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army and all that thereto belonged. Ger- 

 man militarism owes him a monument, but 

 we cannot but think that it would have 

 been better for this country and for France 

 if the Tivif's had not published the articles. 



In trying and condemning 



The Case j^iss Malecka the Russian 



Miss Malecka. vjo\ ernment seems not 



only to have acted with 

 small regaru to our ideas of justice, but also 

 to have shown very little common sense 

 from the Russian point of view. If Miss 

 Malecka had been tried as a Russian subject, 

 whether she be one or not, the task of the 

 British Government would have been very 

 much more difficult. Then it would have 

 involved the thrashing out of that most 

 delicate of questions, whether the Russian 

 claim — "once a Russian subject, always a 

 Russian subject" — holds good. But the 



The 



War to End. 



Miss Malecka. 



it iintl Gffwii 



Russian authorities tried Miss Malecka as a 

 " British subject," and thus gave their whole 

 case away. Now we can, and must, insist 

 on revision, on justice being done to a 

 British citizen. The incident inevitably 

 recalls that famous speech of Lord Palmer- 

 ston, "when he asked the House in 1850 

 whether, as the Roman in times of old held 

 himself free from indignity when he could 

 say, ' Cilia Rovumus siiiii^ so also a Brit'sh 

 subject, in whatever land he may be, shall 

 feel confident that the watchful eye and the 

 strong arm of England will protect him 

 from injustice and wrong." 



. Between Italy and Turkey 

 little of note has taken 

 place on the actual scene 

 of conflict, but there has 

 been a verv active campaign going on 

 amongst the Great Powers to secure an 

 early termination of the war. This because 

 there is a very real and well-founded alarm 

 that any continuance ot the struggle will 

 bring into play, not only Italy's soldiers and 

 sailors, but many of those so often uncertain 

 Balkan elements which are far from bemg 

 content with matters in the interior of 

 Turkev, matters which, through their co- 

 nationals, touch them very closely. In Italy 

 no secret of some such de\ elopment has ever 

 been made, antl Balkan trouble would mean 

 European complications, if not conflagra- 

 tion. The Young Turks are now seeing 

 that their lack of energy in j)utting their 

 house in order exposes them, first, to a 

 verv real and pressing danger from their 

 neighbours, and secondly, to a strong urging 

 from without to end the war, so that the 

 greater peril may be averted. Signor Gio- 

 litti's declaration that there had been no 

 "annexation," in the sense of making 

 Trijjoli and Cyrenaica an integral part 

 of the kiiiiidom of Italv, shows that a 



