WAR NEWS.
THE LAST LETTER.
Mr. C. J. Collier, a well-known member of the Dover Customs staff, who has had four sous in the Army, has received a sad souvenir from the front the last letter he
TRUTH REACHING GERMANY, A COMPLETE CHANGE OF TONE
OPES OF A DRAWN WAR.
Fdistinguished neutral, who on a pr vious occasion provided readers of The Times with a very accurate account of German opinion and feeling, now makes the following
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915,
years--believed that a circle of mines and submarines would so surround your island that, owing to your short supply of home: grown wheat, you would be reduced to beg. peace in quick time,
it
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 5th at 11.15 am. —The anti-orclone is contral over Japan, where moderate increases pressure have occurred; slight increases are also general over the remainder of the rez.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours anding at Om, to-day, 0.00 inches.
sont to one of his boys, Frod. The lettering and important statement of the that the Allies have undertaken thero 10.
is pierced by the bullet that caused his death.
HEALTH OF GERMAN ARMY.
said
General Headquarters of the German into the minds of the Great ding its way indeed, the accounts I have read in England
Army, stating that unfavourable reports published abroad about the health of the German, Army" are inaccurates," declares that our soldiers have stood the Actually winter campaign splendidly, they have only suffered from the wouthor In the Carpathians, Barring isolated ense of typhoid and cholera in the East, pidemic disease is not prevalent any where. To this satisfactory result hygienic precautionary measures, taken good time, have chiefly contributed, pecially inoculation against typhoid, smallpox, and cholera, as well as the eployment of transportable water curriers, the establishment of tub and shower baths behind the fighting-line wall -railway-stations, and measures for the wishing and disinfection of clothing."
WHY GREECE IS NEUTRAL..
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When I left Germany last week the official classes were beginning to doubt the sub marine blockade and their hopes were turned to the Dardanelles. Rightly ov wrongly yas believed in Germany visible during a visit to Germany tasks of supreme diffenity. It is from which he recently returned:
that the Allies. have suffered euch The truth as to the dangerous position in more severely than you have admitted to-day is as follow which the German Empiro stands at present officially in Paris and in London.
And is slowly, but very slowly,
[Staff, the and German newspapers, disagree in foto, captains of industry, the higher officials, and which is remarkable, inasmuch as the bicial generally, the leading mon in almost every curate The Germs Press Bureau, as
German information is not, as a rule, inat; great centre. Just as the facts were speedily grasped menthe ago by men like Herr Ballir, suggested before, is more creative thon Here von Gwinner, and Walther Rothenau in the Dardanelles fail an immense
suppressive. It is certain that if the opera so they are now being assimilated by men of lessor degree. The idea of anything apimpetus will be given to a large section prouching absolute victory has passed en of the Gorman public, who believe that a tirely from the minds of many with whom I long war is the best war for Germany and came in contact. On the occasion of a prevnost certain to bring about a division of the fous visit to Germany these very people as Allies. sured me that Paris, Calais, and Warsaw were Germany's for the asking.
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One noticeable fact, which it is difficult to Obtaining information by neutrals in Ger- understand, is the increasing sale of English many, even in the case of one who speaks the newspapers in Prussia. On my previous visit CHINA language perfectly and knowathe people inti- they could be bought, as far as I could as- mately, is a more difßcult task than it was. certain, nt only one or two establishments in The Germans the Prussiana in particular Berlin. To-day agencies at Amsterdam seem are hostile to, and suspicious of, all neutrals. able to circulate copies of The Times-quito Animosity to Americans, owing to export of freely in Germany. One German friend at ammunition to the Allies, and the attitude of Chemnitz (engaged for many years in busi such men as Colonel Roosevelt, Dr. Eliot, theness in England) has every day The Times, present lead of Harvard, and the American the Daily Chronicle, and the Daily Mail. Mnowspapers, has reached such lengths during Frankly, he does not believe a word in any
the past few weeks that many Americans no of them. longer think it wise to use the English places. language in conversation in publie Ferkappts Engländer," masked English I heard then called. Swedes. Norwegians, and Dutch, hitherto treated with condescend ing civility, must now be circumspect in their attitude when discussing the war with
In an interview with the Athens corres pondent of the Petit · Parisien, Venizelos, the Greek ex-Premier, said "My first offer of participation in the war was before the battle of the Marne, and my second at the moment of the first Lombardment of the Dardanelles. On both occasions I made no stipulations for any reward from the Allies upon their final success. M. Venizelos will shortly, on the occasion of the forthcoming elec tions, issue a declaration on his general policy.
M. Zographos, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, stated to the same correspondent: Greove remains neutral for two rea- sons-firstly, because of the Bulgarian danger, and, sccondly, bocaue of the Turkish menaces against the Greek inhabitants in Turkey in the event of cur taking part in the war."-Es
DANGEROUSLY FRANK7
In an article complaining once more that nobody loves us," Waffen makes some ingenuous admis
sions;
This is not the moment to criticise what is past or to ask ourselves what should have been done. Mistakes have been made, and very serious ones, but these are beyond recall. To-day was must think of the future. To ensure that future against being disturbed by such precupations na disturb us to-day, the first step to be taken is to molity public opinion in other lands, which now appears to be dead against Garinany. The war must go o for that there is no help; but there must be no repetition of those acts which have tended to estrange from us nearly every neutral Fower which hitherto was amie ably disposed towards us.
It would be superfluous to indicate to The authorities what are some of the act bocause they are perfectly aware to what we allude. Germany cannot afford either to-day or after the war to stand without a friend in the world."
WHEN GERMANY WILL UNDERSTAND.
THE TEUTON'S PRIDE.
Germans.
POPULARITY OF FILANCE.
As for the Allies, England is regarded with increasing loathing, and Russia is no longer despised the Franch, on the other hand, are comparatively popular strange as it may seam.
will
Germany's attitude towards the Austrians. is one of contempt. "We should do better printable expression-was a remark I often without these
***—using an un-
heard with a hint that the defeat of Austria, ny no manns ensures the submission of Germany.
As to Rumanis and Italy, the average German believes that they can be bought off and will be bought off
Station.
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Criticism of German generals and of Glor man diplomatists has risen to a height unknown in my recollection of the Gorman. Empire. The approaching centenary of But the Germana believe they. Bismarck has caused much heart-searching have to withdraw from Fance and creernumong those who are inclined to swallow Alsace. Lorening, with being a depty the stimulating syrup administered by the for damage, in order to about a sopar German Press Bureau. Von Bethmann ate peace with the Republic. They believe Hollweg is the subject of universal that the bulk of the French mation is utterly animadversion. He is considered not to have chang wenry of the war. The wish is, as usual, been sufficiently cunning in his treatment of Kinking father to the thought and beyond ques Sir Edward Grey. Prince Lichnowsky is Changeha vistes tion, there is a growing feeling among the bitterly cursed for misleading the Ceriaan Shanghal upper classes in Germany that the French Government, as are several well-known Eng-Gatzlaff Army of 1915 is not that of 1870. If only lish politicians and financiers. we had a Joffre (or Shoffer)," as he is called, was a remark made to me more than once Von Hindenburg is no longer a national hero. Indeed, if thista be any hero at all in Ger many to-day, it is the Kaiser, who is regarded throughout the land with an esteem and affection not hitherto accorded to him.
remours are afloat. His private life during Concerning the Crown Pridee all kinds of the war has not given antisfaction to the German people. His failures in the field are notorious. The allegations as to his thefts from privato houses in France have not pleased even the extremists of the German Army.
On my last visit the Engial Amy was hardly mentioned. Next to Joffre, General French is undoubtedly the object of their fears. Little by little, probably from the lips of German wounded, stories hare percolated throughout the country of deeds of bravery by firitish soldiers -- their extraordinary tenacity and unperturbability,
It is a mistake, I think, for English people to believe that Germans under-estimate the new armies raised by Lord Kitchener. They obviously did so a few months ago, but it is equally obvious that they have changed their minds lately. The idea circulated by the Witsblätter, the scurrilous and so-called humorous papers, that the English could only induce the dregs of the population to enlist by means of heavy bribes is disappearing. The long-legged Highlander continually asking for money is no longer the butt of the comic artist.
The French Press considers the reply of the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung to Sir Edward Grey's speech on March 22nd as a document impregnated with bad faith from one end to the other, declares that it can only convince people that the wuthor has not read the diplomatic corres-
On the other hand, the industrial strikes, pondenco published by the Allies. Ger.to which I heard reference at every dinner inany posing as the champion of small table I attended, are a great source of hope States excites amazement, mingled with
to those who believe that Germany should ridicule
prolong the war until she can gendually off one or more of her opponents and con- centrate on a war with the British Empire.
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Amoy in the minds of the Allies and lull them into alboku 50. 29.91 a sense of false security. It is true that Taichu Germans now say Wir mutsen eigen (We must n win) instead of Wir werden siegen (Wo shall think, the eve of my departure-We cannot win, win) formerly, Sonic Germans even as one distinguished professor said to me on We shall, at least, but we shall not lose. strong friends in England who, with the retain Belgium. For the rest, we, bave Peace Party, will see to it that the German people shall reap some reward for the blood and treasure expended in the last eight months, and that German culture shall not be removed from the great place it occupied in the world.
MISSING FOR FIVE MONTHS. PARALYSED SOLDIER'S
ADVENTURES.
The following translation of a letter,. recently written by a French soldier to an English lady, is a striking example of the recovery of one who had been five month missing":-
me
Having been wounded quite at the beginning of the war in Belgium, by a bullet which injured me in the vertebral column, I have been completely paralysed; I was left on the battleheld, and having been robbed of all I had on me, money, watch, medals, etc., it was impossible to discover my identity, and I remained for nearly five months with the peasants The Temps derot da leader to Ger
who took care of me, and could not make many's present state of mind, in which
myself known, no, being able to make the writer argued that pride in her
myself understood except by signs. In strength and faith in her invincibility are
of my condition the Germans view so absolute that force alone can destroyal disappointments to which the Germans did not make
ચૂંટ I 'isoner the infatuation of her illusions. "This,"
have been subject since the road days of like many of my
alas ! comrades, continued the writer, will enable here to vistory in August and September would I have, thanks to the good nursing. continue the strugle until her inmenso pride crumbles in defeat. The German have awakened everybody in the land to the and patience for which I praise my Bat English people do not under; rescuers, managed to recover litle by will only understand that he has been stand the extent to which Germany is ruled little, and above all to regain the power inistaken when we overcome him. When by newspapers-not merely by the suppres of speech; in this way I was able on Germany feels we are stronger than she is, son of ugly facts, which is not, in my February 2nd to 1st my family know perhaps her mentality will change suffi
opinion, so severely exercised as it is with ciently for to understand
you, but by the continual suggestion of better where I was and under who conditions. another."
Things to come. On my previous visit the My poor mother believed me dead, for whole German mind was-centred-upon Calais, she could not think that as a prisoner 1 should not have sent news of myself. I Paris had been allowed to drift into the back ground, but anyone who has the oppor wanted, at the risk of my life, to leave German efforts 10 delate themselves and unity of referring to German newspapers the house where I was well cared for to the world into believing that the pinch of will remember how, in October, the great so again those whom I loved. With war has not even approximately strangled black-typed headliness on the front pages of infinite precautions, hiding by day and the Empire's economic life find carne the leading organs of the German Press lund flooing by night, I was able to cross the teristic expression in the annual report always some reference to Calais. Befagged German lines without being seen, of the Deutsche Bank, just issued. This maps, so profusely displayed throughout the is the bluster with which Germany's Empire, showed the German Army within & greatest bank (capital, £12,500,000) re-day's march of the Channel port which was views the war, caused by covetousness, to dominate London. Once at Calsis, the
vy, and lust for revenge":
Zeppeline, the wonderful secret Krupp guns, So much has already been printed about and mines and submarines would make the being completely exhausted. At last on
road to Dorer easy.. At Dover the war would be over. Those were not the views of February 10th, I aucceeded in again find- the distinguished folk I have mentioned, who ing the regiment; there I was safe, and already knew the facts. They were certainly from then my condition has improved day rental diet, the working and sleep by day I was nursed in an ambulance came a new phase. Let us leave et Nantes. Owing to my condition I have Calais alone for the moment, they said; been recognized as unfit for further eer- withdraw all troops possible; give von vice, and sent home; there I shall com Hindenburg every man that he wants; take picte my recovery, and, by the help of Warsaw. I was assured late in January by electric treatment, regain the use of my people of very high position that Warsaw by limbs, but alast this will be very slow. March I was a crtainty. The capture of and even then I can never again be what Warsaw would release a million soldiers, who I was. We French are not afraid, and would be suficient for the road to Calais. we only want one thing, that is, After Warsaw, and after Ypres, Pervy, plete victory; I shall only regret not, to Our own books Furnes, and Dunkirk, Calais would be be able to return to serve our countries.
theirs.
I will not describe to you the days and nights of agony which I went through during this escapade, especially as my legs would hardly carry me and I could not do more than 100 metres without
economie structaro, has victoriously with tents of 99 per cent. of the population. at first and sent from there to a hospital
this greatest of all wara, its, causes and effect, that we for our part prefer to let only figures talk. They demonstrate that the Deutsche Bank, like the entire German stood the burdensome test. The unparallel.ing 1 ed restilt of both of the colossal loans floated in the midst of war has supplied graphic proof of Germany's financial power and raised the economic achievements of the nation, to the level of German triumphs on the fold of battle. Only because the enemy Press seeks to propagato the view that this success has not been a genuine one, do we now emphasise the fact that deposits in Gor man savings banke daring the past year
increased by £45,000,000. reveal that it would be possible for us to declare a dividend of 12 per cent. like last year, but we propose, in view of the fact that war is still going on, to recommend 10 per cent."
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