The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-03
MUST ENLIST IN
 ENGLAND OR bE DEPORTED

LONDON. Aug. 3. Wide differ ence of opinion has arisen and the ground prepared for a controversy among the political leaders by the governments decision that the sub jects of it's allies in the war residing in England shall either enlist in the British army or be deported.
 Particular objection to the decision has been engendered in so far as it may affect Russian subjects here who may be political refugees, large ele- ment of the more liberal thinkers in public life birding themselves in the traditional asylum offered by England in this respect Herbert Samuel, sec retary of the home office, stated in the house of commons that the plan to deport those failing to enlist would not be enforced in the case of Russian subjects, if a tribunal decided that they are political refugees.
 The suggestion has been made that instead of sending back to their own country Russian Jews who have left Russia for reasons known to every body, though they are not exactly po- litical refugees. they should be sent to America or deported to some other neutral country of their choice.
 The desire to avoid offending Rus sian susceptbilities on the subject is general, for which reason the question is regarded as one of unusual deli cacy. One group holds that the send ing back of Russian Jews to their own country would gratify no import ant sentiment, and might effect the reverse result. The true inwardness of the situation, according to the Lon don correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. is that Englishmen taken into the army under conscription re- sent the immunity of Russian Jews and regard them as "job stealers."
 The correspondent gives the follow ing letter on the subject received by him from a Russian correspondent;
 "This step will have most unfor- tunate effect upon Russian opinion, which is the chief support in Russia of Anglo-Russian friendship, and which builds all it's hopes for Rus sia's future upon the propagation of the British spirit of freedom and indi- vidual liberty Russian liberals will regard the deportation threat with particular dismay, as being an unex- pected and staggering concession to the long cherished but always hither- to baffled desire of the Russian bu- reaucracy to secure the extradition of Russian political refugees.
 "Engiand is the great country of Europe that has always hitherto pro tected political refugees, and as such it has quite a unique standing in the eyes of Russian reformers of all shades. It would be quite impossible for an Englishman to realize the feel ing of veneration~ with which England is regarded because of this right or asvmm. It was here in London that Alexander Herzen, father of Russian Liberalism, was a refugee. and issued his paper. Kolokor Cthe Belly, that eventually brought about the enamel nation of the serfs. Here in later times have found refuge TchakovskV, Prince Kuropatkin, and so many others of our great reformers.
 Living in London at this moment are refugee members of the first Du- ma, and quite a host of revolutionar- ies who escaped after 1905. Russia does not want these men as soldiers many of them would have to face the worst penalty. But the principal evil would be that the Russian ideali- zation of this country would be shat tered, and such a disillusionment Of Britains chief political friends in Russia might we'll prove disastrous to the closer cooperation Of the two countries in the future.
 Ut is unpalatable, but it Is true that among the Conservatives and re- actionary clements in Russia, who alone would be gratified by this new British departure. there is a frankly aptipritish section and their Sp0keS-