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A "FLIMSY EXCUSE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1918.
THE KAISER AND -MR- WILSON-
to
GERMANY'S WAR GUILT.
ser himself, in connection with whose world conception he recalls the contrary recent outburst against the Anglo-Saxon
famous Daily Telegraph interview:- view expressed by the Emperor in the
In
fasten the guilt for the war on Russia, Criticising Von Kühlmann's attempt to Harden pictares the Foreign Secretary saying to himself before his speech:- Accuse the Western Powers a little bit, and not absolve them entirely, but buckle on to the Petersburg people the chief guilt. This will be welcome to everybody. dominate the Western and the governing Bolshevists will not But what can you expect object Harden continues: But why Despite the Baiser's brave wards, i sa was so significant of the distress that Ame belligerent countries there is nothing to
his rage shutpen the sickle in this manner. riean intervention caused him that Davis be hoped of any public discussion of the was glad to hear him rave, and showed no question of guilt. Alter Kühlmann's the monarch, in his jubilant mood, éx-have not disappeared.
After the Italian retreat speech the curls of the question mark Neither has the claimed: "Now, when it is too late, you belief that Germany is striving after will see how foolish Wilson was to bring world dominion been contradicted. his country into the war. The Americans Kühlmann, has evaded the question, which will see when too late what fools they is the real meaning of the expression made themselves when they elected a pro-world dominice. According to its fessor. Now America must pay the bills. sent significance in this war that would Provious to the war the Kaiser often ex-be attained if the programme of the Ger pressed great admiration for Mr. Roose man Economic League were carried out, velt, but after the war, when Mr. Roose and if Germany, in alliance with mili- valt showed clearly that he did not re-tarily and economically weaker friends on to confess I am terribly disappointed great Power over all the chief ports of the ciprocate, the feeling, the ruler was forced the European Continent, became the only in Roosevelt."-Daily Telegraph."
resentment.
BELGIUM THE "PAWN.” MR. BALFOUR'S CAUSTIC REPLY. I am aware that the Germans, in the
HARDEN'S INDICTMENT. earlier days of this controversy, were Mr. Balfour, spoke at a Belgian good enough to observe that Belgium had The chief among the public men in the A recent number of Harden's 'Zukunft brought all these misfortunes upon her Kaiser's black book and the one for whom is as senthing an indictment of Germany's patriotic gathering at the Central Hall, self, because instead of trusting to Gerhe reserved most of his childish denuncia policy and of her rulers and statesmen as Westminster, in celebration of Belgian many and silently permitting Germany tions, according to Dr. Davis, his Ameri- has yet seen the light. It is entitled "The Independence Day.
can dentist, was President Wilson. Dr. Eternal Sickness, by which the writer The chair way® OC-
to usa her country, she had defended to the best of her ability that neutrality Davis, writing in the New York World, means the desire for world dominion,
and cupied by Baron Moncheur, the Belgian which we were all pledged to protect. declared that the Kaiser, in a towering he clearly implies that it is in Germany
What a Binay axcuse is this! But flimsy Fessor, demagogue," and the "idealist only does Von
characterised Mr. Wilson na Minister.
pro where mickness" is raging
this
Not as it is, I am not sure that the general who can accomplish nothing."
Kühlmann
nader THINGS TO REMEMBER,
What Harden's scornful lash, but also the Kai- public apprecistes its full cynicism At does a professor knew about interna- Mr. "Balfour had a very enthusiastic the very time that Belgium was being tional politics and diplomatie afairs, greeting on rising. He said: Our chair-attacked by the German armies, Switzer demanded the Kaiser of Davia, when he man, in his opening remarks, made a land, another small country, another free heard of Mr. Wilson's election. pathetic reference to the fact that this country, announced that it was prepared after the commencement of the war, the Shortly was now the fourth year in which Bel- to defend its neutrality against all at Emperor urged that the opportunity was gium had been compelled to celebrate her tacks. How did the Germans deal with ripe for the United States to seize Mexico national fete in a foreign, though I am that situation They sent a document, and Canada. Can't your President "glad to think » most friendly, land. of which anybody who takes the trouble see the wonderful opportunity now for (Cheers) Four years ago the people of can obtain a copy, in which they con-combining with us and crushing England Belgium, like the people of Great Britain gratulated the Swiss upon their courage With our feet on one side and America's and of France, had no premonition of the and foreight (I forget the exact words, on the other, we could destroy England's disasters that were, within a fortnight, but that is what it comes to), and whies sea-power. This is America's great op about to overwhelm them." Belgium was told them how pleased they were to learnportunity pursuing the peaceful and tranquil tenour
that the Swiss were determined at all Hemisphere of her national life, a model of industrial costs to maintain their position as a
of eficiency and politics! freedom, neither neutral Power. So that you have at the dreaming of making war nor fearing that same moment Belgium attacked" and told ethers would make war upon her. The that neutrality is a thing which a week change from that day, is indeed a tragic nation ought not to protect against 4 change, for we now see this martyr among nation so much more powerful-and the nations, her land trampled by a for-
? resume No" much more cultivated eign and a remorseless enemy; tripped of (laughter) than themselves, while an all means by which she can carry on her other nation, also a small nation, is told national interests; reduced to a servitude it is doing well in publishing to the which in some cases umounts, I fear, world that it will not allow its neutrality almost to a slavery tortured, crushed, to be interfered with, and is making all belpless. And yet, though that is the preparation to prevent it being inter picture of what has occurred to Belgium fered with. Who can doubt that if it since July 21st, 1014, I think there never had suited the German Higher Command was a mement when her virtue shone out to attack France through Switzerland, more clearly in the face of mankind, and instead of through Belgium, it would have when the infamy of her oppressor caused been Belgium that would have received bitterer hate or profounder loathing the congratulations of the German Gov- among all civilised nations,
The Germans, I believe I know-calculand who would have been trampled cament, and it would have been Switzer. lated that, however unjustifiable by the under the German beeli (Cheers.) laws of God and man and the rules that govern the commerce of civilised nations, however infamous her conduct might appear, success, striking, rapid, and overwhelming, would cause all those crimes to be buried in the past, and that she would shine out among all nations, if not the most beloved, at least the most feared, at least the greatest Germany has made many miscalculations in this wat. Indeed, she has never made a moral calculation which was not utterly wide of the mark, and her habitual practice has not been abandoned in this case. The not forgotten, is not likely to be forgot erime of which Belgium is the victim is ten, never will be forgotten. It is an eternal stain upon the fame of the German people which nothing they can do, even were they to repent to-morrow thought, Count Hertling dwelt at length in London is M. Strichovich, his own ap turists, or the merchants of Germany have
of their political crimes, would ever wipe out. (Cheers) (...
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BROKEN CONTRACTS-
Mankind are not mere worshippers of the brute successes which the German moralists assume. There is such a thing as the human conscience and the human memory, and it when this war ends successfully, when Belgium again takes Ther places among the free and independ ent and prosperous nations of the world, it will be vain for the Germans to try and put aside the memory of all that they have done. It is burnt into the
conscience of civilised mankind; nothing will eace it. (Cheers.)
WHAT IS A PAWN}"
But, surely, the crowning insult has been levelled against Belgium by the German Chancellor in his last speech. He then told the world, the German world in the first place, and listening nations in the second place, that Germany did not propose to keep Belgium for ever, but that Germany did intend to use Belgium as a pawn The wordpawn" ought not to be unfamiliar to the German Chan- wellor, for it has keen used in connection with the future pesce arrangements both Chancellor himself on a previous meat by President Wilson and by the German able occasion. You may remember that when Gerr any did not think that things were going quite so well with ber as she
in the Reichstag on President Wilson's well-known four points. This is what Count Hertling said: The second of President, Wilson's points is that peoples and provinces shall not be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels or pawns in a game for the balance of power. This clause: went on the German Chancellor, President Wilson's pronouncement can be unconditionally assented to. Indeed, one wonders that the President of the United States considered it necessary to em- phasise it anew."
in
Compared with that, the more recent
longer to misgovern and oppress Belgium on condition that the Powers permit Germany to misgovern and oppress some other areas in Europe or elsewhere. That is what treating Belgium as a pawn means that and nothing else. And to me it seems that of all the outrages to which Belgium has been subjected, none has been mare insulting. (Cheers.)
Baltic and Black Seas, over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, "over Hamburg, Bre HOW KERENSKY ESCAPED.French Lorraine and Flanders.
men, and Antwerp, from the Murman coast to Gallipoli, from the Caucasus, into
Referring to the Kaiser's speech, Har- den writes He did not always think
M. Kerensky left Russia early in June by way of Murmansk. Between the days shehe, as the son of a British he spent the time in Novgorod, Petrograd woman, once, in an unhappily famous of his disappearance from public affairs
sin, in hiding with their children. his opinion now the peoples of the world and Moscow. His wife remained in Rus interview, declared himself England's only friend in an Anglaphobe nation. in Although Kerensky's evasion of the police agents of his own country was facilitated are under the yoke of the Anglo-Saxon by a moustache and long beard, which dominating race, for whom they are work. he grew in his long months of hiding, ing as slaves, and the war cannot end he did not think this suficient to diguise before one of the two different world con- himself, and added the dress of a soldier ceptions has unconditionally conquer d servant. A friend procured for him the Prussian-Germanic freedom, right, hon- pass and other papers of an orderly, and our, and morality, or Anglo-Saxon idolis
risked passage on the railway, and got finally he began to move more publicly ID of money. about the streets of Moscow. Finally he out of the country. One man with whom he has conferred much since his arrival
in
that Germany before the war was under
COMMERCIAL RIVALRY. **I do not believe," continues Harden, the British yoke, that either Ballin, Krupp, Thyssen, the industrials, agricul pointee as Ambassador to Spain, who was ever felt themselves the slaves of England. summoned to London a few days before Neither do I believe that in the British Kerensky's arrival.
imperium, whose wares have been pushed out of the markets by German undercut man, with one heart and one will, a maning, there are more people than anywhere ting and by the German practice of dump- who struggled, resisted, suffered, and held else in the world who worship money or his ground. They had not changed one per hearts beating for freedom, right, jot from the political position which they honcur, and morality than anywhere elas then took up. (Cheers.) On the side on earth. And Kühlmann knows that of Germany, what contradictions, what there are other races on this earth who see accumulated, contradicting each other German world-conception must uncondi manœuvres, what sophisms and lies, had in the announcement that the Prussian- and revealing already, if not remorse for tionally conquer, an attempt for world the crime committed, at least embarrass dominion. Fear of German dominion is utterance of the same orator, in which its unavoidable results. The punishment tear in pieces gigantic empires, by crush ment at not being able to escape from not to be rooted out by trenties, which he says that the occupation and present of the bad action, said Schiller, was that
tag into powerlessness the policy and To me it seems that, perhaps from the possession of Belgium only means that we
economy of parts of empires, by verbak very nature of the polemic in which we have a pawn for future negotiations." it brought with it others which were still artifices which do not go deeply into the have all been more or less. plunged since (Cheers and laughter.) Now what does which she had guaranteed, Germany
worse. After violating their neutrality, being of things. the war began, we have been inclined, pawn," in the sense in which it is tried to make people believe that they had
Why contempt, was Küblmann's speech discussed from the fact that Germany broke all her used by the Chancellor, really mean? It treaties in attacking Belgium, to lose the means that having attacked Belgium with been the first to violate it. But Germacy and abused at home with fury? Because fail perspective, to see out of its correct out provocation, having conquered it, and herself, in the childishness of her pro- there was nothing in it which convinced proportion the real character of the deed having treated it when conquered with-paganed, bat sefuted this bad excuse, then of the uprightness of its author, that she then performed. It is perfectly out pity, having deprived it of every
invented too late, and the reports of their Over Belgium it was agnir said, true that the attack on Belgium becomes material good and of all the moral bene diplomatists which the published in order belongs to a complex question, and we do doubly infamous from the fact that the is that attach to freedom, he is prepared to barm them had ruined this ridiculous pot wish to bind ourselves down by public attacker had promised to be the defender, to give it up provided he can get some story, to which the present Chancellor did declarations." Three Foreign Secretaries and that those whom Germany was over-uther territory in which the Germans can
not even dare to allude. (Cheers) After have clamped themselves fast to this raft- whelming ware the very people whom exercise their peculiar gifts. (Laughter.)
We don't want to keep Belgium, but the failure of the deportations. Germany Germany herself solemnly promised to When he talks of a pawn and of exchang. tried her separatist maneuvre, with the don't let us announce its renunciation, for defend. It is also true, and cannot being Belgium for some other district, some help of a handful of accomplices and that reduces our hostages, and will en- forgotten, that Germany's utter disregard other country, some other colony, it may what accomplices: She tried to dried be-courage the enemy to make new demands.
tween the Flemish and Walloon provinces Is Belgium's future to be treated as a Do you, then, feel yourselves so week! of treaties is something we are bound to be it only means that he will consent no remember whenever we base a policy upon
hoped to benefit. But, on the morrow answered, either by right or by force. the wedge of a separation by which she question? Then the question must ba German promise..
The Germans tell us and I hope in
of the admirable decision taken by the The restoration of the kingdom to the this respect that they tell us truly--that
Belgian magistrature, which unmasked the condition of July, 1914, must be guar the war is not going to be a prolonged
mancpyre on June 25th last, even at the anteed, or the answer put off until ope, and that peace negotiations are
tribunal of the Reichstag, a voice less ser- America, England, and France have been so defeated that even, after a period of visible already above the horizon. I do
vile than the others, that of Haase, was not associate myself with those prophecies
raised saying, "The declarations of the years, they will not be able to raise them- one way or the other. All I say is that
Council of Flanders are merely machina-selves again, and will declare themselves when the time comes when Europe bas Against the dark background of these tions, from which every bonest Fleming to have been conquered. Anything else is to consider around a council table how infanies, military infamics, political turns with scorn."
them fighting. He who loudly counts. (Cheers.)
Belgium as among the hostages, that is to protect itself against a repetition of infamies, administrative infamies, the
to say, among the territories gained after the horrors and abominations of which brightness of Belgium's glories and virtues To-day, rather than take up the simple an open declaration of war, increases Germany has been responsible, it will be shine out with special and immortal avowal and the promise of reparation thereby in foreign countries the crowds of imposible for European statesmen to lustre. (Cheers.) Whether we think of made on August 4th, 1014, by Bethmann-those who do not attribute to the Prus freedom, right, forget that a German promise is not a what her people have endured, or what Hollweg, the present Chancellor, Count sian-Germanic binding contract(cheers) and that the her army has done and is doing, or what Hertling, imagined a new attitude, bonour, and peace of the world rests on frail founda her heroie monarch has performed for his Belgium is a pawn," he said. How For full appreciation of Harden's tions indeed if it rests on nothing more country-(loud cheers) whether we look could stolen goods become a pawn in the daring at must be remembered that the solid than a solemn pact. That again, I at all three as one indivisible and patrio hands of the robber! (Cheers.) What concluding five words, quoted with ironi- agree, is a most important fact which we
tic whole, our admiration warms and would Hertling say if a highwayman, at cal reiteration in the course of the article, cannot and ought not attempt to forget. glows at the contemplation of this unique the moment when justice was about to are from the Kaiser's Two World-con- There is another aspect, again connected with the Belgian outrage which must be endurance, this unique fight of courager force him to give back his plunder, bran ceptions" speech-Daily Telegraph.
faith, endurance, ad patriotism, Bitter dished his victim's purse and cried, "Ex. ever present to the minds of the citizens must be the thought in every Belgian cuse me, sir, I have a pawn." (Laughter of this country, for it was the fact--and heart of what Belgians in Belgium are and cheers.) The thing pawned consti- the fact is a mere historical truth-that
now suffering. Let them, however, take tuted a security given by the debtor to we were pledged to defend Belgium, which wiped out every doubt that could courage. Let their spirits rise in the the creditor in guarantee of his debt touch the conscience of any man of British mood of profound cheerfulness, for these One could not receive a pawn if one had dark days are not going to last for ever, birth as to whether it was or was not
gium had a credit. Their credit was all possibility of a military victory over the his duty to take, part in this great and when they come to a conclusion, when not & credit. It so happened that Bel- the speech in which he admitted the im peace again dawns upon this much tor they had unjustly suffered. It was the Allies, but the actual circumstances of struggle.
mented and cruelly tried world, when ery of universal conscience: It was the his dismissal have only just come to. Therefore, from all these three aspects I Belgium is again free and prosperous, imperious claim of imminent justice. light. Herr von Kuehlmann received a do not deny that the breach by Germany then Belgians, whether they have spent (Cheers.) Under the sceptre of her King telegram commanding him to visit the of her trenty obligations is of the deepest these unhappy years in exile, or, an even As well as of the most sinister sign-harder fate, have spent them in their own of whom she was so proud, under the Kaiservat General Headquarters; he left have instructed and steeled with the help receipt of this order, and presented him. there been, no treaty binding Germany to country, they will be able to look back energy of her people, whom war would Berlin within an hour, or, two of the protect Eelgium, had Germany violated upon this time of cruel and unexampled which their great Allies and promised, self to his Emperor at the appointed no paper contract at all, the infamy of trial, and they will say to themselves, to then Belgium would rire again more hour. The Kaiser gave him a severe attacking a small, friendly, and neutral their children, and their descendants that beautiful and more glorious (Cheers) scolding, saying that be had made a con. State-frst attacking it, then conquering Belgium, though her existence as a poli- it, then oppressing it all for no other tical entity. is less than a century, bas The whole of Belgium had taken this temptible blunder, that he had encourag reason than that Germany wanted to get within that period shown an example of pledge, which the workmen of the invadeded the anti-war movement in Germany, at another foe, that would remain, if the courage, constancy, and virtue to man- territory seat to them in a message at the that he had played into the hands of Germany to be reduced to slavery directly insulted Hindenburg and Luden Treaty of 1839 had never been brought kind for which all the world should be time when they were reported en masse to Germany's docmich and that he had in- Whatever our tortures may be, we will dorff and the Germán army. For kome into existence, one of the most abocking grateful (Loud cheers.).
only have peace with the independence twenty minutes the angry Kaiser poured episodes of the war-(cheers) and one which, of all others, is of a character M. Henry Carton de Wiart (Minister of our country and the triumph of a torrent. of reproaches and abusive criti
justice (Cheers.) W
ciama upon Kiebimann, who, at the end which it behoves mankind, by sonia of Justice) said since August 4th, 1914,
of the imperial tirade, offered his resigns. Jeague of Nations or other machinery the people of Belgium had become as one
Lion, which was accepted" forthwith. to see shall never recur in the future.
(Continued at foot of next Columni). (Cheers.)
ficance. Do not let us forget that had
A FIRM ROCK,
PEACE WITH JUSTICE,
At the call of M. de Wiart the audience gave stirring cheers. for King Albert, for Belgium, and for the Allies.
KAISER SCOLDS KUEHLMANN.
It was known from the outset that Herr von Kuehlmann's resignation was due to
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