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ENGLAND IN WAR TIME.

PUBLIC OPINION AND A COALITION GOVERNMENT.

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NEWSPAPER VENDETTA AGAINST LORD have

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KITCHENER.

opinion is somewhat anxious.

THE DISMAL IHISTORY OF COALITION

GOYBENNENTS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7TH, 1918.

desperate gravity of the national position-cer tain papers proved themselves are enough to forget their patriotic duty and play the Ger nan game, will refer only to the attack on

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The following are among the names in

latest casualty lista received:

EE, 200 Lieut. Alan Menzies, aged 20, only son of Mr. H. King Hiller, lato Engineer to the Shanghai Gna Co. Killed in the battle of Festubert, on Sunday, May 18th.

I think this way of alluding to the Coalition |will be accepted as not unjust or partisind Kitchener. The whole history of this

when it is recalled how very unfortunate is told by Mr. A. G. Gardiner, editor of the the

Daily News, the principal organ of the late the records. of been

so called fiberal Government. It illustrates the per- National Governments in England. The soul motives and unscrupulous character history of these combinations makes rather of the vendetta generally

the facts that, as all the work! disinal reading. When Fox and North camel, til Northcliffe in The Times and its f together in 1798, with the object of bringing ha'penny relatives stampedeil the GovernBEL Lieu. Quentin D, 2nd Battalion

ary f

for War las August. A proposal that the creator of the Territorials, apout a peace, George the Third (who was ment into appointing Lord Kitchener Secret

Haldane not over particular himself in political wire-

should go to the War Office was denounceri.

Bulwer Lytton

But

Of course the country generally is prepared to give the new Government absolute and unqualified support. there is some natural anxiety, as there may well be,

responsibilities of Ministers. At

Gordon Highlanders, eldest son. "OË Mr. D. W. Bell, of Shanghai, aged

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May, of the Chinese Maritime Cus- toms. Killed in action at Ypres about May 2nd. WILLIAMA, Captain W. H.. 3rd East Sur- rey Regiment, attached to 2nd Bedford Regiment. Well known in Korea, where he was formerly a mining -engineer. Ho married the daughter of Mr. Arthur Brent, one of this oldest residents of Japan now living,

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[FROM A CORRESPONDENT).

LONDON, May 30th.. The present time is putting the traditional

· and historic reputation of the people of this country for building concity to se vero Tullinge) sail it was "the most unprincipled

Canadian In the end Lord. The Scandal". We are passing through a period Coalition the annals of this or any other London famed with placards headed which is more depressing than any yet nation can equal." In 1794 there was another Notheliffe had his way. The Government lu this manner, as Mr. Gardiner points out, experienced since the beginning of the war. Coalition, designed to support a war, the sickled, and Lord Kitchener was appointed. There is no gainsaying the fact that publicDuke of Portland, Mr. Wyndham, and other Lord Northcliffe won his first great victory Whig leaders deserting Fox and taking in the war. He had made his nominee head The poli- of the Way Office and he now looked for his the time A one of reward. He was Cesar's Cæsar. But he had tic story of Weltave been ten montlis at grips with, our office in Pitt's Government.

mistaken Lord Kitchener. That distinguish deally enemy, who is still unbeaten. Hisarmies are still firmly entrenched in the countries of reaction and corruption into which it ed soldier, Hike Mr. Asquith, is not a gentle. our Allies. All the talk-much of it carefully is not any purpose to enter; and of the third man who cultivates the Press or politicians. Coalition, the famous Ministry of all the He declined to be the tool of Lord Northcliffe. and deliberately promoted by Germany Talents," formed in 1808 from men of all partiese would give him no special privileges for very heavily on the disgraceful Would to that there was a prospect of famine and un to fight Napoleon, it need only be said that his newspapers, he brought down his hand-Wookey-The name of Lieut. &. I. P. it proved a failure, and fell with a crash of God message of The Times; above all, he early collapse beyond the Rhine is now

the death of Fox thirteen months after it retses to declare for Conscription. Now The

A similar fate befel

Load Northcliffe's second object in the war Cane into existence. understood to be quito Insoless. Russians have been thrust back in Galicis the Coalition Government of 1852 unler was Conscription. When he was asked to was I will not lift a finger for two reasons Their mighty ellort in the Carpathians was Lord Aberdeen, which landed us in the Cri

mean War and only lived two years. It was support sogie recruiting sehvine his reply of Feelites, headed by the teenuse of the way the Government have arrestal just at the moment when it appeared a combineustle and Mr. Gladstone, trentesi y, papers and because I want Con- that nothing could present them over-run-

ห Whigs being represented by Lord ning the plains of Hungary. In the Western Palmerston and Lord John Russell. The seription." But Conscription did not come theatre of war French, British and Belginus first necessity of a coalition," said Sir. Edward the chief obstacle to it was the man he in the llous of Commons and put in power. Such ingratitude could

not be tolerated." are holding their own. Here and there local

that me, "is that its members should

Then came the famous message from successes are achieved at an appalling expen couleses? That, in fact, is the problem the fruit from the Military Correspondent diture of life. But the gront advance for which confronts all conlitions; it is the prob- of the Fimes asserting that in a certain which everyone worked and waited during lem before the War Coalition of 1915, and engagement victory was not attained and whether it will be satisfactorily solved by the winter is still delayed. When are we those into whose hands the destinies of the men died in heaps because of the lack of

upon this and blamed Lord Kitchener. The fr. F. Reuter is a sergeant ina going to drive them back?" is the question Empire and the English race are committal explosive shells. The Northcliffe Press seized

untry was flooded with the placard Lord machine-gun section of the 10th York- rests on the knees of the gods.

Kitchener's Tragic Blunder" and the Daily shires and is highly spoken of by his where men foregather, to be followed as likely a not by the further question, "Shall

Wait article, already mentioned, which roused platoon commander. the Stock Exchange to give the public a lead. wn ever drive them out of France and Bel-

The campaign is still going on with the lack gium und invado Germany ?"

slinging has been of the personal element. Napoleon the

of the lack of every man's mind is the know- ledge that if the Government fail the

is pleased to consider himself, must have 3rd Norfolks.. if they blunder badly in the carrying on of is," as the head of the Northcliffe Press the war, if they are anable to rise to the visions of a journalistic Waterloo. He has height of the great occasion and sink Party had a warning, which he is not the man to for the good of the State, there is no Opposi disregard, that the British public i us no use tion to replace them-nothing, in short, but for a Press Dictatorship either at Carmelite He states that the four Captains in the Printing House Square.

Battalion come respectively from China, a violent reversion to the political party House

If this sort of thing were to be permitted Fiji, India and South Americn. system and an appeal to the country. Again, under the party system in Parliament effec tive criticisin comes from the Opposition side with impunity no public personage would be Battalion expects to move to Lichfield altogether impossible. It is therefore re- of the House it is the function ofan Opposition man. The future of the Coalition Govern-shortly to criticise the Government of the day. But as ment would be precarious, if not rendered things stand, with no organised opposition,

msnt issued by the Press Bureau that the view of the man you meet every day iacriticism may be expected from all parts of assuring to read this morning att announce former members of the Customs Company. | business and social intercourse, the feeling the House. The party machine being out of Director of Public Prosecutions shall in gear there is the danger that groups may future be charged with the duty of instituting

Lieut. Sweeting, End-Licuts. Hayley of the country" as it is called. You find it arise as we have often seen on the Continent proceedings against newspapers which pub Bell, Bruce and Hey (killed); and and pour their shrapnel upon the Cabinet fish matter that "might assist the enemy or Messrs. A. P. A. Bouinais. A. C. E

Castle. H. Chenery, WE Brand. Brezę, butsiders, including the pundits at Berlin, into as a whole, or upon individual Ministers, interfere with the successful prosecution of thereby rendering the position of the Govern the war" Some such measure has been

Evans Corri, Destelan (wounded). thinking we are growing tired of the warment less secure than it ought to be in war made necessary by the action of irresponsible Cloare, Connor, fi, Copley Corbate, Gilbert, M: F. It is a peculiarity of the English national time. And without their own party behind

and hard-won liberty of the Press as un- temperament to underestimate rather than them in solid phalanx, as in normal times per interpreting the meaning of the old wounded) ve H... Frane B

under the party system, it is conceivable how bridled licence. Apart from the harm which ME. Gallo, Garnse

H. P. Leaver, E. G. Lebas. Louergan, otherwise the extent of national effort and to easily the stability of a Coalition Government newspaper vendettas against public soen do Hnter (wounded), P. P. P. M. Kramer, criticise what is being attempted before the may be undermined and its prestigede at home, the encouragement which they give to the enemy may be estimated by the work is done. That is the English way, Nostroyril.

I am far from saying that any of those simple fact that articles in The Times and Fusiliers) Meggs. Milton. wonder the foreigner frequently fails to things mag, or will happen. It is to be Dany Mail attacking Lord Kitchener have Third Bedfordshires), H. D. O'Kelley But they are been translated by the German Government (Interpreter); O. E. M. Olive, A. Rateliffe understand us, or that he makes so many hoped that they will not. miscalculations, as has happened throughout matters which have to be considered in any for circulation in neutral countries. It is (wounded? G. A. Robertson, J. A. A

review of the political situation here at the

The following former members of the in the case of the Germans, who always boast present stage of the war. I think it is enough to cause the dead-and-gone members Beck, F. Sterens Trotman, Turner,

also gone to the war-Messrs. B .Camp and brag of what they intend to do or are realised that the disappearance of the of the Walter family, who made The Times

hell. Clitterbuck. K. H. Leach. H doing, and lis without shame or scruple in Opposition deprives the country of an after a great national journal, rise from their Indoor staff of the Chinese Customs have

native Government, and that if the Coalition

Lowder (London Scottish), Mansel-Pley Ministry should prove to be incompetent

dell. A. L. M. C. Pichon (Military there is no substitute for it. The country is

okauffear) Richard (24th Dragoons, 10th French Army), W. E. Weatherall (2nd- a blank cheque, and there will be short

Liout. Royal Field Artillery).. giving the Prime Minister and his colleagues shrift for any politician, regardless of the particular party tag he curries, if to beat the enemy to the dust. This solid, tempts to impede or thwart the nation's will unshakeable determination of the country to prosecute the war to the bitter end is, indeed the most hopeful feature of the political situation. No public man can fail for a single moment to realise the depth and force of public opinion on the war.

note of profound pessimism. It may convey the iden that opinion in England is changing As regards the prosecution of the war until But that view victory crowns our arms.

There is no

·would be absolutely wrong. wavering in the national rosolvo to keep "pegging away," in Lincoln's memomble phase, fill our ultimate aims are fully achieved. I am simply endeavouring to present the average man's immediate view the

reflected in the Press, and it has misled many

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riker to hide defeat or fallure!

THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL

he At.

inea-

graves

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EIGHT MILLION MEN OF MILITARY AGE.

NEARLY HALF OF THEM UNMARRIED.

Mr. J. E. Needham is Senior Cuntain

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THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

An analysis of the Intest census returns shows that there are about 8,100,000 men in the United Kingdous, between the ages of Cors ORDERS MY LIEFT-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D. eighteen and forty.

This total is made up as follows:

ENGLAND AND WALES.

JOINED

1. Private A. C. Leith joined the Corps

on 6th inst., allotted Corps No. 1868) and posted to Scouts Company (No. 3) Section).

PARADES. i

2.--Parades for Wednesday, 7th inst..

7.00 a.m. Signalling Section Signalling)

Instruction at Headquarters. Remainder nil

Age.

332,G1531 322,894 39 .308,328 33

504,131 34 200,288 35

259,903 230370

238,479

267,007

20:058 34

260.478 82,107

206,840 37......

235,490

DETAIL.

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203,303 38.92213 205,840 39

3. Gun Club Hill, Kowloon!

283,350 40

231,517 -202,000

297,008.

286,187 .310,023

Total.....0,313,339.

SCOTLAND,

47,000 .30-34

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41,803 34-39..

201,771

A DISGRACEFUL PRESS CAMPAIGN. Another danger in the path of the Coalition Age. is the attitude of a section of the Press. It is 18 one that will have to be dealt with rigorously 19 and promptly, and in dealing with it the 20 Government will have the moral support of 21 the country. While avoiding the appear- 22 ance Df attaching too much importance to 23 the influence of certain sensational papers, 24 their hostility contributed in no small it is quite within the mark to say that 2 sure to the break up of the Liberal Cabinet. The sniping of individual Ministers began 28 last Autumn anil continuel relentlessly. 20 There was a malice and persistence in the 30 attacks which indicated something more than rancour begotten of political feeling Mr. Asquith, Lord Haldane, Mr. Churchill 16. and Mr. McKenna-to mention only some- were pursued with sleepless hates bitter-20-21- ness altogether unprecedented in the journ alistic experience of the oldest hand in Fleet street.

The Press campaign culminated in an attack on Lord Kitchener which took the form of a particularly venomous leading Hitherto the War Minister had been spared, article in the Daily Mail of Friday, May 1st. but the apostles of vulgar sensationalism, having contributed to the fall of the Liberal Government, thought the time opportune to

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PARADE-VENTRAL POLICE STATION), Wednesday, July 7th-Nos. 1 and 2 Chinese Platoons:

It is not, however, primarily about the conduct of the war that just now public anxiety is felt. The gravity of the task before us is, of course, enough to wake thoughtful men anxions, and as to this I have indicated very briefly the lines upon which men's thoughts are running; but, quite apart from the operations in the field while at the same time closely related to them, there has been the political-apheaval at home. A clange of Government in the midst of a war is, under any circumstance, serious matter, fraught with danger It is inlinitely more and difficulty. serious now than at any previous period in our history, seeing that we are engaged in a life-and-death struggle for our very existenes against what Lord Roberts rightly called a "Lowardly, vicious, and unscrupulous foe."

The downfall of the Liberal Government came with such suddenness that for a while people were almost stupefied. What was the real meaning of this, and the prompt forma tion of a Coalition within a week of the Prime Minister's announcement in the я Coalition Commons that House of Government was not contemplated, nor was it likely to be acceptable* All sorts of reasons have been given to account for the crisis, the full inner history of which, bow ever, niay not be written for many a day to eone. But this much may be said publicly --that it was not wholly due to the alleged salect a fresh victima, and with inconceivable England and Waics, 2,234,776 are uninarried. is not optional. Commanders of the Flatcons shortage of high-explosive shells. The sholl question, if I may say it without levity, was the immediate cause of the political explo sion. The Liberal Government would not have come down on that alone had there been perfect unity among those in power. But there was not perfect unity, and while there was not, perhaps, dissension, there were unfortunate differences. Faced with kach a situation there were only two courses open to the Premier. He had 1) to choose between resignation, which involved plang. ing the country into the turmoil of a General Election-an unthinkable thing in such a war as this-and having the Conservatives to come in (if they could) and do better (also if they could), or (2) to form a Coalition Government. Like a patriotic Englishman

They

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152188

43,820 20-34.. 42,731 85-39.. ... 145,740 101,318

159,900 Total......... 735,707

The figures relating to men of forty in Scotland and Ireland are not given separately, but reached about 100,000.

Thursday, July 8th-Nos. 3 and 4 Portu guese Platoons.

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imbecility they fastened upon the official Within 24 hours they discovered their mistake. head of the Army are learning daily ever since how fatuous £1,000

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until otherwise ordered. all recruits Also, of the Chinese Company, and men of the Chinese Platoons who are backward in their drill,

parade on Mondays and Fridays Of word that he must go. The public said One of the "fat" livings in the City of each week, at 5.30 p.m. at the Central Police nothing while the Ministers I have men London, that of St. Alphage's, Landon Station under Crown-Sergeants Mow Fung tioned were assailed, but as soon as Lord wall, has just become vacant by the death and J. M. Wong: Commanders of Chinesa Kitchener was attacked there was an imme

COMBINED PARAD will inspect dinte shout of "Hands off". The Daily of the Rev. Prebendary J. Glendinning Platoons will send to, Urwn-Sergeant Yow

There are practically drill, and will warn them to attend.

His Excellerey Ge

Kelly was burned with contumely on the floor of the Nash. The St. Alphage living is worth Fung names of their men who require extra London Stock Exchangejan example followel 2950 a year.

the week commen- the Police Reserve. by most of the leading Trade Exchanges in parishioners, and the congregation aver More than one attempt has been made

All members will therefore cing July 12th. the Provinces, while both that journal and the six. other principal papers of the Northcliffe Press

to amalgamate this church with some attend a Combined Parade at the Central The Times (how are the mighty fallen!),

num for a bitter purpose, but-on-those ap. Uniform must be worn by all the Evening Nees and the Weekly Dispatch other City living, and so use £880 per an- Police Station on Friday next, July 9th, at Occasions the then Bishop of London didars Leave of absenes from this Parade have been excluded from public libraries and

Now from the Inspection must be obtained in reading-rooms all over the Kingdom.

The story of the sniping of various Minis not proceed with the suggestion, ters-who, of course were anable to reply--is another opportunity is offered to the pre-writing from the Chief Inwetor only. Any

(Sg) FC JENKIN, too long to relate here and nois. It is one of ext Bishop, who could utilise this money other parade ordered for July 9th is hereity the most disgraceful episodes in the history by increasing the incomes of livings in cancelled.

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