THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH,
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Nothing has ever disturbed the demand for this Car. No outside conditions, seem to stow it up a particle. The people no conditions inside the industry want the Car more intensely at this moment than ever they wanted it before.
The Car has reached the stage when its sales are almost automatically increased. By this we mean that one sale is almost certain to result in one or two other sales
There is a very pronounced and definite public opinion now in this country concerning the Dodge Bros. Car.
People seem to know that Dodge Brothers' idea, from the very first, was that It is the quality revealed in if they built the Car right, nothing else mattered. its performance which makes the price impressive. People are attracted by something more than price; it is the internal and external excellence which characterises the Car.
The high price it demands when sold second-hand increases the respect in which the Car is held.
It would be hard to find a truer test of enduring worth. People are not eager for used Cars unless they know that such Cars have before them a long life of satisfactory service.
And so the Dodge Brothers Car is bought, not upon priec, but upan the quality and value that it embodies,
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CHAPLAIN'S STORY.
FROM LEONARD SPRAY.}
1919.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS.
But
KAISER'S GUILT.
BISHOP OF LONDON'S DEMAND.
"EXACT THE PUNISHMENT.""
to
next the driver, as if he bolonged there,"
third, for whom doin search was being made of the premiacs, where the Germans suspected ho was diving,, want down a well in the garden, crouched somehow against the side, and was not discovered, though, the searchers ovan lacked down the wall with a bull's-eye Bishop of London, who returned from Preaching, at Westminster Abbey, the What follows is the history of the lantern. We kept gother co Macedonia the previous night, said: British colony in Brussels, the ammunity in a wonderful way, with the The memory of Nurse Cavell of the reinant of a considerable community church as a centre. After a time life got murder of Captain Fryatt, of 10,000 of which has lived on here throughout the more and more difficult, and the pooror
our gallant moronntile marine It numbers alto- German occupation,
ones among us were hard put to it. But gether about 900 people, the majority relief was organized, first by
a cruel death, of hospital ships sunk, of B amall
WOXCH and women and elderly men, but including
children miany innocent committee from our own ranks. also a score of military age, who succeed. more and more people neated financial a half-starving condition, will make
drowned, of many prisoners returned in ed in evading the glatches of the tyrants help as time went on, and we had to unlikely that we shall fail God, aa
AA He who sought to goize and transport to seek assistance from outside. The Ameri Rubleben. every Britisher of age and icons did it until they bad to go, and then woke to us to punish the wrongdoer. To what extent and from what people are we ness for possible war service. All this the Dutch took it over. Their work was to exact punishment for the grosiest weary time these exiled compatriots have splendid. The best of all, they got a crime committed in the world for been hore-through those first weeks of house, appointed a special staff, and did thousand years! shockad. confusion, through the succeed it all with a thoroughness, method, and ment is quite different from revenge. And notice, punish- ing months of mingled bope and despair, sympathy beyond praise. Our existence The Berbs were magnificent in their self
which morged into years generally was very placid-we soomed to, ching, waiting, and weariness.
But constitute, as it were, a little lost village,
restraint the other day, when they had through
it all, under petty persecutions with this gigantic storm raging outside.”
the whole Bulgarian army fleeing before and constant surveillance, they have hold
them in hopeless confusion, and entirely at their mercy; they might have been their heads high, and maintained their spirits unbroken. I will record their Of what happened when all the British excused if they had taken the oppor
tagir history through the lips of the British era of military age were swept up and tunity to wreak their vengeance on
from chaplain, the Bor. H. 8. T. Gahan of went off to Rubleben; Mr. Gahan told me age-long enemies, but, at a word His own fine devotion to and cessaloss his personal experience, which was like England and France, they stayed their labour for his flock I heard from others that of the others, except that at the end hands. They were forbidden vengeance; Bo, doubtless, they expect punishment. just as he told it to me, musing back-of it he was allowed to remain. They
the French and the Belgians. wards over the past vaars with closed oves suddenly began arresting all Englishmch. do
found They
do not demand vengeance, they like man recalling the dissolving One evening, when I got home,
& memories of a dream.
deroand punishment, and they rightly I only change there three Germans, plain clothes men, little the order of his telling, that who told me I was wented at the Ecole demand it. Why, otherwise, do we write there may come first some moving details Militsire. They were very polite, and these very words over the Criminal Court of London: Defend the children of as yet unrelated of the tragedy of Nur
told me 1: would be able to return home the poor, and punish the wrongdoer not bring saything with me.
ne At the "That," said Mr. Gahan, was the Ecolo Militaire I
was taken into a room be let off the moment he says that he is ruget awful shock we had.
where there were already several British sorry? Of course, he is sorry now but little band imprisonet here, and it waers who I knew, and who had hoon he has all the aate to be hanged for the then the iron entered our soul, and 'wo
there two or three days. And then I murder, or spend those long years on Let me take you back to found I wae under arrest, and there I feel it still.
Dartmoor for the felony of which be now Christos, 1914, and show you Miss
Because, without punishment, Cavell as she was then, I went to her had to stay four days Very long days repents. olinic, where the had a Christmas tree they seemed, and rather trying, for I did experience shows that man will do these not know that the days would not develop off, the moral standard of the world goes. things again; because, if people are les and was giving a little Christmas party.
However
wiło got to The room was filed with people of all into years.
work and want, to the American Embassy down; because God is served as truly by sorte and conditions. There were eyea some escaped British prisoners of Wan Tho acmmunicated with Berlin, and a just judge as by the minister of the moving about quite freely--what risha found that the English clergy there were Gospel, and upon the upholding we took in those days; we thought then at liberty. So on the fourth day a Germajesty of the law the safety of all the
Dan official came into the room and tap innocent of the world depends the Germans were slow and careless, and ped on the shoulder two British Roman we didn't know how deadly sure they Catholic chaplains and myself,
ever waged and we are necessary 10 were. I recall the gene dietinetly, with dication that we might leave."
absolutely convinced that, unless the Nurse Call standing in the midst, smil. Por days the arrests of Englishmen kind of thing does not pay, the whole idea whole world sees and knows that this ing and happy, with a kind word for went on all over the city, and hundreds everybody.
of
Nations were taken off to Rubleben. It was a dream. And, therefore, we believe that a baseless a League of Baturday when I was released, and I had God expects us to exact punishment been Worrying
all the time about the even as we ourselves should expect to he Che day, months afterwards a boy church the following morning, and about
punished if we had done the same. This to other members of does not mean that we are not, if our our little
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Gavell's murder.
14
We were a
ARREST OF MISS CAVELL.
at
of the
consider this war the most un
came up to me in the street and said:het munity. I will never for military and naval leaders tell us that
The Germans have gone to Mina Cavall'E clinic, sir; I saw their motor-car outside. That was our first shock, though we knew get the joy of that Saturday evening. it is sale, to feed the hungry or to punish the innocent and guilty alike; but it does nothing of what was going on, and only We have gone through various fluctua
B commission of inquiry felt uneasy. Everything was done very tions during these long, long months, mean that secretly, and we heard nothing until a rolling into years, but the whole colony should be set up to inquire who was few days later, when, to my horror, some bore their troubles bravely. For a long responsible for the many crimes commit one came to me and paid, The Germane time at first wo were terribly circumscribed in the war and that the guilty should have been there again, and have takened in bur movements, could not go be be brought to justice. But on this great Miss Cavell away with them. Then weyond a small radius from where we were Day of Judgment, I claim that to punish essential part of the wrong-doer is board she was in prison. There were all living, and had to be continually report upholding the righteous judgment of sorts of stories fring about, but we could ing ourselves. Then, with passports, we find out nothing. one
God" allowed to maya aliout a Little and using hen visiting in the country. We radius, but even so it was very As St. Pete I do not suppose that, aby I returned to my house and found on my difficult. There was a most complicated single event in the world's history has desk a scribbled note: I want you to procedure. You had to do everything by been more dramatic than the entry ferw come to ace 100, to give the
Communion
had to be
At St. Peter's Chapel, Vere-street, the
In his
wne
izw
entry, dishonoured and dis.
to an Englishwoman who has not long to Person calls it "the German offices, re days age of the King of the Belgians live. It was written in English, but part every time you left your house for into Brussels. While he was thus mak
a destination within the passport radius, inged, hore the signature of the German chap
and report
within hundred miles. nin-a man of French extraction and but outside the original area,
mao who, baving broken named Lesure, of whom I must say that again immediately you
got back. Then there were tho requisitions. every I found him a Christian gentleman.
and feeling of honour, four First we received notice that they wanted years ago, had stood triumphant over the "I went straight down to his lodging all brass and copper utensils, dot orna Belgian monarch, We want no more He came into the room looking very dia
this of God's trossed and said to me: 'I am very sorry ments, and after that everything contain- striking example than
and of righteousness to have to send for you. But you knowing woollen materials mattresses, cus infallible love.
justice. That made hions, and so on. Eve himself. After- Miss Cavell is in prison." me feel queer, for I could not think what brought by the owner was coming next, and then he said: You'wards they went round and took all know she is to be shot to-morrow morn I just sank back into a chair. Then he told me that with great difficulty he had got permission from the German military authorities for me to see her,deliers, but later on we were allowed to and that I could go to her that evening. Then the German chaplain said: "I ask ed Miss Cavell if she would like you to be with her at the execution, but she said, I think it would be too much for thim. Of course, I would have
No
but how tonder was that thought of Ear 3.
metal
FOUL WEAPONS. fixtures bell-pulls, window-fittings, CAN THOSE WHO ORDER THEIR door knobs, raps, and every copper utensil in the kitchen, and even the bath." room. At first they left the brass chan-
have gaslight in only one room in the house, and the fittings from the other roome were all taken away.
USE BE HANGED?
BY FRANCIS GRIBBLE.]
introduced the use of foul weapons in The question of punishing those who this war is in the air. Have such wen Pons ever been rejected, not merely on the ground that they were inhumané, but With regard to living conditions on the further ground that those who
COSTLY, CLOTHING.
It was then too late, the chaplain generally in Brussels, Mr. Gatan told authorised their employment would merit told me, for any change to be made by me the chief difficulty was clothing, which punishruent?
and which I could be with her in her last where run of clothes last winter for forgotten, perhaps, but authentic, and very expensivo: "I They have. Have is the precedent- moments, which were fixed for the follow bought's quit
ing morning. So I left the chaplain's the first time since the beginning of the house and went direct to the prison at wer. It cost nearly 300f, and prices Saint Gilles. I went there expecting to have since mounted. These shoes I am find a wamun distracted a woman wearing have had four years; you naturally terrified at the thought of her would be lucky now if you could pur awiul fate in a few hours, whom I would
chase a pair, and you would have to have to try to pull together, to control, pay 2001. and console. But when saw Nurse Cavell face to face I found her perfectly calm and composed. She spoke naturally in her customary quiet voice, and
utter
I record this individual experience because it is typical of that of the whole population of Brussels. So far as food
very much to the point
Towards the end of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, an inventor laid a bar- barbus, but perfectly practical, weapon before the French Government, then at Bordeaux, Not all the technical details have been published, but the contemplat ed missile appears to bave combined the horrors of poison gas and liquid fire. Phosphorus is believed to have been the main ingredient.
Gambetta, having neither the time nor ed no word that betrayed any trace in concerned, it seems to myself, from
what I have seen and board in the few the competence to attend personally to her of a feeling of animosity towards her judges. I have never seen anyone more days I have been here, that conditions the matter, called for a report from a and quiet. It have been, better than elsewhere in the technical expert-General Thoumas, of
territory. Supplies from the Engineers. General Thoumas examin CUTLER PALMER & CON FRENCH LESSONS perfectly sweet, composed,
was just as if she were about to go to occupied bed to get up the next morning and go America have come regularly, and, ed the proposition carefully and declined about her ordinary life. The rest you thanks to this, the people
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& mattor It was a barbarous devico, he said. at bust anteiont, an generally have to countenance the device. BRITISH ESCAPE ENEMY.
taken as a whole, richer The adoption of it would be contrary to of comparison, they Describing the existence in general of
of Holland, authority who made himself responsible people
For the use of it would probably the British community in Brussels, Mrnourished than the look much better international law; and any person in
from which country. I came here. Gahan said: We have gone our way Reverting to Mr. Gaban's story, he hanged, and would certainly deserve that With wonderful regularity and smooth told me that the citizens of Brussels have
The inventor, however, persisted, aą ness, very circumscribed, but yet very borne with admirable good humour the inventors are apt to do. He succeeded happy, though always up to a few wooks ago in a state of thraldom, At the various restrictione imposed by the Geri
in obtaining an interview with General beginning, of course, our people fled at mans from time to time, such as punish Thoumas and reproached him, in stormy night and left as host they could, and meat for alleged offences against the in language, for his lack of patriotism
infallible means of there was a continual exodus right into numerable rules and regulations. For in rejecting an " son succeeded in cecaping from the elty brated innocently, but against the Goran a country in perete need must not.
Quite number of the younger östance, because some of the people ccies delivering his country from the invader.
The general, Bm in his conviction that . through the German lines, and duo in gibas indéperdénco-the Fate Nationale spek salvation by foul methods, retuned
the anniversary of Bel slow still here who have suoodeded hiding themselves for the whole of the everybody had to be indoors by eight to be browbeaton. four years. Right at the beginning and a 'alook in the evening, Sprinting home to his soldiers; and when the gentleman. little party went away into the woods so as to get in before the fatal hour" hids when the Gormans were getting non the city, and stayed there for several days in a kind of shanty which they had prepared beforehand and provisioned
who There were nome young men
1916,
stayed
Show the gentleman out," he said
said Mr. Gaban,we used to feel like still showed a disposition to linger ho
added:- naughty children, In fact, all those his hands and feet together and
purishments used to make us laugh throw him out." more than anything else."
Evidently, therefore, it is with a clear Referring to the attitude of the Cor contelone that the French will be able right in the city, and for whom the Carming with whom his work in behalf of to proced to this trial and punishment mans searched high and low for year is compatriots brought him in contact of those who dallberately raado war more One man was employed at a stahlos Someone used to give him warning when Mr. Cahan said: In the Brst year horrible by relying on the devilish in- over the Gerinas were coming to search they were very brusque and domineering, guity of their cheralats--Express front door he disnionesrod through the hover expecial to get Back
and you
and regularly whilst they came in at the ospecially with Englishining from
1.
"There is a second man who, when in this strasts he saw the Gorman palios approaching, dad simply to Jump on to the nearost passing cart and seat himself
thom. But afterwards, when everything. But it was never possible to get very far, had settled down into routine, they wore because the civil and military authorities polito and really tried to be obliging: were always pulling against alle another, and so could not succeed in doing much." (Continued at foot of next column.) Daily Telegraph.