OUR LONDON LETTER. THE WITCHES CAULDRON OF IRISH TROUBLE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 15TH.· 1918.
FIRST HALF COMPLETED. INCREDIBLE EXPENDITURE. The opening, of the so-called Cape to LONDON, May 20th. Cairo railway for through traffe from the Upper This week the country is all agog over Capetown to Bukama, on the Irish conspiracy. The Sein Fein Congo, is a fact of great significaner, says @leaders have been arrested, and it is a a writer in a contemporary. The distance Tho perplexing question how best to deal with from point to point is 2,700 miles. them.
was When Cromwel! in the more completion of so long a line of rail Emerald Isle Iris plan was to shoot way, through country comparatively traitors out of hand, or else ship them thinly populated, is of itself an achieve- But other Lises, mont worthy of notice in view of the fact to the Barbadoes... other manners. The danger is that politi-that the work has been done, and the eal wire-pullers may get the ear of the money found, by a little group of indivi- Government, and that, as in the case of duals who refused to be discouraged by the rebels who fomented the Irish Rebel-official hostility or official indifference. A lion in 1916, the otheial attitude will be one of gentle chiding..
fair index to the nature of the achieve ment in this aspect is the fact that the For some time past I have tried to whole continent of Africa in 1878 posses indicate with a discretion that the Postal sed only 400 miles of railway, while five Censor ought to admire how things have years later, in 1881, the railway north been going in the distressful country." wards from Capetown only extended 300 But everyone kept hoping for the best and miles. As the world knows, the Cape to that things would come right in the end. Cairo railway has been obliged, in the On the other hand, it was plain that absence of official help or encouragement, something dramatic must happen, consid. to crawl on from stuge to stage on the ering how the Sein Fein leaders were strength of private mining discoveries. preaching sulition openly all over Irs- Kimberley, the Rand, Rhodesin, and final Jand. No sane man would let a parcely Katanga, are the names which indicate of lunatics loose to strike matches as they pleased in a munition factory; and yet that is what has been going on for more than a year across St. George's Channel THE
BRAINS " OF THE MOVEMENT..
The carious fact to note is that the brains" of the Irish rebel movement are not to be found among the peasantry, or the landed class to which Parnell belong ed, or the business community. The directing figures are mainly writers and artists who are more or less removed from practicnt affairs-men like Darrell Figgis, with some repute as a poet; or persons of non-British extraction like Edmund de Valera, the acknowledged head of Sinn Fein, who is Spanish and Madaine Marckievicz, who is a Polc
These people make no secret of the fact that they want to serap" everything in the nature of settled Government and start afresh on lines acceptable to them selves. The most charitable construction to put upon their netion is to say that they are visionaries and dreamers. They resemble the Bolshivists whose theories Funnel Russia, and, like those also, they have made the ignorant populace their ere is the further resemblance dupes, that Gerwen gold is the motive power an ingredient to make a devil's brow the trouble.
TACKLING THE ALIEN.
due.
the stages by which the advance has been achieved, and each of them is now
associated the world over with mineral output of one kind or another. That the latest stage of all has actually been com- pleted at the height of a great war, when, in view of the cost of freights and raw material, steel rails delivered in the heart of the Dark Continent represent an almost incredible expenditure is probably explained by the immense value of the resources of the Katanga mining area.
VAST COPPER DEPOSITS-
The clue is to be found in the vast
PRESS AND PARLIAMENT.
GREAT RUSSIAN GENERAL
STARVING.
PATHETIC LETTER.
LORD BURNHAM'S VIEW.
Lord Rhondda, who was unable to attend
One of the most famous generals in the annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund on May 10th, se
sent 1,000 guineas, Russia begging for work to buy bread saying. The willing compliance of the and his family starving!: Such is the public in the numerous and oftentimes state of affairs to which the Bolsheviks irritating orders that the Food Ministry have reduced their country, as revealed. have found it necessary to impose must in a letter received from Petrograd. be largely attributed to the patriotic co.. operation of the Press."
Lord Burnham, presiding, said Lord Rhondda had done much to improve the health, of the people-(laughter) and had enabled many of the fashionable doctors of London to go to the front with clear conscience. On their return they would find their patients in a far better state of preservation than might have been expected. (Laughter.)
The writer of the letter, a translation of which we reproduce below, has been called the Lord Roberts of Russia," and during the seventy five years of his life has rendered immense services to his country as a soldier and diplomat
Petrograd, April 15th. Dear Boris,It was impossible till now to answer your interesting letter of November 12th, because no conímunica tion was possible; nevertheless, all that In the fiery furnace of this awful war could be accomplished in the interior our institutions had been twisted out of of, alas ! Iate Russia has been done. It recognition None had stood and would is regrettable that such suspicious char stand the cruel test so well as the News acters as and meddled in our He cause. Little could be done by corres paper Press, said Lord Burnham- regretted he could not say that Parlia pondence, as never in the late regime was ment bad to any large extent increased there such a striet, Argus-eyed, and bully its hold on the affections and respect of gensership as at present. the people. Perhaps that had been in With regard to personal liberty” at evitable. At the same time it had no the present moment, every district com doubt emphasised what he believed to mitte of the Workmen's and Soldiers' be the fact that during these times the Deputies such a district consisting of Newspaper Press had given the fullest several of the former police districts-- and freest expression to public opinion. can without responsibility search, arrest; Some people might look on government and shoot anybody. We live in unbeliev by the Fress as national degradation, able conditions of the most dreadful bnt in the development of democracy it despotism exercised by ignorant, vulgar, was the bounden duty of the Newspaper and corrupt clements. Of Russia nobody Press to help the Government of the links. The class war has annulled and people. Surely when we were extending cancelled motherland, religion, truth, the bounds of our suffrage it was im honour, and self-respect, exchanging for possible to reach the outlying millions theat mischief, rape, and robbery, and of the people except through the Press stopping at nothing. The aim excuses. He did not know what the cinemato the means of other morality there is graph might become in the course of time, none, but for fashioning opinion of the day it was through the Newspaper Press that democracy must carry on its own govern inent,
Donations amounting to over £9,500 cheque, collected £3,000 from his personal were announced, bring nearly £3,000 in excess of the previous high record Lord Rhondda, in addition to his own friends.
BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR STORIES OF GERMAN CRUELTY.
FACTORY STOLEN.
Feodor has tried several times to come to Petrograd, but he himself was rubbed, His works have been seized by the work. men, and be is glad to be still alive, al- though at the same time we have no
accurate news of line. It is well that: you have not come here at present.
Here all industrial and financial life has stopped. The workmen are dis charged. Works are closing. The army is non-existent. Officers are cutting ico as workinen on the river and also selling papers in the street in order not to. dic of hunger.
copper deposits discovered hereabouts by Mr. George Grey, the brother of the ex- Foreign Secretary. After spending £100,000 (in promoting Mr. Grey's min- ing expedition "), writes Mr. Robert Williams, whose energy was largely responsible for the progress of the rail- way line from the Rand northwards, I was satisfied that we had proved among other things the existence of a great cop- per belt, probably the greatest in all the
Further evidence of German ill-treat-
For my many years of service in nearly the world, extending over 250 miles of coun- try in short a copper Rand." In June ment of British soldier prisoners in every branch of administration last year Kalanga was giving tangible who has been sent home on furlough to putits has absolutely deprived me of my furnished by Corporal Edward Watts, council of Workmen's and Soldiers' De- smelting works there had already yielded his home in Trulerie-street, Hackney-road, inesis of existence." My pension has been total value of £6,000,000 sterling, London, after an escape from enemy car anuulled to the last farthing. All the although they were only opened in 1012
tivity which resulted in the death of his Their output last year was 30,000 tons companion in flight, Supper J. R. Smith, Government loans have been cancelled, of copper of a value of £4,000,000 and t2in, a telegraphist from the part been valueless. As I have no other means who was a ane young fellow, standing and since December 1st the coupons have very increase of the output was being afforded. office at Coventry, who had been in France of subsistence, I and my family are at At last the
present starving. for nearly three years His father is from the south is open and, thanks to the fore member of the Bolland County Consta sight of the King of the certifi
Belgians, it is bulary at Boston, Lines, and it is to him
the tragedy.
a
of mineral
continuous-railway-
of
BANKS SHOT.
the Secretary of State to revoke cer also possible, by alternate river and rail that Watts has transmitted the story myself am looking for work. Lately
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turalisation papers were issued, has been est Africa. Thus the necessitics of war Food was very bad and also the accom- and industrial and commercial life-
disloyal in word or deed, has been in
The Home Secretary's Bill to amend the Act relating to the registration of gliens is welcomed as a mensure designed to effect a reform that has been long over
It is intended to grant power. cates of-naturalisation where there is rea son to believe the person to whom nay ervices, to transport the product of the mines down the Congo to the coast of time. have at. Inst. wrung from the British Government a measure of recognition und of help for the Cape to Cairo scheme which in peace time no appeals, whether
the strategieal and civilising influences of the railway or the contingent enhance ment of British prestige, could achieve The long existing gap between Broken Bill and the frontier of the Belgian Congo hins at last been bridged.
prison, is not of good repute, or is But ordinarily resident in this country.
One clause in the proposed amending
Where a certificate of ties overseas. naturalisation has been granted to a
We have let out rooms in my flat, and
things have be very difficult, as the banks are closed or nationalised" (?)
In the presence of such circumstances scarcely exists. I have decided to address myself to you Such a state of affairs for assistance.
measure is of interent to British communi- based on the value of the ores involved to pick nettles dandelions, and potato will not last for ever, and some day an
Hongkong, for instance-and the indivi- dual comes to England to reside, lis nny be taken from him if thought But in every such case the Government of that part of the Empire which issued the certificate will be com municated with beforehand. The only serious criticism of the proposals is to the effect that they are not drastic enough. More power, it is said, ought to be con- ferred upon the Secretary of State to revoke the certificates. The most danger ous enemy within our gates is the slim foreigner who has been careful to make himself a British citizen on paper.
TRIAL BY JURY.
THE FINAL CONSUMMATION,
The men were interned in a large prison camp at Densin (France), where the modation for sleeping mitit, including Watts and Smith, were Three hundred marched twenty miles to Cambrai, where at night, after finishing work, we used peelings, and boil them together for that is why so many of our chaps are to will cone, rice, Brinis, knowledge down with dysentery
Smith to use my experience, with my tried to escape They eluded the guard, of languages by giving me an agency here but were in such a weak state that, after or somehow or other utilising my services? going some distance, beat, and sought wish to receive money for nothing. I do found them. At the same time, understand, I do not eclves
**absolutely dead shelter in an old dug out, where they were not seek a high position at a large salary. ered and taken to another cage. I only wish for work, that is all; to be. It was no scouer a word than a blow the work is it is just the same so long se "everything was as bad as it could have a modest piece of bread. Whatever
We were treated worse than it is honest.
Will the next stop be taken also the bridging of the 2,500 miles which still lie between Bukama and Kbartum. In all probability the answer, so far as the kick. duration of the war is concerned, is in dogs." They were paraded before a court the negative. That the final consamma tion will ultimately be achieved, and of officers, and told they were to be shot achieved under British auspices, is, how at dawn the next day for attempting to ever, alalost certain. The time has gone escape as an example to others. by the Lord Cromer, speaking as the the captives, driven to desperation, made It was then April 12th, and that night British Agent in Cairo, could refuse, a
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the upper Nile to provide the terminus eire miles away. Again eluding the follow. of the great railway. The war han Yen-guard, they struck out for Arras, dered the British Governinent and its ing the main Arras Cambrai road. On representatives more amenable to the roa the second night, before they knew where sonable proposals of pioneers; a great they were, they got up to the German State
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inise of marriage. This means that only would ensure financial zion exista which for a roadside ditch and Watts for a parties be eatited to a jury. There is the attitude of British bankers, from the ring and bombs. I dared not move for managing director of the Aircraft Com they must produce an Import Permit signed by also a provision in the Bill empowering Governor of the Bank of England and a Coroner to hold inquests without a jury his board downwards, is such that its quarter of an hour. When things got axcept where murder or manslaughter is would now be considered disgraceful were suspected
men such as Rhodes to be compelled to Although the proposed Act is intended resort to German financiers for the back to apply for the duration of the war only ing requisite to the success of their under. it is viewed with the greatest misgiving takings. The completion of the first half in legal circles. Trial by jury is one of of the great line should be of great ser the inalienable privileges of a Briton, On Vioo to the Allied cause and probably body through the wire, and the patrol railway line blockaded, and undertaken of the Siemer's arrival hero, after which they and London (under) : arrangement) will be the ground of war necessity we have marks a clearly defined water-shed be calmly given up innumerable rights tween the old official attitude to pioneer already; but it seems that there is no work in Africa and the attitude which in limit to encroachments on the liberty of future will characterise the British the subject. The plea in this case is that Government's policy in that country. men are so fully occupied with war work, and so many are in the Army, that time should not be demanded for jury service as in the days of peace. FIGETING THE SUBMARINES.
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No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. made their escape from Germany, have If business men had grasped what flying related their experiences to a Press men had grasped since the French representative. The treatment which maneuvres of 1910 we should have won "It the Germans meted out to their captives the war by aeroplanes some time ago. There is very strong resentiment among was devilish, they said. We were sent is just as important to realise now the the more staid and responsible members to a noted strafe
госта which had and Americe. of the Liberal party that owes allegiance wo er dus into camp at Grissen, where effect of the aerial linking up of England to Mr. Asquith over the attack the ex no windows and no means of ventilation, furial routes would be, the Germans If we and our Allies could settle what and encouragement at the progress now George in connection with the
and the door was always kept shut. Maurice This is altogether apart from the suoccas fire. Indeed, I am informad that they we were fed on brand and water, and other by arm wanted to
Whips back
that amall quantities of that Many of the If his firm wanted to send anîn to of the operations that resulted in the have intimated to the
they must bottling-up" of Zeebrugge and Ostend.
not be counted upon to parcels from home were
were withheld for Eve Paris quickly. they sent him by seroplane. similar attacks in up The rate at which the Germans are able Englishmen first and party men after to us, a German officer opened each parcel mercial proposition because it cannot future. Being weeks, and then, instead of handing them it is said the aeroplane is not a com- to produce submarines can be estimated, and it is believed that they cannot launch wards, they say that it is putting too great and dumped the contents into a big tab carry a motor-car. It can carry weights boate faster than we are able to sink them strain upon thoir political loyalty to The result was that everything was greater than a motor car.
them to assist again in expect
sniping spoiled. It was a source
ing in the Navy of intense satisfaction: Prime Minister led against. Mr. Llordsphere became terrible. While there would have to come into the business side
...
There are no official statistics available the First Minister of the Crown in the ment to the Home of great amuse-Rom London to Bertin-he supposed
for
on this subject, for the Admiralty wisely midst of the war How it came to pass decline to publish figures of U-boat sink that such an adroit. Parliamentary band together We had a narrow shave plane it is 71 hours To Constantinople The two saldiers made their wo should go thero some day the freed, cape ordinary rent was 201 hours, by sero- but other means are available. iDgs
as Mr. Asquith lent himself to further said one. When we had passed a second the fastest route was 72 hours, but with arriving at an accurate judgment. The the business pugtles everyone; and this line of sentries and thought that we were an aeroplane of only 50 miles an hour Gorman Naval writers and German now incident (though it may seem strange to over the frontier we walked boldly up to we can get there in 20 hours, Petrograd Papers generally are admitting house say so) has damaged him as a public man a house and asked the woman where we is 50 hours away by the fastest, route and with reluctanon, that submarine
more even than his Wait-and-sce were Julness " is a fiasco
She told us Germany, and very an aeroplane would take only 18. There polity in the early days of the war-kindly pointed our road, to safety. I can is no place on earth farther than five
tell you, we were not Fong following it." days from London at 80 miles an hour.
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