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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 29TH, 1915.
MOUTRIE'S.
F21-6
HATRED OF BRITAIN.
A PRODUCT OF KULTUR.
REMARKABLE GERMAN OUTBURST,
We have been told by visitors to Ger many that hatred of Britain is not com- mon in Germany, but if that be true it is A copy not the fault of the official class. of a German weekly journal called the Lille War Gazette, dated March 3rd, 1915, was found on a German soldier captured during the recent fighting at Neuve Chapelle, which seems to show that hatred for Britain is being sedulously cultivated officially by every possible TOERNB. The policy of hatred is not the least of Germany's crime against human- ity. One of the articles in this news- paper has been translated and distributed to the British soldiers, and a copy has been sent home by an office now in Flanders. The article is such a curious production that we publish the full text!
FIRE.
(By Lieutenant-Colonel KALDN.) As children many of us have played with it: some of us have seen an outbreak of fire. First a small tongugliko fanc appears, it grows into a devastating fury. of beat. We out bere in the field havo sen more than enough of it.
But there is also the fire of joy, of sacred oathusiasm! It arose from sacri- ficial atars, from mountain heights of Germany, and lit up the heavens at the time of solstice and whenever the home Countries. wore in danger. This year fires of joy shall flare from the Bismarck Columus throughout the length and breadth of Germany, for on 1st April,
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[BY COL. F. N. MAUDE, F.II.
conclusion
THE GOLD OF HEALTH.
CONSTIPATION TENDS TO LOWER ITS STANDARD.
Gald is the standard of our coinage
Hut a
acted by Nature on those who depart willingly or unwillingly, from her files Unhappily, and distinct altogether from most careful attention to them dues not deliberate breaking of these laws, the always succeed in preserving healta, Variations of the weather, periods of business anxiety, the thousand and one worries of a rousehold, often havnen offoot you cannot guard against ia filting the balance of health against you. They have a tendency to upset the digestire organs.
The well-being of the body largely depends on the purity and richness of the blood. If, as in constipation, the waste material of digestion is allowed to
The following letters on this subject The greatest surprise the war brought to Neither silver nor bronze money is really have appeared in the N.-C. Daily News, nil who have really studied the evolution of worth the amount it representa
Sta. In a letter written by Mr. D. M. warfare has been the extraordinary degree British sovereign (23 carat gold) will Gubbay, published in your issue of the of endurance under are exhibited by the fetch its full value in nay civilized Good health is 13th instant, that gentlemen asks the troops of all the nations engaged in the country in the world following
the standard of the body, Without it pertinent question: Do present campaigns. Shanghai Germans approve of the The conduct of most European armies since you cannot meet at your full worth the Lusitanin atrocity. It may interest the breech-londer was put into their hands obligations your daily work casts ups Mr. Gubbay, and others who may yet had been uniformly so much below expecta- you. bo undecided as to what attitude to scout the majority of thinkers had com, do to by the Law of those who mate and
founded on previous experience that
Vory severe are the penalties imposed, that
the increased noise, due.
airculate counterfeit coins, No less towards their erstwhile German friends, to learn the opinion of Hankow Germans the more rapid rate of fre, acting on a certain and severe is the punishment ever increasingly drawn from the physically upon this crime against humanity.
This opinion, wherein the writer glorics less robust inhabitants of the great towns as in his country's shame, was cut from the columus of the Central China Post, compared with the agricultural recruits would lead to collapse of of former years It must not be dismissed as merely the discipline in action under far less strain than vapourings of a singl, ignorant pot-in previous wars. valiant Teuton with to much ego in his As in all armies the actual period of train cosmos; it is an opinion pretty generallying with the colours had been gruntly held locally: The identity of "German" reduced, most of the survivors of 1870, both is rather more than suspected hence the in France and Germany, believed that this letter reproduced represents the opinions war would prove to be of very short duration. of a presumably educated and cultured Men of such standing as General Bonnal, person, one whoso social status is such as the official founder of the new French to qualify him to sign per pro" for a strategy, openly expressed their opinion that in a Franco-German campaign the issue not insignificant hong.
would be determined essentially by result of the first collisions between the frontier armies, which on both sides were kept at an augmented establishment, and could move off immediately without waiting remain in the bowels, impurities are Nature's penalty to call in their reservists, as indeed the Gerorated which pollute what should be the Bonnal, and indeed all French generals for this counterfeit blood is seen, among man corps which attacked Lidge actually did. pure stream of life. who had fought against them, had a con- other complaints, in sallowness of the tempt for the Bavarians and all South skin, headaches, drowsiness when the Gerinan contingents, who had uniformly mind should be most alert, and fickleness failed to stand up to the degree of punish-of appetite. Here is an illustration.
Mr. William Vanston Drake, 42, Rail- ment which the better disciplined Prussians endured without wincing and all the ex way Cottages, Kroonstad, O.F.S., writing periences of contingents that served ander on June 12th, 1914, states:- Napoleon confirmed this general impression About 10 years ago I suffered from that "dourness" was not one of the race weakness in the stomach and from hovel characteristics of the South of Germany. disorder, brought about by adigestion Ethnographic charts also led one to and constipation. I had invariably a similar conclusion.
feeling of fulness after meals, although This conviction, equally shared by my I had perhaps partaken of only a small Prussian officers of my acquaintance in quantity of food, and often my stomach bygone days, was the reason for the extra was so weak that it almost instantly ordinary intensification of pure drill dis-rojected it. Eventually I had a positive cipline introduced into the whole German distaste for food in any form. army after 1870-71.
THE THUR APLUIT, OF QEUMAN: KULTEN, · To the Editor of the Central China Pos!.
S-After perusal of "A Neutral's,"
SA.D.'s and Mr. Foster's letters in your columns of May 7th, 13th and 14th respec- tively:---
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S.A.D. wants the Germans In Chinese Treaty ports to publicly denouren German barbarities, to express their sorrow and to forward a sincere argumentum admiseri- cordiam...
Here it is:
Proud we are of the behaviour of our government
Proud we are of the energy with which they dare to fulfil their threats, an energy which most favourably distinguishes Gor- mans from Britishors, whose vain boasting makes them ninugbing stock for oran their Japanese Allios.
Proud we are of Germany's behaviour to wards treacherous Belgium.
EXCEEDING THE STANDARD.
the
TYBO
Ict every Gemuan, man or woman, young or old, find in his heart a Bismarck Column, a pillar of fire now in these days of storm and stress. Let this fire, enkind led in every German breast, by a fire of But let it be joy, of holiest enthusiasm.
I also suffered from pains in the terrible, unfettered, let it carry horror and destruction! Call it HATE Let
Prond we are of sinking the Lusitania, But no one hoped in even his wildest mo- back, from which I could seldom ahtain a thorough night's rest, and became no one come to you with Love thine
My tongue was We all have but one enemy, whose captain scoffed at the German threats ments that the two years' training--all they nervous and irritable. Enemy1' England! How long have we wooed her Is he still scoffing? And all those who mock could afford to give would turn out men up couted with a white furry master, which
to the standard of the old Frederician armies almost to the point of our own self-abase ing nad laughing at the clumsy Dutchmen" ment? She would none of us, so leave to boarded the Lusitania, are they still laugh- who fought at Torgan, Kennersdorf, and left a nauseous taste in my mouth, and her the apostles of peace, the No-Waring-Dead they are, thanks to the stead Zorndorf; yet, if the effort of the Prussian caused my breath to be most unpleasant.
headache. fastness of our Kaiser, of our leaders in the Guards at Torgau has never been excelled In addition I was afflicted with severe disciples. The time has passed when we
"After suffering for upwards of six Dead they are and we, triumphantly, (they lost all but 600 men out of 3,000, and war. would do homage to everything English-shout: Vivant sequentes."
carried the batteries they were attacking),
The first Jew Joses our cousins that were!
And Belgium, the "unfortunate victim" the average of those days has been trans-months, Mother Seigel's Syrup
cended again and again, and even now, when recommended. "God punish England!' May He to whom "A Neutral" refers in his whining officers are getting scarcer day by day, it is brought auch great relief that I was
German, not This is the grooting that sermou? - Another
encouraged to continue, with the result punish her!! now passes when Germans meet, The wise wet by the ways of our foes, might being well maintained,
The French army of Woerth and Metz that after four bottles I had thoroughly fire of this righteous hate is all aglow! pothaps try to explain and excuse our ho fought exceedingly well-far better us units recovered."
I do not: And with You inen of Germany, frain East and haviour in Belgium.
me ainety-nine per cent. of my countrymen than their opponents but they were West, forced to shed your blood in the de
For we know that it would years' service" men, stiffened by large proportion of paid substitutes, soldier by fence of your homeland through England's will not do it.
profession and desire. Nobody in France infamous envy and hatred of Germany's
No if you like to call us Hurs, do so to-day ever expected to approach this stan- -progress, feed-the-flame-that-burns in:
dard, yet again, tter of daily experience.
yet again it has been, and is being, We have but ons war-ery, but tremble before these Huns! your souls.
are of this name. Proud we
Beenuso Hirs GOD PUNISH ENGLAND!! this to one another in the trenches, in the it shows your fear, your anguish, your charge, hiss as it were the scound of lick impotent wrath. Barking dogs never bite Bark then at ease, you, and let us hite. We, ing flam:s.
by far, prefer you to call is Huns and extinguish the lights of London and to fear- and tremble, than to pat our shoulders and make us your dependent Helots.
Behold in every dead carade a sacri- fice forced from you by this accursed people. Take tenfold vengeance for each hero's death!
fire of hate!
You German people at home, feed this You mothers, engrave this in the heart of the babe at your breast!
"You thousands of teachers, to whom inillions of German children lock up with eyes and hearts, teach HATE! unquench able HATE !
"You homes of German learning, pils up the fuel on this fire! Tell the nation that this hate is not un-German. that it is not poison for our people, Write in letters of fire the mama of our bitterest enemy. You guardians of the truth, feel this sacred HATE!
"You German fathers, lead your chil dren up to the high hills of our homeland, at their feet our dear country bathed in sunshine,
Your women and children shall starve: bestial, devilish conception, England wills it! Sorely, all that is yo you riss against such infamy?
"Listen to the ceaseless song of the German for st, behold the fruitful fields
MACGREGOR&Co, like solling seas, then will your love for
this wondrous land find the right words, HATE, unquenchable HATE. Germany. Germany above allt
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. pnd it will grow like a landslid:, irresis
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You want to exclude us Germans in Chin
froin decent society? Impossible! Because when we leave your society it censos to be decent. You call as torturers of Belgium! Just as you please, Gentlemen, as long as we as "heati possidentes" of this provizos of Greater Gerapy, You call the Kaiser a wholesale murderer, the butcher of Berlin? Quite so and thank Heaven that wo neither noner ever will be in a position to call George the Butcher of London. Do, the fore, what you like, Britishers: We Ger- mans laugh at your threats. Yours, etc.,
Faakow, May 14.
A GEHMAN.
[Although the writer of the above letter
has not favoured us with his name-his Deutsche courage is great but not sufficient for that we print it because we have not the least doubt that it is perfectly genuine, and clearly exhibits the spirit of our German Again we ask what neighbours in Hankow. are we British going to do about it? Trent then as our dear friends as usun]?-Ed. C.C.P.]
What are we Britons (and Allies) going to do about the matter? "Business as usual?
I am, etc..
Reven
Of the British "seven years service men," and volunteers at that, of course more was expected, but they have excelled even our wildest expectations.
The short-service Territorials and other formations have now proved themselves no whit behind their comrades of the Regular Army.
beyond all expectations, and who can find Both Russians and Austrians are also going words to express the admiration we all feel for the Belgians and Serbians. Of all armies engaged, these have most astonished the rest of the world by their courage, endurance, and datermination, v
Such a uniformity in the observed pheno. menn of the war indicates a new determining cause of great power, common to all the reces ighting in this welter of war. It is a process of elimination too lengthy to recapitulato here.
I can only conclude that we are face face with an exhibition of national will power,
greater and more universal than anything Initherto recorded in history, that has in fact hypnotised the individuals of each race, and no een have ever been so influenced before, if we except the case of the martyrs and victims of religious persecution of all ages, when indeed the influence that steeled the was wholly Divine.
BRAVERY ON ALL SIDES.
Ony of the great merita of Mother Seigel's Syrup is that it strengthens and regulates the action of the stomach, liver, and bowels, without irritating them an is the case with vioicat draughts and powders, whose effect is merely tempor ary. After restoring these organs to healthy condition, the use, now and again after meals, of this herbal remedy, famous now for nearly 50 years, will keep up their tone.
Then, and only then, will food rourish you thoroughly, and the waste solistances of digestion be expelled without distress.
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Escape of a Frisoner of War. Leading Articles:
Tropical Sanitation. Empire Day..
Athletics in the Far East. Japanese ns Settlers in China. The Loss of H.M.S. Triumph." Randon Reflections. Fooling Against Germans in Kobo.
Company Meetings:-
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Star Ferry Co., Ltd. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd. Exciting Affair at West Point. Telegrams.
The gravest symptom of all, to my mind, is that the degree of hypnotisation seems entirely independent of the ethical catise which has conditioned the whole ebullition, The Chinese Army, for whether we look at the matter from our The Chinese Domestic Loan Abroad. own or from the enemy's standpoint, all are Customs Officer Killed by Smugglers, tighting equally bravely, for diametrically Poking Notes. opposite reasons, and it seems one of us must Swntow Notes. be wrong.
Canton Notes. To the Editor N.-C. Daily News.
I give the idea for others to think out, for Shipping Notes. Sin. With reference to the correspon-it is one of extreme suggestiveness, and Empire Day in Hongkong. dence published in your isues of this mors-would need a treatise to deal with it Local Sport ing, signed Makao San, I would beg you adequately. to insert the following letter which ap-
MAKAO SAN,
I am, etc.,
BARCAS
"Let it be inculeated in your children
tible, from generation to generation.
"You fathers. proclaim it aloud avar the billowing fields. that the toiling pes- sant below may rar you, that the birds
The Curreriey Question. of the forest may fly away with the mes-
Certainly both pity and hate can be Funeral of the Late Mr. E. M. Bishop. sage: into all the land, that eches from
peared in the Hankow Daily Ners of May equally strong incentives to vigorous action, Death of a Former Hongkong President. German cliffs send it reverb rating like 17.
and that hate and jealousy largely influence Hongkong's Aeroplanes. the clanging of bells frean tower to tower
our enemies I fear is beyond & doubt. But Prince of Wales' Fund. throughout the countryside: HATE,
Baden Powell Boy Scouts Building Fund: for the moment the practical interest is to HATE, the accursed English, HATE 1
note how this unexpected element has Cigarette and Tobacco Fund.
Military Entertainment. reacted on every directing organ in every "You masters, carry the flame to your The Editor Hankor Daily News, Hankow.
Dear Sir-
General Staff in the war.
War News workshops; are and hammer will fall the
We, the undersigned. Germans, in the
All combinations for attack or defence aro
British Chamber of Commerce. English Manufacturers. heavier when arms are nerved by this. B In all Bores and Biser,
HATE.
name and on behalf of the German com. based, fundamentally, on the time it is Gift from India. You pousants, guard this flam, fan it munity of Hankow, declare that we do not expected it will take to break down a given Patriotism in China.. SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLET anew in the hearts of your toilers, that agree with various points, the tenor and the degree of resistance at a certain point; Retrenchment and Reform in China.
experience extending over The Law Courts 8a0T. From No. 10 to 9990. at 35, 87 and the hand may rest havy on the plough wording of the letter published in the Cene hitherto empirical us a scale to work by, A Macao Action. FRENCH LESSONS #75 per 100 SPORTING BEQUISITES that throws up the soil of our homeland. tral China Post this morning "anony-a-century
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We, ou the contrary, are convinced that the writer of the said letter is not, and
What CARTHAGE was to ROME, not even having the courage to enclose bis
For card- ENGLAND is to GERMANY, ROME as for us it is a question of to bet cr not to be.' May our people find a faithful mentor like Cato. His ceterum censeo, Carthaginem esse d'lendam for us Geriaans means~
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Dever was, "a German."
Signed by nineteen members of the German community of Hankow, on behalf of May others."
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of all armies, both worseneal, and material, in progress at the present day. But no substantial change whatever was made to meet the expected variation, least of all in the German regulations, and the Germans were most severely hit by it at the very com-
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To revert to my favourite "bridge build- Private Frank Madden, of the 7th Rating" analogy. It happened to them as to a Here is another specimen of home Civil talion, Second Infantry Brigade,
who, having calculated and designed A warranted cure for all-Service humour. An assistant clerk in writing to Melbourne from Egypt, tells bridge for foundations belleved to be suddenly finds him acquired or constitutical Dis
Government Fi certain
department an amusing story. A certain colonel for- thoroughly trustworthyences he has not charges from the Urinary thought himself overworked and under-bade his men to come on parace without, self confronted by
the regulation hat, and, he added, semi-allowed for, which it was out of his power to Organs in either sex. These paid. and he resigned in confequence.
Get the hats. Beg, bor check. We have all suffered, more or less, in famous Pills also cure Gravel, His letter of resignation was curt and humorously. Pains in the Back and all strictly official in form and style-but row, or steal them; but get them." Noxi other officers appeared on parade without hats. The men had taken his advice only
to grow restive at the apparent mercury. Forty years en The sting expressed itself as follows: "I
slowness of operations in this war, I would cess. Sold by all Chemists have accepted the more lucrative appoint
recommend him to keep this iden in mind, end Storekeepers throughout ment of dustman under the Hammersmith too literally. The whole battalion was and restrain his impatience until he has lined up and examined for the missing limer ground on which to base his criticisms. Borough Council,"
hats, but without success.
Kidney Disorders. Free from her was a sharp sting in the tail end. I day the colonel, thojor, and several inclined when the average layman is
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