THE ELIMINATION OF THE GERMAN FROM BRITAIN.
[BY WW TARN.]
A prominent personage in Vienna re- cently remarked that, after the war, it would be 5 years before Germans could return to London, and 15 yearn before they could return to Paris; but it would he 50 years before they could retura, te Vienna. It is an interesting indication of the light in which Prussia is regarded
by her vassale, who to day, without hope of benefit to themselves, are suffering for Prussia's ambitions and Prussia's crimes. Even the Kaiser, before the war, believed
TER - HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH, 1917.
THE ARTERIES OF VICTORY.
RAILWAYS PART IN WAR
George Stephenson, dreaming mighty dreams as he did on the social and economic revolution which was to follow his application of the steam engine to the permanent track, would nevertheless have been astounded at the colossal function of the railway in these years of unprecedent ed struggle.
ENSTICKING IT"
THE GERMAN CIVILIAN'S FINE
Britain
-I
FIGHT
U.S. NATIONAL UNITY
** LEAGUE,
A DECLARATION OF ITS PRINCIPLES
the President wid, are
Mansir thoughts on the
ueen
Quality Quee
REG. US PAT, OFF
SHOES
SUPERB DIGNITY AND CHARM.
[BY FREDERIO WILLIAM WILE]
American citizens who are discussing: Germany, according to Mr. Gerard, has
an early peace with Germany forget that 9,000,000 men under name on land and sea it would mean the crushing of the and in the air. Do people in Great democratic ideals for which the United. that the Ger- States always has stood. This was the realise sufficiently
the man army and navy are still able to offer keynote of an address before prodigious resistance to three-quarters of organizers of the League for National the world primarily because the Ger Unity by President Wilson, says a des man civilian army of 50,000,000 Bouls sia patch from Washington dated October But for the magnitude of our failway itself putting up a fight without parallel 28th: The speech was made at the White resources, unfitted oven as they were at
i do not the outset in certain respects for the to ventilato hereabouts. But victory of nations representing the FOOTWEAR OF
thar that is a populouse, and the President said that the only way to end the war was by completo prosecution of war, there would certainly it if the unescapable truth; nevertheless.
Ideale. be a different story to tell to-day of the The main reason why we have not beaten
Germany
is that at the back of her kol- inclined relative positions of the belligerents.
* home causes underlying the war wander into One of the many military disadvantages diors and sailors and airmen is a
which, despite increasing her ted States is at war is to defeat
and forget that the main reason BLACK, ALL KID LACE BOOTS, privations reveals a the war was the private ownership of rail-ships
I obeys the the existence of democracy urged, ways, A system of State owned railways tenacity of
They need to remember he
that not only allows the army authorities to short of suparhaiman. Ib work the railways for themselves in war motto which is now
in Germany is beaten and
the ASP. should end only when Germany rule of autocracy time without reference to any company halten ),
My optimistic friends prof
profess to
and might are
by the ideals but allows fines to be laid down and equipped in a standardised manner in
leve that however good an account ef of democracy itself German capacity for suffering has
the
Dow given, it is not exhaustible. They have persuaded themselves, indeed, that Gery many is breaking up or le about to do so. For three years and two months I have been restlessly on the look-out for satisfactory evidence of German defeat
that the worst thing which could happen under which Great Britain engaged in armyrmination that is nothing a Government which is threatening even
to a country was to be tied to his own State; the world has not forgotten how it chuckled when he threatened the Alsatians, if they did not behave to his liking, with incorporation with Prussia, and how Herr Schnidemann asked in the Reichsing if Prassia then was a House of Correction, and Forwärte called it "that
bratal country which thus openly con fesens its dishonour to the world."
peace time in accordance with military requirements
Stops had to be fakon, and had in fact been taken before the war, enabling the War Office to issue a warrant for the Government control of railways in the
Stick
supreme
The Presi
organization, team play by the thought and opinion.
the need of of American
Prussia, has accumulated a good deal more United Kingdom in the event of a Euro from within; and I am boundits say that repreters are to be in New
dishonour since then, and its brutalities pean crisis. The fact that our railways and it quite as andiscoverable to-day fts 1
NO RAILWAY UNIFORMITY.
Home
have become better known; and so long as Austrin is under Prussian domination, so long will she suffer, at second-hand," as the Vienna Sonn-und Montagezcilung put it, from the hatred which the world
Ger feels for Prussianised Germany. many as yet hardly realise what the world feels. Scheidemann, to-day a reconciled inmate in kis“ House of Correction" got the vision. He ought to visit Vienna spanies often could not be made up in the hola, and was considerably perturbed by
train; the width of rolling-stock and the well.
interval between up and down track frequently varied, junctions between different companies were few; and very few stations had adequate platform accommodation
ES
significance
al
a glimpse of it when he went to Stock the result that the stack of different com.sary." If may suggest it I do not the Bro Wilson master of the
Oliver
I have just read Sir Arthur Yepp's of The railways of the United Kingdom appeal at there has not been nearly to save food. He lacred conformity, since there were three
tells us that kinds of brake arrangements in use, with as much economy all round as is reces
think that the Prime Minister could lend the authority of his name at present to any more salutary movement than kan effort to make the people of these happy go-lucky islands understand the secrej, of Germany's ability to far to stave off defeat..
PRIVATION AND DEPRIVATION.
We take leave, however, to doubt the statement that Germans might return to London after 5 years. It will be very much longer than that. There are two facts here which it is well to bear firmly in mind. The first is that most of the These drawbacks were not, however, Bo subjects which bulk large in discussion at serious as they might otherwise have been andment questions of annexation since, owing to the enormous network of
questions whether this Fines, it was generally found possible to grips. We are told that the Navy by now Stephen S. Wise
the
statesman's words are a little nearer to that statenau's words or not; questions of what Socialists are doing, or whether if this or that were said peace would be a little nearer-do not touch the root of the matter at all. The root of the matter, at any rate as regards the Western Allies,
overcome any difficulty by selecting circuitous route
Moreover, since the beginning of the authorities, through the railway com panies, to remedy original shortcomings
We are told—and wo sincerely believe that our soldiers can, and do master
the
nd dinned into our ears the National Civic For President ef War, much has been done by the military we have we know it is truc, English Walling, economist and Socialist; what it always was-two different ways wherever it was needed reconstruction has that money, munitions, and · évery ↑ George Committee of 1
The league has been formed to lead and express public opinion on the war, and church, political, labour, and
ndustrial orga had been laid out without regard to
ever I believe that Mr. Lloyd The
character of the body is
indicated caused strategic considerations
George's long-sighted, admonition in the by the officers chosen. In addition to difficulties, as also did the great variety spring of 1915 that the Allies had more those named, the director is Ralph M. in the rolling-stors, but these were not to fear from Germany's potato-brend
chairman of the National Civic nearly of so much consequence to us as spirit than from Hindenburg s atraention the secretary is D. L. Cease, they would have been to a Continental never had more
Jour of the Railroad Trainmen's at this hour
the treasurer i Otto H.
Kahn, Power:
Loeb & Co chairman of the executive committee Beck, New York lawyer, is which includes Warren S. Stone, chief of
of Locomotive Engineers grange, Walter George Simth president American Bar Association; Vance Me Cormick and William R. Willeox, De mocratie and Republican nacional chair. men, respectively; Robert E. Speor, chair man of the Federal Council of Churches war commission: F. H. Callahan, chair- nan of the Knights of Columbus War activities committee; Alfred E. Marling, chairm Y.M.O.A international com the Germans every time they come to mittec;
ise of the no Free Bynagogue Mrs. Carrie means takes U-boat warfare lying down.
Catt president of the National Americaz We have been assured
red by developments Women Suffrage Association Emerson of this very week that London is not McMilliu, president of the World
Court quite helpless against German air
at Leagus Everitt
William Federation inie and again,
Peppertriotic and president of thinking and acting, the Western and been carried out, such as the laying of conceivable resource of war the sinews at
ther
disposa of the Allies are incom Defence Bocieties Dr. B. H. Gerard, the
and between additional railway sidings and the build-parably great in conflict,
thuse russian, are in.
greater than
which Ger-
Fraternal Congress, president National: many commande. E then there is a gulf which nothing caning of emergency platforms
and William H. Ingersoll of the National bridge; if one is right the other is wrong; Immediately upon the declaration of But we need a thoroughgoing campaign Association of Advertising Clubs they cannot coexist in the world; sooner war at midnight upon the 4th-5th of education, it seems to me as to the The object was stated as follows: or later, one of the two has got to 80 August, 1914, the Government assumed strategy and tactica which the Gorman To create a medium through which under, and we do not intend that it shall
The grim tha loyal Americans of all classes sec- be the Western one. And the second fact control of practically the whole of the civilian army is employing.
fact railways in Great Britain, under the fact is that, compared with the struggle tions, creeds and parties can give expres is this, that the bulk of the people in provisions of the Regulation of the Forces which German civilians are making, Bri-sion to the fundamental purpose of the Britain are not vocal, The upper class
Act of 1871. The only home railways un-tish civilian, do not know the meaning United States to carry on to a successful
of the may write, and Labour may find some
ind some affected were these in Ireland, & few light deprivation of superfuities. Sonce, of America, and the preservation
word..
The word they conclusión this now war for the indepen- expression through Its Unions;
know world of
Life in these islands, measured by the the middle classes neither lines, and the London Tube" system whole writes nor speaks. But it does things; Under the terms of the agreement made standards which have prevailed in Gor-indication of the basic principles of and to know what it thinks hust, two is humanity. watch what it does. It is rather likely ment acquired the right to the free con. It ought to be the ambition of a prople conference adopted the following
have the
last
word; no
no Government for veyance of all military and naval trame which counts common sense one of its declaration of principles :— has taken up an attitude of position to the mind of the great middle undertook to compansate the companies of 90,000,000 he solved the art of bearing for the principles upon which it was opposition mass of the British people. And what it for loss, by making up to them the amounting heartbreaking privations and to steel founded in an hour when free instito- is thinking to-day is that it is going to by which their aggregate not receipts its own heart to emulate it. If we lock tions and the hopes of humanity are at eliminate the German from Britain. It within the period for which the lines were into the unsung deedy that are being per-stakes we hold it the duty of every Ameri many not know much about the war philo- taken over fell short of their aggregate net formed, day in and day out, in German can to take his place on the sophy of Germany, or her theoretical receipts during a corresponding period homes at the outset of a fourth winter of public opinion. Weltunachanung; but, it has seen how the in the year immediately made up its mind from the facts before it. be put to a German, he probably "If this be replics: But you cannot do without us." But that is just what is going to be done. Many people have achieved in this war, and to dis impossibilities pense with Germany is a trife compared with what been already. We
18
to
go
Wharton
democratic
institutions
and
the
WHITE
SHORT VAMP, NEAT DRESSY TOE,
MEDIUM CUBAN HEEL
Price $20.00 Pair.
CANVAS BUTTON BOOT,
PLAIN VAMP, SOLID LEATHER HEEL.
Price $12.50 Pair.
PATENT LEATHER BUTTON BOOT
WITH BLACK CLOTH UPPERS.
SMART WALDORF HEEL
Price $15.50 Pair.
ween
SHOES
PATENT KID SHOE WITH WHITE KID
GOLOSH, PLAIN TOE, WALDORF HEEL. Price $17.00 Pair.
PATENT KID PUMP WITH BLACK
KID COLLAR, CUBAN HEEL.
Price $14.00 Pair.
BLACK KID PUMP SHOE WITH
SMART TONGUE AND BUCKLE
Price $16.00 Pair.
PLAIN BLACK SATIN SLIPPER Price $14.00 Pair.
with certain exceptions, and, in return dominant virtues to study how a nation In an hour when our nation is fight- WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
German.ucts, and after its habit, it had outbreak of war. Preceding the war, we shall probe the mystery of why
line of
It is not a time for the old our savagely efficient foe is still unor academic discussion as to
Past Special services, as the making of now beaten-Daily Mail.
ences. En
Those who ate not now for eidings and platforms and the execution.
America are against America
"Our cause is just We took up the of engineering and manufacturing work
sword only when international law and for naval and military requirements by
ancient rights Wero set a naught and A railway companies, fell outside the scope
when our forbearance had been exhausted.
and broken Price,
our purposes
not not has won done of code is cura
FACILIATING CONQUEST.
of the agreement and were to be paid. It was railway construction by the for separately by the Government, South African forces that facilitated the Thus railway companies were guar conquest South-West Africa,
CO., LTD.
20. DES VŒEUX ROAD, HONGKONG.
ANNUAL SALE.
NOTICE
[268
NY EUROPEAN, Non Asiatky or Indian * desiring to leave the Colony should
STATION between the hours of 8. ***, to 1 PM
Applicant will be required to producm Passports of
or identification papers persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for tore than 7 day
Bare Opportunity for Becaring Generat Bargains at Enormous Reduction in Brabecte deception
Ma D. CHELLARAM offers his entire face the net de300, pianie the country anding of German Sunstrosios dhe pledges, sins are explicit, ing pingpoon Blockio-hooo sa Brostal Silk Pain tions; they require separate discussion. has benefited since, under a system of has rendered possible the success of recent unsullied by any selfishness. We defend Corded and Brocaded Crepes Satin Si A But we may indicate the driving force.
State control, the factor of competition operations in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, and the sanctities of life the fundamental Sweaters, For Scarfs, Silk Wrappers, Evening last March in the s-sliminated, and a considerable saving in East Africa, Severi poredad deconeies of civilization. Wo Bght for Coast, Geld Jewellery and Carius: engly the person to the OxyrIAL POLICE balanselger by
Herr Stielow the
in the cost of running the railways and miles of railways have been laid in the just and durable peace and that the rule kinds at Greatly Reduced Prices for a few and spa. 10 6 Faz daily.
days only of the London respondent on or the pooling of resources has been thereby Binal desert with the help of native manity of nations to the com ho ho desire to buy Yinas and New paper, who lamented the
rendered possible.
Egyptian labour, while for Mesopotamia Germanism in England," which he com
and East Africa the necessary material In this crisis the unity of the Ameri Year Presents will find this an unique pared to the exodus of Israel from Egypt,
and personnel have been mainly derived care peolpe must not be impaired by the portunity for Securing Rare Articles at and so forth. He said that, whatever
voices of dissension or sedition, Bargain Prices.
for premature peace a Prior to the way a two-fold problem from our Indian Empire, understo might be the situation of Germans in
D. CHELLARAM, Te average tonnage passing in the
when England after the war, it is already bad been worked out ready to put into
object is to weaken the certain that the whole mighty structure of Gormaniam, which Germans built ap (1) The mobilisation of the forces of Mesopotamia already reaches Ave figures through to a conclusive vindication of the
centuries of cultural work p
an the Crown including the concentration of In Sinai the line from BI Kantara sest principles for which we have taken arms. the Territorial Force and Special Reserve ward has in the course of six months, The war we are waging is & war with apparently hospitable land,
must not honey, has been destroyed in at their war stations pleas been extended, and the goods traffic pass again war, and its sacrifices the foundations It was a hospitable (The transfer to the Continent of ing over it has, in the same period, nullified by any truce or
for and all the deeper is its anger at the abuse of its hospitality. But what we infantry divisions and one cavalry divi-importance in all the theatres of opera: President not to negotiate a peace with
While railways have
been
of primary Want to notice is that Stielow, after sion of the Regular Armyeing done with tions, it is necessarily in France that
activities of With a view to this being economic
and
land,
enumerating
**
A SCHEME READY,
execution the moment war was declared course of a week over railway lines in of America to see the war
means
no
an Expeditionary Force.comprising six increased nearly three-fold the enemy than a bree that
gopell
手
S
JEWELLERY AND Drapery Srom. 38-40, Queen's Road, Central HONGKONG.
[test
love in the wise purpose of the VEGETABLE AND
FLOWER SEEDS.
***** We believe
approve the action of the
Germania in asted" How will the utmost rapidity. Command time their development has been most extensive and autocratie
the
Enormous provision of railway stores and
England fill their places? The answer tables and Expeditionary Force time to that may be found in a sentence of eminent Fre Levy: We accept the rule of economie
French economist, M. R cables, and in fact all details relating to Plant for use in France has been made onary force to the indi
A fogared to Register tomised von under the REGISTRATION of FERSONE URDINANCE ICE, ENSON
Forma of Registration giving the pa ciculars required may be obtained. At the G.P.0, and at ali Police Stationa, PA
The Penalty for non-compliance, is a floa sot exceeding $50.
THRI
PENINSULAR
ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION 00.
AND
FRESH CROP of 1917 having
been just collected orders STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON,
in despatching Fayette and
of the three years of war. The task fight the enemy
F Jaxx so long is more powerful motives the out by the Staff in the af Steering stores has been entrusted to
years before the war, in conjunction with States Branch originally in the Move on Foreign soil, shoulder to shoulder with in Britain the getteral managers of British rollways ments Directorate and now in the Brit comrades in arms, or we fight our our own soil, backs against our homes, and alone. have a more powerful motive than the
the There tables were periodically revised ways and Roads Directorate at the War While this war lasts the causes of the who have
Allics is our cause their defeat our solicited for Autumn or early defeat and concert of
of action and unity spirit between
tween them and as is
Spring sowing.
do not with
economic, supplied by the actions of a
Wation. We are not thoroughly familiar with the details con through the Ministry of Munitions and
hat we do not y
not propose to give
not
mittee,
tained in them. The moves contained through the Railway Executive Com
in about them were grouped into two periods; a Permanent-way and other railway the exaggeration of old national pre ргорове to forget
to final victory we, therefore, da And, over and above this, we do precautionary period before the issue of
allotted to certain ports to be moved to delivered in very large quantities for use paganda and nothing is more important. espionage or economic. We do not suppose their stations, and bridges and other in the advanced areas and on the French than the clear miderstanding that those that every German was an agent of his vulnerable points on important railway railways forming the lines of communies. who in this crisis attack our present. Alljes Government; but we do know, on their lines were to be put under the protection of locomotives for use bot on broad and We are organi
tion, Miles of railway track, hundreds attack Americanized in the interests of own showing, that it was impossible to of the police and of Territorial teroops, be sure that sny particular German was and, following upon this, a war period -
narrow gauge railways, and tons of thou-national accord Herr von Puttkamer. German
of again mang the oppor orders to mobilise, in which detachment material plant and tools have been indices often stimulated by German pro
tunity for
After Austria had declared war upon ads of wagons are already available or any previous Tuses high above Minister of the Interior, taught usSerbia, in the last week of July, 10 stream into Frange. We believe that this is the critical and
to
wrote, On the 2nd Anguet it was decided half of the heavy locomotives have been generations. The perii Ig greet and
to
de
division of party race are on their way, pouring in steady creed and circumstance much in his instructions issued to German instructions were issued for carrying out About ball of the wagons and more than tion. To lose now is to lose for many agents in January 1914. It is neces the measures of the Precautionary period.
ban inteful hour for America and for civiliza sary for our agents, inspire confidence in circles whers
they stop the training camps to which the result of the restrictions placed upon fest comes to us through any weakness
obtained from British railways" as tho
our highest endeavours. If de have their cent of the outward agus of Territorials wel. On the 4th August travel Assistance had also been sagdane Germany whose purposed, might d that confidence an ordinary middle-class rxistence of sent chiefly by roil. deed, by a well-placed munificence, and mur Government delivered its ultimatum by the Dominions, and much rolling stock by making their way into fall Finds of to Germany. At e quarter to twelve that has been really constructed in all way to herself, as a magnet does the filings societies, they must acquire such a strong might bis Majesty's Government declared workshops in this country for use on the the adnum of world power, and this
would affect social position that, as far as their war upon Germany, and at endnight it Continental railway systems. Hospital
the inde affect the standing and Locality is concerned, each may be well took over control of the railways of Great trains and armoured trains have been pendence of America.
not only accepty but heartily received everywhere and highly thought Britain August 5th became the first day built special insulated trucks have been of in all quarters, and may be thus always of mobilisation..
provided for the carriage of meat and approve, the decision reached by the special railway mountings for beszy siege
and Congrees of the United in a position to give us useful informa
artillery-Glasgow Daily Record
Continued at frot of neat colunur) tion on all points.
Costinued at foot of neet Volkua.)
Are Low revealed, draw
List will be mailed free on spplication,
BOMBAY EGYPT, MEDITER- RANEAN PORTS ND LONDON
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED TO | BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL, **ANU SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY HE Homeward Hall Steamer carring
Co., LTD.,
P.O. Box 72,
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
11108
Elis blajesty's Malls, will be despantobed fruin this part sa maus), eling Fassenge and Cargo for the above Rača, Pastra, pers" GOVORILOCATION
nuon in the connecting: vrem! cured before departure from Hongkong. Ear and Valuable Cargo fit fuly, France and Lendon (under stengement will be conveyed by this Steamel - proonacting to Hombay, and there transhipped to the
merrying Steamer for 1 Marseilles and
London.
Se the
States to declare war against the common and valgo enemy of the free nations, and as loval citizens of the United States we pledge | soply so to the President nd the Government our undivided support to the very end.”
lbs received the Ones until to the contents
ED. PAKE
Superintendent.