THE HIDDEN HAND. A FEW SNAPSHOTS.
[BY VAT FRASER.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 1917.
GREECE AND THE WAR. EVENTS OF AUGUST 1914.
WHY VENIZELOS RESIGNED.
In this Greek Chainber, recently, M. When the full story of this war is told,
Venizelos, laid before the Bureau of the one of its most astonishing features will be the secount of the extraordinary net-Chamber the letter which be addressed to work of German intrigue in every country King Constantine in August, 1914, when, of the globe. I have sometimes heard
after pointing out that the tendencies of very ignorant prople deny that German the Crown were in contradiction to the
one would aimed at world dominion,
views of the responsible Government, he day it who had occasion, to trace a sent ite nix resignation. The text of the
this records of German conspiracies, collett as I have done.
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letter is as follows:-
OUGHT WE TO FORGIVE THEM? CHRISTIANITY AND THE CRIMES OF THE HUNS, Canna Anthony C. Denne (Vicar of All Saints, Ennismore Gardens) writes Ought we to in the Sunday Pictorial: forgive the Germans, and our wo if we ought
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I have reason to know that may Your Majesty-Admirul Kerr communi In this country we hear a great deal regarding the work of the Hidden Hand caled to me the text
of a telegram which people are troubled as they face that ques within our own shores. There are per-be drew up based on the conference which tion today. And they are distressed he sons who still laugh at the Hidden Hand he had with your Majesty in reply to t and think the dories about it are news-telegram from the British Admiralty cause the only answer they think possible Paper fiction
Yet most of them are tre begged the Admiral not to send off his seems to menace their religions belief,
On the one hand they have been told enough, as the antion is beginning to telegram, of which I enclose a copy, be understand. What is not yet understood fore having received new orders. I now
that to forgive our enemies is a funda is that our own experience has been respectfully hasten to tender my resign dapicated all over the earth.
You ation in order to restore complete agree mental hw of Christianity. On the other, find evidences of the Hidden and alike
ment in the very critical moments through no ipere jussing wave of indignation, but in Lombard-stret and in the deserts of which the nation is passing. Central
ASIA.
After the declarations which I had the considered judgment of their moral I have personaly find it at work, and
its made with your authorisation to the resense, pronounces such forgiveness to be investigate have had methods, in a region which was very little presentatives of the Triple Entente and impossible, known before the war. Elsewhere I have the telegrams exchanged between narrated the growth of German influence King of England and your Majesty I do not think that your reply to-day to the -the Persian Gulf, a very long und com plex affair. It began with a couple of new démarche of the British Government German traders sitting on packing-cue could be that Greece will refuse to enter na palm-fringed beach and pretending into war with Turkey so long as Turkey that they had come to buy mother-of-pearl does not first attack her As I have had It ended with a line of Hamburg-Amerika the honour to tell your Majesty, we can not undertake an offensive war against steamers, oceans of free champagne, a projectwar
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the co-operation of Bulgaria or, at least, that in no case, even presupposing this are we disposed to declare war again Turkey before she attacks us, is mani interests of the nation,
How can we forgive," they cry, "a nation guilty, of unspeakable crimes? How can we pardon those whose devilish record sands naked in the eyes of the world? How can we forgive the butchers and outagers of women and children why
CRUISE IN A TANK.
ACROSS THE YPRES CANAL..
I spent a large part of yesterday (writes The Times War Correspondent at Hend- quarter) with another correspondent in a Tank helping in the salvago of a crippled
sister Tank from the crater area. Let us call them the good ships Greville and Gibraltar which are not their names. Both, though splashed with büllet marks from recent fighting, were stanch and sound, but Gibraltar unhappily had had an accdent to her steering gear, so that
while she could go straight ahead she refused to obey ber helm. Having gone straight ahead as far as such a course would take her on the road towards home, she had to heave to and wait for help. And to-day Greville hitched on with a 3in. steel hawser and with this assistance, both being under their own Steam, the crippled ship got safely into port.
THE BATTERED CANAL BANK.
It was an interesting ride fur after the stretch of shell-ploughed ground we had to cross the Ypres Canal. Three years of war have made the Canal u and sight, with its battered banks, surmounted here and there with ragged shreds of trees where It is to make a demand as grotesque itself is cut-up into small sections by a onse was a long leafy avenue. The Canal
crossings, 80 numerous that it is not worth while for the Germans to shell any of christian? Well, in that case, unchrist great many bridges and causeways and in it must be. We do not question the
Between these obstacles a short stretch of the Canal ties stagnant, baff historic truth of that religion, or deny serve as working creed for the world
over-grown with reeds and covered with રામ we find it to-day. Christianity re
gren scam, with all sorts of ugly debrik thrusting up from the mud below. It is quires us to forgive our enemies. find such forgiveness flagrantly impolan unlovely waterway, and it is an amazing sible. We driven, therefore, fact that Tanks can now unconcernedly
tow' ollier Tanks across it by the newly abandor Christianity."
minde causeways in broad daylight.
terminas, for the Baghdad Rail- † Turkey so kong as we are not assured gloat/over the agony of their victions 1- Hy find the hand of Germany verywhere, in big things and a little. Wolber absolute neutrality. But to declaras imprcticable. Our attitude is un have all heard of the way Germany this year bribed Chang Hsun, a freebooting Chinese
to attempt to upset the Chinese Mancho
We have all heard of
In participating in a war against the traitorous lening sent back to Russia with his pockets full of German gold to Turke in alliance with Great Britain subvert the Ruinn armies and sow dis France, and Russia, under the condition cor throughout the land. But who has already mentioned of the active co-opers. heard of the shan Khalifa "who arosetion of Bulgaria, or a complete guarante in 1915 m the frontier between of her neutrality, we have no reason and Parly Persia and Bakshistin, and tried to raise no interest in also declaring war again
on that port anyolt against the British
the Central European PowerE of the Indian-borderland?
ent and to restore the festly contrary to the well-understood the beanly of its ideals. But it will not
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That is the dilemma. It seems real enough, yet it rises from a strange mis conception. Our idea of the divine teact- ing are based too often upon a rather hazy Tellection of isolated texts in stead of upon a careful study of the Gospels as a whole.
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The choice before us, therefore, is de It was the son of very little thing which do not get iubs the newspapers in thesfied within very narrow limits. Either we shall prefer to engage alone in war Germa agents, stirred up Mulluk to proclaim a holy war in the wild with Turkey when we cannot, even if
which victorious, unsure to ourselves anything It is perfectly true that the Founder throngh Alsander marched on his way back from but the islands, without in any way of Christianity taught us to forgive our Ladin. The Khalifa swooped down succeeding in removing the danger that! to the shores of the Gulf of Oman, raided the extermination of the Greek clemestremes. It is perfectly untrue that. He taught us to forgive wrongdoers while they a coast town or two, smashed the telegraph in Turkey will be continued after the remain impenitent. Emphatically He tines,
and did his best for his Berlin victory which we look for. Or else we makes repentance the condition of forgive Friends. He got various local chieftains shall try to enter upon this war by the to help him and there was a good deal side of three Great Powers, and thus desultory fighting, but it never reached succeed, not only in re-establishing in Brush territory. There have been many their homes the expoiled Greeks, but in examples of the kind, but we rarely hear assuring definitively the protection of the of them owing to the rush of bigger events Greek element in Turkey, thanks to the bearer home. There is always a Germär behind. Nothing is too stall for Ger future protection of these three Great
The essential point to testir. THRY about this case is that the rising was stirred in
a neutral country. The Hun is not always unle, is as show in the case of the officer who started
Powers.
Which, then, is the way which we must eboose Evidently the latter.
But the fact which I believe conceals these things and arouses in the mind of your Majesty and that of M. Streit ten
maxim
the
Then we caine by what had once been a country lane, where Gibraltar in some of her ungainly veerings took liberties with the remnants of the hedgerow trees Then there was open ineadow land, some What shell-pitted, but still green, with and patches of thistles in their down clamps of ragwort. We ignored the shell- holes and made a sad mess of the rngworl monsters became amphibious and and and thistles. At a bit of swampy land churned their way through mud water with as little trouble as would a dogent on macadam.
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If thy brother sin against thee, and he repat, forgive him" is a wirely different from that which popular imagination attributes to Christ. I will not multiply quotations; the reader bis only to study the Gospels with care to find how universal in them is this prin-appointed. ciple. Without it, indeed, the whole moral law would be stultifed. And I need not dwell upon the tremendous warning which this principle involves for
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WAN BY hrst trip on something approaching battle ground inside a Tank, and it has immensely increased my admiration for them and for the men who go down in them to battle. For a summer not Inxuriously outing a man might reasonably prefer a caravan, for they are
But the manageability of the great beasts is wonderful, and they waddled together yesterday chalance over shell holes and hummocks shed its tires in horror. Happily, on the and things which would unke any caravan route home there was only one light ness, whether human or divine, can only
line to cross, for the Railw
way touchy follow, in Christ's view, upon repont- ance. And repentance" implies far
way that its railways, and the only more than "regret" or "morse." ta Tank can cross one, except at legitimate translates a word meaning literally places, is by having the rails pulled up before it and put down again afterwards. changed will.”
It spoils the looks of Hittle things lika railway lines badly.
in disguise to blow up a bridge on the dencies opposed to those which I support ourselves. But here is the fact.
Forgive ions Department out here is
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But the plea is sometimes heard that we must not condemn Germany as a whole when anly a fraction for her inhabitants are really responsible for her actions. No it is worth while to remember how clearly the principle of collective guilt is re- cognised by Christ, There were numbers of quite excellent people, no doubt, in the citire which He denounced "becaused they repented not, yet this fact did not save Chorazin or Bethsaida from his sparing condemnation. Because there was no collective repentance, there could be no collective pardon..
border of the United States. Though pre-is the wish not to displease Germany by tending to be a workman he was foolish ragaging in a war against Turkey with nough to Leavl first, class, and so was the assistance of the other Powers belong nireted. Early this year Major Dinkel- man, an officer of the German Legation miehe Alliance against the Central
| Empires. Hunza- Guard in Peking was arrested in
And to-day is it not Germany who is Nagar, deep in the Himalayas, with 9,060 Gandnes knows what he thought he was officers? It is true that these prepara British golden sovereigns in his kit. supporting the Turkis arms, giving him hips, money, rifles, equipment, and over going to do. You migly as well Lo
les the front door of Buckinghamtons are more especially directed against Palace without being noticed as attempt Russia, but, at the same time, they are to cross the northern frantier of India turned against us, since Germany, with in secret. The hills have a thousand eyes. the view of foreing as to violate our The coming of a white man is known daysgagement with Serbia, is clearly
advance.
threatening us with an attack on our rear Another Hus who came to grief was by the Turks in case we should go to Major Pappenheim, the German military the help of Serbia when he is attacked attache in Peking, who left Mongolia onby Bulgariu
shooting expedition." As his nig
Why, then, should we show ourselves gage consisted principally of explosives, complaisant toward the Power that he must have had in view bigger game ateks to assist in ever possible way the than black buck. I suspect that he was
two principal enemie of Hellenism-the brund for the hig bridge which carries Bulgurs and the Tu as and why should the Siberian Railway over River Singari at Harbin. The tussing heard o remain indiff /nt towards of him, scame roving. Mongols were pas Powers who, aft having called Grece upon his trail, and he vanished for over into being re-day ready, in case of an attack on wy Turkey, to range them. men do sometimes in the wilds of Asia. The chief of the Indian revolutionaries selves on our de? now in Germa employ is on Har Dayal. In order facilitate the re-establish- who is perhaps the most dangerous of the ment which is so necessary of per Irlian Anarchists. Lord_Hardinge last || foot harmony between the Crown year publicly alluded to him as the head and its responsible counsellors, I
the Amardistic Glindr party. We have the honour to Lender my To forgive an unrepentant Germany, so means miting but the name is merely resignation. I take advantage of this far from being a religious action, weld taken from a seditions newspaper. Har
Oxford.pportunity to renew the expression to be fully to contradict both the teaching about 1908, bat afterwards
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"Oight we to forgive?" Here, then, is the reply to our question. I have dealt with it apart, obviously, from all co- commercial im- siderations of political or expediency-considerations which, partant as they may be, belong to another and 1 lower plane. My tim has been simply to show that our moral instincts and the teaching of Christianity do not, as many people fear, supply conflicting
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Dayal was at St. Johm's resigned his your Majesty of my unalterable seati-and the example of Christ
scholarship. He returned to India, driftments of fidelity to the throne,
(Bigned) VENIZELOS,
ed to California, where he was an honor- ary professor at the Leland Stanford Uni- versity was the centre of all the more recent Indian coaspiracies on the Pacific bouring country of Persia a revolt was Coast, and after the outliresk of war XXXI. of Reuss, who was the German both organised and led by Prince Henry tarned up in Berlin, where he was given finister at Teheran. It took a streng
post in the German War Office.
The Russian expedition to overthrow the fees ord of his nefarious activities would record fil mam
many pages
MICE PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF
THINGS,
Australian papers recently received tell he raised. His object was to take an ay ai tribesmen uto Afghanistan, where he another of the periodical invasions of I have only selected two or three ox-
hoped the Amir would march with mice, which destroy grain and even attack amples of German activity in which him to the lont of India.
Though babies have been specially interested, but there the Bengal project failed, the Penian are innumerable instances. One of the scheme met with considerable success at most elaborats German plans was for a first. revolt which was to begin in India at Bir Reginald Craddock
Christmas, 1015.
At Birchop, the double fence system for ntahing mice has been installed and is proving most satisfactory. For the first four nights the nightly catch was esti mated at 25,000.
As we were about to start a German aeroplate came rather impudently over- head, and seemed to look at us. One of our own airmen came along and the enemy made for horae, but we hoped that when he got there be would not tell his guns there was Tank salving going on and the exact place where. Apparently he did not, for apart from the noise of the guis it was a peaceful and very novel, if jolty. suxamer rade,
A RAJAT'S CRIME LEAVE TO APPEAL AGAINST. SENTENCE REFUSED.
Before a judicial committee of the Privy Council, consisting cf Lord Buckmaster. Sir John Edge, Mr. Ameer Ali. and Sir Walter Phillimore, a petition by Rajsh Bhoran Singh for special leave to appeal from a conviction of murder and a gen tenge of transportation for life was dealt with a few weeks ago,
In July, 1915, the Rajah Bharan Singh was charged with the murder of one Bhoodang He was tried before the Sessions Judge of East Berar, sitting with Assessors, and they unanimously | found him guilty and sentenced him to transportation for life. He appealed
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The case for the prosecution was that the Raiah went out with his rifle to shoot gain the jungle. His body servant, Bhoodang, accompanied him. On the way ths Rajah and others called at a liquor shop to transact some business, and they took liquor there. A woman and two girls cathe by and the Rajah caught hold of one of liem indecently and her clothes came off Ehondang interposed to
pro can tect the girl and the Raish shot him dead. gave some extraordinary details about What is true of Asia is true of every
The
defence was that the occurrence was this particular
plot at a recent meeting continent. Think of the traitorous Bus The record catch of mice has been estab-
accident, and that in any case the Indian serenides led the Germans to sian Colonel Mivasedoff, who before he lished at Sheepbills, where the first night's Rajah was both insen and drunk at the believe that fifty thousand Indians would was most justly, hanged persistently operations under the double-fencing and tim
time and was entitled to the benefit of rise in Bengal. The signal for the revolt vealed the Russian plans to the entry, bait stent produced seven tons of mice.
sections
Bi and SD of the Indian Penal to be the sudden gathering of five and was directly responsible for the te This weight represents approximately Code The sessions judgy admitted in was to thousand rebels in Calcutta, who were to rible slaughter In the foresta
evich nee a previous conviction of the seize the loal arsenals. Another twenty Augustavo; of Captain von Papen, who 500,000 mice, thousand were to concentrate, and Fort tentatively organised an army of a hun- M. J. McCullough, of the Vermin Rajah on a similar charge in 1908 and Willinro was to he attacked, after which dred and fifty thousand German and Auy Destruction Department, who is super-ls certihed copies of the evidence of Colorel Buchanan and Mr. Rorkett given Calcutta was to be sacked. Geriman trinn reservists in the United States with vising the double fence system for dealing that previous trial. The Judicial Is the oldest and still immeasurably the
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accused of complicity accounted for at eight railway ations the same defences were raised, Troops could be collected in the destruction of Italian
warships
Sir William Garth (for petitioner) This conspiracy, which was hatched in and of the suborned generals who raised in three days. It is estimated that the Berlin
standard of rebellion in South Africa weight mentioned representa in argued that the admission of the evidence and elsewhere, world undoubtedly have
of the previous conviction and the cer- caused praw trouble had it not been for of the veil. The Government ought to In some parts of the country where the tified copies of evidence in the previous the vigilans of the Secret police
The disclose some of the in
Promoue plague has been exceptionally, bad trial had seriously prejudiced the Rajah's Germans somehow to alcutta.
to 81 and other Departments.
rge now in the possession of the
the protection of young infants from the defence, and that the judgments of the sums of money into
At the
A great and critical moment the Government of India con
compretensive
Some Ingenious parents * vitiated for parents. took steps which crushed the plot. The subject should cial statement on depredations of mice has been a problem Courts in India had therefore beenTerms for Advertisipe (Translatión |
We should prepered. Indian conspirators greatly exaggerated then hear Tees nebulous and enotional have inserted screws in the ceiling of the At close of the argument Lord Buck- the numbers involved. But the worst kind drival about internationalism, cause bedroom, and with the aid of a block and master said that their lordships were of mischief was intended. In the neigh the publis would recognise what the Ger- tackle hoisted the cradle out of harm' unable to advise his Majesty to give
(Continued at foot of next Column man conception of internationalism way, The baby's face had previously been special leave to-appeal.
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