VON KUHLMANN'S TRICKS : IN HOLLAND.
DUTCH SATISFACTION AT HIS
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- THE HONGKONG BAILY PRESS, WIDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1916,
MACKENSEN AND THE
KAISER'S ORDERS,
**THE EPIC OF THE WAR." BULGAR-GERMAN SAVAGERY
It was only a little bit of paper. On all sides of it were announcements of trivial matters. Assignments of rooms notices about hours of meals and restric tions of lighting; printed advice about
AUSTRIAN GENERALS SHOCKED BY HIS HAUGHTY MANNER.
The departure from Holland of Dr. Marshal von Mackenscn, why is under vacations and fees. It was written in a An interesting story regarding Field von Kuhlmann, the German Minister, stood to be in control of all the Central even though it may possibly be only Powers' armice in south-eastern Europe, is
pondent of the Russkoe Slovo.
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IN DOBRUDJA, CIVILIANS AND WOMEN TAKE PART IN A MASSACRE OF ROUMANIANS.
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temporary absence, is noted with satis. told by Petroff, a well-known war corres expect of life, and who had abandoned a Dobrudja) are known and officially con-
we
firmed, they will rival anything yet re corded in Balkan warfare, says a Special Correspondent of the Daily Chronicle writing from Bucharest,
between the two allies as to which could There seems to have been a competition inflict the most torture. The Germans, as usual, did the thing systematically, putting their Roumanian prisoners up ket place and other convenient spaces. in batches and shooting them in the mar
civil population, was organised, the Bul
A regular massacre of the Roumanian garian soldiery, aided by the Bulgarian inhabitants, going from street tu street, killing, maiming and torturing as they
took part were well-dressed women and Some of those who escaped state that
young men in light suits and straw among the Bulgarian, inhabitants who
hats, whilst the women incited their children to share in the revel orture could be inflicted, were employed, Knives, hatchets, anything with which
clerical hand-writing, and it merely gave the horrors perpetrated by the Bul It is more than probable that when all list of names. The names were those of garians and Germans at Turtukai young men, who had everything good to Faction by people here, who have come to
for the sake of their country, Now the German prisoners, he says, speak of regard him, and with ample justification with a flaming sword, who put the enemy unto itself. That little bit of paper told Mackensen as the Archangel Michael are dead and the merciful earth of Flanders and France has taken their dust as the puller of many strings which have to defeat in the Carpathians,
When he assumed command of the Auga story which I had travelled many miles eroated situations rendering Holland's trian armies in the Carpathians he began to understand, position not delicate only, but acutely by proclaiming the whole Carpathian dis
Fratres, Ave atque Vale. critical, says The Daily Chronicle Special tries in state of siege. Next he requisi. It is the epic of this war.
That bit of paper I shall never forget. tioned all horses from the neighbouring Correspondent at Amsterdam.
villages, registered all the old men, understand them so little.
The people of England wonder why we Though his most notorious exploits were women, and even children over 12 years possible that after almost two years of How is it quickly recognised for what they were squads. New roads were built and rar
of age, and organized them into working
war, the English are still unknown they nevertheless caused deep anxiety in row-gauge railways were constructed in
How can
explain the case and official and commercial circles, for when all passes The number of troops was
incredible facility with which the ever barefaced ties are assiduously circulated doubled. by word of mouth and window bulletin, were transported in great numbers and their own virtues Yet it is true.
German engineering troops all British news into a glorification of
watchful German propaganda can turn went; as was done recently in the British inset to working day and night. The num acutrals have had it dinned into our ears We vasion of Holland" scare, the most ber of machine guns available is said to until even the most ardent friend of the wideawako people are apt to ho taken off their guard.
something appalling. Von Mackensen bossis, according to Patroff, that he is Allies began to wonder. On the one side, There is no doubt that Kuhlamann con-going to strengthen the Carpathians 80 Emperor to the lowest private, in the per- steadfast courage, a people united from dneted his work most skilfully in Hol- they will be ds red-hot-iron stairs to theformance of one allowed duty--a nation tand Nobody is able to point definitely advancing Russians. ant with conclusive evidence to a single
in which women and children gave of instance in which he could be identified
ther one common purpose. as the instigator, but he could make use of an army of secret assistante, includ
have seen it through the Press. A small the contrasting picture of England as we ing, at times, the notorious von Papen.
nucleus of professional soldiers, receiving He was never seen in doubtful company, nor ever frequented a house or an office
into their country's army. Lovely ladies raving lunatic, a lady of good Hou cruiting posters to enjole the unwilling wages to do the Empire's Aghting. Re-
WIFE'S TERBIALS EXPERIENCE; to which the remotest suspicion attached in connection with secret service work
flattering country louts to fight for their manian family, the wife of a judge who,
There is in hospital to-day in Bucharest. Indeed he appeared to live a simple and
Football games and strikes. Strikes to massacred, rushed half dressed, to the
King and Country," purely social life in Holland, never miss
get a penny an hour more in ammunition tribunal, to save her husband.
More posters. hearing that the Roumanians were being. ing a single chance of showing extreme
factories, regard for any whose good opinion was
Riots to keep the bar-room open after ten descend on his head and cleave his body of the least value,
Strikes to have more beer.
She arrived just in time to see a hatchet in the evening. The stage given over to nearly in halves. Revues and the lower classes buying recognised by some Roumanian officers, She was found and for its loans. As a result, the dreary list pianolas, when the country goes abroad who brought her to the capital. of defeats-Antwerp, Gallipoli, Mesopo-women and children followed the lines,
During the fighting, too. Bulgarian: tamia; Bulgaria going with the Germans; stabbing and tortaring the wounded. unto her neutrality and sovereignty as a small nation. Do you wonder that we do Greece shrieking of the injustice done
not understand you when we have heard all this for two years and when there has been nobody to gainsay this doleful ar raignment?
LAVISH KONPITALITY.
Petroff quotes statements made by their best and gave of their lives to furand teeth were freely used by the women. prisoners of war concerning two recent war councils held by Mackensen. first took place at Kovel, nineteen Aus- The trian Generals of the highest rank being
present.
Petroff, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, At the opening of the sitting," any especially sent by the Kaiser, handed began to read the important document. von Mackenson a letter from the Kaiser Prince Leopold also stood up, Von Mac kensen read in silence, becoming pensive, often frowning. It was evident that the letter contained numerous questions and that Prince Leopold knew their order and Ile entertained on a large scale, doubt-reading Prince Leopold was actually, as character. While von Mackensen was less creating from a social point of view it very favourable impressions upon all who face of the Carpathian Archangel.
were, counting every expression on the partook of his persuasive hospitality, he read, von Mackensen sometimes paused He was always extremely courteous and to think over the question dealt with in always accessible. Nevertheless, his mis- the letter, replying with determination sion in Holland has failed in so far as and resolution, Yes. At other moments he has been unable to remove the deep he uttered a resolute No. Prince Leo seated suspicion with which every Ger- pold marked these down. man move regarding Holland is looked
at.
As
"Having finished reading, von Macken- and shook his head. Then he rolled the sen again became pensive, closed his eyes, letter up and lighted it at a gas-burner used for the purpose of lighting cigars, holding the paper in his hand until it burnt to ashes. Then he raised his eyes to Prince Leopold, who evidently and been waiting for some statement. Mackensen remained silent...
So he passes to Constantinople, where his special gifts may find fuller and more successful scope in the different circum- stances existing there now, and in the diffent crises very likely brewing, to be dealt with in the near future. Kuhl maan, I know from an exceedingly well. informed quarter, in one of the Kaiser's favourites, and those qualified to express
You did not answer the last ques an opinion regard him as being marked tion of the Emperor, remarked the out for rapid advancement in
Prince at last, the Kaiser's service. Well-informed circles ****I did not,' slowly retorted Macken here are of the opinion that Wolff-Metsen, frowning." ternich, German Ambassador at Constan- tinople, has definitely signed.
The German Government professes to regard Kuhlmann's work at The Hague as most valuable and successful.
MR. ROOSEVELT ON GERMAN CRIMES.
TIMOROUS SILENCE" OF HEADS
OF US GOVERNMENT.
But
present knew what the question was, for It seemed that the Austrian Generals
regarded each other with an air of dis they all became anxiously attentive and trous. At last, pausing at each syllable, the Field Marshal replied
Because I am too old, and because I have my reputation as a soldier, I am not going to answer anything."
All sat quiet and depressed Prince Leopold grasped his throat as if it was difficult to breathe. One of the Generals, after a pause, asked with what powers the Field Marshal had been invested.
kensen remarked of the Austrian When the Austrians had left, manders: --
Nameless horrors were performed by Then take these fields in human shape. Limbs were
wounds as possible inficted on their help lopped off, eyes gouged out, or as many less victims.
is the question most often asked."Do What, then, do you want us to do?" you want us to go around like Bernstorff and invite all the rewspaper men in Washington to dinner?
Do you want
thirty cats, and worse, there are dozens of Rouhanian soldiers in hospital bearing.
Bodies were found with twenty and
as many wounds who have still lived to suffer lorture. Many women were armed with rifles, and more than one wounded soldier was shot in the back.
a full report addressed to Allied and neutral countries.
A very strict inquiry is to be made and
· But while this butchery was going on many acts of heroism were being per formed elsewhere.
SWING THE DANURE
to send you a counterpart of Dr. Dern burg Really and truly we could not do it. Better be misunderstood than submit When it was seen that all was lost for to such a humiliation." As a matter of the Roumanians, and the 38th Infantry fact, there is nobody, either in America Regiment's colours being in great danger, or Holland or Sweden or in any other three brave men, decided to make an at- neutral country, who at the same time tempt to save them by swimming across wishes England well and who wants the Danube. well-known German fashion.
These were Sub Licuts. to sec her diplomatic agents ap-Mihailescu and Manu and Sergeant- peal to neutral sympathy in the Major Sava, Ambassador noisily playing popular airs the others swam, pushing their precious man method has failed
The Ger Putting Lieut. Manu (who could not on the patriotic hurdy-gurdy while the relic before them through the water, A German swimm) with the colours on a tree trunk
factories is sorry sight. The less we say shell fire. Imperial iron-workers dynamite neutral which was churned by Bulgarian rifle and about it the better. But between this difference to the feelings and thoughts attitude and an attitude of supreme in and intentions of the neutrals there is wide difference. Let us be honest in these days of agony and stress,
We neutrals would let us. would like to like you better, if only you
are themselves by swimming were shot though many of those who attempted to They succeeded in crossing unscathed,
ditions, is here some 700 to 800 yards or drowned, as the river, under any con- wide, and an extremely dangerous one to swim.. The colours were delivered safely at headquarters,
FATE OF 100 U-BOATS,
M, Stephe
General von Hindenburg and my self, answered Mackensen, are the two Replying to an appeal on behalf of action is dictated solely by the head of been The Great Example.
hands of Emperor Wilhelm, and our to us, but, at the same time, you have In the past you have done great harm Belgium, signed by 150 Dutch intellec the Kaiser. We are not limited in any of popular representation, common to tuals and issued by the League of other way."
The system Neutrals, Mr. Roosevelt has written a
ther way conclusion of the official de-almost all the Germanje races, was only
- STATEMENT BY A FRENCH 'EX-MINISTER- strong letter, which is published by the liberations, Mackensen frankly told the British Isles.
My Stephen Pichon writes in the Petit Gazette de Hollande. The letter runs:-Austrian Generals it was in their in- days of industrial prosperity and pauper Wilson and the American people allow-
Even in your dreariest, It is a duty as well as a pleasure to
terests to obey the German General Staff.
It is difficulty to imagine President: express my keen admiration of your country from invasion, said he,you pean nations the courage to continue on
If you have failed, to defend your hope to all men, and gave other Euro-paper the serious demands they have ad- em your country offered a measure of ing Germany to treat as a serap of eloquent appeal by the Dutch citizens is already saved you." appeal to neutrals. Every word of the should at least obey those who have the painful road towards constitutional dressed to her, or to accept lying down absolute truth, and in thus expressing themaelves with frankness, contrasting
com- Manchester or Glasgow desired to reap which over 100 have during the past Mac-most selish of political acts, and when pose that the Kaiser's submarines, of government, You have often done the the humiliation with which they are
threatened. +
It is also foolish to sup happily with the cowardly silence of so many neutrals, they merit the gratitude of all who love justice, and feel horror of them is a Machiavelli, but when it country was engaged in a holy duty dealing a serious blow to the naval power
"In the discussion of plans every one
a profit your statesmen were usually able twenty months shared the fate of the to convince the people at large that the victims of their torpedoes, are capable of and indignation when they think of the comes to the exécution they have but straw Yet we like you, wrong done to the great cause of civili-minds and bands of clay,
I am sorry to write sation by the perpetrators of the assault
At the second council of war, Mac that it may sound like a bit of patronis
this in so personal o fashion. I am sorry of 1914. Their courageous example is all hensen acted as the complete master. He the more striking, and their courage the frankly said a number of the higher Aus- It is the helpless admiration of a neutral try at work, who have seen men, women, ing approval. It is nothing of the sort, Those of us who have scen your coun more meritorious, because they
trian Generals would be removed from who wishes that he could do more, who and children devote themselves to a high citizens of a small country continguous active service, as they were not capable can do nothing, and therefore tries to say ideal of duty, will never again indulge to a State reckoned amongst the most cough. Some of the Austrian com- powerful, and which is at the same time manders asked if there was any hope of something which may be of use to all of in that mildly amused criticism which the most malovelent and unscrupulous.
clearing the Russians from Austrian ter-
us in the future. Their attitude also presents a noble con-ritory as had previously been done.
It is true that you have not understood sent German propagandist. We under has been made popular by the over pre- trast to the timorous silence maintained is not carrying on war merely for milicion of a change in your point of view and which we hope to attain ourselves Our Emperor. answeral Markensen, but it is equally true that we do not stand that your worst faults are but the tary glory. Neither is war being waged after the Boer War. For then your genin some future day
understand you. We had a faint suspi resalt of virtues which all of us admire, for gaining pieces of territory, but solely erous treatment of a brave energy showed
Are
so unworthily by those actually as the head of the Government of my country, which is far richer and more populous and enjoys relatively greater security Her defection, alas is but the mere significant.
of Great Britain.
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This article has been promoted by the and what can be done."
and right way of treating a conquered for what you have done, but more for race. Many people said that was only what you stand for. If really and truly Belgium, innocent and unhappy, has WHY NOT EMPIRE MATCHES. citizen is a better addition to an Empire of the wreckage of the old one, we nou a wise policy. A well-intentioned fellow we are to see a new world forged ont been cruelly tried; she has been treated SCIENCE PROFESSOR ON SECRET than an unwilling subject. with the utmost brutality by Germany,
But those who has openly and officially despoiled
OF THE TIMBER TRADE. of us who believe that some day this lead. If we are not engaged in fighting trals shall expect to see you take the ber of her independence. The German Government's declarations made in the the establishment of an Imperial Timber more in your South African policy than past events, over which we had no con Professor Percy Groom has suggested ferent principles like to see something for our own attitude was the product of world of outs will be governed by dif ourselves, be merciful in your judgment, Reichstag on December 8th, 1915 and Bureau in an address to the London clever calculation. We greeted it as the trol. The fature, however is a matter April 4, 1916, are expositions of her Chamber of Commerce. formal inte lion to maintain Belgium
first ray of international ethics which in's condition of political military and pire, he said, we ought to encourage the expansion which has characterised the difficult as the work of destroying the Within the tropical parts of the Em-shone on the horrible chaos of predatory which we have in our own hands. The economic dependence. Belgium fully dis growing of a cheap wood for matches in last twenty centuries of our era.
work of reconstruction will be as charged her duties towards herself and stead of spending millions on importafollowed a dozen years of grave danger. It will take infinite tact and patience Then old world, which none of us will regret. other nations even towards Germany tion from Sweden. Germany, without a shadow of provoca-
There was no reason why the dyeing of which a wild system of complicated and hard labour of the most ungrateful tion, bas brutally invaded that country, wood should be carried on almost exclu commercial and financial development nature. We small neutrals who have and she now desires to profit by her sively abroad. False ebony came from dropped odd bits of highly explosive everything which we can ever desire gains and commit the horrible crime of France or Germany, but apple wood at matter all over the world. The bobnails have no wishes beyond our own ter depriving. Belgium for ever of her inde
5s. a cubic foot, could be converted into of the clumsy. Tentorie boot fually ritories and the development of our ewWE pendence.
false cbony at 10s, to 25s. a foot by a struck a spark and set the world affame legitimate trade and intellectual pur- simple cheap process. "I consider that every man, free to
Then came very anxious days. A small The co-operation of piano-makers, with neutral State, overrun without excuse, uita. We do not ask for, and we shall think as he will, neglects his duty if he a physicist, a steel expert, and a timber and five million unwilling and isnodent never expect, a share in the fine settle does not protest, with the signatories of technologist, would soon disclose the people dragged into a quarrel which was to co-operate to the very best of our ment of this war. But we stand ready the appeal to neutrals, against such a secret of making pianos with the rich not of their making. The question was crime, and I add that any Government mellow tone which rendered the best Ger what England would do. It was a ques-ability when Europe has to be set in of a civilized nation is morally forced to man pianos, so famous.
tion which had often been asked in the order. We fully understand the part protest. This is especially true of my Grey sycamore had been exported to N neteenth Century, and the server had you have played, and if any road of our country, where those at the head of Paris and Humburg for conversion by a hen given by Gortchakoff England mutual understanding has to be crossed the Government make
of secret process, into what was known as will not go to war for mere honour across. But will you not take just eno we shall meet you more than halfway artificial hairwood and thousands of But the world had changed Gortebakoff Ibagues in favour of peace and for the pounds were spent in trying to discover was dead and his generation had gone.hich does not lead back to the old and protection of small States. It appears the secret. The problem, however, was a England went to war At the rate of much feared land in which there was no step to show us that this is a new rožu mean and terribly hypocritical to make ea that it took only half an hour to thousands a day her people are being except the right of the powerful to suca speeches and theoretical declarations -solve, and within three hours he had made killed and maized for a principle: about right without taking active part every grade of grey sycamore, from the in relation to Belgium's misfortunes." lightest silver to the darkest black,
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