TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY, THE ZEPPELIN FAILURE. THE KAISER'S HUMANITY"
THY D. TEOMAS CURTIN}
CHAPTER XXX,
A little, ben old woman, neat, Bhrivelled, with clear, healthy eye and
1917. THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9TH.
GERMAN EXHAUSTION.
MR. BELLOC ON WAR'S OUTLOOK FOR 1917
In a very striking and interesting article in Land and Water, Mr. Hilaire Belloc reviews the conditions in which the Allies enter the your 1917, He first nets forth in detail what he describes as the debit side-namely, our three grent drawbacks (1) Length and vulner ability of communications, (2) physient separation between East and West, and (3) confederacy as opposed to unity of In this part of his Article Mr. Belloc reminds the world of the military achieve ment of Great Britain. The very sue cess of that stupendous piece of creation,"
keen intelligence, was collecting acorns in the park outside the great Schloss, the residence of von Oppen, a relative of the Police President of Berlin. control.
I had walked long and was about to eat my picnic lunch, and stopped and spoke with her. We son came to the one topic in Germany the war. She was eighty-four years of age, she told
LONDON AFTER SIX MONTHS. THE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW
The following antich was written by a married subaltern just before return- ing to the Somme ----
Burely. I said to myself, the people cannot understand or they would not do all these thrugs,
PAN-GERMAN AMBITIONS, PLANS FOR THE DESTRUCTION
GERMANS ESCAPE OFFICERS WHEELED TO STORE SHED AS WASTE PAPER.
The two Germnu officers, Lieutenant Anton Crentek and Lieutenant Otto Thelan, who escaped from the Holyport Detention Campi certainly
displayed
YOUR BREATH -?
Is it offensivat In your tongna sa it should be in the morning! If
clean not let
PINKETTES
great forethought and genuity. It appears that the camp waste paper is help you. They dispel Constipation, cor collected at intervals and wheeled in rect torpid liver, bad breath, foul tongue, barrows to a store shed outside the bilious headaches. As gentle as nature grounds, this work being performed by Of all chemiste, or 50 coats the phial, German orderlies. The officers conceived post free, from Dr. Williams Medicine the idea of being taken to the shod as Ca, 96, Szechuan Road, Shanghai
1 der selves naperneut consequently hid them
waste paper and
from
mo, and she worked for twelve hours he says, was an object-lesson in the Dression. I was, and am, too amazed military situation, and at the prospect of managed to get sufficient air i thoir
81-24
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TU-DAY
OF SMALL STATES. Recent Corman papers inform us that a number of very successful moetings have been held in several largo cities under the auspices of the Par German Lagu It is interesting to note that I had not been in London since the early although the Pan-Germans are in control of last spring. The intersexing months of a vast and important Press, in no one had been spent on the front somewhere of their papers have we anything like a these meetings, or a list of the speakers in France a large part of the time on complete account of the proceedings at the life of the Somme
I arrived in England in the middle of who addressed them. All we are told arrived in Bog the next day in Lon that the meeting more crowded, that they dou replenishing my kit. Everything was wore unusually enthusiastic and that By using a twig of amazing. It is difficult to record my in general satisfaction was expressed at the whieht, the pith had been abseracted, they
by some of great shops of the West End of speedy realisation of Pan-German aims hiding place. The roll-call was answered
their
comrades, so that the The
came to wheel ont the weste paper, yo day. Her mother had seen Napoleon pass separate moral qualities and separate London are unchanged. Expansive furs and objects. That Belgium bids fair to by s through the red-roofed village hard by political genius of one out of the fat expensive clothes, dazzling jewellery be an extension of the Empire towards men were not missed. When the orderlies
suspicions of the armed guard i
in charge Shat well remembered what she called Allies,
furniture appalling in its prices seem the North Sea and the English coast,
were in the to fall to the share of Germany, tant were not aroused the Bismarck wars Site was of the He then proceeds to consider what he almost more abundant in the great shops that part of France ride in ores is sure natural did the bundles look that the old, generation, for she spoke of the rally the credit side, and hud that of the West End than
Peace and pro
• No,” she said, "this war is not The Central Powers are suffering from little frocks, running into many guia Serbia and Montenegro had bom, wined. After they had been tumble the Noon-Humphreys Estate and Finnics Co., Kaiser as the King at the balance is heavily against the cuemy days of i
crum that the German occupation of Russian guard, and the orderlies returned to the Kong Hotel
the guard. As soon as all was going like the Bismarck wars-not like the blockade, the absence of combined for children of very tender years. I saw out, that Romania had been overrun, store shed the door was locked by the the three that happened in 1864, 1888,effort, and the exhaustion of effectives, brooches no more than an inch acros poland meant the crippling of Russin scump, the offers managed to free Troslav 19th Feb
In spite of unity of direction from Berlin, priced at thirty guineas, while there were young womst. She was referring, of Austris has failed to play the part as many rings with ons single diamond for of enfermate in Seins
her, und her failure, especially in each of which a hundred pounds was of Lithuania and Courland, and last, but themselves from their respectiva hundles, strong in the Near East that her further excured their freedom. How they obtain is hard to get. Here she pointed to bostan plaus. On the other hand rowing at 6 per cent, bloed sole progress to the Persian Gulf was assureded the civilian clothes which they were 42.10 p.n.Ladies' Recreation Club, Anant We have lost many, in our village for the Trentino, Las embarrassed the Prus asked Good Heavens and we are hot not least, that Germany had become 90 forced the lock of the door, and thus boat Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders.
The restaurants were filled with The Alliance has elaborated, por
Noon-Hongkong Ho two thin slices of black bread which were ticularly in the Wort, a new tactical expensively attired There seemed no the Hamburg-Persian Gulf scheme wearing when arrested by Police Con- General Meeting at the City Hall.
It lack of the old dishes, the old wines. were all matters of suprotne satisfaction stable Crook at Old Windsor shortly after Saturday, 17th Facial Co. Ltd., Meeting to form her milday meal. She did not method which will win the war.
who have been recently holding high grumble at her twelve hours day in the reached its perfection-st was almost Luxurious motor-cars were all over the to the important bodies of Pan-Germans midnight still remains a mystery.
We saw it place. fields, which were in addition to the created this
valne upen
I stood in the West End and watched Festival. incrossing an work of her litt house, but she wished rapidly that she could have half an hour in the Somune as the summer provod it all. I was amazed. The people can-
ed. Its characteristic is the infliction by not understand, I said. which to read atory I
a local offensive of greater losses upon the defence by far than the offensive sufers. We saw it gradually coming into play as the Somme operations proceeded It was triumphant at Beaumont Famel
course, to Denmark Austrian, and France.
Her relief was that the way would be terminated by the Zeppelins. When our humano King really gives the word, the English ships and towns will all be estroyed by our Zeppelins. He is hold ing back his great secret of destruction out of kindness
summer.
ALLIES RESERVES:
I make no excuse for myself. I walked into a great and popular music-hall and watched a revue The house was filled and not with soldiers only. I could not accuse the leading men of being expen sively attired. They had shabby parts As a rule comedians do. humorous, in luxury, I had no idea what
THE GERMANY OF THE FUTURE We would do well to bear the Pan- Germans in mind. It would be a grave mistake were we to ignore or seck to minimise the extremely infuertial posi- by them. In the times of
into
WAR NEWS BRITAIN'S OUTSTANDING FLOATING DEBT.
The figures are now available for the national revenue and expenditure to the
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Bat German exhaustion of effecting, not in their scantiness, for I do a are supported by some of the most power. Certificates, now that their issue has
come, 226 Bace 1st Day.
no conception of the great part the thing. So the enemy nowy whom these clothes were made and the rights and privileges of weak people of which had oaved earlieris Baturday, 3rd March
Hongkong Races-3rd Day. Hongsong •Haco -04 Day. Saturday, 10th March
18.30 p.m-Hongkong and South Chine at the Office of the Liquidators, New Government Building,
Steam Fisheries Co., Ltd., General Mothing
was in the two heavy blows which
tion occupied st mary to smile at their close of the year. It may be interesting. Saturday, ZenFong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, meeting of Shareholders at hivo disengaged the Verdun sector. Dousutnost and Poivre Hill, the other day
vagatics, their shallowness, their inordi- therefore, in this connection to draw
26th Feb. war has revealed that they are a body to amounts raised by loan by means of The remark of that simple bat intel-blog, exceeded the total casualties suffer no doubt, would be proud to say, the proto ambitions. But the course of this attention more particularly to the total Corporation, m
duction cost goodness knows how many be reckoned with, and that their schemes Exchequer Bonds and War Expenditure
27th Feb ligent old woman as to the restraint od in the delivering of them,
so an end 150 thousands. To me the dresses were apez. the
kong Racos-2nd Day. Hongkong imposed by the Kaiser upon
The aggregate outstanding amount of Wednesday, 28th Feb, Zeppelins constituted, until a few weeks
pretend to be a moralist, but in their fun in the Empire
In view of President Wilson's state- ago, the universal belief of all Germany. Peop in Great Britain seem to have is the determining point of the whole obvious expusiveness, The programme
told me, each time the actresses changed cut that each side desires to make Five per cent. Exchequer Bonds the £334,614,560, of which £180,829,469 repre For every 65 men Zeppelin was to play in the war, accord- ink to German imagination. That simhus in action wing the word in action designed. They were not cheap names and small States as secure against aggresents bonds sold since last April 1st. The people in the theatre were attired ion or denial in the future as the rights Out of this total bonds maturing in 1919 plovold peasant lady expressed the views to mean inclusive of the beld depots and hat a boon uttered to me by intelligent the zone of the armies, but exclusive of they were more than dressed as if money and privileges of the great and powerful amount to 5:34,222,000, those maturing members of the Reichstag-bankers, mer the militarily useless men who still draw were no object and as if the Empire in States now at was it will be to re in 1920 to £237,628,, and those chants, mon and women of all degrees,rations and are in uniform at work of stead of borrowing were actually giving member that from the huge body of Fap 1821 10 £02,484,000. The issuing of six Kr German literature it would be an easy per cent. Exchequer Bonds maturing in and the numer- The first destruction of Zeppelins that one kind or another behind the armies money away
the enemy sees drafts of about 20 to sup- by Tieutenant Warneford (the bringing down of L Z 77 at Rovigny, dul not pro-Ply wastage between this and the late us motor cars and laxicabs had dr matter to give volmes of citations in February, 2020, now also closed, began on duce much disappointment. The war was suffnient. The Alliance in every part of part of text summer. It is grossly it going well in other directions. But the it stis indefinitely larger reserves of recent destruction of Zeppeling has had human material. Even the French people almost as much to do with the desire are a class ahead of the German Empire for peace, in the popular mind, as the and two classes ahead of the Austrian.” discomfort and illness caused by food.
Our superior man-power gives us shortage and the perpetual hummerings superiority in monitionment, chablon by the French and English armies in the Italy to hold and exhaust 25 to 30 As West.
tin divisions, and justifies the con idence of the Allice in the future. Mr. Belloe closes with a political conclu
on
When the revue was over and
are absolutely denied, and declar ing that a number of smaller States are states are stols and privileges of small sits better than parasites drowing their support from the large bodies nonr
them.
A few examples of the Pan-German attitude towards smaller States aro
to December 30 is £159,204.000. Thus the grand total of these two forms of shore PETER October 2nd Itst, and the total fold up
dated debt comes to £183,716,500
For my part, I am as convinced that these three matters have bad as much to do with you Bethmann Hollweg's peace offer as any other, combined, of course, with the knowledge felt by every Germ her by any error, even by any accident, road of while wandering on the banks of on by the Prussians they will peknow Germany were anxious to spend Christ
If Prussia is saved from what awaits not your time, but generations beyond us. Will be occupied in the intense pro puration to resist future peril, and prob- in the ultimate failure of that effort
so doubt be angry to be called by off, I walked up to a ten shop-it would name. It exuded prosperity. As I walked
The issuing of Two-Year Expenditure in I was flanked on both sides by expensive
Certificates began on April 1st last, and boxes of chocolates As I had tea, on all sides of me were expensively dressed
The outstanding amount of Treasury women, and I was surrounded with cakes
the total subscribed has been £99,855,900 for whose adornment enough sugar must
Grossdeutschland and Mitteleuropa in have been used to have kept many famworth citing. In a book entitled bills on December 20th was £1,115,19,000.
CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES lies in sugar for many a day.
1050 we have the following remarks There did not seem any shortage of any about Holland: "When our brothers of single thing. Loudon, it seemed to me the Low German race shall baro got over. Mr. Philip Gibbs, Press correspondent
had was simply wallowing in luxury. Where their almost childish fright at anexa with the British troops, reports The I wondered, was the war economy
ledge that as admission of Holland into mas peacefully, and they sought no trou- the Somine! Where was the deed of food treat Germany is advantageous, to both ble apart from a few raids and artillery tickets or of a limitation of prices, and parties. Moreover, in the bosom of duels from Ypres to the Somme. Our whore, above all, was the war bent Germany, the Dutch would be able Tommies listened to the Germans at carils
Perhaps after all, I thought in my
own particular characteristics, mouth organs, but kept their rifles ready all a dream of mine. I looked at myself.
The official language will remain Dutch in the event of raids. Germans occa I certainly was in khaki. Yes, there for the legislature and for the admini sionally invited a truce, vafoly shouting
I bought an evening paper. were beginning to win back their coun- High German will not be employed ex- was a war on The Serbians, I read, tration in State, School, and Church
hers.
The Russian guns were activo, federation. Besides, it is obvious that try Houmania was beginning to lose cept in matters that concern the Con Franca had a success. Italy, from the its use will spread rapidly, hut volun- news, seemed to be in it. Germany and tarily, in commerce and the sciences Austria were not doing too well. Well, God grant that our Low German cousins perhaps, after all, we were not in this may at last abandon that jealous regard War and, it had all affected my brain for thair independence as a separate
turned to another column. I was not State." dreaming. We were in it. A 48,000-ton
Was
that peace, with the map in its present state, is a victory of a size never imagin ed by the wildest Pan-German in
in is wildest dreams. have an doubt that there will be further
I am not inclined to be prophetie. Even those who may basely desire it will amazement, there was no WAN preserve, to a regsonable extent, their and at concorts with tin whistles and Zeppelin raids, but I know enough of the Zeppelin and of the German churae ter to be convinced that recent British Zeppelin victorios in the air have pro daced a huge moral effect upon your enemy
You should realise that the Zeppelin has been a fetish of the Germans for the last ten years. Thousands of pictures
not return to the old case. No individual or group of individ without suffering if betray civilisation in the common ruin. And if this could be true of one community more than of another, it is especially true of the com unity which lives through and upon the sea."
have been imagined of them dropping of weeks. There was great difficulty in bombs on Buckingham Palace, the Bank
England, and the Grand Fleet. For obtaining Zeppelin crews. Most of them
ning to understand
They also I thought, do not understand,"
Shut
SWITZERLAND AND BELGIUM.
Our men, with periscopes, watched the
Wai't you come over, Tommy, dear
crawling from under falling parapets Germans baling water out of tretiches, and straggling up to their necks in shell boles in ice cold water. At some points the troops exchanged nows, throwing across cigar boxes containing letters Drying rooms. warmed by charcoal stoves, are the latest British preventive
DAWSON'S
of " trench feet. Troops holding the Whisky is the whisky with a trendies cheerfully waited till Boxing Day for their Christmas dinner in the growing popularity, because its more comfortable surrundings of the elegant flavour is solely due to original fineness developed by Age. Obtainable from all Wine Merchants.
rear.
THE PAN-GERMAN PLOT.
In die most admirable book
knce to Berlin
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a long time, owing to the kiding of the are sailors, as are the officers. There Excts in England of the Zeppelin raids,ave been suppressed mutinies in connec-hospital ship belonging to us had heen
Let us next take Switzerland, citing even high Gorman officials believed that tion with the manning of the Zeppelins
The Germans have now facts as to the The brutes." said at over liressed from the same authoribiative source Immense damage had been done." The
We may then leave Switzerland to Freach acted more wisely. They allowed actual damage done in England. They woman, and stepped into her thousand- full descriptions of the aeroplane and read and know that the British public guinea limousine. I was amazed:
"The people," I said, " cannot under choose whether she shall enter the Zeppelin raids in France to be published, receive the Zeppelins with excellent air-
Confederation, bringing all her cantons I get to my home in the country" and the result was discouraging to the cruft nad gunfire. They know that these stand. It will all be different when German Zoll-vercin and the Pan-German Germans. I remember studying the preparations are likely to be increasing It was different in my own home, and or only the German ones with her, er British Zeppelin communiqués with Gerrather than decreasing, and while, for in the homes of those of my friends who whether she shall form part of the Ger- mans. At that time you were constantly the sake of saving the national face, it had given ap their businesses to go out, man Empire on equal terms as a Federal Pan German Plot." published by John H. BUTTONJEE & SON. referring to these raids taking place in will be necessary that Zeppelins be fur Most of the servants had gone. Still, Binte. Everyone with a knowledge of Murray, M. André Chéradame on the the eastern counting, when the re- ther used, the people who are directing none of us would have been out of it the prevailing sentiment in Chauvinist basis of original documents, thus sum- turned Germany knew exactly where they the war know that, so far as land war Elsewhere there were no signs of poverty. Germany is aware that the hope of ab murisca Gorman aims in Russia lind boen. The result was great en fare is concerned, they are not a factor. There seemed no shortage of money. I sorbing Switzerland without resorting 1. To carve out of the Empire of the virgement. Nothing did mure to The universal belial that prevailed in saw no economy. The shops in the little arm and as a consequence of victories Tsars, and annex to the German Con- depress the Germans than the humorcas Germany that Gorman chemists have pro- town were all well stocked. There were over her great neighbours, as one of the federation, a slice of territory large THE PENINSULAR
e enough to cut off Russia entirely from
ORIENTAL STEAM the West and true accounts of the Zeppelin raids duend some terrific explosive, the use of plenty of motor-cars everywhere e
In May, 1915, a memorial from a
To constitute at the expense of
NAVIGATION CO. which wore eventually allowed to appear which was forbidden by the humane
aumber of powerful Pan-German asso Russia, thus reduced, new States (Poland In the English newspapers,
Kaiser grected one everywhere, and it There is a German saying about the one did not know the extraordinary
If anyone reads this I know fell well ciations was sent to the Imperial Chan- English communiqués that, from the docility of the German mad, ong would Cefman point of view, "no news is good imagine that the governing classes would what he will say "We do all this cellor in which, as regards Belgium, the and Lithuania), which should how the STEAM FOR STRAITS, new, and I should not be a gond be perplexed as to how to explain away because when the boys come over from following passage occurs Because it A well-known historical writer in the Friend of the Allies if I did not state the situation. France they would not like to find every is necessary to insure car credit at sea Pan-German camp declared in the and our military and economic situation Panther review that it was absolute- up** what I know to be true-that your By this time I and that quite a number thing dull and
That is an entirely foolish statement for the future in face of England, bely necessary for Germans to expand the Zappelin and naval communiques have of people in and a little of German this needs no answer cause the Belgian territory, which is greatly encouraged the Germans.
What soldier in the line in France the greatest economic importance, is sphere of their power, capacially eant Count Zeppelin, who up to a year ago psychology end the way the Governants to see his children dressed in ten closely linked to our principal indus Ward. the lamense Russian was a national hero, is already regard- ment-controlled newspapers handle it.
Finally, we would cite three passages ed by s largo section of the population A bad being at Verdun is offset by guinea frocks or to eat cakes plastered trial territory, Belgium must be subforce mest recede behind the Dnieper. as an old failure. The very house ser great staying headlines describing the with engar, or to watch over dressed jected to the legislation of the Empire in which give in to be pro
women float about in expensive motor-monetary financial and postal matters Fants who subscribed, their pfennigs and further penetration into Roumania or the cars, to know that some less divity We aball organise the govern spirit of Germany's attitude to the weaked from this port as natal, taking Passenge marks in the early days to help conduct return of Transatlantic submarine from at the back of the stage is dressed in cloth ment and the administration in such a nations of the earth, of her desire to and Cargo for the above Ports Passengers his experiments now no longer speak of New York artery of gold designed by So-and-so and made manner that the maabitants will not be make their rights, secure against aggres
and Cargo for him with respect. They have transferred In this ante winter time, when the by Mine. Some one else to acquire any influence over hesion. The first is from the Kaiser's speech on laying the foundation-store of
Freate and Londou (under strangemanf) their admiration to Hindenburg and the need of heating food is all the more felt. There is only one thing the man in political destiny of the Gorman ho Roman Museum near Homburg will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding
London, submarines.ALE
all manner of traps for German publio France wants, and that is to end the war.
May our German Fatherland become in Bombay to Marsailles and
Parools will be repaived at the Office until 3 Zeppelin news was not difficult to opinion are set. Last winter, you will There is not a man of military age on
The same memorial, speaking of the future so strongly united, as power obtain in Germany. A series of articles remember it was Zeppelin frightfulness all the great arable farms of Northern appeared in The Times by a French A few weeks ago it was something Franco, where only 10 per cent of the France, said: As to France, always in ful as wonderful as was the Romane, the my before sailing. The corkant and writer-M. Georges Prade last spring good coming before Christmas"-the land is grass Turn the women of Eng consideration of our position towards universal Empire, so that in times to value of all packages are required
apply to which surprised the Germans by their something good being peace. I have no land on to the land or to some other work England, it is of vital interest for us, in come it may be said of us as it used to For further particulars, sailing dates, etc.
EV D. PARR was spoken by the ainuite accuracy. He revealed the real doult whatever that the average German They could not do it, you say. You said respect of our future on the etes, that be aid of yore, Civis Romanus sum
clerk would not we should own the coast which borders The second passage
Superintendenti Zeppelin centro-Lepizig-nd the geo middle-class believed, peace would arrive the "kout" and
make soldiers. They didn'o up May his Majesty graphical reasons for its choice, and he at von Bethmann Hellweg a bidding. If it was not to see my wife and family which would give us an outlet on the the Sultan, as well as the three hundred described in detail construction facts Since then it has bean hints of food from I would not come back on leave again. Atlantic Ocean Any other ter million of Mussulmans who generate which German fying men admitted to Romania, Tomorrow it will be an ex- me to be accurate to a degree that tension of submarining, though I have no Yes, and thousands of others share my ritorial conquest in France, beyond the him as their Khalifa be assured that necessary annexation of the mining the German Emperor is their friend for doubt that this weapon has all the time view of it all. It was at that time that the belief been used to the utmost. The people do act indorstand, como basing of Tricy, should only be made in ever în Zeppelins was beginning to wane am convinced that as far as land just because they do not and some because virtus of considerations of military The third passage is from an article by
they will not..
The scurity of the Maximilian Harden: This was heHTINOS There had been more mishaps than there warfare is concerned, Count Zeppelin's A week on the Bomme would do them an Empire in a future war, remot been forced on se by surprise; we LEGISLATIVE U INOLL had been published; more wounded and monster, expensive and intricate bomb no harm damaged Zeppeling than the Germans throwers will be used to raise, if only had ever announced I was informed for a moment, the black depression that bhat the overhauling and repair of many hovers over the unds of the German and copeling after & successful or unsuccessstrian peoples, but I am equally sure ful raid were a matter not of days, but that they are recognised as a failure by (Continued as foot of nest columin.) the German Government-Daily Malt.
alarmed them
I wonder whether the people or their former leaders are to blame most. I blame the people for being sheep if they do not understand and those Laders for thinking the people will always be sheep
Daily Mail,
Empire.
strategy.
quires therefore imperatively the owner hip of all mines of iron ore, including the fortresses of Longy and of Verdun, which are necessary to defend this region."
Continued at font of west Column.)
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