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RIGHT HON, J. M. ROBERTSON UTTERS A NOTE OF WARNING.
GERMAN FAILURES. HOW THEY ARE WEEDED OUT.
Hon, and
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THE YOUNG MAN'S WAR.
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One of the results of the Great War [BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.]
will be that Youth will hold up its head | Germany continues to reveal Efficiency smothered in England for the last sixty again for a little while. Youth has been in the War by remorseless dismissal of years, and professional soldiers, from Baucheong, Stockac, Swatow Batavia The most important non-military ques Inefficients from high places. The tumble Lord Raglan to Lord Roberts, have sat Girlie THE How abajo, tion of the war is Britain's attitude to from grace of Dr. Delbrück, Food upon it more heavily than anyone angcheongfat, Coun-aght wards German trade after peace A Minister, is idols is both notable 1880 has been put down to the youth of Les Usoo
fresh reminder that the very vexy interesting view of the situation roll of fallen Teuton
"upfortunate incident since has just been written by the Right Holt lengthens from eyele to cycle of the short service soldiers BoA sergeant rem, 37. Stan!
short-service Sawiam, Stanley Read ary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Germany's impotent gamble for and published by the Cobden Club. Mr. cision. Ne held of her reckless endeavoured to write a doggerel poem on the Robertson admits the difficulty of fairly is devoid of the victims of stupidity, in subject. The grizzled Doppers wore his considering the problem in view of Ger competence, and failure. The shining
ideal soldiers man militarism and German savagery in marks of her diplomacy, hor Army, her war, although, as he bitingly remarks, Navy and now even of her vaunted in "many Englishmen of business trade ternal Organisation," have all in habitually with non-European savages at
their turn toppled from their eminences, martyrs alike to their own deficiencies and
all times; the view then, that European savages should not be traded with may fail to stand the test of peace experi enco." He has no patience with the people who talk about framing the terme ntment in the future;——
"If the German people remain, as
upon Germany, they are said to be,convinced that the
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Gainst men like these, what chance
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This will not be a sacrifice of princi- ple, he argues, but a sacrifice of poten- tial gain. It will be a political and military self-preservation it should not be pretended to be one of economic advantage."
service men are considered superior to the old reservists. There must be some reason for the British officers prejudice
the hopelessness of the Frightful Dr. Delbrück, the long-time Imperial Minister of the Interior and highest type latest, but it is written in the stare German heavens that he will not be the glittering over more orainously in the last. If the canons of Divine Right can hardly he doubted that the imperial once remarked shrewdly that the younger buffoon who has been misdirecting the British officers had no particular objce shambles before Verdun would, too, betion to young soldiers, and that the feel. added to the growing galaxy of Germans ing began to show itself at about five tried and found wanting.
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CHURCH SERVICES.
Allies, it would be worse than futile to attempt by peace negotiations to cou vince them that the facts were other
Practically speaking, a nation pictured as thus misinformed is only air ether version of the nation gone mad'; The roll call of the Failures, chronole and we cannot reason with the magically speaking, begins with Prince elephant. But we may take cool precau Lichnowsky, the polished aristocrat tions in our dealing with it. A con- whose bungling judgment of British tinuously rabid Germany, then may character impelled him to counsel Ber Take necessary for us and our Allies a fiscal policy which, so far as in us lies, August 1014 that Albion was still per lin in the fateful, hours of July and will tend to make her financially cripfidious. Lichnowsky'a nyopie X-raying pled, while in largo mozsure curtailing of the British mind was much older than our own possibilities of weath.
Hous-terrace. Had he not written in
4th Sunday for Trinity, 16th July, 916. his brief Ambassadorship in Carkon the Deutsche here in October 1908 that
Holy Communion (7.50) Matins (11 a.m.) ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Horgtenp. British antagonism to Germany is pri marily the artificial creation of British statesmen, who require a bogey to
Responrer, Ferial Vanite Kempton: Palms, Anglo-Indian opinion had a great deal Weldon. Rimsuit Hies and Gulwar; Te awaken modern England from the to do with the old-soldier theory. In Dam, Ost-ley in F; Publiat, Ou eloy in G decadence so vividly described by Oscar India, as Rudyard Kipling says, a young
Anthem, Anthot of life divine,”—Adlam Wilde and G. Bernard Shaw,
man of 21 is considered a very small child, 229 BB-Feslm 79, teres 1, 5.6. Mr.harming as Prince Lichnowsky was as indeed. There is a curious contempt for
a drawing-room rucunteur and dinner youth among Anglo-Indians.
sad 14 in aaison: Fast 80. vees 37, 14. Lost, his sedulous cultivation of the country has its own age standard.
and 17 in unison; Psalm 81, versen. 1. 9 Bud wrong people in England was hardly standard in America is about ten years Ferial Palm, Tarl Conko, Heyword and Every 14 GAP. in unison. Holy Commauion (12 designed in 1914 to obliterate his 1809 younger than in this country, and the Hopkins, Magnifoss Tusla (3.6 m roing); The Noun) Evensong (5.45 pm) Responses conceptions of the surging undercurrents Indian standard is about ton years older. None Dinitis, Elvey (2304 morning: Hymas, of Britain's attitude towards Germany.A man who has been scaling in the 329 231 std 10. The Wilhelmstrasse specialises in scape Indian sun for years hes no patience goats. Lichnowsky was the logical can with the ruddy griffin fresh from Europe. didate for that dishonouring distinction He meets the newcomer as Eliab mot when the Eniser's Government was put David: Why camest thou down hither to the necessity of explaining away to And with whom hast thou left those few its infuriated people the
treacherous fastnessies of Kuckelna, his ancestral seas here, and the nau intervention of Britain. A recluse in the sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thing in Silesia, the prince, who hoped to crown his diplomatic career with the Imperial Chancellorship, is withal per- hans as tragic a figure as besieged Ger
WHAT ABOUT INDEMNITIES?
Before we adopt such a policy, Robertson contends that, we must remeʊ- her that it will render it impossible to exact from Germany any indemnity for Belgium and Serbia. His own view is that Germany should be compelled to in demnify her victims not in bullion, but in raw and manufactured materials. She has robbed Belgium and France of ruillions of pounds, worth of furniture, for example. Let the Allies exact from Germany the delivery of furniture of satisfactory quality, old or nEY. In the same way she should be compelled to. return all the cont and iron and metals
Dinny now holds.
DISORGANISER OF VICTORY:
الله و
July 18th-Rev. E. W. L Martin, July 23rd-Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. July 30th. Roy. H. Copley Moyle.
Juty 4 h Bunday als Trinity, huming Prayer, at 11. Responses, Feesl; Venite, ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, Kowloon, 16th
1st Morning: Fealms, As 81, Te Deum,
laser Julig, Hayes, Hymns, 83, 800 45 Kyrie, M. unter Prog Frayer, at 8 pm. Responses, tal
Natia Antiem. which she has stolen from our Allies. If! Germany is to pay indemnity in specie
had absorbed so much of the atmosphere in at 11 am.
A S.; Magunticat, Smart, Nune The negrors of the Confederate States per Hyun. National Anthem
Dimith, Felton Hymus, 159, 24 and 195. or scrip she must sell goods, and this must stimulate German industry, forcing
round them that they used to talk about
Holy Com it to compete with our trade in neutral.
the cursed Bobolitioniste. On the day, 18 July: Holy Couranules.
Sz. PETER'a markets. Germany, if the Allies decided:
Weal URUNCE,
Point Sun. to boycott her trade, would make agree
same principle, Mr. Kipling was writ 10,0 e.m., Sandey school. 11 am, Morning The magic of a sainted name, placeding about "boys" of twenty-five when he Prayer and Bermon. Frencher, hav, E.W.L ments with neutral nations, giving them Staff in picturesque preparation for dried colonels had infected the young
at the head of the Great German General was only twenty-two himself. The aun Martin her best terms and getting the best terms The Day did not save General Hel-author with their own contempt for 16th July Maring from them. Mr. Robertson demandsmuth von Moltke, disorganiser of victory, youngsters under thirty. It is the Seat. The song of The Sword Eroning whether the best course in our own in-
UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Rad. Sunday, forests is not to leave Germany to trade from paying the penalty Berlin ruth parade ground point of view, and it is Service at 6. Saijest, 1 silent Praje
Savile where the will, to pay for indemnities lessly demands for demonstrated incapa natural enough in Indin, for where a Pi ouer Bey J. Kirk Mapuch na she can, and to win her way back to the day of the Marne He continued to city. The axe fell on Moltke's neck on peaceful trade relations with her neighbe Chief of the Staff for a month or two But aw that the rheumatic trenches have The services will be taken by the follow army is wanted to "ave the mob" there in the above Church on the Sunday even The PEAK CHURON Service will be held bours as best she may.A
is nothing like a phalanx of old soldiersings in July, at 6:20. If the Allied peoples as consumers afterwards, but his decapitation became found out the weak spots in the veterans in Wi desire to have no unnecessary trade with ordained fact from the moment the there has been a surprising change of
All seats free. Germany, they have simply to abstain Supreme War Lord realised that the opinion. The military members who from buying Gernian goods. It will be Marne had pronounced the doam of Ger- have spoken in the House of Commous long before German trades are welcomed many whole vast scheme of conquest, in any Allied State. If any plan could however long the formal end might be ben said for fifty years by every promi- have simply raversed everything that han long-nourished child of Moltke's fantasymous about the superiority of the young keep Germany down
postponed. When the Allies, in Septemnent soldier except Lord Wolseley. The ber 1914, once for all annihilated the colonels in the House have been unani
the pulverising of France in war machine rind for the smashing of men between eighteen and twenty-three weeks and then wheeling the Germanster in khaki, One of thero said that
"' six
Russia-the inept heir of the Father wers those who best came through the land's most cherished tradition, organs ordeal of war. They keep their heads ation of victory," joined the throng down" and become better stalkers than Which knows no extenuation. old mon. Another military member who O'Kluck, as Tommy Atkins has immort company fall out.
With Moltke one of his main baladins had just come from the front said that was swept into oblivion, "Old Vun he had never seen a young man in his alised the field-general who did not take had visited this trenches expressed him Paris. Alexander von Kluck commanded self to the same effest almost in, passion German armies in the most disastrous ate terms; he demanded twenty three One enthusiast who defeat they have suffered since Jenayear old generals, because Napoleon was Balected for the richest honour which a general at twenty-three. It is altogether could fall to the lot of any soldier of his an astonishing change of opinion, for generation, von Kluck's inability to lead la Concorde within the projected period three were thought hardly fit to be fall- his hosts triumphant into the Place de only the other day the men of twenty- sent him clattering back to his suburban grown privates; they were to be "stiffen- villa in Steglitz-Berlin with the branded" with Reservists when the guns began of inadequacy writ for ever
·brow.
to speak; and military writers enlarged on the contempt which the Reservists, on youngsters in the barracks rejoining the colours, would feel for the
be formed to
by a trade boycott without injuring the Allies they would be justified in acting on it, but it is impossible.
"All the nations of the world are in dustrially conditioned by each other and the misery of one infects the rest, it is probably much better for mankind as a whole that it is so."
And
So far the ers for a boycott The other favourite remedy is even more dan- perow. It is the adaptation of the old Tariff Reform" propaganda to the new situation by proposing that we shall adopt the taxation of imports, giving ferential terms to our Allies and Dominions, worse terms to the neutrals, mid still worse to the enemy States.
THE PREFERENCE FOLLY.
During this war Germany, Austria, France, and Italy have all been com pelled to suspend some or all of their duties on food imporis. That means thai a policy which is expressly ad- vocated on military grounds is found by all these protectionist countries to be un workable in time of war, Even high pro tection would not enable Great Britain to feed herself and remain a powerful and populous maritime State, as before. At the same time, it is madnesa to de mand taxation on wi-maanfactured im- ports after the war, when our great in dustrial task will be to compete with neutral and
ral and energy countries in produc- tion talking for
Mr Robertson further points out that anch a tariff as the Morning Post and its admirers demand would be the most com plicated ever seen. Its advocates do not tell us whether India is to have protes tion, and they are bound to create frie tion with our Allica as soon as the latter realise that Australian wines are to be given a preference over French, and that Canadian corn is to be taxed at
lower rate than Russian.
THE NAVAL - LIST.
across his
Germany's most glaring failure-the It is, of course commensurate with utter impotence of her battle feet change of opinion? It is not "trench- that the catalogue of her naval failures warfare" that has made all the differ What is the reason for this sudden should be brilliant and large. headed, of course, by the man who was Sebastopol, but Lord Raglan would have It is ence, for thero were trenches before power. Even Tirpits the Eternal could oldish men should be sent out, even the very incarnation of German so no young soldiers in them. He asked that grandiose scheme to not survive the grotesque collapse of his broken-down Londoners, rather than feat Britain by submarine, and when the only fill the hospitals at Scutari. Yot mad pursuit of his piratical elittera now it is said that it is the youngsters"
atarya
and de brought Germany to the brink of war
youngsters, who, as he said, would
the penalty always demanded for failure with the United States, von Tirpitz paid war." (X,Y,Z., in Manchester Guardian). in Berlin. He had to go. The Kaiser's
"who best come through the ordeal of affairs afloat were very young when the Commnader-in-Chief of the so-called United States-Deznburg, the Prope High Seas Fleet, Admiral von Ingenohl, ganda Generalissimo despatched across who was believed to personify German naval efficiency, was dismissed for the of the war (Americans called Derakarg's the Atlantic during the first fortnight Another set of perils will arise with of the seas without so much as an in- propaganda "); Boy-Ed, the naval at
inexpiable crime of losing the command maneuvres on their hospitable soil | Im- | neutrals If the United States, says Mr. glorious German shot. Robertson, is to get worse terms for food later the next ranking admiral, von the military attachs, the ineffable von and raw materials than Russia, it will Behncke, Chief of the Admiralty 8
A few months tache at the Washington Embassy, and inevitably give better terms to German followed-von-Jugenohl into the official (following the precedent of allow allor manufactures than to ours instead of bourne whence no Teuton incompetent Müller to call himself von
Staff Papen, who ought to be known, I thizk making the most of our trade with Euro returneth. Von Behncke's Felony was Emden), as von Papen-Falmouth rean neutrals, we shall by this madness also associated with the fiasco of the Dr. Delbruck's retirement from the drive them into the arms of Germany.
Then there is the danger that Garman boat, Into von Ingesohl's boots stepned (what would be known here as the Home capital will set up manufactures in Swit another eminent admirel, von Pohl, The Secretaryship) is probably the most Tirpitz plan to conquer Britain by U Imperial Ministership of the Interior erland and Scandinavia, and we shall latter did not contrive to wear them any string exemplification yet of the Ger be driven to convert our anti-German more gloriously, and early this year so ariff into an all-round one against silently did be take them off that it was petents. Because, after eighteen months eutrals. Such a course would land us only after he had died, in February, that of super-organisation, centralisation, and fter a few years of peace in the commer Germans learned af von Pohl's unnaten
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MEROPAGANDA.”
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