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For stealing two swedes, value 6d. from an allotment, a labourer was fied 40s. at High Wyoombe. I arT, afraid there will oe a scarcity of bather for many months to come, and it is most desirable that consump- tion should be reduced. We have taken abepa which should largely increase the output of margarine in the country.— Lord Rhondda.

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How the Italians Fell Into German Trap. I Whole Brigade Befooled b) I I Teutonic Cunning. I Mr. Edward Marshall, the well- known American correspondent in Italy, in one of his illuminating ar- ticles on the situation in Italy, de- scribes how the reoent Italian collapse was brou'ght about. He says:— During the months when the Aus- trians were being driven back slowly the bitter realisation was impressed upon their leaders that, man for ma.n, their troops were very much inferior to the Italian troops and that psychologi- I cally they wore in bad condition. It I became obvious to them tha.t if any- thing was to be accomplished upon the Italian front they must 'have German troops to work with, and that straight fighting, even by German troops, could hob win a victory. Military measures therefore were augmented by such weakening of the Italian moral as could be brought about by devices which are congenial to the German mind, and apparently impossible to the Allies, who remain not only unable to adopt them, but un- able to detect their workings when they a.re being applied by the enemy. An Austrian brigade had been in- struoted to make friends in every pos-v sible way with the Italian brigade in opposition. They were not to start II anything in the way of combat. They were to refuse obvious opportunities) I to take prisoners. In every way they were to indicate to these (Italians and the selection of the particular brigade ( which was chosen showed' the perfec- tion of tho Teutonic information ser- vice) that they did not wish' to fight but wished the war to end. The Austrian brigade waa selected with as much care as had been given to the choice of the Italian troops to be impressed—selected for the pa?inatia j ?endenciM of ita rnk and file. But it I t: carefully was officered by those cynical J t soula who are so frequently found f among the Austriaais. I I BEFOOLED ITALIANS. Those Austrian ldieril were in- j formed and were led to inform the Italian soldiery that the Austrian army as a whole would throw down » its arms upon a certain signal and bring the war to an end, if the i Italian tro-ops would do the same. They suggested this to the Italian brigade and led them to believe, as they them- selves believed, that the plan was general throughout the Italian army. At a given signal the Austrians, ■ dropping all their weapons, were to shout tll-Q signal, "Dinner is ready." Hearing it the Italians were to do ex- aotly tho same thinga. Tha war would then be ever. The day came and the hour came. I The Austrian troops throw down their arms and advanced, singing the over- joyed Italians of tho weak befooled 1. brigade did likewise, even merrily danoing over the rough war-littered terrain between the lines, as they went j to meet "brothers." j But the way to peace had not been j found. As soon as the Italians were off their guard that portion of the .1 Austrian brigade which could be with- drawn was quickly whisked out of the way, revealing immediately behind it a stern, hard-faced brigade of brutal Germans. Before the Italians could re- gain their moral, before they had at all recovered from the terrible, the ghastly, the inconceivable surprise of the whole thing, and even before more than a small portion of the bewildered, frightened Austrians oould be got out of the way, these Germans began firing j with rifles and macine-guns. If Aus- I trians were killed what did it matter? I More Italians would be killed. j The effect of all this on the befooled Italiaois can be imagined. Those who f were not quickly slaughtered fled. Most i had no chance to run away. Officers I were helpless. I That the Army did not all go stale | or ba.d ,haos been indubitably proved in a thousand ways. At the very start it was established through tlle magnifi- cent retreat of the Third Army, which & with many other troops, reorganised at once without the loss of a single can- non, and turned to fight magnificently. I Of the Second Army, only the left 1 wing failed its commanders. All the men aJong tho Bainsizza front fought their way back, foiling the enemy, as did also the greater portion of the right wing. On the Trentino the Army j rosisted perfectly, and those same troops have not faltered in their stead- ? fast opposition to the enemy. 5 There can be no doubt that from now on the Italian Army will fight furiously, but there should be no lack of every co-operation from the Allies towards something approaching a real understanding of the Italian situation as it actually is. 1t was lack of this which made the Austro-German ad- vance a possibility. In the minds >f overy man whom I have met and who is conversant with the situation, the importance of Americans on the Italian front is great. Italians know Ameri- cans better than Englishmen or French men know them. They have learned to believe is them. It would be hard to find a oompany in the Italian force. r:i which are not men who have been in the United Sta.tes, and who have achieved a great respect for the Ameri- cans, the dominating feature of which is a belief that what the Americans start to do they will accomplish. AMERICA'S INFLUENCE. j AMERIC.S' INFL UEI,CK i Always it should 00 remembered that the newest Ally, the United States, can exert a greater influence over the Italian soldier than anybody else. And there should not be the least delay. The Austro-German is a persis- tent beast. His well-laid propaganda plana very nearly won for him. He will not fail to set now ones at work. Already German or some other influ- ence is at work upon the Italian mind endeavouring to discount the import- i,tboo of the American declaration of 4rar against Austria herein. After everything which can be done has been done, the next thing for the Allies to do, according to the judgment of the best informed men I have been able to find, is to use pub- licity, publicity, publicity, throughout Italy aga,insti the Socialist pacifists, who have become the long arm of the Auistro-Germans and are working for a separate peace. Printed matter of the right sort spread among the bour- geoisie will get to the workers. There should be speakers—preferably Ameri- cans. Americans in uniform who can speak Italian would do splendid ser- vice.. One story which is being used to create Italian distrust of the Allies is that long, long ago, before Russia broke, while she still was holding the attention of those great. German forces which her collapse releaaed for use on the Italian and other fronts, Italy sug- gested to the Allies that as she was the only one of them wito Mad wo* enemy territory and was still advanc- ing (whioh was quite true), MMt as ska only slightly and not preponderantly overbalanced her foe, a litJtle addition- al weight from Britain and France thrown into oo-ope ration with her would bo of groat value, enabling her to advance rapidly instead of slowly. But these suggestions, it is whispered were rather slightingly disregarded. ALLIES WATCHWORD. [ Whether these tales be true or not they are having a bad effect, even now when the Allies are helping earn- estly. The situation now is very far from the hopeless one some thought it to be just after the reverse, but ;t is essential that its dangers should not fee overlooked by the Allies, as the dangers on the Italian front were. Publicity, publicity, publicity should be the watchword of the Allied in Italy after all the military help, food help and coal help which can be given has been given. t

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Destroy Prussianism j t BRITISH LABOUR APPEAL TO I THE ALLIED DEMOCRACIES. liB .ta', I "Britain occupies, and has occupied from the beginning, the position of the citizen who seeks to prevent a thief JBteaJing the goods of the citizen's neighbour. It is absurd to suggest that Britain stands in the way of peace. The ropple of Britain entered the war reluctantly and in sorrow." This declaration appears in a state- ment issued by the General Federatiot of Trade Unions to the workmen affi- liated to the Confederation General du Travail. It k pointed out that Germany is under no compulsion to fight, that her existence is not in danger, as no one— at least, no one in Br.&,iin--deai re-a or expeats that she shall be utterly de- stroyed. The only thing that Britain with the rest of the worlu, seeks to destroy is the Prussian autocracy's military power for external offensives. I "It is inconceivable," the signator- ies declare, "that the democracies of America, France, and Britain, them- selves enjoying freedom, should accept while life remains, the terms tihat are inevitable if Germany succeeds. It is for these reasons that the Generd Federation of Trade Unions urges cr. the democracies of the Allied Powers the need for ooncentration on efforts to destroy, not?Germany, but the iv-i- tarism which holds Gmmm1 dom ?-fa.'y in subjeotion. The manifesto is signed by Mr. W. A. Appleton, secretary of the Ge ? 'I Federation of Trade Unions, and by i,? representative trade union lead-i -s.

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•HUULO, FATHER!" I In his lecture on War Ai m and Pejace Queen's Hall, the Earl of Denbigh incidentally told an excellent- s t.on- ? frieBd of hM took pi<8<mer an elderly German oiff-cev, who was very easty ml)out 'I t, and remarked that he- oould console himself by the thought that his officer son was killing "twentv pigs of Englishmen a da y." When the captive arrived at South- amptnn a cheery voices came from the quay: "Hullo, father! have they got you too?" you tx),O.

CAPTURED GUNS FOR CARMAR- THENSHIRE. Llanelly steel smelters havefsent st «uggt>Htif>n to official quarters that, one of the three guns captured by C'apta'in J. Evans and his men at Mamet-z should go to Llanielly and a secymd to Carmarthenshire. Printed and Published by "Llaig Llafur" Co. Ltd, Ystalyfera, in the Comity of' Glamorgan, Do?. 29, 1917