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A LOOK ROUND.

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A LOOK ROUND. The All-Highest Humbug. [BY SENTINEL."] THERE is a story printed on this JL page to-day which all should rend —man, woman, boy, and girl. You will find it under the heading The Artful Dodgers." Turn to it, read it and re-read it. Tell your neighbours about it. And remember it when next you hear some foolish person say Let us make it easy for the Germans to begin negotiating for Peace." This story con- firms the suspicion—nay, more, the con- viction—we have long held that the Kaiser's first Peace Note (that which he addressed to the Pope), on the strength of which he and his Ministers ,7, have constantly a'ssumed a virtuous pose, was all humbug. Prince Pless told the Kaiser's American dentist that the Germans never meant the Kote to be accepted as a basis for Peace negoti- ations, and that if the Allies had shown any disposition to treat it as such the terms would have been quickly stiffened 111 order to make its rejection certain. And, soon afterwards, the Kaiser said practically the same thing. Why then was the Peace Note written'? The answer is plainly given in the revelations which the American dentist has lately made. The Kaiser wanted to embroil the Allies and the peoples of the Allies in a controversy over peace. He wanted to split them up into factions, and to make it difficult for .the respective Governments to explain to their peoples why they had rejected the so-called German "offer." Because he thought he saw signs of this result the Kaiser laughed hilariously" at the success of his trickery. It was all part of the subtle Hun game to try and breed discord amoncrst the Allies, so that being able to command no unity of purpose and no unity of effort they might fall easier victims to the German military campaign. Happily, the states- men of the Allies were not taken in by the German bluff they stoodiinn when the opinion of some of those whom they represented was inclined to waver; they scented the wickedness behind it all. And so the Kaiser laughed too soon. It is a rather happy coincidence for the Allies that the American dentist's story has been made public just now, at the moment when the Kaiser's Armies are being hammered back towards the Fatherland. The Kaiser piped his first Peace Note because he thought it might help to disintegrate the Allies and open the path to victorv for his armies. He failed then. But he is sure to try again, not so much with the hope of conquest now as with the hope of saving something from the wreckage of his plans which may leave him a nucleus for beginning all over again. If and when he does, we shall not forget how he laughed hilariously on the first occasion, and we shall- know the course to take to make him laugh this time on the other side of his face. The Kaiser may try his best and worst to lay the foundations for another war, but now we know his game and our answer is summed up in two words: "Never again Great as is the news from the battle front we must not lose our heads. Keep .Steady must still be the order of the day. Each one of us must con- tinue the fight for freedom—the worker at home no less than the fighter in France. We of the armies behind the Armies must still put our all into the scale, and keep putting in our all until the victory is assured which alone will enable us to say the job has been done and well done. President Wilsjn sounds the keynote of our resolution "We solemnly purpose a decisive vic- tory of arms." That means we must fight on with undiminished energy, using force to the uttermost in the battlefield. It means also that every one of us at home must, be ready to make more and more sacrifices for the common good. We must still- go slow on food, we must be prepared to go very slow indeed on coal, we must do with- out scores of the little comforts that seemed to be so indispensable in time of peace. The men at the front make the big sacrifices we only the little ones. But the Jittle ones in the mass are the foundation on which the big ones may be more effectually offered, and the end will be such a compensation for it all— the end of war and the end of that tyranny of despotism of which the All- Highest Humbug is the head and front —that one day we shall marvel that s. exhortation to make sacrifices willingly was ever necessary.

.MR. (IOMPERS.

A CORNFIELD IN FRANCE, 1918.

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OUR WAY WITH PRISONERS.

ITHE WAR IN ITALY.

ITHE ARTFUL DODGERS.

A SOLDIER'S COUNSEL.