from Germany the Aniline dye industry failed for
the want of the necessary capital.

Then a great movement was inaugurated throughout the British Empire.
"Trade only with the Allies." It seemed a fine idea in theory, but when
Russia, in desiring to place an order for L1,400,000 worth of railway
plant, found English prices inflated by labor demands and placed the
order with America, the "Trade-only-with-the-Allies" movement began to
wobble.

Then the troops began to pour back into England in thousands.
Manufacturers and investors kept off of any new enterprises as they saw
the Asquith Government, always rather radical, lending a sympathetic ear
to the workers' demand that the State should control all industries.

Cities and towns now began to fill with unemployed and riots broke out
everywhere.

Then the Government took action. All steel and woollen industries were
placed under military control with "preference to returned soldiers."

The outcries of the owners were pacified by the promise of 10 per cent.
of all profits on work done, with proportional profits according to the
value of the plant and enterprise. But under the military control, as
increased wages were given and shorter hours worked in order to absorb
all unemployed, profits diminished rapidly.

The General Elections in February, 1916, divided the country into two
parties. The Humanist party, headed by Lloyd-George and Blatchford,
aiming at Government control of all production, and the Individualist
party, in which Winston Churchill was prominent, standing for "private
enterprise." Though the latter had behind it the full force of British
capitalists, the Humanist party, elected on a general franchise, swept
the poll. Thus England became Socialistic. Heavy land and income taxes
followed with high wages ruling for the working classes. It was a
bloodless revolution!

CHAPTER XXV.

Belgium Holds the Gate Again.

It was shortly after the Humanist Government assembled in London that
considerable disbandment in the British military forces took place, my
squadron, amongst others, being marked out. I lost no time in crossing
to Brussels. I remember when I again met Helen Goche I felt, at first, a
strange reserve, fearing that our short friendship in Cologne had no
deeper meaning for her; but we both realised that henceforward our paths
would be together; so I joined her in her work with the Belgian "Joan of
Arc."

I never knew the name of this