1918-03-20

MAN-POWER BILL-

WAR UFFICE CRITICISED

ITS "SOULLESSNESS" AND "COLOSSAL

France back

STUPIDITY:"

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20TH, 1018

SERBIA'S MARTYRDOM- AUSTRO BULGARIAN BAYAGERY.

INSIDE THE WIRE

[BY CYRUS HAIRT BECDES, A BRITISH PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY.

ome: but

RUSSIA'S WRECKERS

WHEN TROTZEY CAME TO ENGLAND

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TROTZKY

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From poverty he was quickly translated to opulence, and it was well understood that he received German gold for his pro paganda in favour of the Teutonic Em pire

A terrible indictment of the Austrian and Bulgarian forces in occupation of

Two traitors and a hysterical woman! Siberia la contained in a memorandum It is a feminino part that we have been

Such is the triumvirató which has A most moving and coquent maiden issued for publication by the Serbian called upon to play more conventionally

brought about the dissolution of the Tapeech from Mr. Smallwood. the new Legation. This document has been pre

Russion Empire and Liberal member for East Islington, was seated to the Interirational Socialist feminine than that of our mothers and the outstanding feature of the earlier Bureau at Stockholm by the Serbian sisters in England. They see their dear plunging 180,000,000 of people into a posi part of the debate on the second reading Parliamentary deputy, Mr. T. Katslero- of the new Man-Power

Bill

(says the vitch, and the general secretary of the onea march away to the war, and they tion of servility to the Central Empires. Indignation rights Labour party, Mr Dushan Popovitch, are felt to wait and watch “at

Lenin, Madame Kolontai, and Trotzky Dus digition-lent wings to his words bots of whom have been eye-witnesses for their waiting and watching is not a these are the trio who have wrought, the He has lost his two sons in the war two years of the iniquities they record. "all that. I care for most in the world. From the appended extracts it will be dumb, inexpressive, thing there is work ruim Of the three Trotzky is imbued he said and so bs pleaded for full play seen that the Austrians and Bulgars have into which they can throw themselves; with intente hatred of France and Eng- to the young men..

littleto learn from their German As against what Tho soullessness the War Office That was his theme the masters. Large numbers of the unfor work as necessary an that of the fighting land. His real name, as is well-known, soulless officialdom of Whitehall, which tunate population have been massacred, men, and which can still their yearnings is Broustein, and he is 38 years of age, does not know how to treat the chivalrous trany thousands have been deported and boys who have offered themselves interned, and the remainder are leading in the consciousness that they are giving Educated in Russia, he took an active boxes and crates of quality merchandise in ports the world over. For

fle told a miserable and precarious existence their energics truly and directly to their part in the Revolution of 1906, and was freely at their country a call. the story of the experiences of his own under a veritable reign of terror An country. We watch from afar the danger condemned to a convict prison. two boys, and the Horse was deeply urgent appeal is made for help if this

of our brothers, but we may not share it; escaped, and lived for some time in Swit- stirred as it listened. The first, who was remnant is to be saved from starvation,

recruit

after friendly The first act of the authorities in we watch the toil of our sisters and the zerland. He displayed anarchist tenden in nearly every corner of the globe. lusion Pied as a

with the sergeant, served in occupation consisted in interning in for nearly two years and cam Austria and Hungary, for no reason shame of inactivity falls upon ut cica in Paris, and on the demand of the

France. on short leave shattered in health and out of no political or military neces- In three years under these conditions Russian Embassy was expelled from

· consulted: Sir Thomas Barlow, whe

aity, more than 150,000 persons belonging we may, to some small extent, have gave hin a certificate that he must by no to the civil population. Serbia was thus developed a woman's qualities. Vivid menns return till fic was thoroughly stripped of her last reserves of labour impresions from the shock of omotor cured. The at the War Office tossed and countless families lost their last life, denied for us the relief of moton At

nside; so the boy went sources. conten

Hundreds of thousands of reaction, tend to seek expression through and placed under police

Madrid he had trouble with the police back

France, and was dead in a fort children, women, and old men were in the tangled overgrown paths of memory from the beginning, and was imprisoned T. B. TOLMAN. 911 URBIZTONDO. MANILA. The other was wounded thres his fashion condemned to die of starva and imagination. Emotion, which the for some time. Later he left for America, tinics, and, as he lay dying in the hospital tion. Everything indispensable to pro- Englishman, of all peoples, to where he was living at the outbreak of AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY (MANILA. in France, the father, who had been sur duction all working material, vas bundle unexamined into the engine of

war He

HONGKONG. moned to his side, was not allowed to stay after five p.m. The soullessness of it factories no longer exist; the machinery to any aim. Every wind fans it; and was the cry wrung from the agonised bus been taken down and transported to the fire which might have driven to deeds, father, into whose soul the iron has deeply the other side of the frontier. The pea glows like a beacon before one's passive entered.

It was a true cry from the sants were deprived of their last carts, consciousness. Men who throughout a heart. There was

their horses, and their oxen. Almost all business career have been controlled and human man, who hud suffered, speaking at last in the the products of the country, including calculating, become emotional They House of Commons, and his words were even metal utensils indispensable in etery become impressionable to the slightest like ativo-edged sworder"

bousehold, have been seized, the forests influences. A trifle, which formerly they The Prime Minister, by a lucky chance have been felled, and the whole of tht would have ignored, is sufficient to or was in the Chamber when that pleading harvest has been commandeered. The clevate them to extravagant hopes voice was speaking, and so, too, was the plight of the population will be truly throw them into extravagant despon Under Secretary for War. They went terrible this winter and next spring if doncy. Each man's effort is in the pur- but together when Mr. Smallwood down, and there is little doubt that search are left without assistance. The last suit of equanimity; and yet, perhaps, the grain of their crops is now being expert few who find it are the most unfortunate ing questions will be asked at Whitened. Swift and extensive help is neces- Here and there Mr. Smallwood allowed

sury, both in money and in food. his indignation to carry him rather too To the foregoing is added political By this development towards sensi- far into the perilous region of

slavery. In the villages the gendarmes bility is not wholly deplorable. Memory as when he seemed to assure that there possess unlimited powers and are absalate and imagination can bring us treasures was no one in the War Office, or as masters. Police espionage, denunciations, which successful commercialism can never the discredited Count Bernstorff. He

or ed a man's part in the trenches. But that apart, the indictment of the soulless murder, are the methods employed. In recollections of one's country, has revived nes of the military machine and those in Belgrades lieutenant named Widman has as strongly in the prisoner, isolated,

Lenin at this time was lying low. He charge of it was tremendously effective power of life and death over the inhisbit impatient, conscious of his uselessness, as and this striking maiden spooch will tants He can at his own discretion in the free Englishman, faced by the bad preached (saya M Serge Persky), an long remembered

fogged, and Interned cause an inhabitant to be arrested, crude and severe call to arma. Patriotism able Russian writer) that the war was Arrests of per was a thing mentioned rarely and shame only a war of conquests. To the peasants to the fectly innocent citizens, and their con facedly before the war, People thought he promised land and money, and

What So auch der heartlessness! Another demnation to imprisonment and even to of it as a mild, rheumy dragon, somehow workers possession of the factories.

more was necessary for turning their telling speech had already been delivered death, are among the most ordinary vaguely vicious, which had been slain poor hends! At the time of Trotzky's by Fir Donald Maclean, speaking from occurrence. In numerous cases perfectly with great pomp and advertisement by return he was in hiding. in the cottage his two years experience as chairman of innocent hostages were murdered. In Mr. Bernard Shaw. But like all pro on the outskirts of the capital and there The London Appeal Tribunal. What be many places men have been hanged found things it was present silently, each evening his two principal lea tilted against at the War Office was the STARVATION AND DEATH.waiting in the hinterland of memory tenants, Madams Kolontai and Trotzky colossal stupidity that he found A whole hook would be necessary to ready to stir under the shock of catas joined him to discuss the counter revolu there!

He spoke of it despairingly, as depict the plight and the conditions of trophy to a real and poignant thing tion While the police of Rezensky were of samething gross, monstrous, and from life of the 150,000 interned civilians. The name of England, so long to the searching for him in Moscow he was ins fixed.

450,000 men for whom The fact of being interned in Austria Briton on the Continent a subject of ing orders and proclamations, and the Government are now asking going Hungary or in Bulgaria is in reality vague and rather vulgar boasting, became patiently preparing fo

น

for the day of the be **

used That was bla.quee tion, The illustrated it willing indirectly sentenced suddenly like, red shriek the rose betrayal

of skilled electria to death. About 30 per cent of these aky bright with deep meaning, lurid being. rejected by the Flying unfortunate people have already died with mysterious anguries. Memory well

T says is short of Corps, which

of mechanic Those who are left lead n wretched ed up like a fountain from the depths, and then being enlisted and set to wash existence. In the numerous concentra bearing in the haze of its spray images plates. There has also, he said, been a ton, camps, which contain on an average of English bills and English shirts, grievous traste of man-power in the taking several thousand interned persons, the recollections which stirred one strangely, of men between 25. whose sicknes occurrence, of ten, twenty, and thirty unacconstable in their selection, some casualties are 250 per cent more than deaths a day is the rule, but there are beautiful, some queerly commonplace, but those of men between 88 and 35, and these some, especially in Hungary where the all poignant. We hurried to Shakes form & large part of the pensioners who death-rate is from 200 to 200 persons a peare, to Lamb, Goldsmith and George have

granted today. There are concentrations camps Eliot, and recaptured an England them on

of bring invalided out of the Army where one half of the inmates have died. inanitely dear, which had been over- for sicknes

and disease Mr. George Lambert urged that the And this is not a caso of an epidemic crusted with associations of

the which has claimed countless victing mercialism and everyday. meet proper nie to be made of that were combed out was to put him They die there of old and hunger Last

them to shipbuilding

ng. The one thing that mat year a certain number of peasants from the districts of Tuza, who had been sem- tered

nigst said. was ships He

added that the submarine sinkings for December were 20 per cent higher than they were for November, and he expressed as great septicisin of the shipping figures of the

CHANGES OF "STUPIDITY."

Were

thetoris

the

benced to internment, hoped to escape by hiding and failed to respond to the first summons of the authorities. All these poor people were summarily shot.

Loaditions under the Bulgarian

PATELOTISM IN EXILE.

In addition to our large freight shipments, we export more than

Hardly had the Russian Revolation broken qut when Trozky embarked on a ship leaving for Russia. The vessel was stopped by a British patrol and he was five hundred Parcel Post packages every day. arrested and interned in Enigand, the ac cushion against him being that he had rperived 15,000

dollars from an agent of

and on his release he lost no time in join ing Lenin, whose right.am he became. * v

Madaine Kolantai, n divorste is de- meings, because Lenin is married and scribed as the third member of the Lenin his wife accompanies hint everywhere. Aged about 35 years, madame is described

elegant,

with auburn and as expressive fel, and the speaks Buently, and from a profound knowledge of the life of the Russian peasantry. She used to preclaim bersifat Social Democrat,

are much more re- but her private view evolution volutionary As com-occurred Madams Kolantai joined Lenin with the and served him, it is said, " dorotion of a dog. She is also credited with being the intermediary for the chor- mque suma that Germany put at the dis position of the usurpers.

WATCHING AND WAITING, Hence the incongruity that in an internment camp, a patcn-according to season of parched dust or padded mud. men begin to grow conscious beauty. At first it was a reaction against the squalor of the ground, making them turn

The Vatites that Vladinit Shauer, one of the Russian negotiators rocived by Prince Leopold of Bavaring is of notorious reputation in Paris,

Board of Admiralty 29 of the Gove occupation are even worse, The Berks in their eyes literally towards the sky And whence he was expelled before the war

state of slavery. Such as the Bulgare did The vast cloud mountains which shade our scandals and subsequent blac

mailing operations His wife is still

THE SILVER LIECH.

ment a estimates of increased food at home. One sentence of Mr. Lambert's cnused much laughter. You cannot camouflage an empty stomach from the

living in Paris. and he looked lean who owns and hungry as Cnsen while he spoke Cel. Ashley said that he could not vote for the second reading unless he received assurances that the Director of National Service woud no longer be able to take nies off the land at his own sweet wil and ther, after a characteristic street corner speech from Mr. Anderson, the debate gol turned off into the question of conscription for Ireland--a subject well fitted to produce more heat than light.

MR. ASQUITH'S VIEWS.

Sir Auckland Geddes, after asked the House to talk of something

bis view it would be folly to because in attempt to apply conscription to Ireland. and so Mr. Asquith got up. He admitted that more men must be got, agreed that Government had done rightly in

in nej ther lowering nor raising the age, and suggested that en effective comb might le used among the ranks of the home army and among the non-combatants behind. the lines.

Euggestions were the leas Sir Auckland Geddes hra

GERMAN APOSTLES OF

SACRIFICE

for some time the trees were one's whole relief, but one day I must begin to be personal one day of early winter, vien e pale sun was shining and no wind stirred, I came down from the lar and of the camp, and turning suddenly round the corner of a building, camo nɛ though unexpectedly upon one of the grand-stands which line our racecouteo.

nat succeed in murdering in Serbia itself the eye of sunset, the infernal red murk have been transported in great numbers of a winter's down, the hurtling clouds to Asin Minor And here it is not a flying like visible thunder from the west question of punishment inflicted upon winds fist, came to the prisoner like an individuals, but of a system determined unviewed, unwaited spectacle. To the by a definite policy. The revolt which game man, when he hurried to his office, took place last March was planned and these dramas of the sky had meant little undertaken by Serbian soldiers and beyond the need for an umbrella, or the comitad jis, who had sucorded in eluding sign of a fine to-morrow. Now they the authorities, assisted in all probability appeared loaded with mystic sigmi by Bulgarian deserters and disaffected cances expressing something to the Austro-Hungarian Yet it was the heart of the watcher, as intimate as zanocent population which was held speech and as purifying as the Gospel responsibleted under of Christ luge budy

cloudy symbols of a About 20,000 Berbs wers executed under high romance pretext, and not more than 3,000 among at the camp remained, and one can say unexpectedly, although I had them had really taken part in the revolt not always look at the sky. Gradually seen it hundred thousands of times Thousands of women and children were on men found beauty in the camp before. The truth is, it bebaved differ interned and thrown into prison; thirty itself. The tres first caught their notice. eatly towards me. Formerly I had six villages in the neighbourhood of On the patch of earth enclosed by the always thought of it as a banal object-- Leskovao were razed to the ground, and racecourse stand two poplars, like a thing intended to accommodate crowds numerous families were rendered homo- patient priests of an infinitely mild while they watched-trotting races, but less.

divinity and beyond the limits of the that day it was different. A shoulder of Course a young copie serious and intent. mellow red brich stood stark and bare watches two silver birches which stand against a pale far sky. It appeared as alone before them in virginal loveliness, brave individual thing, suddenly reft No ere could pass there without notice of its accidental associations of use and when Spring had dressed them in her practics, and the great wall beneath the greenery, least of all that of a man shallow-slanting roof wore an inexpres ated with brick wile and trampled sible dignity and kindliness Bergson

one visits a dear friend or a lover, to or a post-impressionist painter a sigui be relieved in their presence from the frant form I only know that in its daily cares. With increasing intimacyrene mass, as in the eyes of a dog, lies their charm was not exhausted rather something which clues across the grew more haunting, until it seemed abyss of its silenco a revelation of kinship that their movements were significant with the human spirit. geatures and their faint murmurings the Since then other things have confessed very sounds of speech. Perhaps it was their beauty-buildings, beds, beams of the mystery of remoteness which gave the wood and chimney pola. It may be that cost its power; for although one could thing is ugly, except perhaps insincere approach within fifty feet of it, one knew that while the camp remained it conla Torks of art. Out of the boredom, the never be entered. To the watcher inside thing ties which is broad and monotony the yearning of captivity, the wire it became like a sacred grove of raful and blessed as the earthe Can antiquity What were those movement compare with the meaning of a mendebate was

behind the ledge? What was that sad frock tragedy, with the buildings, the den Bash? The turn of a leaf or the trees and that clouds for chorns! I never Hogge

Mr. R. Harcourt Mr. Leif Jones, town and country between consumers gleam of a naked lmbt Did a satyr read a sister, but the nearest thing I have Pringle, Mr. Nield Mr. Cherio and producers, which eats into the har there, or a symph? Was Artemis within Maier Colling and the Prime Minister at the conclusion of whose speech tax mony of the people like a malignant that wood 1. But such thoughts were only seryand reading of the bill was carried cancer. We must be a united people of the play of a relieved and delighted

brethren whom neither need nor hard sensa without a division, and the bill was com reitted to a Committee of the hole ships can petrange! Go forth and inves Нодес.

said that these particular combing

were in progress. Again, He. wanted a clear statement of the

It's attitude to shipbuilding on January 8th, on food conditioza Darth. One began to visit them my as myZL DAVE ONES it to your stoma

with

Dr. Waldow. Prussian State Food Commissioner, in the course of a speech *** It is the primary neessity of the

said Mr Lloyd George

Germany addressed to the 700 Prawings Then Mr. Asquith presed for pain of all ranks who are about to travel the

# certain elasticity in considering the question of country on a osmpaign of enlightenment age among the young men in munition of the people, used the following sizni works and

feant words: Now that you are start with the Government to ceed

sympathy in ord

order to secure ing on your work of bringing an under

standing of the existing conditions to Co-operation On the whole sit specch of cautious approval a

the remotest parts of the country, bear in Soon afterwards, Ve Horge desired to mind that it question of applying talk secretly and confidentially, and as your whole strength, and nerve to the the Prime Minister raised no objection, inculcation of the cardinal fact that all those rivers of precious German blood will have flowed in vain if now, before the victorious and hearts fail in self sacrifice and endurance. And on, think more Help us to dispel the unholy

strangers were skied, *

and the curtain was rung down,

The folleming official report of the pro at the secret session was issued

A Bure continued by Mr misunderstanding prevailing between

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