FUTURE OF GERMAN SHIPPING.
Herr Ballin's Misgivings.
The following letter is publish ed by the Daily Chronicle as an "intererpted letter"!--
To Herr Privy Councillor, Dr.
Ratbeano, Berlin.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1918,
But if I am concerned about THE ECONOMIC WEAPON, our relations with the Taited States, I am still more anxious about our relations with Britain. I realise se never before that all she increase in our wealth, all the success, which attended our enter- prizes in the years before the
PAPER WASTERS.
How It can" Haston Victory.
New Economy Campaign in
*H.M. Stationery Office.
DRAMA UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Plays at the Front.
haring the best mente reserved for their age.
as I was Orderly Sargeant, so
left the shack to Father Kully.
I should have has more seKNO
So far we have no footlights though the ambitions" bays been as I found out afterwardu to my | heard to hint at them; our light, cost. The men, most of them, Cicale Hamilton writes in the ing resources are a couple of gas-weet to communion, and that Daily Chronicle as follows: brackets and three or four lamps meant that they were fasting so The New Republic, s most
A few years ago the title, barning oil and haug from the when the service was at an end War was owing to our intercourse influential political weekly Major Stenson Cooks, secretary T.M.O.A. Theatre," would have ceiling. The pisos has its defects Father Kelly told them to hunt with the British Empire. Her periodical in America, which of the Automobile Association founded to many like a contradios very surely but it has this imme-around and get something to eat. home ports, her Dominions and gives independent support to Mr. and Controller of Supplies at the don in terms; nowadays the surable compensation from the That in a dining shack when the Colonies were freely opened to Wilson, contains the following National Service Department, theatre, like numerous other point of view of the actor: he has miss sergeant was out! Geel our shippers and traders. Some suggestire article on the use now preparing for brisk institutions, has come within the get to do his best and his utmost, they did heat round the kitchen, Hamburg, Deo 4, 1917. ity, and even called it fally. Is economic weapon in subicing the Stationery Office, where
times I wondered at this genere-which the Allies can make of the campaign of economy in Hope of the Bad Triangle-which since be gets little help from his and made some meal of the grab he is parreyor of the drama in surroundings. And the audience, that was intended for dinner. never When I came back and enw.what it to be imagined for a moment enemy :-
to have control of Somewhere in France as well as which comes atsedily, You honour me in seking me that those old relations will
cow department. There are some of cigarties and tes. "Concerts grumbles at shortcomings; it had happened Icleared on the to express an opinion regarding return ?
The chance of any improvs Government departments, it is at the Front" has developed into does without scenery and effects, men quicker than they were ever the probable courts of our
ment in the political control over I am not to be expposed, dear Germany which will permit the has bean reduced considerably the Y.M.C.A. provides the set-luxuries in these days of war, and natural, Bat Father Kelly was
true, where extravagance in paper
"Plays at the Front," "for whichaa it does without many other cleared out of maywhere in their roonemie policy after the war. Herr Geheimrat, as sying ons beginning of peace negotiation daring the part year. The Pressing. The dramatic companies/famalt. It accepts the one stage ¦ out of it before I come, and look. But I cannot do this in say retic word in favour of Britain's policy has been impaired and postponed, Bureau affords one example of at the T.M.C.A. huts are part of cloth and the two familiar chairs | job for him too. If he was still the brief compsee cfaletter. Al/in this war, I believe that she and the alternative to each nethis. Bat it is still the general the "Concerts at the Front"-and belpa cat the plays with there I'd have told him some-i I can do is jot down a few for a moment do I believe in her making every preparation to fight/xperience of, those who have work organised by Miss Lena make-believe.
My Dear Herr Gebeimrat,
factory or sufficient way within
|entored it from base motives. Not
gotiations, which consiste in
•
thing."
thoughts that strike me as being humanitarianism, her alleged
For the most part of the audi The mess sergent was silent on until the German satoorsey
dealings with officialdom that Ashwell. applicable to the present serious desire to liberate or protect small will admit its own defest, must be at quantities of paper are meed
The parveying is done naderence in the little theatre is in for a moment, his eyebrowa situation. I moet ery at once that nationalities. Britain is a greedy accepted without flinching. Dur
annecessarily.
varied conditions in buts, in khaki, with a plentiful sprinking drawn together, his lipe tightly neither in this city nor in say and necropalona Pener, as all ing the coming winter the Ameri
inolenched. En wie dwelling on The Ministry of Food is balle, in theatres. In ita ambitions of pureen and VA De much-criticised offender. Only moments our repertory company uniform, a smaller sprinkling of the indignity which had been
nothing advocated which can be Germans, car anspeakable Press, against Germany, mast consider
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"But Father Kelly is not each
on brik irade and manufactures whole fature of car economic crifices-acrifices which will people, for instance, are using squeeze) and is the scene of most small service. In whatever garb beck in America. When he left
them.
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other part of the country do I find her past history proves, but now can natior, which alone among Jesterday a member of a local performa on a real stage with horizon blue, and here and there heaped on his establishment. But a definite or well-corceived plant am only dealing with the fact the Allies is capable of increasing food committee complained of scenery-in the town playhouse, Tery noticeable by contrastin moment his face cleared. of action for the re-establishmen that by our conduct of this war, the energy, 800pe, and efficiency the quantity of paper used for which is hired for special oc-/the garb of the French nivilian, of after-war economic relation by the insenante folly of our Pan- of its military and economic war the purposes of instruction and casiona-bat for more general The English-speaking Frenchļa bad fellow," be said in a mel.... adopted without grave misgiving we have turned her inborn die carefully how much more it can guidance from the Ministry, parposes there are the bot plat-contingent is regular in its cult lower tone than he had used be as to its fesaibility. Most of what like of as into a loathing so colo, contribute to the defeat of Germany private persons and com- forms and a makeshift theatre of of the drama, and as is the way fore."He's straight as a dis and- we read in the newspapere stand fierce, and lasting a Bom man aggression, our preparedness for embarking times to make me tremble for the undoubtedly demands greater
The crisis mercial concerns are setting & our own. This accommodates a of the Frenchman-most graces good man.
good example. Many society hundred and fifty
fally appreciative of the actor's "He was well liked in his churob, (with
as soon as peace has been con-
existence, cluded is, I fear, written with the
of our productions." Beginning it comes we have no reason to be there to come cat to France his strain to the limit American balf sheets of notepaper. Consider what we are risking. resources, wrench to pieces our manifest intention of heartening We look forward to resuming our inherited economic and social
ss an artist's studio left derelict, discontented with our audience, congregation made a collection it was taken over as a concert and which is kindly,makes allowancer, and gave him s pils of money. He our people for atual coonomien trade. We build car proudest practices and institutions, and like an adequate supply of cotton, been raised and curtained, and the economise paper by sharing its be spent it all in making
lecture hall; now the stage has sad obeya.. the injunelion to took it and when became out here ignorant of conditions and all that threstere Fectations on this. How are test as never before the moral
we to resume it in. face of an endurance and the political good wool, silk, leather and inte, of concerts and lectures are varied programmes with its neighboure. big recreation hat for the men.
animal and vegetable fate, of by frequent plays. „
Raskip, I imagine, would Any soldier can go there; it Take, for example, that branch Anglo-Saxondom which loaths faith of the individus} America0|labricsting oil, of tes, coffee and f
and must loathe out presence oitiran.
The Company, as far as the approve of the manner in which doesn't matter what the man'i of commerce with which I am
among them? Do our fools of
cocos, of copper, tir, nickel and women are concerned, is pro- or theatre isran, of the thorough creed is, Father Kelly will make supposed to be familiar-ship Chauvinists realise that we have! Grave the situation other even more indispensable fessional; the men, for the most going initiation into every branch him welcome.
"One thing he's very hot on What sorry lies have been pink.
part are amateure, with socasion-of the theatrical industry which is disbed up to car people on the hardly a port at which cur shipedcabtedly is, however, it heee metsle.
can call and where a friendly less discoanging sapect, to which She cannot replenish these ally an actor furned soldier and required of the members of the and that is hygiene. He will talk eabject! Coe reade of the welcome will be extended to during the prevailing gloom in supplies without the consent of quartered within reach of the company. We are not merely for hours on end on the Germ resounding hammerstrokes of riveters as they work at the Southampton, Gibraltar, Molts, The Germans themselves fally replenish tea she will not be in these days come before the own carpentering, we type our cleanliness.
them! Dover, Falmouth, and sufficient attention is being paid. her adversaries. Until she does theatre. The needs of the Army store, far from it; we do our Theory of Disesse, sanitation and creation of new leviatbars for our and Alexandria, Aden, the Persian realise the limited valus nf a able even to demobilise her needs of the stage; hence the o programute, we draw up our He's a regular Board of Health, overseas commerce, Hamburg Galf, Bombay and Colombo, successful ffensive against Italy armies and return her soldiers to producer must always bear in own advertisements, we make our is Father Kelly, It's common Bremerhaven, Danzig, 8 etti.
the men that are supposed to be buzzing with Singapore and Hongkong what and the impossibility of Legotiat civil life. She will be dependent mind the possibility of changes own raide on our neighbours talk song
bay; Vichy water to shipbuilding. Not long ago one
re they? Great British arsenale, ing a separate peace with any bat upon bar present enemies for raamroget the male members of a rooms and bear off their forniture he journal seserted that nearly 400, aval bases, coaling stations, autocratic Bussian Govero:tions, without which the normal ozet. Removal; when it comes, for the stage. There is so hard aah himself in. But the rattling 000.rove were almost ready for repairing decke, in which we dere ment. By means of political and process of industry cannot will probably be sudder; indie and fast division of labour; the best thing about Father Kelly
not show our faces if Britain so military cacoesses-of this kind be resumed, without launching! And there is hardly will. It is the same around the they can prolong the war, they ber... people will
which pensatle actors may vanish with leading lady will wrestle with the was a couple of months ago when be famish-out warning and the "Area" mechanism of a refractory curtain he first came to France. We s vestige of truth in say of only Africax continent, the same in the can embarrass the efforts of the ed, her growth stunted, and her know them no more, leaving while the acting manager collecte were quartered in a little village statements. Our yarda are only West Lodies and in the Pacific Allied armies to drive them out existenos reduced to a squalid hapless stage managers with their the properties and the comedian as old as the hills, and there was working for the navy, and as for
an old church there, made hun- other ships, we have not the We have not a couling station of of France, they may even double bant for mere.animsi necessities, plans upset and the realities of kaccka in nails.
Ose slight disadvantage the dreds of years ago. In this church material or accommodation, and, our own, not a place where we the price which their enemies will There is no way in which she can warfare brought home to them.
can efect repairs. Yet in face of have to pay for a military decision, escape from ber really awful pre- The scenery and effete of our theatre possesses; 38 a structure. there was a statue of the Blamed above all, we have not the nece this-a most deadly serious state but they cannot themselves win dicsment, except aatheresalt if a miniature theatre are simple, and The space at the back ofthe stage Virgin, and people from all over sary labour, skilled and or akilled.
the war. The submarine has been separate pesca with Russia, and its regular frequenters gone ereje extremely limited, and it is France aged to come and visit it. of fairs we go on piling P for some time their.only possible even such a pesce would only very regular must know by this therefore necessary to drese for It was said to cure them of disease Believe me when I say that our offence on offence. ».
Father Kelly Mercantile Marine is in a perilone. Bot we daat beat England, you weapon of victory, and it has bring with a partial escape. time that when they see the two the performs are elsewhere. Far and sickness. condition. The Bill to re establish Fay, no matter what the cense- almost certainly failed. Ite uae Russia cannot supply Germany (ehabby) brocaded chairs they are her, as the one and only exit to held service in this church, and strengthen it whica is now quences. I agree. All I say is imposes a heavy burden upon the either with the raw materials or looking on the domicile of a well-rear is a window giving access to and he fell in love with before the Reichsing, even if that whether we best her or she resources of the Allies, but it is the markets which are necessary to-do family; and that the two a river, it is necessary for the the old status. It was perched psened in its entirety, will show beats us, the consequences will burden which is likely to diminish for the future economio prosperity tash-bottomed ditta are a sign company, when dressed, to pro- on a stand to the left of the sliar, no results for at last five years, be the same disaster to our and which they are for the present of the German people. She needs that the home is humble. This ceed through the front of the and it had been there for bood- and it is in these five years that oversees trade if Britain so wille capable of bearing.
for her recuperation the aid of saves trouble, and, from the very house. Disguised in oreroosts reds of years. People with small it. We may, in the event of Latelligent Germans. our fate will be most adversely
fally Great Britain and the United rise of the cartsin, induces a they scatle up the gangway-topox, ringworm and other disessee influenced. What will not our victory, impose all sorts of understand the serious conse- States, the eszentially maritime proper frame of mind. (Itaboold the gratification of early comere, used to come there and touch it, most gaences to themselves of the powers, and antil that aid in here be explained that, owing to who are rewarded for their and if accounts ate trae they got great maritime competitors make conditions securing us of these five years-Great Britain, favoured-nation treatment, secur- change in the balance of economic extorted er promised all her the limited dimensions of the punctuality by a foretsete of what cared of their ailments. I wan all covered with dobrabe. the Etates, Japan? What willing as free entry into British power which took place when military victories cannot remove stage, the presence of unnecessary
wobwebs grown sacred by the nat centrale make of them- porta everywhere. No sane man America entered the war. They the real danger to her fatare faraiture is not encouraged and that only in cases of extreme neutrale who have enormously believes that these conditions will realise how far the consequent prosperity.
passing of ager. But Fiber- concentration of economic power Thie economic weapon, power urgency ia
Kelly liked i He liked B 80. added to their receive capital help or Norway, Denmark, Holland ? I And just one point more, and in the hands of their enemies coiful se it is, sofera, however, from armchair permitted). Lazcions
maoh that he took it down and zentralises it is perhaps quite as Periote: only
their almoet despair when I think haw
own one handicap. It can be used to earroundings and the open air ars
washed it with brown soap and hot water. different it all might have been. With a hostile British Empire, victories, but confers upon the neutralise German victory, but it like denoted by a curtain; hence, TOLL and 1, dess Herr Privy galled and fretted with our Allice, if not the anhtitute for a cannot be need any more effective- a distinot, it partially unconscious,
"But that's Father Kelly right Councillor, were sever advocates military success, raging at its military decision, at least an ally than it is now being need to predilection on the part of the noyed, and being annoyed he said through. He would send the robos of this fatal policy of unrestricted losses, hopelessly alienated, how ternative to it.
compel the Germans to stop company for playe which do not angry words as he sat in front of on the Figure on the Stater af While high Ge.men military fighting. Whatever the ultimate need either exterior ecened or the field kitchen and smoked his Liberty to a laundry, eabmarine warfare. You will are we to procure the raw material
ember how I went to Berlin to which this Empire alone can authorities admit the ineficacy of ffect of the blockade, they possess setting of extreme magnificence. pipe of Amerisen plag. In such
"He went up with the battalion geek to stay the hand of the supply? You have studied this apparently decisive victories to apparently all the supplice which The cartain expedient, by its a hemour I found him as I went to the trenches the other day, authorities. I begged them to question, and I era care of your produce their ascal political they need for the present to equip very simplicity, is dall; the for my walk on a certain Sunday went out with the men on a rfect, sad they told me the agreement. You do not believe in results, cqually eminent economic and to provide sufficient sub preminary joy of a production lies forenoon through the old French wiring party, and felt very country insisted on it. This was the silly sesertion that after the authorities, such as Neumann and sistence
for their civil and largely in the tinkering and town in which an American sorry that he was a chaplain not time. I pointed out how it war there British markets for raw D... Dernberg, testily to the military population.
arrangement of the stage, in the Brigade was stationed.
without arms when the Germana Would inevitably draw the material will be open to ne. Where effective means of exercising "The economic weapon must in marshalling of our mesgre I bad met the mess sergeant attacked the party. On the United States into the conflict. are we to preare dar supplices of pressure on Germany, which the the case of Germany work in part resource in a desperate attempt before. In frot be bad invited next morning when the row They poohpooked me, smiled at jute if not from India? If we concentration of ecosomic and through a grinding process of at realism. All sorts sad con me several times to breakfact in was at an end it was discovered the States and scorned her threat. are driven from Afries, where are financial power in the hands of attrition, in part through aditions of persons take part in his hut. I was pleased with the that a wounded GermBA WAS Do they mile now? Let me tell me to seek our full supplies of the Western Alliee brings with it. quickening among Germans of this tinkering and marshalling; a invitation and took full sdvantage lying in No Man's Land. The yea that in my opinion the entry rubber, palm kernels, and copra? The realisation of the way in the desire for peece, and in part French landscape painter was of his kindness; Breakfast in the Hineys were sweeping our para- of the United States into "this What a prospect! Within the which this power can be used through an increase of their fear recently enlisted to smest colour hotel at which I was staying was pet with machine guna, and it struggle may spell absolute disas British Empire ate produced after the war to the injury, perhaps of the inevitable economic penal on a door marofactured by an on the Continental plan, embrac was dangerous for a man to put
countless articles on which we to the rain, of Germany causes ties of prolonging hostilities. Itarobiteot tumed carpenter. ter for us.
ing nothing more exciting than his head over the sandbags. Our people have little or no have hitherto relied, and which statesmen more apprehension will gradually peregade them to The costume difficulty is acute coffee and breid.
Suddenly however, a man who knowledge of the American char will be indispensable in the fatore than the combined military pay a higher prics for they felt on cocasions. Not that our "You do not seem to be in a way looking through a periscope acter. You and I have coada a if we are to swim and not to sink. power of all their enemies. opportunity of negotiating, and audience is greatly more ercating good humour, sergeant," I said noticed & figure crawling out moat careful study of it. What Wool from South Africa and In eo fares the war is prolonged in the end this price can be raised in the matter of costume than it as I came up to the field kitchen, from our line towards the staff our publicists and journalists Australis, spelter, walfram, nick- the economic issue grows in to any reasonable figure-soy is in the matter of scenery; but "It's that Father Kelly, the wounded man. This orayling, write about their Mammon worel, cobalt, and end less more. That importance and the economic figure, that is, which does not our wardrobe at present is Catholic Chaplain who has gare was an American soldier. ship, their greed, their envy of great x mpire, is self-contained, weapon in potential power. deprive them saber quently of the limited, and the men are a real annoyed me," said the mosa. It was Father Kelly. He got other ratione, their lack of and we are not. And all the Modern fighting involves a do- essentials of national security and trouble. Where every male lives sergeant. He came to me this to the German, lifted him discipline Oh, that blessed word military victories, and all the wildstraction of raw materiala an- growth..
and tooves in khaki it is so good morning just when breakfast was on his shoulder and carried bim disciple! You and I know that will ofthe wisps about" Hamburg precedented in
Bat it will take a long time to sending your sotor out to borrow at an end. “Can I hold service in in. Even the Germens were soeur- the Americans are probably the to Bagdad" will not help us. I history. A condition of famine subdue the German ruling class garments from his friends; he the dining eback?" he asked me, prised at the sot that they forgot most idealistic Dsion on the remain, my dear Geheimrat, &c., is coming into existence daring to a sufficiently accommodating might just as well stick to his own as you like, Father, Isaid. "But to fire until the chaplain got back
ALBERT BALLIF. the war which is compelling the state of mind; and daring this slothes which will probably fit I thought that you were going to again to asfety, earth's surface. We know that
anxious and careful husbanding interval the German Government him better. Local theatrical do the business in the recreation Our Colonel went up to Father they would not have entered the liste of our fors had they had suy The will of the Rev. William of existing sources of supply. will not scquiesce patiently in the costumier there is none; bat the room. The esrpenters are busy Kelly when he came in. doubt as to the justice of their George Halse, of Bridlington, wary additional week of warfare consummation of its own detest, blank is in part filled by a there now, patting in new Why the mischief did you risk ouse. Nonsense to my they have York, for 33-yenre Vicar of Holy Will intensify the shortage. When Any weapon which works by amiable willingocen on the part pleiform for the concert to your life in ach been influenced by Britain. We Trinity Church, Bridlington, Pesce comes no nation can attrition is deable edged, and of the community to hard ile norme night aid the priest uber?" he said. "If w are mad not to see where we are, containe the following clanas recuperate unless it has access to tests the endurance both of its possessions sommandeered in the Well you can have this shook, Ionzy thing to do...
But think the exposure and whither we are driving. In "It is my wish that my poor the raw materials which its own agente end its victims. The important interests of the drama. sid. "I'll bustle the cooks a bit antagonising the United States sinful body may be buried scil and that of its abutting friends German peace cffensive is the This willingness may be, to and get them to make things tidy infection of this man's wounds, wa hare Cone a disastrous thing in a coffin of wood that is incapable of producing. Ger- retort of the German Government certain extent, accounted for by B: I got the men on the job and in Father Kelly said. which will throw its cold shadow will readily perish, that many is most unfavourably to the attempt of its enemies the Laot that persons leading bed- fileen minutes v lime the zoom was bygienic point of view the on ont economic life for God's sentence upon is of dust situated in this respect. She is slowly to starve or sore it into room alippan, jewela or other ready for service I'm's Ontkolie thing to be done was to ouery the
lacking at present - în anything submission,
properties, may be certain of myself, but I couldn't go to Mann man 10. generation,
to dust may not be hindered."
"
"Dust to Dust.".
the world's
an
#extra
is to come.
FATHER KELLY.
The American Padre in France. (By Patrick MacGill Author of " The
Great Pub, etc.) The mera sergeant
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