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France celebrated the Fourth V. that tof ty m an From the despatches Paris turned out a great celebrants that no Amer- ever surpassed for size, en- and profusion of Stars and A battalion of the first expeditionary we its lcial review In France and was | iter of the celebration. mericains! s Etats-Unis!" were the shouts | reéted the “Viv Vive Pershing! | Amerlcans. 1 and glorious occasfon. e Fourth of July was celebrat- Paris Jon. ', 4 was, of course, n fo, ot he th n in it was celebrated also Throughout all England was “celebrated officially not the that marked the day r Pershing and his in England to laspire and message of the American | e message of Liberty. Yet, these long years during gland and the United States en- in men | ood apart it is gratifying to at m iy the People across the sea | o to, realize what Independ- means. The Fourth of or should be, as great a hol- London as it is in Washing- | €. Were it not for what tace In the -colonies on that bl t | e Fourth of July some one and forty years ago the eople today might be under roh as rigid and strong in his hel ¥ B a 1o ‘Abot niversary of American e ri nt as Emperor Wilhelm of urth of July is rapidly be- world-wide event. At the n in Peris yesterday, Pre- said: “In celebrating inde- we give more than a sign endship which has bound us {to the great American nation. our gratitude and admira- the role the United States assumed in bringing the in- strength of its disinterested e cause of right and civiliza- this sense the Fourth of sumes henceforth the charac- n | international fete.” OURNAVY. the days pf John Paul Jones srican Navy has had a way of its first naval engagement. has proved no exception to The announcement from the .partment given to the Ameri- D1y form. e on Independence Day runs In jts first encounter Germans the Americans came pr ifous. The ships convoying rican army to France met the nd conquered. n intic 1 wi retary Baker put it lator: The great feat & men and provisions across bhattlefield away to a miles was accom- ithout the loss of one fight- or one fighting ship, in his Secretary letter to “This splendid achievement is vious beginning.” It is indeed eginning such as real Ameri- 3 ed for, a beginning such as e a great awakening in many e for the past jttled in many quarters. e Theodore wn a minds,—particularly three in rabid criticism head of the Navy on or other the Navy those years of the For has The shortly It the against it started outset of this war. Yever ‘helght during 1lson political flasco. The Roosevelt did other man to further His followers and those of tn | and Broad- | 925 | force about | ® for the battle front had It was | Whose officers and men three | Mr| Hushes took up where he left off. We have expected such things in a political battle. But even after the demise of the Republican candidate the stories of slander went their vay. We were told of what a delapidateq condition the Navy had the guldance of Josephus Daniels. We were told that | its Dattleships had become antiquated; nothing but destroyers were that its dread- - out of style. These were self-appointed nothing of enginoening. should come ‘to under that its submarines were | death-traps: that its fit fou noughts the scrap heap: 1 we the . mutterings of crities, who knew | naval tactics or naval | Yet the tales of sorrow were bhelieved people, and would be be- | lieved today but for the wonderful j showing the Navy made In its first en- gagement in this war. Secretary Daniels deserves no more praise for the wonderful accomplish- | ment of tha American Navy last.week he »d the terrible arraign« of his critics, The vears of training at Anna- ade it possible for the officers | of thesc ships to carry on their work. | The unceasing practice of our | American sailors made it possible for i them to drive away the attacking sub- The tra- American sorved the men to put men { by many i than { ment me political years and i pol target marines without much ado. the | both the officers and | forth their best effor The business | of a Secretary of the very | much misunderstood by those outside It | dition of navy avy s | must be | remembered that any ap- {polmnd to this office has always be- | hind him a board of competent naval | officers upon whose advice and ex- | perience he can always lean. Outside of political | quarrels the American Navy 1is as | good today as it ever perhaps | better. It is the same gallant Navy, !officer for officer and man for man, that it was when the Ilate Admiral George Dewey had it in command at Manila Bay. was the Navy when Farragut damned the torpedoes,—the same Navy that “Jack’ Barry helped to build and per- | petuate. Tt is, of course, a bigger and more formidable Navy in every way, because it is the Navy of the American | people In the year 1917 with all the | rand improvements that should be part and parcel of the Navy. And there is no Navy in the world capable of performing more valiant deeds or are better trained than those of this Navy. If the war lasts long enough it will show the world what Yankee bravery means | and what Yankee Ingenuity can do, | the realm of the Navy. clvilian quarters and was, Tt is the same Navy that WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. While complete recruiting figures i are not avallable at this writing it is known that New Britain sponded nobly to the call. local . companies the National | Guard are almost filled to war strength. Company E now has 141 enlisted men and ten men who are attached to the organization with the possibility they will be permanently assigned. Company I lacks but a few men of being up to war strength. The regular army has received a quota of recruits from New Britain that has caused high praise at headquarters in | Hartford. The Navy has been gen- erously treated in New Britain some one hundred boys and men gone to the oolors. All in all, New Britaln has lived up to its past traditions. Its boys and men have not fallen down in the hour of need. There will be even greater | numbers of enlistments in the future than there have, been in the past. At Hartford an official is quoted as say- ing that this city leads the county in the matter of enlistments. The re- cruiting ocampaign here at first thought to be a fallure has turned out otherwise. Just so soon as the young men realize what the call to duty | means they have no hesitation in do- | Ing the proper thing, enlisting. That they held back in the first place not at all surprising. There are few | men over-anxious to leave behind the | peaceful tasks and take up the busi- ness of waging It is not the most pleasant occupation In the world. Yet when it has to be done the boys must go. In a nearby state there is a city of 200,000 population which has had gregt difficulty in turning out fifty re- cruits for the army and navy and the National Guard. Up to last Saturday | this city could boast of but who answered the during the regular recruiting week. | Jvdging from this record New Brit- ain with Its population of less than 65,000 people has made a wonderful showing. In all, there must hundred men from this city in varvious branches of service. has The re- two of having s war, | | | | thirty | young men call be five the We are well represented i the American am- We have Naval Re- There in the reg- | ular army and the navy. And the two local companies of the National Guard are visible signs of the spirit which exists here. Let no one say that New Britain has not done its bit or that her boys are not loyal to the flag. France. in bulance corps in ‘our boys enlisted the | serves are man NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1917. FACTS AND FANCIES, But wasn’t it rather a waste of time for Congressman Tilson to explain gas warfare to his colleagues?—Bos- ton Transcript, The Nebraska farmer who bought | 4,000 gallons of intoxicants to supply himself for 40 vears apparently did not intend to keep open house for his friends.—New York Sun. When a rural community doesn't | know and can’t find out the detec- tives might as well give up.—Capper’s Weekly. A not from landin tall ip showed how unction in last week's news| “rance. Ior the news of the | of the American forces came | —¥ypringfield Republican. mi to tary censo: When people evervwhere are dis- | pensing with luxurles it is rather dis- appointing to learn that the Igorrotes in the Philippines refuse to give up eating dogs.—Springfield Union. | We pass this along for what it's | worth: A Salt Lake City woman Las | just got a court order restraining her husband from interfering with house- \cleaning.—Paterson Press-Guardian. it is sald some home ready for the mowing machine. No so up here. Ours are practically weed free and ‘‘up and coming.''—Berkshire Eagle. In Boston gardens are “We have a peace emperor,” de- clares an Austrian delegate. At all events Charles inherited the war in- stead of making it; he has that ad- vantage over another emperor.— Springficld Republican. Dean Holmes of the Pennsylvania State college reckons that the money value of a four-vear college course is $20,000. The figures are relative. They depend on the worth of the man who takes the courses.—New York World. Of young “Bflly” McCarthy, weigh- ing 100 pounds at just under three years. it is to be noted that although he lives now in Philadelphia he got his start in New York. He ls &till going strong.—New York World. The Chinese have ahout decided that, if th can’'t flght Germany, they will arrange a little fight among themselves. They insist on demon- strating the fact that they are be- | coming a really civilized nation.— Norwich Record. Good food speeches are alleged to have heen made in the senate vester- day We can imagine nothing less filling as food than a senate speech. Much more to the point is when the counter man cries: “Two minute eggs are ready, Cap!”—Springfield News. cities in France and Eng- land plan Fourth of July celebra- tions. For the sake of international amity we hope these observances of the day will be “solemn’ enough to please the deep thinkers who urge all Americans to weep on the nation’s birthday.—New York Sun. Several A Midsummer Song. (Richard Watson Gilder). father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, Jamie’s after robins, man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will: “Polly! Polly! The cows the corn! where's Polly? (o8 And and,’ the are in 1D, From all the mistv morning air there comes a summer sound— A murmur as of waters from and trees and ground. The birds, they sing upon the the pigeons bill and coo, And over hill and hollow rings the loud halloo: “Polly! Polly! The cows the corn! where's Polly?" skies wing, again are In o, Ahove the trees the honey bees swarm with buzz and boom, And in the fleld and garden a thou- sand blossoms bloom. Within the farmer's meadow brown-eyed daisy blows, And down at the edge of the hollow a red and thorny rose. But, Polly! Po&'! the cows are in the corn! O, where's Po.lly? a How strange, at such a time of the day the mill should stop Iits clagter! The farmer's wife is Iistening now"| and wonders what's the matter. O, wild the hirds are singing in the wood and on the hill, ‘While, whistling up the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, Polly! Polly! The cows are in the corn! where’s Polly ? But, o, CELEBRATE IN SOUTH AFRIC Cape Town, South Africa, Jul “Indcpendence Day” was celebrated by the opening of a recruiting rally the principal meeting, of which was attended hy the American consul gen- eral. George O. Mufphy and J. .Y. Merriman, premier of Cape Colony. Mr. Merriman, in an address, ,eulo- glzed the stand America has taken and said he was Indescribably thankful | that the two divisions of the Anglo- Saxon race were partners in the com- mon cause to uphold the idcals of freedom which are their common her- itage. SCANT SUITS FOR MEN, Chicago, July ffat men will look fatter and thin men thinner if they conform to the styles forecast for the coming season by garment authorities here for the convention of the na- tional assocation of clothing designers which opened today. The scent Eng- | lish styles are to be resumed they sav and suits will be patterned with sharp form defining lines. REFORM MOVEMENT 'LARGE ORDER FOR [SOLDIERS FIRE ON GAINS NEW FRIENDS German Conservatives Issue De- mand for Equal Franchise \ Berlin, Via London, July 5.—The movement for an equal electoral franchise in Prussia has found cham- pions in unexpected quarters through leading conservatives joining in a public declaration calling on the government to take action for the pompt enactment of legislation 1in favor of election reform. Their call, which is an unequivocal indorsement of the agitation carried on by the soclal democrats for many vears, bears the date of June 30. It says: The mighty struggle in which The German people are now en- saged is not yet ended. The un- dersigned until now have been largely of the opinion that the promise contained in the impe- rial Eastertide message for the elimmation “of acrimonious in- ternal struggles might be ful- fllled in collaboration with the conservative forces of our public life. However, the opposition emanating from these sources is S0 powerful as to call forth doubts whether this Easter mes- sage, in its true spirit, can at all become a reality aftor the can- clusion of peace. Today such doubt is intoler- able. To keep that faith with the German people to which it is en- titled it is needful to take this work in hand without further delay. We therefore do not hesitate publicly to emphasize the need of the hour which demands af the government that it forthwith lay before the Diet a draft of an election reform which not gnly calls for a general, direct, sécret hallot, but for an equal voting franchise for all: and, further, that the goernment in addition glve effective, visible expression of the confldence to which the German people are entitled. The call is signed by Prof. Hans Delbrueck historian of the University of Berlin; Alexander Dominicus, chiet magistrate of Schoeneberg, Prof. Emil Fischer; Dr. Adolf von Harnack, dean of the German theologians; Prof, Walter Brnst, Dr. Paul Rohrbach, Dr. Fredrich Thimme and Prof. Ernst ‘Troeltsch. The signers almost without excep- tion have becn looked upon generally as stalwart conservatives. Vorwaerts says the call is an his- toric document and the Tageblatt hails It as a welcome sign of public sentiment. War Department Recefves Draft of Measure Calling for Expenditure of 639,000,000—May Need 75,000 Men. Washington, July 5.—Drafts of ad- ministration bills for the great Amer- ican aviation project which is to dtrike Prussian autocracy through the alr have been transmitted to Chair- man Dent of the house military com- mittee by the war department. They propose, at first, building 22,625 air- planes, and would appropriate $639,- 000,000. -One hill provides for organization and personnel and the other for the appropriations. The personnel bill will be introduced by Mr. Dent to- morrow and he will confer soon with Chairman Titzgerald of the appro- priations committee as to the appro- priation bill. The administration draft of the per- sonnel measure would vest broad au- thority in the president in the or- ganization of the service, Including the power to raise men needed by draft, if necessary. Tt will be intro- duced as drawn by the war depart- ment, but the committee will hold hearings before making a report. The cstimates did not explain the number of men needed, but it was unofficially snggested that the elan- orate program presented by the ad- Jministration was likely to require close to 000 men. The ram accompanying the bill, as submitted by Secretary Baker, calls for 22,825 airplanes and about 45,250 engines, costing altogether $363,140,000. THE FOURTH IN RIO. Brazil Joins Allied Nations in Cel- cbrat; the Day. Janeiro, July. 5.—American, French afid Brazilian troops through the streets of Rio Janeiro vesterday. Prestdent Wen- ceslan Braz, surrounded hy officials, reviewed the troops, four battalions of which had been landed from the American squadron. There were two Brazilian regiments, one British de- tachment and one French detach- ment. Great crowds gathered the parade and the men an ovation and flowers in their path. The celebration of American Inde- rendence Day was enthusiastically carried out. A committee of federal deputies went to the French and British legatiom and the American embas and expressed the solidarity of Brazil with these nations. The chamber suspended its session in hon- or of the day. The president of the republic and thWe minister of marine visited the American flagship and the supreme federal tribunal. after the oresident had extolled the role plaved by the United States in the war, like- wise suspended its session The Brazilian newspapers imously agree that the day tion is of exceptional political nificance. They &alt the part plaved by the United States and proclaim the solidarity of the American nations. Rio British. marched to watch were given were strewn unan- celebra- | sig- | | Commission Recommends Spend- ing 375,000,000 Here for Them Petrograd, July 5.—M. Stephanoff, temporary Minister of Trade and In- | dustry received John F. Stevens and the other members of the American Railroad Commission discuss the methods by America may assist Russia. Mr. Stevens inquired about the pres- ent system of snpplying the army and the civillan population, and M. Palt- chinski, Assistant Minister, gave a de- tailed description of it. The mem- | bers of the American Commission ex- prossed satisfaction at what they had learned and promised energetic co- operation in Improving the system of | supply. The commission later issued to the Russian public a report of the result of its inspection of the Russian rail- roads, together with recommendations for reforms. The report begins with the acknowledgement that the com- mission has received the full sympa- thy and support of its Russian col- leagues. It declares that the commls- sion considers that Russian railroads have an excellent technical personnel and that many roads have a good practical system of management, the extension of which to other roads is desirable. The commission finds it necessary to recommend certain reforms in regard to material and management, which already have been successfully tried in America. The first necessary reform affects the traffic svstem and involves the employment of more powerful lo- comotives and of freight cars of larg- er carrying capacity. The construction of workshops at Vladivostok for the putting together of locomotives Imported from the United States is deemed necessary by the commission. Tn all repalr shops work must continue uninterruptedly 24 hours a day, thus enabling a re- duction in the percentage of locomo- tives out of use. It also will be nec- ersary to take rational measures for the acceleration and regulation of ex- change of cars between the different roads and for the speeding up of the system of loading. The creation of a special State De- partment, the chief of which will be an Inspector General responsible for seeing that the whole network of roads is supplied with all necessary material both for traffic and repairs and also for the responsible distribu- tion of such material between the dif- ferent roads, is recommended by the commission. This official must have the right to demand the necessary material and he himself must take measures to insure its delivery. The most immeaiate problem. the report goes on, is to bring the rail- roads Into a condition, which will in- sure an adequate system of supply for the army and civilian population. Therefore, it is essential to increase the available number of locomotives and freight cars. On this point the commission met with full agreement from the Russian experts. Chairman Stevens immedlately sent a cablegram to Washington, request- ing that the construction of locomo- tives and cars be undertaken at once. The order, it is said, will require the increase of America’s credit to Russia by 750.000,000 rubles, $375,000,000). In giving this order the commission says it was gulded, not by commercial considerations, but solely by the de- sire to afford Russia all possible sup- port in the common cause. The report concludes by saving that the commisston is ®1ll engaged In con- sidering the question of the supply of raw material, rails and machinery for the Russlan roads. It considers that the adoption of its recommendations will be sufficient to obtain for the Rus- sian railroads a flourishing future. HOW WAR EATS INTO NATION'S TREASURY yesterday to best which Appropriations for 1915 Simple in Comparison to Those Estimat- ed for This Year. Washington, July 5.—An _ the = enormous cost to maintain America’s fighting forces is given in a statement issued by the committee on public information today. Subsistence, for instance, which in 1915 was supplied at the modest cost of $9,800,000, this vear has heen provided for in the estimates a1 $133.~ 000,000. Clothing and camp garrison equip- ment, which two years ago were had for $6,500.000, will cost this vear $231,000,000. Ordnance slores which in 1915 were 0,000, this vear than $106.000,000. Manufacture of arms. which in 1915 cost $450,000, this year will cost more than $55,000,000. Ammunition for small arms, 1915, $875.000, this year, $145,000,000. Transportation, 1915, $13,000,000, } this vear, $222.000,000. Reguiar supplies, 1915, $10,000,000, idea of supplies, for more and furnished will cost $450,000 was ap- propriated in 1915 while $47.000,000 already has been appropriated for this vear. This does not include the administration’s big aireraft pro- gram which calls for an initial ap- propriation of $639,000,000. Among the items already pur- hased are 5.000.000 blankets, 37.- 000,000 yards of bobbinette, 2,000,000 aeronauti . 000 yards of unbleached drill- ing, 6,000,000 pairs of shoes and 11 RUSSIAN ENGINES' 00.000 yards of cotton cloth, | DUTCH WORKMEN Rot Follows Attempt to Hold Food Demonstration Amsterdam, July 5.—Four youths were killed and 19 persons injured when police and troops fired on a mob which was pillaging shops Tuesday night. The clash followed a parade of a large number of workmen through the streets contrary to po- lice orders. Previously a protest meeting at the Diamond Bourse, denounced the “brute forces of the wealthy classes” and the action of the police and mii- itary in connection with the scarcity of potatoes and their export to, Eng- land. The meeting adopted a resolu- tion in favor of a 24 hour general strike as a remedy. Rioting also occurred in the Kat- tenberg market district. Fresh troops have been summoned to Amsterdam. In rioting near Handelskade a crowd of women stormed a cold stor- age warehouse and carried off car- casses of pigs, which they distributed. Butcher shops also were plundered. Soldiers and police charged the crowds and cleared the streets. The potato riots in which that attacked two markets were dis- persed by the police after fighting in which many persons were wounded, resulted from an attempt of the government to ship potatoes to Eng- land. The anti-ministerial “Telegraal” refers to the difficulty of making the less educated classes understand the necessity on the one hand of bar- tering potatoes for German coal and fron and on the other hand of ful- filling the contract with England, which calls for forwarding to that country an amount of potatoes equiv- alent to that exported to Germany. The Burgomaster states that cessa- tlon of exports to Germany would mean paralysis of industries, with resultant lack of work and with no coal next winter. The socialists de- mand cessatlon of the exportation of all foods. The government is taking measures to bring adeguate supplies from the rural districts and distri- bute them at reduced prices. All Amsterdam dock workers are on strike as are builders’ workmen and shipyard laborers. The Burgo- master has forbidden street demon- strations and open air meetinge. A deputation the dock workers visited the Burgomaster and demand- ed a better supply of foodstuffs and the withdrawal of the military guards from the markets where serious po- tato rlots occurred last night. regard to the latter the Burgomas- ter replied that order must be main- tained at any cost. According to tho ‘“Het Volk” a detachment of soldiers was ordered to charge a crowd, but | refused to do so, and were marched off by the officer in command, amid cheers. SUFFRAGISTS IN WHITE HOUSE RI0T Crowd Seizes Banners and Free- for-All Starts Washington, D, C., July 5.—Thir- teen militant martyrs to the cause of suffrage are under lock and key in the House of Detention in Washington. If they had only counted noses be- fore they started out vesterday to brave the minions of the law who guard the portals of the White House it is safe to say that the recording angel of the House of Detention weuld not have occasion to inscribe any one of the following names upon the page headed *“‘July 4.” Here is the list: Miss Hazel Hun- kins, Miss Frances B. Green, Miss Elizabeth Steveson, Miss Lucile Shields, Miss Dora Lewls, Miss Gladys H. Grimes, Miss Margaret T. Whitte- more, Miss Iris F. Calderhead, Miss Kitty Marion, of New York: Miss Vida Milholland, Miss Helen Hill ‘Weed, Miss Joy Young and Miss Lucy Burns. Miss Kitty Marion, who is numbered among spent the night at the District of Columbia lodging house, proved her- self a bit more militant than any of the others. She was engaged in offer- ing to the public the Suffragist, the official organ of the militant branch of the votes for women advocates, when an unsuspecting male chanced by and, accepting one of the papers held toward him by Miss Marion, tore it to pieces and threw it to the side- walk. Miss Marion displayed a knowledge of the art of self-defense that would put the ordinary man to shame, and C. E. Morgan, the offending male, was put to ignominous and shameful flight. He and two other men, A, L. Simpson and W. S. Cain were carried off to the police station and locked up. Having no conscientious scruples against giv- ing bail such as the suffragist lodgers in the house of detention have, they are now in their respective homes. Undaunted by terms in jail, as the penalty for the last offense, the mili- tant suffragists of the woman’s party staged a series of riots in front of the White House at noon. The streets were filled with Fourth of July crowds who participated in the demonstra- tion, which far surpassed in excite- ment any of the other suffrage riots there in the last two weeks. Police reserves had to be called out to quell the disturbance Crowd Grabs Banners. The trouble started at moon, when a procession of nine women carryving banners paraded from the women's party headauarters to the White House. They marched up Pennsy of New York, those who mobs | With | | THE McMillan Store. (Incorporated.) “Always Reliable.” FOR VACATION TRAVEL TRUNKS, BAGS and SUIT CASES | VISIT OUR 3RD FLOOR LUGGAGE i | | | in a large DEPT. have conveniently dis- played a large selection of Steamer, Dress and Wardrobe Trunks, Sult Cases and Traveling Bags, STEAMER TRUNKS Priced $7.50 to $12.00 each DRESS TRUNKS Priced $5.98 to $18.00 cach. 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The special detail of i police which has been on duty at the White House for weeks, immediately seized the women, arresting them on charges of violating Distriot of Columbia statutes, forbidding such as- sembly in the streets as would abstruet traffic. Before the police had an op- portunity to get the women away, some of the crowd jammed in and seized the banners. A fight followed, but police reserves, which had beesn summoned, quickly restored order. In the meantime the crowd around the women became thick and men and women ran in from all sides. Finally with some difficulty the police commandeered two automobiles and took the women to the House of De- tention. Some of the suffragists sang as they were driven away. Hardly had this group gone out of sight before another contingent ap= peared from suffrage headquarters. These women marched around as tha first group had done, and then took up stations at the west gate of the White House. Before the police had an op- portunity to interfere the crowd went after the women and the tanners they were carrying were torn. The police fought their way to the women and placed them under arrest. Two more automobiles were comman- deered and these suffragettes were taken to join thelr sisters. President Wilson missed the demon- stration, which the women had time& in order to get the full benefit of pub- licity from the Fourth of July crowds. The President and Mrs. Wilson wera passing the day aboard the yacht May- flower on the Potomao river. LONDON EDITORS REJOICE Treat Fourth of July as Idberally as 1f British Holiday—Old Wounds Completely Healed. London, July 65.—The prominence given Independence Day by the Lon- don morning newspapers suggests a recurrence of a British rather than an American anniversary. Besides fully reporting the celebration, inci- dent, banquets and other things, the principal papers devote the finest edi- torfals thereto, emphasizing the sen- timent expressed by Foreign Secretary Balfour. The Morning Post, which often in the past has been critical of America, rejoices on the anniversary of estrangement has bhecome a festival of reunion and declares: “Not the least of manifold ben- efits the Germans unwillingly con- ferred on Great Britain lg the lifting of Anglo-American relations to a plane of more intimate and cordial friendshiv than a century of time had been able to achieve.” The Times, after gratified general comment, savs there are some Brit- ons ‘‘who still do not see Amrican belligerency for what it is, on® of the miraocles of the war and its crowning 181,000 pairs of light woolen sock: “va.ma avenue and then to the east| mercy.”