PREMIER AND MINERS.
·A STRAIGHT TALK.
The special conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain unanimously passed the following resolution :--
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 3RD, 1918.
GENERAL HERTZOG AND
ALLIES.
REBUKE FROM GENERAL BOTHA.
In the Unich House of Assembly, Cape Town on March 28th General Botha formally moved resolution expressing "That, in view of the ballot vote not the admiration of South Africa for the showing a two-thirds majority, we re-gallantry shown by the British Armies commend the conference to advise the in the battle now in progress in France. men not to resist the taking of 50,000 Sir Thomas Smart paid an eloquent men from the mines for the "Army."
tribute to the bravery of Sir Douglas This course was recommended by the Haig's troops, and Colonel Creswell as
motion.
NINE MONTHS ON THE GERMAN RAIDER "' WOLF". A TWO-MILE SWIM THROUGH SHARKS.
By T. 2. BUEN, SECOND OFFICER OF THE
WAIRUNA"]
About nine months ago, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I became a prisoner of war in Gerning hands. We were close upon 600 miles from Auckland and off Sunday Island when a seaplane from the
FOR ALL WHO HAVE FALLEN.
..
Executive Committee, which met the sociated the Labour members with the raider Wolf flew just above the topniasts Freedom and Hiption, He died for
"
As we came on
FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR.” It has been decided that the memorial to be given to the next-of-kin of those who have fallen, ni the war is to consist of bronzo plaque, one copy of which will be forwarded to the next-of-kin of every member of his Majesty's Forces who has fallen in the war, accompanied by a scroll with a suitable inscription. The
diameter, and
an emblematió plaque or model is of circular form, bin
it will be cast in design, th
our ship, the s.e. l'airusa, and drop gunmetal, and ench
copy will havo Prime Minister a few days previously
pet on the forecastle head a bag with a inserted in the field by an ingeniour and laid before him the result of the Genern) Hertzog agreed with the por ballot, which showed a majority of 35,570 tion of the motion dealing with the red flag, containing a message which said, method of casting) a raised tablet cnclos-
Stop inmediately
Take your orders
ing the name of the person commemorated heroism of the troops. He also agreed from the German cruiser. Do not use against the comb-out.
The design was put out to open com- Mr. Lloyd George's speech to the with the need of a lasting peace, and your wireless or I will bomb you.
After the seaplane had exploded a bomb petition, which resulted in more than 800 Executive was of a particularly frank especially with President Wilson's ad- nature. He said: I am glad that you vocacy of a League of Nations, but he ahead of us we decided to obey the Ger models being submitted Contributions were noticed from Australia, New Zea have given me this opportunity of repet. I objected to the section in the motion pray-man orders, and the big cruiser came up and, and Canada, from Palestine: and ing you. I have watched this ballot, 1ing for success to the arms of the Allies and took us on board.
gave us other parts of the front, though in several need hardly tell you, with great interest To support that sentiment, he said, would deck the crew of Germans and a great measure of anxiety. The be to subscribe to the policy of empire-salute, which we returned. We told them cases mon on active service appeared to vote I will not pretend is a satisfactory all woes. The time had come for peace.new enemy America.
building which had been respossible for we were bound for the country of their have either short notice of the competi tion of insufficient leisure for the con one, because it certainly is not. It is
"Why did America declare war pletion of their designs. These cases were ory that any body of men Neither the Allies, nor the Germans, por very unsatisfactory
the world at large, stood to win anything asked one of the officers Sho is very Bayen special consideration by the Com- in the kingdom in an hour of such emer
If it continued, foolish
mittee. The successful competitor is Mr. gency should feel for any reason that by continuing the war.
I replied Not arf. This expression Carter Preston, of Liverpool. they are not called upon to make a fur it would mean ruin for Europe.
In considering the geroll, the Committee ther contribution towards any effort Mr. J. X. Merriman reminded General seemed to puzzle him very much, and I which is necessary in order to pull the Hertzog that the latter had accepted the was at pains to explain. The ship's had in view the composition of a short country through. The miners of Great post of a Minister of the British Crown doctor inquired if there was any sickness, sentence or two which should express in Britain have made, there is no doubt at and bad taken the oath of allegiance and then we were invited to a bath and suitable wording and dignified English all, as brilliant a contribution to the General Hertzog had deliberately closed presented with a big handful of strong something of the nation's gratitude for Army as any body of men in the whole his eyes to the great issues at stake, and soft sonn and a tub of fresh water. While her heroes who have fallen. With this we were washing ourselves, a German object, some of the first literary authori Empire. That makes it all the more bad dragged in petty, miserable politics. deplorabio that at the last moment, when A number of Nationalist speakers fol officer named von
and the mainly the work of Dr. Montague James, when the failure of Hussia even to defend tion until the injustice done to the Beautiful Hun" on account of his resem. Provost of King's College, Cambridge, blance to the Crown Prince, told us the and a sentence by the late Mr. Charles its own territories has cast upon us the former had been rectified.
war would soon be over as England would Keary, the historian and novelist, has responsibility of making further efforts
General Bethe, in reply, complained be starving in three months. We replied been added. The inscription is surmount to defend liberty in Europe, that We
that the tone of the Nationalist speeches that things were not nearly so bad as ined by a special device, including the should have had this vote.
was anti-British. Not a single word had Germans.
Royal Arms in colour, with the initiale However, the Miners Federation, very
A mine officer named Dieterich told us of his Majesty the King. properly, have throughout the whole of been uttered against Germans Refer-
In view of the large number which will any intention ring to the Republican propaganda, that we would bo well treated, and that these checussions of claiming on behalf of the men of their General Botha reiterated his arm inten. we must not believe the stories about have to be supplied and of the probable brade a privileged position. And ch tion to abide by the signature of the German atrocities in the English papers scarcity both of paper and metal, it is at viously they could not do so. No trade
to ask the Imperial Govern the reason why they were a little can be available for distribution; the pre- met here the engineers at two or three mens to grant a Constitution and then siderate was that at any time a British paration and forwarding, however, will
Republic cruiser might conferences, and bure put it to them turn round and want a
Constitution was framed on South
:
the issue is a question of endurance, and flowed; declining to support the resolu- christened "Little Ram, whom weties were consulted. The final phrasing is
oan claim a privileged position. I have higing Treaty. It was the grossest But, of course, we knew very well that présent ancertain at what date they will
auite bluntly whither. it was their CO Africa's initiative and not at the request be reverse come along and the position be pushed on as rapidly as possible. An
tention that men, because they happened
were entitled to a
tion of
pogi
of the Juperial Government, and be bit
his
e reversedant fear of the British Navy announcement will be made in due course baunted these Germans day and night. method of distribution. to be rivilege and of exemption which terly denounced the Nationalist refusal There was nothing sporting about their to send a message to Sir Douglas Hais conduct. The captain was a typical Hun, when the deeds of velour which were surly and continually bullying being performed were so great that even officers and men. He scarcely ever seemed that we should have to remain below and the
spoke
to take his eyes off the deck and never take the same chance as the German crew. in the highest terms, and when a terrific spoke a civil word to anyone. He would I told him we should have no chance. far struggle for the freedom of the world hurl insults at an officer in front of every was going on. The Nationalists had not body, and seemed to have no gentlemanly mentioned a word about unfortunate instincts. He would never attempt to Belgium and the great sacrifices of
has
German
communiqués
of them
never heard anyone challenge that need. France, because they were on the Allies stop anything but the meat inoffensive other. His answer was that this was
anything below decks and that if we were wounded there was nothing to use for bundages, and that we had the magazine on one side of and about 200 mines on war, and that the British treated their prisoners badly too, and that one of their submarine commanders bad to walk through the streets of London with no boots and very little else on.
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would not be applied to any other trade; and they instantly gave a reply which, I have no doubt, would be the reply that ever miner would give: they said they put forward no such claim. What
It is in this case is this, happene essential for us, if we are to avoid defeat, to have more men to main tain our Armies in the bold. I have
little ships
that were likely to be unarm I have heard people say that we ought side, yet inembers of that House bore cd. He sank a little French schooner one to give in. Well, I do not know that I Huguenot nunes. Amid loud cheers he day, and I remember be turned quite have heard anybody say that we ought referred to the exploit of Bouth Africans white and trenibled when he discovered in Gauche Wood. The only object of the that this craft had two guns on board to give in, but people put forward pro posals the effect of which would be, if Nationalist speeches was to divide the Like the rest of the erew he spoke very
That could only lead to civil
good English
until he got excited, and Whenever there was a hint of a war you accepted them, that you would in country.
then his language was
was quaint. fact have given in. But I have never war.
ship about we were hurried below, the heard anyone y You ought to play General Botha's motion was adopted the Bolshevists part. withdraw your by sixty-three votes to twenty one Lord Two of our comrades, the chief officer, hatches were lattened down, and we could ON SALE AT all stores, clubs, hotels, banks, Etc. Armies from the fuld, hand your cannon cherre greeted the announcement of the Mr. Blake, and the second engineers, Mr hear the movement of the guns over to the enemy, let him capture figures, and the Unionist, Colonel Hea- Steers, of the B., Purritella, escaped, torpedo tube. All the lights were put Laries in France, and murch up to Calnis Votional Anthem at night, to a little island and went out, the alarm bells wounded, there was and only the members, but the occupants of recaptured. It was a very plucky yen thuch shouting and excitement, and every- The Nationalists retained their seats shore and there were quite a number of happened when we were close to the Aus sharks about, some of which we had raling coust. were close to the age throughout Reuter,
We lay flat on our stomachs and on caught only the day before. They escaped
before we were sent below. They top of each other, expecting any moment had Sshing lines wound round them, a to hear an explosion, but nothing hap bottle each full of matches, fish hooks pened. The Germans had had a great made out of nails, a knife, and one of right, and the next day the captain's www-we're the liichelte which they inflated when they voice trembled as he got into the water.
They got over then-n-not out-of-d-d-danger-vysto poop before dark and intended waiting in said: In these hours of crisis the Ger
mans would become almost benevolent the water close to the rudder until dark
towards us, but this manner would Econ wear off as soon as they felt safe.
generally trample den Europe never heard anyone kay that I have never heard anyone say that we had a ghost of a chance of holding our own against this military despotism in Eurotie unless we got more men,
obeyed We had to tell the few who were "THAT IS REAL ANARCHY.”
stubborn that laws are intended for land And I am utterly at a loss to know lords to obey as well as anybody else where the men are to be found if, frse If you begin to have one section of the of all, the engineers say, "We will not community taking upon itself the right find the men, and then the miners say, to determine whether it is going to obey
We will not find the, men.? You do not mind my speaking quite plainly, borders which are intended to defend the news, and then bent off for the island
sun very life of the community, there is They were going to keep together as long
to overnment. Then you will u
of things where combined that they could make a defence if attacked by sbarks
cause we have come here for plain speak end of all
and the
ing: I have no doubt if exemption cove me, the people who will suffer If one man failed the other was their wateurish way of doing things.
claimed, if privileges are established for two of the greatest trades in the king dom, a third trade will come along waiting doubt it over il y al
Very well, we and say claim to take, and we will take, & batios of our members to find out whether they not to be exempted as well as the ought miners, and engineers,
It was a curious crew. There were not more than a dozen real sailors among the lot of them, and we used to laugh at most are not the people who are at the Wo never saw them again, and the top, and who in the long run are gener few of us who knew felt their absence in talks with these men 1 learned that ally able to take care of themselves, but very much, for they were fine fellows and revs or merchantmen before the war. Int
Hungers on game enough for anything. did not miss them until a long while in Germang it seems only the sons of afterwards. They did not know about it the aristocracy and the professional
classes can have commissions.. equad when they sent a lifeboat off with a
I was told that at the beginning of hot beach
the boat, and one man had to
the poor devils at the bottom.
WHY GERMANY HAB ATTACKED.
It has always been so in the history of
government. It means that each group the present day, that those who suffer swim through the ward with a lid of the largest liners afloat, was called This would mean anarchy; it is not the whole world, from the beginning to to have a look at a hut there. They could the war the captain of the Imperatur, one and section of the community is to deter from that sort of pull devil, pull he pulled in a raft. They brought back up as an ordinary senman, and that on four sacks full of oranges, pine apples, medal he was wearing which was given
his identity being disclosed through nine for itself whether it will obey a law baker" business are not the men. which comes from the Stute as a whole, have been strong enough to force them and bananas. With fruit and fish to live by the Kaiser he was made a petty
on our comrades, if they got ashore safely officer. There was a sailor If you are dissatisfied with our policy, selves right up to the top and are able
Own must be living the life of Robinson had a brother the nation can change its Government, to defend themselves with their
Loaden Jiving. and can determine whether there is to strong right arms, but those at the bottom. Cruse, for the, island was apparent hind barbed wire.
It is better that we should talk plainly uninhabited.
suppose, be peace or war. But the moment.
HO Oir, no,” he said, he's a merchant and Lovernment, representing the community when we come here. I am talking with with the full assent, of the House of u good deal of feeling, because are on. Eventually all hands were mastered and one of the officers, informed me that he has become a naturalised British subject.” Commons and this has never been chal- just had this news about this overwhelm then the Huns found out that the two
has taken place
was a member of the Richmond Tennis
House
22
has
It is an attack which, again repeat, of Commons-issues a command, with the unanimous essent of every party been brought about entirely by the failure. rose, or it may have been fear of having Club, m in the State, if you allow each section of Russian deinocracy to have its order to face his commander.
You little
stand yes.
You answer
that we should no longer be treated as
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I regret that, under these conditions, Do you know what has happened to- day! Early this morning the German it is absolutely essential for the Govern armies have attacked us on a front of ment to proceed with the decision which hours out of the 24, together with the laying, and during these operations we sixty miles. They have attacked us with it has deliberately come to in order to that had been captured. Altogetheraner Willie, seeing one of our men awake. country where democracy has failed to miners. it represents, it is perfectly be in Germany when war broke out and expect me to go to sleep when you are began to decide for itself whether it not a Very large majority. The majority would defend its native
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knows what will become of the rest.
un hour a day för 28 days, and buy no ships. The neutral seamen in this ship well as those who were in an American more than one bottle of beer a month.
The most serious punishment was the schooner that was sunk received exactly The Huns did a good deal of of mine- confinement in the hoid of the ship the same treatment as we did. prisoners from the other British- ships
Little down in the hold. were kept overwhelming forces, Witere have they save the country from disaster. This vote
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who guidance at all from their Put up with the discipline like the rest side Wellington--the Cook Strait. whether the miners and engineers are out any guidance agere left with cost and a dilapidated tall hat and Brid was put on board a Spanish steamer that all Goods are being landed at their and value of all packages are required... going to make their contribution to devote to give but they represent a Amused himself very much had so three months suffered for want of medi.visk Into the Godowns of the HoxAZONG For farther particulars, sailing dates, eir
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On the voyage home I was taken which had a German prize crew, and for
lot of gunfire. The other praioners en ang
journey across the Atlantic the Je should be the
second vote is a vote which rather board told us that the foll had been Germans had very cold feet indeed, but beared ment is going to be supported in defend indicates that on the whole even the mailing for two months without seeing a thier got more confident when they notice to the contrary be given before.
mishap. and that they were making for the ing this country and its liberties it is far majority of those who did vote quite codec Isles or overhauling and We made several attempts before we better that the Government should go templated the possibility that the Govern out and
Let us have anarchy in ment should take this action,
If cleaning when they suddenly this it is the only answer..
That is all I am afraid, I can say was a great surprise; ERW US Iot through to get round the north of have left the Godowns, and all Goods Tering
were the island where the ice was very thick em prepared to take the consequences, this attack succeeds, the Germans all on the, poop and the German and the cold intense. Then we reached to rent a snakke me dhe per te ber
they called the first blockade, over and were all but we cannot have the decisions of the be at Calais, and the only answer we have all
quake, on the national Executive submitted to any to give is a vote of the Minera Federa was playing the usual ** Germany
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I do not believe that the miners would mer bang the last and banking away aged will obey the law or not
I bad the same question to decide with give it: I am perfectly certain they would for some time after the others had cleared challenged whewwertere trecked and I asked Dieterich what they would do sased by Danish sailors. Five minutes the land. We gave orders for the cutting not. I know the miners pretty well off up of land in order to increase the food There is no more patriotic body of men fa supplies of the people, and one or two the whole kingdom, and, on behalf of the with us if they went into action with a later and we should have been in the am prepared to take the Britisher or any other cruiser. He said Cattegat and, in German waters, and I should have been a pris er of war in owners of land said, "We decline to but Government,
Germany to-day up our land. The vast majority gladly chance of the miners not giving that (tentimued at foot of next column.)
(Continued at foot of next column)
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