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FRIDAY, JULI 5ra, 1918,
THE WAR.
(Continued from Page G.)
General.
LATEST CABLES, NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN COLONISATION OF COURLAND.
AMSTERDAM, July 3rd.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN LIDDELL THE STRAIN OF ST. GEORGE
·PROMINENT SHANGHAL
MERCHANT,"
A PERSISTENT TYPE.
{PROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES." It was with feelings of very deep
For one day in the year let it be pers regret, he practically the whole committed to praise in the famous men of munity of Shanghai, that the news was our race the undying strain of St. received yesterday morning (says the George. His device was on their shield; NC. Daily News of June 27th) of the his name was wedded to their dreams of sudden death of Mr. John Liddell, which England in them be carro to had occurred at a hospital in Tokio, fol- into the legends of this hero the
turmour.
life, for
George
A Kovno telegram in the Rheinische Jowing upon an operation for abdominal the nation always read itself off West-Purlische states that the lands About two months ago Mr. Liddell dis- settlement scheme in Courland, mention-covered that he was not in the best of
he is the image that England has made has ceased through them to be a a legend
ed yesterday, lays down that owners with health, and later took medical advice out of the records of a thousand encount
a minimum of 300 hectares are obliged to sell one-third of their land at the 2014 prices.
EARLIER CABLES.
WAR PRISONERS EXCHANGE
THE HAGUE, July 2nd. Sir George Cave left suddenly for Eng- Jand.
At the time, he had intended to visit the 's with a thousand dragons. That is United States on holiday, his passage
the St. George we remember to-day, already having been booked; but after
. The strain has recurred in every age learning the result of the doctors
under every circumstance of fate; in all dingnosis, he decided break is the buffing variety of character, reveal- journey at Tokio to undergo an opera-ed in the long story, St. George is always tion. Leaving Shanghai by the T.K.E.S. found; we received him from an Eastern Siberia Maru on June 13th, Mr. Liddell
experienced a smooth passage to Nagaland the half-mythical hero striving in by a typhoon and as a result of the rough monster"; we have restored him to the saki, but there the steamer was delayed an Eastern desert against an impossible weather met with between Nagasaki and It is understand that Mr. Lloyd George Laddell to land at the latter port and Kobe, it was foumi necessary for Mr. summoned him, as his presence was re-proceed to Tokio by rail in a private car quired in connection with important On Friday last, que anniversary of his Parliamentary matters.
60th birthday, fr. Liddel was operated
our race, who siner the day's of Richard world, quickened to life in the noblest of*
of the Lion Heart have fought under his banner; and under the same
upon in the Tokio Hospital, and his with reserve and delays often-
Lord Newton and Lieut-General Sir many friends in Shanghaj were pleased Herbert E. Belfield will continue the to learn that a telegram had subsequent prisoners' negotiations.
ly been received to the effect that he had stood the operation splendidly. Un Monday, however, a further telegram DUTCH CONVOY TO DUTCH stated that his condition was critical. On Tuesday evening, a telegram timed INDIES.
prior to û p.m., was to the same effect, and yesterday morning the sad news was received of his death, which had ocenrred the previous evening, presumably between 8 and 5.30 p.m.
THE HAGUE, July 2nd. The Foreign Ministry in a statement regarding the decision to send a Dutch convoy to the Dutch Indies, says Holland
The late Mr. John Liddell, who was partner in the firm of Liddell Bros. Co., was born in Scotland (we under
scarcely aware of what we were doing, we have ranged ourselves in the ancient conflict between light and darkness.
There was a Georgius of Lydda 'nmong those
whose names are justly revered among men, but whose acts are: knowu only to God. But is not to the martyr-saint in his dying, but to the knight slaying the dragon, that the heart of England has turned with a certain
at the end of April offered to guarnales stand in Edinburgh), on June 2lat, 1858afiuity. This slayer of the dragon lives
that the military interests of the belli gerents would not be affected.
Great Britain replied that Great Bri-Shanghai, he always took the keenest in tain never recognised convoying as an right of neutrals, but that. as a tangibly proof of British feiendship for Holland. Great Britain would not put difficulties in the way of the convoy if certain con ditions were fulfilled..
Holland replied that the conditions practically accorded with the Dutch guarantees.
A list of the cargoes of the convoy was supplied to the belligerents and the do parture of the convoy was arranged for
June 10th..
Great Britain on June 18th objected that although it was anderstood no goods of fierman origin, would be carried, the steamer Noordam contained dyestuffs of purely German origin.
THE MAN-POWER PROBLEM
Loxoos, July 2nd.
In the House of Commons, on a motion for an adjournment to enll attention t the serious effect of combing out agricul tural inbouters, Mr. Prothero, continuing his speech, said that what they were ask. ing the men on the land was nothing com. pared to what they were asking men at the front. He admitted that farmers camiot epare men, but he found every
and first arrived in China en January within the circle of those immortal le- 9th, 1888. Throughout his residence in gends, which carry us far behind the terest in the Settlement's affairs HeYears when Diocletian persecuted the was a member of the Municipal Council Church and a soldier died for his faith; 1992-3 and 1905-6; was once President through the legend of the dragon we are rotation; and as an evidence of the innked to Theseus und Hercules and Per. of St. Andrew's Society, retiring by terest he took in sport, it may be met seus, all of whom repeat in perfect brauty. tioned that ne played cricket and golf the same tale of the same struggle. Every in his younger days, was a ember of son of England who takes the name of continuously a Steward of the Shanghai to strike at the same foes of which they the Light Horse S.V.C., and for 10 years St. George on his lips, stunds dedicated Race Club His chief pastine, however, told in those legends; it is the sume was racing, and as an owner he has been warfare from which there is no discharge a prominent figure for several years. for humanity; and there was no vow His principal successes on the turf were a man could take then that a man must with Ravenshoe, third in the Derby, not take now." 1909 Au Revoir, second in the Gritius 1007, and third in the Criterion Stakes, Stakes, 1892; Misted winner of the Maiden Stakes in 1913; Resilient, winner of the Shanghai St. Leger in 1910; and Gladiator, winner of the Shanghai St. Leger in 1917 second in the Spring lampions of that year, and third in the Autumn Champions, in addition to win- ning the Siccawei Cup at the recent Shanghai Spring Menting, after having been defeated by a margin of a head by Beaconsfield in the Cathay Cup the previous day.
INDIA AND THE WAR.
THE VICEROY'S SPEECH.
A conference which promises to be
have been slow to see the dragons; they The representative men of this propte are ready for long to believe that the dragon is not a dragon at all; but when once they have understood that there the weak, they are ready to strike, and to a monster straddling across the path of strike hard. It is this strain that wo knight. praise to-day. It is the spirit of the
kindles our pride. With the strain of St...
not always his deeds, litet George within them sometinies they suito dragons, which were not dragons after all; they smote each other with the age dear remembrance of their Lord" upon their breasts, each thinking the other to be the dragon; their facts were wrong, but their spirit rang true, and it is easier to pat facts right than to renew a right spirit.
We know the strain in our Elizabethan. aseamen; buccaneers, a they often were, great historical event assembled at they struck at the heart of a tyranny Delhi recently in connection with the they knew how to hazard their lives in Prime Minister's recent appeal to India the struggle, as neat to heaven by sen to redouble her war efforts. Lord Chelmsford said:
as by
But no less is it found in. We are met
farmers' deputation willing to release hero in quiet purpose and stern Cromwell, lifted and urged on as he was
men on the sence of patriotism because they had the imagination to realise what was going on on the Western Front. He could not say that the harvest would be saved, for all these 30,000 men were skill ed and many were key men. without whom unskilled masses of labour were unman- agrable. But he believed that not much of the harvest would be lost. Only the absolute need of men would have induced the Governracut to take the step. He hoped that the agriculturists would meet the situation with the same cheerful courage and patriotisin as previous difficulties.
Several members criticised sending men to the front after only a brief training. Mr. Bonar Law said that the Govern ment recognised that men and boys were handicapped in having to fight on such
to answer the call which the King Em-in lus work by a stranger power. It is peror makes to 19--namely, that Right in Bunyan, who drew from life Might Germany (h continued) had his immortal battle between Christian long cast her eyes eastward, and had con- and Apollyon; faith even when we are entrated her diplomacy on the moral prostrate and the enemy stands over ne, and
political capture of Turkey She resistance to the uttermost, and then-ther hoped that the Indian Moslems allegiance voice of the silver.
it is dis
to Great Britain would to shaken, and trampling of the slai,umpets and the that Elie would secure an open path to cerned no less in the martyrs who died the Persian Gulf. The revolution which at Tyburn for the old religion. Rever had plunged Russia into opened the door for Germany through car or the dead must be catholie; it Southern Russia to Eastern Persia and they saw an evil thing smoto it; ther
can be withheld from none, who when. Afghanitan. At present famine, chaos, werp and lawlessness las along this path, and divines; they were of every school and soldiers, admirals, statesmen, but the door was open, and we must be when the dragon arose from the slime, Germany had mada no military move every name, but this strain they shared; throwe pioneers of intrigus into Central on our guard. Germany had already
the St. George arose within them. Asia, intending to blow on the flame of anarchy, but cur staunch friend, the Amir of Afghanistan, had stood as a bal wark to German intrigue
Whenever the Great Armadas havo come, Drake has been ware and wakin, if there has been an open sore- first thoughts must be how best to resist stone to deal with it; and we shall never One of our of the world, there has been a Living the Amir by showing that we were ready forget that knightly son of our blood repel aggression in a military sense. To for sale said When I get a chance to with men and munitions to assist him to Abraham Lincoln, who seeing the slaves day India was very
very strong in equipmont, hit slavery, will hit it hard here there has been such an evil across the
short training, but throughout the ware We propose to consider," he went on, path, there has been always sites St.
Council, how far it may be feasible for George to fight for the oppressed,
in conjunction with the Legislative India to increase the direct financial con tribution which she has already made to broke upon the world. The youth of this. Nor did the strain fail, when the war. his
Majesty's Government or to assist land would never have taken the sword financially in any other way. tional taxation should be necessary, we a, crasade. They saw a dragon. across the
· It addi- as they did if it had not been for them shall not shrink from proposing it, and path, and they had to go. for the present we must concentrate on upon the tablets of history their protest I am sure you will gladly bear it. But they have registered in letters of blood Once more, an increase of India's combatent power against tyranny. They in the memory and production for war purposes. We
we had been handicapped by the necessity of creating an army from its foundations He recognised the hardship to farmers, but the question was whether the Govern ment's action was in the national in terest. Thirty thousand men were want ed and represented a force necessary to supply three or four fighting divisions, when it was realised that the whole aim of German strategy this year was to wear out our reserves. Thus, it must, So, realised that the Government's first duty was to assure our not being defeated by this campaign and our not suffering in anything we may do next year. The difficulties of man-power were becoming greater every month and it was impossible to decide such difficulties by discussion in the House of Commons, which must give the Government a blank cheque
The motion for adjournment was nega- King. tired.
the world must be won before our aspira of Christian chivalry, and to the long must close our ranks, and the liberty of of the world will be held with the hosts tions for the liberalising of India's politi ages they interpret in act the dreams of mantations can acquire any tangibia sters, who told the praises of Theseus and Hercules; they are with the martyra After referring to the recommendations who thought hightly of their lives; they resulting from the Viceroy's joint,inquiry have given in their death a new life to with Mr. Montagu, the Secretary for St. George Ancient peoples cherished India, which are shortly to be laid before the hope that their hero would come to the Home Government, the Viceroy made life again. For the rest of the Fear we an earnest appeal to the Conference in shall not talk much of there, things; but prove that India was not one whit behind for this one day we may be permitted to the rest of the Empire.
The assembly then rose as Lord Cholms, praise our famous kinsmen, and proudly ford announced the message from the remember that the strain which has been. Loud choering: grected his persistent through all the years of our Majesty's stirring worde
national life has never failed, and does not fail us now.