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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918

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MEDZION HONGZOXO.

FOR SALE

CHUNG CHAU.

FOR

SALE...

MRE-TWO STORIED HOUSE on

CHAU known as the

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For particulars apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

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Hongkong, Feb. 1, 1913:

FOR SALE.

159

BE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Boad, Corner of Ice House Street,

MOTOR YACHT

+

Built 1916, had very little usage, Hall

..Teakwood Length, water line 20 over all 34

... J

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Terms ----Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Anchors Bourtong, Jan 9, 1919.

TO LET

TO...... LET.-

FFICES in Terk Building.

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MMEDIATE ENTRY, four very

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,

IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that which should be clearly marked ATENDERS FOR THE SUPPLY OF CASTINGS, will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office antil Noon ef MONDAY, the sath day of February, 1918, for the supply and delivery of Ia and Brass Castings Manufactured. Ironwork, ata to the Public Works Department for about nine months ending on December 21st, 2018.

I SEALED TENDERS in duplicate,

which sum aball be forfeited to the

THE CHINA MAIL..

PRESIDENT WILSON TO CONGRESS.

IMPRESSIVE REPLY TO COUNT HERTLING AND COUNT CZERNIN.

PRUSSIA OF THE WORLD'S FREEDOM

(TIBOGOR, KBUTER'S ADENCY.

Each Tenderer must produce with his tender receipt that he has Gentlemen of the Congtem:-? deposited in the Colonial Treasury the

On January 8th I had the honour sam of $500 (Dollar Five hundred) sax pledge of the bond files of bis tender of addressing you on the objects of Crown should the Tenderer refuse or fall to carry out to the satisfaction of the Government, the whole or any portion of his tender which may be accepted. The deposit will be returned to any Tenderer whoas tender is not accepted.

The Government does not bind itself

to accept the lowest or any loader, and

shall be at liberty to accept, any tender in whole or in part for of the articles offered any one or more

For form of tender and further particulars apply at this Offico.

W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works. Hongkong, Feb. 16, 1915,

197

the same day.

so

It has come about, in the altared work in which we now find ourselves that justice and the rights of peoples affect the whole field of inser national dealings as much as access to taw materials and fair and equal conditions of trade. Count von Hort ling wants the essential bases of commercial and industrial life to be safeguarded by common agreement and guarantee, but he cannot exp that to be conceded him if the other matters to be determined by the

Count Czernin seems to see the

Ee "sees that an

athiving for is a new international articles of peace are not handled in order based upon the broad and the same way as items in the final Now You, Feb. 11. universal principles of right and accounting He cannot use the justice-no cers peace of shreds and benefit of common agreement in the President Wilson to-day addressed patabes. Is it possible that Count one Held without secording it in the Ton Elorthing does not see that, does other. I take it for granted that he Congress as follows:-

not grasp it, is in fact living in his sees that separate and selfah com thought in a world dead and gone? pucts with regard to trade and the Has he utterly forgotten the Reich essential. materials of manufacture he deliberately ignore them? The Neither, he may rest assured, with the war as our people conceive them.sta resolutions of July 18th, or does would afford no foundation for peace. The Prime Minister of Great Britain spoke of the conditions of a generat separate and selfishy compacta with had spoken in similar terms on Janu- peace. not of national aggrandies regard to provinere and peoples. ary 5th. To these addresses the Germont or of arrangements between man Chancellor replied on the 24th state and state. The peace of the fundamental elements of peace with and Count Chernin, for Austria, an world depends upon the just settle clear eyes and does not seem to

ment of each of the several problems, obscure them. to which I adverted in my recent independent Poland made up of alt It is gratifying to have our desire, address to the Congress, I, of course, the indisputably Polish peoples who promptly realized that all do not means that the peaca of the lie continuous to coo another, is a exchanges of view on this great world depends upon the acceptance matter of European concern and of any particular set of suggestions must, of course, bo conceded; that matter should be made in the bearing as to the way in which thosa po Belgium must be svacuated and blems are to be dealt with.. I mean restored, no matter what sacrifices of all the world:

Count Czamin's reply, which is only that those problems, each and and concessions that may invalve: directed chiefly to my own address all, affect the whole world; that and that national sepirations must be of January 8th, is uttered in a very unless they are dealt with in a spicit satisfied, even within his own Empire, friendly tone. He finds in my state of unselfish and unbiassed' justice, in the common interest of Europe and ment ณ sufficiently encouraging with a view to the wishes, the mankind. If he is silent about ques DAIRY FARM NEWS. approch to the views of his own natural connexions, the racial aspirations which touch the interent and

government to justify him in believ-tions, the security, and the peace purpose of his Allies, more clearly.. ing that it furnishes a basis for of mind of the peoples involved, than they touch those of Austria only more detailed discussion of purposes no permanent peace have it must, of course, be because he feels by the two Governments. He is been attained., They cannot be constrained, I suppose, to defer to represented as baving indicated that discussed separately or in corners. Germany and Turkey in the circum this views he was expressing had been None of them constitutes a private stanices. Seeing and conceding, as communicated to me beforehand and or separate interest from which the he does, the essential principles that I was aware of them at the time opinion in the world may be shut out. involved and the necessity of candidly he was uttering them but in this Whatever affects the peace bf man. applying them, he naturally feels that am sure he was misunderstood. kind, and nothing settled by military Austria can respond to the purpose of had received no intimation of what force, if settled wrong, is settled at peace as expressed by the United be intended to say. There was, of all.

It will presently have to be States with less embarrassment than course, no reason why he should corn- te-opened.

could Germany. He would probably I am municato privately with me.

have gone much further had it not been for the embarrassments of Aus- quite content to be one of his public

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(1) That each part of the final:

sotilament must be based upon JAPANESEL MAKERS. the essential justice of that parti- 'cular case and upon such adjust- ments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent: (3) Thor peoples and grovhices are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to, sovereignty as it they were mere chattels and pawas in a game, even the great game; now forever discredited, of the balance of power; but that, (3) Every territorial-settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest, and for the benefit of the populations con cernel, and not as a part of spy pere adjustment or compromise

Is Count vou Hertling not aware Count von Hertling's reply is, I that he is speaking in the court of must say, very vague and very con mankind. that all the awakened fusing. It is full of equivocal phrases nations of the world now sit in judg and leads. it is not clear whero. Butment on what every public man, of ALL ELEUTHIO TRUKE Pass Tintracit is certainly, in a very different tone whatever nation, may say on the possible for either Government to go BEAD OFFICE: K's Birdenas,

Lifts, Faris and Lighting, European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings from that of Count Czernin, and issues of u conflict which has spread any further in this comparison of Hot and Cold Water System throughout apparently of an opposite purpose." to every region of the world? The views is simple and obvious, The

It confirms, I am sorry to say. Reichstag rusolutions of July the principles to be applied are these Bast of Food and Bervice.

rather than removes, the unfortunate selves frankly accepted, the decision impression made by what we had of that court. There shall be Yo learned of the conferences at. Brest. annexations, no contributions, no Litovsk. Has discussion and accept punitive damages. Peoples are not. unce of our general principles led him to be handed about from one sover- to no practical conclusions?

eign to another by th internationuil conference or an understanding between rivals andalagonista. He refuses to apply them to the National aspirations must be respect. substantive items. which must coned; people may now be dominated stitute the body of any final settle and governed only by their own con- nect. He is jealous of international sent. Self-determination is not action and of international counsel. a mere phrase. It is imperative He accepts, he says, the principle of principle of ection which statesmen public diplomacy, but he appears to will henceforth ignore at their peril. insist that it be confined, at any rate We cannot have generul peace, for in this case, to generalities and that the asking, or, by the mere arrange- the several particular questions, of ments of peace conferences. It can- territory, and sovereignty, the several not be pieced together out of questions upon where settlement individual understandings between must depend the acceptance of peace powerful States. All the parties to by the Twenty-three States now this war must join in the settlement engaged in the war, must be dis of every issue anywhere Tuvolved in cussed and settled, not in general it because what we are seeking is a council, but overally by the nations peace that we can all unite to most immediately concerned by guarantee and maintain, and every.. interest or neighbourhood. He agrees item of it must be antimitted to the ths the seas should be free, but looks common judgment whether it be night. askance at any limitation to that and fair, an act of justice, rather than freedom by International action in a bargain between sovereigns the interest of the common order. The United States has no desire to

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Somewhere Voice Bleep and the Roses

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ing new or perpetuating old ole Telephone No. 191. ments of discord and antagonismi that would be likely in time to break the peace of. Europe and consequently of the world.

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He would without reserve be glad to interfere in Europeanahairs or to act see economic barriers removed as arbiter in European territorial dis- between nation and nation, for that putes. She would disdain to take such a pente can be secured we have could in no way impede the ambitions advantage of any internal weakness no choice but to go ca. So far as we TK 1381 of the military party with whom he or disorder to impose her own will can judge, these principles that we scens constrained to keep on terms: upon another people. She is quite regard, as fundamental are already Neither does he raise objection to a ready to be shown that the settle. everywhere accepted as imperative limitation of armaments. That ments she has suggested are not the except among the spokesmen of the matter will be settled of itself, he test or the most enduring. They are Germany. If they have anywhere military and annexationist parties In thinka, by the economic conditions only her own provisional sketch of which must follow the war. But the principles ard of the way on which else been rejected the objectors have German colonies, he deraanda, must they should be applied. But she not been sufficiently numerous (57 be returned without debate. He will entered this war because she was intuential to make their voices discuss with no one but the repre- made a partner whether she should, audible. The tragical circumstance ANG TUK DET, US D sentatives of Russia what disposition would or not, in the sufferings and is that this one party in Germany is shall be made of the peoples and the indignities inflicted by the military apparently willing and able to lead lands of the Baltic Provinces with master of Gertany against the millions of men to their death to pre no one but the Government of France peace and security of mankind; and vent what all the word now sees to the conditions' under which French the conditions of peace will touch her be just. territory shall be evacuated; and only as nearly as they will touch any other

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with Austria what shall be done withration to which is entrusted a leading I would not be a true spokesman Poland." In the determination of all part in the maintenance of civiliss of the people of the United States questions affecting the Balkan States tion. She cannot see her way to if I did not say once more that wa ly defers, as I understand him, to peace until the causes of this was are entered this war upon no smail ocen Austria and Turkey; and with regard removed, its renewal rendered as son, and that we can never turn to the agreements to be entered into nearly as may be impossible BUROPEAN AGENOT. concerning the non-Turkish peoples of the present Ottoman Empire, to

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After a settlement all around, regard of the rights of small ratione affected in this fashion, by individual and of nationalities which lacked the barter and concession, he would have union and the force to mak [no objection, if I correctly interpret their claim to determine the

back from a course chosen upon prin diple. Our resources ure in part mobilized now and we shall not pouse until they are mobilized la their entirety. Our armies are rapid- by going to the fighting

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