Evening star., 1916-03-19
Returns in Different Role.

"One day he disappeared, said the
secret service man. '"The next day he
walked into the buying agency in
different role. He wore a silk hat and
a fur-collared overcoat. He laughed
over his experience as a 'swamper' in
the buying agency. He had not discov-
cred anything. he said, that offered even
an excuse for this assignment from the
head of the secret police at Petroerad
He was sure that this particular buy
ing agency was honestly conducted no
matter what might be the conditions
elsewhere.
by the way said he. genially, to
the head OF the agency. here is an Or
der for you to proceed at once to Petro-
grad to make a report upon American
conditions"
That night the head of the agency
shot himself through the head
Changes in Ideas Necessary.
An American of high professional
standing dined with Lord Northcliffe in
London not long ago. The story of the
talk has gradually won certain modi-
fed publicity here. The great London
editor-the man who, in the opinion Of
many neutral observers. is entitled TO
the greater part of the credit for ha y
ing startled England into a realization
that she had been lighting negIicentIy
and stupidly-is optimist for the
long pull. but pessimist as compared
with some of the cheerful pubIicists of
England.
We will win said Northcline. "Oh.
yes. we will win"
When? asked the American
Northcliffe said he did not know. Be
fore the alles could begin to win
, changes must be made in the cabinet.
Not that the American understood him
as meaning that new men should enter
that body. Northcliffe understood and
approved of the dour British way Of
sticking by the leader in fight
Slaughter on Both Sides.
There must be changes in their
IDEAS" said lie. They must cease
procra estimation and playing party poll
ties and get down to business. Per
haps they are the best men we can
find. At any rate they are the best
we will get. We will make them pay
for their mistakes after the war. Not
until then"
| The American wanted to know what
down to business.
! Just slaughter said NorthcIiffe.
on both sides The side which can
most money the longest Will win. That
means the allies will win.
, Our allies might he forced to make
peace separately, though no one who
| knows France will for one moment
think that France would strike her
| colors. Every British soldier might be
driven OFF the continent. Even so, we
would win. We would turn the British
Isles into a fortified camp and we
would hold the seas. The war might
go on for ten years. but in that ten
years never "A German flag would be
seen on the seas. In the end Germany
would be strangled. In the long run
sea power will win this war"
Submarine as a Decoy.
This is the story of the entrance OF
the British submarines into the Baltic
as it has come to certain naval circle.
here. The man who told it is in q
position to know something of what
he is talking.
"A German submarine was caught in
a net" he said.
Every one knows these nets are OF
steel chains. submarine thrusts into
J one of the meshes just as fish do int
J q gill net, and cannot get out. The
destroyers who are on the watch fol
the bobbing of the buoys which stane
for the cork floats of seine attent
.ssiias * dss.s.f the .uDn.r.n. entered