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countries of Eastern Asia, the variona Customs Tarifs, Trade Regulations, Char tion of the Foress it the battle of Kweilin of historical interest showing the disposi bers of Commerce, Seales of Commissions. dedicated to Sir ROBERT Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp G.C.M.G., and Dr. A. RENNIE

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The following verses, written by an American whose name cannot be publish- ed, were seat to Sir William Osler, the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, Baltimore. They illustrato the strong feelings of many Americans.

NEUTRAL.

WASHINGTON, August 5th Whereas a state of war unhappily exists and whereas the laws and treatics of the United States

pose the duty of an impartial neutrality

Therefore JA KORE

"We have no protext for declaring wor,” No pretext-truo, but O America [⠀⠀ Thero. is a Cause-thy cause as well as thoim Who fight thy battles for thee oversea Dost thou do well to draw thy garments clear The while the very things thou staudest for Are trembling in the balance? Shail the

oarth Remain the gainer for the conțuries Of toilsome groping upward-Justify Him, Who created? Shall Democracy Gasing men frank and fearless in the Still load her peaceful cohorts down the years To over widening freedom Shall our Chiefs Bo Prophets, Sages Survers of their lind Gainst pestilence and ignoringo our wars Our meed of victory--the Common Good? Or shall the ghadow of the Iron Hand Blacken the earthy Shall Médioval night Engulf our dawn-Torn from a Lister's

hand

eyes,

The knife goes back to Chin! Shall all we

piled w

Stone after stone for painful conturies, Fall crashing into chaos, while the guns Roar sullen requiem? Earth an armel

сатор-

"Might" once more "right"|—0 Country

of the Free,

Is this no cause of thing?.

FORCING A DECISION. MILITARY ATTACHES' VIEWS ON THE WAR.

Several of the military attaches at neutral States in Paris have been inter viewed on the subject of the war.

Republic, considers that the war will be Major Fasola Castaño, of the Argentino long, and that the most interesting phase of the operations will not be reached antif tho Spring. A decision will have to be attained by one of the adversaries break- ing the front of his opponent by massing large forces in a limited space. Then s the rest of the line will have to fall back and the final battle will after ali bo one in the open. The Major considers that the character of the campaign has render- ed valueless differences in the quality of troops, and that the decisive, element will bo numbera

Major Floury de Barros, of Brazil, com already shows signs of weakness, and will pares Germany to a furious bull which in time be exhausted. He offers personali testimony to the brutality of GermaJN methods of warfare. He bas seon a little child in hospital putting out the stumps cut off by a Germsa, soldier. He has of its arms from which the hands bad beau likewise a tribute to pay to the super. moral of the French soldier in hardship.

Colonel Carlos Fernandez, of Chile, has also remarked the stoicism of the French privates coming away from the trenches. in the Argonne after eating nothing for 48 hours. His opinion is that the French Army owes a great debt to her airinou. Ho inclines to the belief that Gormany. completed her economie organization so thoroughly before the war that arms alone can force a decision and bring about peacd

GERMAN

COMPLIMENTS.

The exploits of the German submarined

And think not that thyself shalt so espeare still the subject of jubilant articles.

The ashes of Louvain that.ery to God, The blood of" neutral Belgium," falling

bomb

And Boating death that blocks - the oceani

lanes,

With treaties violate and oaths forsworn, Bear ominous witness to that prophot voice: Thou art, the next in line!" Looks, looks

beyond

As he had looked, who gave that liberty Thou dost imperil. Judge as he then riso As he, far-sighted, wise, deliberate, Ware he on earth to day would hid thes rise Unfurl the silver stars-unsheath the

sword!

And by the spirit of thy Washington Join hands with England! Up! then-Net

in hate,

And with no shout of martial esasy, But in the name of Him, the Princo of

Peace,

Whose kingdom totters-stern and sorrowful, Facing the isure while the balance sways To arms! Columbia-Lest a world be fost

AN AMERICAN.

THE REPEAL OF MAGNA CHARTA.

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT BY

THE DAILY MAIL."

It falls to the House of Lords to-day to show itself the faithful guardian of the liberty of the subject when Lord Par- moor's Bill amending the Defence of the Realm Act comes up for discussion.

Among the various defences of their operation the most extreme doctrine, is that of the Berlin Lokalanzeiger, which says plainly:

The German command is responsible only to its own conscienco for what it likes to do or leave undone, and it will bear the responsibility, painful though our monstres of defence may be for the Anglo-French starving-out strategists."

o jubilation is greatest at Hamburg. The Hamburger Nachrichten, which, by the way, remarks that "Liverpool was long ago blockaded by German mines, &

says:

in a bold deed and in fearless nanliness - It is not only the joy of every German which is excited by this submarine under that the vital serve of English lite is now taking. All of us also feel ratisfaction.

the member with which they have sinned struck at and that they are punished' in most wickedly their money bags, and their greed of gain-for the sake of which they not only planned the destruction of our people, but do all possible harm to noutrals and betray their own allies. This gloomy, course, greedy people; which thought that it could seize everything o earth, must at last recognize that eve Arrogance has found its liraits..

WAR BREVITIES.

The war costs Great Britain £666 minute..

Fund amounted to £4,481,000; the Queen's.. On 27th January the Prince of Wales

At a meeting of the Cort Corporation. motion to remove the name of Professor Kuno Meyer from the roll of freemon was carried by twenty-four votes to three The honour had been conferred upon the German professor two years ago, my

This Act created many new offences and Work for Women Fund to £127,664; the provided that civilians could be tried for Grand Duke Michael's (Glovo) Fund to them by courts martial, not necessarily by £12,820, and the Daily Telegraph Belgian. the ordinary civil tribunals.

Fund to 2,080,747 shillings." The rights of the subject were summarily swept away. in an hour of confusion and alarm with out a single protest from the House of Commons. In the calmer atmosphere of the House of Lords, however, attention H. was drawn to the risk of abuse by Lord

Halsbury and Lord Loreborn, both ex Lord Chancellors, representing diametri cally opposed political views and of ur

In recent dispatch "Eye-witnes equalled experience in constitutional law. present with Headquarters says:-in Lord Lorebum protested in the strongest spite of a wind which at an elevation of from the subject his right of trial and miles an hour, successful flights were terms against the danger of taking away 3,000 feet was blowing at nearly ninety. handing it to military officers even accomplished by our aeroplanes. though a Court of Assize might be sitting

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HOTEL Mr B. James Mr B. Jones Mr Erre Mr C. W. Reynolda Mr R. Bangerson Ir A. dos Santos. MLS. Smith Me K. Wilsch Mr S. Wright

ON SALE

He moved an amend-

After the engagement off the Falkland

within fifty yards. ment under which all British subjects wholeles Vice Admiral Sturdes sent for one were not in the naval or military forces of the signallers ou the island, bad hin should have the power to claim a trial in brought aboard the fingship, personally, the ordinary courts, with all the security thanked him for his services, and pres which those courts afford, provided such sented him with a five-pound note. courts were available: Under pressure from the Government and, in the face of

Lionel Mackinder, a well-known Eng promises from Load Crewe this asendish comedian, who was one of the first of ment was withdrawn.

a group of London actors who volunteered for service at the bgeinning of the war, has been killed at the front. Mackinder made his first London success in 1895 in "The Shop Girl,"

Lord Halsbury was as emphatic us Lord Loreburn. He said:

them, and thus developed five thousand more horse-power than she did on her steam trials when new. She also lost casemate being killed or injured through. most heavily, all the marines in one.

shell bursting near the gun.

1 sec no necessity for getting rid of the fabric of personal liberty that has been built up for many generations. Although there are rights which should not neces

H.M.S. Kent, fearful that she might sarily be insted upon in time of war, it lag behind in the fight off the Falklands, seems to me that this wholesale sweeping broke up all her woodwork boats, etc, mway of them is to be deprecated. dipped the fragmants in oil, and burnt Viscount Bryce, whose authority in these questions is scarcely inferior, pointed out that in the Napoleonic wars there had been no such sacrifice of British liberty and he was supported by Lord Parmoor, whose Bit comes up to-day. Unfortu nately, however, this measure does not go

Miss Hilda Barry, writing to The Stage. far enough. It does not restore to the from Manila, Philippine Islands, on civilian his right to a trial by jury, wita Dcember 18th, says: -I have just had a an appest from it, where there is reason copy of The Stage sent out here to me, for believing that a miscarriage of justice in which I see Mr. Feldman has given the has occurred. It affects only a compara history of It's long way to tively insignificant number of cases and Tipperary. Ho mentioned several

does not restore the time-honoured feplaces in the world where the song is now guards which were so rashly destroyed. being sung, but I daresay he doesn't know. It would still be possible that for such an that it has reached so far east a Hong- offence as purely political criticism of kong and Shanghai, where I have been Ministers a civilian might be haled before singing it at the Victoria Theatre, and a military court and tried, condemned, where it is now tremendously popular. And punished in secret. That is an 11 Indeed, it caught on go with the people tolerable state of affairs. The Govern in Hongkong that it immediately became HONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS ment, which bt vastulze, chan 50 137 23 the marching, anthorn for the Hongko

the hand, not reqture even so all their marshes, I the Lord Parmoor. Consequently there i was repeatedly asked for it during my need for public-spirited members of both stay there. It has certainly proved suc- Houses of Parliament to be up and doing esssful with me and has also travelled to and for the nation to make its voice many places with me, for I brought it heard. It would not have its Ministers out from England in the summer of 1913, neglect any legitimate precautions for the when I started on my Easter tour, and public safety, but in the unbusinesslike, have worked it in Malta, Egypt, India, hasty provisions of the Defence of the Burmah, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong, Realm Act it seen rather the working of and Shanghai, and I am going to work panic than prudence, Daily Mail it here in Manila, P. I.

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