BE-ORGANISATION IN.
FRANCE.
RIGID CENSORSHIP IN
Bold and Drastic Changes.
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BELGIUM.
A Prohibition Concerning the
Deportations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
SINO-JAPANESE-
RELATIONS.
Alrs of Superiority Cordemned.
The Tokya Jiji, which ie moat Pario, January 4-The new organisation set up for a mora
A postal onsorship, relating zealous in its advocacy of Siao- #ficient direction of the war may to deported Belgian workers who Japanese friendship, again takes now be considered complete. It died because of forced labour, was up this subject for editorist com- The paper bolds that is obviously important that the established by the Germans, ment.
a cable message mutual respect and equal division nature of this change should according to
thoroughly understood in received from the Belgian Go-of interests are the two essential Eugland.
vernment in Havre, France, by points to be kept constantly in Pierre Mali, the Belgian Onual view in helping the coltivation at New York. A translation of the of Sino-Japanese friendship.
Mr. Mali. It reads:- message was made public by To divide their interests in equal proportions the paper admits, is proposition difficult of realisa- lion, when both parties meet in
The main fault which had been found with the previous organica- tion, as it prevailed since the beginning of the war, can be summed up in three words lack
"Official German record of the military zone in Belgium, ander
of co-ordination. Although date of December 15, publishes a competition and both are desirous
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France was better prepared than set of regulations for the postal of obtaining the larger share of
share of SPLENDID FLAVOUR. Britain for a Continental war, service of the deported workers the profit, but nevertheless the she had not foreseen that such probibiting their mentioning to paper urges that the greatest care war might become at the same their families thair places of most always be taken by each time a long war and an indus work, this seeming to indicate side not to trample on the other's EXEMPTION #al war. The general and, so that they are working for the interests in undertaking any to speak, philosophical view which underlay ber war organisation was therefore that the real direction
some
powers
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German army.
business in ec-operation.
"PENALTIES."
Novel Method of Dealing With Conscience Men.
A Lancashire tribunal has
confcientiona
"A new batch. of deported takinge, between Japanese sad To make ec-operative ander- working people from Ghent were Chinese reciprocal not only in
important to make Sinc-Japanese adopted a novel method in dealing objectore. economic Co-operation both with effective and perpetual. In order Seren Obristadelphiane wera to realise thie, nothing is more recently before them and as a cɔa- desirable than for each party to
dition of exemption they were hold the other in respect. It is an
ordered to costribute £3 12 B undeniable fact that the Chinese week to the Bri ish Red Cross. bove many shortcomings, The amounts vary according which make them contemptible to the positione of the men:, in the eyes of foreigners. Such raster engineer paya 21 weekly, being the case, it may be very a master painter and plumber
15. difficult for the Japanese to com-
treatment given to a respectabla: Chinese gentleman, and a sa- scrupulous Chinese tradesman call for immediate remedy.
chemist's
A
eseistant,
All readily consented to con- tribute to the Red Cross, and the clerk of the tribunal receives the payments panctually each week.
IF YOU FEEL A COLD APPROACHING
preventative.
PINKETTES
of the war must be in the hands of the general commanding returned to Ghent sick, and game bat in reality, it is most the armies in the field, several dying. They tell of great The commander-in-chief
Bring on the German front in expected to end the war in s France, and many death because few months, possibly in a few of exhaustion from forced labour." weeke, by conducting a quick campaign. He was to bave a free hand in everything, the Govern- ment and the War Office con- faing themselves to supplying ister for "Armaments and Fab the mosne of action be might riostione," he will not be allowed require.
to accept important suggestions Owing to the energy and skill from the Commander-in-Chief, or of the men in command from the to make any, without the consent pletely abandon their contem-echoolmaster and joiner 10s, each, first this system proved more of the Minister of War. The only ptuous sttitude towards the clerk 53., and a ubip's labourer: satisfactory than might have been point on which, for convenience Chinese in a short time, but the 2d. 63. expected in a war where the cake, he will be in direct touch tendency among the Japaness to manufacture of shells and gone with the Army will be for the treat everything pertaining to bad bome as important a factor purpose of picking out men who the Chinese with contempt and as the management of the troops bare to be withdrawn from the to make no discrimination in the on the Geld. Still, so the war front and sent to the factories. went on, the original misconcep- The same concentration of tion was in danger of becoming power asde os regards the head barmful. The Government on cf the war has been also extended the one side, the GQ G. on the to the internal constitution of Another point the Tokyo journal ather, tended to become like two every war department. For in- desires to recommend to the atteaa hot bath at bad-time and a dose friendly States, the exact relation stance, M. Albert Thomas will not tion of the Japanese Government of Pinkettes, the little gentle-as- ship of which was not clearly only control, as he did, the manu. and people is that they should nature laxatives, form the best defined. The Government stood facture of guse and shelle, but be tako a dynamic, instead of a static, more or less for the economic will be responsible for the whole view of the Chinese people. and diplomatic side of the war, equipment (material) of the Army, Hitherto, Westerners as well se the bigh command for the military including the Air Service. He will Japanese have regarded the Chia- aide; and it was found dificult be allowed to utilise all the in-jese as a nation incompetent to to reconcile the points of view. dostrial resources of the country, secure its own development, and dispel Constipation, BiliouraESE, Inside the Government itself the not only the mines, but also the have attempted to solve all Chinese torpid liver, sick beadsches, and War had been water-power, which was formerly questions in accordance with this Chemists, or 60 cents the phial, clear the completion, Of. Minister of disposessed of
of under the Minister of Agriculture. interpretation. The China of the from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., his normal
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What will now be the position present day, however, is not to be 08 Szechnen Rd., Shanghai. the appointment of a number of of the Commander-in-Chief as re-regarded in this light. The Secretaries of State, some of whom gards the central directing power? mental change that has taken wers in direct touch with the Is there any fear that the new place among the Chinese people commander-in-chief. Other in-organisation will go to other of the middle-class and above stances of the same lack of co-extrames and allow the Govern since the First Revolution is too ordination" might be quoted.ment to interfers with the con- marked to be left out of con- Petty troubles of every mort duct of operations?
Fideration. The prevailing condi- threatened to arise only because, Of conren, it cannot be dispat. tions among them, indeed, show while there WAS an efficiented that the Commander-in-Chief that they are no longer to be organisation at the front, there will be somewhat leas omnipotent regarded as an inactive people. was no strong directing power in Juan he used to be. Formerly It is, of coures, impossible to say Paris. The reforms which bare no new programme of guss or whether, as the result of this mem- just been made a intended to shells could be initiated by tal change, the Chinese will Albert Thomas. He had only to accomplish important reforms, create that strong direction.
The first step was the same sa comply with the requirements of or will throw themselves into a in London. It consisted in creat- the "Army as they were com- more confused condition by re ing a war committee of five, who unicated to him by the G.QG. resting unnecessary domestic dia- A were to be responsible for the The decres of December 31, torbances, but it is indisputable" general management of the war. 1916, now empowers M. Thomas that they are gradually emerging. The second step, however, was to prepare tuch programmes on from a static into a dynamic state, somewhat different from what his own initiative and to carry It will probably not be wide of reeme to have been done in Great them into effect after he has the mark to predict that China Britain. Complete unity of direc- obtained the consent of the will make remarkable develop tion has been sweared by making Minister of War. He also gains ment in variona directions, thanks General Lyautey, the Minister of the right to control the technical to the earnest efforts of her War, the real head of the war. use of the artillery at the front. people, in the near future.
This does not mean that the Bat it will be seen that there' This may be taken as too vague Minister of War will have over changes are only reistive to the view by some people, the Tokyo i colleagues in the War Com-industriel side of the war. paper remarks, but it is a mstler mittee a sort of dictatorial power. So far as the operations them for regret that no great import- Bat it has been publicly announc-elves are concerned, General ance is attached by the Japanese ed that, whatever the decisions Nivelle will remain as inde- to this mental change among the may be which are reiched by pendent as General Jeffre ever Chiness, and that they continue the committee of five, the was, Moreover, the well-known to look down upon them. The Minister of War will be re-record of General Lysatey is the journal fears that such an attitude sponsible for their execution as beet guarantee that the Minister may coat Japan very dear. far as the Army is concerned. of War, while being the most The paper actes with admira- Even the Prime Minister himself responsible man in France for tion that such a superficial view will not be able benosforth to the direction of the war, will of the Obiosse is no longer taken sammons & commander-in-chief never attempt to interfere in by the Westerners, especially by on the Western front or in strategical and tactical questions, Americans, who are now studying Elonics in order to discuss the which ought to be entirely in the Chine with much more care and Mondant of the war. Government handa of the leader of the armies minuteness, as the many essays
instructions to the commanders- in the field.
and books regarding China
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