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THE CAUSES OF THE WAR. AN INTERVIEW WITH KING

#ALBERT.

IMPERIAL OFFERINGS.

LOYALTY AND SYMPATHY OF OVERSEA PEOPLES

THE NAVAL VICTORY AT

THE FALKLANDS.

JAPAN'S SHARE IN THE

STRATEGY.

The Secretary of the Admiralty informed the London papers that the following telegrams have been reagived the Japanese and sent through Embassy. -

To the Right Hon. Win on L. Spenser Churchill, M P.

• On behalf of Imperial Japanese Navy, I express my heartfelt congratulations on the aplendid victory attained by the British Squadron, off ralkland Islands.

VICE-ADMIRAL R. YASHIRO, Minister of Marine Tokyo.

To Vice-Admiral R. Yashire,

Minister of Marine, Tokyo. On behalf of the British Navy I heartily thank your Excellency for your message conveying the congratula tions of the Imperial Japanese Navy on the action off the Falklands, m

A GENEROUS AID TO BELGIUM, The report of the conversation between the Emperor William and King Albert gives further list of Gifts from the

A white Paper published last month, HENDA contained in the following d dispatch Oversea Dominions and Colonies to Great from M. Jules Cambon to M Piphon, Britain in connection with the war. It dated Berlin, November 22nd, 1913, given is continuation of the White Paper

which was issued in September, in the French Yellow Book

Yellow Book published at The record of these gifts affords remark. the end of November, last-

sable evidence that the first impulso to I have received from an absolutely sare words ending aid in all kinda to Great source a record of a conversation which is Britain, felt throughout the Empire when reported between the Emperor and the its peoples realized that they were at war, King of the Belgians, in the presence of was no spasmodic or transient thing.I the Chief of the General Staff, Goners has continued with anabated energy. The von Moliko, a fortnight ago a conversa record itself stands in the curt, clipped tion which would appear greatly to have language of Colonial Governors sending struck King Albert. I am in no way announcements of these contributions by surprised by the impression created, which means of the cable-lines to the home corresponds with that made on me some Government. It is not the less significant time ago. Hostility against us is becom for this absence of all rhetoric through- ing more marked and the Emperor has out the White Paper there is hardly a ceased to be a partisan of peace. The touch of sentiment. But there are German Emperor's interlocutor thought exceptions, One is the letter of King up to the present, as did everybody, that Albert of the Belgians to the Government William the Second, whose personal of the Australian Commonwealth, convoy influence has been exerted in many critical ing the thanks of his people for a gift of circumstances in favour of the mainten- £100,000 in grateful acknowledgment of anco of peace, was still in the same state the heroic services the citizens of that Country (Belgium) have rendered nian- of mind. This time, it appears, he found kind in defence of their national right bim completely changed. The German Emperor is no longer in his eyes the to live in peace in their own country chatapion of peace against the bellicose King Albert wrote in reply that ho VERS tendencies, of certain German parties, very much tonched by this gift and very William II. has been brought to think sensible of the generous assistance offered that war with France is inevitable, and by Australia to Belgium dans les pénibles that it will have to, como one day or the circonstances qu'elle traverse.

Another such instance of human nature other. The Emperor, it need hardly breaking through the dry crust of official said, believes in the crushing superiority correspondence by telegraph is the letter of the German Army and in its assured written by Griffith, Paramout Chief of

the Basutos

success.

Goneral von Moltke spoke in exactly the samo senso as his Sovereign. He also deolared that war was necessary and inevitably, but he showed himself still more certain of success. For, said to to the King this time we must put an end to it" (cette fois il faut en finir), and your Majesty can hardly doubt the irresistible enthusiasm which on that day will carry away the whole German

Pipet me Pajangan people

have the honour to ask your Excol lency whether as my King is engaged in fighting his enemics, I, mis servant, would be doing well to keep aloof watching him being attacked by enemies!

Your Excellency, as I am unable to be with my King in person, I beg to know whether I may show my loyalty, and the loyalty of the Basuto to his Majesty the King, by giving monetary assistance, to be raising by calling upon each Mesuto to pay a sum of (18.) one shilling; which, when collected, I shall send to your Excel. lency to bo forwarded to his Majesty the King as a contribution to the funds now being raised for relief of sufferers by the

war albo glad your offers th

The King of the Belgians protested that to interpret the intentions of the Franch Government in this manner was to bravesty them, and to allow oneself to bo misled as to the feelings of the French nation by the manifestations of a low

I shall be glad, your Excellency, if you hotheads, or of conscienceless intriguers.

The Emperor and his Chief of the Gon-will kindly reply to this application of eral Staff none the less persisted in their mine, as the Basuto and myself are grieved at seeing our King being attacked by point of view.

enemies when we Lis servants cannot assist him,” w g

During this conversation the Emperor, moreover, appeared overwrought and irritable. As the years begin to weigh It would be pleasant, too, to have had upon William II. the family traditions, the text of the letters in which the Emirs the retrograde feelings of the Court, and, of Northern Nigeria, placed at the dis- above all, the impatience of soldiers, are posal of the Governor-General £38,000. gaining more ascendancy over his mind.from the Native Affairs Treasury Chest Perhaps he may feel a kind of jealousy of spring balances as a contribution to the popularity acquired by his so, who expenses and losses of revenue and expen flatters the passions of the Pan-Germans, diture caused by war." These letters are They are and perhaps he may find that the position described by the Governor General in his of the Empire in the world is not com telegram as most loyal." mensurate with its power. Perhape, also, being sent by post and evidently have not the reply of France to the last increase in arrived in time for publication in this the German Army, the object of which was White-book. It is to be hoped that they to placo Germanic superiority, beyond will not be omitted when the next is question, may count for something in these published.

FROOTS OF PATRIOTISM. bitternesses, for whatever one may say it is felt her that the Gormans cannot do

With the sinking of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau Leipzig, and Warnberg, the whole of the German Squadron based on Tsingtau at the outbreak of the war reduced and captured. This orent has been destroyed, and that base itself. marks the conclusion of the active operations in which the Allied Fleet have been orgaged in the Pacific for more than four months and though it has fallen to a British squadron in the South Atlantis to strike the fool blow, it is largely owing to the powerful and untiring assistance rendered by the Japanese Fleet that this result has been schileved

Had the enemy turned westward again the bonours would have rested with the Japanese and Australian Squadrons moving forward in the general combination.

The peace of the Pacific is now for the time being restored, and the commerce of all nations can proceed with safety throughout the vast expanses from the coasts of Mozambique to those of South. America. The expulsion of the Ger mans from the East is complete, and, with good and vigilant arrangements, all return should be rendered extremely difficult and hazardous

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IRISH MOTHER'S SONG,

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sears have missed it,

Was

tho'

Your step at the door

listed we

music, bus, qure, since the day that you Tis silent, mo stoir !* my poor heart sigh broke wi the partin' caressin

An' the hour that you left me was dark an

disthreasin', AG

Anmy blessin', Sure, I gave you my Prayer Book, my beads

I couldn't give more,

Och, I couldn't give more.

It's lonesome I bo when the twilight comes

That comes wi' the dawn.

For yourself was still near me at noon, night

or mornin', A CEME

But, dry as is the medium through stealin O'er mountain an bawn, much more. One may ask what lay behind which they are brought to the noticeful the night an' it's freful the the conversation. The Emperor and his of the British public, the gifts made It's Chief of the General Staff may have by the oversca peoples of the Empire, here feelin' ⠀⠀⠀ intended to impress the King of the Bel-recorded, are a magnificent proof of the gians, and to lend him not to resist in ease a conflict with us should arise. Por hape, also, there may be a desire to have Belgium less hostile towards certain ambitions displayed there with regard to the Belgian Congo. But this latter hypothesis does not seem to me to be com- patible with the intervention of General von Moltke.

patriotism that inspires them. Some are the great gifts of great and wealthy people. Of such are the hospital ship Presented by the women of Canada to the Admiralty, the £20,000 contributed by Now Zealand to the relief funds, and Australian help for the Belgians. Others. are equally notable, but a full catalogue of them all is impossible,

Yet to hold you away from the War I'd he

Beornin

When the bravest an' best i' the land you

were born in

Are goin' or gone All goin' or gone:

You have left with a name that was never

dishonoured,

Your arm was a strong

An soft was your song-

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The people of Australia, New Zealand, Further, the Emperor Williara is less and Canada, however, would be the first master of his impatience than is generally to say that it is not the size of the gift believed. More than once I have seen him but the spirit of the giver that should be allow his innermost thoughts to escape. recognized. In that sense tas contribu. As the tall mountain ash on the slopes O' TJIKEMBANG Whatever may have been the object of his tions in kind made by the Crown Colonies Slieve Donard, conversation, which has been reported to all over the glone are just as worthy of me, the confidence has none the less the notice. These colonies have poured into Except when it rang wi' the wrongs of your gravest character. It corresponds with our lap the abundance of such plenty as nation the precariousness of the general situathey have to give. In this list are includ tion, and with the state of a certain porod the cocon of Trinidad, the oranges of tion of opinion in France and in Germany. Jamaice, the arrowroot of St. Vincent, If I were allowed to draw conclusions I the sugar of Demerara, the guava jelly would say that it would be wise to take of Montserrat, the coffee of East Africa, into account the new fact that the and a hundred other offerings. The gift Emperor is growing familiar with an Forder of ideas which formerly was repugnant to him, and that, to borrow from him a phrase he likes to use, should keep our powder, dry.!?

JULES CAMBONA

BRITISH WOMEN'S WORK.

The following letter has been sent

WO

post's palsation, AS EN An' your will notes would throb wi' the tem Upraise be to God for the best liberation

We prayed for sc. long! We sighed for so long!

an' devotion to

My spirit.consoles,

of a ton of butter by one family in Aus The street priceless thought of your faith tralia should not be passed over. Other colonies have contributed to the common cause in other ways. They have sent sums collected by public subscription to the Red An' your lore of your land is as deep as the Cross Fund, or have set themselves, by special appropriations from their revenue, to bear part of the Imperial An your arm an' your heart, boy, will never

disgrace you burden that war must entail

t

Between us that rolle,

till again I embrace The whole record of these gifts, in short: So God be your guide.

is one which shows the unity of Britons settled in every far possession of the An' as for the foemen who happen to faco too. It is the record of a sustained

the Queen by Field-Maraha! the Earl effort to do their utmost for the common Kitchener

WAR OFFICE, November 30th," Madam I have the pleasure to inform your Majesty that the whole of the gift from the Queen and women of England has reached France, and that careful instructions have been given as to the distribution of the belts and socks.

I would take this opportunity of thank ing your Majesty and all those who worked under your direction for the generosity and energy which marked this valuable contribution to the comfort of. the troops

cause, and will be read by home-keeping poople with a sense of grateful admira- tion for the spirit that animates the scattered detachments of our race.

SURGEONS AS PRISONERS.

INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS PROTEST.

BERNE, December 8th The obstinate, refusal of the German authorities to release British Red Cross

Well, God rest their souls! Och! God rest their souls!

My darling.

M. HORL

in the Daily Chronicle.

British agents intercepted a report, dated September 8th, which was intended for General von der Goltz, and in which the author advised as follows: When the whole of Belgium, with Northern France, belongs to us, the Flemings should not be harshly treated, and their linguis ance with the Geneva Convention has tic afinities with the German should be

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