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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1918.
bring himself to vit at a cons be the German who mays that, not ference table with them arranging the Englishman - Do you doubt the fature of mankind? Don't who will say it ficat? We're think of frontiera. Don't think got the whole Anglo-Saxon world Lord Laverbulme on the only of territory. Think of it as the massed against the German's
Peace Possible
fature of men, women, and code of honour. Let him trample ohildren. Would you arrange on omarined Bassia; let him do. Mr. Harold Begbie writes in the that future with the Germans of what he will in Northern France.
kronidis as follows:--.
What difference has the trem-
endous ises of the Bussian pesce made to our position? What diferecoe hase it made to the opinion expressed by Lord Lever
balme a few months ago that we
must dig our beels in and outlast
the Germans ?
INJ
These questions I have put to him: and here is a record of our conversation, which, I may say, took place a few dars before the great German cansirs was launched.
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"You mean to say that the Bussian Peace has made ro difference to your attitude? "
Breat? Never mind about Against him are the nations of Armeniau messsores, Serbian the earth. Against him is the massacres, Belgian maseacres, U. spirit of Anglo-Saxon manhood. boata, atrocities here, there, and Against him is the sternal No, arywhere; don't think of those which all men and all nations things, but think simply of the must sometimes say if they are Peace Treaty of Brest. Would are not to go into shame and on negotiate the future of men, bondage. Face will be good women, and children with the when it comes, only if in the German scoundrels who trapped vindication of man's faith in and disarmed Russians to their honesty, decency, and aborty, roin ?"
We mustn't makes god of
"You keep using the phrase Pesos. Rassis's plight should pre- eternal diegrsos'; now, what do vent that spostasy. There's only you mean by that oxsoily ?" Ope Pesce worth having, and that "Well, I mean that any pesos is the Pasts which leaves ail made with an undefested Ger- civilised notions free and on- many, any peace, would under afraid."
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"No difference at all, except mine oar anglo-Saxon mentality You are still confident we can
for centuries. We should never be the same race again. All our idealism would be clouded over
to strengthen it. Now, listen. I will ask you a question. Has the Barisa deb cle modified any of your ideals in this war, or given you a kinder view of German charsoter ?"
For the moment I fenced with this question,
"
"Of course." "How long do you think it will take?"
"From three to five years more ; I don't see how it can be lees.
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"And you can contemplate three to five more years of this -awful tragedy ? 1,
outlast the German ?"
And
"Absolutely confident. My by the smasculating opportunism confidenos in our vistory is the of the materialist. We should messure of my confidence in be like the Germans. We should Anglo-Saxon manhood. have a begmen morality. We something even greater than that, abrald walk the earth with the believe in the progress of "But you really mean that we same sort of feeling that humanity. We shell" outlast the must go on fighting, however card-sharper must haye in German.
Right will triumph. long it takes 7"
his brain. We should have Freedom will be saved.” failed to say the eternal No. We should have accepted dis |buncur on what grounds?_Oc the grounds of convenience. What an end for our race I—at any rate what a pairon ta hand on to our children! Dishonour rather than sacrifice! Do you think our obtldren would earrive that P "I can contemplate anything Ten't there a time when a astion **rather than the knackling down must say, and meen, Death rather
of the Anglo-Saxon race to the than Dishonoar? Isn't dishon German. That would be eternal our more fatal than a loss of disgrace. We should never sur acres? Lata msa'e religious vive it. It would be our rain." ideas be what they may doesn't it
"But the financial question, it strike bim that humanity is con We show the stomach little or no other.
fronted by a moral and spiritual no consideration until one day we "My opinion is that finance will menece BO tremendous that and that it has gone on a strike. never stop na.. I don't care how it is better, ten thousand We sit back in despair.
The big our debt may be we can times, 10
loce life, health, stomach is rebellious to the degree aboulder it. No; finazos won't land, money everything. in which we bare based it. stop us. Bat I sm little everything, rather than how to is Of This War isn't for territory. I suspicions about bankers. ocuras it's only
ian't
a commercial War. "It's a I don't know, but I can't conflict between two spirits that help thinking a banker must have nothing on earth or in heaven can been talking to Lord Lansdowne ever reconcile. It's War between before he wrote those lettere. Freedom and Slavery. It's a War Bankers are sa timid as rabbits. between Justice and Injustice. I have noticed that all my life. It's a War between Truth sad. No sconer doer 8 man fall ill Falsehood. It's a War between then they as to their ledgers,
Good and Evil. There can be no thinking he's going to die, to see end to this War but the defeat of how much he owes them. They one of those two spirits. That's are almoet all like that-extraor- the point. That's the point dinarily timid. It'e very carions, we're got to stick at. There but they seldom have the courage can be no pact between_Trath which is essential to enterpries of end Falsehood, between Honour any magnitude. Bat fasnce and Disbonour, between Liberty won't stop us. This is how I and Enslavement. It's one or the look at it. Our debt after finish other. Either the German spirit Dr. Williams' Medicine Company ing cff the Napoleonic menace conquers, or the spirit of the was eight bondred millione. It Allies conquere. If Germany 18 calculated that our national conquere, our epirit will dia; we wealth now is tenfold what it was chall have a different philosophy, then. I say it is a hundredfold. a different policy, a different Think of the discoveries which morality, a different code of bon- have been made since Waterloo. Or. We shall never be the same "We mine for coal at an infinitely England again.
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greater depth; Our modern The English people has won mining for all minerala is a re- its liberty by courage and volution. Then think of the through suffering; ita liberty is revolution, equally great, in founded on faith in the good- chemistry, transport, sgricultare, ness of man; on the whole, marketing-in fact, everything we say, man is fairly good, Then think of the present extent and we build on that, bank of the British Empire. Tenfold! on that, the fact that man, on the NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. I any the national wealth, st the whole, is good. Well surrender very lehet, is
# bundred fold to the Germans can you think greater than it was in Napoleon's of it?-means surrender of this
THE Steamship day. We shall shoulder our faith. It does really. It would debt,"
be the peace of the tricketer, the
8.8. KAWI"
I came back to his questions. I swindler. We should have no having arrived from SINGA asid to him: "The Russian ideals. We should be the PORE, consignees of cargo peace hse certainly made it har. meanest-spirited race crawling are
hereby notified that all der for those who believe in ander heaven. There'd be risk into the hazardous and/or goods are being landed at their negotiations."
manhood left in old England. extra-hazardous Godowns of the "I ask myself," he said, "this There'd be nothing bigger than Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & question: Has the Russian smash man to make life worth living, Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or afected the ideals with which There'd be only one big thing from the wharvos delivery may England went to war? Has is left. The sword. Only one code be obtained. modified my opinion se regarde of morality to observe the card- No claim will be admitted after German character? The answer sharper's."
the goods have left the Godowns. Is clear. That so-called perce "Some such thoughts must be and all goods remaining un- emphasises everything for which passing through the minds of delivered after noon the 21st England went to war, and puts decent Germans. I mean, they,
June, will be subject to rent. into flaming italics, if there too, must be saying, 'How can must be presented to the under All claims against the steamer are each things, everything in we negotiste without incurring signed on or before the 25th German character that is a eternal disgrace ****
June, or they will not be menace to the happiness of man- "Tast doesn't alter the facts." recognized. kind. Never before did I see so No, but the difficulty is, who vividly how essential it is to will be the first to make peace." defeat Germany. And never "That's my point. Be who Godown, where they will be before did. I feel so sharply in first says Let us make Pesos, is examined on the 20th June my vary bones that to how to the man whore faith and at 10 am by the Company Germany, to sopept Germany's philosophy hays failed. In it lo Surveyors, Moses Goddard & willy would mesh our eternal | be our faith, or the German, our
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All broken, chafed and damag- " ed Goods are to be left in the
Dongiss
been affected.
Bills of Lading will be counter-
disgrace. Fight on? Of course code of honour, or his? This No Insurance whatsoever has we must fight on. Is there an War can only end în one of the Englishman who doubts it? Is belligerents saying, I've had signed by add there an Englishman, after this enough. That's the only and, "JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, Baarian peace, who would tinst mark that, "And if freedom is
Agenta.
the Germans, who could to exist in the world it has got to Hongkong, 15th June, 1918.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUNKET
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MEN AND ́MONEY.
Do you realise and feel that the Flower of our Manhood
is shedding its blood for YOU on the battle-fields of Europe?
Do you realise that your country NEEDS YOU ? Do you realise that you country needs YOUR MONEY? What have you done to economise since war was
declared ?
Have you curtailed your pleasures and your desired 7 Have you reduced your expenses to your immediate
needs?
Do you still give riotous dinner parties, picnics, dances'
while your brothers shed their blood for YOU?
"Are you fit to fight?"
Have you tried to give your life in the cause of
FREEDOM?
If you have not lived as you should have lived since war was declared you have helped your enemies in their crimes.
Every pensy saved daily by you means one step toward's
victory. Every penny squandered in satisfying your just for pleasure means one step towards defeat, oppression and subjugation to a TYRANT'S power.
Pause and commune with your soul, search your hearts, and, to-day, remedy your faults where you fall shori of your duty to your country, and add one step on the march towards VICTORY.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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commencing at II a.m at bis Sales Rooms. Duddell Street
188 Gold Watches, open face and double cases.
40. Gold Wrist Watches set with diamonds
15 Silver watches.
78 Metal watches
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