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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 1958;
MOUTRIE PIANOS
THE NEUTRALITY OF HOLLAND.
THE LONDONERS.
BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE.
THE
for TWELLS BREX.)
Thus has writen a lieutenant of a London regiment, an elington man bim-
UNSUCCESSFUL PROSECU TION OF A PRO-ENTENTE EDITOR.
THE REAL ENGLAND. GRAY'S ELEGY AND ITS BIRTH,
PLACE AT STOKE POGES.
* ASA
ENEMY FIRMS IN CHINA
AND SIAM,
In the abstract of proceedings of the Bengal Chamber of Connieres, for the Stephen Graham bas contributed the month of October it was stated that the following articles to The Times : --
committee bad received from the Govern There are some spots in England ment of India lists of firms in China and that are, in national sense, boly ground, and: on€ of these is Stoke Siam to whom shipments might he made
Represent the highest degree of perfection in artistic construction on Agint, of his troops in re- prunt, has caused, a great sumption he alsoges churchyard, along whose you without question, and that the lists wens
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and graves. Gray we our benatá- ful Elegy. It 18 point for pil- open to inspection at the office of the grimage, with this Brovise that you Clumber. never let yourself be shown round. It is calm, not one in which to use the eyes, new been received from the Department of a place in which to sit and rest and be The following supplementary letter has
to botanize," "
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upon a Commerce and Industry on the subjeet :---
lists of firms in China and Siam to which set of corrections additions, etc., to e I came to the church for the first die Intimation has been received from the shipments may be made without question. one wet Saturday this autuma. But in far-away lands the Elegy has been my principal Collector of Customs, Colombo, by heart, but one gentle afternoon, tramp-Siam not on the White List, and to seizo precious possession. I never learned it, that instructions have been issued in Cay ing through the Yelegda forests, I set
lon to prohibit exportation to firms in myself the sweet task or recading it verseny goods on Allied or British vesurds so those lines which I knew over and overment, and to prevent such goods dis by verse-and recalled nearly all, saying consigned and carried there for tranship- gain till they called to memory all the charged from neutral vessels in that Colony and walked to the rhythm of it. After Similar action has no doubt also been rest. And 1 found its marching music from proceeding to their destination. that discovery every day at twilight time, taken in the Straits Settlements, as I plodded on to the next village, and, clearing my lips, whispered that purey English beginning
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, walked to it in the evening, but said my I lived with the poem, and not only self to seep with it at night. I carried it to Moscow, to London, it is with me now. And having that knowledge of boundless power in my own spirit and of eternal and tempestuous music in my own soul which each and every man may find, I chose once for epitaph these gentle and consoling lines-
Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celes
tial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have
away'd
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1.Parades for Wednesday, 12th inst.
7.00 a.m.-Members of Signalling Section and other Signallers, as do- tailed in Signelling Section Order dated 8th December. 1915-Soma phore practice at Headquarters. 5.15 pm-Recruits of Engineer Co.
Musketry and Rifo exercise at Tai- koo Dockyard, under Sergt. Everest. 5.15 p.m. M. G. Section of No. 1 Section Scouts Co-Machine Gun instruction at Headquarters. Ro- mainder of No. 1 Section-Bayonet fighting at Headquarters.
5.16 p.-Signalling Section-Squad drill at Headquarters. Remainder, nil.
The news of the sudden arrest of M. J. C. Schrader, Editor-in-Chuf of the Tel
The men were wonderful. In face of the Morning Post on December 8th
reported the Amsterdam correspondent af a bid hammering they kept wonderfully has become known that M. Schröder has choorful. I would back a csapany of heen arrested in connection with a new London toys against any men in the charge brought against him by the Am world. The day was a fast-andatet authorities for having endanger lasting proal that the Londoner is the written in the issue of the Telegraaf of ther's grave. There sat the poet Gray I am directed to forward herewith the first
ed the neutrality of Holland by having It is one testimony only out of bun combat o Government and a subservient for England let the rich earth speak November 27th: We shall not easy to and forget that he was Gray and spoke dreds of smilar testmonies. The great rolls of honour, the V.C. awards, have Press which under the mask of a worthy for him, bristled all through with names out of neutrality supplies Germany with most. London regiments. So innugieable have kinds of necessary foodstuffs by an un- been those epica that this who page justifiable policy of export, thus enabling They have added a new pride and a new ting treason not only to our own father would not eoutain the bare list of them, to persist in war, and by this commit lustre to the proudest and most illustrious and but to the cause of humanity, which city in the world; they have blazoned would have been served in quite another distinction on -the snobbish
Cockney
word way by a strong merally high-principled Government." As the penalty for having Yesterday I travelled in a train with endangered neutrality involves a maxi captain tone wounded from the Darda-mum punishment of eix years, there is
all & countrymen ayselt, strong belief that M. Schröder was arrest be sud, "but most of my men are Lened because it was feared that he would dozers born and bred. li'l tacked from continue his propaganda. how to dcomsday I couldn't give you any adequate description of the courage, grit,
ACTING EDITOR'S FIRM MANIFESTO.. In the next morning's issue of the T'ele. Bud cheerfulness of thus: teilows in as graaf the manager of that journal, M. H. terrible a ighting ordeal as men have M. C. Haldert, who has been responsible ever endured in history. He is an amaz-for the contents of the Flegraaf since ing chap, the Londoner; burnt by heat, December sad, stated that he is pro-Ally tortured sy nies, tormented by thirst, he and will do all he can to defend the cause jokes all too time. Men in action rear of the Allies, Further, M. Holdert de out jests under tornadoes of fire. The unscathed bandy the grimnest pleasun-clares that the attitude of the Telegraaf tries wine Wounded, and the wounded will not be altered, as he will continue to seo back again. You have got to learn work, as he has done, under the leader the Londoner to understand how his ship of the enpablo. Editor-in-Chief. In rave heist, or some of thoes jokes in the victim of something very much akin to grim humeur is triple brass that girds his conclusion, he says:M. Schröder is the tienen would appal you. One of my men despotism." rected with a gaping wound in the head.. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST 1. SCHRODER.
There go y araius, he gasped. Bill, M. Schröder appeared before the Am- I didn't know you had so many cried sterdain Court charged with having en
Or, waked to ecstasy, the living lyte. another fellow and a moment afterwards dangered the neutrality of Holland by above all, in the English human being, s The great fuith in the human being,, he fell himself.
...publishing on June 16th some comments on what the Elegy breathes. The marvel of it," contiused the the subject of a letter published in the to anonymous England, to the Hampdens, It is written officer, that all those men wore Telegraaf. The comments included the Cromwells, Miltons hidden under the co- eivihaa townamen a year ago. Think of following: There is a group of con-men life who never come to the front. All it; the staffy rooms and so desks, the scienceless scoundrels in Central Europe that is noble in the annals of England meagre lunch at the tea-shop table, the who have caused the war. In the interest has been done not simply by the geniused safe, drab, flaccid routine of it all-and of humanity, to which, if we are not too and accidental people that the race throw then tall.poh. The greatest endurance much mistaken our country belongs too, up, but by the race itself, by that came in a day's te was a serun it is good that these criminals should be happy breed of England. for a crowded tramway-car, the bravest rendered powerless, The Allies have this thing the crossing of a street. And yet honourable tosk, so that they are waging Pages yard in the rain on the firmer end So I sit at last in the actual Stoke I have seen those mon du deeds of bravery war directly for the Dutch interest par of an old green mouldering wooden grave and endurance that beggar all words excellence, and our independence, which sign, under the voluminous many-branch- And it isn't only in the ngating. Cerks, will irrevocably be lost it German militar-ig yews There are not so many neglect warehousemen, omnibus conducios, stopim wins. Qur struggle is directed against ed spots as of yore, but there are some, suth, and pinched street vendors-you these criminals. We call upon the Dutch and I sit in one of them: No one is about should see what navvies they can be when spirit of independence to do all it can
but England, and there is a deep peace it ceata to treach digging under that ta given me a new idea of London
The writer also spoke of and my heavy boots reat gently on the over all. I am wrapped in my overcoat, and the Londoner. His physical stamina
the Prussian censorship of Dutch news- is almost as wonderful as his mental papers. Further, he said that the preser-holy ground. I know that all Gray said wet carth, and I know that the ground is stamine." He smed wryly. Inover vation of neutrality should not be the thought of London as a nursery of brami nim but only the means for the preserva- Whatever be the noisy exterior of Eng-
18 true. there must be something in the air of tion of the independence of Holland "If land, the cosmopolitan clangour of its
the moment has come," the editorial note audible voice, the shares of its com I thought of the Islington lieutenant concluded, when choice has to be made mercial rampages, there is another and and his lusty heroes, and remembered that between shame and konour, then we shall mora real being behind, and that is passage in Boswell ́a, Jobinson"A decidedly not spare a hesitating Govern anonymous England, the quiet, fount of coach was waiting to convey him to Isment, but shall exert all our influence to the true English people. Under cover lington where he went sometimes insure that it shall no longer be tolerated society gosarp the noise of the Mme. of for the benefit of good air, which, not in a position in which it ought never to Candids and Lady Sueerwells, behind withstanding his having formerly laughed have been placed."
the malevolence of jealous newspapers at the general opinion upon the subject,
and the self-advertisement of those strid. he often now acknowledged was conducive
The following have been duly elected sa public men who have made officers of the Hockey Team: to health
eut uinds to keep at the front of Captain-Pie. Dyer Bali, Scouts Co. London air is not alone conducive to physical health (as of course, the Regis
ideas rather than our life, behind the bitter partisanship of those who cling to one set of political
Vice-Captain.-Le-Cpl. Edmonds, Civil Ser- trar-General's figures constantly prove),
Tice Co. to another, belind but it is no less conducive to mental
those who gibe and sner at the English Committee. The foregoing with Pie. Red- Secretary Pte. Haskott, Civil Service Co. health, and it is those two healthy in con-
people, stands the serene and quiet, pure junction that equip the fighting London- The President of the Court asked what land and women of England-our people, bred English race, the true men of Eng There are health resorts that make was meant by Dutch papers being under you physically robust but spiritually Prussiar censorship, M. Schröder replied is great because it is beautiful, melodious There is a vague idea that the Elegy iner; there are pleasure resorts that that this referred to those newspapers That is a mistake; it is great because it weak. But London is the supremo health gium, only published what was agreeable land for England. And because of that make you mentally brisk but physically which, in order to be admitted into Balia national, because it is written by Eng resort that braces men physically and to the German military authorities. The General Wolfo said he would rather have mentally both that is why it breeds accused finally stated that if be had written it than take Quebec. It is part territic lighting men.
If you cannot analyse the physical endangered the nentrality of the Nether The rain ceascs, and in the deep peace,
supposed that such an article might have of our national religion. hearth of London it is easy enough to lands, it would not have been written analyse the mental and spiritual health
above the dripping troes, birds are sing- of London that has also bred these Schröder meant when he made the state. The door of the old church stands open, The Public Prosecutor asked whom M.ing, glad oven in the autumn of the year. wonderful London fighting men The first-ment: "There is a group of conscienceless As is meet, and I go in and sit down in class modern fighting man is not only co-scoundrels in Central Europe who have pew. Tomorrow, Sunday, I shall come pset of sheer animal strength, he is com- caused the war." pact aleo of mental strength. He does
again and sing with rustic maids and
sun,
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against them."
On the question as to what were his mo lives for writing in this way the accused declared that he wished to show once more Telegraaf did not belong to the war-party; in the most emphatic manner that the
but that that paper wanted a neutral and independent Holland.
PRUSSIAN CENSORSHIP.
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not only need muscles tightened in Prussian Junkerdom in general. I coa
The accused "Prussian militarism and our beautiful Liturgy, sung now for maauw fabour; be needs brains sharpened sider these as the instigators of the war day, within the hallowed walls. And on Signalling Section at Volunteer Headquar-
many generations, Sunday after Sun- against the holystones of his fellows wits, he needs initiative, quickness, resource, M. Schröder had rendered himself liable Miltons Shakespeares, Nelsong, Welling
The Public Prosecutor submitted that
Sunday I look around at the congregation alertness, and, above all, the humour that six months' imprisonment,
and think Hampdens, Cromwells, will keep his back stiff and his soul shining in a hundred stresses,
Sud all
of those have been bis aemortals in the great school of London,
as
Oh
trolity of Holland was endangered by such England. Art thou not beautiful and
The neu-tons, Grays, Tennysons, Brookes. writings, In normal times there would pure and noble and brave and full of. have been no question of any danger of genius? Nought of evil ever really per ments, but these were abnormal times, and war through the publication of such com-taing to thee!" the danger of involving Holland in wor lieved that the accused had the best in- was great. The Public Prosecutor be- tentions, but he must have known the dan gerous tendency of his article.
NEUTRAL NOT SLAVISH,
SMUMULING GOODS INTO GERMANY. M. John C. Van der Veer, London Editor of the Telegraaf, informed a re- presentative of a Press Agency that there have been twelve actions against that paper and that ten have failed.
tors. Uniform to be worn.
GE. H. BRUTTON; Capt.,
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It is just because they are" Cockneys that the Loadon fighting en bure as tounded even the ouicers who knew and understood them. It is because they have be'd their own in the greatest competitive centre of humanity that they hold their own so indomitably on the field of battle. The Londoner himself he who is as proud to call himself Cockney citizens of another city were proud to say
The counsel for the defence, Dr. Kap peyne van de Cappello, pointed out that "Crois Romunus azm never doubted what the accused, in publishing this article, bis Londoners would do. Never did he had nos broken the law, contesting the think that te century of the tube, the idea that "neutral" must be synonymous telephone, the electric lift, the trim with anti-national, dependent, or slavish, monotonous suburb, the duling in the free Netherlands freedom of speech indoor routine task, the gladiatorial football crowd, and the petrol-borne bean-long as possible. Having regard to exist. and of the Press must be respected as feast, bed slain the London soul, the soul irg doubts as to the law on the subject, of this London that the Danes could not the Government ought to have issued rules conquer though they made a canal round for the guidance of editors The P-43
For about three months the Telegraaf Scathwark and dragged their ships to in Holland, he declared, did not know gling. A good deal of what was sent into had carried on an agitation against snug- Westminster; the London that was stead what might be published and what not. fast through the Plague, when one of Dr. van de Coppello further argued that Overses Trust, was smuggled into Get only manner and for insolenes and in-
Holland, consigned to the Netherlands every five men perished; the London un- there could have been no danger of war, many, so much so that the Germans them-subordination on the same occasion, a Po.. daunted by the Fire, when one of every eeing that friendly, relations with Ger- selve boasted that the mild measures of has been ordered to do three hours cells" two of her streets was ashes. Daily Mail, many and Austria had not been in the the Dutch Government kept them (the duty at Central,
least disturbed.
Bad
able because it had been taken at the in- The present action, he said, was remark- stigation of the German Government. The words complained of were written on June 14th, and no proceedings were taken land it was never the custom to delay in until three months afterwards. In Ho this way.
Sunday, January 16th. Musketry, Part
and Musketry Notes will be issued and Hel II., for all Inspectors and Sergeants. attended in full strength. Collar numbers The parade of No. 1 Company must be
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DEFAULTERS.
For wearing his uniform in public in
“PROMOTIONS, ̈
It was impossible that Germans) alive. Even those Dutch For unpunctuality in reporting for duty a cartes belli could have resulted from M. papers which were unfriendly to the and for being absent from duty, a P-c. 88 Schröder's action, the more so as a dis-Allies had acknowledged that there was been ordered to do 12 hours' extra duty. tinction must be made between a group smuggling going on and a length the and individual persons. The accused Dutch Government had brought in a Bill wrote about " & group of conscienceless in Parliament to prevent it and had sent. scoundrels," meaning thereby Prussian a regiment of soldiers to the German lowing promotions: →→
The Hon. C.S.P. hay sanctioned, the fol militarism and the Prussian Junker Eastern frontier with the same object, Party.
Sergeant 0 Arculli to the rank of Crown An official for whom the State The Germans paid well for goods mug. Sergeant. way responsible could violate or endanger gled into their country, and a lot of P-c. that State's neutralty, but not a private Dutch people would do anything to obtain Fergeant.
Hasham Khan
to the rank of that money without caring for the moral Ju the end, the case was dismissed. digaity of their country.
C. JENKIN, D.S.P. (B.).
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