THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
WHAT GERMANY WANTS.
noted berlN EDITOR'S FRANK STATEMENT.
WE ARE WAGING THIS WAR FOR OURSELVES ALONE."
[The following article by Herr Maximilian Harden, editor of the Berlia Die Zukunft ap- peared in a recent lane of the Los Angeles Examiner:-} Germany in waging this war not to punish those who have offended nor to fros saslaved peoples. We wage it from the lofty point of view that Germany, an a result of her achievements and in proportion to them, ie justified in asking, and must obtain, wider room on earth for development.
The nations from whom we forced our ascendency in spite of themselves still live, and some of them have recovered from the weakening we gave them. Spain and the Netherlands, Rome and Austria, France and England, possessed and settled graat stretches of the most fraitfal scil. Now strikes the hour of Ger- many's rising power. The terms of a peace tresty that does not insure our supremsey would leave our great effort unrewarded. Even if it brought dozens of shining billions into the national treasury, the fact of Europe with the present balanos of power maintained would be dependent upon the United States of
America.
To Make Belgium, a Real;
Prussian Province.
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Only four persons not residents of Essen knew about the new You, Britons, consider the Gar mortar which the Krupps, manu-man a barbarian, a aorf trained factured at their own expense, to ourrish obedience, without a and which later, because its shell trace of being derived from that could smash the strongest forti- nation whose genine Coleridge fications of reinforced concrete, and Carlyle painted for you go our military authorities promptly glowingly. And Germans ap- acquired. Mast we be ashamed pland when England is painted of this instrument of destruction as the home of a cowardly and
EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915,
wissly conducted agricultural in- terests, an enormous industrial capacity, a watchful commerce.
The just man can comprehend that this country sanoys the Eog lish. A fine old firm,, Paltering from fatty excess of success, do- ing a comfortable business, and requiring its customers to adapt themselves to itsowaconvenience; short hours; every week-end entirely free; in addition many holidays rowing, fishing, sailing, golf, cricket, football, tennis, bunting, riding sprinting and other sports; without leisure for these pleasures life were more drudgery.
take such measures. We
SANITARY BOARD.
FEEDING GERMANY.
day's meeting are
The orders of the day for Tees Minute by the President of the Sanitary Board re, authorising
Regulating Bread Supply. Inspector F. Mende to enter pres
London, Tob. 24-That Gor anwholesome food in accordance hunger is indicated by a Berlin mises and inspect and seize many ie fesling the pinch of with Section 83 of the Public message received through Health and Buildings Ordinance neutral channel. This says that No. 1 of 1909
the State regulation of bread and Every bady now receives a card, four has begun, with coupons entitling him or her body," it fe added, includes th to 4lb of bread a week. "]
"Every Kaiser himself
salt fish stalls No. 67 and 68 Si Correspondence re converting Ying Pun Market into pork stalls. erect twelve water closets and one Application for permission to trough closet in a block of build.
574 R.P., Hanoi Road. trade licence at No. 34, Belcher Application for an offensive Street, Inland Lot No. 953 Section
A,
fortnight ending 23rd March, Limewashing return for the
1915.
for the weeks ending. 7th, 14th Mortality return for Hongkong
and 21st March, 1915.
Mortality return for Macao for March, 1916. the weeks ending 14th and 21st
20th and 27th March, 1915.
Rat return for the weeks ending
war merely to incapacitate the
If we
Amsterdam, Feb. 24-German
desertors have declared that the Germany cannot last boyand Mas food and raw material supplies in 16.
Restricted Rations. London, Match 1.-Messages to
hand through neniral channels indicate the increasing shortage hagen report says that the bread of bread in Germany. A Copen
ration to the German army has been considerably reduced.
Amsterdam telegrams quote the Berlin Socialist paper For waerts as stating that the sale of bread at canteens for prisoners of war in Germany has been forbidden. The prisoners are not allowed more bread than the civilians.
Amsterdam, Feb. 26. A num
durance. If not ashamed of soil. Where Napoleon failed, wo, quailing before General French'e in a totally different age, may auc- men, they, perhare, would not cood. Les, we may live to see the have endured the frightful fire of day when the ancient slogan, im- German cannons so long. Nor mortalised in Henry V., will are your men gentler than ours, again pass from mouth, mouth, That babbling about barbarona to Calais-from thence to Germans is a relapses into the England." ancient habit of accusing the Only twice had! Britain been enemy of the hour of committing confronted with mortal danger "girocities."
Both times Germans saved her; We had not hoped to find such both times France was the ag splendidly efficient foes in mere grassor, I do not refer to this to mercenaries, and our men do not present a bill for gratitude, to ask Their rage can only be overcome
disguise their joy. Barbarians! when the old account will be li after the Belgian nation, praised
In July the barbarians were still quidated. England has never by Schiller's fiery words, sees its
employed in lecture room and handicapped herself with thecum- neighbours close at hand and gaine.
laboratory, worked in banks, bersome ballast of sentiment; and profit from close assosiation with Eater upon the scene, a new stood belfed the counter. If they gratitude among nations is a gings on Kowloon Inland Lot No. them. We would see Antwerp firm. It is poor, has ita reputa- were rufians, then would the ment of the imagination. pot
The English believe that where tion still to make, its money to German nation be made of poorer rivalling but working with Homburg and Bremen earn, and, most singular of all, stuff than the British. Even you they fail none can succeed. But Lege's arms footories working loves work not merely as a means do not believe that.
we have nevertheless achieved the side by side with Essen's, Berlin for piling up an income, Offices When, in the nineteenth can impossible. We are an indust- and Swabia's gun factories and warehouses are open from tury, have your national achieve rial. an agricultural, a comme Cookerill in combination with early till late. The firm employements excelled ours? Not in art. oiak nation. Above all, England Krupp: iron, cus), woven stuff young, industrious moon, supplies Your poetry, music, sculpture, laveighs against militarism from Germany and Belgium in- fine goods at as ressonable a figure painting cannot compare with term difficult to interpret, which troduced into the markets of the as the old firm. Holidays? Only ours. The gray tree of science may be defined as meaning, "that world by one and the same com-when loss does not accrue through sucked richer sustenance from which others covet," mercial spirit
them. Wishes of customers are German scil: than from the sod -auch a warm
He Gloats Over Devastated" blass of profit has burned away studied, all reasonable require of the Island King. Our steamers France and Menaced London. many a hatred. The wise man ments are met. Their travelling are more dependable, more com- How bard beset is France. In the wins as his friend the deadly foe men scour the continents, and fortable than yours. Taba such north two gallant armies occupy whose skull he cannot split, and when a new market is scented 88 your firms use in the English it; it is devastated; he who has he will rather rule and permit to the middleman consult the con. Channel cannot be found in our sowed shall not reap; and Paris, feast on occasional dainties this sumer. Is it not possible to pro- harbours. Islanders! Mistress of Ville Lumiere," without light, shy and cold new friend... dage batter, more durable, more theseas! Hamburg has beaten you, without culture, without motion.
attractive, cheaper wares? overtopped you. Bridge builders, pictures! Or, take London. Every enemy for action in the fold, or The old firm must fall into step engineers, chemists cannot now sixth lantern is lighted, and is in its purpose achieved only when Only we do not wish another or withdraw. The problem en- learn, nearly as much in England equipped with a blind top! The as many men as possible are killed that the export of potato flour has It is reported from the Hague withered Reichsland like Alaace- rages them. But they cannot es as in Germany. About the The public buildings are protect outright? Must the use of giant been forbidden. Lorraine. From Calais to Ant-cape therefrom. What should we superiority of our factories and ed by canopies of steel netting; guna bo discontinued because werp, Flanders, Limburg, Brabant call a dealer who sets the house our commerce you have groaned we have not yet been for havo How can we discriminate between her of the wealthiest persone, it
they evolve poisonous gases? Attempts to Loot Shops. to the line of the Mouse forts of a competitor on fire, or block- enough. ⠀ must be Prassian territory. The ades its entrance with heaps of Why Germany Can Conquer no occasion to believe that ar necessary and unnecessary suffer is reported, have left Germany southern triangle, with Aleace-fifth, with flood? A knave; a Where Napoleon Failed. foes can endure longer than weg in the new war technique, and gone to various porta of Lorraine, and Luxemburg too if criminal. And are you still amaz- Our fast cruisers and sub- And though we suffer disappoint- which works with howitzers, air Scandinavia. This has been done it desires, will become a federated ed, you Britone, by the hatred marines have lashed on the raw ment in some extravagant ex-bombs, torpedoes, mines and other for the sake of the poor, who are state entraated to a Catholic noble which, reaching across the Eng your naval conceit. And yet, peotation, let us not despair. No hellish equipment? I will en- less able then the rich to obtain family.
lish Channel, cries for your blood, since Rome was shattered, in two harm can come to you, Germany! quire of some professor, whose your throats and necke? You things have you been incompar- This faith we owe to our brave innocent mind conceives inter- There were bread riots on
necessaries of life. had the right of way; conldable and unapproachable: in soldiers, who have done such national law to be a science. still have shaken off your lethargy domination and in enjoyment, magnificent, unheard-of, uner-
Meanwhile we must prevent A Magdeburg there is much Tuesday in several German cities, and achieved greater things sup Inherited imperialism, like in- ampled things, and to those of our enemies from doing what discontent, owing to the insuffic plied better wares than the inherited culture, cannot be main our men who, afloat, are fairly they have sworn to do no more, tency of the bread supply, and a truder. Bat the ease-loving man tained with mere money; each spoiling for a chance to risk their All promised,No dum-dum.” quaile before the effort of waging generation must pay its toll in lives."
qumber of women and children can prove beyond all endeavoured to loot the shops. wax on the superstitions which epiri agl earg, and under Our feet is England's dread. chance of a doubt that any of enmesh the masses.
The riot was suppressed by grey northern skies-in bear! This dread must not die until their men acted contrary to this blood, ur press, vain-glorious, Eugland dies. We owe its main rule, they should be shot down
Riots In Benin.. Stories of grave disaffection in When a competitor is forced y bien aware of the war. Our mothers of our heroes,
field, not housed with honest men Berlin, as news reaches there of fora gn trade is dimini:hed by "From the first day of the war.
in barracks and fed at the govern- the steadily increasing losses in to buy his coal, petroleum, oop scarcely thirty per cent. and our the German army has been ac- ment's expense for many months ficted on the Germans by tho whose name is never even men. Per; gold, lubricants in a "round-feet ban blooaded the Germans," onsed of barbarous cruelties. To The same fate should be meted Allies, are common enough
about way at almost prohibitive That may be so. We are waging this war for tioned except with averaion on prices, his business is bound to cavil about it. Your papers are legation, the German government / soldiers who have been set by Evening News.
We will not mitigate the enormity of this al-out to all Asiatio and African European papers, anys the Sydney ourselves alone. We need land, free roads into the ocean, and
Buffer. And the market for goods space for the spirit and language, many's strength and audacity, her which he might nevertheless offer advertly interlarded with paid now disseminates the charge that whites upon white. This possibly Here is one from the Wares and wares and trade of Germany. efficiency and organization. Not mines, torpedo boats, and sab port as exhaustively on new fash- bullets. This insulting charge is Kitcheners hesitate before trans advertisements so in peace. Re- the French army uses dum dam would make the Curzons and the is barred by dreadnoughts, esa long do you allow cool reason to marines. That is not a com- tell of huge sum presented to facsimiles, purporting to be re-ga, Nspal, Nippon and the Sonden after the publication of one list
ions, theatres, concerts, sports; supported by the publication of porting their vermin from Ben- What stretch of land necessary in scurrilous madness, lustful of but tactics of the highwayman, the Channel; and in some parti- cartridge boxes found in French in the cause of Christianity and be heard. Your hatred overlows mercial fight; not competition, Belgians who have fled across productions of tickets pasted upon to fight then barbarians for the German people, or useful murder. Until you can use arm And do you hope thus to destroy culars seem mer ly to flirt and forts. Yet in the cartridge pocketa in the real sense of the word, you would like to kill with could France or even Rassis the tongue, with ink and paper eiety of famine and pestilence? Germany? In the gruesome so-
of German prisoners, ballets were vacate for us in Europe? To ba Batred may be the equivalent of
And are you proud of that? found with incisions made for the safe from attack to exchange fire or a girdle of ice; it may be the sinfulness of such foolish Shame were more proper. Never express purpose of having them Even red-hot rage does not excuse the soul of a Viking for that of a an emotion bordering oa sanctity sobeming
again will he be master of his dum-dum." New York tradesman, to exchange if the heart be clean. But it on In all things German you experience as that of this hour published in Bordeaux on Septem: great realms should hurl such and endeavoured to disperse them.
fate who can paze through such an Thas reads the the life of the swift pike for that only destroy; create-never. To of the lazy aarp, whose fat back love or hate alien peoples! Bis-pect the devil has a hand, so without a picns tremor. You have ber 11 by the Frenos goverament, vile charges against anch other? The mob, seething with anger, grows moss-covered in a danger-marck spoke frequent words warn plain that hypocrisy and cant were fer. You are not cowards, in authorities of detestable crimes behind the greasy money veil, swords, but did not actually use that, when nomssked, it will be lost the will, the cap city to suf- It accuses car highest military That nations which have not charged the police, who, seeing come the wish of a German. en the enemy, to destroy him otherwise could there exist such ease. Scions ye are; not proger- deliberately made untrue charges, wares and tripperies but the no-The rioters, who every second less pond-that must never being against this excese. To weak the pith and marrow of all. How sooth, but levers of pampered disregard of international rights,
merely trafficked with each other themselves in danger, drew their Merely to secure more comfortable when necessary; is duty. To bathe frontier protection only a mad him in hatred is a one day's car.
a diversified activity?
who have not merely bartered them man would risk the national life ouse, under the evil heritage of "Every standing army endangere Your third grievance is:
itors. We
Yes, gentlemen, the primrose villainies could hardly be invent bleat spiritual possessions as well, were growing in numbers, refused that is now flourishing in power which the third generation may the freedom of the people," path of comfort will never come ed in one working day. Did this should now blacken and blacken to be dispersed, and from hun
atill be destined to groan,
to you so easily again. It was noisome quarrel have to intrude each other's portraits and yet not dreds of lusty throats were Whosoever is fully civilised, you England's Main Envy of a
board say, will refuse to become a re- easy only so long as no strong upon the Ingubrious exaltation of find them black enough? Le a war cries of Give us back our father MaHard-Working Rival,
arm shook the railing behind German experiences?
nobly conducted both by and our sons! Down with the cruit, a cog in the wheel of the which you luxuriated so magni- Dom-dum-this is the name of armies and by brainspot pos- ghastly war! Give us pesce and Yoa, Germans and Britone, must war machine; manufacturer, Lattiah territories, nor for billions live on with the nation you onn- agent, engineer, merchant all ficently. Lucky for us that Bona- the arsenal in Calcutta, the capital sible even to-day ?
bread 1 A Landwehr regiment oleheadlong after the war into of the longest, most ornel war in people is enslaved by conscription. Tailing, Was to as if we do not of the attractions shown to digal the time to cry out that the foe It refused point blank to do so. of money; nor in order to dive not exterminate. And the goal these cannot be soldiers. If a parte did not break through that of the Anglo-Indian Empire, one You who are Germans are not was then called up, and received wholly blameless. This is not an order to disperas the rioters. the pool of emotions and then a worthy peace ;; otherwise, wax if its men aro co-ordinated into a Cackle! We, British coasias, are the odd name came to be used to reeks of stenoh, to picture your. It is declared that disaffection allow the chilled body to rust in were mere butchery, brave, audacions, all-vanquishing
break through it to-day. Grin! find looking globe trotters. How the twilight dusk of the Deliverer Germany existed before the army, not fearful of the cruellest aware of the war! Feel it in every designate bullets, I do not know, selves as enthroned in clonds of is growing,
new empire was founded, would of avocations, then that nation is
pulse-but this war, which I do know that British brains in incense. Such a picture of the opinion is becomingover-ezcited
and that blia continue to exist if this empire nos orvilised. Who helps tread it
dwarfs all others IS
vented both the thing and the world of war, painted for children channel that opens and looks the many forms of government from fict of culture versus barbarism can you hope to compass what cartridge, making possible an exabout us knaves, Taecals, perjur Vienna have conf flag of the Empire on the narrow crumbled away. It has outlived underfoot ja engaged in the con- There are those who ask: "How name. The point is filed off the and for dupes, epelle degradation
Shortages in Vienna: for our gallery of heroes All
The military road into the ocean, to win a the Carlovingiana to the Hohen You prefer au army of mercan For he, too, attempted the con. The wounded man suffers longerera, shameless publicsne and in of raw rubber,
Bonaparte failed to accomplish? plosion when a bone is struck. victory over England staufen. You hope to fetter aries,
We shall remain in the Bel- Germany, to weaken her to break And yet you are not onwards. queat of Great Britain. The an- and more cruelly. Barbarous ? gian Netherlands to which we and tame ber-likes wild animal? German officers tell of the bravery swer is not difficult. Trae, he Perhaps, Perhaps also a method ahall add a thin strip of spast up. If you do, you are fooling your and persistence of your soldiers; dominated by personal ambition, of conditions of Indian life.
was a genius, but his genius was of defence originated in imitation selves with the dream of a malic though wounded two and three are then, with this one man, Says Germany Should Sheet To the Belgiane we are already ious child. Sixty million souls the Broh-imp and the tenant of A country watered by the Rhine, your mercenarie
times dons of your nobility lead
who, to the last, remained a African and Aslatic Prisoners, the-Fool of Hell. We shoul
should by the Elbe, the Oder, possessing them. And the
falling with
stranger in bis own empire, a na
Conference in 1899 tion of almost seventy
the use of such car souls born and bred on
4nd take from the lips of the degenerate rage, a race vitiated Militarism the Greatest Agent of bouats," Until now we have scarce tenance to our heroes, and to the like all other marauders of the
**cultured world" the reproach that from "Faust" and the Ninth Symphony" we have sack our pride to the forty-two centimetre gans? No!
Germans Are Fightlog for the
English Channel....
and wealth."mand
No, we know now what the war is for. It is not for French
Poliah, Ruthenian, Esthonian,
of Ra038,
No, we mean to boist the storm
to the rear of Calais,
remain so even if every stone in Lonvain and in Malines were re placed by its weight in gold
by luxurious living and by hypocrisy, steeped in the filth of noxious greed and given to un- conscionable lying; a nation
diegust.
Sometimes you mention Gar
the richest coal mines to be found
in the entire peninsula which is called Europe; having
*Culture.
been
trifle, with the war,
accusation
falaification of documents. More
humanitarian culture.
a
Is it not disgusting that such
the police.
who have arrived at Warsaw from Courier Numbers of travellers Berlin relate that for several days of killed and wounded, which
contained
more than 40,000 names, Berlin was the scene of grave disorders.
noxious quarrel should consume "Furious crowda surging in from precious hours of the hallowed the saborba prepared to invade the days in which we move and live? centre of the city, when cordons That the heads and leaders of of mounted police galloped up
midst
saints with and rubber hose bille! Who between that! cartage Let give thanks that we the
upon clean, courageous confi men, who know how to hold their tongues and, die without hoons
bons. Out of spoh a war only can glory be called. In no other war should such torrents of GermaREA blood be shed