THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28ED. 1017
IF AMERICA DECLARES WAR. GERMAN CHANCELLOR ON
HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN
HELP THE ALLIES.
BY EDWARD MARSHALL, LONDON COUZE SPONDENT OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.]
..
U.S.A. INTERVENTION,
FROST BOUND BATTLE FRONT
ONE-MAN SUBMARINES.
MR. FORD OTTERS TO BUILD 1,000,
TRADAY
The Washington correspondent of the
VISIT TO FRENCH QUARTERS. From a diplomatic source (says: The Daily Telegraph's Stockholm correspon [6. THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] dout) learn details of the conversation! of the German Chancellor with lessere of WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, Feb, 4th. the Coutre and the National Liberals When icicles hang by the wall and in Daily News says:-One thousand sub- after the secret session of the Reichstag all other kinds of likely and anlikely marines a day is the startling offer that Committee on January 31st. The Chan-places; when the fields and hills are a Mr Henry Ford; the motor builder, has cellor repeated the statement already dreary expanse of limitless white, the made to the Government, This does not serious internal trouble in the United by Zimmermann the Foreign kita liko steel, and the road as hard look like pacifsm, but it goes along
retary, to the Committes that Germany as iron and na
resolutely sticks ing in America. In the event of war must expect war with America, and that when the thermappery as skating rinks: way toward explaining the present feel the breaking off of diplomatic relations at a point only a few degrees above zero pacifists will become belligerents. Me would inevitably mean actual armed con-when, in fact, the weather is es arctic
to
I am not of those Americans who expect that the new situation will result in any States. I bare no doubt that there may In sporadic outburst of violence, but they are likely to be merely individual minni festations, and not at all likely to be initiated by pro-Germans Persons of pre-Ally sympathies are far more likely
pro violence against originate Germans
From the first day of the war, the senti ment of thinking Americana has been with Britain, France, and humanity, and I include among thinking Americans cond of Teutonic birth. Itist how large many citizens of Teutonic extraction and the pro-German element is in the United States no man ean even guess with securacy, but it does not include the whole Teutonic population. But let is coume that it did. What, then, should we find to be the on007
flict.
To the question whether Germany would not lose more from this than she could gain Ly indiscriminately destroying ship ping, Herr von. answered,,
Ford, who is now in Washington, seek, ing, with Mr. Bryan, to stave off war, is patriot enough to offer his entire plant to the Government, or to work it himself in
The blockade ass most to the last point of endurance, to-day. I am able and I am willing
Grown on British owned plantations in the British West Indian Island of Montserrat.
Shipped in British vessels,
Montserrat
Lime Juice
The finest health beverage. Warranted. by a British fired' of worldwide rentown,
Of Aft Store espera
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
“GLEN” LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM LONDON, BIDDLESBRO: GENOA, COLOMBO and STRAITS.
INHE
GLENGYLE,
na it has now been for the last thre, wecks over France, life in the trenches and the cantonments behind thein is not alto fether an agreeable experience. Bo, at the sole interest of the country himself in feast, it has seemed to one shivering I am ready to do my since if there spectator, with bands and feet humbed is to be war ha szid in an interview if it succeeds at all, must who has just come from the Wocvre to to build daily 1.000 small submarines
the comparative warmth of his own win. within which American cannot effectively ter quarters, where every night the water and 6,000 motors at my various plants, succeed within a limited number of weeks, participate in the operations, Our deci
id bedroom jugs turns into solid blocks where 42,000 meu are employed, I am sign in apply submarines unshrinkinglyst des and frences as it falls on the floor a pacifist, but a pacist is the hardest man is based on the Admiralty calculation And yet to the fighting men the cold apto frighten that you have ever seen when that the world tonnage, which is
practic ally all at the disposal of the Batente, has parents makes hardly any difference he is finally crowded into a corner and
stand it with the same cheerful dis has to Gght President Wilson is also Motor ship reached the minimum below which the regard of personal discomfort with which a pacifist, but if he gets into action he Entente cannot continue the war. Even if FEOPLES AND POLICIES. For ajn to force England to conclude they neve faced all the other hardships will exhibit: the qualities of a roaring Capisin 0, 0, Simpsons having arrived from The submarines that Mr. Ford en informed that their Goods are being landed at the abora Porta Consignees of Cargo are hereby At first sight it seems as though peace is not attained, America's parti cipation will not materially increase our
exposed to it than this cold.,
But their rate of 1.000 a day are only, 20ft. long, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Compaty attitude of philosophic resignation is not and can be operated by one man, or
Limited,
at Consigno stored without reason. They have found by bit-
more if required: The Navy Depart- | risk: ter experienes that it is much healthier ment believes that they will be most
absted,
ded, and damaged Goods are te Godowns, where they will be
Claims must be presented within FirTIAN aste they cannot be recuprised.
No!
to Biains will be admitted after the Goods here lift the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 26th inst. will be subjeca to sent.
of the war..
and well passed the one-hundred-million difficulties. America can turn out in in-ng could be more trying to the mentions. 88 being able to turn out at the their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong
The population of the United States unquestionably at present has reached and well I am unable in London quick. ly to obtain figures later than those
28
result she cannot
Buite amount of munitions and an iade finite number of soldiers,
and maintain an army.
"but the
All Nodes and
All
placing it at 98,200,000. In April, 2010, of the limitation of tounes European wet. In the whole of one division useful for coast defence, river and harbe in
were without injuring the transport on SATURDAY, 34th instu, at 10. Am
since the severe weather began, From the decks of warships for use at CB.DATE of the Steamer's arrival hero, niti wijen
in the United States. Natives of the Teutonic alliance were numbered as follows:
Germany
2,501,181
*Austria
1,174,924 32.221 59,702 5,000
SA WELL PREPARED."
This is only one of the indications of America's possibilities and if it comes to war with Germany she is destined to be greatly astonished at the resource and inventive genius of this country. It will doubtless he found that the United States is far better prepared in many ways than is generally imagined.
of the existing Entente armies and jet-
jeen only two cases of frost bitten feet pardising the feeding of Entente people. For oretical purposes we need only fear that point of view a few inches of water that America will be within a visible timer liquid are much more harmful than A help the Entente with her lighter war degrecs of frost, Before the arctic European Turkey
vessels for combating our submarines.
period began, in spite of a liberal provi- Asiatic Turkey.
These considerations did not apply at the son of high boots for the men taking Bulgaria (about)
time of the former disagreement with the their turn in the front line, and the ad Thus America had among her popula. United States over the sinking of the mirably efficient system of trench grating tion about three and three-quarter wil Lasitenia. At the time American ata
of slats, of wood with which nearly all lions of people native to the countries gemisin, would have meant a vast increase trenches and all hoyous are now fitted, fighting against the Allies. These figure of men and munitions for the enemy.
Now they have for the moment The Chancellor further gave a gloomy cases of trench-feet were still fairly com
mos. are sure not be accepted as indicating account of the situation as regards food, practically ceased to evist, and in all of sickness that only a population less than that of able tersion made, inevitable the continus other respecte the percentage of
dication of the general belief that war is e remarkably low the New York metropolitan district is the
debt, bound to come is shown by events, For
under the present facts This, how-
Hoping for this hest, but preparing for the worst, epitomises American public and oficial serument, and the best in
likely because of the urge of blood, to tion of a policy of victory or destructionOn the other hand, the cold does neces- instance, the 9,500 Daughters of the
be of pronounced Teutonic sympathy in this war. It has been a curione fact of observation that from the be my own ginning of the war the offspring of Teutonic parentage has been as pro- nounced as those of actual German blood in urberence to the German cause,
1913, the latest wholly reliable statement In the census report of December,
available, we find that the American population of direct Teutonic origin. That is, either emigrated from the Tentonic countries or the children of theo emigrated-exccatis nine and a quarter millions, or only a little less than the total of actually foreign-born of alt roots in the country.
TEUTONIO
Consignes of Cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Import and Hongkong, before countersignor Bill of Ladlig en be
Fire Inadrsios has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHRWAN, TOM39 & Co.,
Mask Agenta, Hongkong, 15th March, 1917. [400
No
8.6. #POLYNEBIEN,”- COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
MONSIGNEES &f Cargo from London in
of and up
IN STRAITS ON ICY ROADS, sarily bring with it a great deal of ex-American Revolution, the chief patriotic which, while not at all justified in fact, talk about the poor men in the busy organizing an extensive hospital treme physical discomfort. When people women's society in America, is already or shared by the well-informed and trenches they are using no mere figure service. Most of the suffragette bodies broad-minded, has been quite natural to of speech. Even far behind the lines the are doing the same thing. The militia in native Americans in number too large to conditions are horribly unpleasant. The a score of States have immediately been be negligible that
other night, during an icy drive through given notice that their services will be The general lack of an intilligerent the department, we found, far from town required, presentation of the Allied, case in the skidded across the ditch and of all descriptions have organized them sitting in an overturned car. In New York the owners of motor-boats United States, every day without cessahich tion, constantly reiterated, na the Ger then coflapsed on its side, an Italian off selves into a bedy for patrol work man case has been presented, might have cial on his way from London to Paris, Their fopts will be engaged day and bud is distinctly serious result, had it not who was grateful enough for the lift night. Recruiting all over the country been for the fact that while the Allies, which we were luckily able to offer him. is on an immense increase, the greatest with a strange indifference, let many But the French soldiers in charge of the ever known when there has been no call months pass without real effort to explain car had still before them several hours of to war. Both for the regular army and the righteousness of their cause, the arduous work in the bitter night before for the militia recruiting goes forward
hope to any kind Gremaus missed few opportunities for hele And that sort of thing has been rapidly, and over the entire country urd
bus depôts are open day and night. going un all over the country.
MONEY VOTED, road to Bar-le-Duc we passed seven or Alter only ten minutes consideration.
In a journey of some six hours on the
were stuck fest in the snowy Belds. A passed resolution appropriating night or two after we were hung up for £900,000 for extension of the militia ser half an hour by a long convoy of big vice and also tendering all the State's notox wagons which it was impossible to resourced to President Wilson. New puse. Une after the other, at particu-York is the Empire State, the richest in
connection with above Stemmer are kereby informed that their Goods with the exception landed and stored at thoir saks into the hazardous and or extra hasardous Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., at Kowloon, henes delivery may be obtained immediately after landing,
ptional
Cargo will
ill be forwarded on, usios Ja received from the Consignees efore Noos To-nax requesting it to be landed before
Bill of Lading, ill be countersigned by the the 23rd at, at Nook, will
subject
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Thus, it is not an exaggeration to say that something like tenth of the total their's. In other words, the pro-Ally population of the United States has the sentiment in the United States is very -Sukoust of blood urge toward sympathy much less active, I am sure, than is the
with the Gormanis cause in this war, anti-German sentiment aroused by the tight cars which had come to grief and the Legislature of the State of New York Undersigned. Goede remaining unclaimed after and/or extra hazardona Godowns of the Bong
invasion of Belgium the sinking of the Tusitumia, the attack upon the Susca and other horrors too numerous to list. I cannot bring myself to believe that, as
All Claims must be
A comparison between those in America of Teutonic origin, and those in America from the nations of the Allies, or directly aprung from parents who were, may not ho without its interest. We find that the things stand oven in the Middle West bad places, they slowed across the the Union, and this offer is of immens THUESDAY, the 22nd Inst., at 10AM
native tongues of the foreign white stock
in the United States are
English
10,037.420 2,151,422 1,357,169 05,137
At ne
to rent and handing charge, to me on oz bolove the 28th inst, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be mamined on
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P.THOMAH,
Hongkong, 17th March, 1917.
„Agent.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
FROM SHANGHA¦ KOBE and MOJL.:
“SANTHIA,”
having arrived from the above Port, Consignees
"JAPAN
baing, landed at thair risk into the babirdous of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are
kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.. Ltd., whence and or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by 28th inst, will be subject to rent
All brokep, chafed and damaged packages to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined by Mesara, Goddard and Douglas on 127th inst,, at 10 AM.
Claim against the Steamer must be presented in writing within 10 days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be affected by the undersigned in any case whatever,
Bills of Linding will be countersigned by
DAVID SABBOON & CO., LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st March, 1917,
ing to thirteen-and-a-half millions. From tione, would startle even the best inform-degrees front itself there are three been written beros coming | Having arrived from the above Port, Consignees. THE PENINSULAR
of exposure,
To
begin with,
Germanic Powers have been far cleverer movement for national defence began the who the course of the wabe so difficulty in securing all the money
than the Allied countries in presenting
started.
tomments
the
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.
S. ECUADOR,"
JAPAN PORTS 8 'ANGHAI AND MANILA
AND
ORIENTAL STEAM'
NAVIGATION" CO.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS
AND LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED 202 BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL, AND SOUTH AFRICA FORTS.
THE Homeward Mail Steatzer, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this port ss usual, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports,
Besengers" Accommodation in the connecting vessel Fernred before departure from
Hongkong. Bilk and Valuables and
Tn the first of this third class of winter alone produce 100,000,000 FROM BAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU TAF N&JORE and PRO for.
(under Arrangement) wilk conveyed by this Steamer proceeding via Hombay to Marseilles and London.
Farvel will be received at the Office until
where both pro-German and strictly narrow roadway and it was only the importance. The Red Cross announces pacificist sentiment is strong, President xerc of infinite patience that their Wilson will find any important lack of fur-comed drivers, most of them Anna the practical mobilization of 10,000 doc Italian
support for the most drastic measures mites, were able to coax them back into tors and 7,100 nurses, with wore to comis. French ............**
which he may decide to take against the the straight But nobody grumbled The women who planned a benefit perfor
and
fussed, aut every are worked mance for the relief of the Alded round- Russian...i
Central Powers
against the
his hardest. For what the vagons cured, have diverted she money to the pur- Thus, while the United States an a The service which the United States foreign-blooded population with presum- might render to the Allied cause, in case ried was wanted for the men at the front, chase of an observation balloon. Women ably Teutonic gympathies amounting to war shall be decided upon, would be of The great machine could not be allowed everywhere are offering their services in nine-and-a-quartor millions, it has a great moment. The United States, goy come to a standstill. That is the spirit any possible capacity, following the ex-
which inspires the whole French farcign-blooded population with presumetnmentally organized according to exist and overcomes all obstacles. Armycellent example of their British" aisters, ably Allied sympathies roughly amount ent plans for the production of muni
three about whose patriotic work much has|HE teamship these calculations I have omitted about ed among the Allied experts by its magni there is the first line of trenches, in forward with offers to the Government to of Carge are hereby informed that all Goods
Additional great firme are fifty thousand persona of Belgian birth, tude of output, snd, I am confident, which, aa
the ordinary rule, the men take over their entire plants in case of being landed at their risk into the hardens, and I have counted no Servians, because would quickly find means of transporting spend some days at a time. Here, of the only figures at hand group Bulgaria, it in spite of the existing ship-shortage course, the life is especially arduous. By pred. Among them are the Fore River and/or extra haaardonn Gedowns of the Hog- the win, and Montonegro, and therefore and the further campaigh of the German day and by night they are on the watch, States Rubber Company, the Lakawanna Ltd, whense and/or from
Shipbuilding - Company, the United | Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., are of no value. I have let Serviaus submarines, against which. I believe, the even when they are not actually fighting, Steel Company, the Remington Smal may be obtained.
wharvon delivery oct Bulgarians, omitting both.
America Naval Consulting Board very with dug outs as their only shelter from
No Claims will be admitted after the Goons It would seem that a blood urge ani- quickly, in the event of war, would pro- the weather, and the one redeeming fen Arms Company, and the Great Lakes
havs left the Godowns, and all Goode remaining mating but a tenth of the population of duce an affective weapon or safeguard, ture of that particular branch of their Shipbuilding Company.
andelivered after the 2716 inst, will be ambjent the nation might be regarded as of less The potential military strength of the work is that during the frost their quar SEK YOR NEW TAXES,
to rent importance than that which has been 28 United States is staggering. The most generally in woods and sheltered valleys, facilities offered by the big plants Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ers are, at all events, dry. Further back,
Work will be speeded up, and the. No Fire Insurance has been effected. aigned to the anti-war population of the careful estimate at hand places at they pass, on leaving the trenches, a fur utilized, so that an enormous amount of United States. This would be true were 20,638,3 the number of able-bodied men ther period in one of the wonderful serice preparation for war can be accomplished
DAVID SASSOON & Co., Louis, But for the fact that the Tentonic pos between eighteen and forty-four years of of extemporized villages, built as a rule, within the next six months. There will
Agents pulation of the nation is particularly age, outside the trained militia,
194 of rough stones and
Hongkong, 20th March, 1917, logs, which have powerful in many ways, and that the
KNA NAVAL POWER
sprung up
Not of the front, and from necessary for these improvements. they move back in rotation for a only are the New York hanks prepared their case to, and otherwise influencing in the Stales shortly after the third period of the same length to canto ke up any Treasury bond issue, but the American people.
It has accomplished much. There can be little question, incred. Among other things, it has secured the and wils in the already existing towns the Finance Committee is busy drawing up
and villages of the district
a ja scheme of new taxes. The excess profit üble as it insy asem to most Englishmen, endorsement by the people of a pro- CONTENTMENT IN FREEZING COLD
No cotax which has been decided upon will that by the ingenuity of the German gramme designed to restore the country. propaganda many Americans not of to its old place of second in the list of quarters which visited the other day Many other things are boing done by We are the battalion had only just arrived, and the Government which are kept secret, "Teutonio origin wore for a long time at val Pomera least confused in their ideas with regard Most of Germany's submarine ideas were not properly settled. It was free but those enumerated wi gire an idea THE above-mentioned vessel having arrived 3 P the day before sailing. The contents to the rights and wrongs of the great were borrowed" in the States from ingly cold, and the great.barns in which of the earnestars with which America is from the above-mentioned parts. Con- and value of all packages are required. war, and (a point stil more difficult to Simon Lake's yards, but there are other their sleeping quarters were for the most extering upon conditions entirely new to algues of cargo are hereby informed that their For further particulars, sailing dates, etc, wrgue with the British people) were ideas in America, of which Germany and part placed, were pierced, in spite of vari-1er that of conducting a war in Europe goods are being landed at their risk into the apply to quite excusable in their confusion, the Allies alike are ignorant. For the ous contrivances rigged up by the engine for ne may fall to her share, Hamidous andor vatra Hamelous Godowns
EV, D. PARR” rapid and efficient construction of sub ees, ky icy blasts. And yet, to judge from
Superintendent. Godors on, 228, and owloon Wise an
Ltd, and delivery m marines to embody these ideas the United the looks of them, as well as from what they the men were well contented with has been made to establish among the States is very favourably circumstanced,heir surroundings as
compared with reasonably possible is done for the commos are heroby notifed that General Nor is she less luckily situated with what they were used to at the front itself. fort of the troops in the respects; and Average been declared and before deliver American people a real feeling of fellow-
up with the people of the British Em regard to the construction of submarine Generally speaking, the beds were arrang periodical inspections take place to see of cargo can be given they mest sign. General pire, and a hundred things of one kind destroyers. The fastest speed boats ined in two long rows, one above the ether, hat no one sufera from a scarcity of Average Fond, farmish completed valuation another some large and some small, the world have been built in the United The foundation of each bunk was a frame warm clothing. In this third case of statements and pay General Average con-
the ideas of one private builder will be straw palliasse and a couple of woollen tion for the men in the fact while they British School histories either ignore of great advantage if it become necessary rugs. Every dormitory was heated by te stationed there they are strictly au Consignoos of cargo Amarion or politely enser at it, while fonite-busting. Nor will seed bout one or two stoves, according to the size epos. They are not, that is to say, call. they must American school histories, in some in marine
Nor will speed boats of it. The recreation room, which is a ed upon to do even the comparatively the Bapellendent of Imperts and Exports, must prodime an Import Permit signed by moderate amount of work which in the Hooghong
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to was also heated, but, for all that instanses with real bitterness (there have submarine T been those who have credited this to great mitted me to announce in an interview feel approximately warm on that marrow trenches, la a highly valued mode, mamined on MONDAY, 28th inst., at 10 AM..
Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently per only places in which it was possible to and that, after the strenuous life of the be foresight on the art of German that he saw no rosson why the location piercing morning was in the shed whore Bat work or to work, the new woriel
privilege America's school book contro tende of submerged and fully hidden sub the travelling kitcher was housed villages in the glen and foreste which keep alive that hostility toward every-
But none of the men seemed to be often look like little bits of Switzerland, thing British which began in the days marines should remain a secret to those of the Revolutionary War, nearly in danger of attack from them Such an troubled by the cold. By an Army Order seem to me much more comfortable and century and a half ago and wae inten arouncement from Mr. Edison, the they all wear daunel body belt, and over fegirable country, residences. Besides sified in 1812, but which in Tesson should greatest living electrical inventor and and shove that they have warm under being far cleaner and more ship-shape the chairman of the United States Naval hesides their thick long copotes. At night regular villagon, by the dust and decay clothing and shirts of woollen waistcoats, since they are not enowed under, like the have died long since
Thus, in addition to the pro-German Consulting. Board, is of important they are also provided with sheepskaus, of time, they are wonderfully picturesque feeling which would be quite naturalAll in all, the United States would which they wear poncho fashion, and for and from all appearantes a good Among those of German blood in the nership determined to punish and curb tiberal supply of leather or sheepskin or hem and with reason, nad really seem not be an efficient member of the part times of special exposure there is warmers Officers and men are proud of United States, it must be admitted that Germany if she should make application goatfur coats, As far as I am able to to feel at home in these far-off dwellings shere has been an anti-British feeling for a share in that honourable tark judge I believe that everything that is where till they came there were so human
(Continued at foot of next column.) Daily Express,
(Continued of foot of next column.) habitations at all
BRITISH APATHY.
Practically no longely organized effort
therefrom...
tribution of 2
be taken
have tended to provoke indefinite States within twenty-four months, and work of wire natting, on which was a winter quarters there is a special attrac- Vive o notified that
HONGKONG(IDE TABLE.
From 23rd 20 h March
per cent of the invoics value of
KUH WATER,
Low Watzn.
Hrong
B'kong
Mer
∙Mean
*Time.
Plead
stances unintentionally and in some the America's only defence against the regular feature in all these cantone Verleding the second line of cantonment, in the flodowns, where they will be
deal·
KALLANT
Month
23 m
“All claimi must be presented within a month of the leamer's arrival kage, after which they Kel,
not be recognis Naches will be admitted after the goods Satur. 24 Payel left is Godown and all goods remaining
allelivered for TUESDAY, 27th int, vill öm,
112 per tó landing and storage charges Ho fire insurance whatever will be effected. Consignem ara requested to send in thicke
Bill of Lading immediately for somiar.
PACIFIC MATE 8 8. CO.,
By E. C. MORTON; General Agost
Hongkong, 20th March, 1917.
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