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PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.
BY MR. E. J. DILLON.]
THE MASTER SPY OF GERMANY.
KUPPERLE, A FRIEND OF THE
KAISER
The prince of the Gorman secret, morvico Conclusise testimony to the powerful was undoubtedly Captain von Kapferle, stress of political tendency that takes its who Imnged himself with a handkerchief rise in the labour movement is borne byat Brixton Prison while awaiting trial the high place allotted by the Confer at the Old Bailey.
ence in its first session to legislation on Kupferle, 13 fair complexioned, clean- the subject of international labour, and shaven, young-looking man, was attached the weight which the framers of the prin German Main Headquarters during
The grate evidently attach to it.
the battles of the Marne and the Aisne. ubject of the statute, which will be He wa abrilliant linguist, and had framed, and doubtless passed, is twofold written extensively in Germany before
ran the outbreak of war. frst, the maintenance during the tran
He was also an in- sitions cconomic erisis with which the
the imate personal friend of the Kaiser and world is threatened of all those checks von Tirpitz, and it was expressly at the undertook u mission of espionago to this and restrictions on unfair competition, invitation of the arch-pirate that be excessive hours of work, and employment of children, which were accepted by the country. various nations in normal times; and secondly, the conservation of the prin ciple that labour shall in future secure for satisfactory economic conditions not andrely national, but international sanc
This implicit admission that the tion. realisation of a League of Nations is out of the question without the active co
operation of labour marks a consider
abr advance in the political conceptions of European statesman, but whether the practical conclusions they will draw from
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Kupferle bad set his heart on asco- taining news of the movements of the British Grand Fleet, and with this end in view be worked his passage via Hol- land to America, returning in a liner which gave him an opportunity of seeing the strength not only of the Atlantic patrols, but also the disposition of naval units off the Irish coast. From Queens- town he journeyed to Liverpool, and thence to London.
Scotland yard then took a haud in the will be deemed adequate by the class game, and from that moment Kupferle
was a marked man. most interested, which insists on uplift.
A watchful eye kopt ing its own voice and formulating its him continually under observation until the moment came to arrest him. Kup- What the own postulates, ie doubtful. step now taken really means is that the ferie was astounded when a quiet looking atatesmen, having had contact with the English detective took him into custody
at an hole! near Victoria Station. masses and awakened to the trend of popular movements are endeavouring to accomplish, by timely legislation, the par- tial reforms which a revolution would more thoroughly, yet wastefully, achieve by force.
CRITICAL QUESTIONS.
Whether this instalment of a settlement which, to be adequate, ought to have a much broader basis, will take the wind out of the Labour party's sails and re- concile it to the new political order of things, which so far agrees with the old that it recognises the need for a per- petnution of military and naval forces for defence against aggression and for ila occupation of enemy territory, it would be rash to affirm or deny. The Conference proposes to begin by obtain
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S.S. "CHI YUEN" (LLOYD'S REGISTER NO. 822).
Inder gehe purchase of this THE Undersigned are prepared to receive vessel which has been damaged by fire, and is now lying at Rangoon.
ani ny apy, ," he protusted us he was conveyed to Scotland yard. The Ad mir over, had secured overwhelming evidence miralty Intelligence Department, how. against him. Later he showed his hand, and made a complete confession. transpired that he was the able lieutenant of Count von Berndorf, and documente discovered subsequently left no doubt as to the extent of his activities in Grest Britain and Ireland.
The spy lost his reason while at Brixton, and father than face death in the Tower of London he destroyed himself.
SPECIAL CELLS.
They
"The greatest care was also taken to see that the apics never, under ang cif cumstances, talked or communicated in any other way with each other. werd accordingly placed in specially con- structed cells, the furniture in which con only a few books to with no sheets, and "I was amazed to learn from time to thoroughly acquainted with what was time from a certain spy that he was as
mattress
read.
happening in the prison is I was myself. Furthermore, he could inform me most accurately as to the hour execution of another condemned man. I was surely puzzled to ascertain the leak age, and increased the guards. The days passed, and I was still as buffled as ever. Newe continued to trickle through from one sell to another.
the most suitable composition of the com.sisted of mittee to which the study of problems cupable of being dealt with by interna tional legislation might fitly be confided. such treatment are determination of the bours of Inbou throughout the globe. and the conditions of work which shall be declared intolerable and treated as quch. How many hours workmen may be allowed to toil without exposing their employers to penalties which will be decreed against sweaters will apparently be determined, not in the abstract, but congruously with the varying productive capacity of the workman, according to countries.
Thus the Russian labourer, it is estimated, fakes ten hours to achieve a task which an American would accom plish in five or six. I am not revealing w
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One night my attention was arrest listened carefully. ed by a curious intermittent noise. ceased. Then I entered a certain cell, The noise instantly to find the spy apparently fast asleep. I left the well and locked the door. I went aad after some time it dawned on
& diplomatic secret when I affirm that me that the only system by which the mistakable tokens point to the unwilling-pies could communicate was by means ness of vertain States to accept regula of the Morse code. My deductions were tions which would, in their opinion,
few days later I found one
handicap ile productivity of their coun
LEV. I am convinced that Germany will demur offhand to restrictions which would prolong indefinitely the transi.
tional period during which the military
Occupation of her territory will lie con tinued as an alternative to the full
pay ment of indemnities, and will regard these restrictions as a pretext for putting pressure on the country. Respecting Japan's views I have no positive informa. I am disposed to believe that, tion, but boving secured lucrative Far Eastern markets, and wade costly arrangements for supplying them at prices advanlige
to layer and seller, she would r quire poter motives before acquiescing in a series of limitations established of the instance of her competitors, and per haps without authcien, knowledge of her
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of the Kaiser's chosol agents tapping the
hot-air pipe.
The man who caused me all this an- noyance was a distinguished German offi-
theatres of war.
independent Survey Reports on the ship Further particulars and copies of three can be inspected at the Office of Messrs.
GMAN & Co. Lloyd's Agenta, Hongkong.
The bayer will be required to pay 10% of the purchase money on acceptance of the tender, and the balance on delivery of the ship, which must be taken within fifteen days of the acceptance of mob at Rangoon
tender.
Harbour Dues and other charges incurred from the date of seceptance of the tender will be for account of the buyer.
The andersigned do not bind themselves to accept the highest or any tender.
GEORGE GORDON & COMPANY, LLOYD'S AGENTS,
RANGOON.
Telegraphio Address:
Gordon, Rangoon."
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HONGKONG DOG, CAT,
POULTRY & PIGEON SHOW, 1919.
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cer who had an energetic career in several 12TH. All exhibits must be Benched by 12 o'clock.
WHAT WE KNEW.
"He confessed that he had tied tish submarine bases and so on, and to most valuable information regarding Bri.
convince me of his sources he volunteered a statement which would help our own Admiralty. I stateinent, and when I told him later that daly communicated his the British naval authorities know much as he did and a little bit anore, he was much astonished. Ah, then, he said,
bad as I thought ou're not quite so
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There were few spies among the Ger man waiters. In fact, I have never heard of a waiter who obtained any information for the German authorities.
cultingquirements and peculiar diff Bloreover, any international Labour code worthy of the name, and
"The public have been sadly misin. capable of satisfying the European de formed аз to the usefulness of German
waiters mineracies, pre-supposes an international which have appeared with regard to wait during the war. All the stories vigilance bureau, whose efforts would beers signalling from hotels on the coast bent towards the discovery of violations are pure invention, just as of the statutes, and whoso intervention that Zeppeline and Gothes were guided would be resented by the Governments of by mysterious motor-ears the peoples concerned,
was nothing uiore than a popular myth."
all the
PRESSING NEED.
the belief
tabu
Those anticipatory criticisma, however, should not discourage praiseworthy en deavours, which to be successful need
This, however, is matter of transient only to be thorough. The dangerous for: urgency, which leaves fundamentals an Breit now going forward in ths Labour touched. One of the basic principles world throughout Europe is not likely which Labour leaders, if they discern to subside until a great change has taken their own interests and the trend of place. not merely in the material condi. progress, will surely endeavour to have tions in which the individual now works, recognised is that everything the indivi- livas, and maintains his family, but in dual
he possesses owes to the community, complex relation between him and that he must not only acknowledge and his employer, between the centres of the debt, but pay it. The present Labour production and the means of transport movement is distinguished from previous to home and foreign markets, between the
ferments
this, that it constitutes u by producer and consumer, between the ero opisode in the universal insurgency labouring millions and the leisured thou of the masses, who are fast breaking sands. Doubtless, the Conference feels through the thin social crust formed by en1led
Tied upon to make a beginning, and bethp upper classes and emerging above the lieves the remainder of the enterprise surface. This disturbance is the direct may safely be left to some permanent result of moner causes, among international board whose function will the over-population of the world to gradually, na cach problem becomes spread of education, equal opportunity, 1 ripe for solution, tostarry the reform anonymity of industrial enterprises, further until a systematic and radical scientific and unscientific theories, specia.
of labour conditions has been lisation of labour, and its depressing in
Whether this empiric mode of fluence. These factors produced a labour approaching the subject as a purely bra organisation which railways, newspapers, tical question, without reference to the and telegraphs contributed to perfect, brond principle of which it is but an and now all mankind is tonding steadily isolated application, will commend itself and painfully to become one vast coller. to those who hava pressed it upon the
for pro tivity Governments, is to me doubtful. Unques equitable -lines thoracans of living do producing and sharing on more the mo
most pressing need of thecently. This change is coming with the in view
view of the impending econo
fatality of
natural law, and the utmost mie arisin, is for Labour in the progres that she wisest Governments cau do is to sivo lands, whare it has ceased to be mere direct it through pacife channels and drudgery and won for itself certain dislodge artificial obstacles to its course. rights and means of asserting them, now Ons may approve or condemn this movo to safeguard them against foreign coutment according to one's convictions or petition, rendorod keen by bankruptcy antiments, but it le rapidly gaining! and hardship.
ground, and will ond by sweeping away ull obstacles-Daily Telegraph,
flected.
(Continued at foot by next column.)
G. W. GEGG, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Hongkong, April 7th, 1919.
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