PLOTS FOR ANNEXATION
OF MONTENEGRO. EXPLOITING COUNTRY'S SORROW
FOR GAIN,
HOPE OF FEDERATION OF SLAV PEOPLES.
them.
THE
HOW GERMANY DUPED OUR
FOREIGN OFFICE.
STHIKING REVELATIONS.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1918,
ARMADA OF DECOYS
*~~ A DUMMY FLEET
MBAT WINDFALL.
AMERICAN FOOD SAVER S SURPRISE OFFER,
vnom za MORNING" POET'S" "WASHINGTON Secret of how a Birtish squadron of four & What food-saving means to Amerize-
SES CORRESPONDENT.]
The amazing and jealously guarded,
teen wooden battleshipy, arined only with wooden guns, deceived, the Germans Boven months in the North
Papers which have come into the posses decoyed them into the Dogger and Great Britain was shown in a pithy
apech at a Botary Club luncheon at the Holborn Restaurant, recently, by '}
ester is now disclosed here for the first William Goode, linison officer between the British and American food adminis time (says the Daily Express Correspon|||
trations. dent at New York),
I have never seen live men so far
The story is told by an officer of the Royal Naval lieserye who was actually apart as Lord Rhondda and Mr. Hoover on board the flagship of the squad work better together he said
on, and the New York Times, in giving The American people are now asked the astonishing narrative to the world to observe for our sakes, wheatless describes the conception and execution Monday and Wednesday, a meatless This of this iden of the Suicide Fleet" as day, and one meatlem and one wheatless the biggest trick of the war mal every day.
brief foreword 1 states: British ccatore kept the secret of the dummy flect antil a few days ago, when a cablegran brought word that the Admiralty no longer objected to publication of the facts
The officer-eye-witness story follows: From a White Star liner to the lag. ship of the British Suicide Squadron a single gun nor fired a shot, yet led the North Sen, keeping the
the grey armada which never mounted
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played an important sale in the battle of Degger Bank-this was my experience in doing my hit for the Allies,
No such colossal war-jest has bean played on an enemy since the days of the Trojan horse. The British Ad miralty tantaised the German Navy with mysterious manouvres of a wooden squadron, some of the vessels, made of barn lumber, and the Germans were com pletely billed for months by the unex pected number of their enemies.
Can you wonder that the following poem is having wide circulation 3 -
My Tucedays are meatless.
My Wednesdays are wheatlens, I am getting more catless each day My home it is hentless. My bed it is sheetles They're all sent to the YMCA. -Thazbar-rooms are treatiess,
My coffee is secties, Each day I get, poorer and wiser. sy stockings are feetless. My trousers are sentiasS
M51: How I do hate the Kaiser!
At the beginning of last month Mr. Hoover cabled the Ministry of Food saying he found that in consequence of his conservation campaign he had 150 million pounds of bacon and twenty-five million pounds of frozen meat above whats our own representatives in America had citimated as likely to be available
Could we take it to app
sion of the Attorney-General of the State There is probably to country in of New York prove conclusively how Ger Europe certainly no one of the Allies many pronted owing to the laxity of the of which settle is known by the blockade under the direction of the average Englishman as Montenegro Foreign Often, and it is no exaggeration is the smallest of the Allied States to any that if the Navy had been having a population of 450,000, compered and the blockade had been enforced posed of simple soldier and pensant folk the Navy and not by the Foreign living under primitive conditions. Yet Office Germany before this would have this small country has a history and been brought to her knees. It is due to this for bravery and independence the fact that the seas, although techni which never fail to appeal to British people whenever they are presented to ally closed, were open to Germany onted to between 1914 and 1910 that she was able
to prolong the war. Unfortunately, Montenegro is unrepre sented diplomatically and therefore, THE FOLO INVESTIGATION.
When the French Government asked the has no voice in England. Thus, in the past, she has been the victim of injustice of
Washington Government to investigate and a prey to Austrian intrigue the intrigues of Bolo Pastin in America which this war has furnished some startling instances. Hemmed in by the the inquiry was conducted by the Gever hostile diplomacy, she has been nor of New York through Mr. Lewis, the of seu and, conséquently, of all chance of investigation resulted in the rent and deprived of her proper outlet to the Attorney-General of the State. The expansion. What is her position to-day, internment as dangerous alien enemica Naw huddled behind its minefie chaving given her all in the present of Hugo Schmidt, agent in America of wart Evidently, it is most deplorable. the Deutsche Bank; Adolph Pavonstedt, Under the heel of Austria, her inhabit theri pastaer in a prominent New You anta are dying of starvation in the importing house; and Eugene Schwerdt mountains: practically all her natural who came to New York early in August, leaders have been deported to Hungary, 1914. The arrest of Schmidt led to the where they have been interned and are seizure of his papers, which showed that suffering hunger; families are separated for two years Germany had been able to
other's knowing nothing of each
get wool jute, and other raw materials existence the King is in exile, the From British firing, and cotton and similar Government temporarily established in essential articles from the United States, Paris, where it is watching, anxiously.
Mr. Lewis has permitted the New York the course of events. But, at least, itimes to examine some of the Schmidt the rallying point for national interest papers, and it is these documents which
disclose the facts. Almost immediatels The wooden ships, without a single resinnt for the hold-up of shipping in following the outbreak of war the Co weapon aboard British Navy men called man Clovernment formed a secret them mock turtles helped Britannia organisation of banks and business house to rule the waves during the first year to obtain aw materials in the world's of the war, and the Germans never ones markets. Schwerdt, who had been agent suspected that they were sught but what in Belgium for n British South African they seemed. The foe did not catch on wool exporter, arranged with American to the joke even when one of their sub
sanko dummy at the marvel of a flagship to ipapist our poor, concerns scmposed of Germans to buy Dardanelles, where it was serving as a benighted dummy, we grinned. wool from his principal, which was shipped to New York and paid for mail ship for the Allied fleets. The entire crew was drawn up at af through a New York banking house by They announced and rejoiced that tention on deck when the admiral's | drafts on London, the New York bank British battleship of the class was launch touched at our companionway being reimbursed by Behmidt sunk by one of our submarines, On the aft deck he stopped and turned although the huge guns and turrets of to the group of officers behind hise, ud- SHIPMENTS THROUGH NEUTRALE the Dreadnought doated for days dressing our commodore.
What ship After arriving in New York the wool
fearen asked was transhipped to European neutrals, I never dreamed that I was soon do you represent, sir?," he and by them sent to six of the leading to serve in the lingship of the squadrons quickly
The Ajaz, sir replied Haddock. woollen firms of Germany. It is not The whole secret came to me through the
Then that boat doesn't belong there. necessary to give the names of the inter company depot officer when he offered to mediaries, banks, and other persons, transfer me to that service. I accepted. sir returned Jellicos, pointing to a although they all appear in this New York and was ordered to report for duty at small skiff: suspended amidships, Times Smothly were the German tiny Scotch town on he North Sou plans working that as early as December The special service squadron made 1514; a credit of £25,000 was established an appalling show of fighting strength her full and natural seaboard and South African bank to be drawn as it iny at anchor in the little land dummy as a whole departed
upon by the British exporter through the locked harbour which was its base London branch of a New York bank. Is and I wondered if the tale that the the following month Schmidt bought were dummies were not a farce for the domestic wool in the United States valued consumption of spies
"MODEST AMBITIONS.
Montenegro, none the less, has not lost hope that her powerful Allies, will She turns see her wrongs fighted. asperinfly to Great Britain and America But alas her: enemies are not wholly from without. She has to face on element, akin to her, that attacks ho insidiously.
This situation was dealt with in a conversation which M. Haido kovitch, Minister of War and off Interior,
accorded to a Daily Chronicle representative.
His Excellency began by saying that he was much pleased to make the posi tion of his country clear to English- speaking people. Montenegrin aspira tion, ware, both modest and legitimate They include, he asserted with emphasis, no scheme to annex the territory of others but simply to restore to the country the frontiers torn from her in 1678. The effect of that had been to contine Montenegro to her rocks and depof natural development
to her he said. impressivo such territory as will ford fie a zes sonable chance of economic and indus trial development tes
y
marines
MOCK TURTLES_______
The offer was so unexpected that wo had to hustle to get the finance and the shipping for this windfall. If it were American porte due to the congestion of American railways and the dockyards our bacon and meat shortage would already have been seed by these fine shipments
In some embarrassment, the commodore ordered it to be removed immediately Jellicoe turned his attention elsewhere, and finally after expressing approval of
One could hardly realise that we were the most harmless ship afloat in those troubled times and that the effective wea pops aboard the leader of the battle ins consisted of two toy rifles which their oners kept for sea birds
Another shipment of Cape wool was faft from which great guns protrude Whenever we put to aca & fast-steam.
always went ahead to scout for us, and many times during the seven months
which I served in the dummy flenty but never a close call,
to the 110,000, and in March 9,000 bales of Sunt naval bridges towards above decks had submarine alarms from the scout
SA MILITARY CLOTH.
GUNS.
But some of our movements were re ported in Berlin, although our identity or fraudulent appearance was not known or disclosed.
when the German Admiralty fre tly announced during the summer: 1918, Our Davel eouts sighted a
at our approach the neutral world, well knowing the British naval tradi lons, smiled at Teutonic simplicity. That tale was regarded as merely one of the many circulated by official Germany 107 home
ope consumption.
Coming to the present state of Mon shipments of wool for military elor not have sunk a rowboat out it was probably true, although the
I use the word clique in connec
because they
M. Halicloukovitch pointed, to a rány which was before him a map remark at £12,000, which was consigned to a firm Never have I seen warships with a thie for the fact that it gave Monteriegio in a neutral European country in pearance more genuine Grey monster they were, with double turrets fore and a new and enlarged outline in colebruary! fortaity withd elzi
ex-made which was insured in New York for wicker masts with crow's nests, and tends from
stripped for action, and anti-aircraft south of Scutari) to the Nafenta und South African wool purchased for the Drinn, which form the hathorn bound- account. of the Gubener Hat Manufacturns and range finders pointed in every
direction. Herzogovita. There of
There is n
n-slighting Company, of Berlin, were plainly Pounding off of the extreme north of referred to in the Schmidt papers asAll of them had steam up, as if reads NEWS FOR BERLIN. Montenegro into Serbian territory intended for war uniform purpose to dash to sea. Not in my twenty years Another rectification would give Mou This last purchase required a further at sen have 1 gazed on a more forond Lenegro its old seaboard on the Adriatic credit in Louth Africe of £50,000, which able squadron if the eye alone war now dominated by Dalmatia. Such as Arranged by the Deutsche Bankdge LOGS FOR GUNS restoration would about double the aren of Montenegro and give her a chance of instructing a New York bank to negotiated
a baard, the joke was evident at once sight drafts of the British exporter industrial expansion. Petroleum wells through its London agency, this wool The fighting turrets were little woodan and iron mines exist along the Virpazar being, ostensibly purchased by an Ameri-barns, with hare rafters inside. The squadron of British warships which fet Antivari line in the neighbourhood of Lake Scutari. If and when Montenegro can concern with a German name for the great guns were logs, graduated from
sawraill, tapered and bored in exact wealth will be vastly ut her mineral use of European neutrals.
imitation of naval cannon.. indicated by the deposits existing in her new (und
Schmidt's records show many other Not a single gun aboard We could farmer) territory.
Schmidt, however, was not conuning his The deck was covered with tightly tenegro the Minister expressed regret energies solely to procuring woul. In stretched, canvas, painted grey to reprefiermans themselves knew no more than that certain self-appointed representa January, 1810 lt was negotiating through sent the smooth steel deck of a men of the rest of the world that those British tives of the Jugo-Slavs, together with Calcutta Bros for jute, and this memo war, so that reconnoitring acroplars sols declined battle
enoidn't fight some Serbinna, had exploited the sorrows randum among his papers attests to the would be deceived, idque of his country and soon in them a necessful conclusion of a transaction.
Antiquated merchantmen of about 9,030 enly to the eye and were warships" opportunity for aggrandisement. These
took the Admiralty themselves to dis persons were plotting for nothing less Jute from Calcutta for New York tons burden, unfit for sea traffic in the battle of the Dogger Bank than the annexation of Montenegro.. Credit on London. To Black and Son."ordinary times were the material out
Rec Black and Son were a New York con of which the Admiralty constructed the cover what we really did in the spank- log of Germany's prize squadron. tion, continued the Minister, for in cera, another of Schmidt's intermediaries, squadron. The flagship; however, was a David Beatty's famous squadron of battle no sense do these plotters represent and when the jute arrived in New York better bottom than the others
cruisers, led by the Zion at that time the
· The ironical part of her history was word in naval achievement, was either Montenegro or Serbia, in whose it was shipped to a Scandinavian port interests they are presumably acting and thence to Meissen, in Germany that she was a captured German boat, inside Harwich or thereabouts, and not
org in or ove the Aronprinzessin Cecilie
discernible But the peoples of Montenegro and Through the same channels many other Serving in dummy warships did not to scouts. 1 over the North Serbia are brothers and only desire to shipments of inta were made to Germany mean that our duties and discipline vere The dumpy
was mancnering live in perfect harmony. No nation There are scores of entries in the shame likewise. The same rigid system aboht one aundred miles north of that wires or at outlet to the sea and cutie op wielking to coton, use prevailed as in the vessels we sore made point, in easy view, and experts deduca se Serbin with an quantities of which went to innocent" Guo driils were our only
hat was bought with Germunity. The men to drill with believes firmly than she in the federation man money for German war purposes bonts and race with the crews of other ported the way clear for another raid of the Slay peoples. King Nicholas lias Some of the cotton went vid Italy and
on the English coast. When the Germans ships when in port. At specified in came out, Beatty appeared at uncomfort worked for it for 40 years. But that does Switzerland to Germany, but most of it tervals we all had to effect a landing on ably close quarters nad offered them a nct satisfy these misguided persons, was shipped to Rotterdam and Gothen a supposedly hostile shore and charge up better port for which they seemed to against whom wish solemnly to warn burg. Every one knew the ultimate hill in lifehelt and collar. Encum haya: little relish. In the running fight
English people, so br WADAHAN INFAMOUS FAUT, destination of this. cotton, that is, every. bered with the heavy equipment we fat that followed the Bacher made port in You must remember that the infatious one except the Foreign Office which, fellows had a tough time of it always Davy Jones locker before the discomfited
despite protests, stubbornly refused to reaching the top too jaded to hurt & tond visitors reached their minefields, Pact of Corfu the adjective is not too interfere and tied the hands of the Navy and too late to serve even as reinforced strong which seemed so innocent in its Schmidt' a systematic habit of putting ments to our comrades. declarations, deliberately advocated the everything in writing shows that the Ger
Two of our dummies attained world absorption of country, slightest reference to the, without the mans got a dose of their own medicine
notice, and even then nobody guessed people of even of the Serbians. It is A German-owned munition factory in Commodore Haddock, who commanded that they were not real ironclads. One apparent that any general appeal to the Sweden, Schmidt discovered, was selling the squadron, had been for years before was detached for foreign service, and people of these two countries is impossible 90 per cent of its output to the Japanese, the war captain of the White Star liner with one small gun set up on her decks, He was assisted by both mer was ordered to relieve a cruiser then in present
with so many in who in turn resold it to the Russian Olympic
Government for use against the German chantmen and naval officers, the latter hanging off Nantucket, The real war The New York directing the maneuvres of the quad vessel was sent away upon business that Austria,
Armies in the **Such
going evidently required real guns English people us approved the Times quotes the Attorney-General on over new de noterealise its import. It was saying that the papera he allowed to be We never knew where we were of Another dummy who sunk, and thus Pasineered by this clique of which sen are only a small part of those in his where we were when out of aqua
to the inadvertently guve comfort to speak, which had received no mandate possession, but they are enough to prove
the odds on the sea. It was after thé from anybody. Montenegro is a con- that Germany was able to Net Porrons of the British Navy, we were con-enemy although her loss hardly affected
tinually joining and quitting the Grand stitutional country through the Skup blockade is now effective, and the fact that dash to sea at any moment.
and proposals of this needed from her enornica, However, the Fleet, where it lay at its base ready to pecial service squadron had been điển continued that No 14 came to grief The remainder of her consorts had been permanently interned at Belfast
exile and in the grip of!
sort just be
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THE COMMANDER,
to
WORLD-PAKE
spersons represent two or three millions supply is indicated by the news that is named us
of Ingo Slavs in Austria The object of coming out of Germany now.
shtina. Again, how could a handful of Germany is cut off from the sources of it Suicide Squadroni 72- to Before disbanding, however, we were
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no small thing to venture told that the Admiralty considered the this arrangement was to establish an
out upon the sea unarmed and defence dummy flest a success, inasmuch as the empire of Crests, Slovenes, Serbians and
less in the garb of the submarines legit Dogger Bank episode was in part our Montenegrins under the rule of a Kara
mote prey. Sometimes upon quitting achievement. georgevitch. This is Imperialism with
and the elite of the nation is in exile the main flect, we left one or more of outhough there is no official authority vengeance! Again, if the monarchy s Is this the moment for such an attack own squadron and brought out an equal for the theory, it is possible that the to be the link for this new nation, let I repeat that: Montenegro has a strong thờ • ren] it be a Petrovitch, with a reigning tradi- and vital sympathy of her Serbia number of the real boya exactly like Germans, when they reported having tion of several hundreds of years, rather brothers and desires for them, as for The Grand Admiral of the British sunk the British battleship Agamemnon, referred to the dummy ship No 14. than a newly established line such as the herself, a happy, free and extended Navy on board a dummy flagship sounds at city rate, the sinking of the Agamem Karageorgevitch
preexistence. She will never cease to pre like German satire, but it was a fact on non was denied by the British, and the We shall never consent to such a protest agaipat the intrigues of political one cession. When we learned that Sig Germans undoubtedly thought No. 14 ject Its character is seen when it is propagandists, who try apparently, u John Jellicoe was coming with his steel was a real var vessel at least, for * realised that Montenegro is disorganised Sow seeds of discord between the two
Hem (Continued at foot of neat Column.) day or so after they torpedoed her. sisters--Montenegro and Berbia (Continued at foot dy next Column.)
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