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Show HE FIIK WES' SUBJECT OF ATTACKS London Newspaper Scorec Those Who Idle While War Is Raging. PEN PICTURE DRAWN Comment Also Is Made on Amount of Petrol Being Be-ing Wasted Daily. I LONDON", June 2.'L Hyde Tark "'drones ' arc tho subject of bitter at- tacks in the newspapers, whieh apply ! this term to' those who use the beautiful beauti-ful spot for pleasure or driving. Objection to these " drones M lias grown very pronounced recently and arguments for the confiscation of their horses and motors have been advanced. Keen irritation has especially been felt at the sight of butlers taking well-fed pet dogs for an airing, while but a i short distance away long food lines stretch out. ' Along with everybody else, ' saya the Express, "they know that there is a great demand for horses at the present pres-ent time, bo tli for war and war ser-vice. ser-vice. and it is astonishing that there should be people so unconcerned as to what is going on around them as to retain re-tain horses merely for their own selfish self-ish recreation. AVhen the British army wants horses it has to send to the Argentine Ar-gentine for them and chance the risk of slii ps being torpedoed or mined, whereas at, the very door of the war ottice there are hundreds of splendid horses which ought to be commandeered. comman-deered. Pelrol Is in Demand. ''There is a great shortage of petrol, and automobile users are either rigidly rationed or banued fresh supplies entirely. en-tirely. Yet any htiuny morning in tho piaisaunce between Knightsbridgo and Hyde Park corner a row of elegant limousines may be seen waiting for the convenience of the riders in tho row, who thus doubly sin Ivy -wasting both horses and motor power. ''Just at the very hour that their luxurious motor cars are forming up by t lie side of the row and they are going round the soft, springy turf for the ninth time all sorts of food queues in different parts of London are forming form-ing u). But possibly they have never heard of food queues. 'Watching the equestrian exercises usually aro about a dozen butlers or maids, who are performing the obligatory obliga-tory duty of taking the pet dogs out for an airing and for an appetite. They are what a general in a besieged town would consider tho useless mouths the first to be thrust out of trie city before the encircling cordon is complete, com-plete, but there will always be food for these pampered and absurd-looking canine specimens so long as money can procure it. "Thoughtless Comedy." 'Jt is not always possible to trace any association between the procession proces-sion of these fastidious feeding dogs mid the riders in the row, but Home-times Home-times when exercise is over, tho horso committed to the care of an able bodied groom and t he rider is reclining reclin-ing in the cushioned recesses of tho wait-g limousine two or three of tho dogs will be invited to occupy the next scat, and the observer realizes that it is all part of tho same thoughtless comedy in wartime. "The elderly dames who sit behind stolid coachmen who have not yet been taken for national service have littlo idea of the adverse comments their participation in this pageant of folly arouses or how ma ny wounded Tommies Tom-mies in their blue hospital uniforms who have limped into the park ask themselves whether, if these carriages must be driven, their room could not be used to aid their convalescence. Air Is Inviting. "Under the shady frees young pro pie may be not iced reading, for tho air of Hyde park this month is very inviting. Who are these drones who are sn f:ir remove'! from the common sacrifices and wlint particular dispensations dispen-sations ex em pi them f mm the scopo of t he national effort f Why, if 1 hey have no work to do, arc they not offering of-fering their servb-es to some hospital or helping to grow food, like the eager enthusiasts to he se-n in the grounds of Holland houe, Kensington ? " Ijcss Ihau half an hour's sharp walk away a potato or butter qucuo mav be still perspiring in the noonday noon-day sun. ' |