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IS THE KAISER SEEKING PEACE?
MYSTERY OF AUDIENCE WITH THE US. AMBASSADOR,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1ST, LUJA.
THE GERMAN IN COMMERCE,
TACTICS IN THE COMMERCIAL
BATTLEFIELD.....
NEW NAVAL BASES.
HERR BALLIN'S INSOLENT "DEMANDS.
NATURALISED ENEMY-
SUBJECTS.
A PROPOSED DECLARATION. TO RENOUNCE GERMANY,
It appears from the German papers that the main point of the speech delivered The Council of Loyal British Subjects of by Herr Ballin to the League of Hamburg German, Austrian or Hungarian Birth, Shippers lies not in his bluster shout the which strenuously challenges the maxio,. navitime situation and the "concealment Once a German always a German," has of the Royal Navy, but in a carefully for- just subscribed £250 to a fund for a memo nulated demand for German naval expansial to Miss Cavell as a mark of the son at British expense.
council's deep feeling and abhorrence of After his introductory renārks Herr Bela Government which defies the dictates of humanity and chokes the chaunos of wercy:**
By no means the least thrilling chapter to be written of the European War is Simultaneously with
Lloyd that concerning the commercial machina George's denial that unofficial extions by which Germany has been piling
up trade defences calculated to counter changes of views are being or have been
act and undo the occupmic pressure carried on between responsible persons in placed on bor by the Allies, Ba London and Berlin" with a view to the
As the war advances the secrets of the conclusion of an early peace," and his carefully planned devices of the German in said
war lords in the commercial arena are. reavowal of the Prima Minister's famous leaking out, and the Allies are begin Guildhall declaration, comes now, of u
ning to see what tremendous and unscru- pulous forces have been organized against suggested peace move by the Kaiser, them.
It is believed here in Washington (says the Daily News correspondent) that the long audiance which Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, had with the Kaiser this work had reference to new proposals of peace which the Kaiser wished to have communicated to President Wilson:
It is thought that similar overtures have been made to the Pope with a view to joint representations to the Allies. Prince von Bulow's journey to Switz land is regarded as having the sau object in view.
There are, broadly speaking, thren main descriptions of commercial con- spiracy which, Germany is using in the presont warto prevent the strangular tion of her export trade. The frat device was to have ready and waiting secret agents as employes in the great number of works on the enemy's side of the frontier, which in the early conquest of territory would fall into Germon hands.
This was planned two and even three decades ago, and the ex-German officers now controlling the output of the many The attitude of the American Govern mills, factories, ironworks, etc., in North ment on this subject has not altered. Itern France and in the Eastern arca of stands ready st any moment to act in the war have, as expatriated Germans in the interests of pence provided that the pre-war period, been fulfilling the orders Allies are willing to discuss terms of of the German War Staff as directly as any commandant of the fold. Secondly, peace.
President Wilson, however, is entirely German undertakings in foreign coun unwilling to take any step in this mutteries, under ownership which cannot be untess be has the full sunction of the traced to the true quarters, are far more
numerous than most people suppose. Allies, Consequently, while he will v ceive the German proposals willingly, he will merely transmit them to the Goy- rnment of the Allies for their replies." LAST BID FOR VICTORY NOT TO BE MADE
IN THE FIELD.
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STILL GOING ON.
for her future than by striving above all Germany enn in no better way provide
This council came into existence last for the acquisition of those naval bases June. Its primary object is. To take all which will provide a thorough amendment necessary steps to secure recognition by the of the state of things which we have at Itiovernment and other authorities and by present to lament. Wher, 10 months ago, the British public generally of the senti
expressed this article of faith, people ments and spirit of loyalty, and of the connected with it the idea that our naval willingness of naturalised British subjects requirements can be satisfied at Zeebrugge.to co-operate in national service. expressed This, of course, is not the case. We need naval bases at the entrance and at the exit. of the Channel; we need strong basca over reas
NO TREATIES WANTED, Herr Ballin went on to say that the I-
in the resolution passed at the meeting held at the Memorial Hall on May 27th..
FOR ENGLAND OR NOT, Their attitude may be expressed in two other sentence: "We accept the maxim, Whoever is ant for England is against England. We live in a country where we are permitted to say what we think, and in unmistakables words let us declare that we are shocked and almost stunned at the disregard by modern Germany of all inter national treaties and obligations, and at their unblushnig continuance of the most atrocions crimes against humanity and
Similarly it would be easy to trace those. who had beeg naturalised in the first seven months of 1914 and to require a declara- tion from any who had utilised the proviso fr the new German law permitting dual nationality, which the Council denounce as thoroughly bad. The opinion was ex- pressed that out of 8.500 naturalised Ger- mans in England probably not 100 had lived here only five years up to 1914.
perial Chancellor in his last speech in the Reichstag proclaimed "the freedom of the seas and that " on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean people have associated themselves with this demand. He then proceeded with obvious reference to Sir Edward Grey's statement that freedom of the sea muy be a very reasonable sub- ject for discussion, definition, and give-civilisation." ment between notious after this war They heartily support Mr. August *** Our experiences at the beginning and Cohn's suggestion that all those who have in the course of the war have proved that become naturalised before 1014 and have this freedom of the sas cannot be assuredt been in this country ten years should by way of conventions and treaties. We be required to make a declaration that, The substitution and grant defiance know now that such declarations are they renounce their German nationality. of the Merchandise Marks Acts of all worthless in time of war. A Dordom of It was pointed out that this would not in- countries as being practised most ski fully the sens thus made out would, therefore, velve grent trouble; since naturalisation and extensively by Germans at the pre-fail to give German merchant shipping the required five years' residence it wou'd only sent time. German houses have boun security which it needs if it is to continuo be necessary to look through the papers of Germany is Beaten," is the beading only too happy to scrap " the dies with after the war the development which it has those who were naturalised in the years of an exhaustive leader in the Trifunt which they have previously stamped their se brilliantly achieved during the last de 1010 to 1013. which has been notable for its brilliant goods Made in Germany," The marcades. On the contrary, German shipping analysis of the war's progres.
keting of the numerous fake "English" would fall into a state of dueny because, After Aften menriths of unequalled and other commodities thus produced by without such security as I have mentioned, strife, who is it that is taking of the German factories is effected through capital would be bound to be diverted from poace asks the Tribune. We in the neutral countries. Germany hus meignit, and one could not think without anxiety United States in our own experience have bours whose frontiers are guarded in even of the future of our Navy.
but whose commercial an admirable standard of measurement miltary sense,
In the avenues are nevertheless open for the for German military success.
were for many assistance f. Hun merchants and their Civia War the victors months the vanquished. Compare succes hirelings: There is a flourishing trade ses, making proper allowance for the flowing at the present moment from fier difference of size, and the essential fact many to South America, and thence back is the same, Looking back, nothing is to British and other buying markets. clearer than that the South was always The Belgian Government has takey" the doomed unless it could get an early deprecaution of passing a law declaring, cision on the battlefield: Outnumbered null and void contracts with which is and inferior in population and resources, discovered German maufacturers have cut off from soa-berne commerce, the been binding hand and foot Belgina the South was condemned to defeat unless tradesinčni to compel them to deal in for it would destroy the armies before it. man-produced goods for a fixed number Germany and Austria are outnumbered. of years after the war. This has been The wealth and resources of Great largely attempted in both Belgium and
Holland. Britain, France, and Russia are incom parably greater. British, sen-power has destroyed German commercs and sealed
Shortly before the war there had bee German harbours, while for the Allies springing up in Germany chocolate and the sea brings all the resources of
cocoa works of considerable size, which America and the Colonies to the battle were beginning to prove formidable con lines. At Antietam and Gettysburg the petitors in this country. This market? South bid for a decision. It failed. At of course, closed altogether to those ex- the Marne and in the recent Russian cam-porters on the outbreak of war, bat ay paign Germany made a similar bid and ingeniously copying the trade marks,
A single significant fact of the.
and
general style and got military situation new is that Germany up uf. the goods of க number is bleeding to death.
of chocolate manufacturers, the German factories have managed to dis. pose of quantities of their chocolate "We confidently hope that the result through neutral countries. Moreover of the war will be such as to secure for the they have actually used those chocolate merchant shipping of Germany and the boxes as a means of disseminating Ger-neutral States the freedom of the seas, manwar news," doubtless with the which the Imperial Chancellor. In his last view of influencing opinion in neutral speech in the Reichstag proclaimed with and awo Allied countries,
lost,
BLEEDING TO DEATH.
The Tribune points out that the light ing on the three fronts is a terrible drain on Germany, utterly disproportionate to the drain on any one of her opponents, It may take a year or two to bleed Germany white," says the journal, but the process is going un steadily and re- morselessly.".
boxos,
TRADE MARE TRICKERY.
It has recently come to light that boxes of chocolate bearing imitations of the name, brand, and trade mark of the well known firm of Messrs. F. L. Cailler, pl Broc, Switzerland, have been circulated in this way in Russia. For some tim apparently, nobody doubted the genuine ness of these goods, and it was only when the fact of their containing German pro paganda came to the cars of Messrs. Cailler, who immediately instituted an inquiry, that, this further instance of German duplicity was unmasked.
The Tribuent speaks of premature peace talk from German source, which is sure to follow any loent succes in the Balkans, and compares this with the frantic and abortive peace efforts of the American pacifists in 1884. Only unex pected weakness in the final chapter on the part of the Allies can avert the ine vitable.
Bernhardi (the Tribunt says) foretold with inexorable logic that if Germany failed to get a decision over one of her several foes bofore ad wore ready she At first it was thought merely that must lose. And she failed, failed utterly, genuine packages of Caillere chocolate in spite of local successes. Germany is had been tampered with, and the left now approaching what will be her last extolling German victories and progress
bid for
tinserted, but on investigation it was victory, but be
bat- found that the Huns had been even more not
made
the on the field. That is over. It will thorough in their unscrupulous methots, be made in conferences, in peace negotia and had imitated boxes, wrappers, trade
marks, etc. tions, and in operations through tras If these fail we shall presently see the whole character of the conflict change and an utterly new spirit flow from the Rhine to the Vistula,
great will
Hot-
FEINCE BUIOW'S MISSION. I. The Geneva Tribune revives the rumour regarding the pacific intentions of Prince Bülow's mission. It announces, that the. Prince, accompanied by two others, has arrived at Luêerue, where he will stay for two or three days,
The Trehune continues: "He is charg cd to find, along with Monsignor Mar- chette, a definitive formula for the con- clusion of peace, which the Pontiff will present, as intermediary, to the Quad- Tuple Entente.
BRITISH CABINET MINISTER'S STATEMENTS.
Mc Arthur Henderson, President of the Board of Education, speaking at a meeting at Wesleyatr Central Hall
Baid
"I
an quite aware of the feelers which are now being put out with a view to a premature peace, but I appeal to everybody to pay no heed to such pro- posals.
What will be our position in the future if civilisation is to be dominated by brute force? I say, without the slightest hesitation, that however long the war may last, we had better go on to victory, rather than that Englund and her Allies should be for ever under the grinding how of Prussian tyranny."
It has been decided to raiso an Ameri- can-Canadiar infantry battalion for over sez service. It is understood that the regi ment will be commanded by a prominent American-Canadian who has seen service in the United States Army
IF MR. WILSON AND THE
POPE MEDIATE."
England will have to recognize that her war aus and those of her Allies are no longer capable of achievement, for it is just as improbable that the Russians in the course of this war will eater Constanti nople as it is sure that the colours of France will not fly on Strassburg Cathe dral Our enemies will have to admit that GERMAN TERMS OF PEACE. the incomparable strength of Germany in the field and at home cannot be beaten. From this with arise for Englund the logi cal admission that the mad notion that England is called to stand as sentry for the maintenance of the European balance of power was a fallacy. British sense of reali. ties and coldly calculated interest must bring England into the way of recognition that the peace of Europe can be secated only if the equal rights of Germany, upepraved by the German censor, culmanetes the sea as well as upon the land, are un
in the following passage conditionally recognized and guaranteed."
APPELL TO THE GOVERNMENT.
Herr Baltin then obtained permission from the meeting to send long telegrams to and to Grand Admiral von Tirpitz. The the Keiser, to the Imperial Chancellor,
variations in phraseology are interesting. The message to the Kaiser ended as follows:
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In addition to the portions of the inter- view approved by the consor, the Newe York American publishes the text of several passages expunged by the German author. gium. The interviewer had expressed the belief that the professor had been a signa- tory of the petition to the Chancellor op posing the annexation of Belgium, Pro- fessor Delbrück answered
The men who signed that petition be longed to the minority. The majority of the German people desire the annexation of Belgium by Germany.
Another deleted passage in the interview rune as follows:-
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"Only if we succeed in roaching this goal will it be possible for our shipping to make further progress on the lines which it has hitherto followed with such great sie- cess. We are convinced that the Govern-
Of course the Baltic provinces, where hments of nentral States, whose trade and the population is to a great extent Ger-
shipping have been treated with such un- heard of violence in this war, are at one man, will remain in the hands of Germany. with Germany in this desire for the free-fiberate the smaller nationalities in this As we stated before, Germany is going to of the The telegram to Admiral von Tirpitz: ended as follows:-
"We cherish the confident hope that the result of this: war will procure for our Nary the bases in Europe and overseas which will secure to it for all time the outlet to the world seas. Such security: alone can guarantee to Germany and the neutral States the freedom of the seas with- out which merchant shipping also must find its development miserably prevented
This revelation has opened the eyes ni many people to the extraordinary Tani fications of the German system of coun mercial warfaro. Germany is certainly developing her organization against commercial" defeat quite as strenuously and circumspectly as her military dashes against the steel walls which encircle her. ~Pall Mall Gazette.,
"A SCOUT IN FAIRYLAND
The consor further struck out various passages in which Professor Delbrück ad- mitted that the United States was fully within her rights according to inter- national law in exporting war supplies to
the Allies
In the course of the interview Dr. Del- brück proceeded to explain that as soon as Russia was curbed and the "smaller nationalities in Russia liberated" the dan No immediate reply seems to have been ger of militarism would be removed: It forthcoming from the Emperor. The Imay be that then it would be possible to armaments rednced in' every perial Chancellor sent the following rather ve
country." evasive answer ; -----
"With German shipping, which has done such great things in peace time, and is holding out so bravely in war, I hope that the victory of our arts will assure to our shipping new prosperity on the free
sens.
The hopes and wishes expressed for the happy success of our good cause and the real freedom of the seas find with mg a lively echo."
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