restrained article, which disclosed nothing to the enemy, though it told his countrymen some things withheld from them which they were entitled to know. It is worth paying £100 for the privilege of rendering such public service. Our readers will understand that we make no reflections whatsoever on the legal advisers of the Government for any professional counsel that they may have tendered or for their conduct of the case, nor on the magistrate who tried it. Our remarks are exclusively aimed at the persons effectively responsible for this attack on the Press. Irish It is impossible even for Government organs to continue closing their eyes to the welter of chaos spreading in Ireland under cover of the Convention, on the instigation of the Sinn-Feiners and with the connivance of Mr. Duke, the Unionist Irish Secretary. Compared to his successor Mr. Birrell appears to have been a sort of Cromwell. Mr. Bonar Law and other "Unionist" Ministers have a great deal to answer for in sacrificing what were supposed to be their principles and which, at any rate, gave the name to the Party of which they were the appointed leaders--to produce this state of things. According to the Times' Dublin correspondent, the tide of lawlessness is now sweeping through the south and west of Ireland with such force that "it is the bare truth to say that the King's writ has ceased to run in the counties of Sligo, Roscommon, and Mayo." In some places the unfortunate police are in constant conflict with cattle-drivers and farm-grabbers and have been compelled to summon troops to their assistance to fight the able-bodied shirkers who have escaped all the obligations of a war in which the life of every small nation is at stake. But the movements of soldiers and police are seriously hampered by the cutting down of telegraphwires and trees which block the road, while in the western counties every day farms are calmly taken possession of in the name of "the Irish Republic." Even conciliation-mongers realize that things have gone too far, and now call upon the Government to take "firm measures to suppress raids for arms and the lawless seizure of grass-land." Among recent incidents was an attack upon Sir Thomas Stafford's house at Rockingham in Roscommon, when many valuable weapons were stolen, including the shooting prizes his son had won at Eton, while the burglars amused themselves ploughing up a part of the demesne; but this, as every other incident, pales beside Sinn Fein stoppage of the export of pigs, which was done with the utmost publicity and audacity under a certain Mr. Dermott Lynch, who described himself as "the Sinn Fein Food Director," in which capacity he sent the following notice to one of the owners of the pigs that had been seized and slaughtered: On behalf of the people of Dublin I commandeered 17 pigs, which, I am informed, were bought by you, and were en route to the Holyhead boat for export. I will permit you to dispose of them in Dublin. Unless I hear from you promptly I will sell them at 140s. per cwt. dead weight. (Signed) DIARMUID LYNCH. Sinn Fein Food Director WE are told that a large force of police were supine spectators of this serious interruption of the trade of Dublin, and it is no surprise to learn that the Executive, alias Mr. Danger Duke, has given no sign of its attitude towards this and similar outrages, although the "Sinn Fein Food Director" has announced his intention of putting a stop to all meat exports, especially pigs. It is alleged that official stupidity has played into the hands of Sinn Fein, as the wholesale export of pigs from Ireland, despite the official Food Controller's regulations, had become a national grievance. It was supposed that the Irish Food Control Committee was taking steps to check it, though there has been the usual delay, and now remedial measures will be discounted as a concession to Sinn Fein. The position in Ireland, where, like everywhere else, intelligent firmness is understood and appreciated, is not bettered by the universal belief that the police and the troops, according to the correspondent we have quoted, 'have received instructions to avoid any sort of conflict with disorderly crowds." If the Government's object was to save the Convention they have gone the worst way to work, and the present state of the country is admitted by partisans of the Government as having become so grave as to exclude all interest in the Convention-so much so that if a National Government were installed in Dublin to-morrow it would have to open operations by coercing the Irish Bolsheviks. We warn Ministers, though we are aware it is a waste of time to address any remonstrance to personages encased in an armour of self-sufficiency and surrounded by a zariba of sycophants, that they are en dangering the United Kingdom by their crazy Irish policy. We have had more than enough of Mr. Duke. He should retire to the Bench, for which he has every attribute. The only hope for Ireland lies in the appointment of a sympathetic but determined soldier of native birth, as, for instance, Sir Hubert Gough, who with a free hand could restore order on not unreasonable terms within a comparatively short space of time. Sir Cecil THE sudden death of our Ambassador to the United States, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, at Ottawa, came as a great shock to his friends, who are legion. His health had, however, suffered severely under the strain of the war, during which he occupied a peculiarly difficult and delicate position, which, we believe, will be fully vindicated by history, although at one time impatient and excitable people denounced him for not taking a leaf out of the German book, and make the British Embassy in Washington a centre of "propaganda." Nothing could have been more fatal, and nothing in a brilliant career is more creditable to Sir Cecil Spring Rice than his masterly inactivity when any form of activity-especially diplomaticjournalistic activity-must have defeated its own purpose. He understood the United States much better than his critics, and from the outset realized that the only policy was to let Count Bernstorff beat himself, which he ultimately did, though meanwhile the British Government had many bad quarters of an hour, and there were moments when it looked as though the Powersthat-Be across the water would never open their eyes to the real Germany. Fortunately at the eleventh hour-thanks in a large measure to Herr Zimmermann--our patient, long-suffering Ambassador had his reward, and when we are asked to judge by results we note that Count Bernstorff was bowed out of Washington while Sir Cecil Spring Rice remained, and that the Great Republic is at war on our side for the first time since it achieved independence. Surely the Ambassador who contributed to this happy consummation deserves no small credit, even though he did not cultivate the limelight and embrace every interviewer who rang his door bell. 40 NT TO THE NATIONAL REVIEW, MARCH, 1918. PAN-GERMAN WAR AIMS IN EUROPE Reference "German Central Europe" States to be made Dependencies of "German Central Europe" States to be brought into a Military and Economic Alliance with "German Central Europe" German Naval Bases, existing and proposed Berlin-Baghdad Railway, throughout its length traversing German-controlled Proposed Navigable Waterway, available for oruisers and submarines, from North ne Ship Danube Canal Invernes Dee Peterhead Nto B. 410 Letch to Copenhagen to R Figmark Enare Kola P Gellivara Haparynala Jakobstad Tenerife Canary I (Spain) Wh C.Blanco Ilmen Biskrag Ghadames MOROCCO to become a German Colony TRIO DE Tropic of Cancer Senegambial Niger ย eGha ****** Air Sokoto "Agades a Bilma zan Ti L.Tsad NIGERIA Lagos Zungere Benge Adamawa Cairo byan Desert EGY Kufra C. Tibesti Alesho Wadal a Sheri el Fashero French Batum EMPIRE Aleppo Damascus Orusalem Sald Suakin Nb a EGYPT Turkish Suzerainty to be restored KA Medina Mecca Massawa Khartoum Kassala REA Egyptian El Obeid 17 Sud an Kodok Ab KAMERUN Ubangi Fernando Pop (Span.) Antwerp OF GUINEA St Thomaeg 7 Part Anuobo The Nane Irenilal Christians Larvik Hardanger Field 400 Carahap S SIERRA LEONE Söderham Gielle Christiania White L Upsala Hongo Gulf of Fin PETROGRAD Dago Reval Narva Novgorod Skager Kak L. Jou BALTIC SEA Peipu 1150 to become a ย German Lake" Salmar Oland Helsingborg Riga Livonia Riga Kurland Dvingle (Dinaburg Polotsle Kaluga HIN Kowno Minsk Mohilef Belostols Brianale Bobruisle Ovel Gomel Breath Litovale Pinsle Pripet Chernigof Nyeshin Kief Kharkof Cho pa RA Bemberg Debreczin Klausenburg Mahal Transylvania Mira Maro Tentesvar Hornube Saray Sei a Albani Corfu Ponting Naples Vesuvius Tyrrhenian Mannargentu Daranto Gof Catanzaro Reggio Ionian e a Sicily Catania aples Said ma Pantellaria Linosa MALTA C.Passero To be surrendered by Great Britain Culf of Gaben Malta to Constantinople 847 More ag De Lenno Malta to Smid 936 N Yekaterinoglaf Bug Ekaterinoslav) Nikolaig Yeisle Sea of Azof Manich Theodo Simferopol Sevastopol alto BLACK SEA to become a Kastamuni Stof Ver Navor Sinupe to B 582 Kuban Teaternodar Tiflis Petrovale S Suldum Kale Pats Kur Shusha Bur Waldehevan Billia Van u d Tabriz Resht Urma Mordin Nyuven AM in uk i sh 12500 Karahi Adalia g Konia Sivas Diarbeler Urfa. Haran Gof Adalia Addna Mersing? Tas Mesopot Euphre W.Hanron ates amar BAGHDAD Amara Sama Kurna to be restored to Turkish Empire Damascus Kerbela MBmon EGYPT Haifa Gof Saltun Turkish Suzerainty to be restored Alexandria Nile Delta mietta Port Said emailia Suez Under Turco-German control S Jaffa Syrian Desert SUEZ CANAL A r a b i 40 30 50 The London Geographical Institute. |