A GRAVE WARNING,
'Dagonet," on the Grip of the
German. Octopus.
Mr. G. B. Sims writes in John Bull of September 16 :-
To what extent, after two years of a bloody and costly war, are the tentacles of the Hun octopes
still twined around as?
Day after day thinking Britons, impressed by astounding happen inge, bappenings which are to our disadvantage and often to our direct injury, rab their eyes and
talk about * the hidden känd."
价
Politically, financially, com mercially and socially, the ten- tacles encompassed as long ago. The Ban octopus made sure of bis grip aron the financiers of Power which it knew must sooner or later, be a hostile Power and it made sure long before it allowed the cause for hostility to arise.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916,
WAR,
pesos-that the hidden power U. 8, TRADE AFTER THE which shaped the beginning of the war ahull have no induenos in shaping the end.
of
worthy of the best traditions of our race,
that will an-
The United States. exporta to the United Kingdom and British Poeseesions have "enormously in-
When success crowned out gressed during the war. In
arms
and rang no bells. The voice of the people was silent,
That is one of the great out standing facts of the story of the To-day we are writing the hie-British people in the Great Wer tory of the war in red hot blood. |—their, siteni, faith in
know the truth.
Our
country.
revende.
CLAIMS.
Functions of Cruisers and Aircraft.
་་
were
• STRIKE-HOME AND
AT HOME."
Mr. Grahame-White on the
Zeppelin Raids..
"The wrecking of the two
a
`" At the same time, it is moet
of the air as if this were already
our air services.
WORKING-MEN AND THE CLERGY.
"They Do Not Think Mach of Them.
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The policy indicated" "with" ra: Bootay in, or erra” what his fores gard to our dealings with nontrala | in. It means the duastery of is paraly defensive. We do not lurking dangses which would week a **trade war" with any escapa distant vision; it mësua Knowledge is power; and the
neutral country. Our object is chasing off the enemy's torpedo- to free our markets and these of craft; it masos, in some cases. knowledge of what has been bap Competition with the Alles". pening to weaken and delay oår
our Allies from German domias involving him in an setion which blows at the enemy will be the
tion, so that we may trade soder he can't break off before the fair terms of competition. We beavy ships come up and get (power behind the dictators of the
One of the situations that cail do not propose anything in the their chance of a decisive battle. terma of peace when the hoor of for consideration after the war pesos shall dawn.
from a basines standpoint is that nature of a tariff union directed In the Bight of Heligoland the pelins is, of course, very astir
"Ordinary working men do not Great Britain is the heritage of trade relationships on the part gainat neutral countries. It is German light cruiters fought factory, and naturally justifies the British people. It is not of ourselves and our Allies with not our policy to exclude ventrals oors partly in the hope of hold-certain amount of jubilation, think much of the clergy," said property leased for a term of years pentral countries. The position them to it, in order that we may could get at them (the enemy ing saked by representative of Church of England Men's Society. from our market, but to attracting them until their battle cruiser id Mr. Grahame-White, on be. Bishop Weldon at the annual con- ferenca at Manobeter of the to • #yndicste of lawyer that will result with regard to politiciune.
enemy countries is fairly well de pay for the goods we purchase teing ignorant, despite their sir the Pall Mall Gasette for his
The workers thought, he said, The elected representatives of fined. But how are we to view from them by goods made in this ships, of Bostly presence), and views on a recent raid.
that the clergy were not intel- the people-whether they are the position respecting trade with
But it is also our partly in order to "hold them off Cabinet Ministers or plain HP's neutrals, especially neutrale who policy to ohisin mere favourable from too nea: approzeb for important that we should avoid, lectually competent to deal with j-are, the salaried servants of the have been doing well out of the term of entry for our goods into į proìally the destroyere) to the on the one hand, exaggerating i had been in the last 50 years a their difficulties. There certainly If the phrase the hidden tea-people, and caly remain in the war, and are thereby enabled to only obtain this by tar f nego-Baltic, likewise, the German other, belittling what remains to clergy of the Church of England, neutral countrier, and we can German coast, and feet. In the what has been done, and, on the marked intellectual decline in the tacles" were substituted, I be people's service at the people's prepare for incressed trade when tiation. The war has taught as crainers were not cut merely to be done. Several of the papers, and when that intellectual decline lieve it would be a more correct will and. pleasure.
the war is over? Sach countries the necessity of coming into line see, but to see and engage. I observe, speak of our mastery definition of the enemy power Dating the war there has been have been subject to little or no with other civilised nations in think it in fair to assume the
ecclesiastical assumption it was was sonociated with spiritual or which based frequently paralysed no General Election and so Min-risk, and their commercial and our efforts in our fight for freeisters and Members of Parlia industrial prosperity has been, order to protect our home indas same thing of the Nottingham au accomplished fact. Do, 201
mens have contioned to hold and continues to be, materially
Aries and to raise additional and Falmouth. They dom.
let us run away with that ides, not very plossing to his friends GE No neutral 'bountry, searching for the enemy. offices and draw their enhanced by the necessities of Isaat of all the United States, can unless the British Fleet was to be to gomes very great deal to do their
But We have stilt a very lodg way
the working classon. We are going to win this war:
pareas whatever the belligerenta. Is behoves the
The vote of the bishops in the one of the grip of the Han policy seemed good to them. Allies generally, therefore, to economic system which they have they themselves fall victims it claim. And it would be unwise brought no credit to the Church,
we are winning it. But be salaries and
obj ct *10 cur adopting an exposed to the danger to which before we can substantiate that House of Lords in the past bad octopus upon many of the things either from the Party or the Na consider the position now, if they proved to be advantageous, nor was necessary to carry out a far in the extreme, at this critical and the clergy would hardly eisin that make for victory, thas viotory tional point of view, upcontrolled are to be ready for the commer
can they imagine that such a more intimate is being sccomplished at a far by the conditions which in ordio cial competition
reconnaissance juncture, to say or even suggest to have taken pains to pisos them policy is dictated by motives then wouli Lave been possible by anything which might lead the | selves in deep sympathy with the greater cost in blood and treasurery times make the voice of the doubtedly arise when pesce
most important antagonistic to their own trade ere bird's-eye view from the public to imagine that we can masses of the people. The word The COME. than would have been necessary people the master's voice.
Throughout the war the people neutral in this respect is the
and prosperity- Globe,
air. And there was unquestion-afford to rest on our laurela, or; "humbug" was frequently spoken had we started in the fight, and have behaved admirably. In the United Stator.
ably the intention to engage him in others words, mark time in the among the working class when been able to carry on the fight, dark days of disaster, due to our situation is accordingly import- EXAGGERATED
A survey of the
when found, to worry his small development and improvement of they heard bishops, archbishope. free from the grip of those deadly
atter lack of preparation, they ant.
craft and to compel him to chass lantsoles.
and even deans enforcing lesson showed a calmnom and a restraint
with his heavy ships, and thus
of sacrifice, and he thought that to hamper his return until the}" Wastage Enormous. British squadrons could come up.
"Within the last few months the clergy. might set aside a How often does Oie Luk The use of Zeppelins by the our air defences have been great certain part of their incomes la Navy added fresh records to its value to 82 million dollars; in of "Proportion, gentlemen, pro- the opposite purpose.
on land, and our noble March, 194, they amounted in Oie'd" general, with bis maxim enemy on May 31 had precisely ly improved," said Mr. Grahame show they were in earnest.
They White, in reply to an inquiry; Liras, J. B. Stanley, who in in glory roll, they waved no flage the corresponding month of the portion!" come into one's mind were required merely to get as that in acquestions ble. But charge of the O.E M.& hate at the present year they amounted to noben one hesra or reads the de- distant a view of Jellicoe's fret there is still room for greater im front, said that the English and less than 200 million dollars. In bates which take plecs about a possible, and to give the earl-provements and developments. the Fretch bad actually develop- the same period America's exports certain phases of the war, and, test warning they could, in order It is all sack a new problem that ed a language of their own. He to our Allies rose from 28 to 116 especially, those on the Air Ber that the main German Fleet the organisation has to be bailt told a story of a British soldier das and a French girl who desired to million dollars. Her exporia to vice and the Navy ? Lord Mon- might avoid agiting. For that p carefully and with a the Germany and her Allies have, of tagu of Beauliea has done, and is parpage they were all-sufficient regard to other military exigen- be married. It turned out that the Roman Catholic and In the daye to come the story of triomph of their cause because it coares, practically ceased, thanks doing, invaluable work in arging and admirably adapted. Bat a cies. Yet we are really building girl was Great Britain's almost super-was just and rightsons. to the British blockade, but her the need of still greater efforts. the purpose of the British Fleet it up rapidly, though it is only that the soldier belonged to the bumun effort to save bor Empire
Bishop from the rain, stealthily bat most in the near future be beard have increased from 17. 10. 69 enthasisam to carry him away to stances which favour decisive tremendous
But the voice of the people exports to other neatral cosat-ies Bat he does, at times, allow his is always to fight andar cireum-within recent period that the Charsh of England.
potentialities Owynne, Deputy Chapinic- systematically prepared for ber again, and it must speak with no million dollara. America is an unwarranted degree. Take his action airships alone would have aviation as applied to modern General, said he must make in by Germany, will to written in ascertain voice. In the care of therefore, profiting remarkell,peech at Edinburgh last week. been of no service. Crainers were warfare have been folly grasped. quiries, but the soldier remarked: cold blood. And then, and then the politicane, financiers, baresa out of the war, partly through Uless he is misreported, he told necessary as well, and if they And the pressing demands of the Oh, sir, I have explained it all only-always presuming that the|crats, commercial muguates, supplying ourselves And bia audience that, while we had were used, they were bound to Air Bervice at the front are so to her and she understands and it historians are honest shall we pressmen, pamphleteers and prop- Allies with monitions and food recently lost two se cruisers run the risk attendant upon their great that it is to inconsiderable willing." (Laughter.)
"Dear agandists who under the pres- stuffs, and partly by sending to owing to lack of the means of sirase. The same conditions will task to keep pace with them. The
raid Bishop There are a few who know it are of the hidden tentacles have neutral countries goods with reconnaissance, "the Germans and must recur whenever she wastage of war, too, io hosty, now, and who, because the hoo-raised the ory "Don's hamiliste which the combatant Powers are rarely lose one."
Gwypue, "he has been able to This statement
German Fleet is at sea. I am both in sircraft and personnel. our of their land in dear to their Germany," the voice of the people st
"There is soother point to be explain in a couple of words ati present unable to supply does not agree with the facts, very far indeed from disputing bearts, would willingly tell it must thander its demand for the them. Moreover, being free from Sizce the outbreak of war, setting the use of airships to the Navy considered. It is not enough to / the subtleties of religion which now, and tell it boldly and frauk-most, homilisting panishment all Lorious competition, her side the commerca-raiders, the cr of denying that our lack of turn out the machines in sufficient the divines have not been able to Jy.
that can be inflicted by the cou-manufae arers are making enorm- Germans have lost thirteen, and them is a most cerious weakness. numbers. That is compusa do for 300 years," (Laughter.) But this is not the moment querors upon the conquered,
008 profits, which they are em probably fourteen cruisers. fo- Bat I do absolutely contest the tively easy task. And the trouble to fiad the when, from the patriolie point of Any terms of peace that do ploying in laying down new deed, the barco which has been opinion that they can take the i
to train them. view, the whole truth can be told not humiliate Germany will be plant and erroting new work made among their vessels of this place of cruisers as the
eyes of men; bat to the greatest advantage. All terms of peace that leave the shops, America will thus be in tpe is one of the most remark the feet." And I feel perfectly There are hundreds of young our energies mast for the time dans free to hold their heads a better position to compere in able hinge in the naval war. sure that, had we bad squadrone fellows who can 'fy their heads seem to point to the necessity for being be devoted to killing the high among the nations, and such the world's markets at the close There were all engaged, if not of airship, the Nattingham sad cff, as we say in the ordinary a great and immediate increase in terms will be a foul betrayal of of the war than she has ever been actually in reconnaissance, in the Falmouth would have been way that is, in distance flights the strength of our home airer- the great army of patrioti” who Lefore.
ep-cifically cruiser duties. In the very much where they were when sad ac forth bat large per vice? have given life and all that was In order to be able to deal sco- Battle of Jatland Bank alone they met their end.
centage of them would probably dear in their country's cause.
As regards the future Lord lose their heads altogether if sent Sach terma will be an insult to tion after the war, we
cessfully with American competi-they lost four light cruisers, de-
must spite the aid of their Zeppelins, Montaga is reported to have dis op staight to tackle a Zeppelin. the memory of the gallant men develop to the fall extent the re. while we did not lose one. coursed on the possibility of in. Men take a long time to become and noble women and innocent sources of the British Empire, children who have been walouly All the neede of the Empire, can to say that the Germans, on proclaimed that Britain is no then it is only exceptional mer It is therefore, contrary to fact vasion from the air, and to have highly skilled and efficient and murdered to make a Berlin holi be applied from within its own socount of their possession of longer sa island. I do not know who can do these star turns." But the press has had to be day.
borders, with abundance to spars Zeppelins, rarely love a cruiser, what precise meaning he gives to The percentage of them who diplomatic in its campaign for The blood of the martyra cries for, the requirements of other hey have had airships enough the word invasion; but if he re-shine in the Air Service is emeli, efficiency. The British DOW?= for vengeance. That vengeance nations. But this requires Im- for sounting purposes since the garde such incursione as we have partly because the opportunities Bazere are read by both foss and the Prime Minister, speaking perial organisation, and a clower beginning of the war, and if air experienced by the Zeppelins, for distinction are few, bat chiefly friends, and therefore the press
from his sent in the House of Lag: partnership between the Motherships guald have done the work moltiplied a hundred-fold as because only a few airmen er has bad to temper its valour with i-lature, his solembly declared Country and the Dominions than of craisers, the cruisers, presom-invasion," then he must also temperamentally suited to discretion. It has had to guard shall be executed upon the mar has heretofore existed. The ably, would not have been risked, regard the raiding cruisers of dashing feels. To tackle a Zep itself against saying that which deress.
events of the war, fortunately. But sirships: could not do the Sossborough and Lowestoft as pelin at night in mid-heaven, would hearten the enemy and But be sure that those spon have made such a federation not work the ernisers were required invaders. The one went their single-handed, and at the same that which would dishearten our whom the guilt of these murders only possible, but asented. One to do in the Bight of Heligoland, shells, the other their bombe. time run the gauntlet of the fire Feets will, when the day of jude of the principal instraments to in the operations against the There is no essential differeros. from our own anti-aircraft guns, Bat the hidden tentacles are ment comes, rely confi lently upon accomplish this object is Imperial Bassiane in the Baltic, nor in the But if be means invasion in the demands not only great skill, bai not a myth. That they have the hidden influence which has Preference, the admision of the battle of Jatland Bank. We accepted sense of physical co-storage Pock, nerve sud deler played an important part in the been exerted on their behelf in products of the Empire into the hall see why presently, Batcupation of a portion of enemy: Hans' preparation for a war of WAT
Mother Country on better terms first let us see how the matter territory, then I hope he will Too Early for Optimism. world-conquest is a nonguis. It is for this reason that every than the products of foreign stands in regard to curselves. pardon me for mying that the On his attention being called ed fact, and the recognition man and woman in the laud must countries. The Dominions al. We, who have possessed no air idea is a veritable bogey. Im-to the leader in Monday's Time arm for the fight for peace, for ready give a preference in their ships capable of doing the work agine the first flight of Zeppelles in which it is said: “We look rome every man and women who the only peace which for geners markets to this country and to of scouting, have lost the follow attempting a landing by night at forward to the time, not miny have the national bonour and the ions to come will mean the de- one another. It only remains for ing vessels ander conditions the selected spot! Imagine two months bence, when Zoppelia
"There is sense of the important part which menace of German militarisms to reciprocate that preference, songbly analogoar so those of the handred great carcases, each raids will cease becé une his cope with Germans:-Cressy, Aboukir, Bo-eight hundred feet long, coming tile sirship will be able to escape he and she may still play in the and intrigue, and free the forces America competition we must gas, Hawke, Arethaca, Natting down to within a thousand, Ave if orse it reaches England," Mr.
dpondency-quite the life-and-death struggle, on the that control the policy of the also have a greatly extended iar ham, Falmouth, Amphion, Path-hundred, two hundred feet of the Grahame-White remarked. rary," were the famous aviator'a iosue of which the whole fature British Empire from the tentacles in. American goodá which Ender and Hermes. That ja, san | ground, amid a storm of fire! ***I do not agree with that! I losing words. “On the other of our Empire and our rece de.of the Eas octopus.
enter into competition with our to the thirteen or fourteen of the And how many more would be am neither an alarmist nor a
band, we must guard against cwn productions must no longer Germans, and this in spite of our required to bring the barent pessimist, but I say emphatically
andusself-complresnoy, too much be allowed to enter our market greater numbers and the fact that minimum of ammunition and that is is too early to make soch self-assurance. The Germans, it without paying tax or toll. Wa(our Navy has kept the ass. Of stores required? most a drfcita statement. The Times, should be remembered, are still Petrograd, Oct. 1.-An Immast treat American goods in the all three, only the Nottingham postalate the most complete sur. I think, misconceives the sitas an extremely powerful, deter- mighly army of ions of millions perial Ukase appoints M. Pro- same way Americans treat, and Falmouth were lost doing prise before such a thing becomes tion. The air prétents such mined, and well (quipped enemy. who are not eligible for military topopoff, who is Marchal of the British goods. Each palior work which possibly-I say no oven plausible. Britain remains vast field for operations that especially as regards their Air service, but on whose care the Nobility of the Province of Lim will not decrease the volume of more than possibly might have an island because she cannot be isolated raids will continue to be Servios and its organisation. Our cry, Too Big Code birsk and one of the Vice-Pre- our trade with America, but it been done by airships, The reached on the element of min, made with more or leen dinastyons aim should be so to develop and | you ! ** should ring an a call sidents of the Dams, to be Minie will regulate it and direct it into of course, are the two to which and abe is not less so because it effects on life and property. It strengthen our Air Service in all to so:ion.
ter of the Interior in socorsion more profitable channale, It will Lord Montagu refered. has become possible to reach her is a comparatively easy matter for its branches, that instead of wait- The country needs
those to M. Khovostad, who recently give us a negotiating power sach
In most of the other cases the by air as well as by ass-Gerard enemy airships to steal ungbaerying to be attacked, we shall be millions, and the need is great. retired from the post. Pro- as we do not at personat : pomens, vossels were looking for mine. Firanes in the Observer. ed over England; and, when the in a position to assume the offen. Our brave soldiers, and sailors topopoff belongs to the left wing which will enable us to obtain isyanı ne oltar bostile oraft will win the victory for ma; but of the Osipbrist Party and in con- better Wholland fato the which is was their mimion so
Zappeliusarocquipped with mors Bive, and carry the war into the when they have won it, it is upon aequantly ́s' mamber of the Pro American market Further, it destroy au wail ne so fad. Obvi
powerful engines, efficiently enemy OXIDE There must be milspoed and capable of weather to make our Air Bervios Dorelszing at the most frDBORS the will of a great united people greesiat Block, He is 60 years will enable me za encourage the only the best Zeppelins in exist
ing even storms and other adver16 that the value of the victory will of age. He in keenly interested importation at such goods sa we ence would have been uscises for
atmospheric conditions as they all-powerful, and finanom murt depend, at
in labour legislation, and holds require which do not compete the purpose. The fact which The Government of India will will be the task of our airmen mot be stinted wither for the It is for the people to say and Liberal views on national quest with our own, and in discourage Lord Montage overlooks is that shortly appoint another batch of will be rendered correspondingly station of accepted types of wee that the tentacles of the Hop ions. Be headed the Parliament- she importion of goods which in nine cases out of ten recon assistant surgeons to temporary difficult. To bag to Zippeling
experimental reeesich. potopas shall exercise no premera are deputation to England and em (mada squally, mali Lilbur
"if the Lodian: lade out of a Ta pon the makers of the terms of her Allied countrim this year.“
country by British farb
Hus octopus.
The press has done splendid service to the National cause. Again and again the press has compelled those in power who were pursuing a besitating and half-hearted policy to face the situation in a more sistemanlike
way.
Alliee.
#boald be sufficient
to
national welfare at heart to s
pends.
Millions of braves are fighting:
the Hon abroad. Tatre is a
nood
liverance of civilisation from the
New Russian Minister.
and in order to
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Assistant Surgšana for 1. M. 5.
not
mination."
"But, so I have just indicated, there are diffienities in the way of obtaining this intresse, in
point which, in my opinion, the pile of its admitted urgenos. So I come to my next point, the Press should hammer home,
Destroy Them to Their Nests
"It is this._ The proper plans to tackle the Zeppelina in not on this side of the North Sea; ook when they are over England, but while they are in German o but Bun-occupied territory. Destroy them in their nesta. Destroy them before they reach these until they have dropped their
ebore. To postpone our attick
bombe and fulfilled their devilish ́ ́ mission is infinitely more foolish than locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen.
Strike home and at should be the motto of que Air
Service."
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