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OUR LONDON LETTER THE DOOM OF GERMAN · HOPES..
IN THE WEST.
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FROM OUR OWN OGERESPONDENT.)
LONDON, September: ath. For the space of six weeks the Germans have been going back on the Western Front without pause. Marshal Foch and Sir Douglas Haig have given them no respite day or night. At the moment the absorbing question is where they will be dble to stop before the winter comes bringing comparative quiescence from active warfare on a big scale. Our enemies may some very able soldiers and writers believe they will have to
HONGRONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1918,
LYNCH'S FIGHTING BRIGADE HUMOURS OF RECRUITING IN
IRELAND.
BY COL ARTHUR LYNCH, M.P.]
BAGDAD AS A TRADE CENTRE
HEIGHT PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE.
The city of Bagdad before:the war was I have been in Ireland for some weeks, an important commercial centre and dis- but the recruiting campaign, so far as tributing point for a large, section of I am concerned, is only a few days old.country. It is primarily an agricultural Already, it shows signs of healthy life. centre, surrounded by magnificent tracts The intervening time has been occupied of fertile land, nearly all of which can in the work of overcoming initial dish-be irrigated; when under irrigation in culties. The more I explored the machine the past this country was known as the of government, the more I admired the garden spot of the world..
However, writes. Mr. Oscar S. Heizer, British soldier! The machine mores slowly, and grenks, and breaks down, but America Consul at Bagdad in Com all this simply means that good old hum- pierce Reports, owing to geographical bering methods which were comfortable and economical considerations, Bagdad enough during the hundred years of peace has rather a commercial importance. It are hopelessly inefficient to meet the cou-is the terminus of the upstream navigne
of a new era
tion_on_the_Tigris and also the terminus
retreat to the Rhine in the next few weeks here is no lack of young men in. Ire-of the Persian road, and all goods sent)
from now; that is to say, before, this letter can reach Hongkong. I mention this as illustrating the state of opinion bere
Anyway, be it soon or late, to the Rhine and beyond they must, and will go under pressure of the Allies, whose resources are now incomparably superior to those of the Huns. There are no reserves for the time being in Germany, and there will be none before November; while on our side we have the mighty American Armies preparing themselves behind the fighting area in France to spring for ward at the right moment and deal the "knock-out blow.
THEN AND NOW.
It was only last March, though it seems a century ago, since the Germans made their supreme effort to reach Paris, and also to drive, the British Army to the Channel, And they nearly succeed ed." The emergency was so great that, as we know now, a quarter of a million troops were thrown from England into France within a week of the German attack, and nearly 400,000 men in the first three weeks. It was touch and go with us in those terrible days. Now, looking back, one cannot but feel a thrill of pride that the nation was so staunch in that testing time; it makes one glad to be a
Briton
"Facts like these ought always to be remembered as showing the real spirit of the pation in time of peril, and especially is the need for remembrance necessary when reports of strikes and rumours of strikes are being cabled all over the world Whatever the troubles in this country in connection with Labour and there will be many more strikes before long the grievances and discontent thus manifested, are quite apart from the grim determination of the whole country. in cluding Labour, to win the war SHIPPING AFTER THE WAR.
(and.
In every street in Dublin one to Kermansbab, Hamadan, and other im meets stalwart, youths marching, along portant centres are loaded at Bagdad on Nike ready-made soldiers, and an
camels or other transport, animals. every martial disposition except
It is the centre of supply for Upper ness to fall in and don the British uni-and Lower Mesopotamin and is the col- form. Most of these young men are lecting point from which the various pro-
Their leaders are politicians.
also ducts, of the country are exported. All orators and writers--elever men in their locul products of Mosul, Diarbekir, and Suleimaniyah are usually, sent down the way.
Tigris River on rafts, Built upon inflated skine, to Bagdad, where the products, such as wool, gun, gallaats, skins and hides, carpets, dates, liquorice, opium, grease, and grain, are loaded upon river steamers for shipment abroad rii Bas- sorah.
ITEMS OF FORLION TRADE.
No matter what may have been Ireland's grievances, or trials, or hardships in the Past, the world, and particularly ame rica, will judge the Irish cause by the attitude of young Irishmen now while the great war is being fought for the Ireedom of the world. It is hard to bring these arguments bome to young men at 4 publié meeting.. whore their organised forces are singing the Soldiers Song" or other
The articles imported from abroad, rii forbidden ditties in endless choruses, and Bassorah are cotton goods, twist, sugar, where the young boys of fifteen, and the coffee, gunny bags, spices, silk, and wool- young girls, of course, are shouting them.len goods, metals, indigo, dyestuffs, tea, selves purple in the face, hurling a us tobacco, puraps. for irrigation, agricul
tural machinery, and haberdashery. political views which fail to reach the platform owing to the infernal, din which Many of the above-mentioned imports are. for Persia, especially cotton goods, sugar, their leaders are making.
ten, and indigo. Also some of the exports of Bagdad come from Persia, especially carpets
and rugs.
BINN FEIN SHILLIA
at the first of our big meetings in Dublin Captain Grady and myself found ourselves like an islet in & sea of foaming waters, but I must do the Sinn Feiners the justice to say that while for some time we were entirely in their hands, they offered us no personal violence, and one of their leaders, who acted as a buckler in our hour of need, showed us politely to our car, and then ticularly of the Government of Ireland told us what be thought us, and parti- The Dublin crowd is a crowd of moods, dangerous no doubt at times but extra ordinarily susceptible to the influences of good bumour and responsive to the sport ing instinct. The more feree and deter mined are these young men in their atti tude towards us, the more I desire to have them as soldiers for the westera front. I have not relinquished that hope The Dublin
have been of this
There is no specialty in trade. Some important firms carry on business in every kind of article, but the general practice is for each category, of firma to limit their business to a certain class of articles.
The main article of import. is
cotton goods from Manchester, where old and fourishing Bagdad firms have been estab articles of export are wool and liquorice. lished for many years. The principal of which the most important part goes to America.
·
-TERMS OF SALER.
through foreign and local banks
Almost all the business is financed The collection for goods sent to Bagdad is usually effected by drawing a draft upad the merchant with shipping documents attached, to be paid upon arrival of goods For the collection against at Bagdad:
great ady that they have made the goods exported it is customary to draw u
There has been considerable comment recruiting campaigs talked of in every in the London Freas on the assurances nook and cranny of Ireland People at of Mr. Hurley, chairman of the United least now that we are here, and States Shipping Board, that the great that we are on the look out for men, and fleet of merchant ships which America is
such is the impulsive Irish that we have
several offers
draft at four months, with shipping doen. ments attached, which can be discounted at the local banks
building will be used for no selish purfrom 8inere at temperament brokers on terms varying from one to si
Sales of goods here are effected throūgs
months time, for which bills are taken native money lenders at from 7 to 1
ith discounted. At the banks or with cent per annum
A commercial committee has been form
pose after the war. The vessel, will, he Our next move will be to march put says, be employed in developing Ameri- with the nucleus already formed, wearing can trade routes, and in bringing the our own uniform, sporting our national democracies of the American hemisphere tabe, playing the Iriah airs from our owed in Bagdad, composed of two Moham together. But some critics affect to pipe bands, and booking our recruits 23 medans, two Jews, and one Christian, to be politely aceptical on this point, we march through the streets or the roads encourage commerce and advise the mili They can Ace the United States of the countryside," and in this way carry-tary government and the newly-establish taking the place that Great Britain ing on, as I hope, the pacific conquested civil courts in regard to commercial occupied as the chief carrier of of Ireland. Daily B
the world's trade.
The Times in a lending article sets forth with elaborate detail the arguments
and insinnations which a German agent
matters.
While for the present the functions of the committee are chiefly advisory and GREAT GERMAN SCANDAL the military authorities, it may be said nearly all activities are in the hands of
might be expected to use in order to stir It is reported from Berlin that Herr that there is some improvement in busi- up strife and excite national jealousies Adels director-general of the Manness and limited facilities are now given on shipping. And nearly everything the mann raunition factories in Westphalia to imports and dealers in foreign mer paper puts into the mouth of the Hun has been sentenced to eight months im, chandise..
WHAT OF THE FUTURE 1. might be said by a patriotic Englishman. prisonment, for having, defrauded, the For the United States will, in fact, have late
BATE
This, however, is no reason why we the Xes to the amount of £60,000, At present it is very difficult to form
a preponderance of tonnage later on
to the case, which involved an estimate of the volume of the trade
censor.
should feel aggrieved with our friends bidden by the military officers, was for of Bagdad. Owing to the closing of e
Gigantic roads by the war, the commerce of exploitations in parts of the world was for a time transferred to r
where all important import and export
across the Atlantic. If they take advanhave been conducted by the five Mannes whe tage of their opportunities they will
mann brothers, who invented, among
simply be doing what we should do our other things, the incandescent light and ends were carried on and are still
selves in similar circumstances. THE DECIDING FACTOR.
નોની ના ના હો જોવ
Of course, the Times may have desired simply to anticipate enemy machina tions, or to indicate that the position is understood here. Anyway, the truth of the matter would appear to be that the the Chinese Customs at the age of ultimate ownership of the shipping of the world will be decided afterwards, as went. Moreover, he was in Peking it has been in the past, very largely by trade policy. This is the considered opinion of the Westminster "-Gazette, which says, the nation that can get cargoes both ways on a vorage will in evitably draw under its own flag a larger proportion of the shipping of the world than the nation which has its ships in ballast on the outward or inward voyage The shipping owned by each after the war will be determined, in fact, almost exclusively by the tonnage which each can profitably employ, and that, in its turn, will be decided by trade policy:”: À SHIPPING POOL
Apropos of shipping, Lord Robert Cecil's statement this week at a dinner of the Allied Maritime Transport Coun cil foreshadows the pooling of the whole
on to a great extent. It may be the jointless steel tube. The firm obtain said that Engand lost for a while is ed the mining concessions in Morocco commercial importance. Persia being sup which led to the Agadir incident, and lehammerah, Buchir, and Ahwaz on the has been accused by the Socialist German Persian Gulf, thus depriving Bagdad of plied through Ispahan. from Bassorah, papers of agitating for waza
the most important part of its trade.
During this period the only business Bassorah of small light articles which carried on at Bagdad was the import from were brought by Bassorah firms from during the Boxer trouble; and since then India and England for the most pressing needs of the place. Owing to these con- has travelled widely in the Far East.
What surprises the average English 'ditions many of the important Bagdad reader- is his statement that there has firms moved to Bassorah or established
branches there pending future- Bever been any true governing" in
-develop China (except in two remote periods) However, it does not
ments.
secrat save. what the people did for them-
at all likely selves, or what they demanded of the that Bagdad has lost permanently officials as a protection against one an-commercial supremacy. In view of its other. And yet the world was led to ignis and the bolt of cavigation on the also of the during believe that, for example, the late the war it has become the centre of a Dowager Empress was an autocrat of railroad system which, is certain to autocrats! For the rest, Mr. Wesle's become more and more extensive after the nion of the Japanese is so surprising war there can be no doubt that Bagdad ly frank that it is marvellous how his will assume a more important role as 24 book should have passed the Censor. The commercial and distributing centre than publishers are
Hurst and ever before. The commercial prosperity Blackett.
of the city will no doubt be much enhanced by the development of agricul ture in this ecuntry, which the British authorities are encouraging in every way.
DECIMAL COINAGE."
Meanrs.
A REPINGTON FORECAST:
Lieut. Col. Repington and probably never made a more emphatically correct prophecy then the following written late
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IT has been said that St. Andrew's Society is allocating, too much of the War Bond Drawing receipts to War Charities. Just think for a minute of the War and not of the Drawing; think of the tragedy.beyond words which is being enacted on the battle front; think of the vast relief organisation and the money that is needed to uphold it and think of your own duty": in the matter. No, we are not giving too much; we are not giving enough. 4:
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Devil is ill and the Devil o saint would Among recent books is one by Mr. Dominions would have made the change be The less speaking the better in reply Putnam Weale under the title The before now but for the injury that would to the Solf's and others. One guns and Fight for the Republic in China." The have been done to trade in those coun rifles are our best spokesmen, and ther Author's father was a Chinese Customs tries adopting the innovation while the speak the only language that the German Commission, he was partly educated remainder of the Empire was still wedded understands. We know our Germans, himself in the country, and he entered to the existing British system. Unifor by this time and if we are taken in by mity is absolutely necesary in a matter their peace blarney we shall deserve, af (Continued at foot of next Column.) of this kind.-E.B
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