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HONGKONG
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE
DAILY PRESS."]: Sin, I beg that you will be so good as to publish the enclosed letters, which I have just received from Excellency Borton Pasha
Post Office for distribution among the Any papers or books sent to the General
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letters how much such reading matter is Your readers will see from the enclosed
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S. B. C. ROSS (Postmaster General).
Hongkong, 10th June, 1918.
[ENCLOSURES.] Egyptian Postal Administration,
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of all, and secking it in paths along that there can be no perfect reciprocity which no good is to be found, but rather and that always one nation will have the cercless perplexity and ceaseless sources better of a bargain, achieving it by the It is, perhaps, not going methods employed by the Cheap Jack and too far to say that it is this side his customers at a country fair. This is of diplomacy which keeps militarism to bring the worst and most discredited alive, makes large armies necessary, feature of commercialism into the diplo keeps the nations apart, and makes matic field--or, rather, to argue for its real understandings impossible. Recent continued existence there, for, unhappily. ly, the curtains have been partly drawn diplomatic negotiations are too often aside by the Bolsheviks and the inner considered as successful or otherwise sanctuary of this side of diplomacy has according as one side or the other ins been revealed. We have seen of what got the better of the bargain. Seorecy forwarding you a copy of a letter received
24th April, 1918. DEAR SIR-I have much pleasure in Particularly suited for Tennis poor stuff this diplomacy consists, how in negotiations of any kind implies some capricious and fitful its movers, how trespass on the rights of others. The man
from the Chairman of the United Services Welfare, which distribute the books and, little it has to do with the real benefits of who is not seeking to take any unfair public for the use of the troops in Egypt.,
literature so kindly forwarded by your humanity The spectacle of the KAISER advantage of the other side or of a circulate this letter, which, I hope may Possibly you may like to publish or and the TSAR concocting schemes of the outside parties does not regard. secrecy still further stimulate the despatch of highest import to their respective coun-
as necessary, and in a treaty formed this reading matter which 19 so much tries with the insouciance of schoolboys
on perfectly reciprocal lines no advan appreciated. is not an edifying one. Had the KAISER tage should be sought, or obtained.
With renewed thanks, believe me, yours and the Tase any special ability for the Perhaps
this
(Sd.) N. T. BORTON, end is unobtainable, guidance of their respective States along but
Postmaster-General; Egypt this is no argument against The Postmaster General, Hongkong. such dangerous paths, taking it that the
approximation. and persistency in paths had to be traversed, which is by no high aims. It is by the denunciation means unarguable? Considered opinion of all secret treaty-making and the of the KAISER does not credit him with demand that all treaties shall be consider any high intellectual gifts.
Judged as the law of the land, and, therefore ments, even before the war came to in-
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disown them-tales of bargainings and hagglings which give a sinister aspect to many public utterances concerning this war which is to make the world safe for democracy.” The part taken by the
Owing to St. Anthony's Church being ander repair, the feast of St. Anthony will not, the Rector informs is bo cele brated in that church on Sunday next.
At the summit of Henn Hill, Yoka. hama, on May 30th, the British Ambas ander to Tokio unveiled a monument to the remors of Will Adams, the first
people in these negotiations was, of British subject to land in Japan. couser nit. The bargaining was done by those supposed to represent them, but who chiefly represented the feudal idea that an inorense in the power and influence of the rulers was the end to be sought. Even in those countries where overlord- ship has faded into a mere formality it is noticeable that diplomacy remains the least affected of all Governmental retivi tis. The power of the secret treaty still reigns there, with all its inherent capa city for plauging peoples into wars which they do not desire and little understand, Whether such secret treaties are binding on the nations which nominally form them is a point which might well be argued. In
In the Constitution of the
Mr. T. F. Gilkinson, late of the Cus toms cruiser service, has been promoted Captain in the Royal Field Artillery and has been awarded the Military Cross with A bar. He was wounded on March 21st, the opening day of the great offensive.
The following cases of communicable discases were notified in the Colony on Saturday:-Cerebrospinal fever, 8 (3 deaths); bubonic plague, 3 (3 deaths); diphtheria, 1 (1 death); and enterie fever, 1 (death). All the sufferers were Chinese.
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***** 22nd April, 1918, Sin,The Committee of the United Services Welfare wish to thank
you most sincerely for the books, etc
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appreciation and thanks. It is difficult to procure books here, and your contrikur- tion is of the greatest assistance to us in meeting the many requests we get. --Again thanking you Yours faithfully,
(Sd.) C.-W. STRICKLAND (Chairman). H.E. N. T. Borton Pasho,
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FIGHTING THE TURKS IN PALESTINE
INTERESTING LETTER FROM LIEUT, H, WHITE:
Second Lieutenant H. J. White, of the Devonshire Regiment, formerly of the Hongkong Hotel, writing to his
Mrs. H. White, of Zetland other
Aives
wounded. He says:-- a description of the fight in which he was
the wound I received on my right arm You will be interested to learn that
.in.
Palestine is getting better daily.
I am at present in the Red Cross Hospital nt Cairo, where the sisters and nurses are very kind, making things comfortable and boutely.
description of the fight wo had with the “I promised 1 would give you a Turks, and here it is-We were having still fighting all along the line and several many wounded. Of the five of us who officers and men were killed and a good came out from England, with my regi ment one has made the great sacrifice, while three of us are in Hospital here. Commissioner, Changsha, bas received ate man, but he was killed outright, the Mr. E. F. 8. Newman, Acting Postal The other man has been invalided to
England. Poor Floyd was the unfortu His Majesty's licence and authority to bullet pussing through his brain, such United States there is a wise provision wear the Insignia of the Fifth Class of a nice young fellow and, only nineteen
that all treaties shall be a part of the
they shall be sanctioned like other lawa supreme law of the land that is to say,
people. This, of course, makes the secret by the duly elected representatives of the
treaty impossible, for, as its provisions are not a part of the law of the land, there is no guarantee that it would be respected. Actually considerent, this is the position of all secret treaties; they are not the law of the land, and, conse quently, they are made and broken with disastrous frequency and inconsistency Even treaties which are ultimately com- municated to the public would be none the worse for being made a part of the
the Order of the Excellent Crop, which the President of the Republic of China has been pleased to confer upon him.
Mr. Charles J. Ferguson, second son of Dr. J. U. Ferguson, of Peking, Second Lieutenant in the 14th Regiment 178. Reserve Engineers, has been promoted First Lieutenant.
In a letter dated March 28th, Licut, Ferguson said that he had just returned from leave in Paris arriving at his post the morning of the big drive, and for five days of continuous moving he had not taken off his clothes,
Mr. Denman Fuller will give an organ
years old! Our Colonel, too, has been sent home with shattered nerves.
about 3 &.m. climbing up hills, crossing The night I was wounded, we set off at
valleye-nothing like the ones over in Kowloon; all just cliffs and rocky bould ers. By 7 a few of my men were rest of us were dog-tired, footsore and suffering from sprained ankles, while the weary At 7.30 am, the fun started beginning to rattle for all they were shrapnel, pipsqueaks, and machine-guns worth. We opened out our ranks, and, no sooner had we done so, than a shell fell just a few feet away from as, bat, It was awful, and how we managed to fortunately, it proved to be a dud get as far as we had without sustaining any casualties passes my comprehension. I guided my platoon, to the spot I was ordered, and a few minutes later the Company Commander arrived and, after look ng round, asked us to move further down. Well, I got my men together and moved down Johnny Turk must have seen me, though, because no sooner had than bang! my arm went. This was I risen to are if my men were all right about 10 a... My Sergeant was not long in coming up and he dressed my wound. All the while the Turks were battering is the proper aim of such diplomatic by request and will include, amongst away at us and dodging our fire. About documents. The wisdom of the framers others, the Intermezzo from Cavaleria" 2...
managed to get a stretcher and of such treaties is not above dispute, and by Mascagni, the slow movement from was carried a mile on it in the pouring
rain. From there I was transferred on" a discussion by the people's representa Schubert's Unfinished Symphony," to a camel and taken to the clearing line, tives would serve to not right such defects Rackinau noff's Prelude in sharp where the doctor dressed my wound As to the negotiations preceding the minor, an extremely fino
properly. My last stage of the journey Prelude from was in a motor ambulance and here w formation of treaties, it has been cinimed Rheinborger's Sonata in E flat mmor, I now in Red Cross Hospital doing
extremely fl that these at least should be conducted in and the third movement from an organ secret, of the ground that otherwise all suite by the recitalist. It will be remem bargaining would be impossible. Mr. A. bored that the second movement “Out of MAURICE LOW, in the North Ameritan the Past" was played at the last recital. feries while arguing for the abolition A collection will be made for the Organ of all secret treaties and advocating the Fund, for which $2,000 is still wanted Lieut. White says: What a shocking Referring to the Gresson Street tragedy insertion in the peace treaty that is to to clear off the debt on this fine instruthing Poor Sullivan and Clarke Any- conclude this war of a provision that in
HORGLONG, 11TH JUNE, 1918,
SECRET TREATIES. An if the tenant in his rags and law of the land and receiving the assent recital in St. John's Cathedral on Monday tatters was not more important for the
of the people's representatives. Time next at 6 p.m. Mrs. W. J. Hill will be passing hour than all the starred and and again it has been shown that the the vocalist and will sing a number from ribboned Ambassadors in London." The provisions of a treaty, have pressed Gaul's The Holy City" and a solo by reference goes back to 1893, when tho hardly on one section of the people and the popular song-writer Dorothy Forster, Liberal Government of the time was failed to make for that reciprocity which Most of the organ pieces are being play trying to pass a land Bill for the protec tion of Irish tenants. The leader of the House of Lords, who also held the post of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, did the Bill "rather less than justice in Lord MORLEY's opinion, for, he had been busy with foreign affairs all the afternoon," a preoccupation which arous ed the caustic comment set forth above, Substituting for the "tenant in his rega and tatters" the ordinary and average ALEXEND," 109, THE FRAX, SIX man, the remark admits of a wider appli
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I later beard that we managed to drive the Turks back some distance and gain some ground, so that, after all, my konad is nothing compared to the success we have achieved for Right. against Might.
how they did their duty like brave an noble fellows. May they rest in peace.