CLEMENCEAU TO BRITAIN.
STIRRING INVOCATION.
The first sitting of the Inter-Parliamen
Conference, held at Paris on February 22nd, was opened by speeches from Vis want Bryce and M. Olemascom.
Lord Bryon said:---
**TO THE EAST!".
AVEN HEDIN'S TRIBUTE TO HINDENBURG.
[TRO A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE "DAILY NEWS AND LEADER."]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APBIJ, 11m, 1918.
ADMIRALTY'S ORDERS TO
MERCHANTMEN. ANOTHER GERMAN FALSEHOOD "EXPOSED,
"MALOJA” INQUEST ENDED.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 10th at: 19.20 a.m.-Ragd changes kave occurred sizos yesterday, STEAM
The depression over China has been replaced
اللہ کے تھے۔
CAPTAIN ON TORPEDO OR MINE.
At the inquest on the victims of the P &O. Maloja landed at Dover, Commander The Secretary of the Admiralty made the E, Irving. R.N.A., who was in comby an anti-cyclone,
Depressions: lie to the south of Kores and following announcement recently-mand, said that as 10.30 am, on Sunday
there was a tremendous explosion eft. The over the Gulf of Pechill, In view of the recent jasua by the Gorman
chiof officer, who was looking aft, dried Government of a memorandum on the treat-
mine." The witness added: Sven Hedin has paid his promised triment of armed merchant ships, the Admir bute to von Hindenburg and his armies, and the book, "Nach Osten" ("To the East"), is now in the hands of all patriotic Germans able to pay the price of 8 marks. wanted by the publishers.
Syan Hedin's admiration for armod Ger- many shows no symptoms of doclining, but, in the present volume, it assumes a restrain.
alty have decided to make public, the in- structions actually governing the actions of British merchant Vassels armed for self- defence. These instructions, dated ber 20th, 1015, are as follows:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEFENSIVELY ARMED MERCHANT SHIPS.
We can give an assurance to you represant France here that every one of our countrymen fellows with the deepest ad- iration cach chapter in the record of your people's brave docda, We have also admired. the equal heroism of your civilian popula tion, and, if you will allow us to say so,
A-The Status of Armed Merchant Ships havo admired above a'i the heroism of your
(1.) The right of the crew of a merchant women. We feel this the more because, ex-ed, losa militant expression,
The author, remembering perhaps those vessel forcibly to resist visit and starch, and #ept for occasional assassinations by Zep- pelins, our country and population have brilians days of hospitality at London and
to fight in self-defence, is well recognized at Paris when he was the centre of honour in international law, and is expressly ad- not shared the indescribable pains and stro
writes no word to jar upon a reader who ritics of invasion, One confident hope to joices us--that this is the last time the hal-pes Germany and her attries through spec mitted by the German prize regulations in time when it was known that numerous lowed soul of your country will ever be thus taples different from his; he applaude the addendum issued on Juno, 1914, at a desecrated and that through a decisive strategy of German General Staffe, and co-merchant vesels were being armed in self-
defence. victory, the inviolability of French torri fesses himself filled with admiration for the. courage of the German troops, but he says tory will be for ever guaranteed.
no word in disparagement of Germany's enemies, Frenchmon, Russians, Belgian Britons in arms,
We have been most happy to accept your invitation because it has given us an opportunity of proving once more to the whole world that both nations are equally
Yon Moltke, it seerus, rang up von Hin. determined to crush the barbarous ambition denborg on the telephone one day carly last of one people to set up its own comination spring and expressed a desire that the Swedish explorer should be invited to the through militarism. Our Committee, re-
German hoadquarters in the East. The idol presenting all parties, all creeds, and all rationalities of the United Kingdom, thus
or two later telephoned a pressing invita gives an epituno of a nation not divided of all Germany readily agreed, and a day against itself, as our enemies hoped, bution to Sven Hedin at his hotel in Beriin. an absolutely united nation whose solidarity is absolutely unimpaired.”
M, CLEMENCEAU'S SPEECHL
M. Clemenco replied, welcoining the delegatas:
"Allow a man who owe to his years the honour of addressing you to say that in the darkest days he never despaired of the Entente which he knew to be inevitable, but sareely hoped to see realised. Futurs historians will perhaps note with sauce our prise that it should have taken us two people so long a space of time to crusa wo narrow a strip of sca.
"The time belongs to action, and civi Rans and military men on both sides of the Channel are at adlon and will continus to the end-repoat, to the end. We have all dreided and sworn chat, We give our chil dren, wo give our wealth, we will give everything; and this splendid ouse of the independence of peoples and the dignity of mankind as su great.y its own reward that no sacrifions, however hard, will ever make as complain that we had to give too much. "It is a war which has brought about this miraola af so deep an understanding that it can mover be broken unless civilien tion is to go under. We did not want war. We went it now, and shall want it as long as noed be. That total victory will
coil in his rapy for bloodshed such as
I visited your Tom- tory has ever seen. mies in their tronches, and my guide was one of your best generals, whose noblo father, a dear friend of old days, lifted up. his voice in London then deaf-to plead the cause of France dismembered in 1871 In Villors Cotteret Wond, his grandson, George Cenil, died gloriously at the age of uighten for his country and for ours,
You
Very interesting, mainly becauso of its intimacy, is the picture, one selected from many available, of a small dinner party one evening at von Hindenburg's modest headquarters The guests included Solf, the German Colonial Secretary, Count Mat ternich, a former Austrian Ambassador at Berlin, and General Lucendorff, Hinden burgle Chief of Staff Saya Sven Hedin:
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I saw boats, davits, and debris going I ordered the ship to be stopped and the up into the air. The poop was blown up. Octo-engines reversed, and the crew were piped to stations. That was done to take the was off the ship, and to enable the hosts to be lowered. Everyone wae as his station within ong inituto of the signal being given. At 6 o'clock that motning 16 heats had been put in tho davits for Immediate use. Six other boats were ready on deck The total and rafts prepared for use. number of lives on board was 411.After Hongkong & Neghuonrhoeding from N. the crew were at their stations the ship in the boats and the men were ready to lower them immediately the ship stepped gave a list. All the passengers were put
She was headed for the shore at that time. was standing by to give the order to (2)The armement is supplied solely lower the boats, but the alip, which seeund to my only to stop a low seconds, then for the purpose of resisting attack by an began zapidly to pick up stem way, I armed vessel of the enemy. It must not be at once went to Line telegraph to signal used for any olber purpose whatsoever,
the engines to stop, but she gathered way (3) An armed merchant vessel, titere and was going full speed astern.
crow were anxious to lower the boats, but fore, must not in any circumstances inter-
I gavo orders that to boats were to he fero with or obstruct the free passage of other merchant vessels cr fishing craft lowered white the ship was going astern. At this time the ship started to list heavily. whether those are friendly, neutral,
I tried to communicate again with the (4.)-The status of a British armed mer-engine-room, but could get no reply and hostile chant vessel cannot be changed upon the the chief officer informed me that the engine-room was flooded. I then saw that high seas.
bouts, ag the slip kad now about eight or B. Bule to be Observed in the Exercise there was but a forlorn hope of getting the
of the Right of Self-Defence (1.)--The Master or Officer in command is ins knots of stern way on, and was listed It was time to get to about 75 degrees, out, and I told the officers to use, their responsible for opening and casing fire.
(2.)-Participation in armed resistance must be confined to persus acting under discretion in getting the boats away and in the orders of the Master or Officer in co-getting the rafts ont
and
(3.)-Before opening fire the British colours must be hoistedi da
The guests were warned with sparkling ebampagno. Spirits were high and the
(4.)-Fire must not be opened or con- conversation accorded with the flowing wine. The English hunger plan had cer- tinued from a vessel which has stepped, tainly not achieved roach success thereLauled down her flag, or therwise indicated Nothing failed as this really elegan dia- her intension to surrender. ner. At its close toficé, Equeurs, eigars. and oigarettes were sorved and attentive
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round matches. We talked over world events and what the future had in store, views then expressed shall remain the secret of the guest table, but this much can be said without breach of confidence: that sharp, words were not spared against
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(5.) The expression armament in these instructions includes not only onn non but also rifles and machine guns in cases where thou are supplied. N
(6-)-The ammunition ed in rifles and machine guns must conform to Arole 23, Hague Convention IV, 107; that is to say, the bullets must be cased in nickel or other hard substancë and must not be split or cus
CONTROL OF THE ENGINES.
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The witness added thai ba night before nij 'the pasrugers were told they must wea their titeho.ts wherever ther went, how- " At the over inconvenient is might be. time of the disaster I think everybody had lifebelt on. When it became a ouse of everyons for hinson, everybody seemed to be trying to help everybody else. I never heard one shriek or sound frou” anyone. With the ship going astero ay she wan the marvellous thing was that any boac got away it all." When nothing else could be done he jumped into the ena. He was i the water about 30 or 40 minutes, but it seemed about three weeks.: He believed
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those who had forged this war upon the in such a way sa to cause them to expand every officer and man sayed was taken from Los Booksnešiura.
set up on striking a man. The use of explosive bullets in forbidden. C.--Circumstances under which the Arm
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stopped every one would have been mved. the water not from boate. Had the engines m. If they could have stopped the engines from another point than in the engine-room the trouble would have been over and ovary- body might have boon saved. The present arrangements were all right in ordinary coaditions, but, the present conditions need ed extraordinary means for overcoming diffi culties. He agreed that passengers and grow ought to wear identification discs.
mont should be Exployed- (1)The armament is supplied for the purpose of defence only, and the object of the master should be bo avoid action when ever possible.
(2.) Experience bas shown that hostile submarines and sircraft have frequently attacked merchant ver os uithat warning. It is important, therefore, that craft of this description should not be allowed to ap ponch to a short range at which a torpedo or bob launched without notice would Paulo & certa.nly take effect,
people and who by corcing one neutral country after another tried to carry on war agadust Germany. But let thom all come was the view expressedt ut din ner. "We can manage them all, and will Anik on
Hindenburg was top: " interested in my impressions of the western front. He spoke of the Kaiser, the German War Lord, and expressed himself lucky to be allowed to serve in the eu uma of his age under such a monarch
As to the cause of the explosion the wit He seemed pleased that he had saved the
Ross said: think it was a torpedo, bo- threatened Fatherland from a powerful
nause the ship which came to our assistance enemy, but modestly replied to my con
was blown up immediately afterwards. If it was a mine, how was it that the mine did not touch the other ships in whose wake we gratulations: Well, you know a sol.
were following! There were four or five d'er must have fuck sometimes,"
British and Alie, submarines and air- von Hindeburg gives the credit of his victories in the first instance to God, eraft have orders net to approach merchant ships in front of us. They might not have who was throughout with him; to the vessels Consoquently it may be presumed bee of so deep a draught as ruine, but Kaiser, who nominated him to his pre. that any submarine or aircraft which de it is possible that they were, because they ports lead me to believe that wag i scat commond; and to Ludonccrff, the liberately approaches or pursues a mere neutral cargo boats. Further, ex- mine it must have been one of the most brilliant chief of his general staff chant vessel cues so with hostile intention.
Come and let us have a glass of beer in In such cases fro way be opened in self powerful German wines, une charged with my private, room," said the Field-Mar-defence in order to prevent the hostile craft 5000 of very high explosive, which, of closing to a raaga at which resistance to a course, would do more damage than the shal at the close of dinner; and the
sudden attack with bomb or torpedo would amount of explosive carried in the war guests trooped after him readily
head of a torpedo. I cannot possibly say be impossible. Sven Hedin came into contact with the
what was the size of the hole blown in the Maloja. I think it was very large. Kaiser on two occasions during this visiting to render assistance to the crew of a
The ship was struck about 100ft. from aft to the Eastern army. The first occasion was
The jury found that the victims met their at a small country railway station near the German-Austrian frontier, The War
deaths by the ship being struck by a mine ad and sunk, The foreman added: Wo de Lord beckoned amiably to him, and as Sven Hedin remarks, "We talked over various (4.)-It should be remembered that the ire to exonerate the orew from blame. It A moment at the foot of the monument political problems connected with the war.
submarines and armed merchant vessels avoided." where, all in gold on a golden horse, a little The rumours then coming from Rome" hag is no guide to nationality. German was purely an accident, which could not be peasant girl is riding to battle-a little proceeds, lid not seem to disturb the E-have frequently employed British, Allied,
with that. French girl, who, no one knows how was peror, Ho was in brilliant form; full of or neutral colours in order to approach un by herself a whole army. Speak to her, hope; laughing and joking. Referring to detected. Though, however, the use of dis. you, who, if we are worthy of cur fates, aro Italy's probable botrayal, the Kaiser said: to be our friends for all time. She will 1 does not matter. Wo aball win in the guise and false colours in order to escape CEMENTING ANGLO-RUSSIAN
capture is a legitimate ruse de guerre, its hear you and, unlike the man of stone in
adoption by defensively armed merchant the legend, will make a sigo of suprema re
ships may easily lead to misconception. conciliation,
Such vessels, therefore, are forbidden to adopt any form of disguise which might cause them to be mistaken for neutral ships, Admiralty War Staff, Trade Division,
October 20th, 1915.
In their trenebos I say your cool, grim, ironical soldiers awaiting the onemy's at tacks calmly. You must turn the visit and see our poils. Don't forget what com- forting impressions you will bring away. They will joke to you about their Boche an inexhaustible topic with them. will see them laugh at their wounds and rez them fall saying I am glad, and back from the tronches you will pass again through our public squares, where bronze statues tall of past history which we mean le make nobler still, but in which there is nothing other for you or for us to be
sorry for.
JOAN OF ARC.......
Heart to heart like our soldiers, side by side we will live a great pact of union which no madness shall over break. I have al ready said with what foalings wo will ro turn the visit with which you honour us to day
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SPAIN'S DIFFICULTIES.
MINISTER'S APPEAL TO FRANCE AND BRITAIN.
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end. German culture is not meant to go under; it canno, and will not go under We are fighting for high ideals." Kaiser then skipped into his special train and left for the Austrian headquarters.
(3.)An armed merchant vessel proceed vessel in distress must not seek action with any hostile oraft, though, if she is herself attacked while so doing, fire may be opened in self-defence, M
The Coroner.Oh, no. We cannot deal.
FRIENDSHIP.
RUSSIAN CHARGE LED BY
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one looks for in a High-Class Virginian Cigarette. COOL SMOKING, advanced alone until he was near the long present in force, are the latest issued. Sue- diplomatic bodies, but of the members of lines of soldiers. His speech was deliverede sive issues have been made, ach by rea
the Duma and the leading Anglo-Russian DELICATELY FLAVOURED, and, above all, they WILL NOT in clear tones, and not one syllable was son of any change of policy the policy residents of the capital of both sexes. On lost. He thanked the soldiers for their throughout has remained unaltered-but the Russian side the keynote of all the HARM THE THROAT. bravery and their unending devotion to the in order, by improvement in wording and speeches was entire faith in England and Empire and a person, for the new
greater clearness of expression, to on-
the conviction, as expressed by M, Miliu- glories they hd achieved for German phasize the purely defensive character koff, that her participation in the war was arris. Be spoko slowly and without hes the armament of mercbant vasses
the surat guarantee against a draw or an tation. Apart from the whole motive power
inconclusive peace; while, on the English of the Kaiser, and his art of leadership.
It is because of the distorted at rpreta and the very forord character of the
Foreign Affaire, made the following state. the cadences of his voice seem to imply on given to these instructions as a whole.sile, all the speakers' emphasized our un
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TO.NIGHT 015 p.m.Bendman Opera & Comedy Co at the Theatre Royal, The Coly Girl."
TOMORROWLAN
L'elit Journal: "Spain is determined to fronts. He represents to his troops, as letterpretation given by the German Govern Never stands among them the personification of went to the portions which they quite fra maintain the strickest neutrality. consequently wil France, have anything Germany's iron will, the overthrowing of the earlier sue of the instruct dus, that they to fear from her. You may have the her adversaries, the rebuilding of a new Admiralty have felt it desimble, with a greatest tranquillity of mind sa to the world capire upon a broader, firmer basis. view to lay ng nefrol sexey, to pub
Sven Hedin described in some detail his these instructions in cætensa. relations of good neghbourship of our two countries, which are necessary from all and ence of that other Emperor, the aged He says: 1 walked points of view. Everybody admits that no Francis Joseph one can make the slightest complaint about through the large salon an opened the dor us in this respet At the same time of the Emperor's study myself, a In gr must be known that it is our duty to precorner room looking on to the traffic of the accupy ourselves with our economic in street. As I entered the Emperor turned. terests, and to see that these do not suffer came towards me, and gare his hand in a too much from the present state of war friendly way, Welcome, Herr Dator. It
is just six years since we last net. At this moment two measures taken) France and Great Britain are seriously things have happened In the meantime!"'" occupying our attention, because they The audience lasted an hour. The Et gravely prejudice our most immediate in-peror appearance is well known: the terests. I refer to the dithculties caused grey blue, friendly eyes, the streng b by the transit a France and the North nose, the high arcted forehead; the ful Sea of corks and oranges. Shall I con snow-white eyebrows, the carefully.trimmed fess to you that the reasons given us as beard. There was colour in his checks, and justification for the measures mentioned he did not resemble the dying unan go fre.
What
hgge not completely convinced us? Wequently described in the English and suffer so much by them that I still hope French newspapers. He wore on this occa that the French and British Government sion a light blue un form, with a red collar will their way to consider, with all the and four golden ordere, one of which was goodwill desirable, whether there is no gained in the Italian campaign of 1848, TheWo talked about the war. The views be means of granting us satisfaction. matter is of great importance to us, hence expressed about Italy must remain a secret. our in istence on obtaining a favourable but it may be recorded that the betrayal
of his Ally wounded him deeply." Bettlement,
ment and the growing desire of Englishmen to avail themselves of the better unterstand: ing promoted by comradeship in arms to lay the foundations of lasting amity which ic alike dictated by economic and political considerations
A dramatic effect was not lacking whed, after an excellent Russian speech by the British Military Attaché, Major Blair, in which he referred to his impression of the Russian scldier during a trip to Galicia, where he firt met M Rodzianko, President of the Duma, the latter, amid enthusiastic. Copplause, informed the company that Major Bair shured all the hardships of campa ga life, participated in the battles, and led a charge culminating in the capture of an Austrian village.
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0.30 pm Roval Hongkong G.1 Ch., Anndal Grueral Meeting in the Clab Hoste, Happy Valley Tuesday, 16th April-
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