THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAR.
SPEECH BY MR. BONAR LAW. Mr. Modill McCormick, a prominent Congressman, who was particularly helpful to Mr. Balfour when the Foreign
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10TH, 1917.
NO LAND ATTACK ON PETROGRAD.
NATURAL OBSTACLES
[FROM THE MORNING POST
____ CORRESPONDENT.)
PETROONAR
The public is now pretty well calmed
BRITISH CONTROL OF CABLES
A correspondent wrote to the Times of Beptember 10th
The disclosure Hat Sweden has repeat edly placed her diplomatic cable facili ties at home and abroad at Germany's disposal, and that Germany has fizet
her submarine. them to direct her subr
cannot but raiso
GERMAN DESERTERS IN
AMSTERDAM.
A COLONY FROM THE FATHERLAND,
Describing a public meeting addressed in Ansterdam on Three Years of War,
Androus by a German revolutionary Socialist,
Secretary was in the United States, was regarding the possibility of & German | BROS kada editor of a paper with the significant
the guest at luncheon of the chief officers and committee of the Empire Parlia mentary Association at the House of Cursions recently Mr. Bonur Law, presied.
There is an aspect of our
ivan of Germany which has been insufficiently considered. It consists in this that all cable communications between not only Germany and her allies, but between all the adjacent ceutral Countries, an the one hard and the outer world of Asia, the United States, and South America, on the other, are in our possession or the ponicasion of en
our Alliea
sille. Der Kampf (The Struggle) the Special Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says We enter the building, ascend the staircase leading to the lecture hall, and find the latter packed to over- flowing by an audience some of whom are abviously Dutch, but the great majority are undoubtedly German, with a prepon-
dash upon Petrograd. Nevertheless its urged forward evacuation is being energetically for & variety of sufficient reasons. The Germans will certainly not to reach Petrograd by land this attempt to Mr. McCormick, in reply to the toast year. Apart from the roadless terrain of of his health, said that the traveller who bogland impassable during the rainy this operation would Cume to Eugland or to Francs for the first seasons of the year, t time since the outbreak of the war could require at least 400,000 men, even up any cable map of the world and derance of men on the sunny side of 30
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Numerous as the Germans seem, they are this statement.The majority of the but a small fraction of the thousands of found impression which the 11 the ex- German cables started from near Enden Germans, largely deserters who have why the proprietors of the world-
cun and landed on a cost taken refuge in hospitable Holland dur- of the people made
und brusted man-power of the front Others ran tä
mike for service on the Eastern
Azores and thence to ing the wat ark to Teneriffe and thence to Before the meeting begins white I have been struck," he added. by half a million more fighting men, which Veny Yark
large presumption, there is Monrovia, in Liberia, and thence again the fasion of hard intelligence and ideaf.i
audience carrying trays of "Pilsener. isma with which British men and women |
Head Possession of Petrograd es un buco in Brazil; and to Vigo, in Jarketed waiters, circulate among the late beer (made in Holland, and at the pre- the
that overtook them cables on the o
cables on the declara sent time infinitely superior to the Prolongation, no less than those of neace,ject at this stage of i
inust follow. No one who hat not
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A SOLDIER-BEGGAN,
man people in a war of aggression the world and to drive the great
hear an or Sweden
The Gorrasns, nevertheless, are undoub- demurrucies, one after another, to war edly making, strenuous, thrt, ut exten. in defence of their honour and of the another army. security of still unbegotten generations ordinary measure of the Inst desperation
as accept, if they please, the Ger has been takin to raise more men. man philosophy that way is the logical garrisons in the interior of Germany are
drawry off to the front of tronomie. competition.bell
being accentuation Bo in another age was the romantic by Turks. These are cheaper to feed and with
and
(can)
are absolute masters of the
Com
Moray No one in nland, Denmark, cablegrum, except with dur permission munications of Germany, of her allies through which
ich she and they have h
and they have been and of all the tear-by noutral States drawing supplies.
vocation of toll of travelling merchants or murdered merciless severity with any internal them without imperial warrant That orders. The change will doubtless also
the logical accentuation of the not unfavourably affect the
the robber baron who took can be securely reckoned on to deal What use have we made of our power i One zaka oneself where all the Germans
The
political and economic forces of fendi British prisoners dranhoventions, we announced the this one from Flanders, that one from
fism I had to go and civilization is moon Lurke
despite his
At the beginning of the war exercising come from The question is not easy to of the rights reserved to us under the In answer, but if the man themselves be in- ternational Telegraph and Radio-Tellerrugated they will reply that they come,
Burile
on its ruins We purpose to in
with Armenian Christians in suspension of all cable and wireless ser the Russian front, another from France abandon and to make Germany abandon the old days, is certainly preferable
s**to and from or in transit through indeed, deserters from all the theatres of in the
hatted Gerinani the days when
of the
Kingdom, Fall British bloodshed as, a means of acquiring mar-
war have drifted across the frontiers of kets-the
and British protectorate the Netherlands in Ineveising, bers Kaiser's place in the s
Wien walking in Amsterdam with a
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is getting envenomed by a creame
which any people may win by industry ing consciousness of failure. The Turk,
aud
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for the first this publicly to express desperate meastire. It is believed bere French of English, if they were despatchery uniform surmounted by a blun cap
complete that v
ed at the sender's risk and bore his furl with a red band. The wearer was a Ger ny agreement with the broad principles that she hopes
from which he has laid down relative to our the appalling exodus of
neme and that of the addressee, and if map desorter who had escaped from partly they were passed part in the war. We eeok the security of Gelicía did not allow
even if all from the Somme. He was begging of the peoples, the peace and enfety of vur
of our owing to Germany's went of ten on the But we also added ship. Cologne, whither he had gone on leave
Wore citizens
with, the passers-by. G There is in London a soldier whom which produced a very fair resistance or otherwise
o's drastic treatment of his soldiery messages still be stopped, delayed its exceptional, of course, to see & hope to see an Africander state after a while to the further advance of tion of the British authorities, without of Amsterdam. These men quickly find General Sinuts. A real significance.
notice to
to the sender and without incur attaches to the meeting here of that great the enemy Germany, since America has man and of others of us on a common come into the war, feris, the need of those ring any liability of any kind. In the cast of suit of clothes to enable them to sume Good Samaritan to give them a errand. His forefathers, and ours left the rich extensive corn lands that once were words, we have, and have always had shores washed by your narrow northern the granary of Europe more than ever absolutely free hand. Legally and passiviliane But the deserters are
Germany can raise another half-morally at any moment we choose, re seas bo adventure into the wilderness 10 million men for use on this side, it is have the right and the power to cut of initiated can tell you extctly whore to search of liberty. Now, the suns are come together from the ends of the earth to believed they will be set on the task of completely all cabled messages that priss find them. Amsterdam has it deserters on the suil of seizing the rich corn lands of Russia's between Germany's neighbours who are quarter. Assuming that one has a taste wounded FB01) black earth zane
feeding and supplying her and the coun for such rather depressing society, there Honar Law, acknowledging the THE KAINEE AT RIGA
trics overseas from
Palace and the east of his both, and Tum repre- The Kaiser journeyed to Rigs to meet goods and products which they drawing of the Royal In the stately build- wenting the Prime Minister, I think that the citizens of what he has proclaimed as
Exchange where one can safely count on it is perhaps right that I should say one the capital of a new German State and It is doubtful whether at any time as many German descrters as one could mecting, at any time of the day or night, or two words on the situation in which a general air of finality pervaded the we are now placed,
War Lord's speech, as if the Germans could have reinforced out aval wish to find. Notwithstanding ita proxi-
satisfied with the value for
defend their
We have frontier. The Rus United Starcoming the adhesion of the Dwina for as
against us with truth in connection with tions, 19 C WAR No annexara
propic
MAIN ARTERY OF TRADEMA
nore in Amsterdam all the same, and the
made every effort to keep out of it and long to an what greatest dificulty and delay by round so little exhilarating by day take on a
it
with happened as the Russian
first task was to
came
summer time, is uncertain.
Fatherland
We have evidently strayed into a small German colony, and it is hither that the inevitably drifta. It is not very surpris German deserter in Amsterdam almost ing that after the hardships of the field he should seck solace where it is mast
blockade more effectively than p exercising this right. To overcul city, it is not one of the most fashionable mity to the main thoroughfares of the communications is to cut the main artery One is that we as asians have been edified by this bio of such trade-and is we all know it was streets of Amsterdam On the contrary, nation have always hated war, and, lesson in the German interpretation of trade as Germany was able to carry th lying off the main highways, as such perhaps, if any charge is over brought the German
Eight hundred through neutral intermediaries with the street, often do in great cities, it gives States before America joined the the impression in the broad light of this war, it is that because we hated it men were shot by the Germans immediate Allies. It would be too much to say that the suu of courting obscurity. It soet08, so much we have ourselves laid the seeds ly on taking possession of Riga, and For if you cannot cable you cannot trade, indeed, to be a street of rather dingy of the desolation which has now spread once this wes, which has not failed to But it is certain that communication are aided by electric lamps and other acces was no atrocity, but an act of unless the quickest cafes and obscure hotels, but at night, over Europe The fact that the Ameri can Government and the American
make a favourable impression upon
Russia,
open to you, you can only trade with the series, the frouts of these establishments, that the head of the State was bent on
roubea, if it could possibly be secured with
bes, and in an atmosphere of gaudy glitter German names are every- abandon about honour the fact that that great nationed Riga was appalling. A hody of Letts, perpetual uncertainty 1853 trae that where to be seen; in fact, they are more has had her wireless service numerous than Dutch. The Gothic signa has been driven into the war on our side armed with their formidable knives, is itself the best proof that the cause for invaded the richer quarters of the town, direct to the United States But its of the hotels bearing the names of Ger which we are fighting is a righteous and and going from house to house slaughter capacity is limited, its operation, man states, provinces, and cities, allu
found Just cause. But it is not for that reasoned every German
sparing neither
sions to the Rhine, to Bavarian beer, by it can anly that we welcome her intervention wormen nor children but, content with all messages transmitted The United States possesses resources glutting their nation hatred, they were restances have by to net in nations of Wein, Wein, und Gesang
tapped, and it
probably could not in any and not obscure hints as to the attrac on not guilty of pillag
Those greater tap those after then repeated the scenes of Kuluse quarter of the business that was boing all these minke one realita, che vale happy
Face of
of the acter df. her •people We know the char.
We know that in all When the German Army entered their transacted by German agents in the small ximity of the Fatherland, the happy the arts of peace they have shown a
And and shoot the
Northern kingdoms with their trans guilty resourcefulness and
Riga merchants had filled every Atlantic customers throughout the period energy and readinges to adopt new, medfods which, i Beatable coga merchant, had filed over of American neutrality am sure, will be shown in the arts of war every kind, and traffic with Riga over the and the parrels post under our control. We brought as far as possible the mails as well, and of which we shall reap the railroads had not for years reached what We built up an extremely efficient in advantage more and more as months go was proceeding for some weeks before the telligence service to keep watch over the dvance in something more that it is often noted, is well served by her ubiqui ing broadly, we have for long time there are the attractions of beerhouse and
German success.
I have
of the blockade " Speak easily to be found. And here at night feel. Tiges, pee sleep, and an emblance in United States. I fee it constantly stated portion of the population of in German newspapers that this is the Jest hope of the Allies: Wo do rely on them, and with good reason, for 1, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, am ready to say now-what I should have been very sorry to admit six months ago that without the aid of the United States the financial situation of the Allies would We have not seen the end of it. At this
moment we see Russia in a position about, have been 10 you to be grateful which I think it would be better to say to-day
We have reason for the readiness of the help which has nothing bey the anguish through which I said just now that we have always loopholes in the
beyond this, that we sympathise been given by our Allies on the other sign she is passing, and hope that the time had both the right and the power to put only be stopped by stopping the cables.
But respect we rely on the United States that does will come when the
a stop to all cable messages between That neutral Powers have allowed their be able ould German representatives in Holland and diplomatic and Consular services and | by Said
Scandinavia and her clients and custom their privileges of official communication alt. McCormick in his very cloquent for
or the assistance. which
the speech gave me so much pleasure, as the those whom Mr. McCormick Coresters scross the ocean. As a matter of bald by cipher cablegrams to be used b
we have not ao enforced it The Germans as war weapons has long been With that assistance we know that we real bulk, of Germany's oversea, trade spected by our aut statement, coming from an observer fro
authorities in some cases of what the United King-") have on our, Bide resource
gurces which are great
has been carried on not merely with our been concealed from thepable. known as a fact to others. But it more than sufficient to get us complete connivance, but with our assistance Obr dom has done. In this war"
in which victory.
so the Am We know, also, this country has been engaged where, on people, like our own, have a practital censorship of the cables has been conduct Now, however, that the game has been
with an eye to neutral suscen exposed, z the whole, the people have supported, sense, that they realize what things mean ibiition than with an eye to preventing get with that the United States fervently on the side of right left, through thick and thin-not by grgument but by a sense of goods from reaching the enemy.
the Alites,
would seem
as though the vigorous prosecution of the struggle reality hey know that thy has been too much of a political peene Blast, excuse- and been removed for not to a cage when it is a question of little of a belligerent censorship, and depriving, neutral Governments as well there have been peace partics, but never nerves, when it is a question of staying while the entry of the United States Lite neutral individuals of the ability to before in our history has the voice of power, and that by that staying power the war has immensely eased and sim work the cable services of the world to faction been so little heard as in the great we can win the victory, and in no other struggle in which we are now engaged way will the war come to a satisfactory plined the situation, there are still many
(Continued af Joot of next column.) conclusion. (Cheers).
(Continued at foot of next Column)
of the water in this
side
though
were a few aged British
was to be known about Germany's war the night life which before the war
trading methods. The names of time Riga, whoso infirmitica precluded
agents in Holland, removal, but nothing can be learned of and
the with which they ment in all the cities of the empire. their fate.
United States and Needless to say, the war has made a differ elsewhere, the disguises in which their ence in this respect even in Amsterdam, connection with Germany is wrapped up. where the delights of such entertainment ordering goods all this has been coas to the early extinction of electric light the tricks and false scents adopted in are now cut short by drastic regulations steret from car authorities and gas p
did busy mark, Norway semed to be the German, ideal of enjoy-|
not mean that we are ceasing, our own us in the greater that
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the outside of
the
I know of so previous way in
On all previous occasions, as indeed now,
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