May 30, 191 8 
Land & Water 
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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1918. 
Contents 
PAGi: 
-Major William Orpeii, A.k.A,_ i 
The Orpen Exhibition. (Photographs) 2 
The Outlook '3 
The Delay and the Attack. By H. Belloc 4 
The Tiirkish Conspiracy — III. By Henry Morgenthaii 8 
May 31st, I9i(>-ic)i7-i9i8. By Arthur Pollen 11 
"The South" Entrenched. By Herman \\'hitaker 13 
Brazil's Part in the War i.5 
A Naval Incident. By Capricornus i') 
The Indispensable. Artist. Bv Charles Marriott 17 
Victorians with the Gilt Off. " By J. C. Squire i'8 
New Salonika. (With phot<),!,'raph>.) By T. H. Mnwson 19 
The Boudoir 22 
Notes on Kit xi 
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The Outlook 
THE lont; delay of five weeks since the defeat of 
the enemy on April 29th closed upon Monday 
morning with a double attack which he launched 
in Champagne and in Flanders. The first was 
pressed against a sectgr where tlie French had 
noticed for some time a concentration of enemy artillerv, 
and where certain British divisions had been brought from 
the north, the presence of which was noted in the enemy 
communiques twenty-four hours before. The second' attack 
was on the well-known ground — about ten miles in extent of 
front — which covers the hills beyond Mount Kemmel and the 
southern part of the Ypres salient. It nins fiom the front 
of Locre to Voorijiezeele, near the Ypres Canal. 
It is to be noted, as is remarked elsewhere in this issue, 
that the interval of delay which the enemy has allowed to 
pass corresponds with the period required for the recruiting 
of his for^-es after the losses of the first main offensive between 
March 21st and .\pril 29th. If it is his intention to use the 
great masses which we know he has concentrated on the 
centre of the salient — that is, in the region of Albert and in 
front of Amiens — then these two attacks in the extremities 
of the line will appear as secondary efforts, with the object of 
pinning down the troops there and preventing reinforce- 
ments for the centre. But if he develops the attack in Cham- 
pagne and makes it his principal business, it will depend 
upon whether he can turn the strong ridge of Chemin dcs 
Dames on the south, as he is apparently attempting to do. 
* * * 
There was a time, not so very long ago, when the evidence of 
the connection between the German enemy and the Sinn Fein 
movement, which was published officially last week, would have 
l)een received with incredulity in this country. The idea that 
the Easter rebellion of 1916 should have been planned by an 
Ambassador in a neutral coimtry, and every detail worked out 
d<nvn to theactnal dateof the uprising, would until recently have 
been deemed an impossible breach of the laws of international 
hospitality. But to those who have followed in Land & W.ater 
the exposure of the plots incubated at the Cierman Embassy in 
Washington, the villainy appears merely part and parcel of the 
ordinary behaviour of von Bernstorff and von Papen. 
The villainy of these, two highly placed German officials 
has been estabhshed plainly by Mr. French ^trother. Docu- 
ments have been published in these pages which have placed 
beyond all suspicion the infamy to which they were willing 
and eager to stoop in service to their State. To hoodwink the 
American Government by adding to diplomatic telegrams, 
after they had received sanction for dispatch, was to them a 
natural trick to play on the "idiotic Yankees." It did not 
offend their sense of Itonour. The reason for this is perhaps 
a simple one : they totally lack that sense. Civihsation has \ 
been forced to the conclusion that honour, as understood by 
men of rectitude in all ages and in all climes, is a virtue 
which has no place in Teuton character. 
* * * 
The publication of this evidence should strike a death 
blow to the Sinn Fein movement. No effort will be spared 
to minimise or distort the related facts. But the period over 
which the conspiracy extends is in itself corroboration of the 
truth of it. One has only to read the public utterances of 
the Sinn Fein leaders or to listen to the songs which the 
rank and file sing openly in Ireland to realise that an active 
alliance with Germany was entirely to their liking. 
The Government have to play the man and stamp out 
boldly this rebellious spirit. If it weakens and finds pretexts 
or excuses for the rebels, then it cannot expect support either 
here or elsewhere. But if it acts strongly, it will be assured 
of the goodwill and co-operation of all loyal subjects, and we 
maintain that it will find, notwithstanding superficial evidence 
to the contrary, that loyalty exists in Ireland to a far greater 
degree than is generally supposed. Weakness and hesitation 
in a crisis of this character are the deadly sins. 
* * * 
The week has been conspicuous for two pieces of work in ^ 
the air ; the one highly characteristic of the enemy's methods, 
the other of the increasing superiority of the Allies. The 
first has been the raiding by night of a large British hospital 
area far behind the battle front ; the second has been a 
series of British raids on the German towns of the Rhine 
Basin, and particularly a most effective one upon the pro- 
vincial capital of Cologne. The raiding of the British 
hospitals, though the worst, is not the first case of this kind 
of atrocity. The enemy has already been guilty of the same 
kind of thing at Bar le Due many months ago, when he 
deliberately chose in a night raid a restricted area which 
he loiew to be entirely given up t,o hospitals. 
But the attack upon the British base hospitals last week 
has a character of its own. It was designed in the first place 
to compel the British to use more tonnage for the transport 
of wounded overseas, and to abandon their system of hospitals 
on the Continent ; and in the second place to reinforce the 
strong political effort the enemy is making to arrive at a 
convention which shall put an end to air raids' over anything 
but the war zone. 
The raid by daylight over Cologne had the best effect ; 
it created a greater impression upon the civilian population 
of Germany than has yet been registered, and it is an excellent 
augury for the future. The development of this policy will 
be of more value on the political side of the war than has yet 
perhaps been appreciated among the Allies. The immunity 
of German soil from the suffering inflicted upon the Allied 
capitals and other towns (including Venice) for many months 
past has been a very great factor in preserving the civilian 
moral of our enemies. 
* * * 
If one may judge from the provincial Press, farmers are 
protesting loudly against the proposal of the Budget to 
increase their liabihty for income-tax. It is difficult to see 
any reason for their protest. The Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer proposes to charge them on double their rent, but 
they are still to have the option of paying on the same basis 
as other people -that is, on their actual profits under 
Schedule D. The plea put forward on their behalf, that so 
few farmers keep any accounts, is not a sound argument 
- against this alternative. The man who does notr or who 
cannot, keep such simple accounts as will satisfy the Inland ■ 
Revenue authorities is certainly not qualified to have the 
control of land. The real and only reasonable objection to 
this proposal is that any alternative should be given. 
It is true that the farmer pays more than his fair share of 
local taxation, which entitles him to special treatment 
in regard to his payment for income-tax, but so long as he 
gets this special treatment under the latter head he is not 
likely to get justice under the former. As a class, they stand 
to gain more by, a fair revision of the incidence of local taxa- 
tion than thev will lose over income-tax. 
