WHEN PEACE COMES.
WHAT OF. THE DISLOYAL ?
A LETTER BY RUDYARD KIPLING,
Rudyard Kipling wrote a letter to the Times, from Cape Town, in February, headed "The Sin of Witchcraft" -n letter which attracted a great deal of attention at home inasmuch as it calls attention to some things which must happen after the war is over. The great ques- tion for the British public to ponder over and make up its mind about is the treatment of the loyal and disloyal in Cape Colony and in Natal when peace has been restored. It is the ques- tion on the solution of which the good govern ment and welfare of South Africa depends, Mr. Rudyard Kipling's letter is startling and impressive.
⚫ Of Cape Town, Kipling writes -Dimly and distantly Cape Town realizes that that thing called the British Government is now in ear nest. She hopes not too much in earnest; she prays very deeply that some of that earnestness may be diverted, or, if there be not too much danger to life and property, actively thwarted by some of her faithful children, but at heart I do believe that Cape Town is a little disposed to re- consider her position. She sees no end to the troops and the guns; the strange men from the ends of the earth, the cattle, the rules and the hor ses; the boxed machinery, and the walls of am munition boxes....... Let us suppose that you who read these lines had been out with Rim- ingson's jay hawkers or somebody else's fly-by- nigh's riding hard and sleeping light for weeks; had been chewing horsedung round Colesberg, catching sand-colie from muddy water to the eastward, or chasing into the hot lands Sunnyside way. Suppose, now, by forc thought and a little luck yin hath caught a few dozen veritable rebels-neither Free Staters nor Transvaalers, but registered voters, who had been firing at you as you blundered des. perately across barbed wire fences. Suppose that you had not shot your prizes, but had turned them over to the military authorities. Suppose, now that through some accident of marching these registered voters across a section not under martial law the civil authorities has re- ceived them with open arms; had prepared feather beds for them to fall upon, and by some hanky-panky of civil law, which you, ordered out on a new expedition, could by no means countemus, had sentenced them to practically nominal punishments. I am, of course, putung a purely supposititions case; but suppose at last that you were sent down to Cape Town sick, and met above the white tablecloth and crystal which you had not seen since November, a clean, quiet, collecter gentleman in authority who had never been farther than Stellenbosch since the war began and that gentleman chafed you about your ill-success with your captives, and you had the best of reasons to believe that he and a few friends of bis had used their authority to undo all the work you had paid for with sweat and saddle-chafe and dysentery and sun-fever. 1 put it to you, what would you say to that urbane and well-wished friend smiling craftily across the table?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1900.
commencement of the winter storms.,
WAR OF COMPENSATION,
not
"But," corrected this gentleman's interviewer, allow me to point out that the journal to which you allude said nothing of the alternative of compensation, territorial or otherwise.
THE MAGERSFONTEIN.
TRENCHES.
"TO PURGE THE COLONY,'
have flung a million and a half highly trained | France aces them, the France who is now The Times thus refers, in its leading columns soldiers across our frontiers. We oboyed Lord strongly feinforcing Madagascar, a colony to Mr. Kipling's letter :-----
Salisbury's mandate, little dreaming that his which needs no protection for itself, but No doubt many wise people are now can- country would have to send nearly a quarter of would be an invaluable garrison for men gratulating themselves that they did not show-million fighting, men to the Cape to save that acing Natal within a few hours steam. their hand too soon, or commit themselves possession being wrested from her by one fifth have given my warning. It remains irrevocably to what they now perceive to be that number of Dutch and Huguenot squatters, for the authorities" (who know that it is true) the losing side. With them we need not France may forgive Germany the powerful, but to take their measures accordingly, and to give concern ourselves overmuch. They would have never the wound to her "amour propre" which up all hopes of being able again to give the excuse that they had no idea of danger. If kicked us--none more vigorously--had we she has suffered from England, the so-called
they are once more caught unprepared, the fallen down; they will cringe to us when they Great Power, whose War Office in point of find we can stand upright. Non ragionam efficiency is not even comparable with that public will know that at least it was entirely dimer maguarine passa. There are, however, of a little nation like Roumania. And their own fault, and the pubore fany, w
not be inclined to accept apologies then. We thousands who have openly taken sides against then," concluded this diplomat, who once us. Some have joined the ranks of the Boers was with M. Hanntaux at the Quai d'Orsay, know that war, even in South Africa, is a terrible thing. A struggle with an European and are directly responsible for loss of life and who only too evidently has
Power in the autumn would be far more ter among our soldiers. A far larger number have been influenced by the hospitality he re-
rible. It lies entirely with the present Gorem. stayed at home preaching sedition, thwarting ceived in London, we can talk upon these
ment either to be fully prepared for it, or our movements, intimidating our loyal subjects, affairs without reserve, for no one of importance furnishing supplies to our enemies, forwarding disguises from themselves that, as the 5%. which would be so much wiser to take such war of compen steps at once that its very beginning would be information to disconcert our plans, and com Jantes's Gazette predicts,
sation is inevitable with England before the impossible.-Bambay Gazette. placently promising inpunity to all the bolder sprits who went to the front. It was all fore- scen years ago, and the seed of it all was sown when with, every circumstances of humilia- tion we made the fatal surrender of 1881. Ten years ago Mr. Kipling heard the prophecies of those who knew what was going on beneath the surface, two years go he heard them, repeated with surer know- ledge and deeper conviction, but with the added warning" Remember that when the trouble begins from Cape Town to the border we shall be in an enemy's country. Remember, too, that, as it was in 1881, the Government will take care it does not pay any one to be loyal." It has all happened, as it was bound to happen some day. Our loyal subjects and our troops have found themselves practically in an cuciny's country, and Mr. Kipling draws for us a vivid picture of the governing gentlenen who have used their power in all sorts of quiet, ways to make it felt everywhere that it does not pay to be loyal to the British flag. There is one way, as Mr. Kipling says to save the colony. The men who have befouled it are known. They have blazoned their shame, they, have become reckless in word and deed. They can be brought to account, and in bring ing then to account coldly, judicially, yet unflinchingly and inexorably, we shall at once secure the respect of our friends and purge the colony of the stain of treason.
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JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE. The Morning Post, commenting on the sub- jest matter of Kipling's letter, remarks
The punishment of the traitors may not improve their tempers: that is a detail which What dees touch us is does not concern us. that we should drive our loyal follow-subjects into biller hatred by ignoring their services and smiling on their enemies. After the war, Justice If not, the British Empire will ulti mately feel the effect of this pernicious policy, At the present moment there are in South Africa fighting side by side with our soldiers from the mother country, colonists from Cana- They see and hear da and Australasia. and understand. Their friends and country men in the Colonies hear from them. Does anyone imagine that our colonies have risen to such noble endeavour only to provide a clean slate for traitors?
Will it commend
The sometime member of the Albert Unte establishment, after glancing at the article which formed, the pirat point of the interview, remarked with amiable frankness, " Of course, if Great Britain, can't and won't fight, now that her impotency is found out, we shall naturally require Egypt as a salve to our most unjustly And England will wounded about propre." find that the Duat Alliance is now, not as in 1898, bound together for common action against her. That is the second reason that I spoke of at the beginning of our exchange of ideas."
Evidently this diplomatist conceives that the period for silence has passed in favour for one reason or the other) of a definite exposition of his views.
AN OFFICAL OF THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS,
My friend, subsequent to being entrusted with this very luminous indication of French feeling with regard to perfidious Albion, had the advantage of a conversation on "the coming war" (as everybody in Paris speaks of it) with one of the inghest officials of the French Army Service Corps,
After alluding at some length to the grievous fact of the skeleton battalion of the Line and half-trained Militia left behind in great Britain without transport, he delivered himself of the following remark, which I consider worthy of notice :-
"From the moment that the Minister of War has sent the word 'Mobilise over the wires our army enters upon a campaign with the whole of the bind transport because the whole of the population is available for military service. The English Army, on the contrary, stands at a very great disadvantage in this respect from the fact that the population outside the fighting ranks is not like that of France, ready to take its place in the great departmental corps which manage transport and supply"
The Special of the Daily Telegraph thus describes the occupation of Magersfontein, after the Boers had stampeded.
Our scouts on the right drew steadily up to the trenches, over them, up to the kapje; over it and devoted themselves to the pleasurable in a Governoment uniform with the unconsider- pastime of filling the few receptacles provided ed trifles left behind by our brother Boer. We had heard, seen, and read so much about Magersfontein that we almost expected, against our better judginent, to find a position bristling with every modern improvement and appliance that military ingenuity has devised. It was with feelings close akin to disappointment that we realised that the strength of the posi tion had lain principally in its simplicty:
TO-DAY.
Friday, 20th April, 1900, Chinese-azit of 3rd moon of 26th year of
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Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES.
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KONG DENG, British steamer, 863, F. W. Joslin, 20th April,-Bangkok via Kohiol- chang. 14th April, Genēma!--Yuen Eat Hong. TAMSOIU, Japanese steainer, 1,007, K. Sobajina, goth April-Amoy and Swatow 19th April, General-Mitsui Busson
Kaisha.
Clearances at the Harbour Office. Bankoku Maru, Japanese str., for Hongay. Tamsui Maru, Japanese str., for Mojj... Fusan Takau.. Chan Alara, Japanese str., for Tak Hanoi, French str., for Hoilow. Fuskun, Chinese str, for Shanghai, Kai Lum, British steam-launch, Mongkut, British str., for Swntow Tategami Maru, Japanese str., for Moji. Kengnam, British str.. for Caston. Dige, American ship, for Honolulu.
1806-Napoleon 111. born, 1897-The s.s. Lackai lost off Tonkin with 32
lives. 1896-Armed gang robbery at Kowloon City, 1897-An address presented to Sir Claude Macdonald by the Hongkong Branch of the China Association, 1898-The Spanish Minister at Washington demands his passports U. S. Pre- sident Signs ultimatum to Spain. Spurgeon's Tabern: cle destroyed by
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Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES. 1843-The Duke of Sussex, the Queen's uncle,
1877
died.
Departures.
for Macao
April 20, Glenshiel, British str., for Shanghai. April 20, Ersan Afarn, Japanese str., for Taku. April 20, Mougkut, British str., for Bangkok. April 26, Hanoi, French str., for Hoihow. April 20, Arinke Maru, Jap str., for Karaızı. April 20, Amigo, German str., for Newchwang. April 20, Lady Joicey, British str., for Hongay, April 20, Pregrets, Russian str., for Chefoo. April 20, Fushan, Chinese str., for Shanghai, April 20, Kutsang, British str., for Saigon. April zo, Pronto, German str., for Canton, April 20, Tategami Maru, Japanese str., for
Moji.
Passengers-Arrived."
Per Lepel from Bangkok -16 Chinese. Der Milan, fitm Swatow---Rev. Mr. Grass- mana, and 323 Chinese.
1860--Chusan accupied by the British feet, 1864--About too prisoners escaped from the
prison bulk off Stonecutters' Island. 1869–22MS. Salamis returned to Hankow
Per Mike Maru, from Bombay, &c.--Mr. from the Yangtze, Torpedo explosion at Tientsin; six men and Mrs. Matsuwo and child, Messrs. Matsu. blown to pieces; narrow escape of Limote, Jamal, Kawamura, 74 Chinese and g
Japanese. Hung-chang
Per Kong Beng, from Bangkok, &c.-Dr. 1897 Tymavus hombarded by the Turks. 1898-War declared between America and and Mrs. Adarason and family, Mrs. Curtis and
Spain. U. S. fleet leaves Keywest for family, and 30 Chinese.
Departed,
We looked in vain for the "eight-foot wire entanglements" of which we had read so much from the pens of hysterical, and probably rather frightened, young soldiers after the Magersfon. tien mishap. Instead of an entanglement there was only a simple wire boundary fence-nat continuous, but placed at intervals along the line of trenches, and hung with strips of beef drying into biltong. This comestible was pro- bably a more formidable obstacle than the poor little fence on which it was hung. Then we
9. looked for the deep trenches-underground dwellings deep enough to engulf man and horse
of which we had also heard. Disappointment again. A simple trench, or, rather, a double raw of simple trenches, deep to mid-thigh, very narrow, and well protected by head cover-of sandbags and a slight breastwork The trace was as simple as the profile, and confined its complications to a slight waviness of plan, and an occasional traverse to minimise the effect of shell fire. The most noticeable fact with regard to the trenches was that the bak of the front trench was always left quite clear, so as not to interfere with the fire of the second line,
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guished Patronage, in aid of the Indian Fuinine Fund at City Hall. pin-Warren's Circus at West Point.
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Noon-P. M. S. Co's steamer City of Peking
leaves for San Francisco &c, Grand Entertainment under tinguished Patronage, in aid of the in- dian Famine Fund at City Hall. 4.5.m.--Matinee of Warren's Circus at West
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(About) N. P. S. Co.'s steamer Breconshire leares for Victoria B. C. and Tacoma. Cargo ex dameners subject to rent. 3 pin. 5. S. Co.'s steamer Catherine Apar
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SUNDAY, 22nd. P.-A. L. 5. N. Co's steamer Maria Valerie leaves for Fiume, and Trieste via the Straits.
In saber truth Mr. Kipling, further on says, only a Gilbert and Sullivan opereta can parallel some of the affairs in which the military and civil authorities have net over the bodies of suspected farmers or the correspondence of disinterested officials, The loyalists declare that, properly funded, open disloyalty could be reduced to a neglectable quantity. Witat, then," they demand, is the sense of creating of the future. Every loyalist who has suffered great Eastern dependency. Said he, with, it behind it, and a deep recess, cut in the solid rock. 9 p.an-Ada Delray Company at City Hall.
itself to them that loyalty should he regarded with indifferance and cistoyalty patted on the shoulder? Shall a premium be put on treason, and men who have toiled and suffered ruin and died for the sake of the Empire he left to make the best they can of themselves and their shattered fortunes? If so, we may well despair
loss at the hands of traitors must have his loss made good by those who have wronged him; and every nitor must receive the just rewards. of his deeds. This is not vengeance it is justice.
OUR COMING FERIL.
OPINIONS OF FRENCH GENERALS,
A CAVALRY GENERAL'S OPINION. The third Frenchman, approached by my friend was argeneral officer who commands a cavalry division, who has been Chief of the Eint, Major General of a Colonial expedition and who bears one of the proudest of France's historic names. This distinguished "beau sabreur" attended as military attache a series of great cold season marguvres in India, when Lard Roberts was Commander-in-Chief of our may be noted, more sympathetic than scornful emphasis, "How does England expect in be let alone by those nations who have not cause to love her? To speak
my own arin, I was informed last week that there is only in the whole United Kingdom one brigade of cavalry fit for service. This is, I am informed, a mere composite regimentalways a bad expedient -made up of the remains of three regiments of your Household Cuirassiers the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and merely one light cavalry corps to | do all the connaissance of regular cavalry
that is the 7th Hussars. And then all your front of the few well-trained men in it.”
MONDAY, 23rd
German School term Commences.
All along the trenches lay skins,coats karusses, cooking utensils, food, and cartidges, giving us the first indication we had had that the retreat From had been anything but an orderly one. the trenches it was but a step to the gun. emplacements. Here, our good friends the gun- ners had told us, we should find travelling and- disappearing carriages and every other artifice known to the Royal Artillery mind: Again were we greeted with the very simplest plans to mi- nimise the effect of shell-fire, a high entbrasure covering the gun and sharp slope of the ground provided all the protection necessary to enable
TUESDAY, 24th. Albrecht's Germans to live through nearly twelve weeks of lyddite and common shell.
Noor-Extraordinary General Meeting of the One gun had it is true, been demolished, as
Hongkong Hotel Co. Lid. testified, by an explosion three weeks ago, and corroborated by the fragments of twisted iron Noon-Cargo ex Silesia subject to rent. and wood work littering the emplacement; but 3 P.-I. C. 5. N. Co.'s steamier Mausang
leaves for Sandakan via Gaya. the others, protected by their simple sandbags and the troublesome perspective of the ironstone 5 pm. C. & M. S. N. Ca's steamer Menmuir
Joaves for Manila. kopjes, had maintained a fairly regular and accurate fire for two months of our winter at (About) . I steamer Sibiria leaves for
Havre an onburg, Moder River.
(About) N. 1. steamer Glenogle leaves for
Victoria B. C. and Tacoma,
(By a Foreign Correspondent.) Said once upon a time that terrible Iron Chancellor "You can give a Frenchman will not realize that, for each' man whose neck twenty-five lashes, and if you only make a fine auxiliary cavalry has been depleted for the came on the Boers' langer. Here a surprise Cargo ex Preussen subject to rent.
speech to him about the freedom and dignity of man, of which those lashes are the expres. sion, and at the same time strike a fitting at- titude, he will persuade himself, that he is not being thrashed.
men!.
and propping and supporting the thing, as you created and propped and supported the Trans- vaal till it hit you?" They have a certain amount of reason on their side, and it may as well be set out. To defeat, to delay, to evade, and nullify the workings of a just punishment at first cautiously, but later made bald by toleration, with an insolent carelessness of security preach sedition under guise of abject loyalty to align unscrupulously, and 10 lie malignantly and with knowledge among an ignotant people, is a merry and prolitable game while it endures. The players, however, do not see or busy with their small intrigues, they save, arises another and yet another desiring nothing less than their necks. It is a brutal way to put it; but things are not all creain and 'honey in Cape Town just now; and I confess it gives me the cold creeps to watch
In other words, you must above all things these smooth-talking smiling men explaining
flatter a native of the nation of France, for to their intimates, as they have explained these
when dealing with Monsieur or Madame the ten years past, how this and that will surely be softened down in the interest of some inperilled small coin of manners is that which brings the rebel, how help will come from here and sup-best return. An officer of the army of another Latin nation whose exquisite tact and intimate port from another quarter, and how little in any case to be feared is the British Govern-acquaintance with the Gallic military hierarchy is only equalled by his desire to oblige me, has when you in my interest discussed with several general And... O British public..
officers and others the important subject of the hear, as you will hear, what you will call a how go up from this side of South Africa, article under the beading of "Our Coming Peril which appeared in the St. James's demanding that certain wen be put on trial for
a day or two ago. His military certain definite offences; do ani, 1 bescech Gazette you, shut your ears. There is no need to be friends exhibited but scant reserve when speak vindictive. There is a great need for justice- ing with regard to matters that one would such justice as is dealt coldly and deliberately, imagine ought for the time being to be kept months or years after his crime, to the murderer or the manslayer. They will pray you to let bygones be bygones. They will beguile you and buy men to beguile you with lies of the danger of increasing race hatred; they will appeal tearfully to your magnanimity; behind the victories of your men they will sheher themselves; for their very mis- deeds they will take credit, urging that if they had not done a little evil greater hann would have befallen the Culony. They will coax, they will threaten, they will bribe, and in the last resort they may turn Queen's evidence. But when that time comes listen at least to the case for the prosecution; take the trouble to read through the affidavits, and see that some of those hoary heads come to the trial. Our own fully and wilful blindness Ims already given us enough to answer for. We have condoned that for which we are now paying with good lives, but there is no sane need why we should, at the end, endorse dirty little felonies.
It is her own caste in the punchayet that will strip the Colony of her caste. She will be left with her climate and her geographical advantages but her place among our peoples will go over to little Natal while her honour is trailed round, the world at the heels of these returning horse. men.
This is unjust-bitterly and cruelly unjust. I, writes Kipling finally, developed the forecast at some length to a South African, and there are no words to paint his extreme objection to the medicine. He was quite unconsoled by the reminder that the Cretans have not yet recovered from the effect of a hasty hexameter of old days, and that the Laodicens have "passed into literature." It struck him as piece of bideous brutality, for he loved his land with passion. You see, she is his own land in agony and great torture, and it ruts hire to the soul that her name should be soiled. He says that she has more loyalists fighting in the field than Natal; that there are thousands of men. and women, their relatives fighting on the other side, their hearts torn in three pieces, who still bide loyal. Is it not be asks, enough that when peace comes the disloyalists will be net ted and raised to honour, without this last shame upon him and his?
There is one way out of the horror, and one only. The men who have befouled the Colony are known. They go aboard; no man lays a band upon them; they have becoine.careless in speech and this is important-in deed. At the proper time those men can be made the means of saring the Colony,
secret.
THE FASHODA POLICY.
His first conversation was with a Secretary of Embassy, who has flourished as such at Albert Gate, at Washington, and at Cairo, and thus can be regarded as an excellent French au- thority upon English Foreign Office affairs,
"In October and November, 1898, the action of Fratice in submitting to England's demands respecting our occupation of the Babr-el-Ghazal was governed by, I believe, chiefly two con siderations. In the first instance, we had no difinite assurance that our ally intended to support our territorial claims in the Upper Nile valley, and in the second, statesmen had ceived certain illusions as to the readiness of Great Britain for war, a war which would be principally naval, and would be entered upon during a season particularly suitable to her. We do not pretend we can keep the sea in winter with the same success or can the British
Navy.
THE LESSON OF SOUTH AFRICA.
con
Being a man to whom straightforwardness is as the apple of his eye, this gallaut soldier answered without hesitation the query. Do you, speaking for yourself, desire to see war between the two neighbours? No. Never Because I believe after France and England have exhausted themselves in a duel to the death, the country that fought against us at Sedan will step into the arena as the arbiter of the world's destinies. Neither you nor I would like that I fancy"
even uneaten several
Passing round the right of the kopje we next
awaited us, as it was very evident that a sauve qui peut must have taken. place the previous night. Not only were the tents left standing, but the contents of the store were untouched, while rifles, ammunition, new clothes, money, watches, tools, and provisions were to be had for the trouble of picking them up. What a powerful inducement there most have been for the doppers to leave their worldly goods in this way! There were dinners and half-cooked food in of the tents, so some must have had a A FORMER MINISTER OF WAR.
hungry ride. At the time of writing I am en- Finally, my friend approached a former aware to what extent General French may have Minister of War, who has just been elected pushed round the Boer rear, but I cannot ima Senator, and is in France's world of politics, gine that anything short of the fear of being perhaps to the unthinking, a dark horse, but absolutely cut off from the Transvaal could when he allows himself to speak to one of his possibly have induced such a wholesale fight as has taken place. The perusal of a large own trade his views are worthy of serious con- sideration, for, quite apart from the Marquis de number of letters showed that the whole of the Galliffet, he is really the man of the French right of the defence had been occupied by Army: unfortunately believe," said he, war Transvaalers, while the Free Staters had occu with England is possible, will not name a pied the left, the portion assaulted by the High- This confirmed the raport date-that would be impossible--hut trust and Brigade, France will not, as in the affaire Fashoda, brought in by runners that strained relations find herself confronted with England, or Erg-existed between the two component parts of the land with France. If so, France is on the enemy's forces, and that they could not even alert."
live in one camp in reasonable amity.
THE RESULTING SITUATION. Now, if you compare these serious opinions with the first article on this subject which has been already published, it must be obvious that there is more "in the air" than a mere scare, more possible than a merely Quixotic effort to We have on one side of the surprise us. Channel a body of excited national opinion, disgusted in think that the opportunity of Fashoda was let slip, eager to `take advantage of the weaknesses revealed by our South Afri- can campaign, and complicated to a venomous degree by a spirit of partisan warfare that is al most more dangerous to a stable policy than bare brained patriotisın. On the other side of the Channel, in these islands, we are unprepared to an astounding degree. Our special service Squadron is not ready for work if the Channel Squadron is wanted elsewhere; yet we are told to trust to the Fleet as our first line of defence, Our second line of defence is either completely weak or in process of hasty organisation. Is there any wonder that France imagines her op- portunity will come this autumn? I say in all seriousness that unless this country and its Ministers awake to the necessity of diplomatic- ally impressing France with a very different opinion of us to that which she holds to-day, and of so impressing her without delay, that on portunity will be taken.
THE DUTY OF PREPARATION.
"France in 1875 submitted to Bismarck's brutal threats of attack, because she knew that if a war was forced upon ber by Germany she would undergo a dismemberment only equalled by that of Poland. The new German Empire was ready to move and strike with a huge, superbly organized and victorious army, France's armed force was but in process of reconstruction. She could do nothing but in effect invoke self-destruction. We thus acted with wisdom when we ate the leek in 1875, for we cherished no false ideas ps to Bismarck's ir ability to enforce his warnings. Now I will tell you something of a feeling that possibly you yourself are not entirely without some know-
It may have been thaught that I have paid ledge of For nearly thirty years our eyes have been fixed upon our Easter frontier. To-day too little attention to the Channel Fleet. On many of our statesmen, many of our naval of the contrary, I say that the lesson of forner. ficers, and nearly all of our military officers say naval manauves ought not to be lost in this to each other. "If our enemies of the Terrible connection. The presence of ships on a neutral: Year defeated us, it was because they were able coast inevitably attracts the flags of other to back up words by successful action. When navies; and therefore I say now that the again they threatened us in 1875 we knew Channel Squadron will be entangled on the that the words of Prince Bismarck were coast of Morocco at the critical monient chosen true, that he could and would enforce hisby France for her attempt at invasion, and it will The man of blood and-iron was bar is well known that the stability of Morocco barous but honest. But did Lord Salisbury and depends upon the extremely uncertain health his colleagues in 1808 exhibit any qualities of the Vizier Sidi Hmad Ben Moussa. Unless of common honesty, as well as those of mere a Special Service Squadron is at once organised, primitive harbarism when France was called rendy for instant mobilisation on an emergency, upon to withdraw her heroic son from the goal the dangers of an invasion succeeding will be at which he bad arrived after a journey unpar far greater than my critics have yet imagined. alleled in the chronicles of African travel? We But I do not despair of rousing them, and the obeyed Bismarcks" mandate because he could country at large to a sense of the facts as
Whatever unfavourable remarks may have been made at the time, there is now no doubt that the position could not be flanked by the force at Lord Methuen's disposal, and that if his orders were to get to Kimberley a frontal attack was the only way. The extent of front occupied by the position is enormous, and with their superior mobility the Boers were able, at the shortest notice, to put a larger number of men in defence at any given point than we could possibly bring up to the attack. As we plodded back to Moduler in the Baking beat of the afternoon sun our feelings were such as were a few hours later expressed by a gallant Scots Guardsman over his welcome tin of beer; "The auld unt-heap; may she trouble us Dac mair."
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain F. W. Joslin, of the steamship Kong Beng, from Bangkok, v Koh-si-chang, re- ports-Fine weather, smooth sea and light casterly winds throughout the passage.
Captain A. E. Hodgins, of the steamship initum, from Swatow, reports--Light S.W. airs, and hazy weather. Vessels in port: Tientsin, Woosung, Formosa, Loosek, and Singen.
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR. APRIL
Meteorological, micans based on ten years' observations to 1893. Barometer... Thermometer Humidity Rainfall
YESTERDAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
-30.059. ..62.0 .85.0
.4.08
On date at On date of
Barometer....
30.02 29.91 81 Temperature
79 Humilitymiany 72 .75 Rainfall....
WEDNESDAY, 251.
Per Vuensang, for Manila -Mrs. Capt. L. Wahl, Master Douglas Wahl, Mrs. Capt. G. G. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Angier, Mrs. H. D. Thomason, Master Thomason, Messrs. W. J. Calvert, Win..Eckert. 1. R. Beal, J. O. Lambie, M. P. Hermann, Carl Francke, Sig. Isaacs, Archibald, Mackillop, Wilhelm Amsler, Vicente Reyes, IL. W. F. Wollweger, H. B. Foster and L.. Suider.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names.
De
Gaélir Tantalus
Shanghai.... Singapore Saigon. Manila..
To-morrow
Ta-morrow
April 22nd
April 22nd
April 24th
Singapore
April 24th
Moji..
April 25th
{April 25th
April 27th
Oceanien, Maria Valerie... Yawata Maru......!Japan Awa Maru Bingo Maru Kagoshima Maru.. Moji, Hongkong Marn...Japan Empress of China. Vancouver...... April 28th Airlie
Fort Darwin...April 28th China
San Francisco...May 5th Doric
San Francisco... "May 15th
We woghi diren dhe qember of shipping firms to the style in which Steamers Expected" and "Projected Saillings" *: now published in these columns, and in so doing cospecti fully urge the managers of shipping firms to giva orders to their clerks to furnish; this office, un the forms already sup?? plied gratis with the latest avaliälslę information every day.
IT WAS NOT THE CLIMATE,
-1 Have been well us to my general health "go wrote the late Dr. U. W. Holstins a short time, lefinne his death-but leve had a good deal of asthma. that is delightful about my residence here in Dostoi The climate is cold and rough, but I have found wuch (America). Perhaps, after all, the fault is not
much in titule 12 on in age 822
That was it. The wise thinker did not deceivg himself. le knew that it is the wasting muscles that cimdain of the steepness of the hills and the thinn- gel nt fancies the winters are colder that
C. P. R. steamer Empress of India leaves for they are to be.
Victoria B. C. &C.
FRIDAY, 27th.
4 p.m.-N. Y. K. steamer Fawata Maru leaves, for Sydney and Melbourne, via Manila &c.
Ad Was not because Mrs. Ainy Hudvey hark lort interest in her domestia affajos tine he was led to ray everything see a trouse and a burden. No; it was because he had het her strength. Whether a duty- is a burden or not depends on the back which has to carry it. Ali, dear me, bow cunetantly experience Thra what keca com- en we feel in the attwer
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At daylight the Co.'s steamer Bingo Maru | cuforces that lesson in Ure question: Wint
leaves for Europe vía Straits.
C; & M. S. Co.'s steamer Esmeralda leaves
Iloilo and Cebu,
SATURDAY, 28th.
Noon-Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Green Island Cement Co., Idi. Noon-P. & C. steamer Bengal leaves First
London. Gymkhana Meeting of the Season
Race Course.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE. American (Garlic) to-morrow. French (Oceanien) and inst. American (Hongkong Mari) 27th inst. Australian (Airlic) 28th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) 28th inst. American (China) 5th prox. American (Doric) 15th prox.
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
at Kowloon Duck,
Isla de Cuba...... H.M.S. Fame Progress Taiyuan Clara.....
Ness........ Breconshire ......
D. Juan d'Austria ... Independent
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will strengthen the quivering als? What will strengthen the quivering litab? What will restate the vigor of the mind:
"All my life," says Mrs. Harvey, I have suffered and a from indigestion and weakness, I felt low and languid, with a disagreeable sinking setation after taking my meals. I had un weergy Coverything were a troulde and a burden, As Footy' la
I had partake of food, no matter how light, I felt a folues And a gawing pain at my chest, as if omething were testing it..
Inka suffered marsh fione ngreats benchy ATM was often lizzy. My breathing was short, and -it-1 exerted pell 1 was quite si of breath. As time went on I got extremely weak mod could uat atiend. to my work.
*I saw doctor after doctor ml, was told by them thnk my ailment was owing to my food not digesting." The doct des were sight. That was the ivotible, un, the only one. Yet instead of, being a comparative trife, mang shallow persons say, it is thus inst serious of all disores, of more r of her fol digestr more or less fully otherwise shy could not fortnight. But the nourishment sras Enve livel never enough for the wants of the boy, Heuer the nervous headaches, the atlins, the singling sensation, the dizziness, the gawing pain, and the disabling wankes, The bly under these conditions is like n bouse landonded to deny. All goes to mack and ruin.]
"I took the docturé moliciuce," continues this lady's plain account, but my ease was in obtinaio one, and noue of them seemned of any avall.
Ju Mar, 1891, a neighbour told me of the benuit she had derived from Mother Selger's Syrup. I got. a bottle from Messrs. W. Fox and Soir, Chemists Bethnal Green, and when I had taken it two days. felt much retici. I continued taking it, and could cat and cajoy my food without having pain. „1101 guined
ned strength and fell brighter than I had re Aga-done in my fire
Outward-13th April-Inaba Maru, menon. 17th April-Salazie, Ballaadet, Homeward-17th April--Stuttgart, Arrivals at Home-18th April-Westbahlia,
Shipping
Arrivals. LOYAL, German steamer, 1,237, Lorenzen, zoth
April,-Bangkok 12th April, Rice Sander, Wieler & Co. HATINO, French. steamer, 705, Bast, zoth April,Haiphong and Hoihow 18th April, Genemi-A. R. Marty. CHOYSANG, British str., 1,940, G. H. Bowker, 20th April,-Canton 19th April, General-- Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Since then I have kept well, laking a dose or twe of Mother Seigel's Syrup when I need it; and I find it aiwnys pats me right. Your can push this you think fit. (Sigurd).(Mrs.) Amy DP Block, Duhrin Street, Buplull they Row, London, Jun 26th, 1895."
had.
"In March, 1891," writes another severe atlack of lufluenza, which left no extremely weak. I was troubled with indigestion and want of appetite. Baving rund of the wonderful cures nude by Mother Seigel's Syrup I decided to try it. I guta bottle from Mr. Wm. ily. Jon, the chemba, in: Caledonian Road. In two days I fell great benefit. I could est, and food agreed with me, causing 10 juin, In a few days I see rompletely cured.and rect.or
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Since that time have kept Mother Scigoll" Byrap, in the house, as a family mulleine, and it always rež HAIMUN, British steamer, 636, A. E. Hodgins, there when my of his suffer from indigestion, e
publish it if you wish." (Signed) Geo. H. Barker, 20th April,Swatow 19th April, General, in using this statement, and you can -Douglas, Enprik & Co.
Montpeller Itond, Kentish Town, Laudon, NW; MIKE MARU, Japanese steamer, 2,080, S. June 9th, 1896."
Kawamuro, 20th April,-Bombay 3rd April, and Singapore 14th, General-Nippon Yusen Kaisha.: HAILAN, French steamer, 377, Muries, 20th April,Pakhoi and Hoihow 19th April General A. R. Marty,
These excellent letters call for to explanation. Their sincerity and truth is plain on the surface- And when wo remember that what the writery qötroi: of Mother Beigel's Syrup is also declared by then anda of others, the value of this remedy is catablishi beyond question. Ada,