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NOTES ON NEWS. 1 ■O There is a good deal that is mysterious I in the reported mutiny in the German I GERMAN NAVAL MUTINY. Navy. Perhaps the stran- gest part of the whole story is that it was not told until six weeks after it is said to have hap pened, and it is impossible to help won- dering why the German Government, having kept the news quiet all that time, should then have announced it in the Reichstag. Even to throw discredit upon the Socialists, one would hardly have sup- posed they would wish the German people -and the world to know that the Navy was seething with discontent and that a re- volutionary spirit was abroad in it. It may be taken as certain, however, that the German Government had some purpose to serve in making the announcement, and it would be the height of unwisdom on our part to assume that the mutiny has been a very serious affair and that henceforth the German Navy may be regarded as of little account. There would be nothing surprising in a stat-e of dissatisfaction in the enemy Navy. IT MAY BE TRUE. Ships and men have been inactive d u r i n g the I greater* part of the war, and nothing is more likely to create discontent among young and able-bodied men than that, unless it be bad and insufficient food, which is pi-etty sure to have been their portion too. There is a significant story that the mutiny (if there was a mutiny) arose out of the disinclination of the men to serve in the submarines. Whatever the German people generally may know or not know, the Ger- man sailors are fully aware of the perilous nature of the under-water service. They know very well how many 17-boats go out from their ports, and they know how many come back. It may, very well be that they show no desire to volunteer for a duty so full of danger, and resent being compelled to serve where there is little glory and a great deal of death. If the revolt was really due to this cause the shooting of the ringleaders will not have made the others more anxious to. go to sea. Even German Ministers must by this time have begun seriously to doubt AMERICA COMING ALONG. whether they were right in saying that 'the entry of the United States would make no difference to the war. For the submarines have a long way to go before they bring this country to its knees, and America is coming along with giant strides. Some interesting things were said the other day by the American Ambassador, things full of encouragement to us and to our Allies, and which will give Germany, with her fast-waning man-power, furiously to think. On the other side of the Atlantic new armies are being trained with all speed, and in a short time. says Mr. Pago, a million and a half men will be ready to send to France, to be followed by another million and a half before next year is far advanced. Ten millions have been regis- tered, men between twenty and thirty, and if necessary the age may be raised to forty, which will mean another ten millions. Once the first million have come over-and efficient soldiers are being made with as- tonishing speed—America's armies will be crossing the Atlantic in unceasing volume. Before that happens, however, Germany will have realised what the coming of these now millions will mean, and much history may have been made before next year's 4C great push." It is even possible that Germany may decide not to wait for A-Inerica. While admitting .the urgency of the matter, Mr. Lloyd George has informed a MINISTRY OF HEALTH. deputation that tnere can be no Bill introduced until after the war for establishing a Ministry of I Health. That announcement will cause a good deal of disappointment to social re- formers, and it must be said that if the war goes on long enough such a Ministry will become an imperative necessity in order that properly organised effort may be made to repair the ravages which the war itself is making. At the same time, it is easy to understand the reluctance to sanction at the present time the expendi- ture of large sums of money while the direct cost of the war is making such an enormous drain upon the financial resources of the country. Upon the general prin- ciple Mr. Lloyd George was, of course, heartily with the deputation. You have to repair the ravages of war," he said, ■"and strict attention paid to the health of the community is one of the most effective methods of attaining that end." There are, however, many aspects of the ques- tion 'to be considered, many points of de- tail to be settled, and many criticisms to be met, and the Premier holds that these things cannot be done until after the war. then the problem will be grappled, and we shall get a Ministry of Health, housing reform, and other badly needed things, and slums, misery, and squalour will be no more. So) at any rate, we may hope. Women have had many complimentary things said about them since they turned I I I "OMEN SLACKERS. out to do tne worK or tie men who have gone to I fight. High tributes have been paid to the women munition-workers, the women tarm- workers, the women motor-drivers, and so on. There is no doubt that they have well deserved the compliments—those who have done and are doing the work, that is. But what about the slackers? For there are slackers, even among the women. Sir Auckland Geddes, the National Service Minister, has been talking to, or at any rate, at them. There is, he says, "a great mass of young, quite lwolthy, middle-class femininity which is doing nothing to help the war along." They are patriotic enough in their talk, no doubt, and in their kearts too, but when it comes to war work-well, that is another thing. Their share of help- ing to win the war, as Sir Auckland ■Geddes scathingly says, is confined to oc- casional assistance at a flag day or helping for a day now and then in a canteen. Per- 'haps, also—let us give them their due!— they haps, did their "bit" in the early days of the war by presenting white feathers to young men who they thought ought to be wearing, khaki. There is work for these women. Any women who has the leisure from necessary duties—and there are thou- sands with no duties of any kind can find useful work for the nation in these* days. If they do not set about doing it they will have the men handing white feathers to them. And they would not like that!

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