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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
Build the Channel
Tunnel Now!

ERANCIS VINTON GREENE, Major
l. General, U. S. ", urges in "The
Yale Review" for July that the much
discussed tunnel under the English
Channel, connecting England and
France, should be begun at once:
Had it been begun when applied for in
1907 it would have been in operation
throughout the war. Had it been begun
when permission was again applied for in
1918 it would now be in operation and
would be one Of the greatest single factors
in winning the war. The British Admiralty
more than year ago stated that 100000
soldiers had been carried back and forth
across the Channel, and in his most recent
article published in the Revue des Deux
Mondes' for September, 1917, M. Sartiaux
says that the total number Of passengers
across the Channel since the outbreak of
the war exceeds 100000. The animals,
vehicles, munitions, supplies of all kinds
are counted by the millions of tons. The
amount is not beyond the capacity of the
tunnel, but it requires the use of probably
100000 tons of shpping-at time when
there is danger that civilization may be
lost for lack of ships.
"Who shall say how long the war will
last? Few, if any, we'll informed men ex-
pect its end in less than two years. Ger
many is financially bankrupt, but eco
nomically self-supporting, especially since
acquiring an unlimited supply Of pc
troleum at Baku; and Germany IS now,
as she was over a year ago, baked but
not Defeated 1t is quite conceivable that
the war may last many more than two
years. By employing modern methods the
tunnel may possibly be built in less than
three years. It might perhaps be finished
in time to be large factor in winning the
war. But even If not, it can certainly be
built in time to be a most important ele-
ment in rebuilding the world after the war.
The need for ships will continue long after
peace has been concluded and it will be
many years before the losses by submarines
have been replaced During that time the
tunnel will set free 100000 tons of ship
ping.
"Oncc the necessity and urgency of the
tunnel is conceded the cost Of it is literally
bagatelle. Eighty millions of dollars,
even hundred and fifty millions, is less
than the daily expenses Of the Allies at
this moment; and even were the construc-
ton cost still greater it would be small
price to pay for the immense advantages
of such means of communication and the
release of 100000 tons of shipping, worth
at the present time $300,000000."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

we'll robbed the roost already. 1t Is n fair
assumption that in the coming fiscal year
supposing that the accounts are ever made
out-the revenue Of Russia will be practically
nil. Already the whole machinery has
practically stopped, under the wholesale ma
tional sabotage Of the Bolshevik."
This writer brings his article to a
close with consideration Of the de-
moralizing effect which the loss Of her
symbols has had on Russia. The symbol
Little Father" he notes, was incon1-
parably more potent with the Russian
than is the symbol "Uncle Sam" with us.
Indeed
chow the Russian soldier gets on without
his symbol we saw in the shameful rout
at the end of last July. But how would
our own men on tho fighting line stand
the humiliation of Uncle Sam? Add the
substitution of the red rag of socialism for
Old Glory, add the loss of the national
anthem, and can see that our fighting
line would receive a pretty formidable
shock. Let us, then, be open minded enough
to understand that the same thing, though
infinitely greater in degree, has happened
to the far less developed, far more imagi-
native Russian peasants, including the
youthful peasants in uniform
81 think that our attitude toward them
has been all wrong. We have never looked
the facts in the face. What the Russians
need Is not constitutional theories but con-
centrated symbols--symbols that will stir
their hearts as our hearts are stirred by
Old Glory and the national anthem. And
now that the hour inevitably approaches
when the Russian peasant, driven to misery
and despair by his experiments in social
ism, will react with an aching and longing
heart to the old things which raised him
above himself and gave him something of
nobility, let US recognize and act the
fundamental truth that only that govern
ment will be good for him, even possible
for him, which accords with his national
character and genius. We have it in our
power to help him back to the path of
loyalty and faith. During the last fifteen
months we have tried out our prejudices
on him, with pretty tragical results. Let
us learn from our painful experience and
meet more wisely our new opportunity"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

which he discusses the menace Of Ger
man colonial ambition. AS matter of
fact, he declares
German colonial aims are really not
colonial, but are entirely dominated by far
reaching conceptions Of world politics. Not
colonies but military power and strategic
positions for exercising world power in
future are her real aims. Her ultimate
objective in Africa is the establishment Of
a great central African empire, comprising
not only her colonies before the war but
also all the English, French, Belgian and
Portuguese possessions south Of the Sahara
and Lake Chad and north Of the Zambesi
River in South Africa.
Toward this objective she was steadily
marching even before the war broke out,
and she claims the return of her lost Afri-
colonies at the end of the as
starting point from which to resume the
interrupted march. Or, rather, as appears
from Count Hertling's recent pronounce
ment, she claims a realIocation of the
worlds colonies, 80 that she may have
share commensurate with her world posi-
ton. This Central African block, the maps
Of which are now in course Of preparation
and printing at the Colonial Office in Ber-
lin, is intended in the first place to supply
the economic requirements and raw ma
terials of German industry; in the second
and far more important place, to become
the recruiting ground for vast native ar
mics, the great value of which has been
demonstrated in the tropical campaigns Of
this war, and especially in East Africa;
while the natural harbors on the Atlantic
and Indian oceans will supply the naval
and submarine bases from which both ocean
routes will be dominated and British and
American power will be brought to
naught. The native armies will be useful
in the next great war, to which the German
General Staff is already devoting serious
attention, as appears from the book of
General von Freytag, the deputy chief of
the German General Staff, recently pub
lished here under the title deductions of
the World War
"The unframed leves Of the Union Of
German trained hordes of Africans, who
would also be able to deal with North
Africa and Egypt without the detection Of
any white troops from Germany, and they
would in addition mean q great army
planted on the flank of Asia whose force
could be felt throughout the middle East
as far as Persia, and who knows how much
furtker?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
Russia
Nv WRITING in behalf of ga coun-
M ter stroke for Russia" in the
w current issue of "Asia,"
Jackson Fleming observes:

wv Ter SCrOke Tor RUSSIA IN the
current issue Of "Asia,"
Jackson Fleming observes
at is only natural, in these momentous-
ly practical days, to damn the dreamy i'm
potence of Russia.
"To keep up my own patience I find my
self falling back upon my experiences there
during the past year. The revolution is so
big to the Russians that, as some one has
aptly said, the world war seems but an
episode in it. To many Of us, on the other
hand, Russia appears foolish and I'M
wholesome saint who has taken to the will
derness and, although lion is stalking
him, persists in fasting to achieve vision.
Emaciated and mangled now, Russia is
gaining vision. though only of the limta-
tions of her human material. Even with
that doubtful lesson, however, she will
build more wisely--if given time.
"The Allies have announced their deter
mination to stand by Russia. Her fate is
in the hands of outside powers. The turn-
ing of the tide of the war would seem to
hold one of three solutions for Russia.
There is also a possible fourth, which will
reveal itself in the course of this discus
sion. Here are the three:
IL "A corrupted ana contracted auC0C-
racy restored by Germany and subser-
Went to Germany.
80 A strongly centralized govern
ment, reactionary and aggressive, re-
stored by Japan and allied to Japan.
49, A liberal government befriended
and assisted by the United States and
the Allies generally, in sympathy with
our declared programme for an organ
ICED democratic world.
ut is we'll understood that: Germany is
conducting resurvey of Asia. along thor
oughly materialistic lines, as foundation
for world empire. If she is to be allowed
a free hand in this programme the age of
materialism' which ushered in the world
war will appear in retrospect as but pas
toral in comparison with the age of ma
terialism introduced by such German vic
tory. She would set mad pace, and the
rest of us could not afford to be decent"
And after discussing from various
angles the three solutions suggested
above, the writer concludes:
Meanwhile we must help Russia with
our patience as we'll as with our power.
Without a truly democratic Russia an or
ganized democratic world seems far away.
The Importance of Russia's remaining an
asset of democracy only be measured
by the prospective magnitude of the prob
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
Bolshevik Cash and
Loss of Symbols

TT is "Russia's darkest hour admits
Charles Johnston in the July
~North American Review" And yet it
is gratifying, he observes, to take note
of the fact that Germany isn't having
what might be termed altogether clear
sailing in this unhappy region. The
Bolsheviki have no foreign office-for
which, Gin view of the present trend Of
their foreign policy" they are perhaps
all the better off. "They need no or
ganization to deal with Germany-Ger-
many thoughtfully provides it and the
Entente Powers will not recognize
them" But, adds the writer, "there are
departments without which no govern
ment can even pretend to exist" There
is, for one thing, the vital matter of
revenue. Mr.. Johnston observes:
"How far is it realized that, so far, the
Bolsheviki have paid their bills--so far as
they have paid them-by two rudimentary
expedients-by wholesale stealing OF
other peoples money and, when this ran
short, by assiduous use Of the printing
presses? Probably no government ever
printed so much money in so short time.
With these slips of paper the Bolshevik
mngnates not only paid their own way
handsomely, voting themselves salaries
adequate to their high estate, but they also
paid the members of the Red Guard
Kerensky's creaton-magnifcen giving
them twenty twenty-five rubles a day,
about equal, at the old rate of exchange, to
$4,000 year. No private soldiers were
ever so splendidly remunerated, and the
right to plumber must have brought in at
least equal amount
meanwhile no taxes were collected, no
revenue came in. More than that, the Boil
sheviki, as a part of the general process Of
breaking down., have smashed the tax col
lecting machinery; among other things, all
the office records gone. Of course,
when in corner like this, you can levy
upon capital to certain extent, and this
the Bolsheviki have largely done; but, in
the first place, under the happy conditions
which the Bolsheviki themselves created,
capital in Russia has almost absolutely
ceased to be productive; and, in the second
place, the Bolsheviki appear to have pretty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
The French Stage i'm War Time

HHE Paris monthly, "Le Theatre
ct La Musique," devoted ex-
h clusively to the stage and
music, prints an interesting
brief survey Of the French drama dur
ing the war which shows that, in spite
of many obstacles in its way, the French
theatre has made strides forward dur
ing the last three years.
The writer observes:
"The French theatre holds high place
in our intellectual and economic life, in
spite of the fact that it lost year of work
between the closings ordered by the
Prefecture of Police and the timid re-
openings limited to performances for
benefcent purposes and professional soil
darity. In order to avoid general consd-
eratons which would be premature at the
present, but at the same time to give
complete picture, it is necessary to classify
all dramatic works in four groups:
"G) Works which deal lightly with the
war; CD works which had been entirely
inspired by the war; CD works which
present on the stage manners created by
the war; (4) works which might have
been played in 1913 and which may be
played in 10 and which have nothing
whatever to do with the war;
"The entire joyous repertoire of M.
Georges Feydeau assured to soldiers on
leave ample recreation and also to the man.
agement most gratifying box office returns.
The lighter aspect of the war theme was
launched in the Theatre du Palais Royal
with revue by NJ Rip, entitled 1916 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

adapter had added an episode in which the
young maid of Lorraine appears as Jeanne
dare after the Battle of the Marine. But
the latter scene was suppressed on the eve
of the general rehearsal of the play, which
thus ceased to have any connection with
the present.
"The third series of new pieces is the
series of dramas which deal with new Gus
toms brought by the war. They are come
dies. The most delicate is that Of NJ Fon-
son, entitled Les Nouveaux Pauvres,' which
shows Belgian family compelled by ad-
versity to do housework. A marriage i'm
proves the situation. The other comedies
satirize the new-rich, the eternal descend
ants Of the bourgeois gentilhomme. NM.
Yves Mirande and Montignac gained ap-
plause for their play, M. Bourdin, Pro-
fteer.' An enriched grocer develops con-
science and, little by little, returns his i'll
got fortune, while, in order to avoid the
anger of his wife, he pretends that ne is
being robbed In 'Nouveaux Riches NJ.
Abade and De Cesse tell the story of
mechanic who became millionaire and
who remained good, sincere workman,
without affectation.
"Finally, there is the drama which pre-
sents life one sees it in peace times. Thus
M. Tristan Bernard produced in the Thea
ire du Gymnase La Volonte de LHomme'
which is one of his best character come
dies. M. Sacha Guitry has produced four
new plays, La Jalousie,' 'Faisons un Reeve
Jean de la Fontaine' and 'L'Illusionniste'
with which he has established the impor-
tance in our theatre of his art, which con-
sists of truth, fantasy, irony and sensi-
bllity, qualities so French, SO classical"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born August 4, 1792-Died July
8. 1921
N HIS "History Of English Litera-
ture" George Saintsbury writes
l. briefly (for, as he remarks, little

ture" George Saintsbury writes
IL briefly (for, as he remarks, little
need be said of it) concerning Shell
ley's character:
of it had not been for the disgusting
efforts of his maladroit adorers to blacken
that not merely of his hapless young wife,
but of every one with whom he came in
contact, it might be treated with the ex-
tremest indulgence. Almost boy in years
late flashes of SOLDERING, wholly boy in
inability to understand the responsibilities
and the burdens of life. An enthusiast for
humanity generally, and toward individuals
a man of infinite generosity and kindness
he yet did some of the cruellest and some
of not the Aeast disgraceful things from
mere childish want of realizing the pacta
conventa of the world. He, wholly ignorant,
would if he could, have turned the wheel
of society the other way, reckless of the
horrible confusion and suffering that he
must occasion"
But, he continues
no note of this. In literature, Shelley, if
not of the first three or four, is certainly Of
the first ten or twelve. He has, as no poet
in England except Blake and Coleridge in
few flashes had had before him for some
century and half, the ineffable, the divine
intoxication which only the di qnajores of
poetry can communicate to their worship
pers. Once again, after all these genera
tions, 1t became unnecessary to agree or
Disagree with tha substance. to take inter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

success of similar attractions in peace
times. Other authors on other stages were
less successful. NM. Georges Berr and
Louis Verneuil, for example. who produced
La Charette Anglaise' and Mon Guvre in
the Theatre du Gymnase, failed. On the
contrary, Max Dearlys play Kit an adap-
tation of The Man Who Stayed at Home
which deals with the German espionage
system, was warmly applauded. This sue
cess induced Max Dearly to take over the
direction of the Theatre des Varetes where
he successfully produced Potash and Perl
mutter,' lie Roi de Pair adapted from THE
Aviator and La Femme de son MARI
adapted from novel by NJ Thomas.
"The war theme attracted more famous
authors and produced works of greater lit
erary value, but these more serious efforts
did not have equal success with the public
1t was FRANCOIS Fonson who made the first
attempt in that direction in his 'Komman-
dantur,' which presents life in Brussels
under the German heel. Then came La
Frontere,' by an Italian author writing in
French. 1t deals with the tragic position
of French woman who is married to a
German and cannot bear to see him tri-
umph. M. Henri Bataille, with his ANA
zon,' brought the first tragedy to the Thea.
ire de la Porte Saint Martin The play
contained very powerful second act, in
which two women mourn the same dead
man and dispute his remembrance
"LElevaton,' which NJ Henri Bernstein
produced at the Coincide FRANCHISE, had the
the principal motif. In it the war
transforms an unworthy lover into an hon
est man and inspires the suffering and out
ragged husband with the most noble indul-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

As thus Nth thee in prayer IN my sore
need.
oh lift me as ,vave, a leaf, cloud!
/ fau upon the thoons of life! I bleed!
A heavy sceight of hours has chained and
boaUed
One too like thee: tameless, and s1Uift.
and proud.
Make me thy Tyre, eve,a as the forest is:
What If my leaves are falling like its
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
WI take from both deep, autumnal
tome,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou
spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous o,,el
Drive my dead thoughts over the uni
Verse
Lake 10ithered leaves to quicken re,o
birth,
And, By the Incarnation of this yerse.
Scatter, as from, an unertinquished
hearth
Ashes and SPARKS, my words an,ono man
kind!
BE through my lips to unawakened
earth
me trumpet of prophecyl o, svind,
II w'm.eT comes, can Spring BE- far be-
hinds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

was the first play that interested rst Paris
and then the provinces. The revue of NJ
Rip was the first ironical satire covering
the Germans, their Kaiser, their navy, their
Zeppelins. The best part of the play is the
scene in which the poilu returns from the
front, singing We'll get them!' 1t was
very popular.
"The same theatre soon afterward produced
lie Poilu,' a modest operette, which pre-
pared the way for Madame ct son Filleul,'
the success Of which surpassed the usual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

gence. One feels in it an appeal to pity,
love and forgiveness; through suffering the
characters become elevated. 1t is interest
ing to point the contrast between NJ Henri
Bataile and M. Henri Bernstein: the poet
of love seems transformed into the prophet
of reprisals and the champion of force re-
veals himself the apostle of pity and for
giveness.
alongside with this drama inspired by
the war may be placed 'Colette Baudoche,'
from a novel by Maurice Barres. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
lode to the West Wind"

est or not to take interest in it, to admit
or to contest the presence of faults and
blemlshes-to do anything except recognize
and submit to the strong pleasure of poetry,
the charm of the highest poetical inspra-
ton"
Shelley's lode to the West Wind"
written in 1920, is here reprinted:
n WILD West Wind, thou breath of
~ Autumn's being,
leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an en-
chamter fleeing.
YelloU, and block, and pale, and hectic
red,
Pestilence-strickem multiudes: O thou.
Who chariotest to their dark avint1u bed
The winged seeds, ,Ohere they lie cold
and low,
Each like a corpse vithin its grave.
until
Thine azure sister of tho spring shall
blo1u
Her clarion DER the dreaming earth, and
fill
(Driving sweet buds like focks to feed
an air.
With hring hues and odours plain and
hill:
Wild Spirit, whtch art moving everv-
1Vhere;
Destroyer and prcserver; hear, oh hear!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
De Morgan

ROM an article on the late William
\ Friend De Morgan, by S. M. Ellis, in
The Fortnightly Review are taken
these bits:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
Keeping Up on the Magazines

lem OF Asia at the peace conference. When
Libcrar Russia finds herself the problem
of the great backward continent vii! be
relatively simple"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
TheGernanScherne
in Africa

TAN CHRISTIAN SHUTS, commander
in chief of the British forces in
East Africa, has an important article in
the July Century," in the course of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07
The Golden
Book Of
Congress
Making Crowder a Lieutenant
General

Provided. That section 8 of the n,.
entitled AN act to authorize t H..
Presadent to increase ten1porarly N.
M1t,ta'y Establishment Of the Un;tsJ
States" approved May IS, 1917
shall be held and construed to o,,
thorlze the President, IN occordane.
aoith the provisions Of said oct onJ
for the period of the existing ems ,,"
gency only, to appoint as lieutenont
general the officer detailed bv the n;
rectiore of the President to Derforrn
the duties of rrovost marshal oen'
eral IN the erecution of so mvc3 'r ~
the aforesaid act as reMtes tn H..
registration and the seLective droH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

Thou on avhose stream, mid the steep
sky's con1motion,
Loose clouds like earths decayinq leaves
are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven
and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning there are
spread
On the blue surface of thine airy SURGE
Like the bright hair aplVted from the
head
Of some fierce Manad, even from the
dim verge
Of the horizon to the senith's height
The locks of the approaching sto,m.
Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to aUhich this CLOSING
night
Wdu be the dome of uast sepulchre,
Vdulted vith all thy congregated mioht
OF uapours, from .uhose solid at7nos-
phere
Black rain, and fire, and hail ,viU burst:
oh hear!
Tho" 'vho didst 1vakem from his summer
dreams
me blue Mediterranean, 1vhere he Ian.
A"lfed by the coil of his crystalline
streams,
Beside punsice isle IN Baiae's boy,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-07

And satU IN sleep old palaces and to1vers
Quivering avitltin the avave's intenser dan.
All overgroun acith azure moss and
TONERS
So sweet, the sense faints pictu,1nq
them! Thou
For avhose path the Atlantic's level
powers
Cleare themselves into chasms acAile far
beloW
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods 1vhich
1Uedr
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
1hy vo1ce, and suddenly grov gray with
fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: Oh
hear!
II acere a dead leaf thou n,ightest bear:
II 7oere s1rift cloud to fly Nth thee;
Il wdve to pant beneath thy poaver and
share
The impulse of thy strength, only less
free
Thom thou, O uncomfortable! If even
l avere as IN my boyhood, and could be
Ihe comrade of thy ,Uanderings over
heGuem,
AS then, when to outstrip thy skyey
speed
Scarce seemed visiom avoud ue',x
haze striven