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ENGLAND'S DOOM.
TAR HÖNÁKONG DAILY PRESS. FATURDAY FEBRUARY 1917 1916764)
BULGARIA FROM WITHIN.
UNDER THE GERMAN YOKE,
"CONFLICTING EMOTIONS,
A Bulgarian who has recently arrived at
Salonika writes as follows in a local journal:
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Dr. Heifferich, Imperial Secretary of the Treasury, in introducing a new vote of £500,000,000 in the Reichstag, indulged The situation in Bulgaria is extremely 10-much glorification of the German
The nation is divided into two Empire and depreciation of its enemies; obscure. and following the example of Dr. Beth- mann-Hollweg, singled out England for less discontented at the beginning of the camps. The populace, which was more or "pecial denunciation. In his role as prophet, he sees Germany war, is now intoxicated by the successes of rock in its native ground, but the army in Serbis. For the moment it is on the golden pillars of the British Fri- pire which he ndniits has done well entirely faithful to the Radostavoff Cabinet, financially in the past" gleam in flaas-and still more to King Ferdinand, ing characters the words, Mene, Mene, Tekel.. Upharsin." The Imperial Secretary began his speech. which is reported by Reuter's correspou dent, with the words:-
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The security of our existance as a pation and an Empire has still to be wrested from our enemies, who, after sixteen months of military failures and defeats, still indaige in fancies of crushing and crippling Ger-
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The war must and shall be prosecuted at all risk, and at all danger until that security has been gained." (Loud ap- plause.)
Your yosing this credit prove that all calculation on Germany's weakness, dis- union, weariness, and faminé ure, and re- main, wrong. The great success of the September an enables us to wait until March and to manage tall, then with the issue of Treasury bonds.........
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NOTHING THE SAME AGAIN.
LIFE AFTER THE GREAT WAR.
[BY TWELLS BREX:]
The great war has altered the social face
WEATHER REPORT.
Că the 16th at 11:00 am. The mtl-cyclon has moved slowly to the esstward and weakened, stron
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of Europe just as much as the glacial epoch once altered its physical surface. back the growth of civiliantion by a The Hohenzollern glacial period has set hundred years; it has orumbled Europe's
travel and intercourse. A hundred years Hongkong & Netghbourhocà social structure, stunted its arts and sciences, and withered away ite web of hence the people of every warring nation great war; dreadful memories will still will still be taxed by the debts of the keep a spiritual and social gulf between South C mat of Chins between The civilised Europe and the Teuton,
millions.
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Twenty-five million men have taken up "On the other hand, the more enlightened arms. It is estimated that nine million portion of the population, which has im already have been slaju or disabled, and bibed deniocratic principles, remains un. that the total destruction of life in Europe. changed in its hostility to the Government. o years of war will be twenty This elomeat constitutes naturally
This is the combatant waste alone, below the surface. Its partisans are every even of neutral nations, are affected by remains concealed, but works Civilian populations everywhere in Europe where-in the Army, in the civilian populathe physical and nervs stress of Arm- tion, and even among the officials of the ageddon. Nearly everywhere the birth- Government. It is certain that in the ranks rato is falling the death-rate rising Brakonda: High Street... Ahran 13, J.tiles Street of the Army there are today to be found tish birthg are already 40.000 a year less Fonqui efɔ Wings ag a large number of those who at the outset and deaths 50,000 more than in 1913, a ret Fooongonhit, 217 Winloke St. Mandalay of the war were known as the malcontents. deficit of 90.000 lives a year the total How Pat Hez g, olo Wing Wo
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CALLING A HALT,"
When the great way is over a shrunken Europe will realise that no plague of the Middle Ages ever ravaged it like the black death that came from Petsdom.
For some days past a uvemens has begun to take shape throughout the coun-heavily. try; the populace,, though still inebrinted by the triumphs of the Army, is beginning to insist that the war should come to an end with the occupation of Serbian Mace donin. It declases, with much truth, that Bulgaria took up arms with the sole object TO CONVINCE THE ENEMY.
of realizing her national aspirations; now We had to convince the enemy of our that the unredeemed regions have been strength on the field of financing the war;
won, there is nu longer any reason you will agree that nowhere has that been for continuing a conflict which will only demonstrated in such a way as in Ger
ingrense the losses many. On the first instalment day 70 per Army. To this the Government reply:
of the Bulgarian ent of the subscribed loan was paid,We must continue the war because we against the 30 per cent, asked for. To-day the payments of 10,800 million marks are.
must remain faithful to Germany, becausé in advance of those due by 4.500 millions. we have united our fortunes with those of This proves how easily German politicnl the Austro-Germans, and because, in order, economy manages to bring up cha
to assure the permanent possession of the capital.
cinquered territones, we must contribute to the common victory,'
1914
Only 580 million marks of the third war loan came from loan societies: The savings The Bulgarian losses in the war, accord- banks afford a highly satisfying picture;ing to this authority, have been very heavy. after paying out for the first and second Basing his cotimate on information supplied war loans, the deposits are still 1,250 mil to him by officers of the General Staff; be lion marks more than at the beginning of puts the total casualties at 100,000 men killed, wounded, and missing. The greatest Josses were suffered during the fighting in The schools and public buildings at Sofia north-eastern Serbia and at Katchanik.
are all crowded with the wounded. In order to prevent the population from wit nessing scenes which might alarm and dis courago it, the sanitary authorities of the Army have, he writes, installed a number of field hospitals in deserted regions ad- joining the old Sirbo Bulgarian frontier,
Among the four million subscribers to the third war loan, there were three mil. Tion of less than 3,000 marks income. Thie was, in fact, a national joan, such as Eag. land tried to raise, but failed to do so.
"ARTFUL " DECEPTION,
I repeat these statements to show the state of mind of the enemy, people, croated by an artful, unscrupulous system of deception by the enemy Government's Fress. The German is too objective and to scrupulous to make the same mistake, but he so his own dificulties more clear- ly than those of the. enemy' a.
The way costs of all the belligerents are now daily from 320 to 330 million marks. of which two-thirds is the enemies' share. With a hundred millions daily of war costs, England has beaten us, and in the total amount of accumulated war costs England also stands foremost.
THE FEAR OF RUSSIA,
A contributor to the Rumanian journal Nationalul, describing a visit to Rustchuk, states that passengers arriving by the steamer from Clurge yo are rigorously search ed, and ail, except Germans, must submit to the confiscation of their books and journals. Notices warning the public to Beware of Spies" are posted up in the Germany and Austria are covering the
streets and in the cafés, and figuro con- greater part of the war costs by long run. spicuously in the newspapers. The Alexan ning loans. Among our enemies, England drovska Street, formerly a flourishing com- alone succeeded afse with such a procomercial contre, is now deserted; many duro; but, with her 18,600 million marks, not in the same degree as we, with our 25,300 millions. Francs so far has raised only a nominal amount of war costs by ten yours? obligations, and the remainder by short-termed eredits from the public and the Bank of France.
The English 3 per cent, loan was a fait. ure which rendered the marker unit for similar loans, England helped herself with Treasury bonds unil the market was glutted with them..
In July England chose a 4 per cent, Ioan, which in reality wag a 5 per cont us, and again a failure as regards the result, and its influence on the condition of the money market. The difficult condi- tion of the English money market was accompanied by the deterioration of the English rate of exchange, England was faced with a convulsion of her prestige on the international money market, and the endangering of ber supply of war material and provision from America. Under the pressure of thig situation,
The result did not correspond with ex- pectations, at that both soon tried to ob tain further oredit. The lack of success was greatly due to the resistance of Ame rican citizens of Gorman origin.
Dr. Helfferich's concluding words were the most interesting. After drawing 4 comparison between the course of gilt edged securities in France, England, and Germany before the war and now, he said:-
almost exclusively paying to We >are ourselves while the enemy pays abroad, Therein lies. A guarantee that in the future, too, wo shall maintain the advent ........
The direct monetary cost of the war to. the belligerents can be put at nearly teni thousand million pounds a year, figures that, like the astronomers' distances, out- pass the human conception. Titanic as of the war exceed them; lost trade, lost they are, the figures of the indirect cost
humanitarianism and discovery that have production, and creations of science, art, perished in embryo.
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Europe after the war will be a littlo Europe, with a population not much greater than the population of Europe. before the Napoleonic wars, a Europe with these stupendous social problems:
Three women to two men of marriageable
ago.
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More old men than young men. More boys than workers in their prime. More physically unfit than physically
Millions of men to be fitted again into eivil employment, millions of women whe
wages, have learned man's work and earned his
Millions of manual workers who will have become accustomed to wages twice or three times as high as they earned in pro war days, and who will still expect those wages,
age
Greatly diminished food supplies for many years owing to ravage of cultivated lands
diminished breeding stock, and
and handicapped exports, owing to short-
High conduction
commercial freights, dear imports, of ships. These are only a few of the major problems that will confront the pes simists who prophesy industrial. volution. who mutter of a war of that sex rivalry There are other prophets and antagonism whose grim beginnings ve British, saw in days when the "sur- plus" woman was only one to every seven-
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UNION CHURCH, Kennely Road. Sunday, There are other pessimists who pro- 20th February. Buvices: Moring Service shops are closed; public edifices and pri-phesy that the century after the great war at 11 am. Hymas 5, 565. 256 and 298. Eren- vate houses have been converted into hos will have to be spent in sheer materialing Service at 6 p,. Hymne 376, 12, 142, pitals; numerous women in mourning attire rebuilding, and that all the sciences will and 30. Precher Res. J. Kirk Maconach e may be seen in the streets, veget
stand still, all the arts languish, all the ST. PETER'S CHURCH, West Point, Son. bumanities rust, while a shattered Europe fay, 20th Felruary: s.m., Holy Communion lies in a spiritual and inselectual stupor 1 sm. Morning Prayer with addres. like that strange stupor of the Dark F. W. Krozion Ages,
The fear of a Russian invasion is univer-
sal, and by order of the General Staff, which, the writer states, is mainly com posed of German officers, fortifications on the heights commanding the Danube and inte prophets are ordinary citizen, who the neighbourhood of the Rumanian frontier say to each other so often, are being hastily thrown up by German has gone; nothing will over be the same. again." The social face of Europe is coldiers and supplied with German changed. Old clases and castes have been artery German officers control a series of levelled; now and assertive classes have observation stations which are furnished risen. Many men have been broken, many with searchlights and apparatus for wire men have been lifted. There were demo- less telegraphy, and extend along the river erats when the war broke out who cried and the frontier to the Black Sea. The in despair, "This is the end of democracy river is patrolled nightly by Austrian There are other voices which whisper monitors and German torpedo boats with now!"
Democracy alone will exerce lights out. The civil, as well as the mili-stronger from the war and what will fis tary, administration at Rustchuk is subor demands be? dinated to the German commandant, who acts as he plonses; the inhabitants feel that they are treated as a conquered people, and they stratené increases unity.
AUSTRALIA'S. WILLING
SACRIFICE.
the Parliament House by the Federal Speaking at a farewell banquet given in Ministry, Mr, Fisher dwolf on the willing sacrifices of Australia to help the Empire to victory. It was no spasmodic outburst of enthusiasm. In every bereaved home that he had entered he had found pride in the husband or brothers or sons who had died fighting for the Empire. No It must be added that money is a dif
one, he continued, would have thought ferent thing with regard to England than that Australia could have risen to the with us. The British Empire is to a great occasion sg she had. It was inconceivable extent built up on, and maintained by and would have been, laughed at before British money-power. England has the war. The democracy rose like sne founded her alliances and waged her wars man with the wealth and resources of mostly with money,
the country to support it. It was as great
In the present war, also, Ecgland hoped.
As in the great things, so in the smaller. things, it will be a new world. Look at tourist agencies had made it a holiday the map
of Europe and remember how the
ground for us. For a generation to come the centre of that map is blotted out. What Briton will take samples or patterns to Berlint
What tourist will talk in our time of the Rhine or of the Black Forest? The great war has set back European travel and comity to the days of the stage couches.
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Turn from the Continent to home, and think of the new world. Already all its chronicles of 1914 are musty and unreal. Where are its celebrities" and its
notorieties" its puppet passions, its isma" and "auris." I Where are its parties and politics, when the party poli tician has become an effigy to smile et in amuseum? Was it not in the late summer of 1914 that the tange" was the newest revelation, golf the serious preoccupation of multitudes, and the coming League foot ball season the sole preoccupation of greater multitudes 1 In July, 1914; the
daring
the
to work by this method, but our brave th surprise to the Mother Country, as to velit, or man who had broken a scarl
troops forced England to stake, not only thusiasm. English money, but also English blood.
The raising of strong armies increased the English war-costs incalculably, and - brought English finances to a state con- We know how to possess what we want, tinually described by British statesmen as to live and to fight. Bread. potatoes, and extremely serious.
other necessities are cheaper than in With the shaking of British financial England and France. The enemy shall powers the foundation of the British Em-know that we had rather forge all abund pire is tottering
anco and bear all hardships than suffer an Germany'solation to money is different enemy's command. The enemy shall know She can bear to become poorer, but still that besides that, our sharp sword, na Temains what she is. We overcame the broken fighting spirit, and confidence in Thirty Years War, and the Napoleonic victory are at our disposal Ward, we were sucked dry, plundered, The German iron fist which has now beaten, and out up; but we always worked blown up the Iron Gate and opened the our way up and grew together again broad road to the East is ready. if her But when the British Empire has gone enemies wish to strike anew, The reapon to pieces it will never rise in a milles-sibility falls on those who cannot make zium, and this England pronounces the up their minds to draw conclusions from outrageous-word of war of exhaus our war grocases, and who still talk of our
destruction. ・tion"
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