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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 1919.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR:
"EX-RAISER IS ANSWERABLE IN HIS OWN PERSON."*
GERMANS' PLANNING
PENETRATION:
PEACEFUL
AWAITING IMPROVEMENT OF SHIPPING CONDITIONS.
EX-KING MANUEL PROCLAIMED KING OF
FRANCE'S
"
PORTUGAL.
NIGHTMARE OF INVASION.”
LATEST CABLES.
THROUUR NEUTER'S AGENCY | THE PEACE CONFERENCE
THE EXKAISER'S
RESPONSIBILITY.
M
EARLIER CABLES.
M. CLEMENCEAU'S VIEWS.
LONDON, January 20th.
A Havas message states:-
Clemenceau, making general statement in the Chamber of Deputice, said that the differences of opinion in the Paris, January h
If every In an official bulletin the Coairrence Conference were must natural. publishes a report upon the ex Kaiser'sne had been unanimous there would have
jurists been no need for such a meeting. responsitility for Mentioned
น j
The
3. whole object was to balance interests
when such interesta conflicted
the
by namely, yesterday. Lathaude, the dogra of the Faruity of Lay and M 1 L Pradelle. Profess07 of International Law at the Parts Friver sity.
The port which has been presenten to the Peace tonference, copelades
follows:-
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The ex Kaiser i answerable in his own person, butk pent and civil law, for the war and the crimes committed by thes armed forces under his command,
ex-Kaiser
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of
The ox Kaiser's position is similar to that of the Directors of a public com pany, who cat i punished by criminal law, while the potion of the German nation is similar to that of the sharehold. ers who cannot.
cannot
the the responsibility cause the German con stituting gives bim alime the power
The German sovereign depends derstall. Polely upon led and his sword.
The ex-Kaiser. in his speeches, fre
this view of his quently expressed authority, and, according to the Constitu tion, the ox Kaiser declares war in the which name of the Confederacy, of Prussia is the dominant partner - and the ex Kaiser was the King of Prussia.
"Morruter, as the Supreme War Lord, the ex Kaiser possessed unlimited authority over the Army and Navy, and the German authorities groted, as emphasising the ex Kaber's abolute liberty of decision, 42 letter showing that the x Kaiser desired
and ordered the ferocious methods of
warfare.
IMIT.
THE LATE PRINCE JOHN. THEIR MAJESTIES NOBLE EXAMPLE.
THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA. IMPORTANT MEETINGS IN PARIS.
LONDON, January 20th.
A commaniqué From Paris, dated Janu- LONDON, January 2013. The last motments of Prince John same ary with, states that the representatives: so quietly and unexpectedly that thereof the five great Powers met this morning. was no time for the nurse who was with
M. Noulens, the French Ambassador in him to summon Their Majesties to the Rusia, who left Archangel a few days bedside before he passed away.
ago, gave particulars of the situation in Russia.
The newspapers sympathetically point out how Their Majestics laboured unceas ingly was time, barying the tragedy of their youngest son's delicate health in Bilence in their hearts, never hinting to the nation the nature of the personal Every anxieties weighing upon them. father and mother throughout the Empire) will understand what it means to lose the baby of the family.
All the newspapers emphasise that the Empire's sympathy will be heightened by the knowledge of Their Majesties' splendid and antiring example of public service during the past four yenes of war.
A CONFIRMED INVALID, In recent years the dehrate health of Princer John cessitated that he should always have an atteinbau. Consequent. ty, he was never aven on publie oevasions with the others of the Royal Fraily, but
M. Erie Senvenius, Danish Minister, who lefs Petrograd recently, makes a statement at to morrow's meeting.
TEA AUCTION AT HOME.
GENERALLY CONSIDERED A
SUCCESS.
LONDON, January 9th. (delayed). Yesterday's fen Auction is generally considered a success. A million pounds
Buyers
believed
ta
were acld. represent Scandinavia, Holland und France. Alat is. 10d. per pound was paid for some of the best orange pekoes.
NATIONAL WAR BONDS.
COMING BRITISH ISSUES.
LONDON, January 20th.
The Trea- The Press Bureau states:
Tet
lived in comparative privacy at Frogmore sury notifles that after February
The Archdeacon
MODERN EDUCATIONAL,
METHODS CRITICISED,
SMARTNESS IN PLACE OF CULTURE,
INTERESTING ADDRESS BY MR. L. FORSTER.
THE MODERN TENDENCY.
5
Mr. Forster then referred to the absenot of corporate life, and all that it implied, in the council sebool, the public second- the new provincint ary school, and university-where The keynote seemed to be specialization of study and efficiency, and the spiritual and national sides
Last night, at St. Paul's College, under
This, he observed, was the auspices of the O.E.M.S., Mr. L. were not evoked. Forster, Headmaster, Victoria British especially unfortunate as many of the School, delivered an interesting lecture people who attended the Counei! school on Education. Professor H G Earleat at had not the benefit of a wholesome, refined and corrective home inßuence. la presided.
this connection it was true to say that the education of the people had reduced- Certain types of crime in the country, such as brutal nauult, but, on the other hand, had increased others such as em-
In other words, wo -buzzferaena. increly eduraling our criminals to sin high up instead of low down.
Mr Fomter provveded: -There is doubt, also, that our educational estab- lighments have been greatly influenced by America and Germany. The commercial
Mr Forster pointed out that in Eng land every form of education had i origin in religion. Until 1832 the Clovern. ment did not recognise nay duty towards the mass of the nation in regard to edues- tion. In that year
it established the Committee of the Privy Council which made grants towards that object, but even then it acted through voluntary agents, namely the religious bodies, chiefly the Anglican Church. Mr Forster the traced the development of popular cle mentary education under the aegis of the
X-
Church of England, and, to some tent, of the Free Churches with the titl of Government grants. This process continued for over thirty years until.{
was
were
10
attress of the countries before the war caused as to modify our institutions and
to make these approximate to those in these anties. This process was hasten ed by the war, which revealed so many In a wor
nations -
owing to the changes ncidental to the of our educational shfecte
frequently happctis that industrial revolution, the Church
change ideals. We are so impressed with unable to cope with the new requirements. the rentrees of our adversary, Consequently, in 1876, the Education Act fix er minds on his prints of superiority,
до
was passed which created the School¦ that we unmediately try in emulate and
sirpass
Jim CI
The
Those points. Prime Minister and in it recent speech. that the feature of German life we bud to fear most was his education.
Boards throughout the country for the purpose of supplememing, but not sup planting, the existing educational facili Then began a competition which www quite equal, for the School Boards
There is no doubt that the curriculum had the local rates to draw upoù.
of our school even now is tending more a result, the Church schoals were practie and more to utilitarian and material
As
ends. Vocational, technical and commer-
Mlemenceau, continuing, stated that although publicity of the debates wae generally favoured, one point of secrecy must be observed and that was when one or Snadringham. The burial will probaubscriptions will be received for the news. Government put forward R proposal ably be private, at Sandringham, on
series of National War Bonds at five per appoerd by the heads of another Govern January 21st.
cent. for five or ten years, subject to Public sympathy was expressed at all income tax, or four per cent. for ten years.
The first named series will be issued atally bankrapi by 1902, and they threaten the Churches yesterday.
ed to close and throw upon the rates the sial schools are patently devoted to the par and may be redeemed at a preinium, The last named series will be issued tygreat burden of the work which they were i erention of workinen who may produce performing unless the Government in more and so bevatte more efficient parta tervened. Faced with this situation, Mr of the commercial machine. Their aim Balfour swept away the School Boards is not enltural; it is practical. Likewise, and transferred the control of primary science in the ordinry schools is laught eduration to a committee of the burungh not so much to ervate that rare and or county councils, at the same
returni interest in the wonders of nas giving the same local rate aid
ture as to produce engineers who will voluntary schools as to the other schools. give us a new gun and harder armour-
Concerning the League of Nations, M. Clemenceau added that it would be a delusion unless there was a general deter
tination to make it a reality.
The object of the French Government was to bring about a complete agreement among the civilised untions and to avoid a recurrence of the abominations of war.
The French Press generally remarks on the danger of allowing the Conference to
at St Pauls invited the congregation to join in silent prayer.
COURT MOURNING,
LONDON, January 20th. The Court will go into mourning for a month from January 20th, and half- mourning for fortnight after that period.
£1
be reported by bearany, but states that THE SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM
the Conference communiqués must con-
tain at least as much information as the
war communiqués.
POST-WAR
LATEST CADLES.
EXCLUSION OF GERMANS? PEACEFUL PENETRATION BEING
PLANNED.
LONDON, January 20th. The Daily Express correspondent in Berlin states that hundreds of thousands of Germans are busily planning io como to England and America to resume their world-wide business operations as soon as
the steamers recommenED.
FIRST INDIAN PEER.
HONOUR FOR SIR S. P. SINHA
LONDON, January 20th.
ESTHONIANS CAPTURE A
REGIMENT.
HELSINGFORE, January 2uth. An Esthonian communiqué records the fact that the enemy's Seventy-Sixth Regi. ment, comprising 500 men, were taken prisoners,
TROUBLOUS GERMANY.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POLLING.
AMSTERDAM, January 20th.
101 and would be redeemable at par
BRITISH
POLICE DISSATIS- FACTION.
SECRET MEETING AT ALBERT
HALL.
LONDON, January 20th. Eight thousand delegates of the Police Union throughout the Kingdom held a secret mess meeting of the Albert Hall.
It is understood that they are agitating against the alleged victimisation of the Union members, and for more pay.
MARLIER CABLES.
DEVASTATED FRANCE.
AREAS TO BE RESTORED.
LONDON, January 20th.
-
A Have message states:
*
The Arras Town Council unanimously voted the restoration of the town to its original aspect.
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FRENCH sky 1
DEMOBILISATION.
TO CIVIL LIFE.
time
to the
allowed
lu return for providing and maintain
plate, rbemists who will give us a new ing the fabric the Church was
explosive, and ductors who will try to More to retain her Church teaching and Church and a cure for venereal disease.
It was this that gave rise of those services would be required if atmosphere.
to the Passive Resistance movement under the laws of God were inculcated in the
Rev. the
Dr. Clifford,
To-day the
schools. Weer tolerance and love for stigma of poverty attached to Church schools, which entered for the submerged our neighbors taught there would be tenth in the older and poorer parts of fewer wars and consequently less wasto the cities, while the Council schools of energy in producing artaments and nurtured the class that possessed the Weapons of destruction. If the Seventh C'onununément were installed more deeply political power to-day. The communal
into the minds of the young and purity the Church, neglect of the Church schools such vital
langht by generally, as sources of the Church's
power-was planted in boys and girls, less would be heard of loathsone diseases and the calculated to have very serious conse-energies of many doctors would be turned It is inla more profitable directions, quence to the Church.
It was in striking for justance, that owing to the care- contrast to the attitude of the Bomen ful instruction in south the Irish are th
most chaste men and women of the British Catholic Church towards its schools.
istes.
THE PRESENT DAY TEACHER.
As with sciences with the arts side The lecturer then proceeded to a cun- of the school. Modern languages are A telegram from Berlin states that the
aideration of the present position of taught not so much to enable the student so becomes acquainted with the litera- polling for the National Assembly occur-
education and its possible and probable tures of France and Germany, to appre- The ex-Kniser, in the early days of the
rod on January 19th. The country was
future. In the past,, be said, the per-ciate the bumour of Moliere and the
noble verse of Racine, as to enable him way, wrote to Emperor Francis Joseph
divided into 37 electoral districts. Every TERRITORIALS TO BE SENT BACK sonality of the master has been of trans-
to book an order as a commercial travel- cendant importance. The Victorian idenler. Bo when Mr. Lau Chu-pak last year, "Everything must put to the fire and
men and woman over the age of 20 had
was that the ideal schoolmaster was asked that poetry should be excluded from sword. Men, women, children, and old
A Peerage for the Under Secretary of a right to vote. There were separato,
the curriculum of the school he was in LONDON, January 20th
person who should profoundly influence front of the modern tendency which would men must be slaughtered, not a house or
The State for India, Bir 6. P. Sinha, is polling booths for men and women.
A Bavas message states:-
the character of his pupils by a high exclude every feature of school life that tree be loft standing. With these methods
does not lead to improve the balance- officially announced.
system is one of proportional representa
It is announced that 1,200,000 French moral tone, which would eventually be sheet. of terrorism, which alone are capable of
soldiers will be demobilised by February the means of cunobling the mass of the affecting a people as degenerate as the MONARCHIC MOVEMENT IN tion. The final results will be known on
January 25th.
nation; in other words, the regeneration 15th, and 3,000,000 by March 31st. Thue
of the State was expected to come through the whole of the two territorial classes in the agency of the national system of the Army will return to civil life.
French, the war will be over in Munthy."
LIO
PORTUGAL EX-KING MANUEL PROCLAIMED
KING,
LONDON, January 20th.
A QUIET ELECTION.
· BERLIN, January 2015. The National Assembly elections passed
THE
A message from Lisbon states that the off without special incident. Outside the Monarchic conspiracy at Oporto and
The report comments: Thus the ex Kai- æer incurred personal penul responsibility to which must be added the civil respon- sibility of the German Empire. Both are responsible; the Empire at civil law, and the ex-Kaiser at penal and civil law, clsewhere has proclaimed ex-King Manuel according to the most elementary rules of King. right."
POLAND.
PADEREWSKI GOVERNMENT GETTING BUSY.
PARIS, January 19th.
It is reported that ex-King Manuel is Finally, the jurists state: "The Prince discouraging the movement. guilty of an unjust war is liable to: personal penalties if such are necessary for the sake of example, for the security of the injured party, and for the security of human society." THE GERMAN REPRESENTATIVES.
London, January 20th. The Times correspondent at Berne, tele- graphing on January 18th, stated that! Count von Rantzau and Herr Schiode- mann will copresent Germany at the General Peace Conference.
THE PLACE CONFERENCE
SECRETARIAT.
PARIS, January 20th. Lieut. Colonel Bir Maurice Bankey, Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet, has been appointed the British represen- tative on tho Peace Conference Secre farial
The Paderewski Government, which is convening the Constituent Assembly on February 9th has called up the 1808 class. in Russian Foland.
THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE. FRENCH SECURITY AGAINST ATTACKS.
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RENEWED ARMISTICE.
GERMAN ENQUIRIES.
A BYSTEM WITHOUT A SOUL.. The education of the greater part of the nation has passed, or is passing, from the kooping of the Church and has fallen into the arms of Commerce, which the old becu Canonists said "non Deo placere potest," This ideal has now education.
but which, realising its possibility of abandoned. In place of the teacher who service, is re-shaping the whole body of it, is continually radiating his influence over rendering it more and more practical and his pupils, with whom he is in close and paying close attention to aspects of it which were formerly seriously neglected. various polling booths imunense crowds,
constant association, we have a succession Clinice have been set up where fre: medi LONDON, January 20th.
of experts who give their eflicient ser-tal attention is given to the sick and por child, open-air schools are being including a great many women, awaited patiently and calmly their turn to vote.
À Havas mesange states:---
vices and produce efficiency in their pupils constructed for the delicate child, food- Strong forces of Government troops
At the Armistice Conference at Treves without having much effect upon, or in centres have been established for the hungry child, and play-centives for the occupied all the important points, also
the German members asked when the terest in, the development of their slum child. Thus the mental and physical
characters. patrolled on foot and in motor ears.
parts of the child are being catered for. are aiming we
only the system had a soul it would Voting in Berlin, l'otadam and Spandau blockade would end, the German prison-
now is not so much culture and a high|be perfect. Of course it is sericualy ques- A notable ers-of-war be liberated and the prelimi-moral tone as commercial efficiency and tioned by many thoughtful men whether was extraordinary envy. spectacle in Berlin was the nuns proceed Dary pace conditions signed. ing to the polling booths in bodies.
Reports from the Provineca also indi cate heavy polling and very few distur
филов,
EARLY RESULTS.
AMSTERDAM, January 20th.
What
essential
smartness. Instead of the teacher being the State can successfully provide a com- plete education, for large part of kind of lny priest he becomes the education must deal, or ought to deal, THE SILVER MARKET.
tradesman solling his mental wares for with moral development, apart from the fact that many still urgo that religion SHIPMENTS TO THE ORIENT.
the most they will bring. This is more ought to be the basis of all education." It largely due to the modern organisation is to be noted that great educationists like Mr. Fisher and Mr. Badler always New Yoza, January 10th.
of education than to the teacher himself disclaim any intention of closing down One million dollars, in silvor, will be It is very difficult to get in any bureau- the voluntary and private institutions for shipped on January 13th to India, mak-eratio system such as the present that which, they say, there is much ruom und roman for exirence, ns there is likely to be in those places greater flexibility, The Hauricisblut correspondent teleing $5,000,000 shipped to the Orient inspirit and tone which are so
in a perfect scheme. This is owing to freedom and scope for experiment than in State controlled piacon. That is why graphs from Berlin the following results the recht movementa.
the fact that the personal responsibility the Universities and the public schoole from the 24 Berlin polling booths: the
MESERS. MONTAQU'S REPORT,
of the tenchor in largely undermined by remain outside of Government control.
In conclusion Mr. Forster urged that PANIA, January 20th. German Democrats, 7,375; the derman
LONDON, January 10th.
the fooling that he is merely a small part support sibuld be given to the movement M. Dubost, the president of the Senate, Nationals, 4,700; The Independent provided at a Bonate luncheon in honour of President Wilson.
He deferred a focialiste, 0,005; the German Peoples' Moser Samuel Montingu & Co's report in the colossal machinery-interchange-to improve the existing conditions
states that the trade demand is somewhat blo at that--which works the system. Church education by providing better buildings and University men to raise Greator atie:32- France's exposure to German attacks. Party, 3,980; the Central Party, 2,354.
active, but insufficiently su.to incommode is masters are people he aldom sees, the tone of the schools, World harmony was only possible when
Education op `Church Franco was rid of the nightmare of in-
an be accortained the the market, which has been deprived of while be in the victim of an elaborate tion, also, should be bestowed upon the
Bunday schools, spy system called an Inspetorate. The flues Was, pecially urgent at the present vasion.
Majority Bocinlina scoured a large compolition from abroad owing to the nebulous bounities which he serves by its moment, for it was the age of denveror
continued export restrictions.
strict regulations derunnds, and gota ita and commerce; the former required the majority in Heliosaberg suburb,
The Shanghai exchange is quoted at pound of flesh, but rarely its drop of spirit of Christianity to prevent it from Being overbearing and the latter to prem vent it from being materia).
President Wilson, replying, paid a glowing tribute to France's encrifices The uther four great Powers will make He said there were many new elements
which should help to reassure Frabe against futura altneks.
nilar appointments.
Bo far na
Berlin, excluding suburbs, has 1,400,000 voters of whom ni Jenst 1,200,000 votosh
blood.