THE EMPIRE IN WAR. FREE WILL OFFERINGS TO THE HOMELAND.
GREAT SPEECH BY MR. HARCOUNT..
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915.
arrowroot for our Forces, and £6,000 for the Prince of Wales' Fund. The Leeward Islands £6,000 to the Prince of Wales' Fund, £4,000 to our ring. Corps, and $1,200 for Belgian relief. Montserrat sends guava jelly; the Turks and Caicos, £1,000. Trinidad £40,000 worth of cocoa for our Forces, £12,000 for Red Cross. From Jamaion, sugar, or the Prince of Waler Fund, and £800 for the 300,000 cigarettes, and E14,500 in cashi War lieliet Funds, The Bahamas, £10,000 towards the cost of the war, and £3,000 to the Prince of Wales Fund Barbados Belief Funds British Guiana, 1,000 tons
600,000 lbs. of rice, and 813,000 for relief. Rerouta has contributed $10,000 to the cost of the war, British Honduras 85,000 people to do Relief Funds here.
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Mr. Harevart said: It is to me a special 1 took for themselves and their vider. the Red Cross, and nearly 82,003 to the '
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the former German island of Samoa, and Australian troops are now in possession of German New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, and other islands, on all of which the Union Jack flies to-day.
There renains one other Dominion-South Africa. I have seen some ill-conditional and Under the auspices of the Victoria Longue Africa bus sent no troops to Europe These ignorant comments on the fact that South Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for things are the carpings of fools who have not the Colonies, in January last, delivered arend and are not it to write history. I shall speech which is really a-rend of the free never make comparisons of the value of will offerings to the British Government Dominion services, but this I will say, that from the Overseas Dominions, Crown_and other commies and protectorates from one has been or could be greete than that. £20,000 to war expenses-and-over £3,000 to Entranika, British at LTT MORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE. August to January last. The speech, which endered by the Union of South Africa, declared used on the motto, "A Free Empire in Some hours before the wat
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British troops in
South Africa, privilege to be permitted to take the chair on this occasion, for it gives me an oppor tunity of paying my tribute of esteem and admiration to the splendid, assiduous, and unending work of the Victorin League. Long before I held my present-post--was aware of its beneficent activities, but during the four yenes and znore that
I have been at the Colonial Office I have come to realise the special value of its services, and to foel an abiding gratitude for their results. Year by year an ever-increasing stream set to these shores of those whom I call, with official correctitude, visitors from the Dominions, style themselves "home-coming Colonials" Many of them were born in the Dominions, and have never been to England in their lives, but, nevertheless, they talk f their visit to a strange band as "coming home.”
Bet to come as strangers to hug and closely-populated towns without personal associations, or perhaps anything but slight
fend the Union with their own forces. We record of spontaneous generosity from poor accepted that offer with a certain knowledge islands which, a few years ago, were in that Bothin's word was Betha's bond. And receipt of financial aid from the British indeed, it has proved. He had under Treasury Nor must. I omit the Falkland taken for reasons of Timperial importance, Islands, who have contributed a sum of and because the Union had been invaded money which amounts to £2 per head of the to atte to attack, to capture, and to occupy entire population at a moment when they Gerinan South-West Africa: We know, and we know, that he can do so, but we know man cruisers, from which they were happily were in imminent danger of capture by Ger- also that it is no light task. But internal saved by the brilliant and successful unval trouble intervened. I will not minimise action of Admiral Sturdee. And the Legisla neither will I exaggerate that trouble, tive Council and people of Fiji have contri would not honour it with the title of rebel-buted close upon £17,000 to our National lion; it was troublesome, perhaps at times Relief Fund. even clangerous, but it was baser more on
but who, often with affectionate modesty, personal jealousy than on racial animono less varied and splendid.
It is the common experience of that those who have failed to attain the recognition which they regard as their due are inclined to look askance at those who to public confidence. Such I believe to be with greater case and justice have attained the inner bistory and the secret springs of now. There has been no racialism in the victory. General Kotha was fighting within the Union not for the advantage of the British, but for the honour of the Dutch
12th April-Saigon 7th April, Rico
Chinose. Davran, Norwegian str., 1,102, J. Bing,
11th April Bangkok and Swatow FAU SANG, British str., 1,410, H. S 10th April, General and Coal-Order.
Malkin, 11th April-Saigon 7th
Haran, British str., 1,170, J. W. Evans, April, Rice-Jardine, Matheson & Company.
14th April-Amcy 13th April. Gen- eral-Douglas Lapraik & Co. HANAMETAL, American str., 1,711, J.
Lennox, 13th April Saigon Sth April, Rice-Chinese. HITACHI MARU, Japanese str, 4,03), S.
Tominaga, 14th April-Manila 12th, April, General. Nippon Yuson Kai- _sha. HONG BEE British str., 2,008. Ogden, 14th April Singapore 8th April General-Chinese
acquaintances, is not a very homelike pro- recent South African unrest. But it is over provided not only £4,000 in private subscrip. HUPEH, British str., 1,205, C. P. Cole,
reeding. This the open hinded and warm- welcome of the workers of the Victoria League which, in many cases, mora than anything else, makes England a veri- table home to thow Dominion brothers and sisters whom we are so proud to see. It is the touch of nature which makes the Empire Peace has her victories no less renowned than those of war, and these have been the peaceful victories of the Victoria Lengue.
.kin.
You sown seed, and we are
Turning how to our African Colonies and Protectorates: their contributions have been has sent us £5,000, The Gambia £10,000, with many private contributions of large Sierra Leone
sums to Red Cross and Relief Funds, and 2000 has come as a contribution towards of Northern Nigeria. The Gold Coast has var expenses from the Messulman Emírs
ions to the Prince of Wales' Furl, but has xoter £60.000, the cost of the expedition to Togoland, and is anxious, if its finances The Afrikander is pirud of the unstinted permit, to contribute an even larger sum to British people since their war; they know African Colonies has contributed its troops trust which has been reposed in him by the membered also that every one of these West our war expenditure. But it must be re- what freedom and self-government mean,and splendid men they are to two very and from whom it has sprung. The minority successful expeditions against Togoland and of rebels were shaining their fellows and de: the Cameroons. The early capture of Togo- faming their honour. They were dealt with by their own leader and by men of their own land was of special importance, for the GerKWANGTAH, Chinese etr., 1,386, Charters wireless telegraph station in the worbi, 4 possessed there, at Kanina, the largest
ing the harvest. The Kinship of the Empire, cher, and the sordid chapter of scary frea-
based on tradition, on descent, strengthened by confidence, by freedom, and by the under standing, is to-day welded into an impreg nable whole by blood and iron, by an Imperial peril, by the sacrifice of the lives we jove, and by the danger to that which we jove even more, the freedom of our race and the honour of our naine,
surrender of its deluded dupes. The British people will trust the Government of the Union of South Africa to exercise in their own discretion such punishment or clemency
there was rapid and brilliant, and has heen wholly completed. I hope soon to be able to publish a blue book telling the whole long
story in detail. The Cameroons expedition
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NO, HACRIFICE TOO GİEAT. We are met- to-day to nekrowledge with But I need hardly remind you that India deep gratitude the debt we owe to every and the self-governing Dominions are only a corner-even the remotest-of that Empiro part of the British Empire. There remain for the unexampled response to the needs of the whole of the Colonies and Protectorates, the Motherland. There is no sacrifice of in which I take a special interest, for they men, of money, of material which has seen. ed too great for those of our blood who are control of the Colonial Secretary
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blind,
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hen England was at war India control. would be in muting. They were wrong and by night ever since August 4 with con- I have been snowed under by day But they might have been, right if we land tributions alust embarrassing in their mistrusted our Indian fellow subjects, for variety and amount, but always splendid in am toll there would have been a mutiny if their spirit and intention, From the re- we had not permitted our Indian troops to niotest inlands of the Caribees or the Pacific Hight with us in the trenches,
my none too frequent rest has been broken Nobody surely can have road without with telegrams proffering pressing on me chotion that noble and touching despatch-1 from the Viceroy, in which he described how money, goods, produce, volunteers
even neroplanes. The catalogue is so exten-
which might have been made impregnable, fell early to our ships, the Challenger, the Cumberland, and the Dwarf. Victoria, Buen, Bars, and Dachang were captured by our soldiers under the admirable leadership of General Dobell. The whole of the northern railway from Duala is now in our hands, the enemy has been driven into the interior of the country, and the French, who have been captured Edea, and are making good progress co-operating with us in this work, have
tions against German East Africa in the south. On the other coast, the opera proved as a war always expected thes would-a much tougher proposition, for the Gormans have very large forces there but all their attacks on Nyasaland, on Northern Rhodesia, on Belgian Congo and on British East Africa have been successfully repaised; the Konigsberg is derelict in the Rufiji River, Mafia Island has been captured, Dar-es-
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placed at our disposal their treasure and some of its details are too touching to being certain posts within the frontiers to their trust. Men, horses, guns, motors, omitted. ambulances-all the paraphernalia of modern war have for months crossed the Judian Ocean in a steady stream, without mishap. We can never forget the million sacks of and in perfect security under the convoy of flour from Canada, which materially helped our navy, and to-day our Indian troops are to steady food prices in the initial stages of making for themselves an imperishable the war, the contribution of hospitals also record on the battlefields of France and from Canada for both the Army and Navy Flanders.
here and for the French in Paris, from Ontario farmers gifts of onts, rotatoes, apples, peas, and heans, and 250,000 bags of flour; from Nova Scotia tons of coR)
Then look at the great efforts of our self- governing Dominions. Two days before war was declared Canada offered an expeditionary force, mind two days after the declaration of or its equivalent; from Albertu un ross war I accepted it on behalf of the Government Edward Island 600,000 bushels of oats; from find the nation.. It is with us today: Edward Island, again, cheese and hus from ny, Quebec 4,000,000 lbs. of cheese; from Prince manned, equipped, paid by the Dominion it self, and with reinforcements rendy to follow Saskatchewan 1,400 horses of a value of $250,000; 100,000 bushels of potatoes from
20,000 cases of salmon from British Columbia, for the relief of British distress. _.._..
from
I have tried to give you a brief epitome of what the uttermost parts of the Empire harn done and are doing for and in conjunction with the Motherland. The Victoria League has cast its bread upon the waters, and it is coming back to you after many days and in any ways-in inen, in money, in-produce, fellowship, in life Itself.
* One equal temper of heroic bearts To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yiel d'
A UNITED EXPIRE
1 wish you could see my daily and niglitly sheaves of telegrams, the despatches, the as and when they are required. It is an open New Brunswick; more lotr from Manitoba: would live, as I have done for six months, ! letters from the tropical firing line. You seeret Hat one of the Canadian troops are already at the front; it is no secret that the
in the thrills and the romance of thinly rest of them are straining at the leash to get
defendol frontiers, of gallantly-captured there, and, if I may venture a prophecy, their
posts, of conquest and reverse; of strategy From Australia 1,000 gallons of port for and organisation. Sometimes a cruiser... period of probation will not be much further wounded soldiers; a Parliamentary grant of prolonged. They have not had a comfortable £100,000 in aid of Belgium, and contributions are often a launch or a lighter- capturing tinae, the transition has not been pleasant to an even greater amount from private bridges blown up or repaired railways at a defended port or taking an enemy ship; from our Lady of the Snows to our Mother sources; tons of butter and sherp for our tacked or defende: wireless stations de of the Mud, but coming events cast their troops; thousands of carcases of frozen mat-stroyed or erected the tentacles of an quagmires before. winter-almost the wettest ni record--has worth of frozen met al other commodities out in its erbrace, unhasting, unyielding, Not even an Englishton from New South Wales, and over £20,000 impregnable and united Empire stretching broken their spirits, and no one who knows from Queensland; great quantities of food-the personification of the power of the sea. them can doubt that they will do credit to stuffs and goods colireted by the Brisbane the same and the fame of the Maple Leaf. Newspaper Co, including iron, beef, butter purpose, of action, and of sentiment? From And from what springs all this unity of They were accompanied by a military con- pineapples, honey, condensed milk boots the genius of the British race for self- tingent from Newfoundland, which has sup clothing, and cigarettes from Victoria; Tied a lo large number of nasal reservists Western Australia tour for Belgian refugees, government and good government. We have and volunteers drawn from their intrepid and from Mr. Teesdale Smith forty pack freely, proudly, the west complete and enduring fishermen...
camels, with water canteens, for Egypt we have reaped a rich burvest. Canada in autonomy to our great white Dominions, and from Tasmania over £6,000 for various war the past, South Africa in the present, are finds, £500 worth of material for the Bel-witness to the fact that confidence is its guns, and large quantities of fruit for the
OWN reward. But in those Navy and Ariny.
great t-tropical territories, where autonomy is not yet ad and with success-to govern by and through visable or possible, we have cadeavoured and with the sentiments and customs of the inhabitants. The Pagan of the Gold Coast, the Mahommedan of Nigeria, the Massi. or Kavirendo of East Africa have found their field ambulances and a Red Cross unit for when not repugnant ta civilisation, adopted the French fruit and eggs for our hospitals; and administered. A wide tolerance, with tobacco, maize, and money contributions as well as volunteers-from Rhodesia. Money contributions also from the Basutos, Be chuanus, Farots, and the British in Bechuana hand, Bloemfontein, and the Band. From Ceylon, besides the conti
ntingent I have men-
The aim and object and believe the tioned £25,000 to the Prince of Wales Fund result of British Colonial administration and two motor ambulances, and £2,000 frora has been to develop the highest attainments from the material which for the moment-is
THE RESPONSE OF THE ANTIPODES.
From the Antipodes have come to our aid equally great forces. The day before the war I received a telegram, putting the Australian Navy at our disposal and under our orders, and at the same time offering contingent of 20,000 men for European ser vice, with equipment and constant reinforce mente, which I accepted three days later, The New Zealand battleship was already with our fleet, and the rest of their fleet was under our control before war was declared A New Zealand military force was at once oilered, accepted and mobilised and even the Maoris insisted on sharing the White Alan's burden. The passage of the Austra lian and New Zealand contingents was marked at distinguished by the destruction of that pallant and trouble one marauder the Enden, which fell to tie prowess and
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apparatus and a monoplane, £12,000 for the an X-ray Prince of Waks Fund, and over £10,000 for Belgian relief. Clothing, blankets, frozen meat, and cheese have also been sent by them for relief of distrem here.
18th April-Wei-hai-wein April, Coad: Jardine, Matheson & Co. TACOMA MARU, Japanese str. 3.828, Hamata, 14th April Manil 12th April, General. Osaka Shosen Kaisla
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