IN A GERMAN DUG-OUT.
A BRIEF TASTE OF CAPTIVITY,
Y
POLITICAL DISSENSION IN GERMANY,
BETHMANN IN TROUBLE.
A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF THE SITUATIOX.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 31st 1918.
No, you wouldn't remember me, sit; but I remember you all right. When my battalion was in training on Salisbury Plain a year ago I ricked my ankle once,
It is impossible to study the latest Ger- on a big divisional do--a three-day stunt,
man newspapers-covering the period, it was-out above Codiford way, and you roughly, of the renewed offensive on the let your groom take me back to camp on Somme, writes Mr. F. W. Wile, the late Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail, your horse, while you went on with the without gaining a distinct impression job on foot. I remember a'l right. And that both the military authorities and then I saw you again unce, over the other the country are afflicted with a nervous ness over before so plainly manifested side. We were passing through one during the war. This is a comprehen the villages behind Albert; 1 misremensible state of affairs when it is renum ber the name never was good at these bered that the German people have for generations grown up in the rock-ribbed French names, Seen suné queer things belief that their army is inviaciple. since then, sit; queer things, stire enough. Shown the Borbe something since them,
Events are moving fast and significant
when the German General Staff finds reassure the. it necessary, publicly to nation that "the German Army leader- 37 This The speaker was one of the most warship still commands the situation.
remarkable official bulletin is, of course
tou, sir."
LIFE IN VIENNA.
BY A NEUTRAL TRAVELLER.
GERMAN ATTEMPT TO WOO AMERICA
A despatch from Borne to the Morn- My travelliny companion from Buda-ing Port states that Prince Bulow refers pest to Vienna was a Viennese. He was somewhat disconsolately in his book. & mas of education, and apparently well-informed in regard to the politicni Deutsche Politik," to the efforts made affairs of his country. He deplored the obvious decline of Austrian prestige durby Germany to woo the United States. ing the past year and the arrogant atti-and to the results attained.
Emperor William. II, he says was par tude of Budapest towards Austrian in- terests. He then proceeded to lay bareticularly anxious that good relations the bus administration of Hungary, the should be established between the Empire absence of control of the central auth and the United States, and he gradual- The Emperor, he rities, and the disorder that was daily
friendly treatment." growing more widespread. Later in they won over the Americans by conaistent gesting an exchange of eminent professors dining saloon there were two Hungarian remarks also had the happy idea of sug seated near us, speaking Magyar. My
of the leading universities of the two Vicinese acquaintance remarked to me.
We can talk English now; we are in countries. Austria."
No sooner had we begun to speak than we met the glaring looks of our fellow travellers. Finally one of the Magyar spoke up in a loud voice and commanded
us to stop speaking English.
"We are in Austria row, and Magyar is alec a foreign language: I am at home here, and I speak what 1 please," my friend remarked quietly, and we con tinued our conversation in English until
we reached' Vienna.
Fringe Bulow admite that one great result of the war has been to revive and strengthen the Anglo-Saxon feeling of solidarity, and that the war has shown how strong and even passionate is the leaning of the people of English origin in the United States toward the Mether Country. He proceeds :----
"Germany has noted with sore distress worn in appearance among the last of an attempt to explain away, invincible
official and public America during the the wounded to land, fle was much tonished country why, the graver than the average, too. His 'spirity" is now everywhere on the defen-
the biassed and unfriendly bearing f
sive.
On the surface, life in Vienna secins war, which is greatly, to the Empire's dis- If our enemies have been hoping (it was all right, I found, after talking with
to go on unchanged, though the streetsadvantage. Such ruthlessness as has him but on. the surface he showed farsays) by attacks carried out by their
of my last visit. The wealthy Polisle re America and by the public in the course of the differences on the subject of the less of high spirits than most of our armies of millions finally to wrest the are much quieter than they were during een manifested toward us by official wounded show when they get to Blighty, initiative and dictate the manner and the reason, I think; was that he had operations to the Germans, the course fugees, who filled the cafés, have re-
never net with before, and it is probably Lasted captivity, a brief taste, but it had of events thus far has bitterly disap-turned to their Galician homes. During conduct of the submarine war we have pointed them. The storming of hostile visit to the poorer quarters of the city,
1 saw long lines of women and children unique in the history of the diplomatic left its marke on this man.
By say the French an, atween us, masses, after brief initial successes, has
and stubborn endurane of our open. Several policemen were present to feeling of raneor at present entertained many Germaans toward the bas taken over twenty thousand of the everywhere broken on the heroic, resis: waiting atial to controberies to relations of the two great countries. The Buches prisoners. I'll wager they don't gallant defenders on the Somme. The prevent disorders. As soon as the shops by very
opened there was a general seramble
American people, whom they have so get many of our boys, not unwounded. German Army lealership continues to
This is the everyone wanted to lay a whole week's long regarded as honest friends, is but I was past walking when they got me dominate the situation. au' re rifle had been smashed in me special significance of our recent success supply, so that many got no bread at too comprehensible, and is justified. This haud. an' had no stock left. No, they near Souville, in the Verdun area, which all. The matter of supplying Vienna rancor is in no sense mitigated by the
with food is daily becoming more diff doa't got our boys putting their hands deserves to be emphasised all the moro up, asking for it; not much they don't. because it has shown afresh to all the cult, There is a decided shortage of all fact that by exploiting the present world And in that sort of scraping you don't world the strength and superiority of commodities, and owing to the inefficiation Americs, is in a fair way :o be hardly get unwounded prisoners any German armas. Germany is justified in ency of the authorities, the provisioning come the wealthiest country on earth.”
One day there is a other way,
There was fourteen of us looking upon the military position with of the city is carried out in a most, bop-
hazard fashion. altgether: an I was the only one from
shortage of meat or milk, the next of our own battalion. The others was die the old calm and the old confidence."
CHARM ferent regiments. 11 was when the
Indicative also of the general anxiety salt, ets, and, considering the chaotic DO YOU POSSESS MAGNETIC Buches got Contalmaison back again, ye of the country is the new attack raging state of affairs, the population is very know, sir; an': they got us before we round the hapless head of Bethmann composed.
PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE. conuldn't get away. They never offered Hollweg. Never before has he been
Though there is much distress, and dis mie no kindness, an' I don't know as under Are from so many sides, want any kindness of 'em anyhow. I've military elique and the naval zealots are satisfaction among all classes in Vienna, no likin' for 'em, no liking at all.
in full cry after the quarry,
ence and unconcern with regard to the But I'll tell the truth; they did me to and for the Chancellor's head is no it is not outspoken. The same indiffer harin. The young chap as found me, he less insistent from
is still the most striking feature of the looked a likely lad enough. You'd hard-community, represented by the Radical-war which I noticed on a former visit
every day life of the people. The coming quest of Servia caused a flurry of ex- Viennese seemed to have forgotten this. citement, but within three days the "It is a matter of more especial interest to Hungary than to ourselves," was trast with Budapest, I found many who pot infrequent comment. In strong con looked to the future with confidence. This may be accounted for in part by. For a quarter of a century Dr. Wil-- the fact that the Viennese have alreadyliams, Pink Pilla have been restoring discounted the disastrous effects of the thousands of debilitated, dyspepties and wary and are looking forward to a period of reconstruction.
FIGHT ON THE CHANCELLOR
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the anti-militarist
ly believe he was a Boche, till you found Liberals and Social Democrats, who ate Le poor chap could speak no word but in open rebellion against his refusal to his own German gibberish. Big, open- let the nation know what it is bleeding faced, light-haired chap he was, with blue and paying for. The Annexation Party eyes, an freckles on, his face: like many is hounding the distracted Bethmann to programme of whole- you see in England. A strong proclaim boldly chap, too, for he picked me in an une sal territorin conquest as Germany's ried me easy, over his shoulder; an I'm irreducible minimum and the Revent no feather-weight. And what be said, in lovian gavers are howling for restitution his queer, grunting way they talk rather of submarine piracy regardless of the like a pig eating at a trough, ye know, USA. and considerations of humanity. sir-sounded friendly enough. My knees were giving me all 1 could think about just then; an' I didn't take a powerful lot of notice, at the time.
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in the south, proves a dream, in case a new Servia rise, like another Prussia or Piedmont,
was no fear of us seein' much where the latterly given to Prince Bülow, who has / Polish kingdom is mentioned. It is the of Poland, under a Hapsburg Sovereign,
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BLOCKADE REPLISALS.
The Kreuzeitung, official organ of the Prussian Conservatives and military
communication froin Switzerland, de
two
The one deep-rooted freeling which I found everywhere is a renewed and strong determination to put an end to a state of affairs which has permitted Vienna to fall hinder the tutelage of
The semi-official Cologne Gazette of July 14, makes a very diluted attempt to beseech a continuation of popular con- The most fidence in the Chancellor.
According to several well-informed triumphant note the Cologne Gazette can
the greater the danger Viequese, the solution of the difficulties sound is that IN AN ENEMY HUG OUT.
under which the Dual Monarchy has been which threatens us, the greater nur duty Next thing I knew I was lying in a staall dug-out. There were eight or nine to support and rally round our leading labouring will be found in the establish model of Switzerland. This plan would other Englishmen, all wounded, lying statesmen," Bethmann Hollweg invited at of a federalized State, on the there; an I was in front: right in the the leaders of the Reichstag parties to mouth of the dug out; where I could see confer with him over the weekend, doubt give autonomy to the various peoples of Dualist arrangement, and crush in one the trench, where a lot o' Boches was it less with a view to infoming himself of the Monarchy; it would abolish the
the strength or weakness of the crusade stroke the unnatural and despotic u their own lingo By nu bye a German against him. British renders cannot be cendency of the Magyars. It would in tang, smoking cigarettes, an' talking in
too often reminded that the German officer comes along. I knew he was con-
tional life to all races of the lands ruted ing, by the way those chaps all jumped, Prime Minister and his Government" sure the development of a normal
are not the creatures of the nation or
over by the Hapsburgs, and Vienna an dropped their smokin' and "talkin'. They came to attention pretty smart: 'Parliament, but responsible to, and can
capital. The officer spoke to fall only by the wish of, the autocratic would still retain its position as a world Bay that for 'em.
-reason to believe The ultimate fale of Poland is the the sergeant and we were all dragged oat Emperor. There is
that the recently organised German chief topic of the day Optanists be of the dugout, and taken down the National Committee for the achieve seve that Roland, to which will be joined trench to another one; down two passages
ment of an honourable peace and the and a lot of steps; must ha' bin five an' It seem
future purity of Germany has beenGalicia, will be erected into a kingdom Already twenty feet down, I would say.
the new federalized, Austria. ed the officer was put out at us bein' left launched by Bethmann Hollwest and his under a Hapsbargruter, and joined to the name of the fature ruler of this new where we could see anything. Well, there friends as a means of stemming the tide
I growing disapproval.
Archduke Charles Stephen, whose put us then.
That was in the afterenon, as it might been in eclipse since his failure to keep aughters have married sons of the two Italy neutral and promote Germany's And all that night,
Archduke has long been preparing for and all the next day, and the day after peace ambitions from the vantage ground greatest noble families of Poland. The his new role. He has studied Polish pro- that we lay there; and all that passed our of Switzerland, suggests that the man
who muzzled the Kaiser is being boomblems, speaks the language, and, is a lips was some mighty dirty water in a
cording to the Viennese, persona grate jor that was give us by a tell Boche that das Bethmann Hollweg's successor.
with the Poles of all classes. The iden was on sentry in the passage, the first morning. You could hear the hring from
that Poland will be annexed by Prussia сак feared in sohiae quarters, though the Hungarian Premier, and an almost down there, of course; but it was all bit dull like; 80's you couldn't fearistocraes, in the guise of an ostensible revailing sentiment is that Germans equally strong determination not to per- Austria in return for other compensathe Empire. The growing influence of which side it was coming from; an weclares that Germany, in retaliation for will be willing to land over Poland to mit Germany to control the destiny of the English starvation war," should tons. Nowhere is the idea entertained Germany in the affairs of Austria, is henceforth prevent food from going into of including Prussia's Polish domains Belgium, Northern France, and Serbia,in the new Poland, and the further par except for the anaies of occupation.tation of this unfortunate realm is strong The communication declares that
ly opposed bere many must enforce a change in existing international law, whereby a belligerent power is permitted to shut off another. I was not a little surprised to learn State by sea from the import of the that the war with Italy causes little con necessities of life and rawstuffs for in- pern. The Croats are fighting their dustry."
old enemies the Italians-for us as they did during the days when we held Lom One feller said it was the Boches.
was the cynical comment with blowin' of us up. But I saw we'd got Herr von Batocki, the German Food birdy,"
to dismiss 10 sentry, an' somehow I reckoned it must Dictator, conferred recently with the which one person endeavoured
whom he has the subject. Preparations for an offen wonen, be our boys back again in Contalmaison. committee of I'd ve bin out of it quick if it hadn't asked to co-operate with him in the sive against Italy wero rumoured when appear nevertheless to have acquired a
nutrition There was a young regulation bin for my knees.
questions. I was in Vienna, few who
view, due no doubt to their detached lance corporal next shoulder, very sick an would in the Batocki explained to the wormen what his were willing, but I found you certain clearness of vision and point of queer he was. new organisation has done so far, and see, we are fighting Italy with our left feeling in regard to the war, which will asked him to get along the passage a bit, asked them to discuss it. It was decided hand" was the remark of a well-known prove of great value when the moment
"Hitherto an' give a shout to tell we was English to adopt many suggestions made by the political ugure in Vienna.
He got out alt right; a plucky women and to utilise their advice con we have rested content with allowing the comes for them to regain rights which lad, because two more bombs burst after stantly. An official report of the con
The end of the second year of the war Italians to wear themselves out attack they have allowed the Magyars to usurp ing us; when the time comes, we may be started, An' nex' thing we knew, ference is to be issued. there was a young English officer down Jam-making is ordinarily in full swing turn the tables and deliver a body blow has brought to the fore many changes in Austria-Hungary. In all parts of the amang us, an half a dozen of our boys in Germany, as in England, at this sea-ourselves."
The various many conflicting and intriente Dual Monarchy there are signs of up- after him My God, sir, we was glad son, but it is seriously handicapped by to se his face tried to come to atten-shortage of sugar, which is rationed. racial probleme have, for so long con laval and unrest. tion an' salute bin. Lord, I'd 've salut Newspapers are publishing reminders tronted the Viennese that they seem to tionalities feel that the hour of their ed his boots or his cap, if I'd 'em empty from chemical engineers that in "ber- take lightly the various momentous de enfranchisement is approaching, on the ground!: It makes you think wbenzoate
German housewives cisions which they are making with ref Viennese Ara confident that their sug you've Been Bocho officers. Then when possess a cheap substitate for sugar,gard to the destiny, not only of the gested reforms will, not come too late, you see one of ours you know what an small quantity of which suffices effec heterogeneous populations of the Er and are preparing Chemelven for the new Germanism with all the fanaticism tually to preserve all sorts of fraits andre, but also of those beyond the border leadership, The Magyars are embracing elficer is, an' what a gentleman is.
There is a talk of a new and much en "Steady, lad," he says to me; just like berries."
larged Albanian kingdom, under Haps of a new religion, hoping thereby to save that. You're not quite fit for p'rade
burg suzerainty, to be ruled over by for themselves a part of their former "You just be yet, ye know," he says.
Prince William of Wied, who, notwith power. The scarcity of the fond supply patient, now we'll soon have ye out o' this," he says, "an' a bit more comfort-
The rather novel idea of a summertanding his failures in the past, is still the increased economic difficulties of the regarded as the candidate most favour-country, the drafting of all nen Hetween able And he did too-bless him! Eh, but it teaches your what a reat officer is, holiday for the troops in the field is keable, to Austrian interests. And so on the age of 18 and 35--which weans the when you come to one of ours, after seeing realised by the French during the through the whole series of problems last good reserves available-all paint, to ing the German officers. That offer give prevail ng heat, which in treeless Mace which have arisen, the Viennese have à material weakening in the resisting "eady-made and seemingly satisfactory power of the Tual Monarchy. Yet.. me a drink of tea, with a drop of rum in donin 's very severely felt. Officers com
olution. But everywhere one comes through it all, Vienna to-day seems the it, out of his own water bottle: an the manding units which are away from the
cross the fact that by some sixth sense the se-nest, most reasonable, and broadly
"Central Europe. stretcher-bearers got me soon after that frontier have been ordered to arrange
leaguered fortress, It was good to know our boys had got for ten men at a time to have ten days' true situation is understood. The war is visioned of the cities within that he
(Continued on next Column.) suspension of, work. Contalinaison again.-Telegraph.
didn't know front froin rear, anyhow And then on, the third day, as 1 reckon it must ve bin, very early in the morn ing, the big gun fire got that heavy that one shell seemed running into anether, and all the earth shook an' quivered like an earthquake. It. went on a long time like that; and at last it eased off a bit seemed to lift, like, annex thing we knew was bombs a-burstin' in the passage just outside.
there.
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THE WAR WITH ITALY.
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