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The Mainiche quotes Mr. Sakata, Director of the Commercial Bureau in the Foreign Office, who has just returned from a tour of inspection in Tsingtan and North China, as follows on the pros pects of Tsingtau:N

WILD BEAST. NOT SUPERMAN. LORD FISHER'S APPEAL TO

MR. BONAR LAW ON GERMAN CRUELTIES.

BRITAIN'S LOVE OF FREE INSTITUTIONS:

Addressing a recruiting meeting at The German method of administration, Bootle recently, Mr. Bonar Law, leader

AMERICA,

STRIKING QUOTATION IN CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. Among a number of Christmas mess- ages" to American people, the United Press (anys the Daily News New York correspondent) publishes a cabled state ficance is fully appreciated, in view of the activities- of German agents.

The United Press correspondent in London did not ask Lord Fisher for his views on the war, but confined himself to the query:--

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SEA LORD'S ANSWER.: The First Sea Lord answers in the third

person

in Tsingtau was an ideal one, and Japan of the Opposition in the House of Comment from Lord Fisher, of which the signi has much to learn from it is the adminismos, said that one of the issues to be tration of affairs in her own colonies. The settled by the war was whether civilised foreign trade of Tsingtau before the war countries were to be governed by military. amounted in value to Ye0,000,000 a year. despotism, or were to continue to exist To this sum Japan contributed Y16,000,000 under free institutions. On that subject in imports and exports Teingtau is they were all at one in Great Britain. situated most conveniently for trade The hidebound Tory, if there was such an Between Jagan and North China. If individual, would unite with the wildest Shanghai is the port of China for trader ha crankiest Radical in preferring oven with the world, Tsingtau will be the the excesses of free institutions to the commercial gate of China for Japan. The arbitrary rule of the great "War Lord," value of Tsingtau as a commercial port (Cheers.) depends on the harbour works in front MORAL FORCES OF THE WORLD. and the Shantung Railway in the rear. The work of sweeping up the floating between the war to-day and that waged There were many points of analogy mines still remains uncompleted in the by our forefathers one hundred years ago harbour, and the Shantung railway trains The greatest of these analogies was that take two days for a journey to Teine Napoleon found, after long years, that by If facilities for communication with his boundless ambition he had aroused occupation server no purpose. The mine 1 took a long time, but in the end Tsingtau are left in such a stato, its against him the moral forces of the world

next month, but, as the question of the which wore against Napoleon at the end cleaning may be completed by the end of moral forces overthrew him, and the forces Shantung Railway is to be settled after were against the Emperor as the begin the conclusion of peace in Europe, the ning (Cheers.) The Germans not only Government hesitates to spond a large did not value moral forces, they not only amount of money on the repair of the despised those forces; they did not under line.

understand then that they had made the stand them. It was because they did not mistakes. The horrid cruelties in Belgium, which ought to have been irapossible at this period in the world's history, wore crying aloud to Heaven for vengeance, and they would not do so unavenged. (Cheers.)

hands of Japan together with the right to Should the railway fall into the construct a line to connect Tsinan with the Peking-Hankow Bailway, which had been obtained by Germany, the commercial influence of Japan at Tsingtan would soon spread over the whole Shantung province, south Chibli, north. Honan, and cast Shansi Tsingtat in these circumstances would rapidly develop into one of the most important: commercial ports of China. Now Honan and Shansi are wholly outside the Japanese commercial sphere of influence. Should the Shantung Railway fall into the hands of Japan, the extensive market in question would soon be brought into the sphere of Japaness influence. Stray braid and peanuts are largely exported from Taingtau to Europe, and the principal lines of imports are cheap Japanese sundry goods. Thus Tsingtau contains larger potentialítios for Japanese trade than Dairen. The Japanese merchants now at Tsingtau, with the exception of the Mitsui, Specie Bank, Yuasa Shoten and a few others, who had offices there in the time of the German occupation, are mostly "loafer merchants" with empty hands, who have nothing to contribute to the commercial development

of the port. When facilities for com munication with Tsingtau are restored to merchants of good standing and ample a normal state, the settlement of Japanese

means raust be encouraged.Japan Chronicle.

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THE KAISER 8 INFAMY.

We ask you to remember that the territory of no German State has been menaced by the Allies, who are lawfully and honourably defending the plain rights of the cruelly outraged, Belgians. With the goodwill of the world every German citizen has at all times and every where been free to pursue his calling unmolested. In Japan, Russia, France, and Great Britain we have enjoyed civil rights and liberty as traders. The Empire was free in the markets of the world to develop in friendly rivalry with other States its arts, its commerce, and its manufactures. ́All our legitimate economic interests were safe-guarded and defined by treaties and conventions,

BREACH OF THE LAWS OF WAR.

The bombardment of Scarborough has had no effect upon us except to make us realice ever more clearly the nature of the foe with whom we have to deal. It has made us realise that we are lighting, not against a superman, as they would have us believe, but are fighting against a wild beast (choors)--which is all the more brutal because it has at its disposal all the resources of science and of invention. (Hear, hoar.). In the raid we have had a sample of war as carried on by our enemy. We have seen in his attack on defenceless' women and children a sample only of what is in store for us here if the shield of our Navy should fail us. It has not been a "sample in Belgium. There it has been on a scale which ought to have been impossible.

CRUELTIES DELIBERATELY PLANNED.

What makes these cruelties so terrible is this: that they are not due to the hot but are deliberately planned. The murder blood of the soldiers in the heat of action,

your telegram this moment received at Lord Fisher has this immediate reply to

with the United States in his domestic midnight. Yes. He has very close bonds

and she is none the worso for her uning relations and friendships. He happily possesses an American daughter-in-law, at birth being Morgan, and Philadelphia her home.

Lord Fisher has to say (he is compelled

almost solely depends upon a hundred to say) that the hope and good cheer that the Christmas spirit may bring humanity million of Christian men and women in America realising what neutrality means. "That word (neutrality) comes frozen on the frozen spray," so ask them,

theso hundred millions in the United States to read William Watson's poem, herewith, to America concerning England.

The poem quoted is:-

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of women and children is part of the scheme to make the German armies terrible and to enable them to win victory. The The last two lines are underlined in the German Emperor still speaks as if he were First Sea Lord's statement, according to the leader of the choren people as if the the United Press prefatory note. Tho God of Battle were on his side But he feeling in New York (adds the correspon- will find he is mistaken, Carlyle said the dent) is that the German Press agents are great soul of this world is just, and the being allowed too free a field, and an Kaiser will find it so. (Cheers.) occasional statement from English states- Proceeding, the right hon. gentleman men, even though cryptic as that of Lord paid an eloquent tribute to the British Fisher, is greatly appreciated. troops. In no country except our own had such an Army Geen raised by such meins, and he invited judgment as to whether there was decadence in the heart of the British people. He added:-I am convinced that just as we have got the mon weed, so we shall get them."

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NOT THE LAST RÁIÐ..

The Earl of Derby said I am myself somewhat of a pessimist. I do not for one moment believe that this raid at Scarborough is the last raid that is going to be made. I believe there will be ther rade. I go further and I say now, what I have often said in times of peace, that I believe Germany will be able to land troops on these shores. (Shouts of "No!" Never")"Well," resumed his lord- ship, they will never get back. (Cheers.) But my opinion is, and I stick to it, that that is what they may do, and if so, you. will see exactly the same horrors in this country as you have seen in Belgium. It is part of a deliberate policy. I would emphasise this fact, that two years ago Prince Henry of Prussia, himself one of the heads of the German navy, visited as a guest this very place, Scarborough, and examined what its harbour was; and yet, having examined it and ascertained its defenceless state, that German navy is sent to shell it.'' (Hoar, hear.)

FALSE ECONOMY. ADMIRAL STURDEE ON BRITISH

BUSINESS MEN'S METHODS. ··

Replying to a message of greeting by the British Minister at Monte Video, Admiral Sturdee, Commander of the British squadron which defeated the Germans off the Falkland Isles, said:-MAN

"I thank you for your reciption, and. I hope that our little success will improve English, French, Bussian, and probably Japanese commercz In this titanie fruggle, which is only beginning, we may suffer some checks, but so long as our sailors and those of our French Allies maintain such a high reputation, all will

Do you not see, amid the maiming and slaughter of innocent unarmed old men, women, children and infants, that the Kaiser hus covered our nation with imperishable infamy, and that the toll of war means the sacrifice of the precious lives of toilers and wage carrers in a devilish campaign, barbarous `in its methods upon sea as upon land! Already 80 well.

Lord Roberts recommended military in five months our homes, our trade, our enterprises have been ruined for at least preparation, and if he had been listened to fifty years, and, if the war continues, loss the war would have been avoided. English of life and economic devastation will business men, forgetting their true interests, employed Germans for reass of economy, but I hope that traders and the lessons. English shipping companies will proat by

scourge the Fatherland for a century.

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