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ORGANISATION AND COMBINA TION OF EMPIRE'S RESOURCES NEEDED
A most interesting address was recently delivered by the Chairman of the Coun eil, Mr.HM. Thornton, JP., on the ccasion of the eleventh annual meeting of the Society of British as Industries. In the course of his paper, which dealt with The Industrial Outlook and Its Relations to the Gas Industry," Mr Thornton had some severe things to say about the short-sightedness of the com- mercial policy of an Empire which fails to find the capital for the adequate de velopment of its own Imperial resources. We have, it is true, invested the stupend ous sun of three thousand nine hundred millions in India and the other British Overseas Dominions and, as Mr. Thore ho put it Is there a railroad to be built in South America, a township to be developed in Canada, rubber to be planted in Africa or tea in India, is there to be damned or bridged in the bat parts of the earth, then in comes the appeal for capital" quot be denied that we have of bite our eyes to our opportunities,
nk the ease of nickel, for instance, that essential military metal which, com- hion with copper, forms the outer casing of federn rifle bullet One of the world's beat nickel supplies is sstunted in the Dominion of Canada; but, because neither capita ner enterprise was forth coming from the United Kingdom to develop these resources, nickel ore has been esported from Canada to the United States because the Dominion herself has no nickel refueries, Consequently. Bri- lain ab war cannot control the nickel of her own Empire.
MORAL OF FRANCE.
THE MOST WONDERFUL THING OF
THE WAR
{BY THE MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF
THE TIMES
Mon corpa të lasterre, Mon famed Dicu,
Mun cieur à An France. These three little lines were found by the writer scribbled on the wooden casing of a bombproof in a first line trench in France within pistol shot of the enemy. They were not written to be scen, still less to be published. They were amongst many others of the same character. They could not have been written by a English soldier. They were just the pan- cilled thoughts of a pilu. But how rare; how pathetic, and how, beautiful!
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY MAY 22ND 1910.
A WORLD-WIDE GERMAN
WEAPON.
That German officials in what were once German colonies had nothing to learn in the way of mendacity from Wolff's Agency or the notorious Press Bureau of the Wilhelmstrasse is shown by a telegram, dated Bidjoka, Sept. 28, 1914, which was addressed by the then Governor of the Cameroons, a man named Ebermaier, to the German distriat authorities of the Protectorate, after its capital, Duala, had actually surrendered to the Allied Forces on the very day before. The following is a translation of this message
YOUNG TURKS AT HOME.
Dr. Alfred Nassig, writing in the Tag, endeavours to set before his readers a few
MENDACITY IN THE CAMEROONS. Particulars of the Young Turk party and how it is organised. The Party of saya Unión and Progress, he points out, te the general name for the entire group, in- cluding leaders and subordinates, scatter ed throughout every province and vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, but when one speaks of the committee" one means With the ruling junta in the capital. regard to the men who at prosent actually form this committee Dr. Nossig could secure little information, except that Midhat Shukri Bey was its president ani secretary. One Nazim Bey was mention ed to him as the strong man of the
The triumvirate was com committee. pleted by Dr. Behad ed din Shakir, a man of much eloquence and charm, who On account of the women and children
seemned to me to be rather more a man the overwhelming forces of the of the world than his colleagues. In chat- and Allied English and French, Duala Of all the truly wonderful things of evacuated on Sept. 27, with inconsidering with these three I had the impres this wonderful war, assuredly, the moral able losses on our site. As this fact that there was absolute unity in of the French Army is the most wonder-could not remain concealed from the heir views. They supplemented one an
other's remarks without contradicting ful of all. Think of it Twenty months natives of our Protectorate, and as thom.
The committee, said Nazim Boy, of devastating war: one French woman damaging perversions and exaggerations lives through its principles, not through out of three in mourning: many fair will be heard if the news is lot to the persons. Certain principles had to be departments and the best of the French gossip of the caravans, I authorise the laid down suitable to the condition of black country in the hands of the enemy district authorities to announce the now our nation and to the peculiarities of the no torm to the war discovered by the in a form sulted to the circumstance of people Our first principle was The wit of man; regimente renewed from top each district. The publication is to be
committee is impersonal. The committee to bottom, not once, but many times; the in accordance with the following lines exists as a corporation and allows no per national life suspended, the savings of At home the Reiser has first taken the sonal cult. The fact that the members of half a century thrown into the melting country which inflicted horrors on the the committee permit themselves to be pot; and yet here, in close and deadly con-natives, namely, Belgium, to which thrown into the shade often tends to the lict with a numerous and still formic the Congo belongs. We have occupied supposition that the Young Tark move- able Cherny, that inestimable and minst the whole country and driven out the precious treasure, the moral of the Army, king. Then the Kaiser has sent his soll apart from a few prominent offi wholly
diers untarnished and unsubdued. deep into Franey, and is bombard- Rather, with each call upon a generousing the largest French city, where the Dr. Shakir confirmed this statement, Governor of the French lives.. The
THE POILU
race the moral rises. To ever rising demands France replies with ever-rising spirit. She has been great before. But never, surely, so great as now. Rathee than accept slavery at German hands said General de Castelnan to the writer, the French ruce will die upon the battlefeld." And so it will. In very truth, it will.
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whereupon Nazim Bey continued: Many NETH. Kaiser hus captured General Kitscherer tions of authority by desire of the com (sic), whom the English regarded as their mitice. One of our principles is that best cominandor, together with 10.000 every branch of official activity shall have soldiers. Kitchener was, indeed, the its responsible head; and that the man in worst enemy of the Mohammedan black, this position shall wield strong, almost sud took a whole country from the Great autocratic power. Our people, too, are Sultan So many English ships have of such a disposition that a strong hand been destroyed that the English have is necessary for their guidance Again, now no more than we had,
we hold that our rulers should occupy a As our enemies at home cannot do any strong position that they should not, let thing to us, they are now trying to robu say, be subject to displacement so and our natives in Africa. Africa is basily as French politicians and party farther from Germany than from France leaders. Fixity of ruling tenure, such and England, so that their ships can be as exists in Germany. is even more ap here sooner than we can. The English plicable to Turkey. Finally, wo take the us give honour where it is first due, but had to call in the help of the French same country are likely to prove more were not strong enough to take Duals, view that two leading personages in the say that the exemplary fortitude of women of France, of the mothers and the We have moreover, only surrendered damaging than neful, since two opposito wives, their signal patience, their silence Duala because there were so many white parties might easily arise. If we found a second Enver Pasha, for instance, wo in great sorrow and through never-ceasing women and children there, to whom, no- anxiety, have been the foundation of acording to the law of the whites, noth should send him abroad as military at great revival. If decorations have the ing can happen if no fighting takes place tache and if we found a second Talant charm which some attribute to them, then Till now things have gone as follows ambassadorial capacity surely a cross with blood-strained laurel wreath has been deserved by every in the Cameroons: We have allowed theAnd yet another principle is, added English and French a short distance Dr. Shakir at this point, that all our mother and wife in France whose son or husband has died fighting and that into the country. As soon as they were members, whether Ministers of State or cross, with the dead poilu's casque, would within it we, with our brave black sol- private individuals must at all umes remain for ages to come the most cherishdiers and with the help of our nati-es, submit to the authority of the com ed heirloom of the family. He died, they drove them out and killed many whites mittee. E will say, in that great campaign which among the enemy. The black soldiers if was fought to preserve the honour of the English and French. have already
deserted them in masses, and cons France and the liberties of Europe from fight on our side, because they see that German savagery......
the
With similar blindness allowed our - Past Seres of Australian zinc to get into the hairde of German monopolists, and,
Cortainly, nothing great comes in this when the war nullified their contracts, to world without effort, and it is necessary pass to the United States, simply and
to turn from the contemplation of the solely because we had no big works can sublime and to trace out as well as we able of dealing with it. Again, the can some of the causes which have con- monazite sands discovered at Travancore,tributed to the military revival of France in India, from which sunds the nitrate since the dark days of August, 1914. Let #thorium for the manufacture of in- (andescent gas-mandes is derived, were largels exported despite the so-called British company formed to utilize them) by German capitalists, who, man- aged to persuade us that it would be to our advantage that our monazite sands should be controlled chiefly by them. Hence arose the ridiculous situation, only dad by the war, which made it ricres sary that incandescent maniles and nitrate of thorium produced from the Travacard sands should come to Great Britain si Germany. By the energetic action recently taken in certain quarters in the gas industry, however, the Foreign Offen bas stamped out the German con- trol, and the needful plant that did not exist when war broke out has now been constructed.
⠀⠀ This gives hope for the future if we have learned to be wise in one direction
we may also in others, and make arrange- ments, for example, to provide adequate capital for the development of the wood pulp facilities offered by Canada One thing is at all events certain, and that is, that in the struggle for commercial as in the fight for military and national existence we. must look to proper or- ganization and combination of the whole resources of the Empire to help us.
THE "CENTRAL EUROPE MOVEMENT.
HUNGARY ACCUSED OF OBSTRUC
TION.
THE ANCIENTS AND THE YOUTH
the indefatigable labours of the old men, How can one fail also to appreciate the boys, and the girls who have taken
the place of the able-bodied men, and in a thousand ways, but perhaps in agricul- ture most of all, have sought to maintain, and a superb extent have maintained, the culture of France! Go where one will
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we are stronger. So it occurred. at: Molundu, and already sixteen white darua, Ossidinge, and at Ojem; also at Frenchmen and many French soldiers have been killed. At Duala the same will occur.
In announcements the English lau- guage is, under all circumstances, to be avoided, local language to be used as far as possible.
Circulate this news in your relay, arca (Relaisbereich)
(Signed) EBERMAIER.
we should send him abroad, too, in some
Dr. Nousig has no observation to ven- sure on that remarkable declaration.
SINGLE-HANDED PIRACY. The young pirate who attempted, to rob the British steamer Matappe now turns out to he, not Ernest Schiller, German: spy, but Clarence Reginald Hod- son, the 23-year-old son of an English father and a German mother. He con feases that he tried to rob a British versal on the high seas in reprisal for being imprisoned in England because he Gorman blood.
zone, the old intensive cultivation goen, in France, yes, even up to the shell-swept on, Now, as before, every inch of soil is tended with loving care. Now, as before, though most of the old working hands have gone, and though many will never return, the earth in France brings forth ber increase, the cattle are pastur ed, the flocks tended, the hodges trimmed, the roads preserved in beautiful condi- tion. Early and late they work, these ancients. youths, and maids; and just as LORD R CECIL ON A DISHONEST had placed bombs throughout the ship.
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The American newspapers on March 20 tion, because he confesses to boarding the devastated deliberately by the Hunnish published an interview which reprefaloppo in a drunken stupor, under the All recent German comment on the
hord do these modern maids of entative of the Associated Press has nad impression that three conspirators were Central Europe" movement is to the France defy the fates, and keep for their with Lord Robert Cecil on the subject with him. When he found himself alone many hours later he resolved to try and effect that the dicussions and negotiations country and their men the marvellous of the German agitation in America for the safe and got ashore with the are making little progress, and that this crops which our wondering yenmen have the export of milk for Gerraan babies booty fact is mainly due to the attitude of watched from seed time to harvest in This agitation Lord Robart degeribed as He relates how he persuaded three Hungary. Professor Hortzsch, Professor astonishment without end. In every most dishonest and insincere.- Schiemann's succes or on the staff of the field is a victory won... On a famous
other Germans to attempt to board the Belginm, said Lord Robert, had 1,500,- reut Zeitung, says in his weekly re-mountain, all within range of the Ger-000 cattle. He know that practically one Canard liner Pannoniu, which sailed view of foreign afairs that in spite man guns, the vines are tended as though from New York on March 18th. Armed with dynamite, the desperadoes were to of great zeal the discussions about the no war ever was. When Zols described am informed from sources whose veracity ga on bosed the Cunarder at night, sub- economic rapprochement of the Centrul the same scenes of 45 years ago He is unimpeachable and that have expert Powers have made no considerable pro thought it the poet's licence But we knowledge that the Germans have been due the officers and crew when fairly at 538, and that the question is still have all seen it now, seen it every day so zealous in the maintenance of their sea, rob the safe of its £2,000 and then very far from a solution." He adds that and know it to be true. The loving care original capital of cattle that probably of his companions however, decided that scuttle the ship by opening seacocks, Two the work is being made more difficult of the farm and the cabbage patch fils less rather than more milk cows have been the odds against the successful outcome by the mixing of politico-constitutional the heart of the poilu on furlough with slaughtered during war than normal of the adventure appeared too heavy, and questions with questions of economics. joy, and he rejoins his regiment with times. Germany is touched on all sides refused to help. Hodson thereupon got
It is now asserted in the Kreuz Zeitung patriotiem renewed.
by the greatest milk-producing countries very drunk, and, under the impression THE MORAL OF THE and elsewhere that the chief obstacle to
of Europe, and it is adle to contend that that his friends were still in agreement The moral of the Army, said General progress" is. Count Tisza, who is not
Petain to-the-writer at Verdun, is bigb these sources
she is hot still getting supplies from with him, went on board a vessel which disposed to the hasty conclusion for There is no doubt of it. The light censor-
he beloved to be the Fungonia. He hid Of course cotton-seed cake and similar in a rowing boat, and when he awoke agreement between Hungary and Aus
mander to keep his finger upon the pulse but we have good ground for, believing alone. Hodson asys he does not care what tria, such as the Germans declare to of opinion in his Army, and he cannot that this shortage has been met by the the American authorities do with him the necessary basis for an economic agree sment between Austria-Hungary and Gerisinformed from a thousand signs slaughter of bulls, leaving the larger pro long as they do not deliver him to the the most incompetent observer can portion of the fodder to supply the cows. many. According to a recent article by Professor Fried ung in the Fossische recognize that the information is correct. Moreover, Germany reaped rust crops of British, of whom he admits having a Zeitung, the contents of Which have not When the writer was poring over a map cereals. The resultant fodder, added to wholesome fear, and who, he believes, will string him to the yard-arm without com- been denied, the dormon-Government de with General Petan it might reasonably what she removed from Belgium and function. He will he arraigned at New have been supposed that the discosezon Northern France, and other occupied York on a charge of piracy, the penalty finitely proposed some little time ago to seuch, & high Gormer official to Vients was whether Mort Hotome or Yaux could territories, must-have gone far to com for which is imprisonment for life- to discuss the basis of agreement. The hold, or whether the thundering cannon pensate for any deficiency due to our Austrian Government, according to Pro breach. But the map was of the Eastern that Germany sent enormous herds of would make somewhere a blockade. To this may be added the fact fessor Friedjung, expressed willingness to Mediterranean, and in the midst of one cattle to be pastared in Northern France, negotiate about a long term commercial of the greatest battles of history the Com- and the German Chancellor has promised treaty with Germany, but the objections mander was capable of detaching himself in the Reichstag to take the same action raised by Hungary caused the post from his immediate surroundings and of in Belgium tag to take the same ponement of the German mission. In disenssing operations in very distant an interesting passage Professor, Fried
Germany had the effrontery to include fields. He could do so because all his in her appeals for milk distressing de Jung said
measures were taken, and although Our enemies as well as the cutrals, very delicate operation was plaimed to scriptions of the shortage of milk in Porchenhink MsPRED
land-What can be thought of this when Malancourt that night, the General's con- we find in the Austrian papers particu fidence in his sector commanders and his lars of large imports of milk From Ras troops enabled his mind to be at rest. It sian Poland to Austrian territory was the same with that grand leader, the large that the municipality of Cracow chivalrous Couraud, it was the same with alone was getting 1,000 litres (880 quarte) General Joffre, massive und vast in daily from Russian Poland 1 The whole character as in intellect, sud it was the agitation is purely a political move decision and so quick in thoughts designed to discredit us with philan
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