AUSTRIA FROM THE INSIDE.
INTENSE HATRED OF GERMANY.
PRAYERS FOR ENGLAND.
The following remarkable statement by a oulbured Englishwoman who has only just returned front Austria, where she has lived for many years and has a wide know ledge of all classes in the country.
Until a week ago, though no restraint was placed upon her movements, sho was nominally a prisoner. Representations made by influential friends on the ground of her daughter's illness resulted in per- mission. being given to her to leave the *Country.
FROM BOASTFULNESS TO DOUBT.
HEADSHAKINGS IN GERMANY.
of Germany, both mental and material, Two interesting accounts of the state are given by two men trained in observa- tion and ef sound judgment;
The first is M. Ostrovsky, Bussian Avo months in Germany before being Consul at Danzig, who was detained for allowed to retum home.
His view is that it will take a long time to convince the German people that they are doomed to defeat,
except petrol Rye is being mixed with He saw no signs of searcity of anything wheat flour for breadmaking, but the mix- ture is quite palatable. All articles of household consumption are at normal prices, as fixed by the Government. Eggs were dearer for a time, but they are now as cheap as usual.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 16′′, 1915.
IF KRUPP'S SHOULD FAIL.
CAPACITY OF ESSEN WORKS NEARING ITS LIMIT.
be expressed in a single word-Krupp's. Germany's most vulnerable point may This great concern at Essen
так
practically the whole of Germany's es materials, and its inability to keep up end of the war at a much earlier date ser's great armies may bring about the with the enormous demands of the Koi
calculations on this side of the Channel. than has yet entered into any one's
As a matter of fact, the capacity of the much vaunted Krupp works is not nearly five most important armament firms, so great as the aggregate capacity of our Reports that Germany is running short of
true, and it shot and she · ឆ persistent,
Germany is making and are likely enough to bo is to secure supplies of metal by any means notorious that frantic efforte
wad at any price.
"The change of feeling has come about because of the refusal of the military authoritics to disclose the truth. The people have formed the impression that The truth has not been disclosed because it it too awful. When Austrian wounded poured into the southern towns the people asked,What does this mean? The Government's reply was that operations as large a scalo as possible, in order to Kapp-manufactured munitions are by Everywhare crops are being sown on had not been so successful as on previous produce a plenteous harvest Even the occasions. Nothing was said of the dread-military review ground in Berlin has been *l losses sustained, nor has anything planted with potatoes. Prisoners of war been published to this day of the true are to be employed in ploughing and state of affairs. According to the papers, sowing, especially in Hanover, Holstein, the Austrian cause is passing from success and Brandenburg. to success, but the people in their hearts know that they are being grossly deceived and have ceased to pay attention to official'nows.
DISTRICT OF MOURNING. "At Presek, in the heart of the Bobc asian country, I saw about 20,000 men sworn to allegiance. There was no joy of enthusiasm among The soldiers. They simply went to the war because they knew they had to go, and many people, includ ing myself, who witnessed the event, observod that only about one-third of the men actually took the oath. The result
the Presek
ing the attitude of the Germans, is an The other observer, who has been study American well acquainted with European countries, and a level-headed eritie of the character of nations
the disastrous nature of the adrenture He agrees that it cannot yet be said that into which the Hobenzollerns have led the people over whom they claim the Divine Right to rule is clearly realised.
Misgivings which were felt when the original plan of the militarist party was seen to have utterly failed are forgotten in the noisy campaign of "Hate agains has declared that but for the British Navy and Expeditionary Forces the Germans would have taken Paris and bombarded Petrograd within a month of the declaration of war,
There is also plenty of evidence that no micans so superior as many people had boon led to believe. In the supreme test now being applied Krupp's may fail the Fatherland.
À VAST CONCERN
cast steel, and employing only seventy factory for the production of English Founded at Essen 102 years ago as a
workmen in 1875, this company now employs 70,000 men, of whom 39,000 are in the Essen steel works alone. The great
been absorbed into the Essen: concorn, Düsseldorf, capitalised at £1,000,000, has Mannesmann iron and steel works at bringing the combined share and loan capital of Kruppe up to £14,300,000.
As an indication of the extent of the Essen works, it may be mentioned that the plant is served by eighty miles of between the worke and the Prussian State private railway, and that the traffic crains daily, and sixty the company's own collieries,
The entire coal eupply is farnished by employ 10,000 men and produce nearly 3,000,000 tons a year. The firm's iron orG which
miues employ 6,000 man,
was as terrible as might have been expect England." A general high in command system averages between fifty and sixty. ed. Of one regiment, Eleventh, only four officers and a relative by small number of men returned. The regiment was almost wiped out,
Losses by other regiments have been similarly severe. There is hardly a family in Presek district, which has about 20,000. inhabitants, that has not lost a bread- winner. Why do they go Because Go man officers force them on at the point of the sword. To go forward is almost certain death; to refuse, hardly less bortain,
"Everybody is being ruthlessly saori- fced. Every physically capable man over eighteen has gone. rojected as unfit were re-examined, and Those previously every men with legs to stand on and arms to use a gun was impressed. If he could hang together he had to go. One would fight, but how they would wondered not so much how such men the fighting ama..
NEW SPIRIT OF DOUBT.
The particulars--dimensions, age, and bility of winning is understood by must carefully recorded at Krupp's, where the The American thinks that the impossi-location-of every ship of war and prac Germans in high position: the change of German naval and military authorities tically every big gun in the world are tone from over confident boastings to have a mine of ready information. doubtful forecasts of the final result is most significant,
A Parseval airship builder said in a would be no indemnity because every speech that if Germany were beaten there Penny would be spent and every man capable of bearing arms killed.
A
Lately this great firm has come under thickening. The case in which judgment cloud of suspicion which appears to be of not a few Germans in Krupp's, if not was delivered a year ago shook the faith in the Government which fostered and shielded the firm. It may be recalled
that the sennial was first brought to had first communicated his charges against public notice in the Reichstag in April, 1913, by the Socialist Liebknecht, who Krupp's November, 1919.
to the War Minister in Although many documents wer
were sup- contained Stato secrets, and certain ground that they allegations were ruled out as irrelevant, the evidence which was permitted in open
on the
that is ridiculous. The Socialists, who reachings in all the large towns, and who have on the eve of war held huge protest meet always regarded the Navy as provocative rather than necessary for the defence of the Colonies and commerce, are not likely to allow insane militarists to ruin the pressed Men
country, They are saying very little now, but are resolved to seize the opportunity when it presents itself of saving some- thing out of the fire, les court was damaging, if not damning
It is the Kaiser's knowledge that the enormous indemnity to be exacted for Belgium will certainly inflame opinion its overthrow, which forces him to reject against his dynasty, and probably cause the hof sparing the unhappy country further sacrifice.
"The tragedy does not end there. What has aroused so much anger is the treat meut of the Austrian wounded. suffering agonies from all manner of wounds are dumped at the nearest railway station and left to reach hospital as best they can. In the Bohemian country they To assist those who collapse on the way stretcher bearers are sent out. Incredible as this may seem, it is a fact,
have to walk as far as two or three miles
Then, as soon as they can walk back they are sent to the ranks. Many of those who thus return are mere skeletons. The war was not more than five or six weeks old when numbers of Bohemian soldiers returned hopelessly crippled with rheuma tism. The comforts afforded the Allies soldiers similarly stricken to them were
denied. They will never recover,
only half the reports now current on the There is no smoke without fire, and if Continent are true, the limit of Krupp's made by the Kaiser's military staff may capacity to supply the gigantie demands Express be reached
at any moment.-Daily
THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.
THE CIVIL WAR,
There are no illusions among German statesmen as to the necessity of paying for the damage done in Belgium. One of the most famous said, "The sum will be 1871 It is also recognised by the leaders HOW BRITISH SHIPS FARED IN far greater than that paid by France in Another big factor is the food scarcity. of statecraft that it will be very difficult Produce a plentiful, but the people are for Germans to live and do business not allowed to enjoy it. Germany takes abroad. The uncloaking of the wide the lion's share, and what is loft is very spread spy, system will cause them to be dear. Eggs, which were never more than universally suspected. oight hellars each, had advanced to 16. The latest evidence showing how dan hellars (a little over 1d.) a week ago at gerous it is to allow any Germans to Prosek. Milk at the outbreak of war was reside and work in other countries is 20. a litre; it is now 4d.; geese-in the supplied by the fact that two of the crew land of geose-are nearly three times as of the airship captured at Lihau turn dear as formerly. Coal is 48. 2d. a cwt.
out to have been employed as hairdressers In August it was 19. ad. Everything in there before the war. They had evidently so dear sud scarce that the people are studied how bombs might be thrown with living almost entirely on our bread and the most damaging effect. our cheese.
THREATS AGAINST GERMANY,
All these things have led both the com- mon and the educated opinion to a very definite view. They realise now that the war is not Austria's but Germany's and nre anxious to be done with it. Disentis- faction and discontent have given place to open expressions of hate. No longer as Germany the generous champion of righteous cause, but a mercilets tyrant bleeding the land of its possessions, human and material."
"Rebellion is spoken of as inevitabla if
THE HIDDEN DEATH. (SUBMARINES).
Out where the swinging, empty seas
And sullenly the white caps rise
Lie naked to the rain,..
When like a shroud the dark comes down
To break and sink again,
Looks and look well, O drowsy watch!
And pale the lightnings leer, The Hidden Death is near
Germany's mailed fist is not removed, At Mark for your lives the under-shades first there were whispers, Now there are
That rise and fade and die !
The following letter has appeared in the Washington Post. The writer is Colonel J. M. Morgan, who was a United States naval officer, but joined the own states at the outbreak of the Civil Wax 1-
reach white heat on account of the incon- Before allowing their indignation to venienoo to which their ships are subjected by British cruisers, would it not be well
for Americans to examine the records of their own Courts of Admiralty between the years 1861-5 and see what American cruisers did to suspected British vessels Of course, no English ship intending to run the blockade cleared for a northern. port, but if at Bermuda or Nassau they registered their port of destination as Halifax or some other supposedly neutral port did that save them from search by American men-of-war! Not much! If their draught was sufficiently light to enable them to enter the barbour of Char leston or Wilmington they were incon- tinently seized on the high seas and carried to a northern port, where they wore sold and the prize money divided.
During the later part of the Civil War,
open threats only suppressed in the pro Mark whore the scared guls, chattering, rise blockade runnera belonging to British
sence of the Kaiser's officers. Everything German is spoken of with barely con- trolled hatred. At one time German vas freely spoken in Bohemia, but the people now decline to speak it unless spoken to by a German officer. Deliverance from
Mark for your lives the foaming trails And seek the muttering sky! -!
And leap and go and come again! That, snake-like, cross the swell Then loose the eager shell !
Was
more
Germany is hoped for, prayed for, and, The chattering quick-fires shriek their dread timely remember the case of the Georgia
The red dart apite and runs from deck to deck, from top to top,
In vain the shivering convoys close And wakes the jibbering guns!
Far down a voice has spoke the word-
And shell the scornful sea le The Hidden Death is free!A
ironical though it may seem, England is most looked to for that deliverance. ***If England quickly wins we shall be
avod" is
the strong sentiment of thousands. One of the leading men ja Bohemia, a doctor of Prague, said to me before leaving, To England we are looking. For our sakes may she make haste England is set firmly in the people's minds as the country's liberator- to be. The advance of the Russians it Thoir foolish smoke sinks shuddering down welcomed in Bohemia with soarsely con cealed joy.
cloak the spluttering foam,. Among the Bohemian soldiers there And, mad with panic, lashed with fear,
The speare whale rears and blows
The blind white ndder leaps to sting And drives the poison. Jomeli
To
is an unwritten compact that they will Till, seared with bellowing, blood-hued steam, not do aught materially to hinder the
Russian progress.
Russia is to be
The whipped white waters close!
welcomed as England's representative. When bare the heaving, icy seas Fears of Russian reprisals they have none. That this is no mere fable is shown by the following postcard sent by a pea- sant boy with the Austrian forces to his parents near Prague: The Russians are close on us, but we are going to be under There was a postscript in German:
Your son has been instantly shot,'"'"
and hard upon the twilight's heels,
Biss with the lashing rain The night comes down again, the flickering lightnings flare. And, for in the watery, grumbling sky, Look and look well, O questing lights ↑
The Hidden Death is there !
owners did not carry any cargoes what ever to the south, as it advantageous to them to carry a little gold to buy what cotton they wanted, but The fact of being empty did not save them from capture and condemnation, I dis- (a vessel in which I once served). She was a merchant steamer called the Japan, and was bought by the Confeder ates After a trial of a little more than a year it was found that she was not suited for a commeros destroyer, and she was sold. A British subject by the name of Jones bought her, through an agent, in good faith He then entered into a con- carry mails between Lisbon and the Cape tract with the Portuguese Government te de Verde Islands. She left Liverpool for the purpose of fulfilling her obligation,
S. sloop of war Nagare and sent to and when she arrived off the mouth of the Tagus she was taken possession of by the Boston and that was the last the English- man ever saw of his ship or his money,
Instances of British merchant vessels ostensibly en voyages from one British port to another, but suspected of an ulterior design to run the blockade, which were captured by U. S war ships are too numerous to mention, so it would be well if Americans went a little slowly on the indignation business.
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Mr A. dos Santos Mr LS. Smith Mr K. Witol Mr S. 8. Wright
ON SALE
DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, JANUARY to JUNE,
1914 With INDEX. Price $7.50
On Bale at the * HowGrand DAILY PERMS”
Mr & Mr H I. HO
White
Hongkong, 1st Angust, 1914