MORE GERMAN, ALLEGATIONS.
Alleged Misuse of Hospital
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Amsterdam, Feb. 1-Accord ing to the Cologne, Gasetts the following memorandum
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"For a considerable time past the enemy Governments, especial-
lies in the fact that the British and French Governments in ng- merous osses have allowed their troops to be transported by hospital ships. Moreover, on
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American Trade with Chias. various occasions the arming (Candian) Boss rife is given in dent of the Boston Manitor tale- Correspondence relating to the
The San Francisco correspon. of oh ships has been a White Paper published, on Jan- graphed on. February 3:—-An established. The reports of nary 30, from which it appears carasat effort for the asgotiation the informante and witnemen that the War Ofios decided last of a mentioned in the annex form only July to exchange, the rifles of the between the United States and small part of the material before 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions China, which it is expected will Banks the German Government. Of these for the Lee-Enfield pattern, and be the means of incressing the persons a sumber could not be asked the Canadian Government trade between the two countries mentioned by name because they not to allow any more of the is about to be made by the Chin North Chinas ars directly or indirectly within Boss pattern to be brought to see Six Companies and lead- the enemy's power; and sharefore England.. | any mention of their names-would expose them to heavy reprisals Headquarters last Jane Lord McNab, counsel for the Six Com-
In a letter dated from General ing Chinese citisent in this Yanglazes
country, according to John L Inc
scany - cane, as far as the French tells how, on hearing panies, who outlined the plan in China Fires ly the Britiib, have oned their German Government hospital ships not only for render-concerned, it
in that there was a growing want an interview with a reportar. The entertaing no of confidence in this rifle, and matter has already been taken up ing assistance to wounded, sick, doubt that enemy Governments that the infantry of the Canadian with Mr. Wa Ting-fang, Sears. Douglases and shipwrecked, but for military have continually parpores, thereby violating. The growly violated by their be opportunity of exchanging their Chins, and Mr. McNab, who is Indos (Def.) most Division were taking every tary of State of the Republic of Steamboats Hague Convention. Concerning baviour the Hague Convention rifles for those of the Lee-Enfield himself interested is the under-indos (Pref.) the application of the Geneva Con- The German Government would pattern from casualties on the taking, will later go to Washing Ferries vention on War at Sea, suspicion be justified, in view of the housch | bustlefold, he gave instructions ton in the fartherance of the idea. had alraady been monted by the of iretien by the onsmyn for the rifle to be tested by "A great handicap to the devel- fact that the British Government renouncing the agreement in ita; small committee. during the Gallipoli campaigns entirely, bat on the grounds of had notified to the Governments humanity it will still refrain frommittee were laid before him an countries," maid Mr. MoNsb, "has
The proceedings of this com- good feeling between the two Malabons
apment of trade relations...and Sugars. of the Quadruple Allianos a dia- such course. On the other the era of a serious offensive been the treatment sccorded the Kailans proportionately large number of hand, it osn vosso1n as hospital ships, which she British Government, ander Division was to take part, and he students and others who are ex- Raubs
no longer permit operation in which the Canadian Chinese merchants, travellers, Langiats could not possibly have been meant the hypoaritical COTOR to serve exalusively for the trans the Red Cross, to send without that over 3,000, or more than they land here, by our immigra
of was at the same time informed titled to enter this country, when Tronohis port and nursing of wounded and danger to the transport, troopa one-third, of the infantry of this tion authorities. This treatment Rick.
and munitions to the main theatre division had already ancoeeded in of which complains is made. Thus in 1915 alone got less of war. It therefore declares thet re-arming themselves with the i – than 69 vessels were notified by henceforth it will tolerate no Lee-Enfield rifle without any confinement at immigration head. Kowloon Docks b.
прессвайму delay the British Government to be enemy hospital ship in the o suthority baving been given for quarters, under pretext of examin-Shai Docks hospital ships after you had since area between lines drawn between them to do so, the outbreak of war already given | Flamborough Head and Terschel notios that forty other vessels ling on the one side, and Ushant opinion of his committee that the Chinese do not ask to have the Centrals
ation or inquiry into the right Looking to the ananimons of the individual to land. The were hospital ships. After the and Land's End on the other. If Ross rifle could not be relied coolie class admitted to the H.K. Hotels victorious termination. of the after a suitable period of grace upon to work smoothly and United States, but when one of Land Invest, b. Gallipoli campaign the Turkish enemy hospital ships are still efficiently in rapid fire with say the class that may legally enter H'phreys Est. Government notified
neutral encountered in this ares, they will ammunition other than that of the United Staice Powers in a Note of protest be regarded that British commanders had and attecked out of hand. The French did not feel justified in vised papers, they expect that he
sa belligerente Canadian manufacture, Lord himself here with ared hospital ships which were German Government considers ending the division into battle shall be admitted without hind-
properly West Points in the Eastern Mediterransan that it can proosed to this measure with the Roos rifle, and ordered for transporting back troops all the sooner as the route from the re-arming of the infantry of long been made of the action of Kung Yike and military stores.
rance or delay. To this the west and south of France to the division with the Lee-Enfield our immigration officials in this 'hal Cottons
"Complaint has Ewos must be added the fact that the the west of England remaine free rifle, which was carried out before regard, and the San Francisco Yangtazepoos British Government, contrary to for enemy hospital ships, and they went into zotion. He og Chamber of Commerce, after a arul custora, did not equip therefore the transport of wond-gested that the Army Council thorough investigation of the Borneos certain ships once and for all as ed English to their homes c should send out qualified ex-matter, has forosfully protested Chins Light & P. b. hospital ships and use them as proceed as formerly unhindered. perta to make the necessary to the United States Government, such for the duration of the wAT, but repeatedly placed a vessel on
Providents Conte ander service conditions against what it regards as unjust Dairy Farms A British Reply, the list of hospital ships and
Sir Douglas Haig wrote on May treatment of the Chinese, The Green Islands London, February 1.-The 28 from France to the War Office, Chinese Consul here was not long H. K. Ice Co., shortly afterwards struck her cf
H. K. Electrics secretary of the Admiralty makes stating that after extensive in- thelist so that the German Govern- the following announcement :—¡quiries he had satisfied himmelt go removed bessum of his acti.. ment was hardly able to send
In a German wireless press|that ;-
vity in seeking better treatment Steel Foundries D
Ropes corresponding information to ita. naval forces. Thus, for instance, allegations are repeated, only in less traetworthy than the Lee-Mr. McNab, be
momage, circulated to-day, the
of his countrymen." The matter Trams, Low Level b. "Ass Service rifle, the Bots is will now, however, socording to Trams, Peak, old n the steamer Copenhagen, which faller detail, that it is the practice Enfield, and that the majority of directly was employed by the British
faken ap Trams, Peak, new n. Government as transport, & abute the immunity hitherto have not the confidence in it that should
of the British Government to the men armed with the Ross rifle and
Washington, Laundries notified in a verbal Note by the corded to hospital ships, and to it is so essential they should satisfactory to
Way that U. Waterboats b. & sa. $16 United States Embasay in Berlin, employ them for the conveyanos preces
lead to reaalta Watsons
b. & sa. $61 on Oct. 142, 1814, to be of troops and their equipment, these conclusions are based was that other countries gladly wel-
The inquiry on which in both countries. It is asserted Morning Posts n
all concerned Wm. Powells hospital ship, while on February The message includes a particular the outcome of an urgent applies- some the same class of Ühinemo 6, 1915, she was again declared to reference to the hospital ship tion from a battalion of the 3rd that, it is said, we admit grodg- be struck off the list, in orden to be Britannic, which is said to have Canadian Division for rearma ingly, and that this discrimins replaced orcs more on the list on carried 2,500 British soldiers who ment with the short Lee Enfield tion has diverted trade from the January 1, 1916, and again to be were not invalide, on the sworn rifle, in consequence of a high United States to the extent of track of on March 4, 1916.
testimony of an Austrian singer percentage of jams experienced many millions of dollars annually. This procedure clearly produced named Albert Messany, who, with their Ross rilles daring It is said that Chinese trade to the impression that it was intend- ed to creste uncertainty and con: had been interned in Malta, and
the culbreak of war, hostile attack on May 1." fasion regarding the character of had returned to England in dian Government it is pointed
In a telegram from the Cans involved in the question.
the value of $150,000,000 a year the vessels thus employed by November 1916, on board the out that the Ross rifle was the permitting the peaceful or war hospital ship Britannic. like character of vessels to be whole message is a tiseus of false-equipped to produce in daasde in England, which prohibit the Demand
The only arm they were at that time emphasised according to require hood, and the only tras statement It is added: "We believe it to importation of a long list of goods 30 dia.
The recent regulations enacted T/T .............................. ments. Moreover in 1915numerous in it was attributed to the fact be efficient if properly handled, of various sorte, is a serious blow 60 din. trustworthy reports reached the the he was brought home in the bat are content to abide by the to Japan, especially as silk goods 4m/... 2/4 5/16 German Government that British Britannic, as he was an invalid Commander-in-Chief's judgment are included. The ban on habu hospital ships in the Channel, which had to embark at Frenched for this very reason.
at the time, and repatriat-after thorough investigation and ports and bring to English porte may be expected the German
As adequate tests."
tai will cut down a part of the wounded men of the British Press messages at this moment letter from Sir Douglas Heig the 10 as a large proportion of the Demand, India
Following receipt of a farther export trade from Japan to Amer- Army fighting on Franco-Bel- are filled with false statements of War Offee notified the High States are for re-export to Eng- gium soil, were laden in a strik- this kind in order to manufacture Commissioner for Canada that land. With the outward move-TIT Java
goods shipped to the United T/T Ban Francis-1 ingly beavy manner on their
a pretext for the latest methods of they proposed to exchange the ment of these goode stopped, T/T Mark............ No. journey from England to France, warfare Bonounced by Germany.rifles of the 2nd and 3rd Canadian serious situation will be the result. T/T France
hile on their return journey It cannot too emphatically be Divisions for the Lee-Enfield pat- The Fatai products alone, says Demand, Paris they were of normal draught. restated that on no occasion, since tern, and steps would be taken the Japan Times, contribute about From this circumstance various the beginning of the war, have forthwith to carry out the ex-85 per cent, of the whole export 4 m/s. L/O observers, especially saa paptains, concluded that the vessels were 50 but invalids and hospital staff change. The letter adds :- misusing the Red Cross in their H, M. hospital ships,
been embarked on board any of
"I am to say that in the circum daily output of the Fakai
to the English markets.
4 m/s. D/F sianoce the Army Council hope mills is estimated at pasngs to France, being used as
* 6 mia, L/O munition transports on the out-
to be able to utilise the Boa
2,000 30 din. Bydney & ward journey. This aurmies waE
rifles released by the troops in
piecas and it дон folde Melbourne... later confirmed by a number of
France, and also those now it bring about a standstill incurring
cannot be obtained it may 30 dis. Ban Franc-} unaxceptions.ble witnesses-Eng-
possession of the Canadian troops low to the manufacturers and
inood NewYork Col. Lord Bargh, commanding in England, for other purposes the workers. Even if a limited 4 min. Francs lish soldiers often admitted that the
4 m/s. Marks 3rd Battalion Gordon connected with the war, but they hospital ships were thus em-Highlanders (about three times would be glad if stepe could be export to England can be obtain-Demand, Germany ployed, and a French sergeant the strength of an Gold a German prisoner that he battalion), in indignant with the this pattern being brought 10 for each shipment will create Demand, Bombay... Nom.":
ordinary uken to stop any more rifes of, still the necessity of getting Demand, New York. 55% isarly observed how munitions Aberdeen teetotal oranks for their England, it being understood
licenses from the Board of Trade TT Bombaymen the hospital ship La France nicious and misleading literature thereby make themselves respon-fook to the United States as its Demand, Manila e carried during the night to audacity in circulating their por- that the Army Council would rouble; therefore, says the Tokyo T/T Calcutta in numerous motor oats while shaamongst his mou-professing to ibla for applying the necessary
paper, it remains for Japan to Demand, Calcutta... Nom. was lying in Marseilles Harbour. give the number of those in rifles to the troops from Canada Brities sailors, socording to the uniform "observed" to enter in on arrival in England, and they
premier onstomBT.
Demand, Singapore. 99}{ declaration an oath of a trust public houses. Saya Lord Burgh:es no resson to doubt their
On Haiphong.
prem. worthy neutral, said that the "A case of drankenness occurs being able to do this.
On Baigon... 241⁄2 prem. hammapart of munitions to Francs perhaps three times in a month--
On Bangkok.. 66 prodused in America for the Sovereign 8.50 Nom, by the English we often carried sometimes not that it is the most should the Canadian Government the best ces te adopt. This riffs Bar Silver, peĽOR 3874
*** I am commsailed to add that, British Army would probably be Gold Leafy per ca. 48.209 out is hospital ships: Finally, sober battalion in the world and." | be desirous of undertaking the is on the lines of the Ins Enfold, there are available, declarations, adda kis Lordship, with just wraib, manufacture of a rifle of a diferent Mark 111, bat ba bad embodied† SUBSIDIARY COINS.
oath by eye-witna who "prohibition is required for the pattern than the Rose, and suit- in it many improvements which vara epsotatars as to how mant people who have the impadunosable for use during the present have been arrived at in connection Lions were loaded on board to circulate such a pamphlet. Youwar, and wish for the Army with a new pattern rifle which hoepfial ship
may make such uses of this letter Connoil's opinion on skin wabjant The most grievous violation of as 3 on see fit,”
Army Council wern, about to the Hague Convention, however, 'graph.---John Bull.
Hence this para- it is shougat that write andato naops just batoes, the outbreak at
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