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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22#D, 1910.

THE SPOILT CHILD OF EUROPE.

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GERMAN SENSE OF HUMOUR..

[BY LEWIS MELVILLE IN THE

GAZETTE."]

PALL MALL

If I were asked to give in a few words 4 due to the present state of mind of the German people, I should point to the terms recently promulgated unofficially, it is true-upon which Germany is pre- pared to make peace, and especially dwell upon that particular clause in which that country expressos its willingness, in return for the cession of the Belgian Congo, to guarantee the integrity of Belgium If thero is a gleam of humour to be found in anything connected with the war, here it is, in a nutshell.

The land which deliberately tore up its treaty, which thrust avide its international obligations because, in the words of its spokesman in the Reichstag, it was in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no now professes itself prepared, on terms, to renew the obligations to which it had previously bound itself, And, mark you, Germany means this offer to be taken seriously. It is not a jape circulated by some sardonic joker. The suggestion is made in deadly earnest. Germany sees nothing ridiculous in this proposal, which has set the whole world"a-laughing. "True" we can hear the Chancellor suy- ing, once we did regard the treaty as a scrap of

paper, and consigned it

500,

we

ITALY'S POSITION.

Germany still continues to maintain the fiction of being at peace with Italy Tha progress of the Italian offensive”, „acroBN OBSTACLES SHE HAS TO CONTEND the Isonzo is necessarily dependent upon

WITH.

SUPERIORITY OF NUMBERS.

[FROM THE EVENING STANDARD

MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.]

the security of its lines of communication. and the latter, of course, can neger be considered safe until the whole line of the Dolomite and Carnic Alps are Italian hands. Progresa bere must neces sarily be slow.

In

• NUMBERS 1. POSITION. The Italians have great superiority of numbers, but their enemies have the ad- A superficial study of the map of vantage of position. Everywhore trench Southera Central Europe goes to suggest after trench, pass after pass, fort after that Italy occupies a position of extra fort, has to be bombarded, slowly ordinary natural strength, Girt about approached, and finally rushed. We in

not expect any sudden or startling by the stupendous mountain masses of dovelomente on this front until one of the Alps on the north and by the sea on two things happens, either Austria'ë "card of re-entry" has been drawn or the three other sides, she seems as secure from external aggression as almost any untralised, or the enemy troops have been forced to betake themselves to other country in the world.

points,

But the student of history knows

It is conceivable that the Central that things are not what they seem. The Powers might direct troops against their Als have been surmounted by innumer quondam ally, who, for the time being. able, immigrant peoples and invading would be thrown upon the defensive, armies, and the sea has borne to Italy which would demand possession of the colonists from many a nation inhabiting whole hits of the Isonzo, as well as of the shores of the seas which bound Europe the Dolomite and Car Alps to the South and West. The Romans themselves are said to have arrived in. Italy by ship,

aud the Phœnicians, Carthageniaas, tireeks, Sarnoces, Scandinavians, and other races have con veyed their colonists to Italian soil by the ocean route.

LORD KITCHENER AND RECRUITING.

The following extract is from the speech delivered by Lord Kitchener in the Ilouse of Lords on the 15th ult. :--

A careful study of the map reveals Italy's weakness. Modern Italy may he said to consist of three parts. First, the very rich Continental portion between the to thu dustbin, but then, you Apennines and the Alps; secondly, the

As I have informed your lordships, some rently and truly

could peninsula; and. lastly, the islands. The

night well

of the new Armies we have prepared und not help ourselves, and you will ad- Continental portion

Now attacked by fand and conquered before equipped for the war are already in the mit that we did express our regret, circumstances aro vastly different, and we troops from the insular and peninsular field, and others will quickly follow them are not likely to be in a position in which portions of the kingdom could be broughton service abroad. we shall be terapied, or shall find it ineon-up for its defence.

Therefore, venient, to keep our word.

Such a state surely, you will trust us." of mind, is even. more pitiable then ludicrous.

PLAYING TO WIN.

Germany can only see its own point of view-to keep this in mind is essential to an understanding of the country and its people. Germany, the Kaiser's subjects argue, has to win the war. That is its bounden duty. How it wing is immate rial, It has been said of some folk that they would prefer to win fairly, but to Germany even this pour tribule cannot be paid. From the outset it has never even On the 21st at 10.40 am-With few attempted to play the game. All that can axceptions, pressure has increased slightly to be said in explanation-there can be no moderately at all stations. The anti-cyclone question of excuse--is that it does not has increased in intensity and spread eastward; know how to play the game, except in so pressure remains relatively low over the China

far as playing the game means winning. Bes, and moderate to fresh monsoon will prevail

For two-score years it has been taught, over the northern portion.

day in, day out, that it was invincible in Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at arms, and that might is right. As a natural corollary it has regarded the sol- dier as the superman.

That has been ob- vious even to the casual visitor to Ger- many; it has been impressed upon him alike by the arrogant behaviour of the officer class and the humble demeanour of The cult of the rest of the population. the uniform is the most remarkable feature in the life of modern Germany, It dominates the country from north to south, from cast to west; it obsesses all minds.

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IMPERTINENCE.

That resistance should be offered to the German uniform is in Germany unthink | «ble.

That any foreign country should oppose the German uniform was regarded ag incredible, It came as a shock that Russia should object to any pretensions of Germany; it was amazing that France, laughable that Belgium, should set itself

EABY FEAT FOR AUSTRIA.

The

The response of the country to enlls for recruits to form these armies has been little short of marvellous, but it must be borne in mind that the pro- vision of men to maintain the forces in the field depends in great degree on a large and continuous supply of recruits. provision to keep up their strength during 1918 has caused us anxious thought, which has been accentuated and rendered more pressing by the recent falling off in the.

forward a spa-borne numbers coming

enlist, although every effort has been made to ob tain our requirements under the present systems.

This feat should have been particularly easy for Austria, who possessed in the Trentino a sally-port thrust beyond the crest of the Alps well into the basin of From the Trentino she could the Po. immediately cut off the province of Venice and overrun the whole plain of Lambardy

oven

to

In much the same way army, supported by, a superior fleet, might very well gain the islands of Sardinia and Sicily by coup de main, or

be landed unexpectedly anywhere 1 am sure we all fully realize that the on the coasts of the long and narrow strength of the Armies we are sending out peninsula, whose defence is further pre- to fight must be fully maintained to the judiced by the fact that it is traversed very end. To fufil this purpose we shall from end to end by a lofty mountain require a large addition to the numbers of range, which precludes rapid communica-recruits joining, and the problem of how tion from one side to the other.

close

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The returns.

What Italy has always required for her to secure an adequate supply of men, and military security is, firstly, the crest-line thus to ensure the field force being kept ap of the Rhaetian and Noric Alps and all to full strength, is engaging our the country south as far east as the long attention, and will, I hope, very tude of Flume; and, secondly, the ability receive a practical solution, to turn the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian of the Registration Act, which will be seak into Italian lakes. As to the Adria shortly available, will, no donht, give us a tie, she requires Dalmatia and Albania. basis on which to calculate the resources For the Tyrrhenian Sea she requires of the country, and to determine the nuns. bers that will be available for the Array Corsica and Tunis.

after providing for the necessary services of the country, as well as those of our munition works.

MAIN ROUTE TO THE EAST.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE, Whatever decision may be arrived at in the full light of the facts before us must undoubtedly be founded on the military requirements for the prosecution of the war and the protection" of our shores, and will be the result of an impartial inquiry as to how we can most worthily full our national obligations. Although there has been a falling off in the number of re cruits, I do not draw from this fact any

But the Trentine and Istria belong to Austria; Dalmatia, which once belonged. to Venice, is inhabited by Serbs, and. should go to Serbia; the southern part of Albania is inhabited by the Tosks, who belong to the Greek Church, and should be united with Greece; Corsica belongs to France, and to give it to Italy would make the great Napoleon an Italian; and England and France are equally con corned to see that both sides of the Sicily-Tunis narrows on the main trade route to the East should not be in the hands of any one Power.

The fact is that Italy wants almost as from her ap against them. These countries had much from her allies as

But it is with the Austro- consequently to be punished, and no one in enemies.

are prin- Germany doubted but that they would Italian front with which we

From the Gulf of forthwith be drastically castigated. Had cipally concerned. not the great General Staff drawn up Trieste to the Julian Alps there is no place for any contingency? And was not obstacle such as would prohibit an ad- the German General Staff the most invulyance east or west on a broad front; but nerable organizer of speedy victory Ger the lines of the Isonzo and a number of any stood aghast at the audacity of its other rivers which traverse Venetia from side to side afford successive lines of neighbours.

When victory did not crown its arms, Tarvis to the source of the Drave are prac WHEN THE TURKS

defence, and, since the Carnic Alpe from Germany at onee decided that

Watically impassable by regular armis, necessary to learn" its enemies. They afford Italy considerable protection

it

did not succumb under the ordinary cou-against an Austrian invasion from the ventions of recognised laws of nations; east. well, they must be treated to exhibitions

OFFENSIVE HELD BACK.

concitision unfavourable to the resolution and spirit of the country; on the contrary, that the manner in which all classes have I think now as I havo always thought- responded to the call of patriotism is mag- zificent and I do not for one instant doubt that whatever sacrifices may prove to be necessary to bring this gigantic war to a successful conclusion will be cheerfully undertaken by our people, (Cheers:)

THE NILE.

REACH

GERMAN VISION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE'S DOWNFALL.

bach discusses in the National Liberal According to the Forwaris, Dr. Kohr- organ, the Magdeburgische Zeitung, his

lawing introduction by the Secretary for the Colonies, Dr. Self-

of such expedients as were unrecognised. But the Dolomite Alps are pierced by What said the German to his soul, would a number of passes which permit the terrify me to such an extent as to make Austrians to push down the Trentino me sue for peace! He fulness, which turn the whole of the defensive lines tutorial Almanac, which contains the fol-

Answer along the vally of the Adige, and thus in the policy of "frightfulness has since been adopted. It must be awful alluded to. It is for this reason that the to be asphyxiated, he thought. Therefore Italians are holding hack their offensive he installed a plant to project poison gas. across the Isonzo until they can secure

"Germany's political and economic posi- It would be dreadful to feel that my wife all the strategic points in the Southern and children at sea might be sunk at any Tyrol by which the Austrians might reach ion makes it an urgent necessity that And the submarine the communications of their main offen- after the termination of the war our moment, he knew.

Colonial possessions, without detriment to torpedced passenger ships. I could never sive.

eventual territorial possessions in When we consider the terribly difficult our hear the strain of sitting at home with my family of an evening if I wore aware that nature of the Trentino we must needs Europe and the new formations affecting at any moment my home and my household admire the extraordinary perspicionce the relations of European States with might be blown up, he cogitated, And which distinguished the Prussian and each other, must be maintained and

enlarged. his warships shelled seaside resorts until Austrian statemen who secured this country for Austria in 1866, In Austrian

"Colonial_Empires, coherent as far es that was found dangerous for the warships hands it has always forbidden an Italian possible, and capable of being defended, and his Zeppelins dropped explosive and offensive to the cast and northeast,, and which supplement the political economy incendiary bombs upon the dwelling Bismarck was wise to help Austria to of the Mother-country, will probably ho places of non-combatants,

retain this powerful weapon against the keynote of Colonial policy after the Italy, because the latter would naturally Balkans which Bismarck proposed to pro be jealous of Austrian enterprises in the war." mote in due time.

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

That his reflections were sound, as re gards himself, was proved when the Allied aircraft descended upon Karlsruhe. Never

The Italians are still prosecuting the was there such an outery, London and more defensive of their two sets of opera

Paris might be fair game, but surely Karl srube was sacred.

are

towards

to be

A TEUTONIC DERAM.- Dr. Rohrbach adds to these words his

He says:- own strategical war plans

"Our only strong adversary on Colonial ground beyond the seas will appear. The issue will be decided by our fight with England

When connection with the Straits of Constantinople has been established, and the Anglo-French landing troops, together with the Italians who perhaps may join them, are thrown into the sea, the rest will follow like a well-rehearsed play.

"The Turkish army will advance across Asia Minor, and with each army corps

tions, namely, that which seeks to shut As regarded others, the backdoor of the Trentino, bis conclusions were not so accurate. They have now secured positions to the Neither Paris nor London blanched. These east and north-east of ftovereto; havo cities did not like the attentions of the captured Borgo, on the road to Triente; Zeppelius, but they treated them with the and.

pushing up

the contempt which the policeman accords to Pusterthal to secure the railway from the drunken man. Thoy deplored the loss Franzensfest to Klagenfurt, which con of civilian life, the wanton destruction of nects the valley of the Adige with that property; those who could flocked to the of the Drave, and affords the Austrians an the Inwel of the soo in inches. Souths and recruiting offices; those who could not de communication along their front. Here

cided to treat the affair us an exciting the immediato objectivo seems joke. They turned out in their thousands Balzano, and after many initial difficul that passes through the town of Saladin ties and some checks at Cadore, they have the nightwore in London will grow worse. to "ece the fuá," They robbed terror secured Cortina and Misurina

"When the English forces on the Nile of its sting by deriding it. An actor-

New snow has already fallen upon the have to surrender to the Turks, or take to manager the other night interrupted the Alpine ridges, which will make it increae. their ships at Alexandria, then a blow will play to inform the audience that a Zeppe ingly difficult for the Austrians to adresound from Gibraltar to Singapore, lin was flying over the theatre: would it vance through the Trentino into the under which the whole fabric of the Bri- like the performance to be stopped, he valley of the Po, should the fortunes of tish Empire will topple down.

Go on shouted every man war ever enable them to withdraw suffi- and woman in the house, except the few cient troops from their Polish adventuro who went outside to see the sight, to assume the offensive against Italy.

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