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THE CHONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY? DECEMBER SIH, AVENT

RECRUITING AT HOME.

JAPAN AND THE ALLJES.

LORD DERBY EXPLAINS HIS RUSSIA'S OLD ENEMY AS BEBE

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IIMYOWAR NEWS.

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WAR WORK DODGE with Mr. Harry Gosling, at a Labour, meet-vad ing at Deptford recently, said that Lord gia Derby would deal with young men who

were obtaining work in the Arsenal- work which could be done by men above hea The warm alhesion of Japan to the allied Army age to avoid enlistment. Wa bond to make no separate peace reminds me have promised our Allies that we are that at the very beginning of the Great going to assist them with an Army of a War, German diplomaoy and the Germass certain size. There is no going back on people used all available means to secure that. To maintain that programme we Mr. J. H. Thomas, at Derby, said tho Japanese help. The German and Austrian had got to have 30,000 men & week is

manufactured doubtless by messages,

NEW GERMAN WARNING TO THE BELGIANS,

The Telegraaf learns from Brussels, that Major-General Shuberzweig has onc more reminded the population of the pro clamation of January 10th, 1915, accord- selves. All the time they were graduallying to which all arms and ammunition

ties. disappearing from the streets of the Ger- must be handed to the German authori He adds: "If after October 20th arms man towns, and when Japan declared war

It Committes of Ways and Means last

The Lord Mayor of London on October igonth the Chancellor of the Exchequer Loth presided over a Conference, at the said he had to introdure a new resolution Mansion-House, when Lord Derby ex

plained his recruiting scheme. He would for a purpose which he thought would, he said, to explain exactly what meet with the sympathy, and approval of the position was as regards recruiting The Committee There had been not, he There was an idea that recruiting had the part of those carrying on particular that existing recruiting bodies should he Press went so far as to publish exciting military officers who spoke of the peces- was sure, by any design or intention on been put into the hands of civilians, so swept away and others put in their businesses for payyar an up places. Nothing, of the kind was to be Wolff' Agency, according to which Japan sity of getting 3,000,000 men by the spring from income tax

Suppose, for instance," Mr. Me done. Every existing body was to be had declared war on Russis and the was merely triding with the case, ns such Kenna proceeded, a foreigh Power made use of, aird one would be dose Japanese Nery was attacking: Vladi a number was not available.

4. rostok ! In the streets of Berlin one wit

in employs an agent in the United Kingdom away with,

Forgetting for a moment that he was messed everywhere demonstrations and provides that agent with price lists and all the machinery for receiving an official, he wished to speak to them yn favour of the Japanese; the mob used to orders, and the agent of the foreign his private capacity, and to answer the surround every Japanese passer by, lifting firm obtains orders in this country, and plea which had always been made for him up and cheering him to the echo. The

more information.

Japs used to smile, express their gratitude remats orders to his principals abroad. There was one question which was put for the demonstrations, nevertheless keep Although in eubstance that agent has been carrying on trade in this country to him in his official capacity, and being their opinion about the war to thom either wholesale or retail, as a matter of would consider it in his non-official posi fact all the profits of that trade, inas tion. He was asked-Tell us how many much as there is no effective receipt of men you want, and the country will give "He was not going to give mones or acceptance of orders, in this thom to you." country escape income tax. The rival an oxact number, because he could not on. Germany there was hardly one in and ammunition are found in possession British trader carrying out a trade under do it, but he would tell them what pe the Kaiser's Empire. The German of any inhabitants these person will be. mob was og enraged when Japan's liable to the death penalty or to hard precisely the same conditions is bound to aimed at. By the system of the Registra

labour for at least ten years. In addi pay income-tax; but the foreign firm, tion Act, there was placed at the disposa declaration was announced that the

Chinese were advised by the German tion to the punishment of guilty although doing business in every par of the State a vast number of men wh

He could be spared. Those names would be authorities to distinguish themselves by individuals, the communities be fined up tioular in this country, escapes. escapes by reason of the technicalities of at the disposal of any Recruiting Com their national badgo, go that they should to 10,000 marks for each case

mittees, and the number of men wanted not be mistaken for Japanese, otherwise the law, and what we propose is that we could be judged by the number of the the authorities would not be resonsible for IMPOTENT GERMAN FLEET. shall look behind the technicalities at the cards in front of every committee. When their lives. substance of the business. Where we

This declaration of war by Japan follow- The Morning Pest's Petrograd corres find that a foreign firm is carrying on they had get all the men on the cards,

od Great Britain's step as a seconpondent mentions that the central point through an agent here substantial busi- then he would say they had got enough.

second of the fighting in the Riga region is about thunderbolt for the Germans, a wholesale or retail trader, дея да means shall be taken to secure that in-

Don't start counting heads, said his time upsetting their calculations. The so-Kemmern, the most westerly of the series come-tax is obtained from the real profits Lordship, but ask yourself What can vices rendered us by the Japanese cannot of favourite seaside resorts of the Riga of such trade.

be over estimated. If we speak about the strand The Germans have not only to my particular district produce in the The second kind of business la this way of men Set yourself to get every two Great Powers of England and France face the frontal fire of the Russian land

The there may be a great foreign exporter who one of those men you possibly can. on the Western theatre of war, we shall forces, but are being attacked in flank exports commodities, not in this case to more men you get, the fewer we may re not be wrong if we say that on the Eastern from the sea by Russian warships.

Captured German officers are reported a technical agent in this country, but to quire. What he meant by that was the theatro are also two Powers," Russia ay" an apparently independent arm carry- moral effect. It would show that Eng Japan. It is true that Japan has not to be expressing themselves with interse indignation at the uselessness of the Ger- ing on business here, but owing to an land was perfectly determined, by volun-yet-sent her troops to Europe, but .1

man Fleet, upon which the and forces. arrangement between the exporter and tary methods, to put into the field all the trader here, the goods are invoiced that could be got by compulsory methods, mast be remembered that tussis is not in had counted to enable them to advance to the trader in this country at or so and that rould have the effect of bring the least in went of men: her only want, upon Riga from the west. But the Ger near the price at which the trader can ing the war to a fur speedier conclusion now of the past, has been munitions. The man Fleet is debarred from all possibility. retail his commodities to the public, that The secret of the success of the scheme Japanese by organising their munition proof extry into the Gulf of Riga. the trader in this country makes no pro-

was not to get an unmanageable number duction for Russ a rendered better service fit, although the foreign exporter may of recruits in the first instance, but to to the Entente and dealt a heavier blow be making gigantic profits.

The production. The whole of these profits, which are set so many that one might look for to the Central Powers than if they had

ward with confidence to being able to-sent a million soldiers. really made in this country escape. supply Lord Kitchener with what he of munitions in Japon is at this monent

Colonel Shumsky, the well-known Rus- think they ought not to escape, and ma wanted, not only for immediate require. larger than in the Russo-Japanese Warsian military critic, is quoted by the chinery should be devised for the pur.ments, but for many months to come if The fact can be easily explained Japan. Telegraph's correspondent de saving that pose of bringing them within the mishes necessary, so as to do away with the hand-keeping her male population in the coun- the enemy, having been compelled to sus to-mouth policy, and to provide enough try instead of sending it to Europe, spend his aggressive operations, is every- Still another case is this, and it is men until the close of the war, heitable to obtain more lands for the produ where making comprehensive prepara- most important and worthy of considera sooner or later. There must be no un- tion of munitions. Nor is this all Japan tions for a positional campaign on his ticu: You may have goods maniac certainty upon this point. tured in this country; these goods may

has been sonding heavy artillery to Russia. never leave this country; they may be

be able to eliminate from the canvass Hold within twenty miles of the placemen, although of military age, who were where they were manufactured, and yet required on munitions or other work. by, an ingenious arrangement the whole essential for the state of the country. of the profits on the sale of these goods On the subject of badges, his Lordship may escape income-tax. They may be said that there were badges and badges, sold by. manufacturer to a foreign firm

od the income tax

MORAL EFFECT.

By the starring process they would

Thus in a manner not generally know the Japanese have been proving their com- plete solidarity with the Entente Powers during the whole course of the war-Daily Graphic

DEFENSIVE POSITIONS IN THE GERMAN REAR.

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line, He is constructing elaborate systems of trenches, and fitting them with stoves and other protection: against the rigours of the Russian winter.

Meanwhile, his rear is being organized ARAKAN... with feverish activity. Roads are being put in

a thorough state of repair; the

held lines laid down; bridges rebuilt; and the Russian fortressés reconstructed with their faces to the eas... A renewal of the enemy's strategic aggressive is not according to this wryer, to be expected before the spring.

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GEN.

RADKO DIMITRIEFF'S

MESSAGE.

BULGARIA LED ASTRAY,

RAIDS.

TERROR."

A new and official Gorman statement on “air raids on London" is published in the enemy's Press. The Berlin Govern men's apology for sky piracy is sum marised by the Mail as follows:

canvassing, he would recognise, as a sufficient answer to an appeal to any it map to serve his country was that which had been issued by the Government "TO CAUSE ABOVE ALL UNIVERSAL through the War Office, the Admiralty, or the Munitions Department. Every man who recognised that the State had a right to call on his services for protec tion should enlist. These would be medi- cally examined, and, if found fit, attested. They could then join the colours if they desired to do so and he hoped a large number would do so. The remainder would go back to their usual The Novoc' Premye publishes an inter-vocations, to be called up only when re- view with General Radko Dimitrieff, quired. A list would be compiled, divid which presents the famous soldier asing men who had so enlisted info 48 the unmarried men being put groups, into the first 23, according to age, and the married men also keing put into groups, also according to age, the Jatter only being called upon when the former were exhausted.

breathing a spirit of courage and op timism, and as still refusing to abandon the hope that the Bulgarians, who have been drawn into a perilous adventure by Fordinand of Coburg, may, at the decisive moment, turn their arms against. the Germans,

"I firmly believe that the great masses in Bulgaria are alien to political intri- gus and regard events with sorrow. The Bulgarien Army is not what it was at Kirk Kiliss, Busar Hissar, and Lulo Burgas, when, in battle with the hero ditary fue, enthusiasm and civic spirit reigned supreme, The Bulgarians are now being led to self-immolation. To Ferdinand it is a matter of indifferoace whether the Bulgarians aurvive or perish, he will lose nothing.

"It is necessary to distinguish the rulers of Bulgaria from the people, and the standpoint of those who lay blame on the people seems to me strange.

DEFERRED. RECRUITING;

A fortnight'e notice would be given to enable mon to wind up any business or give notice to employers, and an appeal could be made to be put in a later group, such as in the case of a son being the gole support of a mother; but all appeals would be subject to a counter-appeal against any such alteration. No military pay would be granted to such excused men, but they would be given the oppor tunity of drilling. No pledge could be given to allot men to any particular branch of the service, but efforts would be made as far as possible to meet their wishes. If every man whom the country had

The object of the successful attacks of our naval airships on the capital of Eng- land is of a military character. We ain: --

"1-To destroy important military works and lines of communication, as London is the principal "economic de pot of the British fighting forces.

"2-To caure, above all clee and in

In the colonel's opinion, not only is there no longer any danger for Riga and Dask, but the position of the enemy on that section of the front is more unfav. ourable and unstable than it is elsewhere,

KING FERDINAND'S REVENGE.

The Bulgarian Agrarian leader, M. Stambolisky, and his colleagues, "HM. Sharankoff and Torlakoff, have been tried by Court-martial at Sofia says The Times correspondent ut Bukharest-on a

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"3.To hold up different means of communication leading out of London after dark, such as suburban railway and electric tramway lines; thus prevent ing hundreds of thousands of men and women living far from London proper from reaching their homes at night

14-To cause greater disunion than ever in the Government by increasing their desperation as to methods of de- fence against Zeppelins.

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of the Army. M. Stambolisky has been sentenced to imprisonment for life and deprivation of evil and political rights, and M, Sharankoff to 18 months' im prisonment, M. Torlakoff was acquitted. M. Stambolisky is the well-known leader Opposition groups, counting 50 votes in of the Agrarians, the strongest of the the Sobranye, and representing the pea sant electors, who are the backbone of the army and of the nation. Before King Ferdinand drew the sword against Serbis he received in audience the Opposition leaders, including M. Stambolisky,

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-A LAST APPEAL. "It is essential to furnish assurances many months before the older married that the Entente Powers, in establishing men were called upon, and it might even

His Lordship, before closing, said un- the future boundaries, will be guided by be that the war would be decided before justice and raagnanimity Such a hope it was necessary. Every man who now officially-I wish to say a few words as a This is the last effort on would afford the people something on hung back would be putting an unjust man to men. which to rely. They have been assured obligation on his neighbour's shoulders behalf of voluntary service. It is not

Sergeant A. E. Berry writing to a that the Russians and French will des- which he ought to share with him. He the effort of an individual, but of a body troy the country, and it is essential to had endeavoured to make his scheme as of men representing all shades of politics friend at Newport, Mon., relates an 50-Ton Hydraulis TESTING MACHINE for Chains, Wire Ropes, Rivets, ata enlighten them and to dissipate this false elastic as possible, and it would be found and classes. It is an appeal to the peo incident in which the Germans granted AGENTS FOR belief. In this case, I am convinced, we not to be bound up with red tape. Thereple to recruit for the people-an appeal a truce for five minutes to enable the shall see a repetition of the Battle of were certain contingencies, which had to which, I hope and believe, will not be British to bring in a wounded man. He

Recruiting officers made in ven. It is the final appeal, writes: Leipzig, when the Saxonis joined the be provided for.

"I heard a cry in front of our fierch. enemy and turned their weapons against might find that the military authorities and it gives every man a chance to give the French. I thall not be astonished if could not, in the first instance, house, his services to his King and his country. It was from a wounded map on the Ger- I hear that a similar thing has happened clothe, and train the number of recruits The man who stands back and declines man parapet, and he was begging us to in this war.

joining immediately, and in such a case to help his country now is the man who bring him in. He had been there from Personally I think that in any case the men would be allowed to go to their would let the horrors of Belgium go on the Saturday, when the charge was made, the Bulgarians will not offer determined homes until called up, drawing pay and in this country because he is afraid to until dinner time on the following Mon- take his part. I do not think the rest day, and was near dead from his wound® resistance to the Russian troops. Turco allowance at the rate of 36. per day.

We knew we could men of the community will have much pity and from hunger. Bulgarian detachments may be seat It might be also that starred against the Russians, but the conviction would enlist. These men would be re for him. There are people who are des- not go out to him, but at last one of our must be made to penetrate the Bulgarian turned to their employment. Recruiting pondent about the spirit of the countryficers who could speak German shouted Army that Bussin comes not de an op- officers would also have discretion pend- I am not. I believe the heart of the coun- and asked the enemy, if we might carry Tatarbost No. 112 pressor, but, on the contrary, again aping official, inquiry in the cases of some try is right, but the heart of the country him in. This was a brave act, for if we pears as the Liberator from the German unstarred" zen who were indispensa has got to be touched. I believe we can only put our heads over the parapet we nightmare which has hung over Bulgariable in their various employments. A sup do it, and of men only realise that, by are liable to be killed.

"The Germans shouted back and gave for 40 years. If my voion reaches Bul plementary list of trades in which such their individual efforts now, they are garia. I believe my old Third Army will exemptions could be generally regarded going to secure for their children'sus Ave minutes in which to fetch him beed it."

vatid would be supplied to recruiting children a lasting and enduring peace, Immediately fifteen of us jumped over to go to him, but our captain ordered us The General said that it would not do officers, and instructions would be given they will be prepared to make some sacri for him to lead even the kindred Rus to send back to their occupation men fice, or any sacrifice, because none is toe back, feeling that the Germans might be siam, with arms, against the Bulgarian employed in such places as the London great when the country thus calls. Every tempted to shoot on the assumption that

SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED people, but if changes occurred in Bul Docks, where it was essential that work thing possible must be done to make the we were going to charge. So one officer garia, if a rising took place against the should be maintained. All men would voluntary system an unqualified sucose and a man went out with a stretcher and He cried present rulers, and if the people were be en deed for general service, but it was But the sands are running out, and we carried the poor fellow in without leaders and summoned him necessary to point out that only a limited have no time to lose. If you all do your with joy when he knew he was safe, SHOT. From No. 10 to 8886. at $6, #7 and against the common foe, he was ready to number would be taken weekly for best, you will place side by side with though he was very badly wounded $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES go with troops in order to remind them branches other than the infantry al oor gallant Allies in the field, and those While they were carrying this man they and AIR GUNS in Variety. of Tehataldja, Bunar Hissar, and Lule though individual wishes would be re who are fighting our battles, a sufficient saw another nearly covered with earth.

Inspection Invited, Burgas, and to lead them against the Gerspected as far as possible, Preference number of men to uphold for all time the Two others went one and brought him in, mans. Bat meanwhile he considered that for the Army Service Corps and the honour and welfare of the King and his and then we gave three cheers for tho Gertaens, who had proved they are not Subsequent to Lord Derby's speech. true Slav to Russia by working for the given to married men, and men adapted Russian Army, where he hoped he had to particular trades would be at once private conference of those attending the brought tears very near to many a man's

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