THE HONGKONG DAILT PRESS, THURSDAY,
AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH GERMAN PLOTTERS IN U.S.
THE ALLIES.
A LECTURER'S EXPERIENCE.
[BY 811 EDWIN PEARS.]
Sir Edwin Pears, the veteran author and
journalist, and a recognised authority on frei a lecture tour in the United States. Eastern questions, has recently returned Ho had special opportunities of meeting representativo men in al walks of life. and gives his impressions in the following
article, .
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FEBRUARY 22ND, 1917.
A CONFERENCE OF THE A MILLION MEN LOST IN 1916,
EMPIRE.
· THE GERMAN CASUALTIES IN "THE BEER WITHOUT A PEER”
FRANCE
In the irrelevant and mischievous chatter about pesco which has disturbed
The totals of prisoners taken by the this season of Christmas the world bas
Allied Armies on the various fronts in lost sight of one great event which, unlike Europe during 181 make up a mass of the hypocritical professions of Herr von close upon: 600,000. The French ove Bethmann Hollweg and the machinations captured 78,500 Germans, the British bave of interested pacifists, will profoundly captured 10,600 Germans. The Italians influence the history of the world have taken 68,250 Austrians. On the On Christmas Day, well chosen for the Eastern Front the Russians have captured single genuine movement towards a last- some 400,000 prisoners, mostly Austrians. ing peace, the Prime Ministers of the self The Macedonian Ariny has taken prison- governing Dominions were invited to ers 11,173 Bulgarians Turke, and Ger- Franz Bopp, Consul-General,
attend a series of meetings of the War mans. This gives 08: the formidable total Ekhardt von Sehnok, Vice-Consul, Cabinet, in crder to consider urgent of 682,423, a Agure which leaves out of Lieutenant Wilhelm von Brincken, questions affecting the prosecution of account the considerable number of Saxon Army officer, temporarily attached the war, the possible conditions on which prisoners made by the Roumanians in to the Consulate
Charles Crowly, a private detective in agreement with our Allies, we could their irruption into Transylvania and the assent to its termination, and the preb prisonera captured by the British in employed by Bopp
lems which will then immediately arise Egypt and German East Africa, love Of the 119,000. Germans captured in France in 1916, the French took 26,689 at Verdun and 51,840 on the Somme, Th Franco British Armies have taken huu- dreds of guns of various calibres from the shemy during the year. A recent official statement in England claimed 150 heavy guns, 200 field guns, and 1,500 machine- guns up to November. But this total will French captured 115 guns of all calibres hate to be considerably increased, for tha at Verdun on December 15th and 16th
It is safe to put the enemy's total casualties in France during the year at not less than a million. Reasonable com Putations based on the enemy's partial admission, make it considerably more. the bay prisoners alone is equivalent The loss in sions In their attack on Verdun the Germans up to July 28t had brought into engagement 42, divisions. On the Somme up to November 1st, in all 90 German divisions had participated in the fighting,
Mrs. Margaret Cornell, a apy, associat ed with Crawley
K A sixth person Indicted, J. F. Van koolbergen, was not brought to trial be cause be had for the country, while an other, J. Smith, secured immanity by
The election for President in America took place on November 7th. I arrived in New York on October 9th, and by good fortune found myself surrounded by friends belonging to each of the great political parties, all of whom may be classed as reasonable men. I was privileged to attend a Woman's Conven- tion of the Democratic party. There were not more than four or five men pre- Bont; the gathering was of women workers who were fighting for Mr. Wileca. Prob ably fifteen or sixteen women spoke, and the average of their speaking was un-acting as State witness hope and freedom which lay in our path doubtedly high, My surprise was that in the attacks that were made upon Mr. Hughes or his party there was no charge that struck me as particularly serious Local questions such as these arising out of the Adamson Labour Bill occupied most of the attention of the speakers. As to the question of how far Mr. Wilson had kept the country out of war, the impression I gained was that most of the impression I gained ans that most, in
other words, I think that some of the
The terms of the invitation are plain and prosaic, yet beneath their prose and their plainness there things the light of an imperial imagination. Hitherto our eyes have been bloared with prejudice and error. We have not seen the tekens of The detailed charges against the way. Our blinkered politicians have told Criminal Germans were trying to blow up us that we must not tighten a bonds munitions plants in Canada and America which unite us with our Dominions Ever and steamships and trains carrying ship. sea. They have talked pompously about ments to the Allies, as well as using the banged and bolted and barred doors of wl of the United States to provide militou British oak, and in their vain hunt fury enterprises against British territory for votes have forgotten the strength
The Court postponed taking the ques tion of the sentences under consideration which comes to the Empire from unity of until later. Appeals are being planned purpose and from a shared responsibility. by the conspiratory
much, hate changed also the blind old But the war, which has changed so policy of doing nothing. The politicians who interposed between us and union have retired, blinkered still, into obscurity The door of stout British oak has been proudly opened to its friends, who never again will find it banged and bolted at their approach, The Dominions, which have fought by our side in the great battle of liberty waged against the Ger of helping to make pose as they have helped to make war. Frein the very be- ginning our battle has been theirs. We have mingled our blood with theirs on the stricken felda of France and athe Dardanelles. As they have fought LDD bled, so in justice and honour will they send their representatives to the Council Chamber
Von Brincken declares that the Court has no right to impose a gaol sentence, because that is not the way that such matters are dens in Germany. He asserts that "If the worst comes to the worsts the sentences should be tempered in no cordance with our rank. And he adds In my country oficials in our post tion would not, under similar circum placed in confirment at some military station, where they would enjoy the con- foxts to which they are accustomed, and where imprisonment would be more tech- nieal than real."-Times
speakers would have been glad if they could have noted that he had made stronger protests against the devastation of Belgium and the sinking of the Tusitunic than he had done. To European having his first experience of the Democratic Convention the impression conveyed was that the ladies desired very much that President should be that Army car ke elected, but respected themselves too much to fing mud at his opponent. The other suggestion was that no one would break his hourt if Hughes was successful. The country had two good men, ench of whom was an officient servant. The audience preferred the tried to the untried man.
BLESSINGS OF WAR DIET. UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR OF AN
CHEMINENT GERMAN
·PHYSIOLOGIST.
The editor of the Loiul Anzeiger, having asked Professor Heinrich Rosin to write an article for him on " Corpulence and War Food," this eminent specialist fills three columns with a very learned disquisition on the subject, not without its points of interest, and full of uninten tional humour.
TUT OF COMPLACENOY,
bo
The groat revelation of the year so far as the French army was concerned has been that is has taught the eneme mos for all, that any plan of campaign based either crushed or exhausted is A year after the beginning of the battle of ordun that army is more powerful, better equipped, more confident than ever. And on this front the ascendant has passed definitively to the armies of France and Great Britain.
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THE GERMAN VIEW.
CHANCELLOR AND HIS FIVE MORTGAGES.
The Socialist Forwarts draws atten-
Sins of
A GEHMAN AND IRISH VOTERO, SA
I was in Boston when the election was declared, and had been there for a fort night. The belief in Boston was that in similar circumstances Mr. Hughes would.
There are many problems indeed which have made stronger protests than Mr.
would remain insoluble without their Wilson had done, but there also was no
aid. For not merely have they sent their thing like personal hostility to Mr
soldiers to fight to Europe; they have Wilson. When the news came on the 7th
taken by their own prowess the Colonies that Hughes was elected, news which
which the Germans have been permitted proved false, the exhilaration was great,
to plant in their neighbourhood. And but was followed next day by doubts
when the peace comes, in whose dictation sion to the revival of the Pan-German which soon besame certainties as to kis
they will bear a part, the duty will still campaign against the Chancellor as the success After the election I visited a readers that never before in the historyment and prosperity to Dominions of offer. The Berliner Neueste Nachrichten, The professor begins by reminding his remain to them of bringing good govern- result of the failure of the German peace great number of cities, and in one I found of the world has such barbarism been their own, Dominions which they have the organ of the "armour plate patriots,
professer who looked at the whole eleo tion quite philosophically. Be maintain practised as is now practised by England Wrosted from the heavy hand of is quoted as having drawn up a complete
in her attempt to starve an entire nation. Teutonism and misgoverament. The fu- register of the Chancellor's
com ed that the European War had exercised And yet this very bate-born and curse- turo of the Pacific, for instance, les mission and omission. The chief conat but very little influence on the election laden starvation war has resulted largely in the hands of Australasia, and ning of the war when the Germans in the indictment is that at the begin There was no Americo German party and bringing benabenting many more, and we can look forward only with the live. no Irish German party. He backed up will result many
Red
into Belgium be apoke the words Owing to the compulsory limits placed liest interest to the tact and courage with abot necessity knowing no laws, this proposition, not by general impres
and sions, which, as he said, amounted toot dies, says Professor Room, quite which she will tackle a problem which about the wrong committed against inter- nothing at all, but by careful comparison group of discases has been robbed of many once was ours alone B
national law. further crime of Hert with the results obtained in November of its terrors, and in numerous cases com Thus it is that war puts the burden Bethmann-Hollweg is that he in with those arrived at in previous elections, plete cures have been wrought. This is always upon the white man's back. The spite of the lively
Grand proteste of Gormans and Irishmen had voted ps especially the case with gout and corpul Dominions have played a noble part in Admiral Tirpitz, declared war on they have been voting during the last 12 The benefits of war diet come in mainly noble share of duty and responsibility, responsibility for declaring war on to the was, and will shoulder henceforth a Russia and France, instead of shifting the yeata Tas local issues poncern thom. much more than those of the politics of the case of those patients whose wills Upon the spirit in which they ahoulder their shoulders.
After making other their native countries. Ho produced are so weak that they fail to follow the it will depend the future of our Empire some startling figures to show that this orders of their medical advisers, men and They will be asked, in New Guinea and women who are led away by their appe elsewhere, to perform the self same tasks was the case. For himself he had heal-tites or who sutoamb to the advice of which we once performed all the world Lated very much about voting. He had friends. Compulsory war diet is a god over. Grown to manhood, they are called finally decided to vote for Wilson for the sond to these
and their
game is reason, as be expressed it, that be dis
legion. Weaklings,
Kupon at last to found and to administer kod Wilson's policy less than that at-
Professor Rosin has been a narrow ch Colonies of their cwn. And so profound tributed to Hughes. He agreed that both server of the effects of war food on the their sense of a sound tradition that we a faith we have in their patience and in were excellent men, but inasmuch as the ordinary citizen. He is amazed that not- country had lad Wilson in power for withstanding the provocation given by gladly entrust to their care the lesser four years the country had some sort of war food he find comparatively few signs Dominions, our grandchildren, over whose guarantee of what his policy would be. of diminishing physical powers among the youth and growing manhood it will be wounding arent people Emteciation their business to watch was alone in taking this attitude. Even Boston has become pretty general, he says, And as the closer union, knit between which voted almost in mass for Hughes especially in towns, but maciation it us and the Dominions, will weight them
accompanied by weakness or the with a salutary authority, which they did had its exceptions The "grand old man of the place," Dr. Elliot, whom I was loss of physical capacity
not know of old, so it will make us cast happy to see in full vigcur at the age sous, men and women, who have never
On all sides the professor meets per off the wrinkled skin of corruption and of 85, stuck to his guns and cast Lis vote before been successfully treated with we have lain in a sad rat of folly and was young again. For the last ten years for Wilson, Other men almost equally well known did the same. Many expla- dietic rules, and who now give almost complacence. We have believed tant, so nations were given of Mr. Hughes loss daily proof that their heavy load of fat long as we cherished the House of Com tissues is surely disappearing. A do
farmer
with some
charges the writer continues
The diplomsey of our Chancellor is eo burdened with the weight of the above enumerated, five mortgages that he can never attain the liberty of action and the personal freedom from bina required for the conclusion of a FURCE advantageous to Germany.
PARLIAMENT THE ENEMY. The Deutsche Tageszeitung issues a loud warning against the creeping paralysis of parliamentarism which is invading of ariary side in its opinion the disease is afflicting every nation; but Germany, it feels aure, One 800 19 infected, will inevitably perish by it ----
Just at this moment one beara English voices which suggest that, what? cannot be achieved by arms, viz. the destraction of Germen power, might be attained by the dentocrazisation of! German institutions. These efforts have never ceased since, the sixties of last century, when Bismarck came into con- flict with the Parliament, and to-day the pro-British
party
is still busy with the undermining work Here is the
nerable spot of the German E fried. He who would deliver German people into the hands of democracy and parliamentarism will be branded by history on his forehead with the words :-Destructor German B...
cf election through the vote of California crease in weight of 30 pounds is not ons we were assured of happiness ve had carefully tended the illusion, common and the Mid-West. A story, uncon FATO occurrence all the result of war tricted so far as I could hear, attri diet. Men and women are met daily by means were grener than the end. But at to all those who droop to decay, that the buted the gain of Mr. Wilson in Cali-
the professor who show him fornia to bad management on the part of pride the loose lolds, of clothes where in last we have shaken off our sleth, and Ar Hughes' committee. But the better for
days all was tightness and pres have entered once inore the gloricus servation was that made by many sure, and they are all in good health and destined to become great and honourable health and ways of truta and prosperous virtue, Californians and e'tizens of the Middle all feel comfortable and jolly know in these later ages West. You would be astonished, said War diet is the best nut-fat care one who had recently traversed the Con to Professor Rosin-he
so definitely In this vast emprise the Dominions will tinent, to see the atter indifference with He calls it an ideat eura War diet come to our aid. They will furnish us which the people of these countries regard improves the action of the heart and the with something of the young blood which the European War Yes, said a man circulation of the blood, and makes healwe once gave freely to them. Truly the largely interested in shipping, there is po thy citizens out of men and women who bread which we cast upon the waters has by promises. When we have ardently de- Chance whaterer for American shipping have hitherto been a burden to themselves come back to us. Without forethought aired this or that policy we have been and in the gay spirit of adventure we told that it was under consideration." reviving, the legislature has blocked the and others.
But in view of all this is it not rather sent our early Coloniste neroes the sea. Indeed it was under consideration," and Navy Bills, and the average Western farmer asks what do we want with a unkind of Dr. Rosin to accuse England We taught them before they went some likely to be bep: there. All the projects navy No army or fleet can ever get atf a hate hom and surse laden starva- times they went because they had learned upon which the safety of the Empire the lessons of freedom and self-govern depended were put into a sort of political ment And now, in our age-an age cold storage, where they decayed daily to which is net debased, but is, like Old a kind of unused rettenness. And now Adana's," frosty but kindly they come Lappily we begin another year in an hack to us, bringing with them the other mosphere. We are led by men who strength and insouciance of youth, and are determined to know and to do, and willing also to hear the words of wisdom will never be content to talk and to wait: which & thousand years of unbroken In all the many spheres c activity we history have taught tra
REUPTION OF AMERICA'S NOTE
tion war" q
STRENGTH OF UNION,
note the same surprising change
Thus at last are the eloquent words of The
fradors of both political parties are discussed unless the military power of practically in accord in reference to the Germany is broken and that the chief policy carried out regarding the Eure aim of the dipicmatists should be to paan war. Now that the election is over make a pcate that would be durable probably an enormous majority of the have the fullest confidence that Mr. Wil constituencies would agter that Wilson son will lend his aid in his own cautious was a safe man he had kept the country and careful way to bring about such a cut of warr result
In reference to the recent Wilson Note, I had many and unique opportunities my American friends seemed to have beer of learning American sentiment. I may alarmed at the hostility in which it was mention that I lectured to three large Milton, which have often bean and can received in some quarters in England, audiences when possibly a majority of never be too often quoted, amply just The President of the greatest pentral those present were Germans or of Ger- Ged. The noble and puissant nation has country has to act with caution. Those man descent, and I was surprised at the aroused herself, like a strong man who knew him bost recognise that in reunanimity of the sentiment in favour after sleep, and susken her invincible gard to the ruthless invasion of Belgium of the Allies. I fully expected at some locks. As an eagle the mews her and to the barbarous sinking of the cf the gatherings an catburst of pro-mighty youth and nindles her undazzled Tantonia Mr. Wilson has never varied German feeling. I heard nothing of the yes at the full midday beam In his language. He honestly wished to kind. When to a large audience I in while the whole noise of timorous and induce the belligerents to show him their identally and almost accidentally let flocking birds, with those also that love terms of peace. To me it seems that if slip the phrase that the Allies would win the twilight, flutter about, amazed at his invitation to Germany had been an the audience solted it with an enthusiasm what she means, and in their envious spered they would have been obliged to that cinght me quite unprepared. In gabble would prognosticate a year of
et out the circumstances which led im, railway carriages, in private houses, and sects and schisms. mediately to the war in such a fashion as in 25 large audiences the hearers were to show that the war was solely of Ger apparently unanimous, in their wishes for any's making, and this Germany would our success. America is with us, and have objected to do. As one who firmaly the person who should attempt to make believes that no peice conditions can he mischief between the two countries is an
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