BRITAIN'S GREATEST
PERIL.
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
They are as convinced as ever that war is not a biological neces- eity as Beruhardi pretended, and that Might is not the supreme Pacifists More Dangerous than Right. They still rogard civilias.
Von Tirpitz.
tion as on effort to discover Last November. I warned youfal natural forces and to establish "lightning conductors" for burt- that the Germans would attempt humanity's mastery over the law a raid on our East Coast before of struggle for existence. Christmas, and lo, bebold, it was so enys a Sunday Chronicle cor. respondent.
hostile
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Io Belgium the Internationalists are unanimous in determination to fight to the conclusive end. Vanderveldo, the first chairman of the Internationale, is a pending all his eloquence and splendid anor gies in rousing the Belgian workers to battle against the Tentonic threat.
The bland and infinite stup- idity of these amazing persons is impervious to experience foot, and reafon. Nothing dis. courages them, nothing changes their obstinata illaeions. Though the ghastly events of the last few months have blasted all their theories, though their gentle; kindly brothers of Potadura have acted like friends and now rave against us like frenzied farise, our oily Chadbanda still pratilo their pretty parrot platitudes with undiminished unction and volu-minence and zeriousness of the bility.
German menace was revealed to
In France, the Internationalists form the Government of combat. Briend, Viviani Millerhad, the beads of the War Government, began their political life as Socialists. Augogneur, the Naval Minister, pacifist opponent of the three eara' service law until the im-
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915.
ANOTHER BIG OPIUM HAUL
Ravenue Officers Leave One Boat to Go to Another
searched
left it to thom to handle the in- vestigation in the very successful manner they did:
LORD ROTHSCHILD'S WILL.
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Grants to Employees. He empowered his trustees to make such gifts or grant such pensions or annuities to any eer- vante, clerks, or other persone in bis employ or that of his firm at the time of his death as his true- tees, in their absolute and uncon
estate.
CONTROL OF FIJI.
Is Australia to have it P Thore is reason to believe that Fiji is to be brought under the direct control of Australia.
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It will be observed that Mr. Fisher does not deny that the transfer is to be made, and there are indications that the report correct.
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THE AMERICAN NOTE.
Opinions as to Germany's Reply.
Washington, June 2.-The
THE HUN'S WAR ON WOMEN.
Sufferings that Ended in Death.
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women,
Provisional Valuation "of £3,500,000. The late Lord Rothschild left estate provisionally valued at £2,500,000. Probate of his will Our Suva correspondent writ- majority of the members of the An awful socount of the sack" It is becanse these aime
During their search on the Ben has been granted. There are no ing on the 11th inst, says it is cabinet regard the reply of the of Dinant and the sufferings of are assailed by the German concealed some eight hundred provisions of the will are
hoat on which the polico found bequests to charitise. The chief locally reported that this is to be Staten note as irresponsivo, un Germans entered the town is German government to the United the innocent inhabitants when the Laat Sunday I told you that tion that they are resolute in re-officers were called on to search
greed for power and domina-
as one result of important conversa sati factory and showing every printed in the Times in the form pounds of opium, the Revenue follows:
tions now in progress between the another appelin raid was immesistance and in determination to the Cyclops upon which it was now second Baron Rothechild, mente regarding the future of the cabinet officials point out that the heralded by a rain of shells, which diately impending, and on Wed- make an end of the Prussian believed there was a good baul of life annuity of £5,000, in addition Pacific lelande.
To his eldest son, Lionel Walter, oversea and Imperial Govern disregard for American friend of a diary written by a lady.
ship. In addition; several of the The entry of the enemy was nesday one Zeppelin, the only traculence, with its "mailed fists," opium to be had, which had to: to two annual amounts settled on one that completed the journey, and shining armour,"
German reply doubts the facts set est fire to the buildings, and was The Prime Minister was ques forth by the United States and accompanied by appalling scenes and fallon to daly made its appearance. Od "words rattling in their scab- Singapore. Officers Wilden and Baron Amaell Meyer Rothschild, Melbourne representative last blame for the death of the
the officers at him by testator'a great-uncle, tioned on the matter by our disclaims all responsibility and of pillage and outrage. Thursday night we received more barda." Now that the groot McMillan vinity.
Patruggle has been forced upon Cyclops and upon her found child. He made no further pro- give no definito information on the Lusitania was sank.
the and his uncle, Sir Antony Rothe night, and said that he could Americans who were lost when seventy others-men,
The lady took refuge with about On the strength of these prothem between the CWO phetic successes I now venture to doctrines, the two
propared opium. to the vision for his eldest son.
"children, and babies in arm-io the subject, for the reason that It is known that the cabinet some caves on a hill overlooking" moralities, warn you of another coming the
value of $5,000. two
ideas of
They To his wife £100,000, all his he had not received any. It was considera the situation as extreme-, Dinant. There they spent three attack, much more dire and dan human right, they are rightly de- the Ben boat, we are informed, bis consumable stores at 148, would be done in the matter until members was scheduled for to- last by hunger and despair, they were about to return to jewels and personal ornaments, quite unlikely that anything ly grave and. a meeting of the dreadful nights. Forced out at gerous than its predecessorsan Lermined not to stop until the Ger- when they found the police were Picoadilly, and the use of that the conclusion of the war, and day and at this session an an- fell into the hands of the Ger- attack not from abroad, but from man ideal of violence and aggres-making a searah of it and they reaidence for life, with remainder for high State resaone it was a fussy and insistent section of sion is decisively crushed. our own people, the in-
to his son Nathaniel Charles.
awer to Germany which is to be mans, who used them as a soreen anwise to discuss a subject con- corrigible, unteachable, incur
To his brothers Alfred and cerning which there could be embodied in a new note, la to be for their machine guns, and as able, perveras, pernicious theorists
Leopold, £5,000 each; and $5,000 nothing but speculation at the
considered.
last lined them up in front of a of Pacifism.
The number of Revenue each to the children of his son present moment. In Parliament ad a telegram from the German-
President Wilson to-day receiv-file of soldiers to be shot. Officers engaged in the Nathaniel Charles and of his last week, when the leader of the American Union of New York were spared and sent to Olney. At the last moment the refugees seurohen the Benclench was daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Bebrens. Opposition had broached the saying that the violation of a Belgian town fifteen miles three, and when they left the ship it
To his daughter, Mrs. Behrens, question of the prospects of the WAY not to im-£150.000 (reduced by codioil from acquisiton of new territory, he neutrality which he had en-routh-east of Namur, where they prove their knowledge of where £200,000 in view of the state of had specially requested that atait war between the United Sta-managed to escape and resched joined Qu Germany would were ect free. The narra'or the opiam was to be found, but to affira owing to war).
nothing should be said on the tee and Germany. make a rapid search of the
topic for the pressut.
Further the England, where she eventually Opelops which had such a good
telegram besought President Wil- died in hospital, reault. With the Police now
son to "aphold the 25,000,000 Appended are extracts from following the energetic line given
loyal American citizena who the diary: them by the Revenue officers, thers
Austria and believe that these two sympathize with Germany and
The Flight Every one is every possibility of Ilongkong
was crying and enjoying unprecedented revenue
nations are right."
sobbing-men, women, and chil Fiji's Need of Reformi. from confiscated contraband.
Oar Fiji
In commenting on the reply dren. They had all been driven, correspondent trolled discretion, might think writes: There is a good deal of made by Germany, the London out of their homes by the brutal propor, but so that no person opposition to the suggested
Times interprets the answer to be soldiers, who smashed the doors The poor persecuted pirates of him. MarcelSembat, the successor.
should be entitled to claim as a change, Officialdom is opposed in the United States note.
a flat refusal of the demands made and windows with the batts of Potsdam, they assure us, have to Jaures, fought desperately
rightany pension, gift, or annuity. entirely to such a change, and no means," says the Times. "A con-men, and ill-treated the women "It their rifles, seized. the unarmed been woefully misunderstood against the Russian alliance until poace being concluded by the rube any duty payable on gifts them imaginary ones, will be of violating the rules of fairness, in two rows and shot the men He directed that if there should doubt many objections, some of tinuation of the branded doctrice and children, then ranged them and despitefully need, The he was "made wise." Vaillant, lers and diplomats. Now that the made in his lifetime such duty raised. That a change of some war waa foroed upon by certain indefinable Secretly advocated the General Strike aake of the workers it should b:
them the old Communard, who former-catastrophe has come, for the should he paid from his residuary kind is wanted there is not the Justice and humanity and the before the eyes of their wives and Commitments, which compelled as a preventative of war, is now
slightest doubt. The distance of nihilism for humane rights."
Babatitution of international children. We saw among these them to burn Louvain, mas- whole-heartedly for war to the
Downing Street from Fiji is one
**** [unfortunates a woman who was aore the Belgians, attack our end against Prussia. Jules
difficulty in the way, and there way recede from the demande feet and clad only in her ohemise The United States will in no soon to have a baby, with bare hospital alipe, and sink the Falaba. Guesde, the execator of the will
can be no question that it is the which have been made or Ger-and petticoat. Therefore we must be particularly of Karl Marx, and the impeccable
trative acts. The system of ap from certain guarded expressions escape from the town we loved cause of many delays in adminis- careful to avoid the beinous crime opponent of every kind of Min-
pointing for a limited period which have been made in high so much. What could we do? many, and this is made clear One idea possessed custo of hitting back, and still more isterialism, has joined the Ministry
Governore in whose hande lies official circles. It is admitted There was no means of crossing careful to save our pleasant foes of National Defence, the Ministry
the executive administration, is a that another Note from the United the river. Suddenly some one from the cruel injury of "humi- presided over by his old enemy,
bad ons, and has led to many States to Germany is in course of remembered the grottos on the liation." Let goldiers fall and Briand: Bailors sink, lat orphans weep and
evil resulte widowsmonra, bat don't, cu don't
preparation at the State Depart bill. No more hesitation-we let us "humiliate" the poor Prus
ment, and an indication of the started on our way back through sian junkers and grenndiera!
contents of that document has the barning streets. At last we Fanatics, Fools, or--
The amount of enthusiasm
been obtained-which, however, got through about fifteen or and, incidentally, of money-now
authoritative,
the wood lighted up by the bara- being spent on the propagation
The Firm's Capital, of euch incitements to magna
It is understood that the new ing town and arrived at the He left all his capital in the firm areas would stand examination the fundamental questions raised
in Fiji, apart from the Botaal town Note will ask Germany to regard grotto of Montfat. nimous sentimentalism, impels
As I returned into the grotto a and accrued income due from his in a court of law. It is not difficult in the previous, communication lady came up to me and begged ons curiously to think. Pamphlets
be to assent to the violation of the confident hope and belief that so, if one is conversant with side-issues, and to treat the whole every one had lost their wits. I To accept such a peace would share to his said son, and expressed to understand why this should be from Washington, rather than me to bring a light, as she thought. and journals invoking our sympa
international law, the abominable his surviving partners would Fijian history, more particularly matter from the international found, to my horror, that many thetic consideration for the Prus
mutilation of Belgium, the immediately give effect to his that portion of it relating to the sian ballies fall thick as leaves in autuma. Is fatuity, ons won
bombardment of undefended wish to admit his said con 25 8 alleged cession of the islanda to Even Russia, whose reformers towns
of them really bad lost their ders, their only inspiration?
and village, have been so infamously persecat- Scarborough baby-killing, the such should be the case that his The trouble principally lies in the satisfactory, it is believed that the
the partner, and be directed that if the Crown by King Thakonibau. latest exchange should not be mental enffering.
If the German reply to this reason. It is hard to stand such can be the state of mind, of the oally unanimous response to the ship, and the imposition of Frus- should make arrangements in his deavoured to graft their system to break off diplomatic relations. the seventy-five persons who had What can be the motion, whated by Tearism, has made practi- shark's attack on the hospital son on retiring from the business fact that the British have en Wilson administration will decide However, whatever happened,
In the Enemy's Hands. Buthors of these effusions? Since war call against Prussia. Pien sian brutility, arrogance, and turn for the capital to be with upon a communal one, and the they have apparently learned to obanov, the old Marxist; Muskow, bumptiousness, with its Termonde drawn fo as not in any way to result has not been altogether these perilous times" is pledged taken refuge there, only thirty- we must leave the grotto. Out of road and write, they are evidently the agrariau Socialist; Tscheide, frightfulness and Zabern Kultur, incommode the house of N. M. successful. Before the British in a set of resolutions which were seven had the courage to follo
Support for the President "in not absolutely imbecile. Why, leader of the Parliamentary over the free democracies of Rothschild and Sons, and he came the chief, with the aid thep, do they take such pains to Socialiste: Frinca Kropotkin, the Woetern Ecrope. gerble facts, distort official docu- revolutionary veteran; and the vast
farther, atated that he had no of
passed at the Confederate Re.. 09. his tribe, and by the union. at Richmond, Va., on
We prepared twelve white ments, and palliate atrocities, to majority of the Social Demceratic they shatter our dearest illusiona muke similar arrangements in held such lead as he wanted. He ages which reached the Capital the hill, and arrived at the plateau The facts must be faced, though doubt that his said son would strength of the tribal olub, Memorial Day, according to mess-and the children. We climbed flags to be carried by the oldest blacken their own country and working-class, have enthusiae- and scrap our fondost hopes. The case of any child or children held it by the club, and it was last night. Bave the truculent chronic dietur tically rollied, despite their great chastrophe has come, and raust succeeding him (bis scn) to act largely because there was another bers of the European peace from and deep grievances, to the be endured to the end. Better in like manner.
on the top to find ourselves at the consequences of their own Government's help in fighting that the war should last three Fie gave power to his trustees to that the latter eventually oaded of action taken by President plain where a battle was going chief likely to oust Thakomban found conviction that the course and came out on an immense The resolutions express pro- minutes we walked through fields, the German camp. For twenty orimea ?
To talk of saving the Garmins All these Pacifiste and Inter- should go back to the terror, legecies or to pay them in 15 the land thus held was worked point of view of the Nation.on, and there we were placed
years or thirty years than that we postpone the payment of certain his possessions. The portion of Wilson is the right one from the frem humiliation at a time when nationalists have recognised that anxiety, and dread cf our former annusl instalments with interest communally. This ayetem is still Cablenews American, they still trample innocent peace was impossible while one ponce. Belgium under the heals of their nation in Europe believed itself
at 3 per cent., and be declared in vogue in a measure, but minus ramanly jackboots and told to be a chosen people, appointed too, have thought, upon the fullest possible discretion in post-effectively taken its place. In fact Aa Charles Dickens said: "I, that his trustees should have the the club, and the law has not yet France by the throat is aby unser alten Deutschen Gott to horrors of war, of the blee poning for such time as they should there is a commission in existence diet each other with delightful finish you." monstrous mockery of common organise all people by their own einge of peace, and of the fatal think fit the collection and calling endeavouring to complete the pro- franknees, and there is another this position for about twenty Bense and as outrage against rigid and brutal military drill distraction of men's justice. While our sailors spend into instruments of ita vanity and from seeking them; by the roll might consist of advances made £5000 a year, and has worked for into these. The hopes of the to die an unforgettable torture. minds in of any part of his estate which cess. The commission is coating commission sitting and inquiring minutes, momentarily expecting watchful days and anxious nights onpidity, vilified and degraded of the drum and the thunder of by him, and he desired, without five years. The net result is that colonists lie in the commission, In the North Sea and soldiers face bullet and chrapnel the guerdon of efficient organisa- the world is not so far upon its trustees in the matter, that these with, but not finally settled even good will come of it.
Four into Blaves of its deminion, with the inexorable cannon. Dowever, fettering the discretion of his a small portion has been desit but it is doubtful whether much The French cannon oeseed firing. But our hour had not come.. in the trenches, it is surely the tion and material prosperity as course yet but that there are advances should not be called up now. It is estimated it will take obvious duty of a'l who stay at the price for their soule surron- tyrants and oppressors left upon if in the opinion of his trustees another 20 years for the commis why Australian politicians should through the devastated country. Then we were set of without home to chear their efforts, to der.
These are some of the reasons farther eign, and we wandered on fortify the national spirits, and
it, watchful to find l'reedom weak inconvenience would be caused. sion to complete iti laboure! tarn their thoughts to Fiji. There We were seized. Again we were uphold the national ideal.
that they may strike. because I dread and hate the to his son Nathaniel Charles tions, under which the natives population nearing half a million in a row, the mitrailleuses behind It in He left the residuo of his property. Next come the native regula are great problems, affecting examined. Then we were placed miseries of tyranny and war, Rothschild, with the request, but are allegedly governed. They go people, in one of the most fertile an. What were our fears! Again because I would not be soldier not creating any legal obligation back for 40 years. Many of them spots in the world, to be solved, we marched for twenty minutes ridden nor have other men eo, in the matter, that he would keep were drawn up bastily to meet and Australians may as well have then a halt. that I am not for the disarming up Tring Park as a residenice for some local trouble, and are found the credit of solving them as sny us we saw immense brasters fall of England."
halt. Fifty yards, from bie mother during her life. to be bad in law. They contra others,➡5, D. Telegraph,
The Example of Foreign Pacifists. In every country except oure, this duty has been recognised and fulfilled by all sections of inter- pational proifinte.
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Speaking With One Voice. That groy old anti-militarist, Anatole France, the genius why overtops all his contemporaries in
complete and final,"
As for bis interest in the house terms short of the utter defeat makes the following statement
To stop now, to stop on any of N. M. Rothschild and Sons, he and "humiliation" of Prassian militariem, would bring no peace, I nominate my son Nathaniel So far as I lawfully oan or may but only a truce. To stop now Charles Rothco bild to succeed to would not end the menace which my share in my firm of N. M. has bindered European progress Rothschild and Sons, and I trust for half a century, but would that he will devote the same leave it to grow more threaten- attention to the businese of my ingly and ruinously than ever. said firm us he has done during
Neutrals lately returned Germany all acce that e from my lifetime, and that as the in every way in the best interests of executor of this my will he will act
interests of his mother.
cooler observera who begin
next time."
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One fault of the system is clearly apparent. Fiji is a land fall of 30 imagine one more so. intricate problems. It is difficult
doubtful how far land transactions
Take
spirit of Rabalaia, Moliere, and this time, already look forward to literature, the heir of the Gallic realise that Germany cannot win my eaid firm as well as in the best the eternal land question. It cannot at this time be taken as sixteen of us altogether-through Voltaire, basaeked to be enrolled a peace which shall enable them as a recruit against the plague of to prepare for a more successful Europe. Gustave Berve, who has" served years of imprisonment, for his nuti-militarist zeal, has turned bis. paper into a reusing call to patriotism against the Prussian aggressora.
the Prussian menaca,
A Peace Worse Than War.
No, se Professor Herron, the American Socialist now living in Florence, wrote to me some time ago, the greatest danger to the working class, to the people in [ternational, lies in a too early
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stand point.
near the mitrailleuses, in front of the army, and an officer said to aa: "Nothing of Dinant must be left the French cannon will We remained in
of porpsem