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Sir Thomas Dewar was:
WAR BOMBARDMENT OF REIMS LABOUR AFTER THE
'destruc.: LORD "LEVERHULME ADVOCATES THE CENSORED ARTICLE
systematic and wanton Th
A SIX HOURS' 'DAY. Herr Harden's article in the Zukunft tion of Reims Cathedral, the tragedy.
Lord Leverhulme was the guest at of June 30th, which caused him to be and the crime of it, still continues, cole NO RE-CHARTERING ALLOWED./
suppressed once more by the censor, was graphed the special correspondent of the
very numerously attended lunchcon givan a fairly scathing criticism of all the After several weeks of diplomatic disrecent proceedings of the German Gov Times with the French army on July recently by the Aldwych Club at the Conf russion, the question of the disposal of ernment, and especially of the Foreign aid. When I last visited the town eight naught Rooms, the enemy ships in China, waters, taken Office.
Herr Harden reviewed once more the months ago the case was, I thought, as in the chair.
The Chairman, in proposing Lord over by the Chinese Government when efforts to make capital out of the Russian bad as it could be. It is infinitely worse
Loverhuline's health, congratulated hit war was declared against the Central Revolution. He argued that it might conceivably have been possible for Ger Powers, has been defifiitel settled at
to imitate the methods by which
Since the beginning of the French on his promotion to the peerage, and said Peking. The former German and Aus Frederick the Great ended the Seven triun ships are soon to be on the high Years War after the death of the effensive on April 10th the enemy has the head of the house of Lever Brothers Empress Elizabeth of Rusin; but greatly increased the intensity of the fire bore lightly on his shoulders responsibili seas again, and under the Chinese fing. would have been necessary to act pronoured upon it from the batteries on ties equal to those of many a small Stato. All question of their disposal or charter and to make complete concessions, and to foreign governments or subjects is the achievement would have required Brimont and Nogent Abase. Daring Lord Leverhubuo said we had been wond
powerful statesmanship instead of the settled. The ships have been chartered by Swiss pills," which merely reminded the fortnight between June 15tle and Jungle consider the Germans as patterns, of a Chinese company composed of infliten foreign countries of Herr Zimmermann's 29th the figures of the number of shells efficiency and organisation and every cons--
proposals to Mexico Harden says that
DR certain inventions, tint oneyed men of various provinces.
the Allies gradually reconciled them of all calibres, from 77mm.'s to 380mm.'s,rcial virtue. Modern civilisation had Mr. Sah. Commissioner for Foreigaselves to the worst disappointments that that fell in the town in euch 21 hours been huile up
How many of these had the Germans given Affairs, has informed the Daily could possibly come from Russia, al were :-
the Russian situation
Shells
is the world, and how many the English that he believes the new corporation to explains how
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races here and on the other side of the be composed of various Chinese of weight gradually improved.
le could and from several provincis,
He then ridicules, by quoting the most
Atlantic? Consider the implements of warfare which the Germans were direct- also be stated that the agreement pre-damaging utterances of the French Press,
ing against us--the submarine, the avro- vided that the handling of Chinese pro- the German arguments about Alsace duce would be given perference over all Loraine, and pours contempt an
plane, the torpedo, the machine gun, the breechloader, the Dreadnought, the ex- other cargo, and there was in all prob Scheidemann intrigues at Stockholm, ability a clause in the agreement pro But it is presumably the end of the article
plosive mine all inventions of the Eng. which has sealed the fate of the Zukunft. hibiting the charterers from recharter
And then the implo- lish-speaking race. Herr Harden writes: ing, especially to foreigners.
ments of peace, none were German. Alt We are not permitted to doubt the truth
that this country need ask for from its of the highly semi-ocial statement of the
Government was reasonable protection The Chinese Government authorities -Verminn ferite that no tasty
in any other sense; he was a believer i at Shanghai and at Peking base en separate pence was secretly offered to the
Free Trade. The present antagonism be- strongly pressed, hy several interests who Rusinos, and that
tween Capital and Labour ought not to were competing for the privilege of me action was dan to private initiative.
exist. There must be ca-partnership; but quiring the us; of the 12 steamers which (Was the private initiative Herr Hoff
It must not be on other than strict busi- aggregate more than 30,000 tous gross, mann's?) So the rumours about wire
ness lines; there should be no charity, and it has only been alter exercising Jess messages from an Army leader are no considerable arount of firm diplomacy true; Herr Hoffmann has represented
This gives a daily average of over 1,100, about it, and co-partnership must not that the matter has at last been settled. Germany's peace conditions as be himself
On June 25th, 36th, and 29th respective result in the weakening of management. Some southern interests in particular conceives them (and therefore lost his seat thre, five, and eight of them hit the Perbups some of those he was addressing have been extremely anxious to get the in the Berne Council and the control of athedral, which, sing: the beginning of worked sixteen hours a day, but they must ships, and the number of men, sotse of Switzerland's international business); the
sight hours a day doing mechanical work the influential class, who have been Grimm peril did not come from the black the war, has received between 000 and 700 not faink that that was comparable to clamouring for them has been more than kitchen of Carranzism. Very well. But shells. Of these over 50 have been shells in a factory Production was now dens
240mm, by nachinery The Paris of the heaviest calibres,
Every reduction in the a few men who wished to charter only now follows a bad sentence: to re charter at once and make a hand-terances,”
North-German 305mm. s. and 380mm.'s. One of the 305's hours of labour had resulted in an in- song profit on the turnover. It seems to Grazette, can only have the object of crashed through the south wall and dug urease of output, and we could, if we a great hole in the flour, without burst- were interested in our work, produce as have been generally understood in Japan, diverting from such efforts, by terrorismi.
It has been left standing on the much in six hours as we were producing ton, that one of the large Japanese shipping neutral personages, who, for motives of ing.
pavement close to the entrance as a con- in eight. Evening schools were a faitura companies would buy or charter the ships, bumanity, are working for the conclusion and there have been rumours to the effect of the war." A hundred times we have erete example of the kind of ammunition because the boys and girls were weary that certain Chinese would secure the read that France is worn out from loss with which the enemy is carrying on his after their day's work, but if the workers were given two hours' schooling in the possession of the vessels for the purpose of blood and is itching for peace: now vile work of destruction.. of selling to Japanese interesis.
Franes is accused of frightening neutrals In the streets behind the Cathedral, on morning and afternoon from the age of away from the work of mediatiou.
each side of it, and in the opon square in 14 to 30, we should get a product superior front, there are several huge craters (nine, to that which we now got from the uni- I think, in all) made by 80's which just ersities. We should be able in this way missed their mark. On the west façade, to continue physical education, and tha which is protected by its position from would be trained to military service without military barracks and the wasto direct hits, the weather is gradually flak of time which ordinary militarism in- ing away the surface and finishing the volved. This was but a feeble outline of ruin begun by the flames of the burning the vision he had of meeting the condi- scaffolding. The state of the other three tions after the war. (Cheers.)
Mr. Solfridge, in moving a Vole of walls, with their flying buttresses and
macies and windows, is even more thanks, said that when he heard that Lord Leverhule was to address them cu deplorable
a six hours' day lie had been slightly' The bonbardment of the last three sceptical, but he had been deeply impress- months has done far more damage thaned by the interesting and convincing all the other months of the war buturgument to which they had listened.
SAMES OF THE, SHIPS,
It is understood that while the ships are chartered to a private company, they will be under Government control.
The steamers are:
China
Silesia
Bohemia
Sikiang
D. Rickmers
Albenga
Meidän
Moder
lous gross. Austrian, 6,02€ Austrian 3,174 Austrian 1,84 German 1,810 German
4,176 .German 1,994 German 1,68 Uemun 1,682
German
1,320
Fortune Two German ships at Aney and one at another port, all small, an included in the agreement, making 12 in all.
The three boats first anted belonged to the Austrian Lloyd line and plied between Priests and Japan, the three having good pasenger and cargo accommodation. An effort was made over a year ago by the China Mail line to buy these ships from the Austrian Lloyd, but the negotiations fell through, perhaps because the wond-be purchasers, Chinese, were informed that the transfer might not be recognized by the helligerents and that the ship, might be subject to seizure on the high sens as enemy ships.
The Mettah and Meilee were well-known river stammers plying to Hankow. for the N-D. (Melchers); the Siking was a Tsingtao boat of the Hamburg America fine and the Athenge and D. Bickmers were utside cargo boats. The Fortuin, a small craft, Best took refuge as Nan sing and car into Shanghal early last year: the others have all been in port since the outbreak of war in August. 1914.
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigating d'Extreme Orient, of Saigos, in their report dated August 24th.
Our market is slightly weaker but at a standstift exept for some purchase for Government accounę,
State: ---
1010.
We quote to-day-White rice, No. 2 Sifted Japan quality, Hongkong dollars: Sifted Japan quality, Hongkong dollars 8.85 per picul fa, Saigon, for September shipment.
CENSORSHIP IN WAR.
says the
understands that.
Herr Hoffmann a
THE LAST THREE MONTES,
300 .1,200
16,052
BETHMANN'S HUMANITARIAN POSE. Herr von Bethmann is like either Buddba nor a preacher in the moun- rains. He who hopes for his world to be saved by heavy guns, poisoned gas mines, flame-throwers, submarines, and air-bombs must do without a reputation Every child for sublime humanity.
Are impartial acu trals, then, to learn to dream with their eyes open that in the pure scales of the North Germans gentle humanity weighs heavier than the rattling, arbour of power? The neutrals will never learn it. The sentence which I have quoted tells the only that Germany's longing for pace is stronger that the longing fogether. In the south wall especially: France. A writer or a speaker, although and in the roof of the Cheir, above the speaking only for himself, would be pile of rubble which marks the site of the punished for such a hit. Is it to be high altar, there are wide, gaping chasmas permitted to our rulers, for whose words where shell after shell has enlarged the
la uation is made responsible?
sanie openings, so that the wonder is that they allowed, by slandering an enemy in these places the fabric holds together who is not yet ready to condude praten, and by insisting all too loudly upon their at all. Practically all the beautiful old deep belief in the earness of peace to grass is gone, and the floor of the nave, nonrish the mad, but daunging, belief which looks like a tough road in the that Gerutany is more weary than the making is thickly strewn with broken au lengue of her enemies! Must we not at twisted fragments of lead, chips of bril lest demand that our rulers shall learn, liant coloured glass, and inasses of stone and apply properly, the principles of and mortar, among which, at regular paychology, and acousties! Mist we not intervals there are rows of neat little demand that, before they choose new heaps of sifted earth and rubbish, from which the workmen have carefully glenn- weapons, and even before they resume the use of-old weapons, they shall thinked every atum of the debris that can be out to the end every possible effcet-not use to piece together or repair windows only the effect which is desired by the and stonework when the gigantic task commander in the field?
Ard
restoration is taken in hand.
SHELLS THICKEST NEAR CATHEDRAL. Seventeen shells have fallen on the are wrecked and deserted, for the Archbishop's Palace, the houses round it
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(sd.).TF HOUGH,
ASP. (Reserve),
4th September, 1917.
Russia is a Islam whose fighting
The faith of these Frenchmen is n thing to wonder at. Every one about the place, Strength cannot be measured to-day, and perhaps not to-morrow, America is the home of fresh hope. We should not hear the old architect, who has worked on the the groan that it is impossible to do any Cathedral all his life, caretaker who can thing against the German Empire of tell you the story of each shell that has pierced the walls or the rorf, and firmly Hell, anti Hassia bad proved a com plete disappointment, and until America believes that some which hit the fabric ind staked in vain her men, her in- without doing any damage were stayed by dustry, and her abundance of money. Ile the hand of God-and, mes of all, the who waits for miracles paralyses his own silvor-haired old Cardion! Archbishop. will. And only a miracle could give as Monseigneur Luçon, who with the utmost ace quicklya miracle which ashes bravery and devotion has stuck to his vur enemies, or a miracle which weds Gerpost as the guardian of the house of God many's actions with the majority of the and father of his peor through the whole. world. Only the second miruele can be of the barbardment. Have an unshakable
emriction that, whatever ruin the gun performed by human forces.
AIMS OF THE ALLIES: GERMANY'S CHOICE of the enemy have done and may yet do; The total amount of rice exported from The aim of the peoples that are sur
to the sacred building, it will and must the ist January to the 21st August enemies is-democracy; the right of ebe raised up again to the glory of God is 796.260 tons, against 884,910 tons in race that, is ripe for independent exist
ence to decide its own lot; honest, and and of Franer. not merely pretended, reduction of the burden of armaments; a system of arbitra tion to which all who are suspect of responsibility, whether great r smail, for the outbreak of war is pub- Cathedral qurter has been more merci mit, and the accomplishment of whose leasty shelled Inan any other in the town judgments all States admitted to the and yet to look at the brave old face and league of civilized peoples would have to hear the Arebbishop talks you would nesor guarantee; a state of things which would imagine that for months and months he ara the law against the arrogance of has been living in one of the most Lord Northelife, interviewed by a re violence, which would threaten with death dangerous places on the French front. In presentative of the United Press Associa- those who risked an attack, which would all France I have not seen during the tion in regard to the censorship, said: remove from the will of a mortal man war a face so serene and even happy soul, nothing but grass growing between If the censorship has the effect of say and put upon the community of peoples He has endured, as a good soldier of the stones and shell splinters as thick as ing the life of a sfagle American, it is the decision between prace and war, and Christ, he has won the right to wear the shells on the Deuch. Every wall that is worth while. People are prone to con which would hedge in the sovereignty of Cross of the Legion of Honour, as well still standing is pitted and scored by the sider that it is newspaper leakages which all Empires by the admission of an inter
as the cross of his calling and office; and flying fragments; every day fresh ruins now what he wants more than anything are added to the old piles long ago open the eyes of the public rather than national right of control about as `nar- private cables, which in reality have a rowly as the Socialism already recognized the means to provide for the needs of covered by grass and weeds; and nearly deadly power. The opening of all over by the State has hedged in the sovereign his people, not only for the 5,000 still every day one or two more are added to soas mails is essential. 4 newspaper con- rights of the individual.
If Germany sees the great signs of the living in the town, but for the others the list of non-combatants killed for no sorship is comparatively simple matter when helped by the goodwill of the news timea iluminating this aim from above, when they come back. Can there be any kind of military purpose
And yet those that are left, and the whole of France with them, however papers themselves, which in England fre-peace--since agreement about every other doubt that in both respects the faith that
point would easily be possible-is attain is in him will be justified? quently assist the evisors.
But in Reinis they are all brave and sadly they may cry in their hearts, “How The early eccentricities of the British able to-morrow. If a state of things, for
are yearning all have faith in the destinies of their lang, Q, Lord, how long?" never doub censorship are best forgotten. Democra- which milliards of men cics are entitled to the fullest news of seems to Germany a disgrace, she must country, the Mayer and his colleagues, for a moment that the day of their de who are forced to hold their municipal liverance from the nightmare of Prussia their soldiers. The more news, the fewer go on fighting until one group is vic
meetings underground, and the working barbaric cruelties is as certain as the the ugly rumours Press comment. is in- torious and the other sinks into im.
men and women who carry on as if there dawn. Of all the fatal and futile mis valuable to democratic Governmente potence. That is the reality, as it ap
the eyes of the fearless student, were no such things as shells, no less than takes that the German nation have made Newspapers focus the ideas and sugges- pears tions of a million watchful minds, and when the phrases used in both camps have their spiritual pastor. Their town is a in their mad and vain effort to destroy He who wants to paint city of the dead. Whole streets of it are the works as well, as the rights of civilis often afford valuable assistance to Gov-been removed.
The systematic the face of reality because he cannot bear in ruins; scores of houses have been zation, the bombardment of the Cathedral ernment departments.. publiention of both good and bad news to look upon it must go down into the results in confidence being reposed in the darkness. Only the people's will can be gutted by ite; handreds and hundreds of Beims is one of the maddest and least Governments of democracies." Lord responsible, but before it makes its choice have been smashed and splinterest; in to be forgiven. It is the sin against tho Northcliffe detailed the working of the the spirit of statesmanship oust illustreet after street you see not a living Holy Ghost, and it is being repeated
(Continued at foot of next column.) nearly every day.. British censorship.
minate its paths.