OUR LONDON LETTER.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
BRITISH GOODWILL TO THE NEW
RUSSIAN REGIME.
LONDON, March 25th,
U-BOAT WARFARE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 10TH, 1917.
TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE, MASTERY OF THE AIR.
NEW PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
A SECRET DOCUMENT:
THE ART OF WIRE-PULLING,
There has just come into our hands fonys The Daily Telegraph) a German As the details of the way the Revoluas showing the manner in which the Ger- official document of the greatest interest, tion in Russia was accomplished become man Press is manipulated by the military better known the blindness of the Tsar and official wirepullers for the purpose of influencing public opinion“ creating what was impending seems really ran atmosphere is the term frequently prising. His position in relation to what used. It is a secret and confidential was going on around him reminds one circular aued by the General in Com- of the detachment from popular opinion mand of the Münster military district to exhibited in France by Louis XVI. on the newspapers and editorial offices in Feh-plexion(chicers)-and also endeavour to eve of the overthrow of the dynasty. But history is full of similar instances. They last (ie, soon after the regard less sulimarine campaign was started), truth, of course, is that the head of every and it virtually dictates to every jou despotic system of government is encom within the general's jurisdiction the passed by a maze of defences--trenches"line" it shall take in commenting on manped by Court officials more or lethe U-boat warfare. The full text of this corrupt, and barbed-wire entanglements of flattery and lics carefully maintained precious document is as follows: in position by political personages and General Command, 7th Army Corps place-socking aycophants. Add to these
Dept. 11d, No. 1,149.
Münster, February, 1917. No. 645 NOTICE.
ETO.
a motley host of secret police, spies and informers, and you have an atmosphere of deceit and intrigue which completely isolates the ruler from even a superficial acquaintance with the opinions of his To NEWSPAPER AND EDITORIAL OFFICES, subjects. It goes without saying that in such countries the Press is fattored, The Confidential. Not in be copied. Secret newspapers print what they are told, or
Newspapers are requested to act of the Much they are summarily suppressed. the same kind of thing as has obtained limited boat war
ined following advice when discussing un- in Russia exists in Germany, except that
1. Opinions regarding the usefulness of there the Press has been disciplined and dragooned for military ends with as much the measures and of the time chosen, tary regiment of the after the docision has been made, would thoroughness 29
have the effect of weakness and lack of Guards. Bearing this in mind, I always read the views of the Gorman papers with harmony, would encourage the enemy a very open mind. The Hun Government and perhaps induce wavering neutrals is cute enough to provide for foreign to come in.N consumption just the bash of truth and for the beginning of the concluding they deem useful and expedient struggle absolute internal unison is essen tial. The determined approval of the for the purposes of the moment catire people must ring out from the
Press.
MESSAGES OF GOOD WILL
I believe the British Labour Party were the first organised body to telegraph to the Duma an expression of goodwill and best wishes for the future of Russian Democracy, Messages from other land have since poured in.
So when the world is loop and there
seems no hope of her waking.
A NON-PARTY MOVEMENT:
Viscount Duncannon, M., who pre-
Organisation of the Tarif Reform League aided at a Conference of the London
at Caxton Hall recently, said the purpose of the gathering was to revive and reorganise the branches of the League in the Metropolitan centres. They would endeavour to keep the League, in its new start, free from any kind of Party com make it as democratic as possible (Hear, hear.) As far as the Party aspect of their work was concerned he did not think they would have anything like the dificulty they would have had to over- come if the pre-war conditions existed now or were likely to exist again when peace was restored (Hear hear.) After all, in the past, most of the serious matters in our public life were of a domestic or even parochial character
STATEMENT BY THE UNDER
FOR WAR
Sir Henry Dalziel asked the Under-See- In the House of Commons recently,
which his statement that we still main- retary of State for War whether he was able to give the House the evidence on tained the mastery of the air on the West state the average r ern front was based whether he could. number of casualties per week during the last six weeks; and could he also state whether the War Office in every respect satisfied with the machine that was at present being employed,
Mr. Macpherson I will reply to the last two parts of my right hon. friend's first, The average casualties per week for the last six weeks are
Killed Wounded Missing
7-0 8-3
42
Were
The War Office is satisfied for the mo ment with the best types which are being employed; but there are machines still in mec of which are not up to the latest standard. There are
replaced
as a consequence of which we had been as rapidly as possible being
to work for a national cause in a national
ed
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too often inclined to drag every question| As regards the first and main part of into the cock pit of Party polities, the question, the situation in the air on Tariff Reform, in the judgment of the the British front in France at the pre- great founder of the movement, should sent moment is undecided. During the squabbles at all (cheers) but, as matters torfered with by short days and bad wea never have been dragged into Party winter months, when flying is much in turned out, they were all more or lessther, all the belligerents have endeavour- compelled in the past to fight under vicos. With the advent of good weather to increase and improve their air ser- Party ng They were determined to change all that, and in resuming their we must expect a severe contest before notivities now their purpose was not to will enable us to throw the enemy entively BEST
achieving such a definite superiority a revive any of the old controversies, but on the defensive. spirit. (Cheers.) Their immediate pur to the German, throughout the war, and rousing and educating public forin on that is in the amount of work performed to give effect to the resolutions adopted Germans have never been able either to educating opinion by the Flying Corps for the Army The by the Allies at the Paris Conference last carry out such work on a comparable year-resolutions which had been adopted scale, or to stop our men from doing it. by the late Imperial Government and The situation is very similar to that endorsed by the present Prime Minister which obtained at the same period of as the accepted policy of the new Govern- last year. At that time the Germans, re who appointed the Committee under Lord up a serious opposition, and it was only ment. (Cheers.) It was Mr. Asquith inforced and rested after the winter, put Balfour of Burleigh to deal with the abur severe ighting in the air, both at
Verdun subject of those resolutions, and, as they
superiority was established. then this superiority was only main-
at considerable distaners behind the Gor-
Out of some long, bad dream that makes use the outward forms of friendliness all knew, they had been reported upon in front of our lines, that
her mutter and moan,
Enddenly, all man arise to the noise of
fetters breaking, And everyone smiles at his neighbour
and tells him his conl is his own.
10. U hoat war is now exclusively part of the combined method of waging wary therefore a purely military matter.
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It is a question, not of movement of desperation all the factors have boon carefully weighed after conscientious technical naval preparation but of the best and only means to a speedy, vic torious ending of the war,
4. Towards America it is advisable to Unfriendliness would increase the danger by that Committee in terms which of America coming in the breaking off approved the policy they set forth of diplomatic relations, even active par (Hear, hear.) As to the democratic ticipation, hangs in the balance The principle upon which they proposed to attitude of the Press must not increase proceed he would suggest that they should By all accounts the Labour Party's this danger, or build up their Central Committee from prompt and spontaneous congratulations 5. The Navy, fully conscious of its delegates appointed from the branches were very welcome in Petrograd, where power, enter into this now section of all over London-(benr, hear) so that British approval is eagerly prized. The the war with firm conadence in the re every member of the Tariff Reforma moesage sent by the British Parliament to sult. It is recommended that the phase
Lengue throughout London might have the Russian Premier expresses the unbe called unlimited, not ruthless, "U"
voice in the determination of the animous feeling of the nation that the boat war
policy of the League: (Cheers.) Revolution is the greatest service which a Material, personnel, and appliances hus, job been rendered to the cause for are being increased and approval con There would be many after-wer prob- which the Allies are fighting. It endorses tinually trained reserves are ready. with the seaf
seal of cfficial approval the of the new régime. But it tion of her means of defence, which are and foremost would arise the question, isa England's references to the purige lenis in connection with this policy which advent
they could not tackle too soon. First in some respects that the speech intended to re-assure the English people immediately peace Was mitting the resolution to the
House of Commons on behalf of Government othed by the good results of the last making adequate provision for our
months. la la la soldiers. (Hear was not made by Mr.
They would with his passionate love rby the Each result is now much more im also have to deal with the case of those
liberty subject was one peculiarly suited to his marin, baland the poem of mercantile who had been engaged in the manufacture of oratory My Boner Law took marina is already weakened, the material and supply of articles during the wat the place of the Prime Minister, whose aged up. Much coloured personnel, which in peach time we had been obtain absence was due to attendance at the Im- 9. The psychological Influence shoulding from the foreigner They wanted to perial War Conference which acoupied not be underestimated. Fear amongst the ensure that we should not in the future all the morning, and was followed by a enemy and neutrals leads to difficulties be again found subscribing to the Boche four hours sitting of the War Council, with the crows, and may induce noutrals armaments fund. (Cheers.) It was most I mention this detail as an apt illustra to keep ships in harbour, eng
important that we should grasp onto and tion of the change which has been intro
for all the opportunity provided by the duced in the method of directing the war,
declaration of peace of placing the Mr. Lloyd George allows nothing to
Empire on a permanent and mutually divort him from this paramount duty in
satisfactory basis, not forgetting, in ucal- collaboration with the other members of
ing with those problems, those who had the War Council, which sits in session
stood by us in our hour of
our hour of nced. GERMAN HOPES DISAPPOINTED, believed the vast majority.
Colonel of this country were prepared to look In their comments on the great Somme at the whole question of Tarif Reform. retreat there has been the usual uniformity not in a Party light, but with a single 12 months ago our Air Service would have of outlook in the German newspapers, eye to what would be for the benefit of been very different from what it was on the war, the whole war, and nothing official statements, and these they labori-be too often stated, or too well under one. It meant that we had lost in six They have been supplied with certain the nation and, the Empire. It could not now. The statement was a very serious ously elaborate within the hounds per atood, that Germany started this war with weeks 20 per cent of our men. Twelve mitted them, It must be confessed that the National Frankfurter Zeitung afford the best expansion. (Hear, hear) She was deter being murdered because they were sent The comments of the the chief purpose of securing economic months ago he had said our men were Service appeal is falling rather flat. Up illustration of the teaching which the mined to set up a solid Central Union up in inefficient machines, and he said The to date only something like 100,000 men military authorities desire to give the right away from Antwerp to Baghdad the me now, He had repeatedly said have enrolled in response to Mr. Neville nation, and enable us to obtain a notion and the Persian Gulf-a, union which the administration of Sir D. Henderson Chamberlain's call on behalf of the Goy of what the people really will swallow. should include Germany, Austria, and was a menace to our Air Service What erument for every male between the ages All the labour of the English is now Turkey, and later on Bulgaria.mittee of the House to inquire into the ought to be done was to app Com of 16 and 61. As I have previously wasted, their heavy gone will have to be pointed out the idea is to get enough men dismounted, their stores of munitions polisen the Allies somewhat tardi y over military age or otherwise unit to with the guns will have to be moved for determined to stand together Royal Naval Air Servic
realised this purpose that they, too, administration and command of the who are capable of bearing arms. The of the German artillery in prepared that was the real reason for the calling hich the hon. member had made upon replace in the ranks of industry those ward for miles over open country in face economic as well as military sense, and Mr Macpherson, in his reply, dwelt Germans have solved the problemn by the positions. Their positions, most carefully
violent and considered attack pon the impressment of the civil populations in built up with the tremendously couplex resolution denonce conner briose the character of a colleague on the Army conquered territories. The trouble with system of telegraph and telephone wires parties to
demanded that forthwith the
sat to Council, whom the hon. the National Service scheme is that it is, are now so far from the battle-ground work to
ofised of murdering Beitiger had ac airmen He of necessity somewhat, vague in certain that they are valueless. respects. Men in specified tradas can be and roads will have to be extended. The (Hoar hear. The last Government single instance of the murder of a British
The railway reciprocal treatment between the Allies defied the hort member to produce_ easily dealt with-mechanics, railwaymen, whole of the tremendous apparatus of an accepted the decision of that Conference, airman, in France or in Great Britain dockers, bricklayers, and the like. But army equipped for trench warfare wall and so bad the present Government,
The hot member had completely failed of the thousand and one occups have to he moved. This will take six although he would like to see something tions where men live by brain-work 1 weeks, or even two months. What is the national work demanded of "I will perhaps be hurried, and ill or definite from them on that point
professional classes? Are they to then lack the organisation so important POLICY AND PROGRAMME,
will (Cheers.) carol for labour at a wage of Ses, a week for modern warfare. This loss of time at After discussion a series of solutions These and many others are hanging both one be upade good and a programme of roform were in fearing to entrust their future to the Besides, the rapid following up of Eng animously agreed upon in the following tender mercies of a bureaucratic organ lish troops will be prevented by the isation hurriedly set up in London. skilful work of our rearguards, as well as (1.) That this meeting of the delegates Already the
there are queer stories of what by the very legitimate fear of the English happen, such, for instance, as strick of some sudden counterstroke by Hinden who enrolled for full-time service burg The English must avoid any battle of national importance and were drafted in the, open." into offices to address envelopes Only yesterday I heard of a retired Army officer,
daily. There are Members of Parliament THE GREAT SOMME RETREAT (Cheer Page Croft. tion of the British Air Service. He con
who think the Prime Minister ought to put in an appearance oftener than he does in these days; but, they speak for themselves. Certainly, the public are
well content with the knowledge that the
* Premier's energies are being concentrated
but the war. THE NATIONAL SERVICE APPEAL.
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