HOW BRITAIN SAVED CIVILIZATION.
SPLENDID FRENCH TRIBUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS.
A glowing tribute to the achievements of the British Army in France, to its magnificent spirit and devotion to duty
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, 1915.
BRUTAL TREATMENT. OF
BRITISH PRISONERS.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'SĄ UNFAVOURABLE IMPRESSION
OF A GERMAN CAMP.
Grave statements relative to the brutal and inhuman treatment of British pri-
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.
A REMARKABLE REVELATION
The wonderful German organisation of which so much has been heard relates ap- parently to military affairs only. Cer- tainly it has not been very successful in civil administration judging from an
TRAGEDY OF SUNKEN
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HOW A BRITISH SHIP RESCUED FRENCH SOLDIERS, -
„U" BOAT'S CAPTAIN KICKS AT
DROWNING MEN.
received from Algiers, Mr. H. Bacon, an Tho Central Nows says that in a lottor Cardiff, relate some stirring experiences on the outward voyage to the North African
is paid by M. L. Bousquet, interpreter of seniors in the German camp at Witten account of the condition of the people oficer on the steamer Lady Plymouth, of
the First Class attached to the British staff, in a letter to his colleagues, the professors of the Lycée of Sens.
M. Bousquet declares that Gron Eri- tain he saved France and the civilized world, and will trample underfoot the German monster. The Daily News gives a translation of the more telling passages of the letter;
Henceforth they will be counted as faithful friends, these Eng-: lish enemies of the past, who have at length come to appreciate us, and berin to understand our characters, in spite of all the old prejudices. I will not repeat to you all that General H. (the Chief of the French Mission) said to me in the private interview with which be honoured on the day of my arriva he had no idea that he was preaching to a converted. But he gave me some pre- cise and remarkably interesting -details which increased my already enthusiastic admiration for the British Army, an ad- miration which has been growing ever since.
borg are made by Mr. James W. Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, and one of the members of his staff, in official reports recently published.
The impression conveyed by the Ameri- can diplomats is that the prison is the worst in Germany, The British prisoners are not regarded as honour able priacuers of war, but og enspicious criminals. Specific complaints are made about:-
Bed provision of overcoats, sixtren being available among 278 prisoners.
The striking of prisoners for being slow in getting dressed" by the Ger- man guards. A man with & crippled right arm and a R.A.M.C. doctor were assaulted.
active service.
which the Nation has compiled from the German papers. The conditions reported bolow are those of October. To-day they must be worse,
diers' families.
431.
port,
"We proceeded on our way again, and the captain had ostra look-out men watch. An chjeet showed up for away on the beam, with a short mast, and the captain, altering his course, we steamed towards it.
Through the ship's telescope we saw
signs of human beings, waving their hands and garments. On getting near a small boat was lowered from our ship, and we succeeded in taking off four of cers and forty-two soldiers and part of the crow belonging to the transport steamer Caivudes, of St. Nazaire, France.
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"We were," he said, "steaming along won the captan observed a lifeboat. He The article begins with the remark that made straight for it to investigate, but it is useful at this time, when many are found it empty, though there were signs disturbed not only by comparisons of that it had been occupted, for it contain- lighting forces but also of economic ed the remains of food and some water, The name on the boat was the Dahra, Such an examination enemy at home.
sources, to examine the condition of the and was fully equipped for emergencies. may help to explain the recklessauss with of La Rochelle, France. We went on our which he is sacriucing lives in hope of way again, and about an hour and attaining a speedy result. During the a half later we saw another object this subject. another boat, but upon approaching it past month the German Presy has been painted white, which was taken for partialy unmuzzled on fierce controversy between papers: repre. it was found to be a modern raft which for extreme emergencies, as they float sentative of different clasice has attempt-mail and passenger ships carry on deck ed to fix blame for the facts upon one
Appeals are made to when the skip goes down. The presence in the camp at night of class or another. polies watch-dogs. In some cases Three Government to take one course herco animals have torn the clothes of other for the future modification of the But the facts themselves remain facts.
The price of the neces the prisoners.
Permanently disabled nien have been agreed by all. kept in the camp for over a year, despite saries of life has risen from 75 to 100 jr the fact that they are totally unfit for cent, on those prevalent at the beginning of the war. The women simply cannot Sir Edward Grey expresses his grave live and rear children on the wages or concern, and passes some very severe Government allowances provided for sol- Potato broad is still comment upon these incidents.
He cannot pass over in silence inci- available, but there has been a substan- tial rise in the price of potatoes, and dents such as the introduction of dogs the poor are crying to the Government which attack prisoners, and the striking for help. Milk and butter show an actual
HANGING ON TO FLOATING WRECKAGE, of prisoners including a man with a scarcity of supply, combined with pro- crippled right arm. Such proceedings hibitive selling price. Meat is practic-
"She had been torpedoed by a suka-
Not very far away ARAKAN.... are a disgrace to the officers and men
known submarine. entrusted with the supervision of the pri- ay out of reach of the poor. All the soners, and are calculated to bring that substances show also conspicuicus
a few more and, to our astonishment, we army to which the officials belong into scarcity, and a bewildered Government as part of another raft on which were is calling on the German scientists to pro- BAVED THE CIVILIZED WORLD,
contempt "The fact is we have been: content, to
Sir Edward Grey also express his duct fat from sewage, dead horses, and found floating wreckage with men hang. TJISONDARI
Berlin and ing on to it for dear life. How ever they go on living in a state of confidence and ease of which our enemies were jealous, astonishment at the striking of a British other bye-products of war.
tho wandering neutral ful 10 that face to
Every one turned out and did his and which they would assuredly have medical officer by a German non-commis. the great cities look cheerful on the sur-managed to keep up so long was wonder-
Below in the poor quarters, women are taken from us if we had lacked the visioned officer, all the more so aesistance of our great ally, Britain.
Sho it is who has saved France and
standing en queue often all night for duty like a Briton to save these poor the civilized world; the it is who enalter
the right to purchase fragments of meat, chaps. They wore French soldiers who TJIKEMBANG
officer, who spoke English very well, in- us to fight to the end; why it in who will
bacon, or lard in the morning, and there had been in the trenches for fifteen in something like a riot, the weakest Reformed me that they saw three soldiers trample under foot the head and the
are scuffles and struggles, during which, nonthe, and were going for a rest. One to the wall. The Forwarts of October heart of the Gorman monster; she it is who will make the supreme effort for the
10th fast describes the scenes at the sales who lost their hold on a raft make for the in the municipal shops of meat and lard. submarine, to which they chung in the final victory and will have the first righ to dictate the conditions of peace. And
lasted till 10. At 10.30, in one shop be sure that it will be thanks to her that
The sales began at 7 in the morning and hope of being taken on board. there were still 100 people when it was those conditions will very likely be more to our advantage than to here.
complained that closed, and come 1,000 had to go away
the shop door, and yet had not arrive l they had spent three or four rights near early enough to be served with meat, the scene is described of crowla
"Of course, that army has been cri- ticized, sometimes justly and on indis putable evidence; but do you suppose that we Frenchmen are beyond reproach Alas! if our censorship was as indulgent as the English censorship epecially where the newspapers are concerned, we should be thunderstruck at our mistakes through carelessness and want of foresight.
It would be impossible to imagine an organization of services more perfect than that of the British Army from the first line to the last. It is very hard to believe that in fifteen months Britain has accomplished the miracle of increasing
officer was detained solely for the con- venience of the German Government Ho trusts that steps will at once be taken severely to punish the non-commissioned officer in question, and to prevent the recurrence of such an unseemly breach of discipline
Sir E. Grey regrets to observe that, in spite of the severity of the weather, only sixteen out of 278 British prisoners of war are provided with overcoats, though it would seem that overcoats are avail. ale. He trusts that Mr. Gerard will be able to secure the removal of the thirty-empty-handed. six British civilians to Ruhleben at an early date.
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her Army by tenfold,, in the cadres and." FOR THEY ARE NOT DEAD." in the ranks alike! The bearing end moral of that Army have to be seen to be. believed
READY TO ÚO ANYWHERE,
I watched them for three consecutive hours, in ioy old wind and rain, on the day when King George. President Poin care, and their escort made their inspec tiou close to where I was standing. Little did the soldiers care for the cold, the wind, and the mud. They are gay. they whistle and sing! Often they attend religious services in the open air, and listen to sermons, and then march
to the strange music of their banels ready to go anywhere with heroic indif- ference to danger.
THE NEW ARMIES,
The changed times at Oxford are shown
by this quotation from the front page of the undergraduates' paper, The Vority:
"All Saints, All Souls-the Church and the College! How little the names of both meant for us all two years ago! were familiar in our mouths as household words; we spoke of them as we spoke of "The Turl or The High.'
Thoy
Women
An officer, decorated with gold lace, kicked the men's hands, and the Franch drown twenty yards from them, while soldiers on the raft saw their comrades they were powerless to assist.
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THE FRENCHMEN'S GRATITUDE.
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Some of them kiszed us all in turn,
In regions as far apart as Sibesia and and it made a lump come up in my throat to see their gratitude. In the early. Sachen demonstrations of protest are recorded, sometimes active and violent, morning after the rescue two shole were sometimes the mere mute appes of pro- fired at us, but they did not hit us, and
scuring lights. Evory- ing their half-staved children. cessions of women, half-starved, exhibit we took all possible precautions in ek where everybody thinks that the Govern ment should intervene, while nowhere does anyone clearly understand what the Government could do.
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"All Saints' Day had small significance, and All Souls' Day might mean much to the peasants and fishermen of Brittany, "Their officers, up to the grade of cap-but in Great Britain and in Oxford, parcus et infrequena cultor sacrorum, sach
The Fornaria continues to preach, as that the necessary fodder will not be tain, waar knapsacks, even when they
from the outbreak of the war, the fixing forthcoming." In the Kölnische Zeitung, the Secretary of the Rhenish Farmera are on horseback: in every rank it is a undergraduate went his way.
the farmers' Now all is changed. On Monday the of prices, and not locally, but throughout point of pride to keep everything clean
much ability.. The sourcity of im their weapons, their countless motor-accustomed collect which speaks of the the Empire. By such means it hopes to Union puts
hundreds of thou godly living of blessed Saints eliminate the vehicles, and even then not believe all virtuous and gay more medieval echo or the rente of the landlords Local at ported foodstuffs, the high price of
it that was possible if I did not soe
pious aspiration from the past, but a real tempts to fix prices have proved & dismal home substitutes, dearer coal and petro- overy day with my own eyes. Also, we
Own their splendid prayer for that virtue which is valour, failure. At Munster, in Westphalia, for figures to account for the high price of
complete milk, meat, butter, and eggs. cannot but marve
that godly living which is the fulfilling example, the butter war," started lasfigures
The maximum unremunerative price is fixed, chio of wat. There are armies new and
triumph of the batter prodhicers. young, and all seem to breathe the of the law since it is Love in its purest August, has resulted in
Yet from the cities the cry "For what is Patriotism but the high-authorities fixed the maximum price at the beasts will be slaughtered or the farm. strength, the beauty, and the glamour of manifestation.
The producer immer ruined. 6d, a pound. 18, *
The continually comes for fixing such maxi- youth.
est from of love for a created person'
diately began to curtail supplies. Know we not that the nation is no mere authorities raised the maximum price to mum prices; together with a general con-
Dertain sum of its living citizens, as
18. d. The supply almost ceased. The nation of that German internal "or- amongst us falsely say, but a living per-aximuna was then abolished, and Mans ganisation," which was supposed to be A SOLDIER'S TRIBUTE.
sonality, a life compact of countless other ter received its butter at 23. a pound the wonder of the world. The Lokal
from the highest lives? We are the trustees of a common
Meanwhile the Central Authorities can whole population
grade to the poorest workman's Do nothing but issue pathetic requests for social demanding that the Government LORD KITCHENER AS CREATOR OF heritage entrusted to us by God Most likely to rise to 35. in the near future. Ansergey xiries that it speaks for the
High:
So also do we muse on the day of the the rich and middle classes to curtail From a wounded Territorial, a journ-dead or, as our English tongue better their supply of butter in order that are shall once for all make an end to this pocr may live, pleading also (with some continuous rise in prices, while the names it, All Souls' Day, For they are alist, a Home paper has received the not dend our brothers whose bodies rest gleams of political economy) that mea Frankfurter heads an attack on the following tributo to Lord Kitchener:in Flanders or in France, in the battle-sures taken to prevent a rise in the price futility of the new attempt to deal with fields of African deserts or at the gates of butter will result in a diminished im the potato famine, The Potato Order:
the authori according to the Tapebliminary order.
Bo, wherever we plunge beneath the flag- "In the course of eight months' experi of the Dardanelles. They are not dead port from foreign countries. In Berlin Another Miss '-hit,"
music,
band-celebrating ence in the firing line I have mixed with whose bodies is beneath the wares. -men of all regiments and classes, and the Changed perhaps, but into richer modes of ties have issuct
in Borin and Brandenburg to Bs.apparent--the misery of war, opinion expressed about Lord Kitchener being, strange to us, but to them a glad limiting the maximum selling price of triumph of arms, this note of misery is
surprise. We do not think of them as
October 31st Meantime, however, the in the Berliner Tageblate contrasted
and, to extent, clouding is always the same. They worship the pale phantoms, or as members of game &d, a pound, to remain in force until shadows at home," Paul Harmy onile it silent man who creates armies. To them problematie choir invisible. Faith quick smaller towns-in-guch districts to Cen- hai the Army's moral bazu. He is 02 as the pressure and the peri) grow. Code great mililitry objevements-of-Germany by abroad. He bitterly attacks the Govern brought to their markets were behind everything, so all is bound to come Who dies if England lives' They have
set us free from bondage to the fear of the date the role in the big towns, and went far fumblingly and ineficiently right in the end.
The effect of their fixing maximum prices dealing with the problem, and complains Talk to any man who was with him death.
disappearance that an Empire waging war against three As we read in these pages the long only accelerated that in Africa, Egypt, or the Sudan, and you' will hear a eulogy that will starte you. lists of those who gladly laid down their They are informed, indeed, that despite World-Powers is seemingly unable to He didn't spare us and he didn't spara lives-as-free-will offerings for good faith the innumerable efforts made in different deal with the feeding of its own people, himself either," said at Omdurman war and national integrity and ordered free places and by different authorities, prices and that the sole result of this incapacity He would find out everything for dem, we were not minded to mourn for wore likely to continue to rise; and the will be an immense revival of Socialism himself; he never left things to the junior them but to follow their good example, statement is, endorsed all over the coun- after the war. The pity of it," he as- officers. If he was riding round the camp and each House and College triumphed try, by a united press Political economy weris "is that our brave men and our and saw a party of us playing cards he
revivified by war) also troubles the Bur- to be condemned to begin all over again."
The short successful war, the spoils of would get off his horse and ask us all in the heroism of sons and comrades. And that dead academic science suddenly mighty Empire always seem in the field sorts of questions how were our foot, here m Oxford pray, we that to them may
of colonies, trade was the breaklast-all right, and so on be given the full fruition of their great gomaster of Vienna, who plaintively
fix maximum prices high enough to demnities, annexation Once on the march I saw him dismount endeavour, and to us grace to follow in leads to a hf-starved populace: If victory, the wealth of Belgium, huge in- and go to a private who had fallen out their footsteps as soon as we be ready for induce the Hungarian pig dealers to sell, which would make everyone prosperous
there's not many Genazals would do the fight.
Those whom we remember on All consumers in Vienna abuse me; if I fix and confonded and bring back the nemies reward promised and the dream drusted. that. When the privato told him his feet
To-day the reality is growing daily for wore bad, Kitchener made him take his Saints' and on All Souls' Day have passed them tow enough to please the consumers, in triumph and splendour that was the boots off and then examined his feet hit through the fery furnace there the Hungarians, refuse to sell.
rior.
self After that he rode right down to touched them not at all.' the transport and told them to give the chap a ride. That's the sort of General he was,'
"The mes at the front know that he has not altered since, and that to-day he tabes the same personal and tireless in- terest in their welfare. They know, too, something which the old ladies turned war experts do not, the wonderfully com- plex and delicately organized nature of a modern army, and realize what a mar. vellous thing he has done in bringing the New Armies into being."
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Amid this general condemnation of the a country by the cities, the agrarians, not in the field, starring women at home fight- without force, hit back. The rise of ing for food for their children, prices, they complain, is not their fault, miseries of another winter in sight, with WHICH ARE REPLETE WITH ALL THE LATEST AND MOST UP-20-DATH It is entirely due to the deprivation of increasing privation, and no alternative foreign supplies combined with the im- but ruin, whether victorious or defeated, mense rise in the cost of the raw material at the end.
thelp industry Food for the cattle has been prohibited; fodder for the kine is raised to a prohibitive price, and even
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