LOOK AT THE MAP. DON'T WASTE TIME IN PEACE TALK.
[BY
Y LOVAT, FRASER,
Germany is trying to talk to the Allie about ponce, but this is no time for us
to talk to Germans about anything.
at the map. Look
No man or woman in the land wante ****** this devastating war to lasta eisgle day longer than is necessary; bat penco talk now would assuredly mean that the blood of our best and bravest would have been shed in vain.
Germany would come to the conference table day with the arrogant bearing of a conqueror. She would seek to impose torms. She holds whole kingdoma in her grip, whereas not an inch of German soil in Europe is in the hands of the Allies..
On the map the Kaiser bestrides the Continent. His fists grasp the twin keys of Antwerp and Constantinople. It is the map which will tell as to peace con ference. Ministers in this country, all the experts, all the people who have the habit of seeing just what they wish to to the skies that seo, keep on shouting The statement is
Germany is beaten," The misleading. In the sense in which a great chess player can look twenty moves ahead, was beaten almost before a shot GradShe was beaten from the mu Was ment Great Britain drew the sword, be
once clear, and has been cause it was at once clear ever since, that she could not pos sibly win. But while she holds the Allies up on both main fronts, and while she can compel us to fight half a year for mile or two of Belgium, she is not beaten to a degree which makes the slightest whisper of peace talk possible.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5ta, 1017.
AUSTRIAN DREAM OF PEACE COUNT CZERNIN ON WAR AIMS
According to a telegram frem Buda pest, at a dinner given recently by the Hungarian Premier in honour of Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, the latter, replying to words of
welcome and an invitation to make a state-
AIR REPRISALS.
GERMAN PRESS VIEWS.
That the German authorities are taking seriously the British threat of gir raille as reprisals for the Huns murder expe
Pre ditions is shown by the measures
comes.
already brought into operation, to a correspondent of the Day Telegraph from Rote the Dutch Enstero Rotterdam. For exam
frontier
places on the German side tho
round each have penetraten
ment on foreign policy, said in the coursed that
of his speech¦- ́"
I feel compelled to-day to say so thing in public as to the Austra Hungarian Government's idens as regards the restoration of European relationships which have been completely shattered In broad outlines our programme for the re establishment of order in the world (which might more accurately be described as the construction of a new order in the world) has been laid down in our reply to the Peace Note of our Holy Father. The only consideration to-day, therefore, is to complete this programme, and above all, to explain the considerations which deter mined us to set up these principles in opposition to the system bitherto prevail ing. go
Europe must without doubt after this war he placed on a new basis of right, This offering a guarantee of permanence. basis of right, I believe, must essentially be fourfold: first, it must offer a excurity that a war of revenge cannot occur again on any side. We wish to achieve so much that we may be able to bequeath to our children's children as a legacy that they may be spared the terrors of a terrible time such as we are now passing through No shifting of power among the belliger ent States can attain this end. The only way to attain it is that mentioned namely, by international disarmament and by the recognition of arbitration
It is superfluous to state that this measure of disarmament must never be directed against any particular State or any particular group of Powers, and that it must of course comprise the land, sea, and air in the game degree. But war as an instrument of policy must be com bated. On an international basis under
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police seeing thabitants:
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of light punishroent has been established for those outside their homes A severe code
guilty of slightest carelessness in this respect. Londoners will probably be to learn the details of the interested • to arrangements with regard to warnings, taking shelter, and so on, which have been made in the large towns liable to the Allies' attacks. The following are the official regulations in force in Cologne
As soon as reports have been received of an attack upon Calogue being attempted the population will be worned by atdam sirens and rocket signale. The latter will be fred off from the ground and exploded
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sound like gunfire. The defence a height of about 1,3001t. in the air formations will come into action as enemy flyers have entered the MOS
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which they can be reached. The with simultaneous detonations then noted in the air will be those of exploding
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TRADE RESEARCH
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What Private Enterprise has Accomplished
THE COMMERCIAL, or Trade
Research, Section of The New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer of China (Section VI), has been described as a remarkable achievement. While this section would stand complete by itself, it has been compiled with a view to cross-reference with the other sections
of the work dealing with China's trade.
The whole foreign and domestic trade. of Chins, from the carliest days of inter- conse
between foreignors and Chinese, has been skilfully worked up into readily accessible and readable form, with com parative comment, so that there is presented a complete and reliable record of China's great expansive commercial growth,
diately from the aircraft defances.OPE diately flying attack slasms have been
is necessary
that the population should seek shelter in their houses in order protect themselves against falling splinters of shells. The town will, as for as-
when is wrong be darkened. It alarm is given to make any light in the houses, as therewith the mea darkening are immediately spoiled.
by falling song, have often been wounded splinters when they have gone out into the open from curiosity during an attack. It is necessary for their own safety that all remain in their houses, and that persons who are in the streets at the time should. The review from the time of the immediately seek shalter in houses.
opening of the "Cinque Ports" (Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai, opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1843), down to date is as thorongh as
They would say international control universal, equal, used as a base for user refused to could be done. It is possible, therefore,
Can you conceive what the Kaiser's plenipotentiaries would any if an armistice were declared to-morrow 1 His spokcemen ering, and whine a little in the Reichstag just now in order to drive us, but their demeanour would change in an instant if we were foolish enough to direct our guns
fring their bands.
They have trump cards
Beaten The mere suggestion is culous. Why we have won! You only talk about peace because you consented to could fight no longer. You have been fighting beyond Ypres on the very ground The where you fought three years ago, French line in front of Verdun is not where it was in January, 1016. says she wants back Alsace and Lorraine. We won them with the smords has the been able to win them back with The word? You talk of reconstituting Have you recovered a yard of Serbia. Haly sunts Trieste and the
even
The Pan-Germans have seized gleefully. on the semi-official Wolff communique,, which has been widely circulated at home as well as abroad, referring to the future danger of an independent Belgian being attacks against Western Germany Ford and gradual disarmament of all the States of the world must take place and publish this in effect, Pan German For showing this indepen the defensive force limited to what is dence it has been furiously
declaration
attacked By absolutely necessary,
the Annexationist Press. Says the Toy It is a great mistake to believe that the fiche Rundschau" nt the co
such attack world after this war will begin where it left off in 1914. Catastrophes such as this war do not pass away without leaving deep traces behind, and the most terribic misfortune that could befail us would be if the competition an armaments were to continue after the conclusion of peace; for it would mean economic ruin for
Them? Then why did she not conquer Statesma
years you
Your
talk of Poland and Western This war has taught us that we must Russia is absurd. Poland has disappear reckon on a great increase of former ed. How can you claim to settle the
armaments. In order after this war, future of Constantinople when you could with unrestricted rivalry in armaments, say you have benten us in Belgium. Then to be adequately equipped, the notions not advance five miles towards it! You
would have to multiply everything by 10. why didn't you turn the of the Belgian They would need: 10 times as many guns,
We have invaded. immense renunition factories, ships, and submarines and giona
in three
have not wrested from us much more than the arca as before, and also incomparably more of a a single English country. We are the ldiers to man all this apparatus. The victors, and the solid proof that we are military estimates of all the Great Powers unbeaten lies in the ground we continue would amount to milliards. That is im- to hold, although the whole world is ar possible. With all the burdens which all rayed against us."
the belligerent States after the conclusion of peace would have to bear, this expendi. *
ture, I repeat, would mean the ruin of nations.
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Of course this would not be a true and balanced picture of the situation, but it is just the picture with which Germany would confront us if a peace conference
These considera were summoned now.. tions shatter the nonsensical contention of the experts that we do not want to wist Until we have recovered the lost territories of the Allies, until we have stripped Germany of her conquests, Xe are suppliants.
What are our troons
LASTOMA
British
In
our hand
order to
to use this section not only as a ready reference, but to follow the growth of 1 race in any direction and to gather data bearing upon any phase of trade- and these figures, in some instances, go far back into a period that is now almost forgotten
This Section, moreover, is so ordered and co-ordinated--having also its own separate index-that the busy man in
quick need of accurate information may
We have never
never conces ed our opinion that so-called guarantees would only afford ap parent de urity. The only way for the to have the certainty that we are enfe from attack through Belgiura is to over it ourselves. Allies attacks on Cologne and elsewhere The Kalnische Volkszeitung associates
with what it believes to be the strategic
of the Penaive ind Flanders. It says This must hei
Temer herede of the a appreciate the fall gigantic struggle on the Western Front. Hastantly locate any specific figure, and On the West haak of the German Empire le the great trænals, from which the fighting heroes receive,
etire, their streams of arms and ammunition, without which the leaders would be powerless, and our home posses
be given up to our sions would have to enemies lust of destruction, On the west is closed flank of the German army the gate is which protects the freedom of the world. The English are longing to force it open with their full divisions and their thousands of guns.
fighting for on the Passchendaeic State will have to give up something of quietly await whatever the
Bay
in most
of military
Out of this difficulty there is only one
IMPOTENCE, NOT MAGNANI MITELJ The Düsseldorfer Generalanzeiger, com- way-namely, complete international dis armament. Gigantic feet will have në
menting on the tarcat of reprisals, anys
No one could be found who believes that further purpose when the nations of the world guarantee the troedom of the sous, it is out of pure magnanimity that the and land armies would have to be reduced English up to now have not muile air-attucky to the level required by the maintenance on the Rhineland towns. If these attacks of internal order. Only on an inter had been possibin to them, they would national basic-that is, under inter carried them out unconcerned us to whether attacked. But we con national control, is this possible. Every or not London were
Engush For ground, for the positions which enable then to turn the forest of
tits independence for the purpose of en- undertako they who for three years long Houthulst and make the Belgian coast
ave conclusively defeated us in words, but for the enemy So long as the suring world peace. Probably the pre who have always had to postpone the final unterable Germans can offer the resistance they have sent generation will not live to see the shown in the little district between end of this great pacific movement in its victory in deeds to the next year. The Aolnoche Zeitung indulges Pecicappelle and Passchendaele they are, entirety. It can only be realized slowly, unctuous hypocrisy dership has repeat-
The German Army for practical purposes, eble to treat on but I consider it our duty to place our- more than equal terms. If we listened to selves at the head of this movement and edly emphasised that it only carries out
Kaiser would very soon
his map rate its materialization. At the conclu-value, and never against and point to All inrd-Europe from Nieu- sion of peace te fundamental bases must tions. Therefore the air attacks of enemy fort
to the
Bosphorus, striped like a be laid down. zebra in German black and white, and spend their time in the amiable occupa- tion of building imaginary kingdoms in lands which the Allies have not yet re trieved? RANNS Allies into a peace conference this win-
I sincerely that the true defence against German air We speak of reconstituted Belgium, ter, their doom is sealed. of a France extended to her old bound believe, despite their brave show, despite raids is for the British to chtain posses
the Kolnache arics of a new and greater Serbin of their remarkable stand north-east of sion of the Belgian coast,
Ypres, an enlarged Roumania, of the recovery that their military collange upon Zeltung, adde. This short storie
- преп
of British offensive only objective ted distant.Tremendous issues hang of a resuscitated unredeemed Italy
esent operations in West Flanders, in the Belgian coast, which England needs about these things and defining all
dangers. the wonderful States we mean to create a couple of battered ridges. If the enemy the when the one plain and obtious task is lose the ridges now, they will lose to get the ground first? Those who talk coast in the spring; and when their right of peace now seem to assume that we are flank in the west is uncovered, when the s to the Germans Theoretically Amerithe French, are giving their
thrusting hard at their ** I you are done for. It is true that in three final blows, when swarms of airmen are
line, when years we have not been able to drive vou smashing their communications and bomb back even thirty miles, and that
proposals for prace negotiations, the do everything humanly possible to acceleying attacks agamstilian popula
aying forces against undefended and mili tarily valueless places in Germany or the occupied territories are absolutely no re
but
Measures
international to ma
offences
alternative. If they cannot entran the against ack of a Londoa paper
um of Poland; but what is the use of ich are much more than a stenus for on secount of aerial as well as boat
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still holding Out but all
Our
You are
WILL PUTT YOU FOR
THE JOB"
times 500 800 a smash as colossal in its way that you have been overwhelmingly de as Germany's original scheme of world- feated and therefore we shall be glad if conquest.
proved to you on paper at veing the Rhine cities, well, then we should MR. CHURCHILL AND MR LLOYD
you
will
GEORGE AS BEYALS FOR THE - PREMIERSHIP.. Proposing the health of Mr. Churchill consider yourselves crushed. If What the Allies have to do is to keep you will accept our verdict we will then
staunch
throughout the winter and never at the Aldwych Club recently, Str decide how you are to bo punished talk to a German except behind a gus. Hedley Le Bas recalled that two or three Germany and the gods would laugh and We will talk to them on German soil and veste before the war it was rumoured that we should end with just the kind of nowhere else. They have got the mat Mr. Asquith was going to resign the Pre- patched-up peace which Mr. Asquith has but the Allies have got the men, the miership and speculations were rufe as rightly said in the worst thing that munitions, the food, and the time. Thote to his successer. The newspapers alates could happen for the world,"
is not too much time, but before very long that it was either Mr. Lloyd George
ought to have the map also.
Just as Mr. Churchill, and that the
We cannot talk with Germany while she
is the conqueror and the Allies are the
-We
we cannot talk peace with the Germane tween them was so great that while they hold these conquered lande, co not on speaking terms He (Bir Helle we can never talk peace on the basis of was naked to play golf with
and Mo
Laem
conquered; and when we strip the situl alemate, which is what the; etemy Masterman Mr. Salow & Cageze and. Mre tion of all pretences that in how it stands now playing for Though we have not Churchill were, joking about this on the surface in Europe. The German made much progress this year, though the ment, and when the fon reome rea Colonies were weak outpoeta, but on her
#minia
fronte Germany has conquered far German front has been only dented and fry 8 per
and wide. We talk with her when we have driven her armies out of the lands they have blighted and befouled: but so long as she has strength, to held Allied territory she is strong enough to make a German peace
Germany is moving heaven and earth to induce the Allies to discuss peace terms, for her rulers know the dread (Contested at 1001 of next dolumn.)
not broken there are multitudinous signs Lloyd George that behind the veil Germany is deterio P. rating like a man in a galloping consump tion.
Foud laughter.)
Von Kühlmann may save his breath Lloyd George missed the putt he was now The Allies ill talk peace when they are Prime Minuter, and he (Bir victors, and when the frontier of Ger would not be bold if he prophesied that many are ringed round by the avengine the same high position might be occupiet armies of the world she tried to subjugate in the near future by their guests
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Important Introductory Matter, four
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List of China's Treaty Forts and Dates ⠀⠀⠀ of Opening, etc.
Course of China's Trade for 30 years Trade and Revenue Returns, › 1906-
* 1916,
Foreign Export and Import Trale,
Tonnage and Values Share held by ench nation carrying trade between the ports-Coast Trade inwards, "outwards. M
China's Trade compared with trade of
other countries of the world. China's Trade in Gold and Silver ValpesComparative Total of Foreign Trade, 1900-1914, with values. in silver and sterling. Complete Iniport Tables. Development of principal Imports
shown in Proportional Tables." Aspects of principal Exporta of Chinese Goods to Foreign Countries Latest comparison of China's whole trade. E
Valse of direct trade with other countries,
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Value of District Foreign Trade of each
Port, 1913-1916.
Total Revenue of each Port, 1910-1916,
Opiam trade officially ended.
Recent relative reductions. Aspects of Imports of Foreign Goode Silk Returns 1914 1915, 1910 Total
Silk Exporta to Foreign Countries for 10 Years-China's Silk Produc tion compared with World's Supply. Latest Shipping Returns Comparison of China shupping Trade- Transit Trade and proportion borne by cách Nation N
Tea Statistics of Exports during recent
years,
Treasure Imports and Exports, 1914, (ETA) D15, 1016
Exchange Fluctuations since 1890. Colu, Imports and Exports, 1914, 1915, 1916. EM MA Gross and nct Values of China's Foreign De Trade compared.
Native Customs Revenue of each Port. Shanghai Port Trade, gross and net
values since 1911:
Foreign Goods re exported to Foreign
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