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THE NAVY LEAGUE.

BRITISH

COMPANY REGIS TRATION IN CHINA.

THE NEW ORDER IN COUNCIL.

AMERICA'S TURN NEXT

THE ONLY BANCTUARY FOR BEATEN GERMANS.

CANKER OF CONSPIRACY IN THE STATES.

The League deres to warn the country) of the danger which must be faced from VA REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.

the small but very aggressive Little Navvite section of the community whose fanatical opposition to nuval power and Mr. B. A. M. Willlans, Acting Secretary whose misguided notions of peace have of the Hongkong branch of the Navy not been modified even by the experioncos

Companies incorporated or registered League, sends us the following letter end of this terrible war again the United Kingdom or in any British

persons are now making, and will much circular received from the Secretary,

not more so take on the approach of peace, possession and carrying on business in. Navy League Loudon, regarding the every effort to weaken British supremacy

China

whose chief local office is situated

you that the seed of this fire- Naval and Military War situation at sea; and the members of the League in Shanghai or whose business is chiefly brand and cunnen religion was planted

11, Victoria Street, London, SW will be constantly on the alert to counter

act their activity

carried on at Shaghai were called upon by the early Church ward of Germany, January 1st, 1915.

last week, in accordance with Articles 44 and it was destined to grow big enough to 51 inclusive of the China. (Amendment) to dominate, convert, and baptise man-- Order in Council, 1913, to rogiator them- Kind by force and terror into adopting its elves at the office of the Consul General red and the Kaiser with it." So sad

the Sen Lowon before April 1st, 1018.

The League holds strongly that British 1. DEAN SIE. -- Sinoo my last letter we have Command of the Sea in the future will been passing through exceedingly strenu remain a dominant consideration in main ous times in fals, country, but on tile talking the permanent ponce of the world, and it urges upon every patriotio oitaren whole you will I know be happy to hear the primary duty of resisting by every that absolutely and relatively the British conceivable means every kind of intrigue Navy is mero powerful upon the seas now and all organised offort, no matter what than at any time in our history. The the ostensible motive, which may am at destruction of the Gorman Fleet in the the reduction of our naval power below. Falklands leaves but a few scattered that standard which in essential to hold vruisers belonging to the enemy on ths the Command of the Sea for the British world-wide waters outaide the North Son. Empiro, British Commerce is proceeding under normal conditions, and the ordinary everyday life of the community hera is practically the same as before the war You must not be in any sense disturbed by the reports which may have reached you of the German raid upon the York shire coast. This murderous attack has had no military significance, and does not in the smallest degree affect the ultimate result of the struggle. The raid has, how- ever, done Germany incalculable harm in neutral countries, more especially in America, and has proved conclusively that every consideration of International Law will be trampled upon by the enemy when it suits his purpose to do so...n

The NC. Daily News, commenting on this official notification, mys:-

The question of the control of British companies in China by the Consular authorities has been seriously discussed

Itall

There is a small café just off the boulevard, possessing a round table, about which gather mon of travel, philosophers, is writers, and the like, just as in old had its round table and a similer group Nidal's time our Café Royal in London

of men. Occasionally men drop in from

war shows me,”

The incidents which have taken place for some time past, especially in view at sea during the campaign are of little of the notorious fact that the British the ends of the earth, and when they do military importance ans affecting the authorities in China were not able to all who have the privilege of sitting at general operations of the Fleet, The exorcise any adequate control over such listen

the round table stop their own talk and superiority of the British Navy in relatiou to that of the enemy is increasing almost companies. Of course, it was open for

On this occasion the speaker was a day by day, and when the moment of an aggrieved party to take the matter to retired hop merchant from Milwauke supremo trial presents itself our Navy in Court; but the process was tedious, and ships, men and equipment will be fully in several instances the mischief had The red light of prepared for every contingency

already been done, while the executive he continued, "that the big rock immedi- authorities on the spot in China were ately aboad is that Germans living on the unable to prevent it. The amended United States and tenaciously loving the Order in Council fills a long-felt want Fatherland comprise 15 per cent. of our. and coming at the present time, its siguientire population. heance is undoubted. Now when the war is over and the The question of a special register of taxation to pay for it beghas, the mil companica, in the Consulate at Shanghai lions of Germans left out of the grave or in other ports of China has long bean who can get away from the ruined discussed although up to now practical Fatherland will join their kindred in the ly nothing had been done.

great and glorious, long-may-she-wave land of the froe, as it will be the only country whose Cmatitution offers them an asylum and whose hand will not be raised against them except Palestine where the Kaiser is the self-elected moral governor,

The members of the Navy League may face the future full of confidence in the Fleet and full of hope that our sea pawer upon which the Empire floats will dis chargo nobly its great duty in securing the peace and progress of mankind._____

THE TRAGIC RETREAT.

SERBIA'S VICTORY:

HUNG IN AMERICA

You will probably have seen a cabled report of the note of protest presented by the United States Government to the

AN ANOMALOUS SITUATION.... British Government on the subject of the treatment of neutral commerce and

The situation hitherto has been as British warships. You need not, how-

follows A company pays a certain over, take this very seriously. Any repro-

EXTENT OF AUSTRIAN DEBACLE.

registration fee in London or Hongkong sentation made by the United States will

The extent of the Austrian debacle in and registers itself under the Companies be treated sympathetically by the Govern;

Acté So long as the fees were paid, the ment and people of this country. It must Berbin is poignantly illustrated by a lector authorities in British territories did not be remembered that we are fighting an written in Budapest on December 12th and concern themselves as to who the directors The unexpected happened in this wat unscrupulous opponent who has no regard printed in the Morning Post. The writer or management were because everybody and it may happen again, but naise whatever for the Law of Nations, and says that since he last wrote so many was under the jurisdiction of the regular some miracle wakes up our counting ta the British Navy therefore cannot be too nerve-shaking and distracting events have courts. But when with the aid of such realise the fact that the seventeen mil strict in its watch upon the import of happened here that it almost breaks one's registrations the companies began to lions of naturalised and real Germans. contraband either through neutral ports, heart to recount them." He gathers that operate in Chins, the question became we have now will be augmented by or if attempted directly to ports of the the whole Austro-Hungarian army in the much involved.

many more, and that the majority of the enemy, The American people understand south is practically non-existent.

There have been instances of companies new influx will be men versed in wäre perfectly that the sea has been kept opens The bare facts are that we lost in registered in London as limited liability then we shall see the harmless eausage is to the commerce of all countries during the dead and wounded during the rearguard companies all the directors being Ger- our country develop into an armoured pest hundred years, and although this actions and the fight more than sixty maps or Austriana. That company Zeppelin, and a million and more men country had complete control of the ses thousand mon and in prisoners something operates in China se a British company, carrying the Iron Cross of their creed and its Navy was supreme everywhere,like thirty-five thousand, while so scri- while not one of its officers is samenable through the United States of Germany our potter was never employed otherwise food in guns, provisions, and ammunition to the discipline of the British Court Great Britain did not look the matter than to secure fullest liberty for every ma than the Serbians ever had in the Or again, there are companies, nominally straight in the face until she had to, and other community,

whole war The Hungarian regiments of British, and registered in Hongkong; all then she found that many of her consul

their businesses are in Bhanghai and in German towns were Germans do that! You may assure your Committee and the the ith Army Corps were among those other China ports Honce there are the their hundreds of clerks whose salaried niombers of your brand of the Navy who never returned, namely, the City curious spectacle of British authorities Britain paid one drilling to

Aght with full confidence and abounding hope the famous Mollinary regiments and all companies.

forced to look into the cellars and trunke in the capacity of the Navy to complete those who were nearest to our hearts in Farther, under the old régime the of our recentsen millions we shall End ite great truk. As examples of devoted Hungary,

executive authorities had no knowledge rifen and ammunition, Bibles of Berns service you will have read with much The remnants of Potiorek's army--no whatsoever of the standing of many toy and Bauer, and codes diotated by pleasure of the brilliant work done by more than another hundred thousand men « British companies, and they were a direnead Kaiser to Bioinhauer, secretly submarico 8 11 in the destruction of aaro in Bosnia by now, trying to reform unable to obtaan much of the needed in planning för be a surprise as big Turkish battleship in the Dardanelles, and within a few miles from the Serbian and formation. Bo long as by merely register. Belgium had. you will also have seen the splendid Montenegrin frontiers. I hear the troops ing in London for Hongkong the Intelligent and travelled Americand success which attended the combined naval in the North, around Belgrade, and the companies became. British, the Consular abroad are already beginning to waiso and air raid on Cuxhaven a few days ago garrison in that city are crossing the authorities, say in Shanghai, had no that the spirit of the Hun, with its The feeling both at the Admiralty and river and evacuating the town, and the power to ask for any information attendant militarism, must have beau War Office is very confident and the latest guns are being mounted in Semia and Lyon under the Hongkong Ordinances, instilled into the minds of our Germa news from Fleet and Army gives the fullest opposite Semendris, again to defend the company registered once as a British population, and it is the secret growth company remaine British, whatever of this religion, etrengthened by tão pro- satisfaction that the process of throttling Hungary from a Serbian invasion. the enemy is proceeding with stoady A Serbian invasion of Hungary radical changes may take place in the mised rewards of the Kaiser and all that success. The Executive Committee of the sounds in the ears of the people here not management; and there was no power to his class stand for, that we Americans Navy League most cordially wish your unlike a Zulu invasion, for they believed refuse registration so long as the fece should legislate against until our safety Persident, Committee and yourself, as the one to be as impossible be the other wers paid and no direct delinquency was is guaranteed. well as all your members everything of You can imagine the stapefaction of the proved against the management of the Our German aitians, acting in concord the best in the coming year. Yours vary truly

(Signed) P. J. HANNON,

General Secretary.

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STEINHAUEN. or in any other British possession. If the excentive has reason to be dissatisfied Many German-Americane bare with the position of the company, or if for some years past acquired it believes that it is only nominally passports in the United States which were found a spy to buit the British, it can refuse egistration in religiously sent on by them to Bleinhauer Chimay refusing registration, description set forth and at onef protection to such companies This is

A captain of the Szolnok Begimont who escorted a trainload of prisoners said 1st January, 1915.

that the whole force in Serbia was not It has been the custom of the Navy more than 200,000 men, and that only League to submit to its members and so half of the four army corps reached the people of the Empire its carefully Bosnian territory. For a whole week, he considered view upon the Naval Situation said, they were on the march continuously,

A Handbook to the leading Hotels throughout In the erreumstances of the moment, on their track shelling the retreating Consular authorities do not afford British despatched him to England to operate de

at the beginning of each New Year, for the Serbian artillery were constantly however, it is undesirable to discuss des columns furiously. The men were without tions of naval policy, but the Navy food and rest, and many simply dropped Losgue is in a position to express in the on the roadside, refusing to go further purely question of prerogative, and has an American and there are hundreds of To connection whatever with legal procs them in Europe now, and some in Eng- most unqualified terms its entire satis- "The officers did not even threaten dare Protection of British subjects

and also, who se protected by these faction with the conduct of the Navy them, and indeed several followed the in places other thin His Majesty's a spurious documents. since the beginning of the war, and to example of the utterly exhanated men and dominions la purely a Royal prerogative; "If our Germans at home act that declare its abounding confidence in the lay down in the nearest cover to await the if the executive authorities have reason to way against our own blood abroad, why capacity and efficiency of the Fleet to pursuing Sorbians. We could not make a withdraw protection from a company or should they not, when prepared, visit us achieve its great purpose. The Command stand anywhere, for our artillery had individual, they can always do so by in the same way inde er in Chief of the Grand Fleet and the disappeared, the horses having fallen after obtaining the sanction of the Secretary Napoleon, vanquished, almost atarted officers and men in all our fighting ships the first day 8 march from starvation and for Foreign Affairs.A

for America, where he had many sym- deserve the warmest congratulations of exhaustion. Only those regiments reached It is notorious again that several of the pathisers, but England-on second the British race throughout the world for the Bosnian frontier which had their so-called British companies operating in thoughts concluded that he would be their unswerving zal devotion to duty, supply, waggons with them, and could feed China are obtaining more credit and much safer in St. Holent. and spirit of self-sacrifice which have boon their men and animals at least once a day protection than they deserve, because very Compare the situation now and thon manifested in every incident affecting the

little is known to the authorities about Now whether the Kaiser finishes dar Navy since the beginning of the struggle..

them Once the registration becomes uning this war, or immediately after it The rotreat is described by these accomplished fact, the public will also or at St. Helena, the general exodus of The members of the Navy League deeply offers as the most horrible and distress be protected against being imposed upon. Germans to the only country in which deplore the loss of so many valuable lives ing one in the history of warfare. A It is only too true that British prestige they can possibly obtain sanctuary gil of the gallant men who have gone down surgeon whom I interviewed at the station in China has been considerably hurt by certainly take place, and they will carry with their ships in the engagements which said that the men rather risked being hit the so called British companies, which with them the religion used on the have taken place, and it will be the by Serbian shells than continuing their in many cases are not at all under British hatred of every human being who spenta especial care of our organisation to do march. The shapnel, he added, was fall management, the English language everything possible to look after the ing and bursting around the columns ANOTHER ORDER IN VIEW interests of the families these men have constantly, but the men never heeded it, left behind Ensures

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Amendment to the Order-in war with which we furnish Germany It must give the liveliest satisfaction to even on the second day of the retreat, and

They Council refers to all British companics. today prolongs, this struggle and gills the members of the League averywhere to seemed to have lost even the instinct of It may not be generally known that blood and the judgment will be upon feel that outside the North Sea the waters self-preservation, and there was about as another Order-in-Council dealing purely our own head

If our Chief Magistrate advocate of the world are practically free to the much energy in the army as in a new with China companies and those register this policy ho is arguing for the downfall commerce of the Allies and that of neutral born lamb,

deed in Hongkong especially is expected nations. Only a fow scattered cruisers of phose, he concluded, who were left very shortly That Crder will give of Britain and their downfall is our the enemy feet remam in outer waters; behind to fight the rearguard actions and will help to do away with the abuses We only feel a slight draught and

special powers to executive authorities, downfall. Yes th and the grave danger which threatened scou as they took up their positions British shipping through the criminal behind some little natural corer dezed which have prevailed in company manage we kick. England feels a blizzard, ant

ment in Shanghai

disregard by the enemy of the law of and when ordered to hire were found i nations in the indiscriminate employment be fast asleep.

of mines in the open sea is now effectively The correspondent describes in graphic under control.

Emperor

It is with peculiar pleasure that the Patiorek and the grief and anger of the

the terms the outburst against General THE LOSS OF MINING COOLIES League has observed the complete elimina tion of party politics from the affairs of the Navy dlucng the past five months, and it appeals for the support of the people of this country and of the whole Empire in demanding that after peace has been secured which in the main will be achieved through the sea power of Great Britain party politics shall not again be allowed to obtrude upon questions affect ing paral defence,

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The few millions of dollars that we The Ipoh (F.M.5.) correspondant are losing to-day, are snowballs comparod to the shells in our future saorifice if by the Singapore Free Press says

thought, word, or dred, we contribute to It is estimated that there were nearly the blood-letting of our kin by assisting thirty thousand fewer mining ocolies in the German-American element in furnish the country at the end of last year than ing the Fatherland with the munitions of at the end of 1913, representing approxi war. England is giving up a mighty, mately a reduction of 25 per cent. This lot to the game, and I think, and must go a considerable way to diminish Amoriosa I know thinks that we the output and create a rise in two price help, without question, By of tin

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