OUR LONDON LETTER. PEACE TALK AT HOME AND
ABROAD,
"WHAT ABOUT BELGIUMP
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST. 1917.
THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA.
300,000 VICTIMS
MODERN BRITISH INFANTRY
WORK
MASTERS AND MEN FROM THE WHITE SQUAD POINT |-
OF VIEW
[BY ONLOOKER.)
THE MACHINE GUN CORPS.
The terrible conditions that prevail in the Holy Land as a result of the Turkish No one attempts of deny that there are, Germany alone among the nations ap domination are graphically described in
and have been, unscrupulous employers cial recently returned from Syria Limost deserve the irritating treatment top of those lessons were the great value the following article by an American As a matter of fact, employers as a class Precated and scientifically appled the leseops of the Russo-Japanese Wary and which they are so often subjected now of curved heavy artillery fire on the
days by their workere
On the other hand, there were con siderato masters, whose relations with
ON October 1st LONDON Ever since the proposed Pence Confer ence at Stockholm which failed 10 materalise. and the Pope's Note to ell the helligerents, the talk about peace has been incessant. The Germans have
ilised all sorts of agencies to keep these
The Holy Land today is land of desolation and death Starvation and disease have the depleted population in their grip Palestine and Syria, the cradle of Christianity, are little else than
but to
sit and await the
battlefield and the enormous power of the machine kun Instance after instance
occurred from Nanshan in 1804, where,
WEATHER REPORT.
November 20th at 11.15/-No returns from Jayan and Vladivostock. Proartre bad in aressed slightly to moderately at all stations reporting. An soil-arelome of moderate Intensity covetr Chins; the relativly low nepa romains over the
Chiep So
**String monroos will prevail along the
China comt and over the N. Olins Se
Hongkong rainbill for 36 hours endien a 10 13 to-day, 000 inch Total since lat January, 60.34 Inches, against an average ar
The fo monet for the 34 brace coding at soos
well to the front. Mock discus chota tomb, where the victim, have uo their employes were almost ideal and thanks to theiceMaxime, 3,000 badly led sions are enrried on in the German Press of death, which in such a breach one often wishce the good old days di Russians with 90 field guns held up 35,000 bowday is sa followen pas ?
in which the views of the Government often a welcome release.hecatomb i
is such relations could be restored,
Exactly the same conditions prevail to day, but with the positions reversed. The men are now organised and led by their officials, and there are officials and officials per
women children, is slowly
FORNOANT.
NEwinds, tresh turing fine.
Northerly ga e
(The mise se
The population, which now it only starving. Already about 80 per cent of thom have died a result of the appal ling conditions, and unless relief in some form comes to the land the remaining 30 The reasonable men among the men's per cent, will follow the same path in leaders are those who recognise that there the Lebanon district alone some 200,000 are two sides to evers question, that both have starved
Hongkong and Lamooxs No and in Damascus 120,000 master and men have duties as well as have
Farmona Channel
South Coast of China between
may be discerned, and statements front. tributed to this and to that German statesman and circulated in neutral countries, presumably with the object of testing deal of this organised talk
A great
has been regularly published in the English newspapers in the form
nasordinary items of in of extracts or telligence; indeed, the space devoted to have died from famine and disease rights, and that bargains are bargains ment to a British battalion in 1814 andrés Confit of China between † The name Ma
in it amounts to a column or more daily in the chief organs of public opinion. But the ordinary reader is absolutely
the soldiers ldicin uld say, he subject,
It is palpably a dodge of to create an the rulers fourable to the diseus habitants set a guard to prevent anyone protect it from the exploitation of the energence as a vast military Power.
atmosphere sion of peace. They want peate badly, and so they are trying by all the arts
be
loyally observed, otherwise agreement is impossible. It seems to the that such men, in the midst of modern Labour unrest, deserve the sympathy every moderate man to their efforts to steady the Labour, rank and file, and irresponsible extremist
Hongkong and Ham No BA
Jupancee and 198 guna all day to Mukden, of the annihilating effect of its fire
DiariCT Both sides largely added to their arma- ment during hostilities and at the close Hongkong to Gap Rook Japan possessed 620 machine-gung he against 80 at the beginning Germany immediately set herself to provision har infantry liberally with this effective weapon, and by 1909 every Gernian bat talion had 6 machine guns. The nilet
för long after was only two. Yet, despite Germany a great advantage in the start, the British Machine-gud Service is to-day the finest in the world. It is one more HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS phase of the great miracle of Britain's
At the beginning of the War, as has For there is n large body of the bera said, a British buttalion possessed agitator element whose activities are just two Maxime only, organised in a section. brand of employer that ever oppressed talion, but the necessities of trench war Passing from village to village the the worker. They are the men who fare forced battalions relieved from the adopt the eternally aggressive, continually front line to leave their Haxing behind deserted, where the families have been to imagine that they must dictate to the Gradually all the machine guns of a traveller sees a great number of houses hostile attitude to all authority, who seem for the benefit of the relieving troops.. completely wiped HE CHANCELLOP
but
Dead bodies lit master exactly what he may und may not brigade came to remain in the battle line clever in its way, and unburied and rotting in the streets, do in all circumstances, and that even for the whole duration of the brigade's Very
is being giving rise to a nauseating odour and when the men are perfectly satisfied, they turn in action. They developed prac propaganda
In spite of the here and there wormen and children are are not earning their pay unless they aretically into a unit under the Brigade
be seen camping in anything 10 hopelessness of achieving
It is a common sight to find the
must Syrians and searching the garbage heaps that litter street orange-pes! any o other refuse with which to allay the pangs of hunger, and to see them gonwing greedily at 6thy bones. In some districts the in- stealing the grass and weeds, which, when procurable, serve as lood But last year parts of the land stripping the from the trees and consuming
of which they are capable to get the plague of locusts settled over
peoples of countries at war to believe that
A NEW GODE
Now local and non-loca) storm will be introduced signals
the timens arrived for the beginning from the soil or objectionable as those of the worst These were an integral part of the bat Hongkong on July fr in place-0.
of peace negotiations. But of course it is a pears such as Germany desires, in which the status quo ante must be accept ed
at the outset, THE SILENCE OF THE
It is all
German. vory conducted
utter
The
thoroughly
the
the old Local Code and the China Couri
Orde
The principal change in the Local Code is that the new signals will show the direction from which the gals is expected, bereas the old signals showed the posi-
that could satisfy the needs and wishes naked and famished places, discovering some new cause for dissension Machine-gun Officer and their fire wation of the typhoon. The latter: wil
of Berlin. From first to inst there is one important omission in the proposals and arguments that ars at present canvassed
that
In D FOR FEW BRILLINGS.
districts one may buy a
child
were.
BEER BIGHTS
Such
@DAY: BIGWALA.
paration will be made for the barbarous only food to be I have stared to one of this type (and the Vickers, which was gradually re- Sional, Symbol, Zleaning.
Leeds
German
it will not do, for there are the
ads of
dogs
that is within the
to
duties
no
Morthe (MW. to N.E).
Inverted-Gelo ergicted from the
South (1)E. to B. W
Bast (NE to 8.5)**
BUTS AND DUTIES methodically co-ordinated and controlled
The introduction of Lewis guns, while indicated, se herstofure, by the non-locai for a few shillings, so desperate in the are the man who rouse the ire of providing a more useful strictly infantry siguals The new Local Ends is given
weapon, made it possible to supplant the below : in the Press throughout Europe There plight of the parents. In and around is no muation of Belgium, no hint that the town of Junich, Syria, which had a case of public irritation with most machine gun section of the battalion by
Labour upheavals.
Lewis gun detachments. The Maxim at is intended by Germany to evacuate population of about
5.000 nnburied dead 10,000, there T And no suggestion that Country
Almost the
is recently, and an analysis of his utterances placing it) ceased to be a battalion wen- 1,5-2ød coua-a. typhoon aziste which of brought one to the conclusion that the non By a bold step in organisation,
Day" possibly canssa. wrongs she has suffered at the hands the Hung,
gale at Hongkong with. and Wilson h only a fest who can afford to pay the workers, indeed, cách individual worker which placed us ahead of all rivals, a exorbitant price demanded Meat is an had the right, on a working man, to do Machine-gun Corps was formed. This
in 54 hours. The Pope and put this question is the German Govern almost unknown, luxury While they exactly as pleased him: The right to corps was divided into four sections. In-
lasted Within the last few days Mr. Asquith hos warding off cats were, the means of work, the right to strike the right to a lantry, Cavalry, Motor, and Heavy. Th—Black code. Gale exported from the ment in precise and definite terms.
for a few the
spectre living wage, and a thousand other tights Cavalry branch is armed with Vickers-
Si Within the last few days ith his famine, but, this soures of supply had rights all the times libwtice to insist guns and Moler Machine gun has 1-Black come
and precision. What of long been
| Vickers on a side-car motor-bicycle. The usual bre he said last week at a meet the valleys of Syria, is at a standstillsided and elastie. There are Tank section. The Infantry branch 4-Black drum, -Geis sxpected from the
Husbandry, where it was practicable in upon, and scarcely a word about duties
where it was practicable in Such ideas of right and liberty Heavy Branch is the world famous Belgium1 ingate this issue of Lry to fob the for there is nobody to till and sow the as well as rights on both pides: n is organised in comparies of Vickers guns
but ground and the magnificent orange If the master of former times. t of groves of Palestine, the growth of cen right best
“swent”? hiu
of modern days the Maxim with a similar action gave that reasons for knowing that the military turies, which would have been a valuable Trade Union official, no more have practically the same in appearance as B1-4 ball.--Gale, ospicion Tràm the top. Admiral von Tirpitz source of food supply, have been felled right to prevent deborately the producit is reversed). One company, divided-Double cous-Gala arposted to in
by the Turks for military purposes tion of a fair output, If a man can, by into sections with two officers to the scen blurted out the other day It must In the wake of starvation followed dis reasonable effort, produce more than an tion, is attached as a distinct unit 7-Black cross-Wind of typhoon fores
ease. Cholera typhus,
no bar other man
ought to be placed cele infantry brigade, and the Officer
expected (any the extra minanding the company remains in clee
trony: Signal No. 7 will be sccompanied To learn that, a These epidemics carry out their ravages
a worker can, without
brigade. No other Army has produced, for there are practically no sweating over it, produce the Trude such a complete specialisation and no three explosive bombs Broda unchecked, for said Mr. Hour Tale doctors in the country, many baving been Union quota of work in an hour or two other has achieved such results. It is the of 10 seconds at the ster Pollos Btäti
bours less than the working day, and infantry branch that we have here to the military authorities; faway by
rest have died, victimg of the diseases then loal the rest
away
even amuse him sider. The terrible plight of the country is of the
the time an absurd iden
The ca-canny in comparison with that. Peace talk the nation of deliberate aim at the ex-policy is an obstacle to natural progress, the principles of Lewis guth Art and the
question För a minimum a wago
and employment of the Vickers The Lawis
·will: on from now until the end of termination of all who are not of Tur-
go the war we can trust Berlin to zes to estimated at about 3 milions, compared delling, I go in favour of a minimumable for short bursts of very intense fire kish stock. The pre-war population was of a standard wage also requires remo- is a very mobile infantry weapon, suit- that-bat the fact we have to keep fixed of Jews, Byrians and Arabs, but it is wage provided that a lazy worker is It is dificult to use at night since it Blackh in our minds that the war must con- doubtful if tinue until the Germans recognise that amounts to anything like half that nur should be accompanied by minimum provided with a mounting it cannot be
the population.
into-day renalised for slackness. Miriam wage cannot be laid on a target Not being
party is atili
41
that has been
done
tetantis
at once stated quite clearly that I read with turrible panidity carrying upon him, and he is entitled touch with the General Commanning that
Cha By Me have a long
not wrong but
in Belgium
way to go
zim
Germany are forced to atone
Your aim
few days ago speaking, at Luncheon, Club,
Our
Law: a
kind of
10
justice which 18 that the out to they so nobly fought in other Erkek salt Worker's sight
Germany bus ineted Belgium shall be in fatures impossible upon this planet. Nothing else
matters
ber,
the hy outside re Many forts have been made
amount of work.
STANDARD WAGE MOT EQUITABLA
the way to pesce lies through Belgium bars way in which the regaining NAMING THE REGIMENTS A
There has been welcome new depare only way in ture in the British official reports of population can be saved is late. For the first time since the begin American and British relief funds to It means that a conscientious and clever The standard wage is not equitable ning of the war the names of Englis carry aid to the wretched people, but the workman, or one who, by nature, is fitted county regiments and other home unite who have specially distinguished them in on many available has so far to produce more than the average man selves are being mentioned.
compared with the is
Even if call it his good
you
Ever since need.
It is important to difierentiate between
used for indirect fire. The Vickers, on the the other hand, la less mobile when in
seconds to mount, load and lay the gun. premie action, requiring two men to carry the gun and tripod and demanding some 35 Comp Onds in action, however, it is scarcely more conspicuous than the Lewis guitif Lai
Green Island
on the premises of
owloon Whert Ken Kowloon the
of the Standard Oil
been dubtedly the distressing stateroward prevented from reaping his can sustain its fire almost indefinitely so Field Offe the far-off days of the Marne the author of the Holy Land constitutes an ng Las the right to benefit from Long as there is water in the jacket which here honour was duc, but or throughout the world. It is to be hoped benefit becae Lauder has the right to encloses the barrel. It can be laid on a
Harry
tandard wage and the limited QVARNA number of them can be combined tol
ties have been urged to give honor claim and a challenge to Christians
his personality OF reason which has never been satisfactorily
parti mark and kept ready for Instant action. explained this appeal was vain Great the British armies at Gaza will soon be cular brand of Humour attract the public It can be effectively traversed and con dreds have been done many times, but in such a position as greatly to facilitate more than that of another and probably trolled. It can be used for indirect or over- Bigmous cleverer man. This right danied by the head fire. It can search reverse alopes, people at home have not heard of them the work of relief. But the public are now, beginning to
a need for smaller notes for currency APIE
In Searn that it was the London regimente.
the
create a barrage which is perhaps the only same way it is the or the Suffolks, or the Durhams that purposes, and also that if such notes were right to get an adequate return for the barrage that an enemy cannot slip carried difficult post and crumpled introduced they would be a success. worker's wage. Let there be a decent through. up the Huns to the cast of Ypres or the MORE ATE RAIDS minimum wage fixed so that no me. The vital principal of the use of the
The series of on get keep him, but otherto the troops who have figuvert uoroplanes during to Leadon by hostale mey E paid thereafter spring or they machine-gun is a correct appreciation of British Headquarters in France were as herees in the brick reports sent from again brought up the question of reproduce, and there will be an incentive
the Liza
some
notice
Other
have not a word of protest to send makes men
to pay the
English
on the tower of the Railway H&M.8. Tamor, and on the
Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by
the information com
prisals on German towns. On this oces for then to work well and union, and gently it.10 in enfilade that it gives by the same agnikation as the day signale.
the nature of its Gre. Its bullets fall in bilingly, a very long and narrow cons, fonte means stagnation, Canadians and Australians, and some- sion times one or two the more picturesque
bishops are silent, and the pro. Standardisatie servants-workers far the most deadly resulta A group of loafers when machine-guns firing with combined sights, posal while the masters look on, regiments like the Black Watch The to the Teas Bince the Pas his back is turned it in immoral and ey aimed so that the target of one gun explosive bombs as above, in 189 STAR) of London Sectfish, or the Guards. The was first
for the degrading. Limitation of output is as in continuation of the target of the English, Welsh,, and Irish seximenish back made
might just well have been in
as
in slaughter of own
rights of great depth up a valley, for instance, part of the world for all the ren, ble op
public
repron has hardened on the Agitators who Was taken their prowess subje** reprisals As
previous and duties or advise men to do so are But it is in forming a band of fire *** in the hold my 2014
counsels arely pointed out the military reply to all gulite of a crime against the Common Across the front of an eveny that the prevailing is a
mention of parti aneh temands in that reprisals are being wealth, and should be sternly penalised meshine-gun exhibit, its full power tas cular regimentsi
after a
only
aly the carried out every day on points of mili 4 criminals Masters who exploit Nothing can pass that land of fire
held crimina plication of the public school on the importance behind the German lines workers should be bible, just and life. Therefore machine-guns in the
hold that it The schoolboy plays, for his house or and Flanders. But the average
his side. The soldier fights for the Englishman wants something more. He law, to have courts of equity established, trench-line are nearly always mounted in honour of his country is a matter of wants to let the German civil population composed of masters and men, to decide emplacements that are protected and blind directly towards the enemy, would grant duty but it is the claim upon him for three years in our homes by order of to then executive power such as ordinare with a loophole that looks diagonally to
experience what we have had to endure all such. questions; and I the military clique in Germany
judges have to interpret the law and cross No Man's Land. In open, warfare from what I am able to other the justice, and impose penalties. Such is tank positions are always sought for
almost The enormous value of the machine gun am convinced,
operates in defence is a commonplace sippe 1014 But in assault it is not less an all-import-
"Women, and child. nations honest, will, however, give a “beaten zone being. Iru
the honour of his regiment, his battalion." his company, that calls forth his
amalities as a fighter on thing that prevents a policy of reavstemem strike
TOKENS FOR COOLIE LABOUR.
nest
prisals on towns beyond the Rhino ut abolish the z
present is that all available machines are against the
40 part in
In connection with the suggested issue
of small note for India I heard the other
quarrel
W
Chimehel city of the plan which has been employed on bombing ammunition 2 ALA8ters, whether the capitalist for the weapon, affering.. great possibilities.
other
to tactical skill, The next article will
shopted by a group of Indian tea estates and neodromes in the theatre of wax in the nature of things cadeavour to illustrate its employment in to surmount the currency difficulty. It and there are not sufficient
icient seroplanes is stated that the realtis in every way to detach for the er business. For one Always exist on the one side, workers on a typical grand attack such as those. satisfactory, and it is certainly decid
decided raid by the enemy on London we are able the other; and, as long no we tolerate the the Somme or in Artvin
who interesting in the case of any com with an equal number of machines to professional irresponsible agitator, munity where coolie labour
It carry out three or four raids on his miliis against wil authority, to sow the seeds
day nopears
of tary works and stores and drop at least of discord, so long will the to the aortage Elver coins too in question invented a system of private That is a true military policy. It in-
token:
to
that management of the estates twice as many bombs in the same time harmonious co-operation be denged S
ide to
LABOUR AND LIBERTY.
How much liberty Leader Burning with toe.
of Labour backed
eventually enters the
Jaboins for paying wages to the flicts a maximum of; damage: upon the
The Locat bazaar
undertook enemy for a minimum of risk on our One last word about Liberty funds, he enters to accept these tokens from natives in part,
other requi
Ats the Birements axchngs for food nad
emotient it would be working element in the ranks of organised the company agreeing to redeem the pretend that we possess a great superiority zokens on demand in coin of the realm, of serolpanes and Bates, or drafts on the Presidency but every week that
approaching when
The scheme has been completely succes position. ful, so much so in fact that the tokens only to conti
have become a kind, of local currency,
tioned but to enga
while their redemption is not in general tacks with German town demanded in coin, but in the shape
Botes or a cheque on the leading marketi
Thousands
ves are emplo
the oomomy that
in the use of gold and
being cite
there
with other interests, he has a right to
as a sincere man to lea sane paths But the minute
according to the traitor to the work natherna.
CUTLER PALMER & CO:S
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KASY TO TARK
CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY.
A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEL OF
ABSORBING INTEREST,
By CHAS J HALCOMBE.
Formerly of the Imperial Chinta, Cuc
Service Author of The Mystio
Flowery Lead, etc.
HE VOLUME, which consists of 488
and includes a Sketch Pla cal interest showing the dispost- orces at the battle of Ewei to Bit, RostET HART
and Dr. A. RESIL
Intion of Chinees
Buperstitions, com
(Continued of fost of