It appeared that he had been rather upset by Blatchford's articles. He could not make up his mind whether they were all nonsense or had some truth at the back of them. He decided to consult the spirit world through Julia, his medium. “We rang up old Bismarck, Von Moltke and William II of Prussia. ‘Look here,’ 1 said. ‘is there going to be war between Germany and Eng- land > " The spirits of these distinguished Germans seemed uncertain. Bis- marck saw a red mist approaching the coast of England. Von Molitke said the British fleet had better keep within certain degrees of latitude and longitude—which w: kind of him! One of the trio—I forget which—said there would be war be- tween Germany and England. It would break out suddenly, without warning. “When?" asked W. T. Stead A date was given. It was the month of Aug The year was not named. BY 5 HE A. E ments in France. (and apart from tablets, bur- ial memorials, and changed | names of bridges, parks and streets), | sixty-eight great statues, monoliths and inscribed edifices rise, along the | front and in French cities, to attest French gratitude and celebrate the valor of our lads. 1t is only a beginning. France and America compete with new memo- als to the American effort which ended the war. But here is atue { It took the most nervy, frank and {faithful group of of all France (the ladies of the Paris mar- kets, who are rich as well as rough- necks!) to praise for virtue in our men what had been deemed a fault— and start a 100,000-franc subscription for a statue of Parisian gratitude, not to the A. E. F.'s high deeds alone, but to another trait which helped to win {the war. What's that> Why, just the reckless money-spending of the boys! The of the markets | ladies m that it went far toward saving i{France! J money Dusseldorf. a man of liberal prin- ciples, who had taken a great part in arranging an exchange of visits between German and British busi- | noss men. He knew many of the liberal politicians in England, and | could walk into the house of com- mons more casily than I could He seemed to be rather flustered when 1 called upon him and ex- plained the object of my visit, and he left me alone in his study for a while on pretext of speaking to his wife. 1 think he wanted me to read his leading article, gned at the foot of the column, in a paper which he laid deliberately on his desk before m I puzzled through compli- cated argument in involved German, and through its fog of rhetoric there emerged a violent tirade England. When he came b the subjeet understood that te of friendly oy ; tween our two peop | . , . e - g doesn’t N s 4 helpful.” He flushed My Sngland l ENCOUNTERED ment and from high e 5 . novelty—a different AT C IOl s & women in its against ck. I tackled him advoc: You were an lie That articls with its in- | relations was happy sense b seem to me UST The have heard very friendly or 39 men il (be ahout their and giddy burning of pay in cach town of France where | they were stationed. They them- selves admitted it to be a fault of | careless prodigality ot so—the ladies say. It was gay open-handedness. It was this happy | liberality of doughboys, first by thousands, than by millions, blowing money confidently, rollicking, and bucking up the natives with their | jollying optimism. which revived the courage of the stricken capital and| every village. It lent to French sol- | diers and civilians ardor to continue the great struggle till the full force of America could be thrown into ac- tion “They spent enough sure!) a hot color, and views have undergone beha I has d abominably \ “RICH WOMEN OF THE PARIS CENTRAL MARKETS. THEY LOOK RUDE AND THEIR LANGUAGE IS SOMETHING AWFUL. BUT THEY HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS.” a : the same violent ecclisiastic in Berlin, Who was a great friend of the kaiser's and formerly a professed lover of England. He tall. thin, hana- some man, who' spoke English per- fectly, but was not civil to me. Presently. as we talked of the tions between our two | paced up and down the evident emaotion | rage. indeed. which through his restraint “English policy,"” he Iv aer mate | Eng to argu- more hostility 2 perious ways which will not be re- | fused We saw 2.500,000 of that utterly devoted its style. How could they be beaten?’ | France, in the war. They have been “the ladies of the| At present their regulation ap-|the farmers siip markets” for 1,000 vears—these ad-|pearance is in presenting brides of | rescllers. The mirers of aristocrats and doughboys. | §Teat Parisian families with tradi- | They have always been in politics. | tional baskets of fruits, flowers and | maee e urrs n s They were for Henry IV, and helped‘nrimeur vegetables the morning of |yt g vil 0 'O to make him king. They were|the wedding. An American family, | can tell the against Marie Antoinette, and started ' the Whitney-Hoffs (of Detroit and T the French revolution by their trip|Standard Oil, in Paris) enjoyed the| " o to Versailles. They approved Na-|honor, some years ago, when Miss | poleon I and poleon IIl—and you| Elaine espoused a young Holland can still see, in museums, the magnifi- | banker. cent cradles which they presented to{ They are best known as a powerful their baby heirs. They took no part; COrporation of rude women, noted for of aristocrats. France knows aristo- | in the commune—having no great|Srong language. What is less known crats—their money-flinging and im- ' belief in equality. But they are con- |8 that they are individually rich, and | - true captains of commerce—hiding| {hnarls of romantic bravery under the grimed exterior of laborers who rise Jat 3 am. ent with the republic. and were, During the season 5.000 such farm defense of | wagons provision Paris dai n ad dition to vast rail arivale. Amonz the to was a in illegitimate real countryman He don't cars when the am., Reuben from very rel. he with Suppressed broke at So, real they th natio, room around 5 with real last | * * % * HE eggs f and butter, and have a strong pu on fruit and game and poult Las food inspections seized fish, 18.000 lobsters eggs—but terious butter 1. “‘cuts direct - ladies German rights e control sea and is trying hamper her humiliate her world and to development, I'she has not hes f very deeply and intolerable!" | He with says the like princes.” Lamouret. who started ) Isubscription—you will meet her later. “Their temper was that m ermany me turn, ¢ in every every prevent I 500 tons 0,000 bad ton of de know how to rework the Tell them this public,) slang you something aw: don’t even need a man to pusn Men are of small impor- tance in the markets. The ladies boss the business—husbands run their errands. “To swear like a Billin gate fishwife” has its French equiv | lent in vituperatc lady the marke It is nothing words in social history of Dame Lemourgt, retired in 1920 to chateau near Orleans, shows it For fifteen Lemour was a great the fow and game section, lated some 8.000 So she retired ge Orleans chateau, bought gain. where she thought to life of a great country lady She filled the bill as chateleine frank and simple manners. like great ladies. purist in her language, th downright goodness of Dame Le- mouret won the surrounding gemtry as is rare for an outsider. Life smiled on this cultured twilight of a racket- ing career. 5 And the dame was bored to extinc- tion! She was sick of chateau, golf, ger tleman farming. and great lady pow- wows. She scrapped the chateau and went back straight to wrestling in the mess, at 4 am, around the ma:- kets, in her old clothes part like of a dam her cconomic i The butter: a1 ated recent days affront deliberately to CHRISTABEL PANKHURST, WHO IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SUFFRAGE AGITATION WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS' IM- PRISONMENT FOR TRYING TO PRESENT A PETITION TO THE PRIME MINISTER. _—_— s S is + badly. and he must have had a nasty shock when there were full descrip- tive reports of a gun-running exploit. done with perfect impunity. by 1 . conspiracy of Ulster officers and lead- | Yy OU ¢annot tell Dame Rapplet from ers, military advisers, and men of | her toughest lady helper. Today, all classes, down to fae farv of | At sixty-seven. she is liable to turn tne jaunting cars. Carson had armed {UP any morning at the daybreak h troops—with r'fles and | auctions watching the deals of her ammur ition. lieutenants. In view of later history, there must| Craving excitement, fifteen years| have been some gentlemen of Ulst'r,|ago, Dame Rapplet plunged peculiar- whose consciences were twingel by ily. Her husband held a few shares those dealings with Germany, and by | in 4 failing boulevard cafe—the big- allusions 1. in the heac of political gest one of Paris. Under pretext of speeches to their preference for Un~ | gying o $1.000 loss she tranquilly | German emperor. bought up lease. good-will and fis- | e T RONESL | tyres, including $18,000 worth of sil- | but had no military power with which {man- a great gentleman in his man- | yeryare, china and linen, and loaded to defend their possessions. England | ner, a great lawyer 'in repute, but his | hergalr with $30,000 e was playing a game of bluff. Ger- blind bigotry, some dark passion in|ywhich had crushed S e massl y SR clus of her nl;“bo_n{‘ir.m made him adopt a line of action | gheculators. atSithzeey greatness, her immense industrial | whi.h has caused much blood to flow 4 " i genius, her vital strength, needing |in Ireland and made one of the black- | Isnorantiof the okfe busincse with| elbow room and free spaces of the |est chapters in modern history ja vast market routine on her hands, . would not allow a degenerate | Copsright, 1933, by Si Philip she donned her black silk dress three to stand across her path. Ger- | ELEutsihaerved. | afternoons per week and prooeeded | hated England for her arro-| to run the Grand Cafe according to masking Wweakness, and her SUIT CASE RADIO SET her pleasure. hypocritical professions of friendship, | | She lost money. It was nothing. PERFECTED IN THIS CITY {which concealed envy and fear. The late Pat Sheedy offered her the ! After that visit to Germany, I went entire rent for the rotunda. She re- | (Continued from Fifth Page.) th all that territory belonged to England. That aroused his natural | €nvy Later in life, said this young | man, he understood by historical read- ing that England had built up the British empire by a series of wars. explorations and commercial adven- tures, which gave her a just claim to possession. They had no quarrel with that. They recognized the strength and greatness of the English people | in the past. But now they saw that England was no longer great She lwas decadent and inefficient. Her day was done. They hated her now as a worn-out old monster, who still lflod| to grab and hold, and prevent other races from developing their genius, (n and spoke of “inevitable | tartling candor, and said something about th, | Christian men like himself. believable { whether I had and touched missal. Such conversat Yet T aid believe resented seneral Breat mass of German pecple, | only able to get.gziimpses there in Duesseldorf and Hanover. Leipzig, Beriin and Dresden of middle-class and working thought, but wherever test it in casual business men, = an warrd when 1 duty of such asked to * ¥ % ¥ especially prevent he come the bell a priest an un harshiy insult for my jects of sensational interest and in- { creasing passion—the mania of the "’nnlitav\: suffragettes and the raising|to him, among all these people, a bit- fof armed forces in Ireland, under|ter, instinctive, relentless and jealous the leadership of Sir Edward Carson,| batred of England. They made no | to resist home rule. secret that the dominant thought in 1 saw od deal of both those|their souls was the necessity and in- phases of political strife in England | evitability of a conflict with Great jand Ireland. The suffragette move-| Britain, in order to destroy the na- ment kept me in a continual state|tion which stood athwart their own ecdote, especially when he told me ; of mental exasperation, owing to thdPsliny as their greatest commercial the effect this announcement had upon | €xcesses of the militant women, on |competitor. and as the one rival of him. He was so distarbed that he | bne side, and the stupidity. and cru- | their own sea power, upon which the went round to the admiralty. inter- |€lty of the opponents of woman's|future of Germany was based. - For viewed” Lord WPisher. who was |suffrage. on the other. I became a|that conflict they were preparing the friend of his, and revealed the dread | convinced supporter of “votes for|Minds of their own people by intensive message that the German fleet was | Women,” partly because of theoretical | PFOPa8anda and “speeding up- the going to attack in August. (It was | justice which denied votes to women|CUtPUt of their naval and military then May, 1912.) | of intellect. education and noble work | 3Tmament. “England,” said my littlc Ficher leaned { while. giving 1t to the lowent, ‘mose| NiOHMARL, “is menseod By (o most smiled grimly, {ignorant and most brutal rufans in | [¢37fUl Struggle in history, but seems luck, my b lithe countrys! pastly I Bebause) lof ) Literly Ienoxant (o ibin pexil, which In August of that year I was cn- | sporting admiration, in spite of intel- | 5 COMINg close. ls there mo ""';] 0 gaged in' trouble which did not seem !lectual disapproval, of cultured w.‘"‘ h", pknphlfl r,‘o :n;‘r:‘l np‘:‘l en‘: connected with Germany. though I|women who went willingly to prison | ey - cen “orepasing stealthily for am inclined to think now that Ger- | for their faith. defied the police With | gyia; d““ ct"’o“":‘ e Satio. e man agents were watching it very | all their muscular strength, risked| . ., Pfi"u 2 Fds e closely—especially one German baron | the brutality of angry mobs (which| @ i anar oo PaPer s T who posed as a journalist and was|was a great risk), und all with a| .o ol in Great Britain. wherever it hap- |at the arguments, anger and ridicule| S, SUch (hings published. and set| pened to break out. I had met him |of the average man | saorel MEEEIEELS NECK them hlh-\_u”- at Tonypandy. in Wales, during the | T B '1 had considerable doubt myself| iners' tiots down there, and T met | 1 1ad several talks at the time with | whether he had not exaggerated the hitl again’ in (LAversool, whigh was :l.»lluofiamlnanf lt:aders of the mili- | intensity of hatred in Germany, and, now in the throes of a serious strike. :“:‘L’;SET?‘"}; Mtre.h l‘ar\khuwt.and her | in any case, the pos:»-nnm{ of their Bt aclin: meerestiAhine o Eemb:n. lhvlr”sl:ale .‘::d Il“a:f pres- | daring to challenge Great lv{xxu:ln as war 1 have seen in any English city. |indicted for (_O"“r»)iruen‘ hey were | long as our m:w m.\ln‘(\amw] v\v.s Vi nave forauiton tha onigial o thie [LooIciel: OF] SOMEDIEARY ftodincitels |jstesngth auili sriditioRs [BUE T was ctrike T think it beman with the|Fiot Mrs. Pankhurst's defense was|disturbed. The little man's words nckergoull i apread matiD el of the most remarkable speeches | colncided with other warnings I had whole of the transport service was! ave ever heard in a court of law, | heard from Lord Roberts, from vis- cloquent, most moving, most|itors to Germany, from Robert j most at a standstill. and the very scaven- 2 b emotional. Even the magistrate w: — y i % gersyleft thelr work. The Mersey AR g‘lf“hr:':d ‘;l,’:a’c"l‘_’:::g .":p;“k: Was icrowded ifor wesks withalin [T e ping from all the ports of the world, e et Hobert Donsin Ofitheftaily laden with merchandise, some of it | E day in 1913 I was asked by |Chronicle laughed at my report of perishable, which no hands would Robert: Donaltiraycall fonneyCa. | Ls \CoR¥orsation. | itters rubhish mpuch. No porters worked in the |nadian professor who had, been en-| *23 his opinion, and he refused railway goods yards. so that trains|gaged in “a statistical survey: of Eu. | Print a word. could not be unioaded. There was no | robe,” whatever that may mean, and| GO to Germany yourself.” he said. fesh meat. and no milk for babes. Not | might have some interesting infor- | ‘and write a series of articles like a wheel turned in Liverpool. It was|Mmation to give. | to promote friendship between our like a beSleged city, and presently, in| What he told me was decidedly | tWo Peoples and undo the harm cre- hot weather, began to stink in a|alarming. In pursuit of his “statis-|ted by newspaper hate-doctors and pestilential way, because of the refuse | tical survey of Europe” on behaif of | iingoes. Find out what the mass of and muck left rotting in the streets |the Canadian and American govern- | the German people think about this and squares. ments, he had spent two years or so | liar talk.” : This refuse, among which dead rats |I? Germany. He had been received in| So.I went to Germany. with a num- lay, was 8o filthy in one of the best |® COUFteous way by German profes- |ber of introductions to prominent people and friends of England. had talked freely before him after some time. and there was revealed horror him, German dis- “to ke a i ! ! ‘ | rming. opinion of a not the rat rep- the was LAUGHED heartily at Stead’s an- vears Dame personage ¢ here and Frankfort, accumu- the a bar live the was s to e in tility conversation railway porters, waiters, and so whom I exchanged ideas in crude German, t good English the me; men annual the a i with very remarkably and waiters), 1 found utter incredulity regarding the possi- bility of war between England and Germany, and th sword-rattling mor” of the kaiser and the military caste, It was Edward Bernstein, the lead- er of the socialists, who warned me of the instability of the p. professed by war breaks hotel on my « back in his A Xo chair, such com- i a contempt and “shining aersll s Ibroland, )z;\i, attnough | i L e e | there seems to be no link 2 £ = these two missions, T am certain now | = but gives them their meals gratis.| hese (w0 misson, L e omee, | 4Td_receiving set which has been |She has always maintained “spies” ;m:tm’:m; e miitary strategists | 24apted for portable use is wrapped e was mot Jefy| Tound and round the frame of the theisifuation in LrclsBC mos =2 | instrument box and is inclosed in the out of account in their estimate of | suit case with the rest of the wireless war chances | X /CHaness 5 equipment sir Edward Carson, afterward| g ying tne fear out of interference Lord Carson, with F. E. Smith, after- ot irkenhead (so docs Eng. | '5,0n° of the eminent accomplish- |for the clandestine commission ring | GOES 14,000 MILES I ea rewatdllier sebelal) wersarrinE | o aa A {;“:"Y'uf;"l‘h:f":‘:‘e;‘:g"i;:e[ fousht the police up to the pre- | BECOME BRIDE ling a bloody civil war in Ireland.| ;. (pe height of the summer season | i T0 {which. but for a great war. would| nen seatic electricity is at its worst, | o orcor, 9av8 for the Grand Cafe! s have spread to England. without let | Jhe% StATE COC IO iy L o reton | With & beautiful daughter at the| (Continued from Fourth Paze.) {or hindrance from the British govern- | Fuc ol (00 TR Cf B exsages, | cashier's desk (and known to have | == ment. Vit practically eliminates all objec- |1:000.000 francs dot!) many a young |bur Keblinger will make further ar B a “(vng.\' the home rule bill, under).tionable noises of this (:lescnvlion_:“';:“’“'-t:flt_hung an:,und. | rangements for her. : Eian d an excellent op- Asquith’s premiership, was near- | Thus, under conditions of atmospheric _was in vain, because the dame| From Bombay Miss MacDonnell ex portunity and an illuminating con- |ing its last stages, Carson raised an|turmoil which would render the use |admires aristocratic liberality and | pects to sail across the Arabian sea, | versation with the students of Leip-{army of Ulstermen and invited every | of larger aerials almost prohibitive, | ruthlessness in outsiders, but prefers' up the Gulf of Oman, through the zig University. A group of these |protestant and Unionist to take a sol- | the little gadabout set can be used|® Prudent chappie in the family! Strait of Ormuz. up the Persian gulf | young men, who spoke excellent Eng- | emn oath in & holy league and coven- | successfully and messages from the| At the wedding with Leduc, heir| ¢ Buzra and thence about 500 milex |lish. allowed me to question fant to resist home rule to the very | ether are readily decipherable. to the biggest laundry on the river,|inland to the capital city of Persiu. ;::idjure highly amused !death. 1 was an e?'ew\lnts‘sn:: r\:\;:\b HE portable outfit 1s also a dual ::n:*‘;u:";xg:* “‘:::‘cy (‘hl:_s o‘;h;:: Teheran, which i»s' only a few miles “Do’you hate ";\f’i"‘:'k:}:":oa““f :f‘::'““sz ne® o] L utiity sa;, for, when iack A O e Th’ey ek T::t:;rp:rceafa::::‘ita *;\t:hirc)‘;:“ 2 “King Carson,” as s dominates the mercury, the touring | family i inga ey e | ster, R: = J:,’.T” Rifa g irony by Irish home ””"h )'"-‘;‘:fi':"_ lsm-up S e o serteloInEs tan ::i :;:";';;‘L ::‘;’;d‘fi":::':e;"i’n 'ii':f"*‘d‘ will be ready to receive her, ut “Why do you hate England™ his troops, made l‘,_‘r’l:’"‘: 2 gTess | nary non-portable equipment for use | 1ol there is little likelihobd that she will One young man acted as s through Uister, sSCESIDEIND 5©0f}in the home by merely shifting the|"v . Lt avail herself of his kind offices, be- JJoine menuscted. as apokes: Iriolall ana) religlonshiatred. amplifier receiving unit from the suit | NOW she has sold her lease-end Of| ;ayge she will be at the end of her fman fdr the others, who significd | There was a good deal of play-act- | L "y tihogany case, whicn i |the Gafe to west Canadian railroads | iong, lons trail into the land of her ir assent from time to time. The|ing about all this, and Carson was | W% 0% (W W e, o Bl 0 ST [ (who have bought the building) for | greams. first reason for hatred of England, he | melodramatic in all his speeches and | 1, ."oin¢ can then be used as the offi- | 3:300.000 francs. just to get her out| <yhen she reaches Paris she expects squares of Liverpool outside the |S°TS civil servants, and government said, was because when a German boy | gostures, with a touch of Irving in| . b S e e e on® douhia far | Es ey 3 : . 5 A = e 3 I cial fireside entertainer until the to learn definitely whether Dr. Mills hotel where I wan atayme, tnat o |oMcials, at whose dinner tables he | The first “friend of England” to|was shown the map of the world and |ine rendering of his pose as a grim | Sl fAreside wehteriamel wntl thel oo * s the annual rent which | e number of journalists and mueelf |4 Met German celebrities and high | whom I presented a letter of intro- when he asked what all the red|ang resolute patriot and leader of | SPTINE WUETAlION OF bTAs RERIR 0% |, oy on deemed excessive! e S S borrowed brooms, sallied out, swept °TC€TS Of the German arms. They |duction was a newspaper editor in|“splodges” on it significd, he was t0ld | Protestant forces. but there was real | JiT C, ") il aials Finiig cislox Alepues e e eanfthesmil Iv (he SIbIch Renpe;and madeiben: rassion behind it all and the sincerlty) ~Lagerly. the portable set was tested | PISHE Baroness de Vaushan, whom | vesteryears. s em. surrounded by a crowd of fanaticism. Sat thor LBkl ST sucseaettliy: for the late King of the Belgians| In that event they will take their of angry men who called us “scab. Gt Battle, these youne, oeemers and | ooy LUREEGY S MRS R L (e e Kinpion thonnclamns) L L O s e Gatsvironts and “blacklegs.” and threatened to Sharkessers wholparsneatiningcois oe L0 ELSERS P O EE00T s marmiet fon hin dsEtibed Jhad &iml | onoyon LA RV IES SRR ;\:3:5}." Sl Sl s beh"h ;hri?il:h.:f;o:ii::;:;: Chesapeake and Potomac Telephene | ity iie o itins na=iecs " | distance of more. than 1,600 miles. Baint pontiths vion 16 Nhe et 2 ouid fght with the courage and | At that time the portable outlit Was |\, yqar, this sister, Laura, admitted | ble to get away, Miss MacDonnell in = igh- i ol @ by [located in Mr. Daniel's fourth-floor Ry 2 ed 4| her cagerness to reach him may de- boring windows, so that our broom- ruthlessness of men inspire Y | office in the heart of the Washington | {r2nkly that, with rent. spolled goods| Vo <88 NL 0 0o et to take sticks seemed as heroic as the lances hatred and bigotry. business district. The suit case was|3nd license, she gained something fh‘ D‘,m"r;der : “‘mzf’:’m PR of chivalry. The British ~government Dooh-| . " urrieq downstairs to an auto- | 1ke $2.50 per day; but she was ut- | the overIAnd Toote METORE TTE YT poohed Carson's “army.” and de-| OB, S8 (OLIENT w and all |terly ashamed of the morganatic | desert to adg 276D ey oEedaters Seribed it as an unarmed rabble. But | moPlle @ the STRect bUoW Bnd S| ueen-dowager, her sister! “Please,” | Fomance and fame. would in- & very briet inquiry convinced me|the tie (he MASS WAS 2 ble WL | ahe sald, “don't mention our relation | clude a five-day automobile trip—and that Jarge quantities of arms were] 0t BBY IMerDLOnn e e |in the-markets” not such a five-day tour as autoists being imported into Belfast and dis- | oo i ouille During the entire trip| Worthy creature! All the ladies| " this country look forward to with ltributed through Ulster. There Was| ... usical entertainment continued |knew the details, and made it a point | Plcasure. hardly a pretense at secrecy, "‘"l‘l‘“ and the passengers did not miss a|of honor not to know them! Shortly | Mesopotamia, “the land between the Great Western Rallway authorities| ;) " e of the concert. after, Laura Delacroix received a|t%O Tivers” separates the highlands showed me boxes l::x:;mg Ia{goz"a:d On arrival at Hyattsyille, the suit | proposition from a business agent, | ©f Persia, or Iran, as its inhabitants :ibepl;:zl;{' :}r:r:oonr T:;eear:'sonrie or | Case radio set was removed to the | priends offered her the franchise “dv:s:"m”l- fm-mx l‘h(‘;se‘e?f’\lr:: lmr;e.n. B il Buitust Butax 18 we| X0 NBEstaty of BE. - J. 5 lasumen of o valusble Srit-dand inf 08 S0 TUE S SH bl Rogers, one of the veteran radio en- nioal markets. T refuset said | InE from the ancient ity of Jerusa- down into his cellars and showed me Ull;' :‘ TE ML not touch suoh | 1em across the parching and blister- sister Laura. “T w money!” “You think acifist faith democrats. “If r out,” id. rman socialists will march as man against any enemy of the fatheriand, Although theoretically they against war, neither they nor other socialists have reached of development which would give them the strength to resist lovaity to the flag and the old code of patri when their nations volved, right or wrong.” By tried to get the ideas rman Youth on the subject of war with | | German among them to bear tales of leak- | ages and abuses. She discharged | two of her best men for purchasing | |bad paper money to “shove” on to |strangers. Yet when Rodolpho got | caught receiving bets on the races| are any piane | | i i | | i i | once - to them and inter- England?” rousing 1 chorus asked, of * * % % E afternoon the troops were or- dered to fire on a crowd which! made an attempt to attack an escort| of prisoners and there was a small number of casualties. That night T had an exciting narrative to dictate over the telephone to the office of the Daily Chronicle. But in the mid- dle of it tke subeditor, MacKenna, ~no was taking down my message, said: “Cut it short, old man! Some- thing is happening tonight more im- portant than a strike in Liverpool. The German fleet is out in the North e owed m¢| thusiasts of this latitude. The suit cases of rifles stacked as high 4 the | cyse was deposited on the floor of Mr. ing Syrian desert by tortuous caravan {colling, ‘e told meithoy, caibe, tEex route, past the ruins of Babylon and on Rogers’ office, only a few feet above iGermany. I went round to the gun- it~ comen. from, your | cver the duy and Greary and sparsely the ground, and a broadcasting sta- sea and the British fleet is cleared for action!” When I put down the telephone re- ceiver I felt a shiver go down my spine, and I thought of Stead’s pre- sterous story of war August, o y ip Avgus s¢mith shops, and I was told that they were selling cheap revolvers “like hot cakes.” There was hardly a man in Ulster, who had not got a firearm of some kind or other. “It's good for business,” said one of the gunsmiths, Jaughing sandidly) “dut one of thuse it tion at Troy, N. Y., several hundred iles away, was easily tuned in. The signal was sufficiently loud so that it would operate the loud-speaking de- ce. One interesting development of the sister,” said the agent. “Tranquilize yourself. You can accept with honor. The offer is from nine ladies of the markets. Moved by your proud loy- alty to the commercial class, they in- vite you to become one of them. The settled country of Mesopotamia. Miss MacDonnell faces an arduous trip, such as few Washington girls would hazard. In the outskirts of Teheran, set in the center of a big park, the Bagh Mokhbai-ed-Dowleh, is the beautiful automobile testy was the fact that the radio set could be used success- fully as a detector of whether or not the motor car engine was missing and defective. The radio outfit picked up and amplified the ignition spark when the car was first started so that the occupants could plainly !hear it. Henceforward during the trip, by placing the suit case in a certain position, every ignition spark of the engine could be heard if @e- sired, atand, worh 42,000, 18 & gLt or loan, just as you please. Comer” Now. Laura Delacroix is a well-off dame. And the morganatio queen, i ner sister, has sunk .to oblivion! From 10 p.m 'till morn, the coun- try wagons enter Paris by all gates. ‘They pay twenty-four cents to sta- tion in the square, and must accept the aid of sworn strong men to un- load. They are the only men who count, around the market. Had it happened? et T e e e el down on that story of the German fleet, true or false. * * * As we now know, it was true. The German fleet did go out on that night in| August, but, finding the British flect prepared, they went back again. It was in August of another year that Germany put all to the great hazard. England was excited by two sub- home destened by a wealthy mer- chant who had traveled much in E Tope. which the Persian Eovernment has turned over to Dr. Millspaugh as his residence. Surrounding this man- sion are beautiful gardens and in the | rear of the house is a large swimming pool. Here the young bride will find congenial companions amonz the wives of the assistants whom Dr. Millspaugh selected to work with him/ on his mission. days the things will go off, and there PSAN we the devil to pay. Why the | Brition government allows it is be- iyond understanding.” The British government did no® ac- knowledge the truth of it. [ made !a detailed report of my investigation to Robert Donald, who passed it on to Winston Churchill, and hic comment was the incredulous remark, “Gibbs has had his leg pulled.” But it was -§Churchill's leg untfwu pylled, very SIR EDWARD CARSON PRESENTING THE FLAGS TO HIS “ULSTER ARMY. OATH TO RESIST HOME RULE. Al