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'_ ' , --- _ ~-‘--, ‘*"T 5_1; .1 ` "l*.""T".7'..-'-fir".-1-' ~"" "f"~--' will beallowed us to, hide our shame. liifllhiduhitnvn 661111111, f‘Ij`0r thepresent, says the Captain, “these sub- l arinés *(m%qni_ng the fleet that is going to be built) §1 11, ti nd HOIIXIIQ. ,ghwwm 'nun gg” .5 gum. can be permitted to bring only those things which the United States really needs, and _Germany, as `the `9 MONDAY, JULY 24, 1916. _ RETURNED SOLDIERS. I We have welcomed home quite a number of our young men who did valiant service onthe battlefield U of France and Flanders, men who voluntarily under- took to do 011r work and risk their lives in doing it. We oi owed them the welcome we gave them and they ap- :H preciated it. These young men are now among us, Some of them still suffering from wounds, some from hardships they endured, some from the poisonous gases of the Huns. They are here to enter again upon the ordinary duties of citizenship, to earn their living to play their part as members of a community in which all able bodied men are expected to be selfsustaining. _\°Ve owe these men not only the welcome‘with which we greeted them on their return, but also a helping hand to enable them 10 find employment and in what- ever other way we can benefit them. This is our side of the obligation. The returned soldiers also have their obligations. \Ve received them with the honours they were justly entitled to. They owe it to themselves and to us to live up to the standard \ve set them when we received them as heroes. Most of them, if not all, are young men, subject to such temptations as all other young men are,such temptations as even the slackers encount- er. We expect returned soldiers who have done men’s work at the front to he able to resist these and to live on a higher plane than the slackers. The soldi- er who has spent months in the trenches and has lived in the presence of death, who has escaped with his life where so many have fallen is expected to have more re- spect for that life than to waste it in unseemly living. He has done noble work ,his friends at home re- cognized his work and publicly honoured him. He has much to live up to and we trust it will be the am- bition of every soldier ,who returns to be \v0rthy of the confidence-of his friends and the respect' of the whole community. Should there be lapses, should a soldier who escaped death on the battlefield fall be- fore the little temptations in his home city, it would be indeed an inglorious ending. .lt were better by far that he had fallen a victim to a German bullet. We trust that none of our boys, of whom all are proud for the work they did, will deserve to have it said of them that it would have been better \ .for themselves and their friends if they had fallen on the battlefield. PAP1:111iilicKAnP: 7 The New York Anierican of the 16th insl., pub- lishes the "vivid story" of the “thrilling Atlantic trip" *rffffff::-'-ff-f-:-f:-1'ff.1'--->--‘ff-‘-'-'ff-1f-1‘-'-‘-‘-'-'-'-`-'-`-`f-`=¢-'-`-‘-`-‘== w0rld'S_ sole producer can supply-dyestuffs and Che- micals." What would the poor, suffering United Stat- es have done if this submarine Saviour had not come to their rescue? _VVhat _ will they do _if the submarine should be caught on her way back and never bring her dyestuds of her medicinal chemicals any more? 1 In the etfusivencss of his friendliness towards the nted States the Captain solemnly promises that no sit from German. submarines- of the commercial ype. “So long as our present friendly relations with the United States endure none will have ports assign- ed to them outside of the United States." The rest of the world which is now carrying on a precarious commerce with the old fashioned surface steamers will see now what they. have lost ini being unkind t0-Ger- many. “Our return to Germany," continues the intrepid Captain, “gives us no anxiety. It presents two aspects, one of the laws of warapplying to all merchantmen, the other of the law of self preservation, applying particularly to ourselves. If we should encounter an enemy ship \ve have the right to _expect treatment identical with that which would be accorded to any other merchant vessel, but we dare not risk such a meeting.” ln case of such meetings, if Paul sees the enemy first, he'll “go below.” Should he be seen first he admitsfit would be uncomfortaple. He states that another submarine of the Dutsch- land type, the Bremen, is coming to a United .States port in August and that she will be followed by others, now building and very much larger. “The British blockade, no longer a real blockade- nothing more than a paper blockade-now that the ease with which it can be broken has been demonstrated,” has no longer any terrors for Germany. According to this gallant Captain the question of the resumption of traffic with the United States has been solved, and the United Sta- tes will no longer suffer for those things which the 1 sole producer” can now bring to her in his little sub- n arine. Nevertheless the sea has its dangers and it has been particularly dangerous of late to German submarines. ' _ 1 ->1< LESSONS OF THE WAR , We, as well as the Germans, have learned much since the war began, much to be repented of, much for humiliation and confession. A year ago many of us- in our comfortable.armchairs-criticized the slowness of the British, the inactivity of “Kitchener’s Army” which then had run up to a strength of between two and three millions of whom but a comparatively few had gone to the front. We were wise in those days' . . . - \ Captain who did the trick, Captain Paul Koenig. Th; that all that was neceggnry was to givethem a Change story by the way, is copyrighted by Paul himself and any royalties or sales will naturally go his way According to Captain Paul the voyage was undertaken solely as “irrefutable evidence of Gcrmany's good will for the United States,” and, incidentally, “to re- store, so far as can be at present, commercial relations between the two countries.” The former of these is of the supersubmarine Deutschland,' written by the ve knew the prowess of British soldiers, we knew be to get at the Germans and the thing would be 'donel We know now that if this had been done, if Kitchener’s Army had been ‘placed in the field against the seasoned, disciplined troops of Germany we would have been aten, would have been wiped off as soon as we ,reached the firing line. Kitchener knew this then and :that is why he did not send them in great numbers to emphasized by the genial captain as the main reas0n'th¢ ft-0nt_ He knew the Value of training and disc;p_ for the voyaye because, as he says, “so much has been said and written regarding the purely commercial and soientific phases that our motive of friendliness has been almost overlooked.” Even the purely commercial side ofthe undertaking was, acording to Captain Paul, mellowcd and hallowed by friendly considera- tions towards the United States, for the cargo was limited to dyestuffs and chemicals of \vhich thepoor Americans were in sore need and which they cbuld neither manufacture for themselves nor procure from any of the bcnighted and ignorant countries outside of Germany! Or, to put it in Paul’s own words,” \fVhile commercial conditions make it advisable that dyestuffs and medicinal chemicals constitute our initial freights we have been influenced as much by the industrial and medical needs of the .United States in bringing them as we have been by the prices to be obtained for them. And, so long as they continue to be employed for the necessity of the United States and not to relieve tl1e necessities of our foes, we shall- continue to bring them here." It will be observed that we, British and French and Russian, may go down to the gates of death and through them and not a (icrman pill or pow- der or nostrum of that cargo shall be given to us; we may go about the streets dressed in the uncoloured gar- `ments of savagery and not a speck of that German dye r.-‘-‘-.-rffr-r-:rf ------------ _ --:_-_-: ____________ _ ~_-_-:.~_~::.~_-_ »~,-_~_- -_-___.______ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ line, we did not. Cautiously and wisely he kept the vast armies i n training, kept the munition factories working day and night. The small armies were kept on the defensive, useless slaughter was avoided, while preparation of men and munitions was in progress con- tinuously. “Kitchener's Am-ly" is now ready. Muni- tions are piled up on the battlefields and the Allied troops have taken the offensive. The real war has begun. We are at the beginning of the end. Kitchener was openly and viciously criticized. He withstood t he criticism, as a rock withstands the dash- ing of the waves, and as immoveably. I-Ie went on' pre- |paring for war and although he 'aid not live to see the ‘results of his labours the history of t he future will pay him the tribute of stating that “Kitchener’s Army” was the factor which finished the world’s greatest war. One of the lessons of the war is patience. . The things we thought we knew a year ago we knew noth_ ing obout. We only know now that the generals of the Allies made few mistakes and that if they had taken their advice of the armchair critics a year ago they W0Ul