President of the French Republic Since Feb. 18, 1913
[Illustration: THE RIGHT HON. H.H. ASQUITH
Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland
The resolution, which was adopted at a session at which members of the Executive Committee consulted by long-distance telephone, some of them being in Washington and others in New York at the Union League Club, read:
"In view of the crisis in our foreign relations, we, as representatives of the Navy League of the United States, express our emphatic belief that Congress should be immediately assembled and that measures should be taken at once to strengthen our national defense. Our most pacific country should, because of its supreme love of peace, possess preponderant naval strength and adequate military strength. A large bond issue of, if necessary, $500,000,000 should be authorized at once. These bonds would be rapidly absorbed by the American people for such a purpose. Equipped with a mighty fleet, American life and American rights would be scrupulously respected by all belligerents. In such case there would be no thought of our entering into war.
"ROBERT M. THOMPSON, Chairman Executive Committee;
Last night I saw my true love stand All shadowy by my bed. He had my locket in his hand; I knew that he was dead.
"Sweetheart, why stand you there so fast, Why stand you there so grave?" "I think," said he, "this hour's the last That you and I can have.
"You gave me this from your fair breast, It's never left me yet; And now it dares not seek the nest Because it is so wet.
"The cold gray sea has covered it, Deep in the sand it lies; While over me the long weeds flit And veil my staring eyes.
"And there are German sailors laid Beside me in the deep; We have no need of gun nor blade, United in our sleep."
"Dear heart, dear heart, come to my bed, My arms are warm and sweet!" "Alack for you, my love," he said, "My limbs would wet the sheet.
"Cold is the bed that I lie on And deep beneath the swell; No voice is left to make my moan And bid my love farewell."
Now I am widow that was wife-- Would God that they could prove What law should rule, without the strife That's robbed me of my love!
The Gap at Ypres Made by German Chlorine Vapor Bombs
_Dr. John Scott Haldane, F.R.S., who has conducted the investigation for the British War Office, is a brother of Lord Haldane. He is a graduate in medicine of Edinburgh University and an M.A. of Oxford and an LL.D. of Birmingham. For many years he has been engaged in scientific investigation, and has contributed largely to the elucidation of the causes of death in colliery and mine explosions He is the author of a work on the physiology of respiration and air analysis._