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SHANGHAI MAN DIES IN HONGKONG PRISON, WA,
Oswald Abbass, of Shanghai, who was convicted for committing an offence under the Defence of the Realm Act in Shang- hai on the 10th January, died in Victoria Gaol yesterday morning, at 4.45 from pneumonia. He was conveyed to Hong kong in March, to serve sentence of two years imprisonment.
The Coroner (Mr. J. R. Wood) and a jury composed of Mesars, A. W. Heron, T. Meek, and A. B. da Silva-Netto held
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29TH 1016
FRANCE AND RUSSIA
THE BIRTH OF AN ALLIANCE.
COMFORTS FOR THE WOUNDED.
Hall,
Our Little Bit" Workers' Society [BY JULIETTE, ADAM.]
are sending the following this week to Juliette Adam is one of the most die- tinguished of living French women Her Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., to be for
Colonel Gordon life work has been to bring Russia and warded France together against Germany, and R.A.M.C., A.D.M.8. Cairo District, now in the late evening of her days the Abbasia, Cairo-42 pairs slippers, 20 has passed her eightieth birthday—her dream has been realised to the full. The dressing jackets, 1 nightingale, 1 dress war of 1878-1871 and its result convincing-gown, 16 suite pyjamas, 84 milk her that the future of France, was with Russia, and henceforward la revanche covers 1,512 rolls bandnges.
the cardinal principle of her life-a revenge of which the first condition was
AS IN A GLASS DARKLY,
[BY AN ENGLISHMAN.] Herr Maximilian Harden is one of the low Gormans who, since the beginning of the war, have dared to tell the truth. He it was who had the courage to assure his war was their war, that they willed it. countrymen, many months ago; that the And to day he has offered them for an welcome gift a deeper, sterner truth. knowing nothing whatever of statecraft, In plain terms he has charged them with of the soul, history, and resources of
the nations with which they are at war."
INTIMATIONS
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The charge, which is well founded, is of WHY NOT SLEEP SOUND
good augury for us, since it is a first ante-
an enquiry into the circumstances attend alliance with Ruskin. In 1891, that coCOMPULSION BILL IN NEW cédent of victory to understand clearly
ing the man's death at the Gaol yester day, and after medical evidence had been heard a verdict of Death from Natural Causes was returned.
dition was fulfilled
Telegram addresses by Count Nicholas. Ignatieff to Madame Juliette Allam an the Arrival of Russians in "France.
Вовах Внов.
ZEALAND.
NEW EXPEDITIONARY RESERVE.
The National Service Bill introduced in the New Zealand Parliament last month provides for the establishment of an expeditionary force reserve consisting of two divisions,ve,
the temper and character of an oppon-
When war broke out in August, 1914, a veil of ignorance was stretched between England and Germany. We saw one an- other as in a glass darkly. The Cormans knew nothing about Englishman, although they believed that they had studied their them in a moment of decay. They had gathered statistics and had docketed
Deceased was in January last charged, with his father, with selling arms and with his father, the son of Great Bar
tain. The father was sentenced to 15 years hard labour, and the son to two pathetic night of the national consecration, mencement of the war, widowers with no facts with their familiar thoroughness.
years imprisonment. In sentencing Oswald Abbass (the son), Sir Havilland
- de Sausmarez bail:-
To you is due the honour of having foreseen the sentiments which unite French and Russian hearts. Having retired from political life, and now being a simple agriculturist, I am transported with joy by the imposing, touching and
jwhich I have always advocated and preached, in China as well as in Cou stantinople, as can be testified by all my French colleagues. May the bond which unites our two countries remain for
ever.
COUNT IGNATIE
The first division will comprise ammar ried men, men married since the co children, or men whose marriages have been separated from their wives and are England which would surprise is, were been judicially dissolved or who have the archives of Berlin 1 am sure there exists a scandalous chronicle of childless. The second division, which may be sub divided into classes, consists we permitted to read it, by its childish of all other reservists
simplicity. Therein our crimes and our The Bill Provides for enlistment by follins are neatly arranged and suitable. what is generally known as the commando inferences are drawn from them. The system. The Dominion will be divided inferences are certainly all wrong, be- into districts, and each district will because the German logic is false, even ge the number of men of military Nor can it be said that the Germans had
number required is forthcoming in them had lived many years in England. age viz., not less than 20 years old and left anything to chance. They are a less than 46-within its boundaries. If painstaking people, and thousands of district, without compulsion the men with no other object than to discover-her- be accepted in the ordinary way. If weaknesses. will be selected by ballot from the first the number is short the balance required division.
Pou, Oswald Abbass, have been cons victed of aiding and abetting your father
Small are the number of Frenchmen in the commission of the offence for which who, since 1971, have watched the his He has been convicted. There is nothing torical development of Russian sympathies for France. My hope of avenging (la to show that you were a party to the conteanche), through an alliance with given its quota periodically in propor- where it is based upon just premises.
Russia, the defeat suffered by the French comforted nie and greatly relieved my the had its birth in one single fact, which patriotic distress: Immediately the postal service was resumed after Puris the first newspaper which came into my had been forced to capitulate, I saw hands the following simple words:
mission of the offense, but it is clear that after it had been committed you aided and abetted the other prisoner hy assisting him in obtaining the price of his villaing, I shall pass upon you what would in ordinary times be the severest penalty which the law allows, thigh under the Defence of the Realm Acta you appear to be liable: to a heavier punishment. You will be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years,"
LIFE IN THE PALACE.
SINCE THE DEATH OF YUAN, BJIH-KAL
..
A vernacular paper has published rather interesting account of the changes which have taken place in the Palace since the death of Yuan Shih-kai.
ta
The en
trance to the Palace, the Hin Hua Men, which used to be crowded with carriages and motor enra every afternoon, is now practically deserted. Just a few guards stand at the gate. The vigilant measures hitherto taken by the Authorities to pro- hibit strangers from intruding into the Forbidden Grounds during the lifetime of the late President are no longer ob served. Between the hours of 9 in and p.m., any one may apply to the authori ties for admission to the Palace grounds pay his respects to the deceased Chief Executive. When once admitted, he can roam about in places which were once forbidden. Ferry boats will be waiting at the shore of the lake to carry him to the other side of the South Sea," in which the lotus flowers are blooining gnily and luxuriantly at the present season. After disembarking on the further side of the ཟ་ Sea," he will pass through a number of imposing halls where the late President used to hold Palace conferences with his Ministers, but which are now alnost deserted.
The family of the late President has reinsved all their personal belongings from the Palace. All the furniture in the Palace, including those in the public offices such as the Chun Hou Tsai, Shen Yi Taai, ete, have been removed by the relatives of the late President. The halls, which were used as the President private offices or place of meeting, are deprived of their furniture and now. locked up. It is understood that over five thousand pieces of wooden furniture, not including the personal belongings such as trunks and ani: cases, have been removed from the Palace by the Yann family either to their native home in- Honan or to their former private resi dence at Hai La Hutung in the Capital.
All the sons of the late President, with the exception of Mr. Yunn Ko-ting, have left the Palace for other places with their own mothers to look after them. Those present before the catafalque of the late President in mourning dress to return salutations to the guests who go to pay their respects to the deceased are said to he deputies who act in the place of the Inte President's sons for the occasion.
The Tanrevitch has refused to join in the toast given by his father, the Tsar, for the victory at Bedan. On reading those few lines my hope of a revanche becanic so intensified, and ap-
pealed to me with such force, that ever since then the whole of my life has been guided by it. Russian history and politics became the object of my daily ocenpations. Apossible alliance with Russia has haunted my mind without respite, I went far in my research and founded my presumptions on all the facts. which tended to indicate to me the strug gle of certain Russian minds against Ger-
manism.
those who held Germany to be an enemy Everywhere I found proof of this, All
of Russia became, ipso facto, friends of
France, ed in search juto
labour in vain? They were in vain be- Why, then, were all their toil and There are drastic provisions to reach cause the Germans are disciplined to see shirkers who may not be reached by the only what they expect. They do not ordinary process of the ballot for some
bring a frank eye to the vision of un- time. Provision is also made familiar objects. Their emissaries were becomes necessary for the abolition of the told that England was on the edge of civil
voluntary system altogether and to make compulsion apply generally. There are practically no exemptions in the Bill The men ballated for must apply for exemption if they desire it to one of the statutory tribunals which will be estab- lished for that purpose.-Reuter
FUTURE OF CHARING CROSS.
PROSPECTS OF A CHANNEL TUNNEL
war, that class was divided against class, that Ireland was in arms against the rest of a disunited kingdom, And the emis series, seeing what they were expected to see, went home and deceived their Kaiser.
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and found that everything pointed to the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway not in fnding out about their neigh HONGKONG, CANTON,
I paused in my search to the past,
saune conclusion as in 1846 Definite symptoms appeared. Having been gen- erated and grouped together they took root and developed under the impulse given them by Constantin Aksakoff, Komaroff, and Kireovsky (Note: The three lenders of the Slavophila), and by shark The start had been given and the publication of the Moskou sympathy for France firmly established.
Russian Conservatives, bosom friends of the Germans, in bitter rage had the could not check the impulse given to the Shornik suppressed, but Mechowsky
developed by the passionate literature of nourished and the true Russians of the middle classes,
-movement that
was
Lord Bristol's Select Committee of the House of Lords last month passed the Company's Bill for the strengthening of the existing Charing cross bridge. Evi- dence against the proposals had previous ly been heard
a
There is another quality inherent in modern Germany which provents her sons from perceiving what is at their feet. They are far too arrogant to understand the character of others. They are so busy. Tooking at themselves in the glass that they are incapable of sincere and detach- ed observation, So they went abroad exulting in huller and spent their time, hours, but in explaining what very fine fellows they were and what a vastly better place the world would be if only it were drilled and barracked into the obedience Sir Lionel Earle, Secretary to the which gave strength and unity to the Office of Works, said he thought the new German States. The result, happy proposals would make the bridge aglier, us, was that wherever they went they for there would be an enormous increase in they saw lay upon the surface; and they and he advocated delay. After the war took accidents for essentials; the little traffic on that railway, with the prob proved that the opinions which they form ability in the near fure of a Channeled and set forth in writing about Eng- tunnel, and he thought they ought to take land, about Indie, about our Dominions stood that the sale of the Charing cross paper which were wasted in their expres the wide view. He had always under over-sea, were not worth the ink and station south of the river. That would site would practically pay for a fine new leave the way open for a magnificent ne tional war memorial really beautiful bridge for ordinary traffic across the river on the site of the existing bridge
truth. We listened without a protest to the foolish praises of our foe sung by Lord Haldane. We heard the vapid eulo- gies pronounced by Messrs. McKenna and Runciman and made no protest. And then came the war to disturb our ignor curiosity. ance and to arouse at last our sleeping
While the Germans were thus befog AN ANTI-DERMAN CAMPAIGNISS
ging the counsel of their State the English However, the Longress of Berlin and
remained ignorant of their adversary in the treaty watch rooned Hussie of the
pure carelessness of heart
Even our truit of her victories at last opened ine
Ministers, employed to watch over the eyes of the upper class. One might mezi
welfare of the Empire, were woefully ion in this connection England, and the I have also right to recall what I wrote ignorant of Germany and her intentions. treacherous union which associated Dis- in my Foreign Policy rae with Bismarck, and which caught Noterile Recur on October 30th, 1913 —
In
TheAnd where the Ministers failed, the citi zons failed also, They were unsuspicious, Garbetta, represented by Wadding At last the day has come, the unfor overkindly to foreigners, incurious, apt ton, a men er British origin, in one of getable day, the blessed day, when the to take the unknown for the magnificent. the most Machiavellian traps, whole French nation, without distinction So we let the Germans live in our midst The great Katkost, who possessed the of caste, party, religion, or philosophy, and learn what they could; nor is it our most intellectual mind, the greatest heart has neclaimed the Franed Russian fault that they learned so little. and finest character, and was the best Entente. At first timidly, sometimes For our own part we accepted for facts speaker and writer Russia ever had, sud- despairing, always ardently, I have whatever we were told. We had heard denly became aware of the shameless dreant for more than twenty years of that a great and friendly nation" dwelt Machiavellianism which the Treaty of possibilities at last realised by events in in peace somewhere across the North Sea, Berlin represented. An ardent partisan Cronstadt, Toulon, Paris, Lyons, and that it was well organised for peace and of autocracy, he remained conservative, Marseilles. If my anguish with regard war, that it cultivated scholarship and but the more he repudiated Teutonic in to the future was sometimes cruel, how philosophy with zeal and success, and fluence, the more was he obliged to turn splendid it now is that my most exalted his sympathies towards France
wishes have now been realised, my post
very much more that was remote from the
the hater of the Germana). Skobeleff How many friends have been lost on Aksakoff, General Tscherninieff (called cherished dreams surpassed 1st (whose motto was Every German is the way, how many others found, how an enemy preceded Katkoff in their many hopes abandoned, how many en hatred, and they and Count Nicholas conragements picked up during this Ignatieff, the diplomat of genius, one struggle of a quarter of a century! At of the parties to the treaty of San Stefano, united in the anti-German can the friends of Russia have not interrupt first in sinalt numbers, then in masses, paign, and, supporting some, they did ed their march towards their end, and CONTRAST OF PROFESSORS. not fight those of the National party, though many leaders fell by the way. If the title of associate appears most of them were strack down by the
If you would measure the differences be vulgar in certain business combinations, enemy Teo, Chancy, Skobeleff, Ratkoff, tween the German lack of understanding nevertheless it is a great favour to get it Aksakoff but each time when they left and the English you have but to compare. when one has fought for it. In the us to struggle alone a consolation arose, the two sets of professors who were gar day, of which I am especially proad, of word came from the Tsar It is be, and English professors were ignorant, foolish National Commerce I had the hon a comforting word sustained us, and this rulous in the first months of the war. The
Katkoff, of Count Ignatieff, during the who has encouraged our efforts to the Germans, persuaded by their vanity being an associate of Skobeleff, of he alone, who has answered to our appeal, wrong headed. They grossly over-praised long and difficult campaign of pro Shall I write some day the history that they appreciated them wisely and
in the Beld of foreign politics paganda for bringing about the Franco- of these twenty years, the war that I presumed upon a brief sojourn at Bann Russian Alliance, waged and which was waged against me or Leipzig to mislead their untravelled in the death of Katkoff and Skobeleff. parties upon a woman whose sole crime insuits upon the English and so made it mean crime of Bismarck which resulted severe were the leaders of the opportunist far worse, because they heaped Lice and How countrymen. The German professors did
Bismarck organised shameful attacks on has been to carry proudly aloft the ban impossible that they should ever under Kotkoff and his Moscow paper, One ner of the Franco Russian Entente stand them. Thus they have amply justi. would like to read again the ericle in Shall I unveil the means which our ad Herr Harden's condemnation as mon which Katkoff calumnie
Bismarck's diplomsey has employed, the intrigues it who know nothing about the soul or the Only one Russian paper remained ambushes it has laid in order to hand us to meet upon the field of battle.
has sown, the arms it has furbished, the history of those whom they are orderoð faithful to the German Chancellor, and over to the victor after Sedan, as Austria The Germans, who learn nothing and that, I would add, to its atter disgrace was delivered up after Badowa. Every
"
UTOPIA IN 1936. PASTOR'S HOPES IN A DREAM.
my vision I go out for a stroll, and I find on the Church notice boards the words: United Free Church of England (Wesleyan Methodists), United Free Church of England:(Presbyte.ian), tive Methodists), England (ximushave related in my Memoirs the
United Free Church of England (Primi
answered
I come across a military man, and I ask him how the recruits are coming Lam glad to find that they are en listing for the purposes of international police. The recruiting officer replies to me Oh, well, there is no dificulty now. Some are Church of England and some are United Free Church of Eng Jand. All the old difficulties are past.
I go to St. Paul's Cathedral, where a great service is in progress. I look This paper, which in the dispute between possible mistake has been committed forget nothing, are still living in a wilful
up the chancel and I find on one side
Katkoff and Bismarck took the part of abroad under the pretence of the exigen and priests of the Church of
the latter, was tho Grajdanin of Prince cies of the great gland: and on the other side there are almost THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ENTENTE
inspired by Conservative as many representatives of the Free
In Toulon, in Paris, in Lyons, in what they are the but my vision the growth of antitherman fooling in the Eranch people have testated theme
The influence excrcised by Katkoff on Marseilles, in avery town, in every village are wearing there they are, and when 1 ask the reason I am Russia, and his influence over mind and love of Russia to him who told Well, of
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proclaimed the enemies of the human race,
in England now the estimated. Cronstadts Toulon, Marseilles Towarde our nation, also, the friends Wo, on our side, have not tried very hard war were not an honester trade than poli- Church of England and the United Free have been-ing, re-its consequences of Russia have never ceased to demon-to gangs the temper or character of Gorica, to despise treaties as mere scraps of Church of England. "
About 1670 I had the "nour to restrate what France owes to Russia to many, and in spite of ourselves we are paper. We know them also a men who This was the dream in which the Receive a letter from Gambetta, in which the three Alexanders,
arriving at their just mesure, partly be
use the Germans cannot help bragging be far better and wiser than any others in the very act of outraging law and justice and mercy, aunt themselves fu tout about their qualities and partly le who ever lived and fought and died upon onuse they are as little complex as the
All the shame of Germany has been re- Britain's duty to govora,
vealed to us, as Herr Harden well knows; (Continued on next Column.) but bis counsel of a cleaner habit of fight
pride, they affect to despise all those whom blindness Wrapped up in a cloak of
they cannot conquer. They BERUMO," IN
We know thear now as much who are ing 8 given too late. It is idle for bio spite of Her Harden's warning, that disciplined to break all the laws of to urge the nation in noble brazers 22 because they think for de saramay to sink ships, crowded with innocent and of warfare which are not
hatever they do or think is right merely humanity, to murder women and children, prohibit the use of sil means and method
praceful passengers, to bura libraries and the war to a fit and proper end." Ger hour win the laurels of chivalry. It sho tried she would but add hypoorisy crown to her other sins. Meanwhile wa
sergeant has made it, lieg hare before us are getting to know her better and better every day her soul, such as the drill- and in the confidence of the mugh Wapsow.ebalinate arrogance, misreads tomper of England and still believes
of the victim Ang Daily Mar
R. B. Gillie (Presbyterian) expressed his he called me impudent. The follow For she was saved from being cas to hopes to the Spring assembly of the ing is the text of the letter, full of praises pieces at the Congress of Paris by Alex Baptist Union at the Bloomsbury Central One asust be quite impudent to wish 1 From war in 1875, when we were busy savages whom it has always, boom Great the earth-fat and a quared knowledge we hell surely conquer a for
Church on May 4, and said that he want-
Melander 1.
for ine:
for a Russian alliance.
ed to wake up ten or twenty years, bence and see what our land was like then.
(Continued on next Columns)
re-arming, by Alexander ILURE
And because we owe the alliance with Russia to Alexander II
sad misundersta