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BELGIANS DEMAND SETTLE- MENT OF DEBT OF HONOUR

GERMANY'S FAILURE TO PAY FOR

GOODS SEIZED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29TH, 1910.

IMPRESSIONS IN FRANCE.

* WAR AS USUAL.”

In England says Richard Harding Davis in an American paper it is “busi- ness as as usual," in France it às usual,

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OBJECTIONS TO ITS INTRODUCTION.

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It is signed by Mr. C. EH. Hobhouse ns chairman, Mr. Peroy Alden" as vice * TJJBODAS chairman, and Mr. J. H. Whitehouse as accretary mont

An Oxford undergraduate now serving The English tradesman cat with the Royal Engineers in France, The Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp assure his customers that with such an who, as the only motor-cyclist was left has issued a report written by its Pre- old established" firm as his not even behind when an attack was delivered, sident, E. Castelcin, to the members of war can interfere but run, mir und ang I spent the night all alone back

notually on ber soil, has gone further the Permanent Deputation which repre-has accepted war as part of her daily life at our billet, wondering and thinking, -sents the Chamber before the Belgian She has not merely swallowed, buy digest-

It is like the line in Pinero's and feeling out of it. About 7 am. I Governant, outlining the steps which ed it.

play, where one women says als cannot could stand it no longer, and jumped on the Belgian provinces have taken to pay go to the opera because of her neuralgia, y bike, and rode along a canal bank, the German war lovy of 480,000,000.

Hor friend replies "You can have I Hoon met a few of our men returning, neuralgia in me box just as well as any who seemed very cheerful. Then I ran franos,

where clac "In that spirit France has

The problem is not exclusively or even The neuralgia may into the wounded. All those who could hurt, but she does not take to her bed and walk were coming along the causal bank mainly a military question which can be ia haps, towards the Red Cross place adequately expressed by stating the num- groan; she smiles cheerfully and con I met one man who was helping another, ber of men asked for of the military an- rageously and goes about her duties both quite done, so dismounted, and leaythorities The overwhelming shore which even site in her box at the opers.

As we approached the Front-which my bike helped thom along the muddy Great Britain is joking in the war includes

path down to the dressing station. now is a French ward-this was even. more evident than in Paris, where sigas of of war are all but invisible. Outside Amiens we met a regiment of Boots with the pipes playing and the cold rain splashing their bare legs. To watch then

M. Castelein points out that the Be-accepted the war. gian provinces have paid 300,000,000 franca of the war levy, and still owa

120,000,000 franes,

"For the past nine monthe Belgium Ins most crapulously met the engagements made in her name at the time of the con- vention relating to war contributions, Bays the report.

This convention is, however, of an entirely reciprocal charac ter. Morcover, if Bolgium has fulfilled her obligations, the German Administra

tion is very much behind with theirs.

mission on the subjects of requisitions en masse which had been imposed on the trade of Antwerp. Those requisitions reached an enormous figure, embracing the total amount of stock, in our ware houses and store, accumulated there at the time of the occupation of our town by German troops.

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Then I went on again right up to the The maintenance of an impregnable and catrance to the communication trenches, inviolable nary; the making of munitions and watched the wounded coming out. It of war not only for our own army but for was a sight I shall never forget. About the Armies of the Allies; the financing of one-fourth of the men coming out were our Allies; the financing of our Domin Germans, wounded. The unwounded ions, including India, to enable them to That I had the honour to send you on we should be interested seemed to sur-ones, of course, had been marched out meet the cost of the cortingents they are

with guards, but the wounded and our wounded were straggling out, apparently maintenance of an army which has, in the sending to the front; the raising and I addressed to the Intercommunal Com A year ago when they passed it was the greatest friends. It was a fellowship words of the Government, increased from March 19th Last, a duplicate report which prise them; no one else was interested. roses, ropes all the way"-or at least cigarettes, chocolate and red wine. Now kind of securing, brotherhood of pain, a few thousands to me army which runs in spite of the skirling bagpipes, no one Those who could walk wore supporting

The withdrawal of a large and arbitrary turned his head. To the French they had those who orald not. I caw two wounded into millions.

Germans, wounded, the one in the head, become a part of the landscape,

the other in the arm, supporting between number of men from industrial life would them a Scotch Tommy

shrapned not only entail a heavy increase in the ex- PLAEANT WHISTLES AS HE WORKS,

wound in both thighs. No one seemed to penditure of the country, but would ham- A year ago the roads at every 200 yards notice them

In another place in the per the use of the Allies by reducing our were barriended. It was a continuous stream were four Germans, all wounded capacity for discharging services espontjal burdle race. Now, except at distances fairly badly, holding each other up in a to their and our success, of four or five miles, the barricades have ine, staggering along the road with no disappeared one side of the road is Britisher looking after them, or taking

THE WORKERS" OPPOSITION,

ARAKAN, reserved for troops, the other for moving any interoot in them, following the ter

The mere attempt to introduce conscrip vehicles. Those vehicles we met for the rible stream to where they knew they tion would destroy national unity when most part two-wheeled booded curts-no would get attention and care,

They all unity is essential. longer contained peasants with their looked terribly wons I was the only have declared they would resent it. The

Organised industries TJISONDAEI belongings flying from dismantled vill-sound person I saw there for long enough three greatest bodies of organised workers ages. Instead they carried garden truck I felt like some spirit from another world pigs or calves on the way to market. On watching them go by. Then I turned and have taken provisional steps for corporate KARIMOEN the driver's seat the peasant whistle

wont back with the stream into the town action, cheerily and cracked his whip. The long lines of London busses that Inst year advertised soap, mustard, milk and music halls, and which now are a decorou grey; the ambulances, the great furs drawn by motor trucks with caterpillar wheels, no longer surprise him.

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passed have 88,000,000 franca. Payments received do not represent a tenth part of the sums

I found a lot of men with two or three. If the certainty of opposition from the still owing. These so-called payments are advances representing some 30 to 50

officers farther on, in a hous; they were workers did not exist, the very complexity TJIKEMBANG per cent, of bills, advances made by

absolutely without rations, so I set off of the problem makes conscription an in- back to give the news, I returned again possible policy. It is merely shutting credits in marks payable at the Reichs.

late in the afternoon with lorry of one's eyes to obvious facts to urge that in bank, recoverable three months after the

rations; it got stuck in the mud, and I the middle of this war auch a change, in- conclusion of peace and the payment of

had to go and beg ropes to put round the volving a fundamental alteration of our which on maturity Involves the parties

The English ally has ceased to be wheals. It was raining heavily and national and social life as it exist to-day, in the risks of exchange to an extent stranger and is a paying guest in the gor soaked.

could be made without latal consequences. which can be appreciated by all.

towns and village of Artois. The shop

Sunday night was fire and moonlight. The war may be greatly prolonged. So "In short, I can assert that from windows are dressed chiefly for him. The I was scat about 6.30 p.m. to an other far from this possibility being a reason, ag 00,000,000 to 70,000,000 francs for requisimames of the towns are Flemish; the up near the left of our attacking line, often urged, for conscription, it make, the tiona remain to be paid requisitions ro names of the streets are Flemish; the and after delivering my message, found maintenance of our present system impera- main to be paid requisitions which names over the shops are Flemish; but it would be almost impossible to return Live, for a prolonged war would be one include nothing but merchandise coming the goods for sale are marmalade, tinned direct, owing to the traffic. So I turned finally won by our financial and industrini from the various principal sources of kippers, etc.

northwards and determined to have a strength. In such a war of endurance the commerce of Antwerp.

They are capable, adaptable and obligook at the country where there was all ing. If our aun ask these shop-keopers the terrible fighting in the spring. It prospects of the Allies would not be iza for anything they haven't got they don't was quite safe, for nothing had been proved by the comparatively small contin say "We don't keep it they get him doing there the last few days. I had to gent of scripts which it is alleged could be raised in excess of those supplied by to write down what it is he wants and cover first the stretch we had captured the voluntary system. they send for it.

plast spring from the Germans. It is the The signatories say they have set forth It is the better way. The French only stretch of the front I have ever seen facle which appear in themselves to he does not say War is ruining no He which in any way resembles the idea of final objections to the introduction of con makes the war help to support him and what the front in which one gets in Eng-scription into this country if the war is to at the same time gives comfort to his ally, and it is desolate, uredbe successfully prosented and disaster at

wilderness, For two miles as I A year ago in the villages the oli men stood in disconsolate groups with their the line I did not most a soul, or hear home to be averted. They say they have Now they are a gound. In the still moonlight it was not touched upon other important aspects M. Castelein then reviews a series of hands in their pockets. acts and formal engagements by which briskly at work. They are working quite uncanny. I did welcome the sound of the general question, such as the results of a voice when the arst sentry challeng which would ensue if an uncalled for at- the Germans and Belgians regulated the the fields, in the vegetable gardens, helped me I chatted to him, and then went tempt to set up martial law the inevit matter of requisitions, stating that ating the Territorials mend their roads. first the Germans made requisitions On every side of them were the evidences or up into the village which has given able accompaniment of conscription were forcibly in a summary manner. The, in of war in the fields abandoned trenches, its name to the awful fighting they had seriously made in a country with our tra- In the daylight the sight wouldditions or the widespread feeling among December, the war levy was fixed at barbed wire entanglements, shelters for there.. 15,000,000 francs monthly for twelve fodder and ammunition, hangars for re have been terrible, but at night in the our own people that as the military system pairing acroplanes, vast glaughter houses, bright moonlight, with the silence, the of Germany, with its suppression of the packs of artillery; and on the road; en solitude, and the shadows, it was the individual and is organised worship of less lines of lorries, hooded ambulances, most awe-inspiring spectacle one could material ideals, made her what she is, it

possibly find. marching soldiers.

would be the climax of folly to fasten upon ourselves the system from which we seek the world's deliverance; or the deep ences behind the campaign for conscrip tion; or the opposition of Ireland, whose suspicion attaching to some of the influ-100-Ton ELECTRIC ORANE

contribution to the national strength and

excluded from my calculations everything relating to the industrial world-factory buildings and yards-but it is general knowledge that here, too, the requisitions represent, many millions. I shall allow myself to call them to your attention because the interests involved therein have as much right to be includ ed, from the point of the view of repara- tixn, which it is beyond longer. yond humanity, to delay any

months.

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PROMPT PAYMENT PROMISED The Belgians accepted this figure after Jung hesitation. Then it was raised to 40,000,000, with prompt settlement stipu- Jated

von Bissing confirmed this agreement, the On January 9th, 1915, Governor-General report states, and the promise was made that a body of Belgian business man would be appointed to reach a solution. M. Castelein continues:-

To us those were of vivid interest, but to the French peasant they are in the routine of his existence.

a year greatly interests him. With one hand he of it war neither greatly distress, or fights with the other he ploughs.

CONTENTED PRISONERS OF WAR.

I stayed some time looking round alone wouldn't have missed it for worlds. Every few moments one of the German they are, which hang over our lines for star-shells went up. Brilliant fireworks up to 20 or 30 seconds, lighting up every thing brilliantly, and they lit up all the oorners where the big moon had thrown her shadows, and showed on everything in a flash. Then se suddenly as the light one it was gone, and only the moonlight and the shadows remained. It was ter rific, beautiful yet terrible..

GEN. KUROPATKIN'S COMMAND.

unity has meant so much te us in this crisis,

Bat we cannot forget (the statement continues) that many thousands of our their religion that it would be wrong for fellow-countrymen believe as a part of them to take human life or to compel others to do so,

IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING THE NAZIONAL TAKNING);

We had made a bet as to which would "Of all this, gentlemen, nothing has the first sign of real war and the materialised. No commission was ap- sign of it that won and gava general -pointed at Antwerp, and with few excep satisfaction, erty to the man who lost, was a group of German soldier, sweep tions the requisitions were not paid for."

M. Castelein states that in April, ing. the streets of St. Pol. They were through promises made by Senator guarded only by one of their own number, Strand, Fresident of the German Giri and they looked fat, sleek and contented. Administration, it looked as if a solution When, on our return from the treaches,

The following statement is contained in We have already withdrawn three mit- were near and a commission was finally we saw them again, we knew they were organised in Berlin to take the place of to be greatly envied. Between standing the promised Antwerp body. This com: watet high in mud in a trench and being an official communication received from lion men mainly from industria life. This mission gave some relatively insignificant drowned in it buried in it, blown up or Paris by Wireless Press The papers country is admittedly finaceally stronger advances, finally having the question in asphyxiated, the post of crossing sweeper announs that General Kuropatkin has than any of her Allies. To maintain our A been appointed Commander-in-Chiel of Guancial power we must keep intact the the state described at the beginning of is one to be desired.

To say where the trenches began and the forces detailed for the operations fabric of our industrial life if peritons the report.

crisis is to be avoided. We require to maintain our export trade, and even to "We have not only a claim under The where they ended is difficult. We were against Bulgaria.

eslarge it. The production of an export- Hagua Convention and international passing through land that had been re law, says M. Castelein, but also trieved from the enemy. It had been

To the "Poilus," who, in the face of able surplus of goods depends upon the especially under the simple law-that fought for inch by ioch, foot by foot. superior law regarding the word of hon-To win it back thousand of lives had such desolation, joked and laughed with general industry of the nation being main- our given, which is hedged in everywhere been thrown like dice upon a table there the civilians, you felt you owed on Lained, including its transporg and dis tributing services and all means whereby with such a character of inviolability were vast stretches of mud, of felda once apology, for your automobile was waiLADE the people as a whole are maintained in that for precise and clearly determined cultivated, but now scarred with pits to whisk you back objects, such as is the case here, one hon-trenches, rusty barbed-wins.

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mud. the consciousness of defending something were like those of football players on a

KILL PAIN BEFORE PAIN of the national heritage at the same time rainy day at the end of the second half. What we saw of the cave dwellers was We were entering what had been the only a few feet of a most that for 300

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village of Ablain and before us rose the miles is thrown across France like a Where we stood we famous heights of Mont De Lorette. To miniature canal."

"Attacks of neuralgia, constant pain, scale these heights seemed a feast as to could see of the 300 miles only mud walls,

are continual wear and strain the 9,000 RUSSIAN PRISONERS SHOT er Cliff of Gilbraltar. But they had elbow. By looking up we could see the vital forces of the sufferer. Unlem relief credible as scaling our Palisades or the so close that we brushed one with each or the droud of the sudden shooting pains beam ecxled, and the side toward us was black lead of the sky Ahead of us the obtained a breakdown is sure to follow. crawling with French soldiers, climbing trench twisted, and an arrow pointed to to the trenches, descending from the a first-aid dressing station. Behind us LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM According to information reaching me

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