THE HONGKONG. DAILY
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25TH. 1918.
NEW FRENCH CABINET. PREMIER STATEMENT.
following is the text of the Ministerial statement rend by M. Cle menceau, the New Premier of France, in the Chamber of Deputies, and M, Nail, Minister of Justic, in the Senate
Gentlemen, we have accepted the task forming the Government in order to conduct the war with redoubled effort. with a view to obtaining a better result ALAKTIKERKEZ from all energies... We present ourselves before you with the single thought of a way one and indivisible. We should like the confidence which we ask you to show
CIVILIAN COMB-OUT. JARGE NUMBER OF MEN NEEDE
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In a speech at Plymouth, recently, Bir Auckland Gedder, Minister of National
The Eesretary
State for choroi service, spoke of the need of men,
hat Affairs, Baron von Kühlmann, women for the Army, they must ha sbtained by adrassi comb last month, at a sitting of the Main
1. The following 14
Ammittee of the Reichstag said: Ou out of civilians.
are at the present moment turned towa points from his speech;
A gang of bureaucrats and sycophant, Africa, and then again The time has come for us to put curely the east. Russia has set the world ablaze
together for the sprint to victory- rotten to the core over filing steak earth. He is a man who you nak, How long as this hat effort and misguided, though probably well taken for anyone
high-domed forchend boc endure 1. do not know. I do meaning autocrat, bad surreptitiously shaven, niet domed for co
the mobilisation of that square lawly every d not imagine that it will be a day less brought than one year; it may well be more. country, which was the actual and immer humorous is physically imponible for the war diate cause of the gigantic catastrophe a capacious handshake He
unique and commanding personality to end next year unless our effort this which botol the world Now, however,
now labouring
to and through an sence by putting on a well-cut civilian us to be an act of trust in yourselves and autumn, this winter, and next spring Russia hastawent aside the culprits, and held and has lost no part of his 4 pre-
Ni unprecedented.
w she is now
peace an opportunity for suit again, with armistice and lan appeal to the historic virtues which
What is our duty as simple citizens? First her internal reconstruction lined not As Director of Recruiting, General have made us Frenchmen Never did we have jo maintain our Armies in supplement the clear words in which yes idee was better known to the inner the Imperial Chancellorennent lic, Those who put him there to states of the Cabinet and War than to the the German ART and to expand our Air Service. Next the
Here again our straighten out the muddle caused we have to maintain and expand our towards these name Here
the primeirle
ples rapidly changing systems of raising men firm, but moderate
for clear ship, to make more munitions, to
upon facts The princi
nciples hitherto a thinking and calm reasoning, and his grow more food
nounced to the world by the present
Such qualities were needed. rulers in Petrograd appear to be entirely Tolay as Minister of National Service acceptable as a basis for the reorganies and P. he is becoming known as a man tion of affairs in the Fast a reorganisal large brand ideas one who talks facts tion which, fully taking into accou
and faces thom. Try
There is more than a hint of the pro- the right of nations to determine the own destinies, is qualified permanently to safeguard the essential and permanent fessor of anatomy in his peecehe. As 6 at Dublin as well interests of the two great neighbouring professor of that exact science he lled nations of Germany and Russia: I am the chair or has been rocustomed that we are able as at Montres he with our allies, saw, I take it, also with the almost unanimous moral support of
France feel so clearly the need to live the field. Next we have to maintain attitude of
and grow in the ideal of a force put at
the service of the human conscience, and Fleet. Then we have to build more policy will adherestesmanship based for the Army knew his capaer
in the determination still more to Ex justice between citizeng, und between peo "ples capable of freeing themselves and of conquering i orde, to be just. That bei on the wath of all our Govern
gauning of the war.
wo end thaintain this frank and open
prime, we bave gront seldiers with a great history under, leaders tried an the fire, spurred to the highest acts of devotion which made the fair renown of their forbears. By them and by all of us the immortal Motherland of Men, Mistress of Pride and of Victories will pursue in her noble ambitions for peace the course of her destinies. These Frenen- nien, whom we were forced to throw into
The the battle, have rights over us desire that none of our acts should be foreign to them. We owe thein all, with
out any reserve, all for France, bleeding in her glory, all for the apotheosis of right triumphant We have one plain duty, and one only--to remain with the
The first duty which rests on every man
woman, and child in this country to-day is so to order their lives that they make the least possible demand at all times upon the energy of others, Ladies clothing is the grave of an chor
mous amount of human energy Newspapers are an essential part of our war organization, but that does not
courage
by our
modify the fact that their advertise Profoundly sabe in full agreement to talk and illustrate facts to two and
ment pages comidin matter for which the advertisers are responsible, but
to
tbis
hundred critical young men at A ask them to draw deductions those facts. Hence his ability to the affairs whereby
which in its intention and result on the representatives of the
German the process
courages waste of money waste of laman energy, just waste Economy and saving together constitute the first degree of National Bervice The second degree of National Service There are to-day vacancies for roughly
is to work for the
our
here assembled a fuct which will give of men and nations get into a tangle and our action the necessary weight
the obvious steps which must be taken to unravel them. He has studied cause and effect in the most delicately balanced and wonderfuld, machine in the world, the
human body. With the calm
he can Bay, What is, has been what East, where his father lived and worked, has been, will be." and
The Imperial Chancellor gave you detailed statement on the military situ myself to day to saving only a few words still in full Bring although de yet the about our campaign in Italy, which is consequences of this campaign ment work. Aeroplane factories also cannot, want hands, male and femalo, in several points its effects me clearly the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps never as yet witnessed even in this
tic struggle, than and Austro-Hungarian descending through the
10,000-men on really urgent Govern course be surveyed in
soldier to live, suffer, azid fight with him, I want immediately a further 10,000 for cognisable. It was a manise Phare manysided problem :
and to resource all that is not for the
country. The hour has come for us to heclerke typists, cooks waitresses,
only French, and to say to ourselves with pride that that is enough for us. The
rights, of the front and the duties of the rear all to-day man be blended in one Let the whole gone be the army zone, and
women of all sorts.
Lappeal
to all mistresses of large households
to do their atmost to make it easy for their maids to join the W.A.A.C.
if there are men to day who can find in I want the young women of that mass of their souls old seeds of hate, let us away with thei
THE FRENCH BOUL.
All civilised nations are engaged in the same battle against modern forms of old! barbarities With all our good Allick vo are an unshakable rock, a barrier which
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middle-class homes who are doing no real war work full time I mean to come along and join up. The third degree of National Service, a degree which more than 8,000,000 of our fellow-countrymen have qualifed for
service in the armed force of the country To secure the defeat of Prussian militarism, we shall have to
had
g of
to see
see the grey LowE
In his dealings with other men he can be courteous to all and firm withal. He has no illusions. To him the war ar
involving facts of life and
Blot merely the shefeat but also era death victory and
vaster, bronder issues of the birth of
the death of dewi empires. the days Italy which have ever since of the Alps into the radiant plains de
tions, the
not the Hobenstanten irresistibly
oreation of new old civilish the blind to the sordid side of inuman natura the north, Under from the The man
the subtler forms of danger, which beset the leadership of the young Habsburg Erior peror, and, under mighty blows dealt nation at war. His appeal to bit by the strategia genius of the Centrhi mcruiting staff to beware of corruption Fof GRICAL WAS A word from a man who has known Fowors, the entire armed forces nation were defeated, and had to retreat what it is to be assailed by many tempta mathtained before the war such intimate
no country in Europe had Germany tons and has resisted than Daily Vail. relations as with Italy. The new
State bad gained in prestige and
to power
wealth under the eighty Triple Alliance, when, late in the war, when there were Doen from civil life wherever they can fools who thought the hour had come totional affairs, might have, come knowledge be spared. To help to make some of deal a death blow to the wounded energy them sparable, we navo at present a Italy, yielding to the clamourings of
hood of the country,......?
adapted. At the Allied froot, heavy calls on the man at all times and everywhere, therefis nothing but fraternel solidarity, the est foundation of the world of the future. In the tourney of ideals, our France bas suffered for all that belongs to the soul Firm in the hopes drawn from the purest
One of the ways will be by combing out
STAR cleverest of the younger rim eo far as foreign affairs were concerned. He máy
hood breathed the air of great interna- Lord Salisbury's son, having from child- of affairs outside England, but since that gentleman
han hus pinned the
the British Gov
and under the leadershiparament)ce of thegation
sources of humanity, she' it willing to gigantic bit of work actually procedcor Bulous and short-sighted staten gusting story of the t
Buffer on for the defence of the soil of hering. great ancestors in the Hope of opening ever wider for men and people all the doors of life. There lies the force of che French Boul,
This is what urges our people on to
pure greed for territor
corpses, and since he now, in a speech annefail podior to which We are card indexing the whole of the cided on the s
propagated by Reuter, Ariny at home, and soon we hope to ble is now paying so dearly. Neverthe declares the alleged plan of begin to get back into civil life men less, there will be some who in this hour introduce polygemy into Gerfaaby, to be who permanent wit hold all characteristic of our views and institu service but are still of practically full sympathy from the Italian
onthy from the Italian people lions, one must really say
in to be pitied if in its most vitalitaire
work as on to battle, those silent soldiers industrial value. I hope to addCES ON ENGLAND. for which thousands are daily sacrificing
of the warshops who are deaf to evil suggestions; those old peasants, bent over their felds those robust labouring women, and those children who come to help them, weak as they are they are also our poilus who later on, reflecting upon the great work they accomplished, will be able to say, like those in the tren- ches, did my share." With them, too, we must abide, and so set for our country, chating on one side our own" sorrows, that one day we can say that we
countries
-A
their lives, it is led by men who are to shockingly ignorant about their adver
aries mentality and habits.
gebote And these only wish to touch upon one partis
raise tens of thousands, nay, han dreds of thousands, of men in this I have just touched on
on the effects of way for the armed forces of the our military successes, Thees are Botion Crown to be also in England and France. The time has come when all men of brief survey of simultaneage internal de
velopment Grades 1. and 11 (which are general-
cular argument, a it is often to be found instructive In Cles y edurialent to the three old cate many the great words spoken by the Em- in the enemy Press, whence it has passed gories A, B, and C1) are requested for peror at the ontext of the war have dur into the speeches of enemy states nea service, unless they are definitely curing the borne trait end developed the 1t is said, whether bond or mala fide I ployed in connection with the produc relation between the people and tate will not decide, that Germany has tion of munitions of war or with the Crown, which have in a basis of the short such great reserve because she had maintenance of the fabric of the State uncere mutual confidence
astateness had more active, and namely, that one. Gerarefully planned Inved each other. To love one another The only men physically at forbigner been rendered date for ever more fraudulent design
sncceeded in assembling its adversaties GOY grades we cannot take for the forces therefore stronger. In Germany
Ad at the conference table, Germany would are the men fally engaged in agricul ernment is carrying out the programme at
reckon by the Chancellor in his speech come out with impossible
ing that people being tired of the output of munitions and engines of of
prepared for far-reaching
merre not to say so, but to prove it Wo
want to try to give this prood, and we
ask you to help as to give it. Can there
be a finer Government programme
the
ture (with a few exceptions) or the laid down not giving way under party
shown
WAT
There have been mistaker; let us thing warfare, such as ships, or on the pressure, but rather with the cleanerife would not give their staterm
for var manufactures and iron and
pione
of
T
This
man demands, and that by reason of the support necessary to refute the Ger design it is to Continue fight until Germany has been forced to make
necessity historical manufacture of clothing and equip ception ment. Coal so far as it is required sie in England.and France; both life to development has been exactly the appo steel I include in munitions work; the pose as the world's guardians sod ch of
Freedom of popular liberty. railways" and canals also are in a
and freedom of speech are suy detailed public statement as to har Of course, I should not discuss partly by violent and brutal mos- special class,
In these countries, which had these contentions bad they not been ne been democracies, things are tending and more towards absolute dictatorship.
he call for men is going to be heavy,
and the weight of the strain is going to come on almost at once
no more of them, except to correct they in the future. There have unfortunately been also crimes crimes against France calling for swift punishment. Before you and before the country which is trying out for justice, we pledge ourselves that justice shall be carried out to the Atmost rigour of the law. Neither consideration of persons nor the sway of political pas. siong shall turn us axide from that duty, or tempt us to exceed it. There have for on our battle front by the outpouring under your control. The question of con already been too many crimes paid for necessity has imposed upon us. We 480 of French blood. Weakness would be idence in the Government will always be tantamount to complicity, we shall act open. We are going to adopt food rema
towards all those inculpated in reveland America, which is admirable in its
foented by enemy stato bend wit
versaries are anxious
to continue the wards Poincaré Mint their Ho
mainstay * in
In France, actuated by a dogged desire aims are the matter is very simple indeed. which Ande ft There are sufficient number of ways
has not
the last card in the game of war domational affairs ever having been Clemenceau has been called to power as nished a single example of any great assembly purporting to settle. trance. Whilst in Berlin the Chano mithout previously lor is making
og the foundations of the convenok
in-
CHILLER PALMER & CO.S
without weakness, but without violence, strictions the same as England Haly, Gerement programme a matter of de förmedlitself as to the past the t
in France
rial manner,
From one point of
in favour of war
this sitting is favourable to us, we expect party to the fore. He was invested with that
tions at dncitements by which the enemy enthusiasm. We shall ask csch individual usaBoston with the various parties, Parties concerned Cerca sulle aplic
devoted to paper-
Bentleiner, we might benest. A censorship will be citizen to take his share in the common Clemenceau re praising him for having welcome the clearing up of our situa-- maintained over diplomatic and military defence to give toore, and to be satished constituted his Cebinet entirely without tion towards the Western Powers, which news, and also over any matter which with receiving less. The armies are prac consulting Parliament, an absciptist has arisen under pressure of our most might be liable to disturb the peace of tising self-denial, let the whole country and dictatorial
of recent scene those m the country this to be within the limits do the same, We shall not forge a greater the first functions of Government the a outrance have come out into the open, of a proper respect for public opinion. France without putting some of our life
ruthless
suppression of pacifist efort demanding victory, a to ie this VIC and nothing but vie A Press Bureau will supply information, into it. And now in the time when some announced. In England. the develop tory How they intend and nothing but information, to all who portion of our savings is required of us ment which has now occurred in France tory is shown by the secret documents, the me ago. The war publication of which has been begun by apply for it. In times of war as in
in addition. If the yote which will close took place some time ago times of peace liberty is exercised under
brought Mr. Loyd the new Russian Government. It may be by Lord Lane personal responsibility In the court
Man of Ttial the soldier in the judgment shat will be working at one with the soldier
George bo
it to be sealed by the complete success powers whereby, disregarding cantation, able diplomatic experience in a Lond of our own loan, the supreme proof of that confidence which France owes to sions so dear to the British Costitution
Bitle paper lett he was de facto made Dictators The
letter which I have a
yet only at the front. No more pacifists com- herself when she is asked, in order to wizard from Walee has, with all his will seen in a telegraphic mammary can be paigūs, no more Geraisn intrigues no obtain victory, to sacrifes not only her
AS
trenson or semi-treason the war, and blood but her money by which victory
will I ruthlessly as possible, taken as a hopeful sigh that evenin
quite
Come to the expec but since there
Friends pas
England the forces of moderation are
ground
When I had the honour it soerand
nothing but the war! Our armies, will not be trapped between two fires Le guaranteed and
hour to live this victory, by anticipation George in determination to carry on the doubtful whether our
Justice be done, and the country, will Gentlemen, may it be granted us at this seems to be no one to Paes Mr. Elovd to speak to you 1sestern adver
Were
know that it is protected and that in France, as ever, free. We have paid too in the communion of our heart, as we war, and since the idea of succeeding hjusaries would answer the Pope Note, and great a price for our liberties to give up more and more derive therefrom an inex appears to tempt to one unless Lord whether certain tendencies towards an
haustible unselfishness which is bound to Northcliffe is to be resorted to we may understanding, which anything beyond taking stens to warn the and in a subline light of the French soul dobably for some time to come see the able, would gain in strength and
it is certain writer. Beyond this rule there 11
that Today only to the highest of ite highest hopes. One Western democracies, under the lender thes
casage will receive Laswer Arbitrariness and anarchy dee-day-from Paris to the most lowly village up of thear Dictatora, discussing in full
Powers, and that Western
England are resolved to rely Therefore the German up, and be prepared force until the dawn of
Some time ago. spoke to an exceed.
BACHIFICES BY ALL storms of cheers will welcome our vic- their Allied forces
harmony the question of the corentand of Gentlemen, we have not considered ittorious standards, wrung 10 blood and Den'ssary to say more in the present car-teara, torn with shellsplendid vision of
instances to indicate the character of our great dead! That day, le hostingly well-informed neutral about Eag this Government. Days will follow days beautiful of our race after so many other fish statesmen and their
roblems will be succeeded by others. We days of beauty, it is within our power to ignorance of the Continent, more se pečia
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