WHAT GERMANY FEARS,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 22ND, 1915.
It probably is not necessary to take that PRINCE OF WALES' FUND. statement quite literally, but it may be aa well to remember that whether the
THE PEACE THAT WILL END THE Government desired, it or not that effect
WAR TRADE BOOM.
[BY CHARLER TOWER IN THE "DATUY
MAIL.
"We Germans fear God Sand the end of the war."
was actually produced And that the war los represente largely artificial profits is generally recognised, as witnes the not infrequent German expression, The blockade brings the Gernism Government money.
GREY.
The most striking single phrase (it was AN ATTACK ON SIR EDWARD aily six 'words in the original) that I have bened since I left England was spoken by a German who, with wife and 'family, was "escaping" from Italy and who travelled with me in the St. Gothard express from Milan
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learned only that, like many other Germana, he had a business in Milan; his business was dead and he did not like the lock of things, he said, it will be pIf, wor comes, bad onough, but I-am not sure that it won't be worse in Italy if no war comics. I dread May Day (when a decision is exported).
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The list of "interviews" with promin ont Germans and the Pope which the German-American journalist, Herr von Wiegand, has supplica to a New York newspaper is lengthened by an account of a conversation with Here Ballin, the directs, in peace and war, the manifold well-known Jewish man of business who operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Stoanuship Company. Herr Ballin is reputed to be an immediate friend of the German Emperor.
His interviewer alleges that the conversation with him took place at Hamburg immediately after the return of Herr Ballin from the front,
He did not love England, but I suppose the fact that I helped him to entrain of this nunulation of family hand baggage softened him: He talked a great deal where he had a long audience of the about Italy: disgusted the "famipe in Emperor.” He is alleged to have Venice and the harbour strikes, and, of authorized the publication, "for Ameri course, asserted that the interventionist can consumption," of the Emperor's purely artificial." But views of the war. In reply to a question movement was when I tried to talk about conditions in whom the Emperor considers reaponsible Germany he snapped out the single for the war, Herr Ballin said: Wo all phrase I have quoted above "Wir feel that this war has been brought Deutschen fürchten Gott undabout by England. We honestly believe Kriegsende, and declined to be drawn Sir Edward Grey could have stopped it." any furth Zurich I have obtained Had Sir Edward Grey declared, on the the interpretation Germans themselves first day, that England refuses to go war admit that the Konjunktur," or bus for the sake of internal questions between neas-boom, is purely artificial. Here in Borhia and Austria, added the Emperor Germanised Zurich you may find out through Herr Ballin, Russia and what the much-vaunted trade adaptation France would have found the way to coin. really means. PRANAN VARA
promise with Austria. I, on the other hand, Sir Edward Grey had said that England was ready to go to war, then, for the sake of Germany, probably Austria might have been more ready to compromise. But, by leaving his attitude. uncertain, and letting us understand that he was not bound to go to war, Sir Edward Grey certainly brought about the wardenalde
Summarised, it amounts to this, that the denmads of the German Army and the war consumption are more than equal to the value of Germany's previous export trado. German statisticians have claim ed that German business has adapted itself with astonishing facility to the conditions of a State which has to rely entirely on its own home markets; but as a matter of fact war employment has simply, replaced export employment.
For instance, I am told that the A.E.G. General Electric Company) of Berlin, which in peace times employed Bome 60,000 men and women in turning out electric appliances for expart, now hardly produces muy electric machinery at all, chiefly because it may not use sopper. But the A.E.G. still employs 60,000 people-of course in the production of war storC
This is only one example. The German Government has take great pains to distribute war contracts in the towns and citics, for which reason Berlin, Frank fort, Munich, and other cities do not pro went a fair picture of Germany in war time.
In Berlin, for example, about 40,000 people are engaged in the prepara tion of army victuals. But when the war ends the whole of this artificial trade boom will come to an end. With what is
His
Those declarations reveal a remarkable change of view on the port of Herr Ballin himself, and presumably on that of his Imperial friend, since war began, Wo published on August 12 list your a letter dated August 2nd, which, as we then. stated, bore the name of a personage holding a prominent position in Ger- many, and standing in a close relationship p the German Emperor That personage was Herr Bellin. letter was tined to reach us for publica- tion on the morning of August 3rd, the day of Sir Edward Grey's bistoric speech in the House of Commons. As we knew the statements in the letter to be in flagrant contradiction with facts, we withheld the letter for some days, and were not a little edified to receive, by accident, towards midnight on Monday, August 3rd, a telegram dated Berlin, August 2nd, and addressed to a London representative of the Wolff Bureau, the German official telegraph agency. I
it to be replaced?: Memoran: - Zimmer is publishing Ballin's
I am told that a quite recent estimate calculates that if Germany can reonfor one-third of her former trade ( one-third of her former proportion of European exports) within six years she will have done very well. Thus when German business men declare that so far as they are concerned their intereats might actually be best served by a long war they are probably speaking the literal truth We fear the end of the wur."
The gigantic war loans also have been to some extent artificial schoolboy coller tions, compulsory investment by savings banks, and so forth have helped to swell the figures, but the money subscribed to the German war loans really represents to a large extent the artificial increase in value of the stocks of raw material, food stuffs, etc., in the hands of importers and dealers at the beginning of the war. The Bürger-Zeitung of Bremen quoted on April 14th some remarkable figures in this connection The increase in value of various commodities in stock at the end materials as are not much affected by of July is shown thus (I quotes only such
maximum prices):-
Pearl Barles nud
Bronts
MK.
£1 230 107 256 111.50 200 100 257 189
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statement on the situation. Please tele- graph it word for word. (Signed) Wolff Bureau.
When publishing the letter on August 18th we did not think it necessary to publish Herr Ballin's name, In view of the aspersions he now casts apou Bir Edward Grey, there is no longer ny reason to withhold it.
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ZEPPELINS AGAINST
TRAWLERS.
NEW THEORY OF RAID ON
LOWESTOFT.
as now, in the name of the Emperor, he wrote: Everything has been wrecized upon the attitude of Russia, which in the middle of negotiations which offered good outlook of success, mobilized her interpreter of Zeppelin raids has now The-Berlin Lakalanzeiger's semi-official wherewith she proved that she did not developed the new theory that the mission mean in earnest what her assurances of of the German airships is to interfore peaceful intentions indicated. It must be stated again; Russia alore forces the with British food supplies-especially the war upon Europe. Russia alone musWriting of the fecent visit to Lowestoft,
destruction of fishing vessels. carry the full weight of responsibility,
We leave Herr Ballin and his Imperial Lowestoft is a harbour town on the
the Lokalaneciger says:- EN friend to reconcile their statements of August 2nd with their statement to-day south-cast coast of England with 20,850 Whatever criticism or censure may be inhabitants and posseses a very strong fishing Best As the Eaglish have in directed against Sir Edward Grey attitude in July, he cannot truthfully be dicated that the starvation of Germany of having hoped for pene, strive for by all means at our disposal the provision charged with any delinquenty save thes & main weapon in their conduct of the war, it is of course our duty to prevent peace, and believed in the possibility of England with food supplies. The de-
after other con-
struction of the fishing fleet at Lowestoft which consists of 111 steamers and about sailing boats, would contribute not little to this. The moment for activity against this fleet is splendidly chosen, is of the principal Lowestoft is one ports for herring fishing Yarmouth which is also important for this fahing. lies only eight miles further to the north. Among other places within the range of Zeppelin which visit Lowestoft we may mention the small harbours and bathing places of Southwold and Aldeburgh, and only 94 miles from London ne the crow the towns of Ipswich, Colchester, and Chelmsford. Lowestoft is, morcover, flies.
long
convinced were
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Hongkong, 21st May, 1915, Correction:-In Subscription List No. 3 so printed the Inst item as "Anonymous 8150, whereas it should read. "Anonymous $250,"
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Germany was bent on war. No tergiver sations on the part of Herr Ballin and his Imperial friend will avail to obscure that patent fact, but Herr Ballin might render the world & service if he would frankly and truthfully state whether the German Emperor did or did not, on or before July 14th, make to the Emperor Francis Joseph a communication
ouraging, and containing so ujusli fied an assuistice of support, that the (A German mark equals a British shilling.) Austro-Hungarian Monarch was thereby increased in price, from Ba, per 100 kilos. to July 23rd by which Austria prepared her (The rame table says that Sauerkraut has induced to assent to the ultimatum of 22s. that is, 175 per cont. 1) bake
attack upon Serbia. We know, in the Potatoes (subject t
authority of Professor Hans Delbruck's to fixed maxim
article in the Atlantie Mouthly of Febru pricos)
ary, that, in the ultimatum, Austria The Importance of this table of actual demanded "conditions which would have wholesale prices as paid in March lite placed Serbia under her permaneat on. Sittingbourne and Faversham proves that
The appearance of aircraft less, perhaps in its illustration of Ger- trol," and that Count Berchtold, mun hardships (hunger will not end the expressing his Note in terms as incisive the protection of the important magazines war) than in its explanation of the war as possible, placed the Tsar before the and arsenals at Sheerness is not sufficient loan figures. The enormous profits made immediate alternative of war or peace." frighten away our nir. navy, by importers or more frequently by the But was not the presentation of his Sittingbourne is only 4 mile from the middlemen to whom they sold in Septem-incisive Note a direct result of the Ger- Isle of Sheppey. We may well assume ber and October be a "short war
vas man Emperor's communication to the that this sudden appearance of peril im- still expicted-word invested in the war Emperor Francis Joseph, which, we have mediately before the gates of London will loan simply because there was no other reason to believe, was regd by unofficial | provoke great excitement, especially as form of investment uvailable, To the friends of the German Emperor before extremely vulnerable points in England German immediate investment of profits being dispatched? Herr Ballin could were menaced. is an obvious and self-evident matter. doubtless tell us these things, and nuch He could not reinvest in fresh supplies besides; but then he might find it hard Apart from the new idea of destroying of the imported goods because he could to prove the guilt of Sir Edward Grey trawlers by bombs as well as by torpedoes; not get them; it was useless to look f who continued to strive for peace, until it is indeed the menace to. industrial investments, and of course the German refusal
to respect the which pleases the German imagination Hewitt, Chinchon, Sulind, and Sirdar Khin building, which is the principal Gorman neutrality of Belgium obliged even him most. The Hamburger Nachrichtou, in a speculative investment, is completely at
by
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22nd inst., Cpl. J. F. Grose. Note. The members of the guard for Gun Club Bill who live in Hong- kong will parade at Star Ferry Whart at 9.20 p.m. and cross by the 9.25 p.m. ferry daily.
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POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. Musketry Practice, May 23rd and 24th. The following will report for duties im- mediately on arrival on the Range:
All N. C. Officers, also Messrs. Hrres,
Service Rifles will be taken from the
a standstill. One does not build with the to appeal to the arbitrament of war-long article headed Zeppelin auto Central Polios to the Ilange, where they will
population decreasing so-and-so many thousand per month. Henee the war Jou offered a natural outlet for the automatic tendency towards reinvest ment, The way loans represent qatyrly- the profts made by holders of saleable commodities since the outbreak of war.
German Socialists, through the medium of Swiss Socialist papers, complain that this condition of affairs was actually desired by the German Government, which obtained and obtains war funds in proportion as the
#capitalista" can screw. greater profits out of the con
sumers.
The Times.
GERMANY'S POSITION,
FINANCIAL EXHAUSTION.
An eminent personality informed the Daily Telegraph correspondent at The Hague that one of the leading gembers of a famous banking firm, who is purti- cularly well acquainted with the financial situation of the Earopenat States, de clared to him that Germany, financially speaking, would be at the end of her resources by the middle of June at the
Intest.
portes," says
London has not felt it yet. But the be drawn by the menibers on arrival.
German airships have already been at London's gates. The powerful desire and will of the whole German people is that the Zeppelin, may now fly over London also, drop bombs upon the capital of the people which has ruthlessly set the earth on fire, and hurl the flames of war upon their roofs and into their homes. The capital of the people which has criminally caused all the pain and the loss of valuable young German lives, and which has made necessary the grievous sacrifices of the German people, must not remain unscathed in its overfed ense..
F. C. JENKIN, A. S. P. (Reserve).
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