**THERE IS NO THIRD EVENT.” MR. HILAIRE BELLOC'S SURVEY OF THE WAR.
In a remarkable survey of the war, its beginning and its end. Mr. Hilaire
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST: Sia, 1917.
SINKING OF THE
"CAMERONIA."
THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE. One who was on board the transport Cameronta when she was sunk has given a shipping · correspondent of the Man- chester Guardian some particulars of the disaster, -----
The wor ripens, it is in the conscious- ness of all Europe th its turning point is at hand. The length of time It occurred in the afternoon in a calm already past, the doubts of international sea.
The submarine which fired the Binunce upon the fortunes of further torpedo was not seen from the Cameronta, lowns, the pouring out of lives, and the The explosion was a severe one, and a sinleness of the strain are bringing us to number of the crew and soldiers were the point where the exhausted enemy cas, killed by it. The soldiers were below at for the first time in the long process often, and as they rushed on deck the first his enemy, play a strong political card. He is playing it with all the energy re- fmaining to him--he is playing if not only in Russia and at Stockholm, but in publie statement through the suggestion and the repetition which he hopes may shaka nesolution even in France and England.
It is the moment, if ever there was one in this great business, when opinion must make itself secure ones and for ever,
both by memory and by anticipation, of what the core of this great conflict has
been and must continue to be.
Wa have before us now, as the summor of 1917 opens, very plaing contrasted, Victory or Defent. If we refuse the first in any degree, we accept the second.
The will is the same as ever, but the intellectual confusion
is greater. We auust reduce that confusion if we are to proceed.
RETRIBUTION TO RESTORE SECURITY. One thing only will restore security, and that is a victory over the armed frees of the enemy, his disamanent, and then the exaction of just retribution, udds Mr. Belloc If that is not done from lack of will and tenacity, then we have voluntarily lost in the great debate, and we shall no longer be ourselves again for over. If it cannot be dess from lack of power, ther we have compulsorily lost the future of England. If it is done-
thing they saw was the effects of the ex plosion and signs of the deaths that had panic, and the men soon got to been caused. There was excitement, but no statione; but owing to the density of the their crowd on the deck it was difficult for the seamen to get to their work on the life boats. The captain did not stop the ship, but carried on to get free of the danger of saving the vessel, area before stopping. There was no hope
About half an hour elapsed between the explosion and the going down of the ship, yet the very large body of troops was safely got on to destroyers and into the killed or drowned through the explosion, lifeboats with a loss which, beyond those was comparatively small considering the number carried. The army officers were admirable and did many brave and ready things in the trying circumstances. The ship's officers and men had tremendous work to do, and every member of the crew did his duty with skill and gallantry.
A GREATHEART OF THE SEA.
No finer deed was done at sea than by lest his life. This gallant officer, who the chief officer, Robert McBurnie, who was one of the last to leave the ship, was much exhausted by his strenuous work in getting out the lifeboats; yet when safe water to rescue men who were drowning. on board a destroyer he dived into the Most probably his strength was already too far gone, but it was his nature to respond to the call.
On a previous voyage McBurnie had
THE "MONGOLIA."' NARRATIVE OF CALCUTTA MAN.
"It seemed as if the whole of the great ship was heaved up into the air as by some great convulsion, when she felt the force of the explosion.”
BERLIN TO-DAY.
A DELUSION-FED PEOPLE. THE POWER OF OFFICIAL SUGGESTION.
(BY: Y. BEFTON DRIMUR.]
1)--The present rations men serious (2)The ratious cannot be further re privation but not starvation.
duced without disaster to the public licaith (3.)-Eyen the presentrations. mean diminution of productive efficiency in the working man and an
(4)-If the prescat rations can be cou
ereased mortality among the aged and feeble.
in-
tinued indefinitely the people will be able to struggle on, although with deteriorating word, till the sword decides.
In this way Mr. C. A. B. Pyne, of predicament in which the Germuns find I am the last to wish to magnify the Messrs. Pyne & Hughman, the well-themselves with regard to food supplies; known Calcutta firm of Grosvenor House and in order that there may be no mis understanding I will sum up my impres and British India Street, described hissions as follows:- sensations in the sinking of P. & 0, R.M.S. Mongolia off Bombay. Mr. Pyne was a passenger by the liner and the other day he relailed to a representative of The Englishman a graphic description of his experiences, containing much more detail was about 16 minutes," he said, between than that has yet been published. "It the moment of the explosion and the time ing of the nines, there was a continual that the Mongolia went down. Directly after the thunderous noise of the emasli tinkle of falling and breaking glass, and then a long, drawn-out moan as the water out. It was a gruesome sort of sound, rushed into the ship and the air rashed Gradually she went down stern first and her bows protruding from the sea. Then for a time she stood up in that way with her forepart settled down until she was six feet of her mast-tops standing out on the bottom on a level keel with about above the water. It was a most sudden and most tragic experience. Of course, but the general opinion is that it was we cannot say what sort of a mine was,
along the sides until it exploded amid hat first struck the bows and then drifted either a single ipe with a time-fuse,
ships and right under the engine room or else two mines chained together that ran under the bows und exploded, one on either side. The noise was simply terrific.
"The explosion occurred at just about mid-day on June 23rd and soon the sea all round was black with coal dust from the bunkers around which the mine had done the most damage. There must have those in the engine room, about 30 or 40 been fearful holes in her sides and all bands, of whom three were European Engineers met their end at this moment, There must have been about 50 first-class but though the Mongolia sus obviously and 100 second-class passengers on beard, sinking there was not the slightest panie and very little excitement. We had pack- ed all our life-belts away as we thought alt danger was past, but everybody
At
must be ted with delusions. The Press, A people that cannot be fed with broad
tor, manages to doctor every adverse in obedience to the military Press dicta- report and to take the sting out of every Messines was heard from the Shetlands to German de feat. The explosion
the Press will have carefully muted the they have heard it yet, or, if they have, the Golden Gate. In Germany I doubt if
sound. They will say how they pity the Belgians, whose territory is being blown ap by vile English mines; they will say
body that the withdrawal from it was this exposed ridge, and will assure every that they themselves had been already considering the advisability of evacuating
quite provided for in the measures taken by the omniscient Hindenburg, will say "how small in comparison is the They ground gained by the English to what they had planned to gain and would have gained had not the Germans held them at bay so gallantly. And the English. losses! Really, when one comes to con sider the matter, it is an indisputable German sucess."
When one lives in an atmosphere of constantly had to remind myself that perpetual suggestion of this sort one sooner or later succumbs to it. In Berlin. these were German reports are full of intellects that perceive its trend. German guile. The marvellous thing is that this subtle influence is felt even by.
MISLEADING TONE OF REPORTS.
Every afternoon, day after day, I went, where on a notice board was hung out the across the street to the police station,
and unly if it is done can the security been on the Anchor liner California, speedily got a belt again and quickly day's milit ry report from Headquarters. of Britain, with all that it means, be which was also torpedoed, and he had raced it on. We were about 40 miles of It was posed up punctually at half-past
restored.
fstill more in the present connection a self. He was a native of Ayr and leaves | Passengers and crew got into the water.
• Retribution is a part of justice and necessary part of policy. Those who have deliberately destroyed 46 restore. Those who were guilty of breaking the public air of Europe must suffer penalty. For there is nothing final that is not rooted in the spirit, and if you do not break the evil will you do not
conquer evil,
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suffered from exposure through giving Estate and which is about 60 miles along the island which contains the Jangari the lifebost who were worse off than him- most of his clothes to other people in
the coast south of Bombay. A lot of the a widow and children. The men of the outright by the explosion was saved,
but
nearly everybody who was not killed Cameroun will never forget this Great-though some were badly hurt. I was one heart of the merchant service.
of the last to go. The sea was very cough, and the waves 30 or 40 feet high. One by ric Hope of Sisson & Co., at Singa one the survivors were picked up, but poor pore, could not be saved.
THE CAPTAIN'S BOY.
the excitement in the first minute was the One incident which did much to break behaviour of a small Scottish youth, the megaphone. The captain told the boy to officers and the crew were splendidly cool captain's messenger boy, who carried his On the liner before the sank the shout to the men to keep steady, and the and when the third officer said to me boy went to the head of the bridge com- panion and shouted through the mega-he said it just as he would have spoken You'll have to get into the water now," plane:-- Steady there, men; keep cool:in ordinary conversation, hurry, men," keep your beads, men: it's a' richt: na lifteen of the boats eventually got away Fourteen or
this small youth with his big megaphone no seamen, they all made good progress and so on. The sight of and although, in some of them, there were giving these sober instructions made the ander sail toward the coastline. soldiers grin and relieved the tension at bont had no expert guidance at first, but Our an awkward insoment.
the captain came along and transhipped darkness was just coming down, and it Our craft got close to the shore when the chief mate to us and he took charge.
was thought not safe to try to land reefs. Some of the boats risked it and through the breakers and the rocks and got in that night.
"The English papers have not printed the greater part of the evidence against the enemy. The reason they ve not skone so is, I think, in the main, that sort of reticence with regard to things physically repulsive which is th marked character in the modern English very temperament. But if anyone will ask those of his friends who can hear evidmee as to what has happened in the invaded countries, if anyone will ass such a man lor his own particular experience, and many such much for their own particular sharpness in several ways in these thirty This little Glasgow boy showed his experiences, 1 think he will be appalled. minutes. The It is not aly a record of cruelty, it is boy
captain sent the to his cabin for his whistle. a record of amazing and intumon diri. The buy could not find It is not only a record of amazing and
it. but human dirt, it a record of diabolical things in the way of calculated insult and oppression.
On to
a
watched the reports to see the progress our three overy day. Month after month I
men were making, and I had to learn to read between the lines and to force myself to disbelieve, not the details of the report, but its misleading tone.
Little groups of
passers-by would gather round the notice board and after a while again hopeful one- Germany at bay and her left on their minds was a negative but dissolve. The impression, I could tell,
pieces in hopeless onslaughts. foes uselessly battering themselves to
France have long stuce vanished.
All their hopes of going forward into
German officer said to his English wife in Lime we intend to destruct France,
This
my hearing at the beginning of the war.
So modest have these Germans grown The word still rings in
"We intend to destruet Free and now!
greeted as victory. In silence they read that merely to hold out against attacks is the report and in silence they turn and walk away,
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Now and again an individual will point! to some telling sentence tucked away in the middle of the report-a village, a instead of returning to the bridge,
longer of any value and his face will trench left to the enemy because it was no as most boys would have done, he slipped through the soldiers and got to the wire-
betray an almost imperceptible note of Jess cabin, where he saw an operator with island, at the part where we landed, womenfolk in the queues are more out- There were very few people on the distrust, but he will say nothing. The a whistle in his mouth. WHAT GERMANY HAS DONE.
and seized it and was off like a shot with different points all along the coast and say
He jumped up indeed, none but natives. We landed at spoken, and one used often to hear thera When that spirit gets into an in
the explanation,
Wir siegen fortwährend, doch Cap'n wants 11 we got the sails off and rigged up tents. whistle.
kommen wir immer weiter zurück We dividual or inte a community, you must remain in the ship to the end with the nuts to eat, excepting eight chickens always get farther back."
This plucky Ind wanted to We had only ship's biscuits and cocoa-
bave nothing but victories, and yet we extirpate it. ou must kit it or it will captain, and had to be taken by the collar which did not go far among 322 people kill its neighbours, and amongst its and heaved neighbours is yourself. You can only ex- destroyer.
over the side
THE TIMES" IN BERLIN. and at first the natives charged d. for a German can with comparative impunity So strong is the spell, too, that the tirpate it by breaking its will, and you
cocoanut and then the price soon rose to can only break its will by punishment, were speedily lowered.
When the ship was stopped the lifeboats bad and as soon as the inhabitants found in the big cafés such as the Josty on the half-a-crown. English money was all we permit foreign newspapers to come in. There will be no sure victory unless by were crammed with troops and had to there was an outery. We spent all that Unter den Linden, one can read with noti its own labour the German community steam away, and the boats picked up the Sunday night on the island and on Man- infrequent gaps, it is true, such papers The destroyers that they were getting only English wins Potsdamer Platz, and the Cafe Bauer, Which has done these things of its own men in the water, and although dan- day morning walked to the other side, as The Times, Le Temps, Figaro, Mating free will, and even with delight, is com gerously crowded succeeded in remaining peted te restore the material part of together in charge of the captain through where native sailing craft took us to the Corriere della Sera (Milan), Imp reial eat which it has destroyed. There will the long hours till the patrol came up arice, which need to const between Cal- and ie Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Te Jour That evening the steamer (Madrid), the Swiss newspapers Der Bund ho no victory unless a very large number Thead left her; he jumped from the cutta and Chandbally, picked us up. Shewat de Génève has long since been stop-1 of smen personally and
Cameronie sank soon after the demonstrably tain guilty of the evil deeds are personally bridge on to the windlass of a destroyer took all the survivors, passengers and ped), as well as the Dutch and Sean- Punished for them; and there will be no and slid down the stay to the deck. The crew, and you can guess that she was was victory unless the instrument-I mean ship sank evenly by the head, without a
dinavian papers, I have put questions with some curiosity to Germans who read the Gormas army-by which these things list on either side as a man said who
the Times and have found that it has not were done with the full consent, remem loved her well, "Like the lady she always
it a Hetzblatt & preacher of inter- shaken their credulity one jot. They call ber, the full approval and full support of the German people as a whole, is broken
national hate, run by an eloquent descen- ap and forbidden to arise,
dant of the Father of Lies.
THE IMPOSSIBLE THING
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pretty crowded ship, But there was plenty of warm coffes and tea to be had tively comfortable. Mr. Justice Rooth, of and some bully beef and we were compara Perth, Western Australis, was one of the passengers and he was in a boat that was picked up at sea by another steamer on the night of the explosion. There were planted all other English papers in The Times has nevertheless virtually 13 or 14 women on board also, and an Australian officer, General Anderson, was tion to the fact that a professor of history Berlin, and when I drew people's atten- among the passengers, as was Norman at the university had told me that The
the front.
the very soul of this evil will be broken up or they will remain. If they remain, If you are convinced that a complete cft that we have known in the past as victory is unattainable (and am con- England cannot remain side by side with that the issue actually may be near at is the sea, will be cut. Security, which Sydney man, and one of the beads of a they were at a loss to account for it. The vinced of the exact opposite-believing them. The artery of English life, which Brookes, the lawn tennis champion, and Times Weekly is stored up in the archives band, and in any case: only depende upon is the root of English character, will be
Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, a well-known of the Royal Libraries as the most reliable tenacity), then, whether you like it or lost and--perhaps most profound of all very large wool arm in that city. He
summary of contemporary world events not, you are admitting defeat England in its effect the years to come will be died in Bombay from the result of expo-
fact is that the German's abuse is often simply cannot live so long as there re-lived out under an increasing sense of mains, autonomous, capable of action, failure and humiliation.
sure. Another man was named Redding, but a corollary of his respect. The He had served with a Belgian regiment at corrective influence of foreign newspapers full of the memories of a successful re-
as an
an antidote to his own Press is sistance, an organised and aimed com
& per fectly negligible quantity. that the Germans have had that the offen The fact is that in spite of the proofs sive has been wrenched from the hands of Germany and passed into those of the Allies, the German people, intellectuals ciently under the spell of the Press to believe that they will continue to be able and unintellectuals alike, are still suffi
bargain called Peace-Times, to hold Belgium long enough to use it as a Fautpfand (pawn) in driving the final
A THING WHICH SAID
unity which has broken, and will break "There arose in Europe a novel thing again those conventias of public law-which said: I propose to live my own particularly in maritime warre-upon life in spite of Europe. which the life of this country depends, treation, I will annex and despoil-I will I will break "Say that victory in the complete consume all that feeds me, even if my in. mense is impossible, if you will-but then
crease is the death of others. At its have the intellectual candour to admit fullest development it challenged what it the immediate consequenos, which is the had long threatened. It was opposed by abyss of failure. For if victory is not a league representing older and better plete in this aupreme crisis of the things. In this league the two principals world, there is no victory at all, but sheer were the ancient western civilisations of defeat...
France and England
"The things that Germany has done, that the whole German nation bes en thusiastically done, in this war will either be made impossible in the future through the memory of terrible punishment, or else they will not. Either the will and (Continued of foot of next column.)
Now either this evil place and spirit so besieged will be carried and the war won, or it will hold out. If it holds out that is, if posse is permitted it as to an unreduced fortress, then those who set
to restore publio law, and to avenge Europe are defeated No verbiage can disguise that truth."Land & Water,
"The P. & O. people in Bombay_did everything that they could for us. They cama down to the steamer with plenty
Mr. Leslie, a well-known Bombay man, of ready cash, so that we could immo diately go and purchase clothing, and & dressed several out of his own wardrobe. Rooms had been reserved for us in the hotels.
other incidents of the tragedy. One of Mr. Pyne related, also, one or two the passengers possessed a dog, and when the smash took place it rushed up to the top deck and sat there calmly until some- one found it a place in one of the boats. The ship's cat too, was saved. Curionaly the wireless aerials so that no messages The explosion, he went on, blow down enough, the night before the disaster this could be sent. animal had had its tongue partly snap pleasant one. Hardly anybody on board ped off in a rat-trap, and was in no
Altogether the experience was an Mr. Fyne was insult added to injury possessions and rise of them got away cheerful mood. "The mine," remarked saved anything at all of their personal with only the clothing in which they stood
(Continued at foot of next culuran.)
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to come hurtling through the air."
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EACH MONTH
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