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GEBMAN - FALL IN GREEK EYES,

KING CONSTANTINE'S NEW

VIEWS.

[DY J. M. N. JEFFRIED.]

The last ten days have seen the biggest drop in German prestiger in this country since the war began. And this despite our evacuation of Suvla and Anzac during that period. A month ago this would a disaster bore and have been thought would have had a very bad influence on public opinion, whereas now the Greeks have regarded it placidly as an incidental backward move in the chess game

The causes of this German "slump" have been external and internal. The external causes have been the failure of the Germans and of their henchmen to advance in Macedonia and the categoric declarations of General Castelnau on the impregnability of the Allies position there. Then the papers keep the public well informed almost daily of the arrival at Salonika of men, munitions, guns, and aeroplanes, and this, with our recent for cible diplomatic action, has made the public realise our increasing strength.

The internal cause, or, rather, the cause native to the Greek people, is the know ledge that the Greek Army would ask the reason why if the Bulgars or Turks came over the border. In a previous telegram I have alluded to an intimation by Gone ral Moschopoulos to the Government that his army corps could not be trusted to be quiescent in case of an invasion. Since then three heads of army corps in Mace donia, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Corps, have again informed the War Minister and the General Staff that they could not hold

THR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 1016.

GERMAN SCHEMES IN HOLLAND. "DUTCH HAVE ONLY ONE NATION TO FEAR."

There is accumulating in Holland almost enough evidence to warrant the belief, that the great war machine over the frontier is in soms of its parte very seriously out of order. For some weeks thors has been a progressive deterioration in the public ser- vices between Germany and Holand, and business relations have been delayed, con- fused, and

eases abandoned altogether in consequence, says a special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle,

in some

A WOMAN IN THE FIRING LINE,

AMERICAN PRAISE OF THE BRITISH.

I hold a strong brief for the English for the English at home, restrained, earn est, determined, and unassuming for the English in the field, equally all of these things!

MARRIAGE AFTER THE WAR.

[BY A HOPEFUL HUSBAND.]

One of the few redecming aspects of the great war is that it will entirely roform the status and labour bondage of bus- banda.

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The war has finally unmasked the Pawns," published by the George H. Doran Co., of New York, and throughout greatest of woman's age-long deceptions of TJILATJAP

Ever since the first cave woman The recent stoppage in the supply of these pages, written with undeviating fairman. Cologne and Frankfort newspapers to ress and sincerity for she gives the Ger sent the first cave man out into the cold wind to hunt the woolly rhinoceros while Holland was but an item in a long series man his due runs a wonderful belief in

she snuggled by the fire woman has deceiv of similar breaks. For a fortnight past England that will thrill the heart of every there has been what appears to be a com- Englishman who is proud of his own country.ed man that she is bis inferior in strength, sudurance, courage, and achievement. plete breakdown in the telegraphic and The book is a record of Mrs. Rinhart's For her own case she has flattered him postal services. Telegrams sent from Ger-edventures on the western front. She never that his is the dominating sex (mockery many-telegrams of the obviously safe sortisguised the fact that she was present with of the manacled wretch) and the directing Hor that have been passing between business the Allied armies for the sole purpose of Box (mockery of the Inden beast).

GOYO anceatress said. Go out and hunt houses for years are only asw reaching writing about them, and, as far as I can Holland, though they were handed in to the gather, she is the only woman who has visit the skin, and I'll wear it, and woman

ed the firing line with none but literary has said it ever since. officials in Germany in the last days

intentions. And that, apart from the mat November,

ter, goes to make up much of the charm of the book,

More significant still in the case of letters. These, are delayed for many days longer than hitherto, and, strange to say, they

Although Mrs. Rinehart visited all parts reach the addressees in Holland in many cases of the front, the British, the French, and without bearing the least evidence of buy the Belgian, I am prejudiced enough to ing been opened by the censor. It is sug-enjoy the chapters about our own troops gested that a shortage of workers for the more than anything else. Thus does she purpose of the censorship has led the speak of them: authorities to adopt the plon of long delays in the hope that the information, if any, contained in the letters will have lost its value by the time it reaches its destination in Holland..

in their men if the Bulgars or Turks ap:many with whom I have recently spoken country that gives them up! Who will take weathers down miles of mean streets, the

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And then came this mighty upheaval. Woman, forgetting in its stress all the secret she is giving away, has buckled-to in her millions and shown that there is hardly any work of

man that she cannot do. She is driving motor-lorries, she is twirling milk cans into gusids' vans while ancient porters mop their faces in amaze. ment at new records in bang and speed, ahe is doing the postmen's round, the lift There is something about the appear-man's gate clanging, the ploughman's ance of the British soldier in the field that furrow, the lamp-lighter's circuit, the sweep's chimney, the window-cleaner's got me by the throat.

mountaineering, the bank clerk's lightning arithmetic. Bho is standing long hours

the mechanic's Lathe. The woman insurance agent trips in all

doctor, the janitors of all the learned and weman dentist is following the woman lucrative professions are trembling at her hearing footsteps. She is perhaps nehror

I can KARIMOEN to the House of Commons than ever Mrs. Pankhurst could have brought her. envisage even the woolsack in her futuro re-covered albeit that she will want it rese daily to match hor change of robes.

Shall man, then, looking forward to the new world after the war, be anxious and pessimistical Not he. Shall he be fear ARAKAN... ful that women, the worker, will henge- forth take the bread out of his mouth, to earn the loaves while he, the priceless and Woman has given when woman, the worker, will go forth Rare One, sita at home away her secret and sold her ancient birth- right of case. It is for us, the real tender sex, to seg now that she does not regain it.

These men and boys are volunteers, the very flower of England, They march along GERMAN TRAVELLERS' SEARCH

the roads, heads well up, eyes ahead, thou-at Moreover, all travellers to and from Ger- ands of them. What a tragedy for the tell me that there seems to be a new and their places these splendid Scots, with unusual and unaccountable nervousness dis-their picturesque kilts, their hare, muscular Proofs of their own feeling have been played by the officials with whom they have krees, their great shoulders; the cheery forthcoming from the men loo, without to deal when entering or leaving Germany Trish, swaggering a bit and with a twinkle In their blue eyes; these tall young English the intermediary of the generals. There Certainly the searching measures are more

Even boys, showing tnce in every line 1 has been mutiny at Kavalla, when the rigorous and complete than ever. men cried, "Let us fight or be disbanded."! women of German birth who wish to travel There have been any amount of frontier from Holland, where they have married and incidents, and in Athens the soldiers, when settled down, to visit relatives are subject certain officers wished to influence them to vote for the Government and its suped to a search the detaile of which I am posedly passive policy, refused, and when nablo even to indicate. the officers tried to use 'pressure the men replied: "We shall voto with our Mann; lichers (rifles) and vote against you first."

On other subjects there are stories which suggest a very different state of affairs in Berlin from that which is presented in the newspapers, During the meeting of the Reichstag, it is declared that many thou- The 1st Infantry Regiment, an Atheniansands of women, children, and old man ano, and stationed in Athens, and conthronged the streets calling for food, "We sequently in its own voting ground, con

are starving!" was their ono ery, and tributed only 70 votes to the poll. Even inside the Cabinet there has been effer though frequently dispersed by troops there rescence, and at a Cabinet meeting held were so many in the crowds that it was near Christmas M. Rallis and Admiral impossible to break up the demonstrators Condouriotis, the Minister of Marine, permanently, for they swarmed everywhere spoke out plainly, saying: "There is no and re-formed into marching columns as reason whatever, and no guarantees could quickly as they were charged apart by the create one, ander which Greek troops soldiery, would allow the Bulgars to cross the Greek frontier.”

Volunteers and patriots! A mee in capable of a mean thing, incapable of a cruelty; race of sportsmen, playing this horrible game of war fairly, almost too honestly; a race not of diplomats hut gentle men.

But they are not fools.. It is that at titude towards the English that may defeat Germany in the end.

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Every man in the British Army to day has counted the cast. He is there because he elected to be there. He is going to stay

The mere dream of that idle and care- oy until the thing is done-or he is"

During lunch with British officers station free future makes me wish that the belli-

gerents of Europe had been more respect ed in af arm-house near Ypres.

"The Canadian officer told an anecdoteful to the mission of Mr. Ford.

At last there is promise of man coming British recruits, practising passing a whispered order from one end of a trench into his real kingdom. The curtains are to the other, received this message to pass drawing aside of the repose which is his along: Enemy advancing on right flask by right but which has always been usurp With regard to German propaganda iu Send reinforcements. When the message credited with being the tender sex, tho Holland, about which so much has been reached the other end of the trench it was imaginative sex, the romantic sex. Wo- Enemy advancing with ham shank. Seadman has always been shielded from the M. Rallis needs no introduction. Adwrition in various quarters in England, I

world because of her sensitive delicacy. miral Condouriotis is a sailor of a frank, can only say that the more strenuous the thres and four pence.

"Luncheon was over, and accompanied Woman has not gone out into the hurly upright character, universally admired efforts made by the innumerable German and regarded as Grecce's mariner by the agents here to change the colour of Dutch by General H we made our way down burly because the dust and clamour of the market were thought unfitted to her. people. He entered the Cabinet only opinion and feeling the more certainly the steep hillside to the car.

"Some time to-night I shall be in Eng But she has disproved all that in those upon royal orders. Therefore, when these does it appear that all their efforts are in

daya. She is as good as the best of us. It two had spoken out firmly the other in Business visitors hers from England and,' I ssid as I settled myself for the

is my own belief that she is far more com. She has more Ministers were obliged to drop the ques-speak of the "change that they notice in return journey.

"The smile died on the general's face.. petent than most of us. tion of accepting the proffered German Dutch feeling" during the last six months

leas sentiment, more guarantee.

meaning that this feeling is less anti-GerIt was as if in speaking of heme I had determination, man than it was,

touched the hiden chord of gravity and re-energy, more ruth.

Man is the romantic sex, the scusitive There is no sponsbility that underlay the cheerfulness.

the imaginative sex, womna in whose whole body there is an of that cheery visit.

"England!' he said. That was all."

much romance as in man's little finger. Mrs. Rinehart talked with Sir John

Woman is the directing sex, the hard. practical sex, the sex that cannot be French and found him a man with a

blarneyed" or deceived. George Mere- fighting jaw and a sensitive mouth; and n man greatly beloved by the men close to hith (who know more about woman than him. A human man; a soldier, at any man who over wrote on that difficult "the and thorny problem) said that It is curious to note that the Gorman writer."

I like the typically British story of the friendship of most men is purchaseable element in Holland appears to be extra-

with an air of good fellowship and ordinarily well organised. As soon as one motor 'orry drivers:

proven tiseless "At one place in a village we came on a cigar." But woman is immovable, for hers. method of propaganda another is adopted, and instantaneously great three ten lorry driven and manned by is the practical sex. the sex with ten every German has the tale as pat as pos. English Tommies. They knew no French acute common senses that we weak men sible. A few weeks ago, they were trying and were completely lost in a foreign land. possess not. It is the strongest of

READY TO STOP BULGARS.

I think this is a mistaken notion. There may be fewer outward signs of anti-German feeling than formerly, but the Dutch have passed through the demonstrating phase and have settled down with the conviction that they have, as an independant nation, only one nation to fear, and that nation is Germany.

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...

This guarantee took the form of a docu- ment to be signed by the German and Aus trion Emperors guaranteeing that their own and Bulgar or Turk troong would depart from Salonika and Greek territory generally as soon as the military neces tics of their advance had been satisfied. But in the Cabinet matters did not stop at a more postponement of the question. for the memorials of the three army corps commanders above alladed to were sent in in the interval, and on December 27 the King, in conversation with M. Skoul- audis, the Premior, said to him that the situation was no longer the same and that German hands, though, he added, he

bilities to his Beloved that, in truth, his

would soorn to possess. thought they would be able to save their "g victory, but as victory has not yet on the driving seat smoking pipes, and de-attributed all those softnesses and sen-

arrived they have changed the tuae.

to make their difficulty known. prestigo and much of their interests,

Bailleul,' said the Tommies over and husband is less worldly wise than herself? Moved by these considerations, the

Along the Dutch frontier a curious sort Cabinet are to a great extent forced to

the villagers only laughed.

intolerable wrong of being treated like an accept the inevitable, and through the of campaign has been inaugurated latelyver, but they pronounced it 'Berlue, and What husband has not suffered this War Minister the generals commanding At first it appears to be the result of

"The officer in my ear explained. Also infant by his wife and yet compelled to the troops near the frontier have been a purely commercial enterprise on the part he found out their road for them and sent go forth and work for her

A. topsy-turvy creed, this belief in tenderness. ordored to place their troops so as to be of some German frm of picture postcard them off, rather sheepish, but laughing.

soulfulness and prepared for action against the Bulgars den ers. The plan adopted is as follows:→→

I never get over the surprises of this woman's if necessary. The importance of this step Small packets of picture postcards are

war, said the officer when he returned.There have been millions of love sick will not be missed, and the knowledge of

Think of those boys, with not a word of Romeo and never a lovesick Juliet; and in all history there has never been one it may be taken to be the prime facer posted from Germany to large numbers of

French, taking the lorry from the coast to and cause of the present lingering of the residents just inside Dutch territory

The cards are beautifully printed, and the English lines: They'll get there too woman who has looked at the moon and sighed (as we the soulful sex so often do) Germans and their allies in their uncom

which I have seen represent the they always do."" Fortable position north of Salonika.

Kaiser, posing mora dramatically than ever,

when no one was watching her. I am aware that this and other state Zeppelins and other airships in sight, and ments may ha denied, but certain official denials are in reality only confirmations, various war scenes showing Germans at With regard to King Constantine's atti-moment of triumph. The recipients asked that to buy these cards and to remit the money tude, it must be remembered through the Queen he learns the real con- to the senders. There is more than a little dition of things in Germany, and it is evidence to show that those who do not known that her Majesty has recently had remit the money, but who return the cards. letters from her sister. Princess Charlotte 55 "not wanted," are henceforth marked of Saxe-Meiningen, which have consider men, and their names are recorded on Ger- raany's black list, which must by now have ably depressed

King Constantino has recently been attained enormous length.

During the battle of tho Yser,' he much with Colonel Exadactylof, a staff

In laaser Lighter things the Dutch are suid, Faight and day my eyes were on officer known for his disbelief in Ger-running quite the normal course. For in-that clock. Orders were sent. Then it was many's victory. What the upshot of it stance, among themselves any statement necessary to wait until they wore carried all will be at Balonika is not easy to de- that does not bear the stamp of truth is out It was by the clock that one could Pekingese barks! Brisk steps crunch the eide, for the reason that the Germans have called a Wolf Telegram." "A man who know what should be happening. The bourgmvel path. The voice of a brave strong

her

same

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During her visit to the French Army

But now comes man's emancipation, his Mrs. Rinehart lunched with General Foch halcyon era. He can settle down now to "The man of Ypres," and the following his romances, his visions his arts. neident graphically illustrates the agonyota cultivate his tender emotions sheltered of a commander during the struggle for from the rough world and unspotted from He can dream dream-a Calais when the Germans came like the its traffic.

utility that has ever been repugnant to the common sense of woman.

waves of the sea!

"On the mantelpiece was a marvellous Louis Quinze clock, under glass General Fach drew my attention at once to the flock.

had to switch off their original plan and plays a trick on another or takes him, dragged. It was terrible." are at the moment uncertain of the next;

There is no doubt that they did interdumorously, at a disadvantage is a Ger-

For my own part I cherish already my after the war. own dream of the husband's golden era It is seven at night, the firelight glows, the curtains are drawn (not against Zep- pelins, for they will be forgotten), the Hark the dinner smel's savoury.

woman

heard in the porch. Hat and dripping

mackintosh are flung into the One of the most pathetic parts of the lobby in womans hearty way. I leave to march is behind their Balgar auxilis submarine while in place of the book is the description of visits to the King my novel and fancy work. I glide into aries to Salonika, but, the attitude once popular ponny iron cross we now have and Queen of the Belgians at La Panas, the hall. My wife has come home from

a little white button to pin to the coat, on bat it must be read in full, The-story, the City -Daily Mail.~ has been an unexpect-hich is printed Praat me niet over den however, of the Queen and the wounded of the Greek Army od obstacle, as the Germans actually thought the Greeks would join them. The carlog," which, being interpreted menus Frenchman's pipe is a little gem of its own references to Antwerp and other frequent Don't talk to me about the war." boastful utterans of the indiscreet Gor- man military attaché here were founded

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"A wounded Frenchman had lost his "The man smoked and talked An off- pipe when he was injured. As he recovered car came up from the trenches to smoke his he mourned his pipe. Other pipes were after-dinner pipe, a boarded individual, offered, but they were not the same. There who apologised for his muddy condition. Bounds? on this idea, drawn from his communings with the General Staff, who thought they The Bulgarians, who on the whole have had been something about the curse of the He and a major played a duet. They made could use the Army freely, and still can got nothing but casualties and condescen- stem of the old one, or the shape of the a great fuss about their preparation for it. not bring themselves to believe that Gersion from the way up to now, maw on their bowl whatever it was be missed it. And The stool must be so, the top of the cracked

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The danger of an utter collapse of towards Salonika for something more tau-At last the Queen of the Belgians heard profoundly. Then sat down and played prestigo may induce some pretence of an-gible. Their officers at Monastir have attack in Macedonia if sufficient purely been saying to departing friends Ahim describe the old pipe exactly I believe chopsticks

fallen at any moment. Gorman forces can be gos together, but revoir at Salonika" But for the Gerhe made a drawing and she secured a dup-And all this when the roof might have- is the object,cate of it for him? au the whole I do not think a mennine mane I thluk Egypt

The book is full of human touches of the I must quote no more. Read Mrs Rine Admiral Condouriotis and M. Rallis pressed attack is to he expected. The strength of our position is known to the and a third Minister have again protested some kind. There is splendid humour in Lari's book and you will appreciate the enemy and with their sloge reputation against the Bulgarians being allowed to Mrs. Rinehart's visit to a hut right up by human side of the front more thoroughly thaken at Riga they do not want to lose enter Greece, and have threatened to re-the firing line which was continually under than you have ever done before.-C. B. in

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