Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette 03-1918

READING 'MERCURY, OXFORD GAZETTE , NEwBIJRY HERALD, AND BERKS COUNTI PAPER, SA'.1'URDAY, MARCIT
COMRADES OF i'lm GREAT WAR

NOTICE
As Good Fr day falls next week advartlsers
and COf'respondents are requested to forward
the r' copy early n the week

URGENT NEED OF MORlI POTATOES

23,

1918.

BERXS APPEAL TRIBUNAL

CA VERI.A.

BERKSHIRE S DElICl1 OF I. 000 ro�s

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SAl URDAY MARCH 23, 1018.

1 he ShlpbU11dmg pOSl tlon IS so serlOUS
tha.t It demands the concentrated attentIon
If the nation neg
of the whole COuntl)
tccts to ass ire ItscU that satisfactory pi 0
6 CSS 15 be ing m ade ID 50lvlI g t he p ob
After r eadin g
le t1 It does so at It::) peril
SIr Enc licdde5 speed no oLher concluSion
can 1 e dr awn tJlau that past methods ba\
True the late coru
plovecl madequate
13..S
JeJhcoe
1 andeI of th e F lcet, Lord
spoken hopefully of t.he prospects as �oon
but such anhclpallOn�
I:lS A gUtit an \ C�
a re often falSlfied by e ents
The figures
In the
of losses p o Vl de an ilh stration
latter part of 1914 our losses were

mCB$ures con
In 1nto and 1916 countc
derably reduced th!.;m but 1ll 1917 tb v
ere as 1 rge a.'S Hili C IJ sequen L on mo
CHeCl,l C S Ibmannc attac.ks an I UI re
J ho ncasUl es which are
stnctcd WUI fare
lWIng con :.c.rt.ed for dcail rg With t.he sub
mpro e
In ty be ncgat. ed by
1I ar no
1 herclore it s
Side
rlouts on lJle oilic
ust1les� io count upo 1 a rosy \i ew of the
rho. present pO<o'ltion is ihe onc
fuwre
that concerns the nation
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COMRADES OF THE GREAT WAR
20 THE FOR BURY
READING
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FARRIERS AND PRICE O� SHOEING

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Jl:R G A.R"DNl:R AIDl fHE WINDSOR
DIVIlUON

It must be re nembercd thaL the Govern
Illent no\l. pi ad eaU) ('.QDt ols the � hole o f
f rolll
the cargo "'p-a.cc avaIlable to and
these lsland� and that. In �,-plte oJ tbat f<let
then::: LS Loo greatest diffic liLy ID ma ntam
LDS t.he S1. pply or food and 0 hel nece-=: a.t..,
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commodities..
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th
body IS fan liar
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Vltl the other 1n iu tr es vhi I are
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roaJ..nly dependent on supplic:, from 0\ er
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FacL<; uch as llesF!
seas
''!thin the kno, ledge of It e people "le
D 0 € eloquent than wt)rr:l� or of columns
of St.atIsLlc� \\ hat cnnc.erns U IS not �o
tonnage figures as lho e
the fu-y
lPO) �h et
conccntrC1.l..ed
s
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This oounLry t a.s utIered a tORS (If t \p.nn
per €nt.. and t-I "e.ry large port on of lhat
lwp.nty 15 acCOUDte1"l for by la 1. 'ear �
sin.k.il¥;O; aJOnt':
Thollgh Ihere I as bee
SIr Enc Geddes RnYS a ct�r.lIne [] the rate
of SLDk.,oj;(' the las1. few Donths the rate os
The gTa.Vlly of the
suffiCIently alarnung
matter 5 mcrtasP.d when l(lrpedoed ShIPS
vh ch are out nf comml Slon for �paU"s et e
laken Into CODSlderatioD
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t-.e raIiM
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1f there 15 Que t.hillg more than anotber
a. e figl LiDg f r It IS to destroy thIS
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pol ey of calc uated J.ggrcs"'-lO 1
followed by dlSU emberment and sub)ce
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hon of alien peo ples

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can

not she ath e the �word unt 1 11. has defeated
10 tbeIr e n ti rety GelIDa) d eSigns
and

the re go of peace founded
the nght5 of peoples to natlOnal

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IS m a pOSItion
to liberate the Ulvaded terr W1eS by force
Germany only In­
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When
It to undo her enemies
p urpose she
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takes all despite promIses or treaty
the Entente i'\llmsters �ay In theIr memor
\\ hy ",aste time O\Cl Gennan
andum
pledges when we see that at no penod of
her hIStory of conquest-not when �bo
overran Slles a n ot v.hen she pal ht oned
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she
Poland-has
cYDlcalll as the destroyer of natlOnal in
dependence the lruplacahle enemy 01 the
rights of man and the dlgnlty of CIvilIsed

nations'"

Poland 15 suJ!erlng a fourth

pa.rtition and it win be a test of the v.lc­
tory of. the Entente it she is restored to the
sta.tus of an independent State WIth dIrect

access to the sea.

"" Thf'J comm\ttee of th� Rnyal Nl\t onal L reboat
InKtlt\ tion have deCided to est:abhsh a P..8f:Ifllon
aeheme for the W1do,.. and orpbana of l.iIoboat­
IDIIYl killed while � out tlaeir �

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