... ARE WE GAS-BAGS? A GERMAN ONSLAUGHT ON BRITONS IN GENERAL AND THE BYSTANDER IN PARTICULAR A GERMAN visitor to London who writes to a London journal is entitled to publicity, and I, therefore, make no apology for giving herewith a letter which has reached this office during the past week. Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London, August 6th, 19 r 2. (To the Editor of The Bystander) Dear Sir, ...

... Whipping and the White Slave Traffic A REPLY TO DOWNWRITER To the Editor of The Bystander. Sir j I know nothing whatever about the White Slave Traffic, says Downwriter. An unsatisfac tory preface, perhaps, to two columns of dogmatism about, it but one is hardly tempted to disbelieve him. He displays too clearly the hall-mark of humanitar- ianism-at-a-distance the sentimental sympathy, all of ...

... Whipping and the White Slave Traffic MORE REPLIES TO DOWNWRITER To the Editor of The Bystander. Piccadilly, W., November 29. Sir, I have just read a rather long and involved mass of semi-sentimental verbiage by one who signs himself Downwriter. I refer, of course, to the letter appearing in the last issue of The Bystander on Whipping and the White Slave Traffic. I would like to remind ...

... To the Editor of The Bystander. 53, Chancery Lane, W.C. Sir, May I express my pleasure at reading Down- writer's article on this subject Apart from the general question of corporal punishment, there are many persons who look with suspicion on the present tendency to substitute the birch for the cat in the flogging of grown men. No doubt the motive is sometimes a humane one, the birch being ...

... To the Editor of The Bystander. I.ondon, December e. Sir, --While not agreeing with all that Down- writer has to say about the flogging of male offenders under the White Slave Traffic Act, I am delighted to see that there are still some people in England who view flogging, or, indeed, any other form of torture, with suspicion. Supposing, for instance, that we could abolish prostitution by ...

... To the Editor of The Bystander. Sir, Downwriter is wrong about the flogging. It's the only possible way to deal with those brutes who decoy young girls to absolute ruin. But I wish he had attacked the White Slave Traffic question on another ground. I mean that nobody really knows what the Bill is. As it stands it is just enough but how many people realise what the agitation means which is now ...

... To the Editor of The Bystander. Sir, Another Bingham says-- as many others on the same side have said- that flogging is the only thing of which some men are afraid. Let it be so. How are we to distinguish these some men from other men and draw an Act of Parliament which will reach them without reaching others of which the statement is not true Or is the point one which we may safely entrust ...

... Asking for Votes A MILITANT ATTACK ON THE BYSTANDER (To the Editor oj The Bystander) Sir, I see a page in your last issue contains two pictures, entitled Asking for Votes. One represents a pretty procession, designated American Style; the other a damaged dwelling, called British Style. Would you kindly inform your readers who it was British or American women Suffragists who in augurated ...

... Arc Wc of Any Use Sir, I am afraid that Downwriter has given little thought to the subject. Supposing the British Isles became part of the German Empire, we should hardly expect to be treated more leniently in the matter of taxation than we are now in other words, all the money we now spend on our own army and navy (about £90,000,000 per annum) would be added to Germany's war chest. If ...

... The German Won't Come Sir, Your correspondent Downwriter has con tributed some excellent fooling under the above title, but is there not a basis of sound sense underlying his ribaldry Is it not, in fact, true that the danger of invasion has practically disappeared owing to the factors to which Norman Angell has called attention? Of course, Englishmen would never tolerate a German ruler ...

... Nothing Would Happen Sir, Congratulations on your excellent article, War-- and What Then Yours is the first paper in this country to break through the conspiracy of silence maintained by the armament firms on the childish folly of spending half our revenue on defences against people who have no intention of attacking us. If we abolished our Army and Navy to-morrow, nothing would happen. Yours ...

... To the Editor of The Bystander:' Sir, An interesting proof of Downwriter s accusation against the Press, that they ''boom' a story one day and suppress its sequel the next/' is furnished tq-day (August 27). For the past week my eye had been caught by the headline, The Johnson Scandal, and my blood had been invited to boil at the prospect of this negro pugilist polluting the purity of the ...