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OUR LONDON LETTER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, February 20d, LONDON AND THE ZEPPELINS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 8TH, 1915.

cavalry was not needed for fighting they were in the habit of taking a run with the hounds, and various packs were sent over. Sume good sport resulted, but the French were scandalised at lo sport" Count Zeppelin has not yet carried out running so close to the scene of war, the his threat to raid London, though the peasants who, God knows, are sporificing nights, this last week have not been at all enough--did not like the galloping over unfavourable for such an entorprise. The the tilled fields. So the order went forth

doubtful egg, fearful to deal with it BAVARIANS AND THE WAR. boldly less it should crack and cit odours unsavoury to the official nostrile" WHAT HAVE WE TO GAIN EVEN

IF PRUSSIA WIN 15 of the administration,

American jibe that the German method off to stop the hunting, and the horses today, nominated for Swansea, but there was a

warfare seems to be to sail in the black when not in use, are being exercised. night to drop bomby on a baby's crib Some of our gay sparks their pranks appears to havo jarred the cultured may be forgiven, for they are bravery Toutou mind quite a lot, but hardly as personified-age displeased over this. But much as the whacking they got from Admiral Beatty and his sturdy lads a

week ago.

We are all ready for the nocturnal visitors by serial routes. Wo anticipate that if the raid docs come we shall none of us have much chance of offering a target or a token to the enemy, for by the turn of a lever or two all our lights will be cut off. Hundreds of offices and homes in London laid in a stock of candles for use behind drawn blinds in that event.

Please do not dedues from that that we are nervous. We are nothing of the kind. In fact, I rather suspect that if the promised raid does not come off we shall nourish a feeling of grievance that we have beut robbed of excitement

due to us.

FROM SINNER TO BAINT.

Six months of warfare, as a matter of fact, finds us in good fottle, True, we are paying more for everything; six sover eigns go only about as far as four and a half used to go this time last year. But that is largely a question of freight charges and, anyway, we are not being put on rations by the Government as the enemy is now-a-days. Some unprincipled people -may their fata be hard-are doubtless making illicit profits out of us; and some sre making profits out of contracts for the Army, which is worse when the goods supplied are bad. It is to be hoped that the Courte will deal severely, with con tractors caught in this unspeakable mean-

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All the leading bankers have been addrossing their shareholders in the last few days, and for the most part they have been optimistic, while their unanimity in praising Mr. Lloyd George, as the bold handler of a critical situation at the beginning of the war, must be making overy Welshraas blush with pride. chairman even went so far as to suggest that the Chancellor should be made

E for you Duke! There's time's revenge I wonder how long it will be before the

Duke of Criccieth " opportunity to get after his adulators and causes them to turn the wine of their adulation into the vinegar of criticism.

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ENGLAND AROUSED..

The German papers which are not absolutely muzzled, such as the Forwaerts, pressure indicate that the economic in that country is far greater than the outside world has been allowed to learn. There is good reason to believe that the German gold reserve will enable the enemy to keep going financially for at least a year, but it will be at the constantly increasing risk of internal trouble, due to lack of food and work.

the more serious men approve, for they see France with her very soul steeled to the struggle, and the old men the only ones not at war-refraining even from fishing on Sundays, such is the sternness of the strain that racks the sinews of our confident but transformed ally.

GERMAN MISCHIEF-MAKERS

The attempt to wreck a Canadian Pacife railway bridge by an ex German officer gives some colour to a statement made the other night by Mr. J. Obed Smith, the Canadian emigration officer here, respecting the reports current in Canada and America that Germans have boon diligently providing themselves with uniforms and equipment in the United States of late, with the intention of sweeping down on Vancouver and other Canadian towns near the international border. The end of such a freak rising would be speedy, but it is only one of the many crazy-brained schemes that the Gorman mischief-raakers are busy with in President Wilson has missed America.

Then there is the serio-comedy of hir, Masterman, the man with the personal recommendation from Mr. Lloyd George, Bethnal Green declined him, so he tried the cold by the electors,, Then he was Ipswich. There he was again left out in

revolt in the Liberal camp, and ho forth with withdrew Shipley took a look at him, but again the verdict was adverse, so at length this much tried man, quite amiable and able really, but terribly Iacking in the requisite personality, sent in his resignation as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The most likely namo mentioned as his successor is Mr. Montagu, but it may be that the selection will not be made, for Mr. Montagu bas proved himself a very ablo Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Mr. Asquith is not eager to let him go elsewhere.

THE SUBMARINE MENACE-

The following interesting article by Mr. Alfred Arnold, who has been on a mission through Germany at great personal risk

graphic idea of the dissatisfaction with on behalf of The Doily Express, gives a

the war which is fels in Munich -

"Citizens are strictly forbidden to enter into conversation with soldiers going to the front."

This was the announcement painted in red and black letters which met my eyes the moment I emerged from the Munich Central Station.

I asked the manager of a café opposite: the Odeon Theatre to explain the reason for this notice. He said that the authori

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ties had circulated the order to checkmate A the anti-war propaganda carried on by perce partisans, and carried o

Incessant efforts by such partisans to induce the soldiers to threw down their arins had already resulted in a serious city where the men had boon court mutiny in the camp to the north of the marialled and shot. ⠀

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The Bavariaus are at no pains to con seal their dissatisfaction at the course of the campaign.

hand, I overheard such remarks among Not & cheer was raised. On the other Poor devils { "; the bystanders as "More food for the guns! What have we co gain, even though Prussia should be the victor?" and the like.

While nobody Lere under-estimates the

I was standing at a corner of the Max. gravity of the menace of the German

Josef Platz when a company of infantry submarines, either in the Irish Sea or the Channel, there is no wish to exag-soldiers-fire, well-built follows-marched

It has been by on their way to the station. gerate the latest incidents. know for some months that Germany believed the plan to be completely feasible, but we have not forgotten that the petrol supply of the submarines is limited and that they must put back to Germany to renew it if, indeed, they can get back. Some of the experts here believe they will not get back, and that the sending of these submarines so far afield will simply mean that the Gerraan. feet will be so much the weaker for the

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Those words could appear to reflect the opinion of Bavarians generally, who feel that they have been dragged into a quarrel which was not of their making, the end of which they are beginning to articipate with some trapidation. "SOT A WORD PRINTED ABOUT THE MUTINY." The Munich Press, aoung on orders

COLOURED They did a from Hero, is, of course, silent on the

subject of the revulsion of pusite feeling about the mutiny in the exmp. Nov a word, for instance, was printed

of distinction by his great chance omitting to enter a protest against the violation and devastation of Belgium, and then roaring over a matter of dollars dirty deod, in sinking the cargo of relief and cente in copper and cotton. But he and his Miniatry may be reckoned on to provisions sand from New Zealand for discourage any such operations as the the starving Belgians, and they tried on Canadian raid Nevertheless, it will be Friday night to do a still worse action, Asturias, in the Channel, but fortunately a long time before the mass of Americans for they fired at the hospital ship, missed her. As the Pall Mall Gazette forget how dangerously near entangle- rent in the war the Teutons in the United aid the other day, We expect nothing States have rushed the country

from a pig but a grunt, and nothing from a Prussian but outrage." DRITISH MANUFACTURERS

Some papers, like the Globe, are taking I understand that the Chinese, and a cue from the Russian attitude towards many British in the Far East, are mysti- the captured Zeppelin crew at Libau fed at the slowness of the British They are of opinion that the Germans manufacturers to take advantage of the who attack defenceless towns should be opportunity in China. The reasons, I trented as criminals and notas prisoners The Captain of the Blucher is suspect, are more clearly visible on this of war. side than that. Treight charges are 80 in car hands, and we could, therefore, high, the length of the war is so uncer try him for the slaughter of the women tain, the industrial cities are so busy and children of Scarborough. with urgent orders, that so far the

MOVE ON."

DETTING A

Here is another significant incident.

Three day before my arrival in Munich porsed by a sabre charge by the polica a crowd of women and girs were dis from the Marienplatz. The women were found kneeling in prayer at the foot of the beauticut red marble statue of the Virgin. They were praying for the war to cente.

This, of course, was regarded as a grave offence by Prussianased once.dom. The police arrested several women who are still awaiting trial on a charge of incite- ment to high treason,

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evidences of the distress caused thereby among the large number of female opera Lives are at hand both day and night in the wealthiest parts. Groups of young loitering at street corners and in areades until the small hours of the morning begging passers-by for assistance.

manufacturer has not had time to adjust HE PERFIDIOUS ENGLISH girls wander aimlessly about and stand

his perspectives. But something is being done for all that.

This week, for

AND GERMAN TRADE.

example, there is an exhibition in Los A letter from China to the Frankfurter don of soft goods from German and Zeitung oxpatiates on the hiquities of Austrian factories, for comparison with the English in Kiso-chow. British makes and a good many of these samples of German cotton and woollen cloths and articles were intended for the China market.

An exhibition of a similar kind is being arranged, also, for Manchester, ao in time the ideas should sink in and the foundations of expanded trade should be laid on sound foundations of adequate knowledge.

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At a point half-way between the fashionable Ludwig district and Giesing there stands a block of newly-built four

These premises! storeyed warehouses. now shelter nearly 400 soldiers returned from the front. Please

Violent anti-English sentiments, 80 We are much in evidence in the other towns I told The Chinese are at the moment visited, are not prevalent in Munich. remarkably friendly towards Germany Bavarians do not join in the chorus of That the war was only occasioned by the unreasoning hatred which is constantly fact that the English became envious of re echoed in the Berlin Press. Germany's commercial succcases is as I can say in all sincerity that the clear as daylight to us out here. The English make use of the dirtiest methods Bawarians are tired and sick of the war.

to the Prussian military class To effect this they have expelled all to obtain German trade for themselves. They are tired, too, of acting as satellites Germans from Hongkong and confiscated all private property. They will have to pay for it all later, and if they believe that they can secure the regard of the Chinese in this way and rops in our trade, they are vastly mistaken. A typically English portion of commercs, Manchester goods, rest in German hands, and even All these are suffering from some form the English banks are quite prepared to of insanity ranging from intermittent undertake again the financing of business attacks of mania to raving lunsoy. Access for the Germans, despite any ediets which to this temporary asylum is forbidden the King of England may scatter even to the nearest relatives of the aut throughout the world. On could write ferera whose maladies are in many cases the volumes about

dirty methods regarded by the physicians as extremely damage the German repute out here, and Food prices have risen enormously. nguage, adaptability, and efficiency of employed by the English in order to infections. their Teuton competitors. German is these they recognise that it is all unavailing white bread, though not prohibited by only language, for example, that the they become more and more incensed. average Russian commercial man knows

Meanwhile, markets nearer hom are being attended to, and, to begin with, Russia is sending us a fine batch of orders that in former days would have been placed in Germany. One of the tests yet to be tried hers will be how far our com-

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besides his own tongue, so the British TOLSTOY ON GERMAN traveller must learn German.

The Gor

CONCEIT.

Our Army must have seemed to many of the French slow in arriving in large numbers. But there has been no com plaining at all, and now that the first Kitchener Army has arrived in France, and they know that the others are getting ready, the enthusiasm of cur allies is warm and generous. The French Minister of War has just been here to see for him self, and he was so impressed by what he saw that he wanted to proclaim it mans are, and always have been, hated through the Press, but was restrained by by their Hussian neighbours, but the same our reticent dictator, Lord Kitchener. In adaptability they have shown in China Pence was written by Tolstoy in the private, however, on his return to Paris, has been put to good uses in Russia, and ho has given expression to his admiration and his 'confidence in our new forces in terms so strong as to wavince all the Parisians and to intensify the good-feel ing existing among the Allies. at the Western front. Moreover, I hear that the French, on the strength of it, bave Bent very cheery messages to the Russians as to the coming activities of the Spring

By the time this letter reaches you the

they got a lion's share of the trade, in spite of their handicaps. It remains to be seen how far we shall get our books into the new commerce before, in the future, the competition becomes more nearly equal again.

the authorities, is scares, and sells at one shilling the two-pound loa Beef and veal cost 1s. 6d. a pound. Eggs are priced 3a8d. to 48. 6d. a dozen. Fish, except smoked herrings, is entirely unobtainable. The hunt for copper has not yet begun in Munich. On the other hand, the commandeered the Government has whole of the large stock of the metal stored in the famous bronze factories off the Luitpold district. This flourishing than 4,000 skilled hands has completely trade, which gave employment to more

ceased. S

The following passage from War and sixties of the men of 1812 ***Pfubl was one of these hopelessly, immutably conceited men, ready to face martyrdom for their own itete, conceited is only a German's conceit that is based only Germans can be, just because it on an abstract idea-science, that is, the supposed possession of absolute truth In three of the principal city schools The Frenchman is conceited from suppoe the children are provided daily with a ing himself mentally and physically to free meal of potato, turuip, and bean PARLIAMENT AND THE WAR

be inordinately fascinating both to men stew. This measure was adopted by the! An Enghanman is con authorities in view of the scarcity of food There is no need to make a rush to and to women.

ceited on the ground of being a citizen and the expense of living. The larders secure a seat in the new Parliamentary of the best-constituted Btate in the world, in great numbers of working-class homes session, for two hundred and thirty and also because he as an Englishman are depleted to such an extent that the M.Ps are on active service, only 44 of always knows what is the correct thing first of the Kitchener armies will be at whom, it may be noted, sat on the Liberal to do, and knows that everything that Parents, while themselves on the shortest he, as an Englishman, does do is indispat of rations, are unable to provids, their the front, another army will be well on benches The Opposition has led off with ably the correct thing. An Italian is offspring with anything excent small its way to preparation for active service, a declaration of freedom to criticise, and conceited from being excitable and easily quantities of the driest and blackest Bome of the Indian divisions that have this the Premier has frankly acknowl-forgetting himself and other people. A bread.

Russian is conceited precisely because he been resting for the last few weeks will edged, at the same time paying tribute knows nothing and cares to know nothing, be at work again, and I think very soon to their patriotic and invaluable since he does not believe it possible to A conceited Gor- man is the worst of them all, and the we may bear of stirring deeds. But co-operation. Such criticism as is likely know anything fully. rapidity must not be looked for, unless to come out in the very limited time at most hardened of all, and the most Austria falls in a heap. An officer writes the disposal of private members concerns repulsive of all; for he imagines that he me from the front that he thinks the details rather than the broad lines of the possesses the truth in a science of his own invention which is to him absolute earliest the conflict can cesse will be next conduct of the war-such details as War truth." autumn.

Officà contracts, the rising cost of food-

FIGHTING OR FOXHUNTING.

stuffe, the maintenance of soldiers' depen little boy! Why didn't you give your Nurso Why, Master Tom, you selfish On the The only thing that has disturbed our dants, and the alien problem.

sister a piece of your apple1

She can the quite unique Mr. officers in France is the fact that their last-named,

Tom: I gave her the seeds. hunting has been stopped. When the McKenna fusses round, like a hen with plant 'em and have a whole orchard.”

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