The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
ENGlAND'S YEAR Of
RECORD PROSPERITY
Big Increase in Trade Dur
ing First Quarter
SPYING is CONTINUED
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SPYING is CONTINUED
Englishman, Recently Convicted in
Germany and Teuton, Now on
Trial in Britain-Bitter Dis
pute in Scottish Capital
By PAUL LAMBETH


London, March -(speclal)-"P Pears" :"
says the American" member of the Brit
ish cabinet Right Hon. Winston
Churchill" are much more important
than peers.
This pithy phrase sums up the attitude
OF Churchill and the goyerpment lead
ers towards land reform and the perfec-
tion of the mother of parliaments. The
country can do with more pears, peaches
parsnips and potatoes. The crop of peers
is as a drug in market whose governing
note is a reversion to republicanism OF
the only sort England has ever known
puritanical, peer-piclSing republicanism
with David Lloyd-George as the Crom-
welian Commoner. You can eat pears.
Peers-eyen by militant suffragettes-are
rather too tough for the table. So more
pears must come by the road on which
the peers take their last look at the lost
fortresses of government by right of
birth.
Churchill rather likes the sobriquet of
our "American" cabinet minister How
absolutely American the man is in looks,
methods, motions, speech-forgetting that
ton, there is nothing Narrowing in the
Harrow high pitch" His is the voice
of conviction, power, deadly determine
ton. Next only to Lloyd George indeed,
some put him ahead of the greatest of
chancellors since Pitt-he is the best loved
and most ardently hated man in the
British empire. He is denounced and
feared by the lords of Marlborough, but
he is worshipped and cheered by the peas
ants, the laborers, and the producing
middle classes-the people whose votes
win or lose elections What will be his
future? 1t is impossible as yet to tell.
Ills ambition is boundess his only in
terest and pleasure in life are politics;
his energy is restless; his health is not
very certain. He has the disadvantage
that always pursues a man who has
changed his party. But who can tell what
he may be. with this strong will, this
daring courage, this mercless subjec-
ton of all things and all men to what
lie thinks right? 1t may be that some
great national emergency may call for
linn. He is too uncertain a quantity to
be certain about.
This is England's year of record pros
perty. Imports and experts during the
current quarter have gained by millions
are abundance of orders still i'll sight.
Yet, it looks very much as if it is also
going to be a record year in emigration.
The shipping companies report that they
cannot accommodate the applicants for
berths. About a hundred people are
turned away disappointed every day from
the offices of the steamship companies
This has been going on for a month past.
Every third-elass berth Is booked up un-
Ill June 10, and the second-cass until
May Ia Yet there were never so many
companies, or such fine ships, catering
for the United States, Australian, and
Canadian passenger trade.
Four years ago 5000 English people
went to Canada. Last year the total was
l3S121 This year it will be probably
100000. For every one man who went out
four years ago three are leaving now.
Australia does not, of course, touch the
Canadian figure, but the boom in emigra-
ton to Australia reached a great height
during the latter part of last year. 1t
was for long time impossible to obtain
a second or third-class berth to the COM
monwealth.
And while the English are going from
England, the Irish are coming back to
Ireland Reversed in the grim boast of
the Irish Marquis of Salisbury two
decades ago THE Celts are going with
a vengeance"
John Bull has at last made up his mind
that there are more attractive countries
than the land where most of the silk and
realty remains tied up in the vest pockets
of the dukes.
Such a reign of terror has been ere
ated by the militant suffragettes that
aristocratic owners of priceless brc-a-
brac are in fear and trembling lest their
possessions fall under the suffragette
hammer or go up in atoms impelled by
the Votes for Women" bombs. One of
the smartest functions of the season
the recent exhibition of the Royal ANA
teur Art society-was held behind doors
guarded by burly detectives and police
who scrutinized carefully the credentials
of all the distinguished visitors to Sur
rey House Marble Arch, loaned for oc-
casion by Lady Battarsen. There was a
deep sigh of relief when the affair was
over with the beautiful object dart shown
by the famous collectors safe from
slaughter. Queen Ameie of Portugal and
Sir Philip Burne-Jones were the two liv-
ing attractions of the function.
Both England and Germany continue
the interesting, but hazardous game, 81
spy" Two Englishmen have just been
sentenced in Germany for too great curl
osity as to the military strength of the
fatberland. Through court sitting at
Plymouth, England is repdylng TINS COM
pliment IN the trial of German hunch-
back, William Klatz, who is charged with
purchasing secrets of the British navy.
The interesting feature of the Klatz case
Is the disclosure that again the charm
ing Baroness Kroth' has got clear away
from the tight little isle after pick
ing the closely guarded locks of the ad-
miralty Detectives got ON her trail at
Dover, where she stopped at a small
H.,
the latest Paris fashion, going up to her
room And they saw a dashing young
man leave the hotel about an hour later
and never suspected the boy was the
best-wanted political meddler ever seer
above the sands of Dover until the boy