New-York tribune., 1914-09-27
War Secrets
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e.,sssr1oNAl lD-AMERICAN sIAILs DELAYED.
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Principal Secretary Of State, is now
responsible.
An English yirl who was in Haute
Savoie Before the war writes;
I'VE he'd 9 bad few days waiting for
England to declare war and were ter
ribly afraid this Government would give
/ in and the country be forever dis.
graeed. But once in they have done
we'll"
She describes her three days journey
from SwitEerlan6--S00 people crowded
into End class carriages; Every little
comfort but perfect safety" since they
came of course through France; get
ting slowly on whenever the lines were
not occupied by troop trains. And at
Dieppe she spent the night "on the bare
boards of the channel steamer in the
harbour" She adds:
Every relation and friend ! possess
Of the fighting age is, I'm proud to say,
with the Army or Navy. Over 80 blood
relations, not counting in-laws.'"
But this young lady happens to be
one of tn kind that likes doing things
herself better Than having them all
done by others. Here is an extract
from o local paper:
"T hear shat Lady Muriel Herbert,
whose father was the late Earl Of Penn
broke, has BEEN riding up and down
the highways and byways of South
Wiltshire, searching for likely recruits,
and that thus far she has enlisted 147,"
Which seems a fairly good record
for one girl by herself on her hunter
for a fortnight. Nor need you think 1t
an exception. ] do not know an Eng
lishwoman who is not, in one way or
another, doing her part in the war.
Mr.. Ramsay Macdonald.
Between Mr.. Ramsay Macdonald and
the German Chancellor there seems to
be meeting of minds. Mr.. Macdonald
is perhaps the only Englishman-no
he is not an Englishman, he is one of
those Scotchmen who don't like being
called English-who at this moment
finds himself in such singular company.
He deserves, for that reason, a mo-.
ment's attention. Even so far away as
America his peculiar fame may have
spread. He is hominally leader of the
Labor party in the House of Commons,
but a leader who does not lead, just as
the party which represents Labor in
that body is a party which does not
represent. He was one of the half
dozen Red Radicals who made their
protest against war and for Germany,
after Sir Edward Grey's speech. He
was against the war. He was for be-
traying Belgium and betraying France.
He still is. He now says in the mis-
named Labor Leader:
when Sir Edward Grey failed to
secure peace between Germany and
Russia he worked deliberately to in
volve US in the war, using Belgium as
hF oh
"If France had decided to attack
Germany through Belgium, Sir Edward
Grey would not have objected"
These are precisely the charges
which Herr Won -Hollweg
brought against Sir Edward Grey;
knowing them to be untrue. Whether
MIR. Macdonald knows them to be un-
true | cannot say. But one charge is
categorically disproved by the White
Paper, long since in everybody's hands.
The other, which was denied in Sir Ed
ward Grey's speech, has since again
been specifically contradicted by him.
The German Ambassador in Washing
ton might find Mr.. Macdonald useful
recruit.
American Mails Delayed.
The Mauretania, which sailed from
New York Wednesday, September 9, at
a. M, arrived in Liverpool Monday!
September IA, at p. m. Her mails, II
she had brought any, were to nave
been delivered in London TUESDAY
morning. Why did she bring no mails !
Is il because she flies the British flag!
"a it another item in President WI
sons super-subtle scheme Of neutral
itv of which the practical effect IS
ever against the Allies? Does MS
Postmaster General think it unsafe 70
intrust the mail to a British ship! is
he unaware that the North Atlantic Is
swept clean of German cruisers, ana
that British ships flying the British
flag make the voyage from American
TO British ports in perfect security!
Whatever the reason be, our postal
authorities chose to send the accumu-
Inted American mails from September
( to September 9 by the Philadelphia;
They were not delivered in London TIL
tbis morning, Friday, three days. later
than if they had come by the Maure,
tania. II is said that the order to SEND
mails only by neutral ships was given
by Professor Wilson himself. | know
not but | know that the English 6usl-
ness world wonders why its business
should be needlessly derangeed an ana ae-
layed. H' ="