GERMAN DESPERATION.
INFUSING A TOOTH-AND-CLAW SPIRIT.
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH, 1917.
THE FIGHT FOR BAPAUME.
SHAMBLES OF GERMAN DEAD. Mr. Philip Gibbs wrote from British Headquarters in
France March 17th:--
on
IS DEMOCRACY DOOMED ?
FOOD RATIONS IN THE PAST.
RESTRICTIONS FIVE CENTURIES
OLD
EARL ON SHORT COMMONS.
A NIETZSCHEAN PROPHECY
[DY WILLIAM ARCHER!
Dr.Oscar Lavy, ex-high priest of Will the Gormans really fight to the it was made visible to me that the enemy has returned to the more congenial junctions may seem to people unaccustom As I went over the batticäelds to day Nootrecheanism in partibes infidelium Irksome as Lord Devonport's food in last now that they have no chance of a has suffered most devilish torments in the atmosphere of Berlin, and has thered to deny themselves square meals," good
pence? People who know Germany ground from which he is now retreating retified an American journalist with an they are not any more severe than former will baliove that they will pot.
All north of Courcelette, up by Mirau interview. His message to America is food restrictions were on our ancestors at A German himself Professor Schelermont and Pye, and below
Loupart Wood, that
mann, of Weimar, the translator of this wild chaos all so upturned by shall democracy is doomed "and that various times in history. To recall some
I stood to-day in a ravine to which the gospel.
Ruskin and Oscar Wilde, and author fire that one's gorge, rises at the sight of seemed a very gratuitous
the future belongs to Nietzsche, “ This of fierce book on German weaknesses such obscene mangling of our mother phecy.
of their experiences, therefore, may help Die Deutsche Not)-predicted that when earth-is strewn with bodies of dead Ger- belongs to Nietzsche" he would have been In the middle of the fourteenth century If he had said "the present to reconcile us to our present limitations. Germany ronlises she is in peril she will man soldiers. They lio, groy wet lumps on perfectly safe ground, for Germany is the luxury of the table had reached such
a writer in a home paper.LA fall to pieces. He described her as "an of death over a great stretch of ground living up to the master's teachings with a height in England that a law was made emergency Empire,
and said that the many of them half buried by their com top in her career of crime that cannot from having more than two courses, and Socialists, not being patriote at heart, rades or by high
whole-hearted devotion,
There is not to prohibit all persons of whatever rank exposives
Most i would read their country 10
Case of them nie stark above the soil with their
be justified by a text from the Zarathu more than two kinds of meat with pot- failure in war.
eyesockets to the sky. Apparently Germany knows her own
Never has prophet met tages in each course except on eighteen weakness, for the Universal State which Regina trench leads between Pys and not lip service but faith translated into holidays in the year when gluttony and
such honour on his own country creates and regulates all things is em Miraumont, and not any morbid vision works. He as having a splendid innings, Lord barking on a campaign with the aim of of an absinthe maddened dream of bell but we trust that his wicket will go down indulgences
Lustravabonport:
might be freely indulged." organising a fighting spirit in the could be more fearful than what I stared ere long under the fast and furious bowl
port apparently grants de civilian population. A terrific attempt at standing there, with the rain beating ing of Haig and Nivelle, Cadorna and Near the end of the same
being made to inflame, Tacite, and on me across the battlefield, and the roar
and of guns of every side, and the long rush-hot. desperate render
Aagain to In that case the future will spoils of war from Frane, atury the child.
not to Nietzsche, but to sanity took the trouble to prescribe a scale of
a great extravagance, and ing whistles of heavy shells in flight over
1 Parliament I give
As for democracy. Dr. Levy explains foods and clothing for the various from German Loupart Wood. The place was a shambles that it bag had its chance for over a hun-bers of the community, regulated by rank newspapers, some given me by a noutral of German troops. They had had dred years now, and has “ made a mess fortune, or possession of each individual. who witnessed the fight propaganda machine-gun emplacements here, and deep of it himself. The neutral told me that many dug out, under cover of earth-hanks. But Landrate-local government officials our guns had found them out and poured who are the real autocrats of Prussia fire upon them: lately got circulars from the Minister
GARRISON CUT TO FIECES. of the Interior ordering "inspections"
All-this garrison had been killed and reviews of the population from cut to pieces before or after death. Their and the view-point of "combative patriot bodies or their fragments lay in every 2803,"
shape and shapelessness of death, in All German local officials, heads of paddles of broken trenches or on the edge war charities, and members of patriotic of deep ponds in shell-craters. The water associations are trying, at the behest of was vivid green about them, or red as the State, to create a spirit of despera blood, with the colour of high-explosive tion which, they imagine, will favour
Mask-like faces, with holes for
every
taken
facts, some
urger in the struggle.
KAISEE'S ARMY JN MUFTI."
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kend.
Details of the food restrictions at this period are not available, but prices of clothing were strictly limited in all classes. Women were also to dress in pro- portion to the incomes of their husbands or fathers
"The democratic play is over It was the greatest theatrical swindle ever produced by any manager. On the bill-board outside the theatre, was an nounced a play entitled. Fraternity Brotherhood, Peacefulness, and Mutasi
In the middle of the sixteenth century Understanding, and when you bad similar limitations in food were made, paid your money, gone in and ant down mainly on account of the high prices pre to see the play, you saw the bloodvilling. In Scotland an Act was passed. thirstiest melodrama over noted, and "anent the ordouring of every mannis worst of all, it was not even melodrama. house which limited archbishops but a dreadful reality!!!
bishops, and earls to eight dishes of meat
NO FOREIGN GOODS,
Your gases The Ham- eyes, seemed to stare back at me as the wars of the past hundred years and freeholders to four; and burgesses As if it were democracy that had made abbota priors, and deans to six barons Nachrichten lays down clearly the stared at them, not with any curiosity in No doubt it has proved itself powerless and substantial men, whether spiritual or underlying principles The privations this sight of death for it is not, new to to prevent them, but that simply means temporal, to three; and decreed that only and losses which we still have to endure me--and I am quite untouched with emo-that its enemies are na yet too strong for one kind of meat should be in each dish. will be witnessed botter if our race is tion, for the horror of all this war nerved by wild desperation. mer, the more tragic our mood, the one cold as ice, and only just a little sick, a cure for cancer. The twin
The grim- now so great that a scene like this leaves it well aunounce that medical science Marriage feasts, we are told, and enter- Tighter our material sufferings will but counting their numbers and reckoning autocracy and oligarchy take a great deal law. One cannot helu wondering what dooned because it has not becill of empled from the rigour of this sumptuar found tainnients made for foreigners were ex- felt."
the sum of all these things who n little time ago were living men. Some.
of our
of extirpating. Chief of the organisations which are dead lay among tacm, but out of 350 lying
the tocals were before the limitation, trying to make the nation desperate and hereabout, 700 were German soldiers.
Kriegerverbine
The persistence of war, far from prov Towards the end of Queen Elizabeth's tragic are the
Veterans' Unions" of old soldiers and alivo or whole when it is concentrated on has not yet come to years of discretion, en all degrees of persons, from dukes to This gunfire of ours, leaves nothing ng democracy played out, proves that it reign further restrictions laid heavy firics sailors. They are special pets of Wil a place like this, deliberate in smashing or realised its power. If we go to the those of humbler ranks, who should wear helm II., who called them his army it. Here it had flung up machine-gun root of things, we see that in reality there expensive clothing or foreign fineries, a in mufti" and praised them as steadfaat bulwark against Socialism." their casemates and guns. It had broken of the people. The Kaiser rules by the home manufacture, whereby the poor emplacements and made rubbish heaps of is and can be no other power than that enjoined them to use cloths and stuffs of LOC veterans' unions, counting hundreds of rifles into matchwood, and permission of the German people, quite might be employed. Be use of confec 2,750,000 members all over the Empire, flung up the kit of nien from deep dag as truly as President Wilson rules by the tions, foreign drugs, and costly spices, affiliated to the Central Veterans outs, littering earth with their pouches election of the American people. The which were then lavishly used at wed Kyffhauser Union. They are the great and helmets and bits of clothing. President after all, was elected only by dings, christenings, and other banquets, link between army militarism and mili Where I stood was only one patch of a narrow majority: whereas the mass of even by persons of low estate, was strictly tarism," esid August Bebel. Also, in ground on a great battlefield, It is all the German people are even now, it forbidden fints of compelling the ment buildings, they are semi-official not so thickly clustered. For miles, it is to the House
Submissive
These experi
experiments of all pitted with 10f. craters intermingling organisations:
inaccurate to say that such dynastics cording to a prescribed standard were
people to In October the veterans' unions started and leaving not yard of
fight" in South Germany ed. It is one great cbscenity, killing for superstition on
of earth untouch rule by the will of the people, for
a.re
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asmuch as they get. free use of Govern like that, though alsawhere the dead are would seem, uncompilern. It would food and clothe themselves
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But passive
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And
to
more extravag
wir Do you understand the sims of the Are you ready to suffer privation, anxiety, pain, mutilation, and even death pace, and forcing thein back at a harder apply, of course, in the ease of a small port's bread, veraus, beer, there is a strik in our cause ???
AFRICA.
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Acheery young man of Hongkong
Drank Cascade" from a glass that was long.
When
asked " they
Quantum sufficit ?
He replied "Such good stuff is it.
Say a quart and you won't be far wrong
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Hug Springhe will post of the epmpulsory Acta were soon reptaled A further effort, however, was there is no limit to the uses to which
ADRAVE PADRE Bonsive nequinsonce is political zinde in 1991 to enforce ar sumptuary law, municipal funds may be pat. In Baden Over it to-day went a brave man on his power is there, even though it be not
choice. The bat
mostly in respect to clothes, an in- invalided sergeant, began a honse-to-had a steel hat on his head and a khaki what is more, it always will be there-altered. half a dozen of the unions, led by an mission. He was not a soldier, though he consciously and positively exerted. And, sing point being that the fashion of
worn by women was not to house census of patriotisin fines-of-that-run by the Prussian Land fellow officer and a few men, following bible, even though ignorance and supersti be used at weddings, christenings, nor
on the uniform,
He was a padre, who, with a It is, in the nature of things, indestruc
Neither we nor dry confections wern Fats, unions
the fighting men burying those who tion may temporarily inhibit the will that feasts, unless they were made of home- The
drewe
up a catechismi of fall, our own and the enemy's. He cal- ought to guide it. patriotism and sent members to every lets their identity discs and marks their
grown fruits. But this law was not long house in the country round Karlsruhe graves For weeks he has done this, and, always rests on military forte. How says, This is probably the last sureptu But despotism," it may be said, on the Statute-book, and an old writer to explain Germany's war
aims and though he is sickened, he goes on with is the will of the people to assert itself ary law that ever will be made in Grent make clear Germany's victories to every-
including children cd enough to directing the digging of new grave, Whi, pray, wields the sabre, Who works do not well suit free, and
zeal, searching out the new dead, against sabres and machine guns! Britsin. Buch restraints, he continues, understand,, and to warn all of the covering up Germans, who le so thick. sacrifices they have yet to make.
, When
The secret of the German retreat is here the machine-gun? The army is only the specially a commercial, country, where the explanation had been given, the on this ground. To save themselves from Once les the popular, will really awaken, fances prove often national advantages,
people a double dose of hypnotism, in veterans started the catechism, asking another such shambles they are falling and the army will be a leaden bayonet,
certain
folli such questions as these
back to new lines, where they hope to be or rather a grenade exploding in the hand the Seven Years War, and if bread versus Scarcity of food was acutely felt during day today our gumice is following the that tries to throw it This does not which had substituted, there is a trik I saw gunfire closely and
killing them as they go. The power of an alien rues. No one can pre-lays and what is being done at the pro people held in subjection by the military ing parallel between prohibition in those horror of war is still close at their heel Do you feel the sacred anger and and will never end till the war and tend, for instance, that the present gor seat time, Probably, however, since desperate repulsion which you should though that may be long from now.
ernment of Belgium is essentially demo English distilleries are often feel?
cratic. The Slays and the Rumans in troned in these regulations, breweries and Children were asked, with delicate SLAVERY IN GERMAN EAST their unaided will, throw off the Imperial BAN ON SPIRITS
Austris could not, by any exercise of heer may also have been included. concern for their feelings:-
Do you feel resignation at the
yoke, because they are overborne by a In 1795, owing to the excessively high thought of being orphaned for Germany's The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Pro contribute only sectional minorities. But me using eny kind of corn, malt, or military force to which they themselves price of corn, distillers were prohibited auke
neutral already referred to was the Secretary of State for the Colonies forins a case apart. The essential truth
tection Society has issued an appeal to the rule of an external military power four, under a penalty of 2500, Töz dis- lataly at Kotthus, south-east of Berlin, to declare, by Proclamation the freedom is that every nation which is governed distillers for the deliver of term spirits and also in the Spree Forest district, of the 185,000 slaves in the territory from within by forces drawn from its own
purposes. All contracts made by some way to the north. Having gone to known till recently as the German East flesh and blood is, in the last analysis, Germany on an educational mission, he African Protectorate. The publication of a democracy. had in the schools; and he assures Colonial Office
chances to 500 what was the appeal has beet sanctioned by the happening me that in the districts mentioned school. It shows that a resolution was sub this truth is rapidly coming home to the the following year & concession was made
And what can be more certain than that of £200 and forfeiture of the goods. In THE mast At Kottbus he found school-
teach little except the war mitted to the German Reichstag on consciousness of all European peoples by the Commissioners of Excise allowing MARCELLA QUILT spirit. children twice a week for "fight" de March 19, 1914, asking that, the com. It is being driven home by this very war damaged corn and flour unfit for making monstrations o plete emancipation of these slaves should which, as Dr. Levy would have us think, bread to be used in making starch, hair
The children were led to a local monu take place on January 1st, 1990. The ment is some way connected, with Pru existance of the system of forced labor Nowhere, not the hull of demoerney powder, and blue, or in any distillery Single bed size, hery spotches denouncing England and Colonial Secretary. But the resolution Power or adequately organised for theious liquors With the idea of leasen- sin's early history, and made to listen to had been admitted by Dr. Solt, German countries, is the people most democratic Sugar seems to have been a plentiful
fully alive to its
in 1797 and disti modity children that if was resisted because the slaves were after the war, when a Europe of veteran During all these war times scarcity of to use it in the manufacture of Russia, and telling hve to fight. At domestic slaves, because if a slave
effective exercise of it. But necessary they
in the years the "Realschule in Kottbus all the could establish ill-treatment he thereby is it conceivable that in any country, not food arose from the same reason
ing, the consumption of corn, soldiers sits, down to think it all over, boys had carbines; and they marched secured his liberty, and because of the absolutely comatose with superstition, they Our enemies were taking (not sinking Behind
vast hanner inscribed "Nieder cost of compensating the ownere should not realise that the power is except in fair light) our ships almost
(Overthrow1); and nothing else. The headmaster of the school, told Lord Cromer as having said that domes-plutocrat rule
The appeal issued by the society quotes theirs, and that the autocrat and the daily, and it is quite common to read that his boys that they must be ready to fight tic slavery is only one degree lass hinte. In Germany things their sufferance? dirty sail of British vesels, richly load-
ith fists, teeth and nails All Prussia's ful than the abominable traffic in slaves. for the present by hatred, by tribal schools are State institutions; and this It subraits that it would be a grave vanity, and by the skilful ise of a set of Every endeavour was made by means of this realisation postponed ed from the Mediterranean, with some fighting instruction is
ships if if course directed departure from modern British Colonial official bogies, such as
war convoying them, were taken a French fleet of superior forces. from Berli is a special centre of Game practice to maintain a system of clevery dismemberment,
Bavaria
extermination, militancy, and the Bavarian newspapers from which men and women could only so forth. But when the scarecrows have with food into British norte, but notwith An
annihilation, and convoys to bring American vessels laden declare that in the Alpine districts all escape by establishing physical ill-treat- gone to the lumber-room, and the German standing all these efforts over 3,000 of ear school masters, postmen, and railway mentor by making a monetary pay-Michel comes to reckon up what he has ships at this time fell victims to our than employés
aro required to spend their ment."
gained by putting his trust in princes enemies, the French. spare time teaching the population, that
They m
were, how- will discover an enormous balance on the and bebourable methods and ther crews and Junkers, can it be doubted that he ever, fair prizes of war, taken by wrong side of the ledger, and draw his
suffered no more hardships than were in conclusions accordingly Nor will this separable from sea life at the time and many, Mutatis eutande, it will go on families.
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His hour of destiny, has come; that they conquest, which means the Sghting spirit must strike hard if they are rien, hand and victory Herr Boeschel, another round cartridges if
they are women, and light of the League, added that " grow up speedily for the
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Hundreds of thousands of leaflets in everywhere
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There is one conceivable method, and
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