THINGS HIDDEN.
[BY LOVAT FRASER ]
THE HONGKONO DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH,
The curtains part, and the trumpet blares,
And the eunuchs howl aloud; And the gilt, swag bellied idot glares
Insolent orer the crowd.
Hushing the matter before it was koown,
They roturned to our fathers afar, And hastily set Him afresh on His throne
Hecause He had won us the war..
Rimmon, by Rudyard KIPLING.
OUR LONDON LETTER. [VIOM OUR OWN CONRESPONDENT.] NEW LAMPS FOR OLD IN
EUROPEAN POLITICS, _____
LONDON, Ferbuary 4th. The great strikes in Austria and Ger many are significant, though they may not, as some suppose, have an immediate
W effect upon the course of the war. have no trustworthy evidence that this widespread untest so far as Germany is concerned is inspired by a real desire
The Government do not appear to to get rid of the military autocracy which maintains a strangle hold upon nationil He. That being so, it is extremely unrealise the intense dissatisfaction aroused likely that the military clique in either by their refusal to disclose the facts 're
a hair's country will be deflected by
from their war aims by what has lating to the disaster which occurred near happened in the last few weeks Cambrai on November 30th. They szem
So far as outsiders can learn, the strikes have been prompted by an ardent to be unaware that the secrecy imposed desire for peace, the revolt being directed in this matter at the bidding of the in- mainly against, the annexationists who are considered the real bar to peace by under. perial General Staff has aflame foel standing. A considerable body of opinion ings which
have long been smouldering in England takes the vow that the with regard to the character of the direct German Government were not unwilling
control exercised over the conduct of the to let Hans and Fritz" down tools!! and indulge in street demonstrations, as this kind of fireworks might inducy the war. workers in other countries to follow suit and clamour for an immediate cessation of hostilities. The fact that accounts of the strikes in Germany were passed for publication by the Censor lends colour to this suggestion, for, of course, the German
Prews only prints what the authorities want to appear The Berlin wire-pullers consider themselves able to squash internal disorder when it is thought strikers or any other malcontents have had enough latitude. a dangerous game, oven for despotism.
to permit the mob to play with fire. THE SPILIT OF UNDEST
It is fairly apparent that since the Russian revolution the attitude of the masses in all European countries towards their Governments has changed, and, moreover, that it is sure to change still further
The age-long claim of certain persons or groups to make war and con elude peace, and generally to order the lims of millions without con sulting
themis being. challenged. Out of the cataclysm which sub merged Tsardom there has emerged a new conception of relationships as between nations after the wur The balance of power idea, which actuated the political and diplomatic seesaw of international politics for generations, has received a nortal, blow by the withdrawal of Russia
Boldiers returning on leave from the front are bringing back stories of the breakdown which undoubtedly occurred (the words are Mr. Bonar Law's) in the fighting line before Gousesucourt. The subject is being talked about in every village in the land. What are the public to think when the Cabinet try to hush up the whole affair, apparently under pressure from the Imperial General Staff portal
democratic country, and it appeare SALE probable that much mischief has resulted from their retention.
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OF THE HAWARDEN
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THE BURDEN OF TAXATION,
The tenants on the Hawarden Castle Estate bave received a circular letter
1915,
WEATHER REPORT.
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For me this is no new issue. I had a hand in fighting a somewhat similar battle in India in 1965, when Lord Kitchener sought to centralise all power in his own hands as Commander-in-Chief Nor is this the first time that I have mentioned or be plays a berete an, N. Janam,
* Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours mding #1 this particular question, as the curiousnouncing that Captain Albert C. Glad rady see by referring to my articles in the stone, the bannat for life of the estates 10 day, 0.10 Inch Teal since 1st October and January numbers of the has decided to sell a considerable portion Manary, 1.83 loches, against an artage of Edinburgh Revice. Lord Morley deolar of the property.
1.68 mone ed at Arbroath in 1900 tliet if there is This decision, saga Mr. Gladstone, is one principle more than another that has in conflict with his father's lifelong been accepted in this country since The desire and efforts to keep the estate intact days when Charles I. lost his head, it is and to maintain the happy relations be this-that the civil power shall between landlord and tenant; but recent supreme over the military power yet legislation, and in particular the Finance that principle was in effcet impaired by a Acts of 1910 and 1914, have made this in- Hongkong to Gay Book Liberal Prime Minister when unparallel evitable, Minocal revenue came to an ed authority was given to Sir William ond about ten years ago and estate affairs.
are now mainly based on agriculture. The essential fact is that the State under Robertson,
The consequences are illustrated in the recent Acts of Parliament has imposed a currant controversy regarding the utili-system of valuations and rates of duties astion of our remaining reserves of man on agricultural properties which has power. It cannot be too widely under made it impossible to continue the stood that the real responsibility for the management of estates otherwise than on use of our forces, and for the shaping of an economic basis. Deducting charges OBINA COAST METEOROLANICAL our strategy, does not rest upon the comfor taxes, rates, tithe, maintenance, up. manders in the field, who are sub- keep, and other outgoings, the incorne né ordinatos, but upon the Higher Command the disposal of Mr. W. G. C. Gladstone at home. Why are we short of men to for his personal use, and for the pay- day Why are fresh calls being made ment of annuities charged on the estates, upon our manhood? The facts about our amounted to something less than one-fifth man power were as well known last mid- of the gross revenue. Then came the war. summer as they are now: The Imperial and the young squire was killed in General Staff then knew exactly how many action. The financial consequences to the men we had left, and they were also well estates can be simply told War taxation aware that no further military help could on income derived from the estates al- be obtained from Russia for a very long ready amounts to nearly four times the time to come, if ever They were fully nonnal charge in 1913-14, and no relief and clearly warned of the risks we were from this can for years to come be anti- running, and because of their mistaken cipated. But the effect of pre-war taxa- A German publication claims that decision six months ago another Military on makes the position more formidable. during the battle of Cambrai the enemy Service Bill has become necessary. The The death duties under the recent Finance captured 100 Tanks and shot to pieces first question to be answered is whether and other Acta have totalled six times Kocht another 32. Their claims appear to have the imperial General Staff, who were re- the amount chargeable on the death of Nagnaski some foundation. Another German claim
Kagoshima is that over 9,000 prisoners and over 100sponsible, were justified in inaugurating Mr. W. H. Gladstone in 1801. This is
a great offensive at Ypres, in view of a serious financial burden. The margin Oshima guns were captured during the break the military situation of the Allies else existing before the war has been swept Nata down. Yet when the country asks for where Remember that our men were away and a serious deficit on the work Ishi'jms. information it is told that it cannot have flung time after time into the slime-pits ing of the estates has to be faced. This Bonin Island
of Flanders before enemy troops Bogan is an impossible position alike for land- Woiksiwas Mr. Bonar Law informed the House of to be drawn from the Russian front, and lord and tenant au nya pendapat Commons on January 10th that the docu- before the Italian line was broken. Was My nephew and 1," adds Mr. Glad chang ments in the case had been examined by a there a miscalculation of the enemy' stone, are, anxious to preserve, as for lakiang
Changaha committee of the Imperial General Staff, powers of resistance. Has the parts the possible, the bistoric associations of sheaghal presided over by Sir William Robertson.covery of one or two ridges warranted the. The War Cabinet, he added, had also heavy drain upon our strength? Were the Castle and the traditions of the tutelall
Glynne and Gladstone connection and Sharp Foak locked into the matter, and were of the Government led by the Imperial this can only be achieved by a aule of Amoy non in opinion that the Higher Command was General Staff to believe that infinitely land. It is a hard matter, and to me at
in at least bear no more of the ridiculous disappointment. It has been forced on Taika In any cast hear no more of the ridiculous by the exigencies of direct State action. fainan
theory of attrition. That theory has I cancer forecast the future. I can only hoshon been proved to be fallacious, it is now hope that where the connection of land- utterly discredited, and the French lord and tenant whether farmer or Canton 6.992 95 to say that somebody was most extra-abandoned it long ago. We attacked at cottager, is severed, purchase of holdinge Hongkong
and satisfactory Gap Hoc ordinarily surprised when the Germans pres for a larger purpose than killing will bring secure
Despite the beroism of our
results".. appeared far within our lines on Nov. Germans.
Wuchow 30th and scooped up large numbers of undaunted soldiers, the last Ypres often- men and guns. It has also become sive was our Verdun. On account of the knowledge that a considerable number of German assault on Verdun, Falkenhayn, changes in important posts in the Army who was then Chief of the German in France has been made or are being General Staff, is now in made. If no one was to blame for the wilds of Asia, acting as trustees during the minority of Capet.Jamen
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from the circle of the great milith not surprised by the attack of November larger results would be obtained 1f least it brings nothing but regret and hok
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This iden of future relationships in which the people are to have moro effec tive control of foreigu affairs is express ed in the phrases so frequently heard condemning secret diplomacy Its:
the guiding principle of the
The affectation of military mystery Bolsheviks, although it is apt to become
must stop. The suggestion that we are all obscured by excesses and extra
to go blindly on while a few soldiers of vagances of the Russian leaders.
not more than average mental equipment Although they have consented to treat
1 suggest that the Government are not dispose of the resources of the Empire with autocracy for peace it is to be noted that they insisted upon the publication dealing fairly with the nation in this must be countered. The complaint against of peace talk from day to day during grave issue, and that instead of exercis- the Imperial General Staff is that no clear the negotiations, knowing that this would ing their authority they are allowing purpose lies behind the strategy it into their set. The flower of the intel be a means of getting their aims placed themselves to be dominated by the Im-directs. In the West it has applied the lect and genius of the British Empire before the masses in Germany and else perial General Staff. We ought to be strategy of the Stone Age In the East has been at their disposal. What have where. They are out to end what they told the truth. We went to war in dark it has designed its operations from the they done with the best brains in the New are pleased to call the bourgeois".sys ness and in silence in 1914, and from that have heard much, and rightly of the of the regimental officers and men of our point of view of a sergeant-major. We Army? I write with the deepest respect tem of Government everywhere and it fundamental error most of our subsequent mistakes made in the Mesopotamin cam eplendid Old Army, who saved Europe is beside the wark to say that these are troubles have arisen. Wo are the most and and foolish ideas leading to ancient democracy in the world. In these paign before it passed under the control and the world in the first battle of Ypres; universal anarchy and red revolution
It is much better to face facts as islands liberty was cradled. They were of the War Office. But what of Pales but in spite of the enormous expanejon Fahrenheit.
tine?:05 they the earliest home of freedom of thought
of our forces the important commande exist, and however, far-fetched the policy and speech. It was and is a terrible - The Palestine campaign is the fine kept a close preserve. The new brams Amidity of air saturated with moisture Boing:
and the best places on the Staff have been. are not wanted. I know cases men accustomed to control thousand life who leaped to anns when came and are still captaine or lieutenants to-day. Where in the British Army is loud, & drimling rain, feg, g gloomy, h hail, 1 the counterpart of General Currie, the lighting, o overcast, y passing showers, a cons Canadian commander From the big y rain, as snow, thunder, v vidbility, w dew
Army organisation, whether any import
7. Bax in iz ches, & tenths and hundrade,
Thus we see
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the Bolsheviks seems it is calculated take to ask this free nation to ight to impress the proletariat in every coun hehind a veil et
organisations the lines of the Soviet springing up in neu tral countries and in Austrin, the infec fich has spread from Russia into Ger many till the Berlin mob is found howling against tho Kaiser (in itself something of revolution), while the strikes on the Clyde are not altogether unconnected with the strange ferment of opinions, political theories and specions peace formula for which the Russian revolution is directly responsible.
Armageddon has let loose new forces which will call for sure direc- tion from statesmen backed by the sanity and cool judgment of the old Demoers cies-England, France, and America-if the new Europe is to be guided aright. GREAT DANE AMALGAMATION.
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at post is vacant, the invariable answer to the man of brains who did not happen
flower of Whitehall strategy, It appears to have been begun in a casual manner Sir Ian Hamilton, in a protest written with the object of giving Sir Archi- from Gallipoli in 1915, said:
bald Murray something to do, but it is cracy and Autocracy must fight with their said that he was told to expect no help own weapons. If they change foils in the He fought and lost the two battles of scuffle, then like Hamlet and Laertes, Gaza, came home and was furtively re- they are both doomed." His pregnant warded with the finest command in Eng-commands right down through the entire w words reveal the source of many of cut land. In accordance with his usual prac blunders, While we believed ourselvestical of treating the public with contempt to be battling so that the world might Sir William Robertson refused for a very a free, we were really enmeshed from long time to disclose the facts about these the outset in devices of suppression and two battles, in the second of which we deception, of preposterous secrecy and had 7,000 casualties. The French call him wilful evasion. Because the people have General Non, non," and evidently he heen told a constant succession of half-made his customary reply of "Non, non" truths and untruths, and often have been whenever he was pressed for information toid nothing at all, they have never been Gaza. able to form those accurate conceptions One outcome of the war already ap of the conduct of the war which are im- parent is the tendency of great commer cial and financial undertakings to amalperatively necessary for a democracy in ramate and thereby eliminate rivalry arm
the
Bank which is still fret with a total of nine
years since the London
tion
any
to have been a soldier before the war 19
Non, non,
it must be acknowledged that he has been In Justice to Sir William Robertson, foremost in encouraging promotions from the ranks, but never beyond narrow limits. The spirit of the Staff College, bateral Allenby was then sent out to which seems to breed exclusiveness and take command Although great moral obstructiveness, broods over our whole and political advantages were undoubted-military machine. I have received many ly obtained by the capture of Jerusalem, bitter complaints on this subject. It is the one strategical justification of an A cause of intense discontent in the New offensive in Palestine this winter would has been rampant, not in the field but in Armies. Throughout the war obstruction have been an advance to Aleppo, Just Whitehall High explosive shells, the north of Aleppo is the vital junction of bombing of German cities, the plan for
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The latest instance is the fusion of the We are heavily taxed, we are subjected London County and Westminster Bank to a multitude of exasperating ordinances, and Parra Book, which is the biggest we are rightly urged to live frugally and movement of the kind so far. The total even to be prepared for a period of serbi capital of the two corporations amounts starvation, and for three and a half years Muslimie, on the Baghdad railway pos building Tanks, the Allied War Council, to £210,000, 200, and, regarded from the size of deposits,
will rank we have accepted these increasing, bebesta session of which would have cut the fur any new and fertile idea from first to combine
ank without complaint. But when it is said kish route to Mesopotamia. The time to last the answer has always been the same next to the London City and Midland that we must give all and say nothing decide about an advance to Aleppo was Upon the doors of the
War Office ATC must also surrender our last July, but at that time the Imperial inscribed the words Non, non, and in that £220,551,768. During the Inet Intellects into military keeping for some General biaff were preoccupied with their the inermest sanctuary there reposes the Westminster amalgamated with the Lon- further unknown period, we are inclined obsessions thout the Belgian coast. Un-mysterious Order in Council the result don and Westminster Bank the enterprise to reply that we will not relinquish the less Aleppo became our objective, the ad of which is a Government which does not vance in Palestine vas and is a blow in govern because it has to spend all its has obtained the largest foreign connee right of free opinion.
of the English banka In
the air. On its present basis it will not time in fighting narrow-minded military this country it has 175 branches, and is I believe that the origin of all this end the war or materially affect the end autocrate clothed
with semi-Prussian licking agent for foreign banking houses in all security, and of the mistakes which have of the war
powers, vision, and imbued part of the world, including Hongkong Bowed therefrom, can be traced to the My contention is that we have to reject with a spirit of obsolete professional Parrs Bask, has no oversens branches. War Office in Whitehall. It is not the the ridiculous suggestion that strategy. formalism, but is very strong in the Midlands and alt of the commanders in the field, as as distinct from tactics, is a mystery the North of England and the advant
antis indicated by Sir Ian Hamilton's upon which neither the Government nor the. We have now to recognise frankly that ages of the amalgamation are obvionsrerful criticism. It began with Lord nation must dare to say a word. When particular Army clique has had supreme STATE HATES FOR FHIPPING.
It is stated that recommendations with Kitchener who at arst actually forbade ever I am told that strategical decisions military control for two years and Eas regard to the Blue-book rates for hire of the Press to mention the preparation of area Great Military Mumbo Jumbo, repeatedly failed to full its own expecta cargo ships requisitioned by the Govern hospitals for the wounded lest the public before which I must bow my head in retions and promises. We must get back I turn to a poem called to constitutional principles. We want ment have been approved by the Cham- might be disturbed. We are told to verent awe,
an Brio ber of Shipping within the past few trust the soldiers." The soldiers in Rimmen," written by Mr. Rudyard trained as Shunter days and they are now under the con- Whitehall have never trusted the public. Kipling He wrote it during the South
We are entitled to say to the Imperial sideration of the Shipping Controller. The time came when Mr. Asquith in his African War, but it has a direct bearing General Staff 11 you had planned For some months dissatisfaction has been turn trusted Lord Kitchener so little that upon the absurd assumption that the
like the dexterity you have shown in Can as regards rates, when he put in Sir William Robertson nation is to go on fighting in silence and your campaigns in the field with anything which are-based upon tonnage and speed as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in darkness to-day. Because of that a ducting your campaigns in the Press, we and
vaxy considerably between different he armed him with a special Order in sumption, because the outlook of the Im should by this time have been across the classes of vessels. Working expense bave Council. The object of the Ordng was to perial General Staff has been narrow and Rhine. For years the resources f increased so enormously that the Govern ment rate either leaves only a small us reduce Lord Kitchener to a ciphery but pedantic, because it has been oblivious of the Empire he been placed et
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We have raised these enormous profit or results in actual loss however, justifiable the original intention the larger issues of the war, because Sir disposal withou limit and without ques of
William Robertson and his subordinates tion. may have been, an unconstitutional posi Chamber of Shipping, having in on was created which should not now be are living in a little world of their own, armies. We have given you millions of freely. vestigated the facts presented by the owners, have placed the facts before the maintained. Hence, for instance, the we are being out-matched in brain power. our boys and you have spent them
Where are they? And are we not entitled Controller, and it is understood that a
weak position of the Earl of Derby, the strong case has been made out for an present Becretary of State for War. The
to ask that new brains should now be ret to work to attain the paramount object amendment of the scale of payment. The powers conferred upon the Chief of the
for which the whole nation is striving final word, however, rests with the Trea- Imperial General Staff without the
Daily Matt. knowledge of the nation are unsuited to
rife among owners
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