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POISON GAS FOR PEASANTS THE UNSPEAKABLE CRIME. was destined to affect Great Britain; That cannot happen now. The stubborn
they determined to accelerate the down GERMANS ASPHYXJATE, UKRAINIAN.
patience of President Wilson in that fall before Russia could challenge them interval between the Lusitania murders VILLAGES
for world supremacy, A false movement and the declaration of war may have on the Marne; a little less resistance irritated some, but we have realised in from Belgium; a less cortit Ready, these last few months the magnitude of Aye Ready
from the British Navy his task and the thoroughness with which unthinkable faithlessness by Japan; it was accomplished. That same stab
born patience will head to ensure move against the Allies by Italy; a more complete control in those early days over final and irrevocable death for the Benst. the Russian Court by pro-Germans-and It has been said of past wars that each the Beast, monstrous, atrocious, it has feft its evil legney of future wars placable and brutal
within the womb of time. But there is would have
no reason why that which has always straddled necross the earth as master, if happened before shall happen now. Mar not for ever, for generation is at last approaching the day when, with. was raped; but Europ-and the world in reach of splendid opportunity, he was saved. Four year of warfare have will be able to reverse the fate of the only made more vivid humanity's debt to past, and control the future of the Belgium
world. For the fruits of the seeds of Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence shall prove greater than instincts which are the relics of man's struggle up from the primeval slime.
FOUR YEARS OF WARFARE AS SEEN FROM HONGKONG.
[BY ROBERT BIKKMYRE, DAILY EXPRESS!*
[CONTRIBUTES.] SPECIAL CORRESPONIENT AT PETROGRAD.}
The blind Intery circumstances Germany's barbarous use of poison gaslavas many of us sheltered in this against the Ukraine peasants, whose only Colony whil millions of our own rice offence is that of defending their rights are daily exposed to death, wounds md and property against a mercikes foe, is the agonising suffering brought about by revolting the whole Russian people. modern warfare. It would be wrong to It appears that in their reprisals say that we are not inconvenienced by against the population the Germans have this world-tragedy; for it is incredible dronched several villages near Kleff with that there crista, in this tiny outpost of gas, and whole communities have been Empire, any Briton so bereft of imagina- asphyxiated.
The anti-German sentiment created by tion, so callous, so dull of sympathy, these brutalities on the Ukraine is reflect that he has not been affed by the ale ed in the political situation. The Gov erament, instead of veering to-day to-of horrors, the terrible asualty lists, the wards one of the belligerants and to bare outling of what lur happened in wards aunther, seems now definitely to be Europe during the last four years. But inclining towards unity with the Allies.
According to the newspaper Boding, we have emped hardships experienced the Bolsheviks consider that Russia is in in Great Britain, and many men, by the leag danger from the Allies than she is from theentral Powers, but while they curious workings of chance, have made still app to fear the consequences of money in the Far East as a result of the political interference on our part, they most stupendous social typhoon in the are ready and willing to accept our assist history of the world. I cannot be true ance in te matter of finance and traus-however, that there exists in Hongkong a While the Soviet is awaiting the official aingle European who does not deplore the acknowledgment of the republic that the unspeakable crime of the Kriser and pro-Ally party may turn the scales. This possibility is emphasised by a serious his satellites. What the Chinese think discussion which has taken place in the about the would-be assassins of hunan Soviet in favour of the "Anti-Gorman Coalition, as the Allies are called in liberty is, perhaps, dificult to discover, Russia, when sentiments were put forIt has be said that the Chinese are ward which would have been out of to inscrutable and that, nyhow they do question a month ago.
port.
"EMPIRE AND COMMERCE.
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The British Imperial Council of Com- inerce held its annual meeting recently at the London Chamber of Commeres Lord Desborough presided, and a paper
on
LATER EVENTS.
A multitude of books on the war has already appeared; it would be possible for an author with the prolific pen and vivid imagination of a Dickens to write
THE GOOD AND THE BAD for the next thirty years and still not In face of the terrific sacrifices of the last four years it is almost an impertin- complete the description of the events of the last four. Ten thousand miles away
ence to mention that this little Colony from the sound of the guns in France,
has done its duty. Throughout those free of the daily anxieties which beset four years we have seen revealed, locally, easier for us than for them to visualise British character-for no race or people our kith and ken at home, it is, perhaps, all the good and the bad points, of the the history of the last four years in is free from defects. Exactly, the same. Europe. We lose in detail but we gain thing has happened" at home. We have in vision, because we are far away from had a voluntary system under which the the scenes. We are far enough from the willing gave up everything and a few canvas to see it all in the same perspec seemed to do very little. We havi had tive, or to change the metaphor, the grumbling about the inequality of sacri mountain-tops are not obscured by the Eco, especially from some of the wonen. trees. And what are the mountain tops? It is only fair to remember that many The Briton may be excused for thinking of the local critics have suffered agris- decision of his own country on August brings out its tale of family aerifice, its that among the highest was that great ing personal losses; that every mail nut value human hie. Some critics sayath. Nobody doubts, now, that neu. decree of personal sorrow; and that, after that they believe firmly in the theory of
all, there is always a difference of opinion every man for himself. Possibly notes of
en the problem of an individual's conduct the Chinese who have made money rapidly
in a crisis. The Colony has now insisted since the war consider the horrible bus
that every man shall have this problem ncas
decided for him by a tribunal; and, while it is too much to expect that even the findings of this body will please every one, it undoubtedly has relieved many men of anxiety to know that the decision es to their future is in the hands of
** good joss." And yet it is fair to say that some of then understand what it really means.
Even waters. suen ng Milt
THE VERDICT, OF ÆÜSTERITI.
trality" would have been another name for shanio and world-disaster, and equally high was the decision of Belgium. Then the unexpected movements of the Russians that sent the refugee into russia and struck terror into the hearts of the Bullies of Europe. We since have had reason to be disappointed with tussia; the collapse of that nation has been the worst trial of the war; to gat
the Germans out of Russia is possibly the Allies' greatest task. Are mis. if we lack ayinpathy with the weak, if we miss the touch of Shakesperian charity for Russian people; although we cannot be anaware of the fact that they have suffer-
cthers. We can, while sympathising with
Tore
way to go and whole still u the Colony, be proud of men who could excusably have stayed but went It is in. vidious to mention names, but one cannul forget' Lans eager, impulsive patriot from Canton, who, not long ago, lost his life. in the air in a good position, over thirty; on Clagg evo. has marriage, no went, and, with his splendid contempt tor. ser, enose toc moat portions tierd of combat. His name is with those other volunteers on our Club Boll of Honour. And those who knew him best say that grievances could have kept hit from the It was inconceivable that any sulary ur puta winen led him to immortal faine. fighting-lae must we dissatisfied if he Every man of spirit wtio is not in the
has spent the last four years in itông- After four years we und our kong. values entirely different, and in the four yoara etter the inon come baest from, tua standards. The sellish pleasure-calculas front we shall see a further change of
of the old days will break down in that future which will be dominated by thou who have looked at Death.
"State Participation in Empire, Unless we accept the German point of Development" WAH read by Mr. Hview, we have to consider causes and Wilson-Fox, M.P, who embodied
in effects from the point of view of the it an
the account of
aims of morals and ethics assocnted wu Crist the: Empire Resources Development anity.
We cannot sons such a world- Committee. That committee believed, he entity in a settisn, parvental or ven said, that the Stato could, by appropulosojnical manner, we are bound frail heman nature, be angry with the priate action, not only relieve is expericues.emotions and to answer to citizens by degree from the greater por suen appear. tion of the nation's beavy burden of taxe and attaus, who deprecated anytringed as victims of the basest and most cun- Lion, but could encourage production and emotional or sentimental, or agnostiesenning treachery ever hatched. But what save waste in many directions where as Confucius, would hardly have hesitated equally favourable results could not be to cati tais condict a tragedy and an un-.
ever our views about the tragic happen ings of the last few months in Russia attained by private enterprise. As speakable trime But it even in the instanced the transport ranks of the Allies, there are writers and
may be, we should indeed be ungrateful examples be facilities of the country; the electric tankers of warped intelligence who of Russian soldiers ill-equipped and if we failed to remember those millions power supply, the fish supply, and many believed that the wholeale staughter of ignorant, yet faithful to their national descriptions of enterprise in our Over the most physically fit is a good thing ideals, who died and suffered in the great ses Empire. The committee regarded it for nammanity they would surely not as a fundamental condition of success that venture to say that the fiorrible brital-Russia was not negligible at the begin
cam. Russia has been betrayed, but business enterprises should be run by
bies and cynicism recordent during the ning of the war before Britain had pro busines; men on business line
inst four year are anytang but outrages perly mobilised: Russian statesmen, as Mr. Stanley Machin aid he was a firm against the auman ruce, believer in private enterpris, but con-
well as Russian soldiers, helped in those sidered that where it did not go far
Suzonoff enough in the cause of Empire the State safely say that humanity has, as by Potsdam; he never failed to supply the
After tour years of warfare we can early days of world-crisis.
made the Allies realise the aims of should step in. He moved that the sugrele, suped the must day per rigat phrase to illuminate the hidden gestions should be noted fer further con- that over menaced it. At first origins mennings of German words and actions. sideration by the executive committee. and methods were obrared; but saca This resolution was carried.
It is ditscult to speak of those other month the truth becomes planner; de dous mountain-peaks associated with the names Afterwards the meeting discussed the aus now a face as clear as crystal and final report of Lord Balfour of Burleigh's) we can ese all the works. we at last of Frence, italy, Servia, Britain and other Committee on Commercial and Indusrealise that it were better to perish than
parts of our own Empire. The battles trial Policy, the recommendations efto survive in a world blackened beyond the Dardanelles the names of the places the Marne, Verdun, Mesopotamia, which were generally endorsed, though redemption. Four year ago the Germans many members considered that they did and cance of winning.
are records of agony, bloodshed, and the not go far enough. A resolation from such a thing cannot, mapper. we
We know now unconquerable tenacity of purpose of the Manchester in favour of legislation to are actually able to speak of Los war gallantry of those who go down to tuc Allied soldiers. Nor should we forget the compel all persons of alien birth who as if it were ended, and of the result as have changed their names during the last final victory wen already record
sea in anips." ten years to revert to their former names, Dr Germany has been benten ice been, especially the flashes of individual Wonderful as all these things have was favourably considered, and referred the battle of the Marm to the executive committee, and among and years, like some beast of prey of happened only 18 months ago. In the horror of the last four years we will fare
For months heroism, the greatest of all world-events
After the anxieties and the tales of other subjects dealt with were the hard almost incomprehensible vitality, she first two years of the fighting in Europe the future confident in the hope of a new ship of double income-tax within the as prolonged the agony and continued Empire, and treans for securing British with a stubborn blindness of fury the their breasts to the shocks of the enemy extinction of the Beast of Militarism, the French and Kussian armies bared international morality, certain of thes shipping against enemy composition after agut; but the Beast, fathered and spon During the last two years the British sanguine that there will be no more eccret
Members attending the meeting and convulsions which annuance
sored by Patadam, is showing the land Italians have received the hammer diplomacy and hidden gambling with large number of other guests were eater-Victory is accomplished; the hour of rest of the war the Americans will take days of place the lessons of the war; and blows. It is now evident that during the human lives. We will remember in the tained at luncheon at the Cannon Street destiny is past. Therefore, as we ook Hotel by Lord Deborough, Mr. Stanley back over the past four years, with its United States into the war, inevitable an
up the burden. For the entry of the our own little Colony shall become more Machin, and, Sir Algernon Firth. In deep anxieties, its acres of slain, is
precious to us because of the sacrifice, of proposing the health of the guests, Lord rivers of blod, its torrats of tears, the Belgium, was something greater than
it always seemed after the violation of these men who have kept it free. It is Desborough said there was nothing that one great abiding fact for which we Germany dreaded so much a that the and all posterity will be for ever grateful cal sympathy with the Allies; it various parts of the British Empire stands out like a beacon-light across a shattered into fragments that iden of the was a new Declaration of Right. It should be drawn together as closely as dark ocean. And that fact is that the enemy that be will not really be van- the German States had been drawn Beast of Fetsdam is in its death agony. quished when the fighting ceases. It as together.
The Godden of Liberty alive, more sured us that the Allies will destroy, Sir George Perley, High Commissioner
the war,
ed.
CITY HALL WORK PARTY.
the
end.
In the past four years public men in the Coolly have grappled with local Germans of this generation will not come problems connected with the war. The
back on the old terms. Hongkong hus gladly sent money as well as men, and it will send stilt more. British women nere, as at home," have devoted their time and energy to such work as they can do for the men in the trenches and hospitals
"the brightest jewel the British Colonial Crown, and it shall he kept like a lesson well learnt, the ideals of bright by enterprise and work. We know, the Anglo-Saxon race. We have been furnished with a Bible for international morality.
We are now in a world for Canada, and Sir T. Mackenzie, High Vigorous, more certain of life and im-limb by limb, the Beast of German mili- divided as by an avalanche from that Commissioner for New Zealand, respond mortality that at any other period actarism; that they will not attempt to old world which existed before August, the dawn of history. The verdict of tame the Thing that has received its 1914; we are in a world saved from utier posterity is already assured, because this strength from the evil influences of the extinction by sublime sacrifice; a world generation has secured for posterity the earth. Hoping against hope, weakened that calls to each one of us to repay to standards of morality by which posterity by the exhaustion of the terrific struggle, humanity the debt that we owe to those will judge.
the Allies without America might have heroic dead who have perished in order During the month of July the City THE KAPS OF REGIUM been satisfied with a transient victory, that we may live. We shall always Hall Work Party packed the following: Although we know now that the and have allowed pity, weakness, or even retain our national habit of exaggerating 32 dressing gowns, 10 surgical coats, 14 victory and the final verdict is in discord to lead them into sumar- surgical shirts, 38 pairs slippers, 15 bed favour we still shudder as we think of rangement. And then the Great Blonde grumbling at the muddles of adminis
our national defects; of persistently boots, 5 pairs knee-caps, I pair operation the narrowness of the wcape. For the Beast would have lived and recovered. trators; of magnifying the importance stockings, 106 suits pyjamas, 46 open peril of the first few weeks was for That danger, a peril second only to the of incredible blunders such as those as- backed shirts, 78 bed-jackets, 184 shirts, more deadly than any of us out lore long-planned knock-out" blow which sociated with the names of Mesopotamia 115 vests, 1 cup, 4 mufflers, 19 reversible realised at the time. Every year that the Beast hoped to deliver within the and Ireland. But such failuren, terrible bed-jackets, 20 small pillows, 10 packets passes brings more and more evidence first few weeks of was, is for ever past and exasperating as they have been, are of bandages, 8 head-bandages, 16 scrub to establish what defeat would have meant It is no disloyalty to the statesmen of insignificant beside the mountain-peaks. bera, 37 mosquito nets, 40 shrouds, 20 for us. It was not only the megalomania Europe to say that to-day President It has been for four years a world of dozen handkerchiefs, 5 linen coats (wora), of a brainless autocrat drunk with Wilson is the greatest bulwark of inter horror, and yet it has been good to live 4 mops, 6 dozen food covers, 33 milk vanity, as we thought at first, that national political morality in the world. eovers, B towels and I quilt. One case threatened the whole world. It was 10 America has not only reinforced the place of horror hut a place full of in it; just as a plague-stricken city is was packed, and sent to Miss Rutherford, only the lust for wealth and power of armies in France and the exchequers of opportunities for those who work in it. Woolwich, England, and two cases were fundal caste of superfially developed the Allies; she has brought into the din We have lived to see the amazing array. packed and sent to the 48th General barbarians that carried this great of this world-conflict a alarion voice of Nations united to win Freedom, to Hospital, Alexandrin.
shadow. It was not even the stimulated The Mothers' Union Work l'arty con envy and covetousness of a prolific which announces eternal truths, which shatter the ideals of the Autocrats. We MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,tributed 63 articles to the cases, packed people breeding on an unfruitful si prosis to the highest instincts of man. buve lived while the heavens were lit up In 1914 it was Sir Edward Grey who was as with shooting-stars by immortal namely, 13 vests, I shirt, 11 suite pajamas, it was the knowledge of the weakness of the statesman of the world; every new deeds. After four years our deepest 10 bed-jackets, 13 handkerchiefs, pairs our own Empire the greatest in the revelation" makes that Eact clearer. thought is one of gratitude that we have history of the world and the fear of the To-day another, Anglo-Saxon gives us the witnessed the sublime triumph of the The Wool Department packed and sent future migh of Russia hat caused the great ideals. The writer vields to best-and not the beast--that is in human to Mesopotamia, in answer to an appeal, crime. For the theoria bailt up for no one in this Colony in his pride nature. For the atrocities, the studied two cases containing the following, which nixty years by the German Professora of the British Empire. No other barbarities of Potsdam show up with were made by the City Hall, the U.S.R.C. were used to show those how revealed as State, no other politicians. have intense contrast the heroism and self. and Kowloon Dock Ladies' work parties: our enemies that our Empire was shown greater patriotism. But, as sacrifice which during the war has reach. 299 pairs Socks, pairs Inee-caps, 7 defended by a tiny or, as the Haiser Nurse Cavell nobly maid,Patriotism ed its supreme consummation. When if pairs gloves, 5 pairs mittens, 34 mufflers, thinking only in number, put it is not enough" This is a world-wide we insist upon exercising our right to 28 caps, 2 pairs bed-socks, 1 white cap and contemptiblo-Army, while Russia was issue. Fatriotism might even tempt agrumble about some of the details on the dozen handkerchiefs There was also a growing, mert and more formidable each neople to make peace before the Great pages we can feel no shane in the records. quantity of reading matter packed, for year. The Germans with vencer of cun- Blonde Beast is slain for the sake of of the chapters which relate the history which thanks are due to Messrs. Kelly ning intellectualism believed that the some immediate escape from suffering or of our own race during the last four
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