THE TANKS." DISCREET DETAILS OF THE MACHINES.
PANTOMIME AND HORROR COMBINED.
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for "rue times" erEČIAL CORRESPONDENT.1 The Gormans have now had fair op: portunities of becoming acquainted with, at least, the exterior, and the fighting powers of our * Tanks
it is permissible to go discreetly some way towards giving a description of them. presses itself in the question: "What Curiosity in regard to them usually ex- animal are they really like?" Candour compels one to reply that they are not like any animal, except in so far as they are even less like anything else on earth. If you must have some particular animal to compare them with, they perhaps resemble in general contour a toad more than anything else; a toad ruther elongated towards its hinder end.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1916.
AUSTRIAN PRIME MINISTER MURDERED.
SHOT BY A VIENNESE EDITOR.
ASSAILANT'S CALM.
Connt Sturgkh, the Austrian Prime Minister, was shot in Vienna on October 12th. He died immediately. The Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung gives the following particulare:
Count Stürgkh was sitting, as usual, in the dining-room of his hotel in the company of Baron Achrenthal, brother of the former Foreign Minister. Seated three tabics farther up the room was the Vienna journalist, Dr. Friedrich Adler (son of the Reichsrath Deputy Dr. Victor Adler), who suddenly jumped up, moved three tops toward Count Surgh' table, and Bred three shots. Stürgkk at once collapsed and died immediately.
Count
Baron Aehrenthal, who was hit in the foot by one shot, caught Count Stürgkh in his arms as he fell. The Red Cross was at once informed. When the shots were fired a number of Austro-Hungarian and German officers rushed with draws swords upon the assailant, who gave his name, saving ;—
Please, gentlemen, I know what I did. I will not resist arrest.??
Questioned by an officer as to why he have to account for this before Court,
HARDEN ON MILITARISM,
POLICY AND STRATEGY.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. MR. ASQUITH'S PROMISE OF
CONSIDERATION
THE CHANGED CONDITIONS.-
The Prime Minister intimated to a
Herr Maximilian Harden, whose weekly paper, the Zukunft, has been ap pearing with perfect regularity in spite of the fresh announcements of its sup pression, resumes his own contributions deputation of members of Parlianiont in the issue of October 21st. Herr Har who waited on him on October 28th to den's article is for the most part in ask for a declaration of the Government's teresting only for the prominence which support of the proposal to prossed with it given to the recent utterances of Mira Bill authorizing the construction of Lloyd George and M. Briand, but it ends the Channel Tunnel that the subject with a daring passage about strategy should be reviewed by the War Committee and about German Chauvinism and or the Committee of Imperial Defence militarism.
in the light of the experience we had now acquired.
Herr Harden gives & long quotation from Clausewitz, and asks whether** hundred year after Clausewitz there are Germans who doubt the Inet that war is solitable only as the instrument of policy?" He proceeds:
Mr. Arthur Fell, in introducing the de putation, and the war had brought home to us how vital would have been the assistance of the tunel had it been
built before 1914, and officers who were members of the Channel Tunnel Com- mittee had urged this on their return from the front. The conclusion the com- mittee had come to was that the country as a whole now expected the tunnel to be built.
Mr. T. P. O'Connor referred to French opinion in favour of the tunnel; and Major Courthope, speaking from a mili- tary point of view, said there were no two opinions among the unofficial officers
lowest, though he could not pretend to speak for the Commander-in-Chief and the Headquarters Staff-that we ought to have the tunnel.
In size the thing is-well, large. Not to be too exact, it is bigger than an ordinary motor-car and smaller than a labourer's cottage. In these circum- stances, it can hardly be expected to committed the crime, he replied:-" 11 to separate those who are united at the front, from the highest to the move fast, and the deliberateness of its advance, coupled with the fact that it has no visible wheels or legs, gives to it perfectly ridiculous solemnity.
DOLOUR AND ARMAMENT.
"Tuoks"
what painted in are naturalista call protective colours, the colours of snakes or lizarde-that is, browns and greens and yellows, which harmonize admirably with the desolated environment in which the creatures more. Perhaps this colouration increases
appearance; till one almost thinks that some such huge and awful batrachian may have lived, if not in the childhood of this earth, then in some other world, a thing related to all other toads as Diplodocus is related to a small sand lizard. When one sees the unspeakable things moving, with their great blunt Roses thrust in the air before them, link less and wheelless, going with a move ment as smooth as that of a snake, but majestic and deliberate as a giant tor toise, it is such a mixture of pantomime and pure horror as no nightmare ever equalled,
They are, as you know, armour-clad, but the thickness of their armour I must not tell, although the Germans doubtless
“The politician alone can and must decide how the war is to be conducted at what point with the staking of the whole forces, and at what point with caution. The politician before the first shot is fired must seek a plain answer to two questions. What do I desire to do, and what can I do against the enemy? If he is fighting against A coali tion, a third question rapidly hooks it self on to the second question. How sa
e the against me not by love, but by hatred
If, so far as watchful human intelligence A Red Cross doctor meanwhile had can judge, he is able to destroy one of arrived, but he could only certify that his enemies and especially if this one is death bad taken place. A few minutes the most dangerous, because of his con later the directors of the Ministers of atant readiness for war then let him the Interior and of Commerce, the direct his field army with unbreakable Governor of Moravia, Baron Regner violence against this one, and leave the Plovleben, Prince Liechtenstein, and the others, who would have remained quiet Police President, Baron You Gorup had it not been for the flashing of the appear rested and handed over
on the scene. The assailant.
the always half-drawn sword of the one, tire to ace the embarrassment of their friend police,
When he was examined the assassin and the strength of their enemy
If all the enemies are so strong that post-mortem examination. of Count
WILS
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MIN. ASQUITH'S PROMISE.
Mr. Asquith, replying, said -I · A glad to receive you here this afternoon and to hear what you have to say in sup port of your request for the reconsidera tion in a favourable sense of a proposal which has hitherto been negatived by sttecessive Governments and Farliaments for many years past. In one sense, of view of the struggle in which we are engaged, a matter of pressing urgency but on the other hand we are bound,
envisage not merely present but future particularly at this stage of the war, to conditions, and to leave untried no means to satisfy our judgment of anything that may render a war less possible or the security of this country more nas re
the suggestion of a toad in the thing's showed no trace of regret. The legal for a sober mind there can be no ides course, it may be said that it is not, in Stürgkh's body will take place to-morrow, of destruction, and it will be necessary after the war to go on living with all THE COUNT'S CAREER. The assassination of the Austrian of them as important world partners, still thornicr questions arise. Which Premier, Count Karl Stürgkh, is by far the most noteworthy incident in his enemy threatens ine with the danger of career (says The Times). An impecunious isolation among alien races, civilizations, Styrian nobleman of commanding stature, and creeds? Which threatens the most modest academical attainmente, and serious injury to the economic system of my country Which of them might be limited intelligence, he entered Austrian Parliament some 30 years ago reconciled after considerable loss of life, as a nominee of the big landlords, who, but could never be reconciled after visible
This matter was first considered, 1 up to the introduction of Universal humiliation? Where therefore are de think, as far as back as 1883, by a Com Buffrage in 1907, were represented in the cisive blows to be desired, and where remitted of both Houses, presided over by Reichstath by a special category, or they to be avoided in order that & peace: Lord, Lansdowne 1t reported unfavour curie, of Deputies. He first acquired ful settlement may remain possible? Is influence by his support of the Körber not precisely here such a settlement, with ably to the schente, and for many years Administration (1900-1904), during which untarnished honour and profitable in Bills were brought 15, year after year, period he acted as the Premier's chief crease of prestige, to be preferred to the which had the support of no less dis Parliamentary lieutenant. From that long-drawn quarrel suggested by hatred tinguished men than Mr. Gladstone, Mr. know it. For their armament, it may vary as you please, but is of the machine-period date both his rise into compara-hatred which destroys but never Bright, and many others, I am gun type; and the guns, it is needless to tive prominence and his alliance with an creates 1"
individual who has played a singular Each say, can fire in all directions.
part in the subterranean politics of carries its commanding officer and a crow
Austria. of driver and gunners; and they have at least room enough in their interior to have been able on at least one occa- sion, as you have been told, to bring homo, a German battalion commander 35 a prisoner inside. To thrust oneself, copped up in the beast's steel interior, into the maze of the enemy's trenches and strong positions must be an exceed ingly unpleasant job, but not a man, I believe, on any machine has yet be based otherwise than splendidly.
HOW THE PREMIERSHIP WAS ATTAINED.
Can any Romo endure three Punic Wars, or would she, if the first war had brought but small reward for immense way to world expenditure find the supremacy too long, too steep, and ton custly Is she & Rome only in the eyes of vain self-deception, while clear vision sees her to be the new Carthage
THE REAL AIMS OF THE ALLIES,
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wha based upon an exhaustive inquiry by the Committee of Imperial Deicnee, which was adverse to the scheme.
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Some years later, I think in 1913, a year before the war, I received a deputation of merabers of the House of Commons, who submitted to me a mc- morial in favour of the scheme. In con- sequence. I directed the Committee of Imperial Defence to reconsider the strategic aspects of the tunnel. I do not know that the decision of the committed has ever been made public. I do not think it has, but in point of fact it reported about a fortnight before the outbreak of war-in July, 1014 and by NETH.
majority, there was a dissentient minority, it concurred with the adverse decisions which had been given in pre:
The conclusion of the com vious years. nittee was this, that they were" of opinion that the strategic conditions have not so altered as to justify & re- versal of the conclusion reached by bis Majesty's Government in 1907,
A NEW FACTOR.
LESSONS FROM THE PUNIC WALS After this pointed advice to the Ger This individual, named Singer, son of man Government to make a desperate a provincial rabbi, had obtained an effort to separate the Allies by singling appointment in the Press Bureau of the out one of them for attack, Herr Harden Austrian Premier's office. By dint of reminds his readers of the history of amounosment to Parliament which hard work, intrigue, and absequiousness, tas Punic Wars. Hy begins by putting he had risen to be head of the Frese Germany in the place of Rome, and Bureau and controlled the secret Press without saying which enemy is Carthage, funde. He gave a considerable subsidy represents the ideal German politician to an obscure weekly organ, the Montags as asking himself the following ques presse. of which Count Stürgkh was tions: editor; and when Binger found it expedient, in the interests of his career to come baptized and to take the next OFFICIAL AND ARMY TITLES.
of Bieghart, he invited Count Stürgkh Officially, the new craft call themselves to be his sponsor at the font. In 1904 Sieghart perceiving that his chief, Dr. his Majesty's land ships ("H.M.L.), von Körber, was losing ground, turned and every one carries its own nama→ · the official Press against him, hastened Delphine, Daphne, Delsie, Cordon his overthrow, and prepared the advent Rouge, or Creme de Menthe s proudly of his successor. This manoeuvre Sieg- Herr Harden explains how the new as any ship of the sea. But, whatever hart repeated with four successive Carthage in a Bght to a finish could not they call themselves, the Army generally Premiers, until he came to be regarder be saved even by Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, calls them "Tanks," that name, it is as the most influential personage in and Hannibal, whereas, if Carthage had understood, as I have told before, being Austrian politics, and
only been reasonable and been content chosen as having the merit of being
to become "in North Africa the junior totally undescriptive. No person, over- In 1010, however, one of the Premiers partner in the Roman world firm," the bearing an unguarded conversation about whom he had helped to appoint and had would have retained her islands, her Tanks, could possibly imagine that afterwards betrayed and overthrown warships, her elephants, and her talents," it bad reference to such a portentously Baron Gautsch, was again selected, 07 Meanwhile, Rome might have saved her
Premiership. incredible thing as are the land-ships. the Emperor for the And, besitles Tanks," the Army calls Sieghart, feeling that his days as head self a great deal of money and trouble. them by many names, as "Rhino" and of the Press Bureau were numbered, pro-if she had put a veto on Cato's ever-
Willie an 1" Crocodile" and "Humoured for himself a lucrative appoint-lasting threatening speeches."
You have suggested to-day that our ming Bird" and other names less printment as Director-General of the Boden-
kreditunstall, or Landed Credit Bank, te Herr Harden, who, after alig will not experience of the war, which no one able, while in wrtain select circles the which the affairs of a great part of be surprised if his readers understand could possibly have foreshadowed, haṇ brate is known as the "Hash-hush "
the Austrian aristocracy are entrusted. him to mean why is Rome, ends by point-ahuwa that those adverse conclusions were Even at a slow rate of speed a creature This gave him a salary of £10,000 a of this size travels with considerable and an opportunity to make many times ing the moral for Germany at present as wrong, and that if the tunnel had exist
follows-
ed at the time the war broke out we should momentum and neither the brick wall that sum by well-informed speculation, "Only statesmen can add up the pos- have been in a better position than we of an ordinary house nor a tree of Simultaneously he secured for Count mederate size if Behemoth gets a fair Sturgkh an appointment es Minister of sibiliting anit arrive at the necessities. in fact were, not only for the transport. push at it, is much of an obstacle in Public Instruction in the new Gautsch Only they can be allowed to decide with of the Expeditionary Force, but for the his path. Lesser obstructions are only Cabinet, and opon its fall, on October what weapons and up to what end the general purposes of war; and that, in It is only in view of future possibilities, the existence pleasing incidents in his journey, which 31st, 1911, was instrumental in hoisting war is to be conducted.
There Germany that these principles are dis of such a tunnel would be a source not be climbs over, as a slag climbs over a him into the Premier's evat. pebble, or squashes by his weight and Count Stürgkh had since remained puted. Is it because militarism really of weakness, but of strength, both as 2 despite many vicissitudes, which included reigns among us as the enemy asserts safeguard against invasion and valuable a long period of almost total blindness. Militarism is a form of civilization and from its generally strategic and economic
By a singular coincidence private in a state of mind. it presses for ever position."
The experience gained by the war is formation was received in London last stronger armaments, and accustoms even The Germans, as it has been said, have week that Sieghart was at length using the ordinary citizen to the idea that undoubtedly a new factor, and a new now had fair opportunities of eeing his influence to destroy Stürgkh as he had weapons alone can settle a strife of factor of enormous and immeasurable and something of the animals. More than destroyed so many other Premiers. The peoples, and that any other tool is unimportance, enabling statesmen unt, as you know, has lain crippled out astensible cause of his action was a de worthy and useless. Heroism and miti military and naval experts to between the lines, where the enemy has mand that, in view of public discontent tare virtue can flourish without militimate the full value of this pro And, I fully recognize that. been able on the one side, as we wore the Reichsrath should be convoked. It tariam, but militarism alone guarantees posti. able on the other, to creep up and was prorogued before the war and has the constant readiness of all the limbs as Mr. O'Connor has said--speak- examine it, always subject to the possi- never since sat, whereas the Hungarian of the people's body for rapid transi ing with perfect accuracy and modera bility of being shot or bombed in the Parliament and the German Reichstag tion from peace to war. It is because tion-the opinion of France is strongly, operation. No "Tank," however, has have met repeatedly.
militarism favours the temptation to war, if not ananimously, in favour of the Count Stargkh opposed the convoca- fallen into the enemy's hands. The Gerion of Parliament ostensibly on account and must either extend its depredations proposal, as is also the opinion of our: of the hostile attitude of the Ciech far and wide or be rooted out absolutely, fighting soldiers in France and Flanders, Deputies, some of whom, like the well that the war is to continue until mili in consequence of the experience of the known loader Dr. Kramarah, are under tarism has been destroyed. That is what war. sentence of death for "high treason. all the enemies of the German Empire I think, in fact I have no doubt, that The Czech Deputies, indeed, insisted say out loud, and what all neutral in view of all this experience and the upon the immediate liberation of all the Powers say in whispers. Do they not, state of opinion, it is desirable, indeed condemned and imprisoned Deputies as then, know Germany ?" it is asked. No. necessary, that the matter in all its na a preliminary to the convocation. of Germany keeps silence And Germany pecte, particularly in the light of the Parliament; but, in order to bring them allows noisy runners-amok to proclaim new experience which we bave gained to reason, the Government pat great themselves to mankind, as the true from the war, should be reviewed by the pressure upon the Bohemian aristocracy, evangelists of the German spirit, How War Committee, or the Committee of while Emperor Francis Joseph much longer!"
Imperial Defence, whichever may turn threatened the Bohemian people with.
out to be the more fitting instrument for fresh persecution. The meaning of this threat is illustrated by the fact that,
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THE VAQUE HORROR,
mans have been able to reach the beast and fondle it, but they have not been able to persuade one to follow them home: Many thousands of German soldiers also have seen the things coming into battle, and they must have been a terri fying sight to those who saw them first dimly outlined in the grey light of dawn, spitting fire and death as they came. One can pity eren Germans who only naw the vague horror moving against them and were killed by it before they know what it was that killed them.
The time is doubtless not far away when pictures of "Tanks will be far lier festures of the illustrated papers,
and we shall have their portraits ad post-cards. Childreu will have miniature Tanks " for toys, and street-sellers will make them waddle about the kerb. As yet, however, they are half-mysteries.
Of the value of the services which they have rendered there can be no question, or of the gallantry with which they have been handled.
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since the beginning of the war, more than who has used his considerable fortase in 1,500 Czech civilians have been hanged promoting Socialism in Austria. His in Bohomin ón charges of high treason.
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