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**BARALONG” REPRISALS,

BY AN ENGLISHMAN

When, in 1870, the Germans pursued in France the policy of cruelty and intimida tion which is familiar to us all, Bismarck disdained to explain or to apologise. In all the blatant cynicism of a conquering pride he declared that the world knoty with what humanity Prussia waged war and hoped that victory would bring forgetful ness of his misdeeds,

'THE GERMAN IS THE SCORN OF CIVILISATION.”

GERMAN HUMANITY LEAGUE'S

OUTSPOKEN MANIFESTO,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1918,

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The German authorities have published The following translation of the Christa notification to the subjects of Allied mee manifesto which the German Humanity Bates in which they state that it is unde League has issued through its committee to sirable that they should visit Germany, members and associates of the League hop The notification says that it will now be been recoived by the Exchange Telegraph essary for anyone wishing to travel to

Germany to make a statement at the Im Company:-

porial German Consulate regarding the nature of the business which necessitates travel, and such statements are to make it exchanging messages of peace and good-sary or not. Letters and books proving the clear if that business is absolutely neces active in 1870 as in 1914, With equal dis- will with the Sovereign Pontiff at Rome, statement have to be produced, for the ing, end by how much is the margin of † •TJILIWONG..

our brave soldiers are still shedding their life-blood as the pawns of a ruthless clique, without shome without pity for the widow and orphans of the Fatherland. The flower of German youth is being offered up on the

Andeed the humanity of Prussia was byword then as it da now. The fire and aword of the arrogant Germans were as

regard of the laws of war women were driven to musk an attack before the firing line. The Germans of to-day have sur- passed their fathers in barharity as in hypocrisy. If Bismarek scourged his end- mieg with whips the Kaiser has scourged them will scorpions, and has risen to a height of Pecksniffism which was never yet climbed by the blood-thirstiest of pirates or marauders.

murdered and harmless civilians were

Rotterdam, December 23rd, Dear Comrades,-On the eve of Christ mes, when blood-stained monarchs are

altars of, Baal.

campaign waged for more than 500 days, Our homes are still being desolated in a not in lawful defence of German territory but to satisfy the insatiable and savage greed of Prussian conspirators. We again appeal to every toller and wage-carner not yet stirred in the heart by these awful hole usts to register a vow no longer to re- main idle and silent spectators of the stupendous crimes which have robbed us. of our sons and brothers, and left upon the truthful pages of bistory indelible etnina.

The case of the Barniony hus given the Gorman, just the opportunity they love of cant and falsehood. They have made no attempt to prove the charges carelessly brough, against our sailors. They have declined, wisely., to have their own mis deeds subailted, with the allegations

In the Reichstag the men who had against the crew of the Baralong, to an independent court. They prefer the imsworn to defond the rights of the people pudent method of Bismarck. They believe bure joined hands with our oppressors whatever they choose to believe to our dis- The moral forces of the nation are stifled credit, and proclaims in a dozen forms and by the violence of the administration, shapes that the wide world is convinced trampling under font the helpless mass of German gentlenes, and German hu- maaity, that nothing is left for them to do but to fake such methods of reprisal as they think fit.

Now that our guns uro so busy each day yesterday the reverberation of their thunder-strokes never ceased for hours the flying mon are very active. It is their scouting over the chetny's lines which pro- vides the gunners with many of their tar gets, of bricks and mortar or flesh and blood, and while the batteries are at work wireless whether they are hitting, or miss the aviator whispers down to them by

their crror.

It is the unwritten code of the nir ser- vice chat individuals should not be named in the reports of their exploits. If they were known, and if their adventures were for the number of their single combats or fald, some of them would be famous now fights against great odds, or audacions ad- ventures far over the enemy's lines.

cepted as adequate. All those who give torm business ressons will not be ac- such reasons us visiting friends" or pleasure trip will be refused, for the present times are not opportuns for such visits. Those, continues the notification, German Consulates must possess two more who do get their passports vised by the photographs of the same kind as they have on their passports, to be given up at the frontier stations, and only if the frontier There is precious little romance about authorities think it to give a special card this war-cne cannot give a touch of with the photo on it can the traveller prophetry to a red shambles or to filthy coed into Germany, even if he had his pass port previously víséd.

ditches, where men erouch below expls- sive menaces of death-but I find just the one excuse for it in seeing these airmen go out for their day's flight.

The Germaus, as we know, are a primi, from one and all comes the cry: Delivor trying to send all her superfluous people out on fair mornings seeking an encounter!

as from this hell of sulfering."

Consider for a moment the position of the German Empire in July, 1914, Wo then enjoyed nivil rights and liberty as traders. In every market of the world we were welcomed, free to develop in friendly rivalry with other States the arts, the com- nierce the marine resources of our landi. All our legitimate trading interests were safeguarded. defined, and protected by trenties and conventions, We were hon- oured and respected throughout the world.

These stringent regulations are not ac- companied by any explanation, but it is in accordance with the new system innu.

Seen nakedly in its reality their work gurated by the Germans to keep as many people out of the country as passible, for is terrible enough. They are out to destroy the reason that they want to feed as few human life, to drop death into the midgfo people as possible in the future. The num- of masses of men, if they have the luck to ber of allied visitors in Germany during find them, or to wreck a railway train lond the last year was too large to allow of its ed with human freight if they enn stoop continuance, many thousands having gone low to fling their bombs. But they are as of humanity, crushed by the double to Germany from the Monarchy because romantic as, say, those English knights. burden of grief and want. We have living was cheaper there than in the like Sir Walter Hanning and the Black examined through trusted sources the coone-Monarchy, and having settled down there Prince's gentlenica, who, in this same coun- try of Flanders, many centuries ago, rode mic condition of every State and province. for the duration of the war Germany is

u nutrol States in order to lessen the with any enemy who might also be riding burden of feeding them, and under such on the way with a sharp lance and a fight. circumstances she cannot afford to allowing spirik,

I also her Allies to fill up the gaps.

THE MEDIEVAL CHALLENGE, understand that the German authorities, in pursuance of the new policy, are about

Old Froissart has chronicled these ad- ventures, and in his pages, we may still get to send all allied subjects and neutrals out of the country unless they can satisfy the the thrill of those meetings near St Omer, authorities that their stay is of imperiance or St. Quentin or round by Hazchronek,

There are something ke to the State

where those English and French knights 40,000 Hungarians in Germany, who have

came across each other, and shouted evaded military service by staying a

challenge, and rode, on a bard chase if the there after the outbreak of war.

other sida retreated before greater num will all be repatriated in a short time, and bers. Denth was the forfeit of the game their women-folk also will be sent home.

then as now, and `n mess of blood spoilt The number of Austrian subjects in Ger- the end of each adventure, but the heart of the badge of infamy. Chivalry is ony is over 100,000, at least half of them

youth leaps up to the courage of those longer in our ranks. It has been buried in of military age. the trenches in Flanders and in the village garians, as well as the Bulgarians, will be knights, to their lost and cunning wor grave-plots of Brabant. For our crimes sent home within the next few weeks. Ger-craft, to the high spirit with which they we are loathed by all honest men. To hide any will under this new policy get rid rode against all risks, them is impossible. We stand naked and of something like two hundred thousand exposed.

hungry mouths. It is ako said that those "What can be more despicable than the who do succeed in getting into Germany treacheryn Washington. Teheran under the new regulations will have to Wnt mire contemptible than the hollow state the length of time they wish to stay and tying subterfuges for breaches of there to complete their business engage dipforintio etiquette and all the canons of ment, and such permits will be granted civilised communities

of international only for a limited time. jurisprudence, and of the customs and asages of honourable warfare published by the Imperial Chancellor in the pages of the Norddeutske Allgemeine Zeitung No one is deceived by them

tive folk, still untouched by the cominon processes of civilisation. They have suc- cumbed one and all to the vanity which befogs the suddenly made millionaire, They fondly believe that whatever belongs to them is better than that which belongs to anyone else, and that to them and them alone is permitted the last excess of wan- ton savagery. In their own eyes they can do no wrong. It is not merely that for them the end. justifies the means. It is that a sin committed by one of their race becomes a shining virtue in their eyes. For this reason they are doomed to-live To-day the German name is the scorn of apart to break off from the comity of nativilisation; the German flag bas become tions. A common feeling of morality and honour is the one bond which can hold together then of different blood and race. This common feeling is wholly lacking to the Germans, and until in adversity they. acquire it they are doomed to live and to

think aloue.

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In this war there are tourneys in the air, not now and then, but every day, when the English and, German aviators scout across each other's lines and challenge each THE TAIKOO other to single combat round the corner of

chaud, fight to the death in a clear blue field of the sky, or fly down the wind in a hot chase from an unexpected squadron. The nerve of these men is astounding; their audacity is beyond all belief if one has not seen it, as I have seen it, seares of tinies.

on trail

They know well enough the enormities of which their submarines have been guilty They are not ignorant of the international law which their pirates have nuiformly

In connection with thiỵ qucation it may outraged, Yet they have no regret for the women and children and civilians-

be mentioned that there is an agreement whom they have sent to their death. They

between all the Germanic Allies regarding Practically are not German women and children, and

the extradition of deserters. therefore they are not worth a tear With

every allied subject living in an tied.

They mount their saddles in the morn an exquisite lack humour the Austrians We who love our land with a passionate State is considered a deserter if he has recently demanded that certain Austrians, devotion and strive to reach the dawn of not been exempted from military service. ing, after a sigaretto or two, as though deported from India, should be ethiciently a new era, which shall restore her character Most of the Austro-Hungarian subjects in they were just taking a taxi-cab to Ple- Protected against their own submarines and wia back for her children the honour Germany have no exemptions, owing to the cadilly-cirens instead of mounting by the English, because they were Aus- we have forfeited by barbarous einelties faol they have never presented themselves wings into a wind-driven sky where there trians and of the better class! That they and insatiable lust, have written the above for medical examination. This agreement is almost sure to be an enemy bohind the themselves should be asked to refrain from with heavy hearts. Napoleon failed. The Was reached a few weeks ago, following ambush of a cloud, or more certainly

the request of the Bulgarian Government without any fail-little darts of white murder even for a week was too gross an Kaiser must fail, and there can be no

addressed to the Governments of the Cen-smoke reaching up to them making puff- outrage upon their privilege of illegality pence until he has been deposed from las to be considered for a moment. It was the throne ho has fouled and his fellow contral Powers to repatriato al Bulgarian balls all about them with a wide scatter business of England to see to it that no spirators have met their fate at the bands subjects. This request was complied with,of shot in which one single bullet is enough and King Ferdinand's subjects were ex- to end all their flights, if it is the lucky Austrian of the better class fell a helpless of an executioner, victim to Austrian barbarity!.

(Signed) Karl Bernstein (president); As the results were satifactory, the Anstro-aver the German lines, heating up against polled from Hungary a few months agone. Again and again I have watched them.

similar And thus àmbued with the spirit of their Finil Gort. Jacob Mamelsdef, Albrecht

the wind or flying steadily ja still air ap blamelessness they express their deep al. Zettel (secretary), Conrad Schwabe, Fein. Hungarian Government made a

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fact, which is known from many source, And not one sign of regret escaped them suffices to show Low hopeless are the Ger- for the brutal murders brutally achieved man efforts to contend with the Russian upon the high seas by the submarines of winter. The Russian, even in winter, Germany, without a word of warning or

never consume fuel in this wholesale Bn attempt to save a single innocent life.

manner, yet he keeps perfectly warm. The sinking of the Lusitania and the Peculiar forms of clothing, occasional Arabic of the Ascone and the Persia active movements, and glasses of scalding was a lofty proof of German chivalry to keep the Russian lively and happy; That a single pirate should be punished where the German suffers agonics round for his misdeeds, in complete accord with red hot stovepipes and other Western in- the law of nations, is an affront which the ventions, which, with alcohol in oxosive subjects of the Kaiser cannot think of doses, only aggravate the trouble. without a fine outburst of righteous indig- nation.

BYE FOR AN EYE,

GERMANY AND HER TURKISH ALLY.

The first gup is fired, and one sees a small smudge like the aeroplane itself, and fairly class to it. It breaks into a white An- cloudlet and the machine ignores it. other shell burats, nearer this time, so that one hold one's breath. Boon there is a half-circle of little white clouds flung very prettily across the pathways of the sky; but the airman stays in its joop, still poised above the enemy, still staring down ulter ly indifferent, it seems, to this girdle of flying stool which is lassoned about him.

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French town and another in German cupation. But they did not get back to luncheon without having to fight for their meal.

The scout chased and overhauled them, and then, choosing the larger, which was an Albatross, attacked from above, and forced it down under heavy fire.

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The word spoken by the scout was lost in the great spaciousness.

It need not be recorded by a mortal pen, for it was only a little one. But as he could no longer shoot this knight errant of the air abandoned the duet and went back to his flying-ground to make his usuaj

report

But as it happened, by ill-luck for tho This is not an unusual story. I could He saw an enemy aeroplane over our English air-captain, three other German fill all the page in which this one wil be lines that morning, and rose to chase it. aviators were taking a promenade in high printed with similar adventures, all be It heard the hum of his engine, and did places, and, seeing their distressful com longing to this year's record, though the

the names of the men engaged they would

not like the sound of it, slipping into the rade, came to the rescue in a steady down-ear is still a youngster. If I could give nearest cloud, and so away. Our air capward swoop. tain scouted round in the hope of a fight, and saw another enamy below him

In the air duels, by swift attack and skill in aircraft, our men are wonderfully. good; better almost always than their Count Reventlow lost no time in rebukenemy, if they have the same power of ing Enver Pasha for his arrogant speech machine, and certainly more eager to give In the course chase. On December 29th lust one of our in the Turkish Chamber. of a carefully-balanced article he says: air, captains engaged several hastile ma Our Turkish allies know how highly chines with an obstinate courage which their services are appreciated in the Ger- would seem to me extraordinary if I did man Empire. But our satisfaction could not know that it is the ordinary daily work not be complete if we Germans did not of many of his comrades. know that we also had rendered valuable and decisive services to our Turkish allles, It would, moreover, be impossibls in the The German pastors lag net a yard be connection not to remember the brilliant hind the German politicians. They wor-screvements of the German officers whic,

The scout was between three fires, and be worth telling and remembering, but the By this time we know the German char- ship their old German god as a god who for more than a year, have been helping the

the machine guns were lashing streaks of nonymous description makes one example acter: What the subjects of the Kuiser eries aloud for human sacrifice. Their Turkish Empire on land and sea.

The conclusion of the article is even

He stooped like a hawk in a steep nose. Isad about him, It was his turn for flight, good enough to show the cool courage of would call the German psychology" has creed was once the creed of the cannibal agecrots from ua It is the psychology of islands. They shout for blood, and will more pointed. Count Berentlow saya:--

At this moment, when he enemy remains dive, keeping a free hand for his Lewis and be retired from the unequal battle at these hatchet-faced young men who peer an imperfectly developed people." If we not be content without hecatombs of mur-

in the Gallipoli Peninsula, we must think gun. But the second enemy was nut fight full speed. It seemed enough for a morashout the skies of war and then come-to- earth again with a matter-of-fact manner slay women and children," say the Gordered victims. We doubt whether there is

also of the Chiel of the German General ing that day, and flew off in a scurry, Ourtig stroll roned the sky, but on the way for another cigarette and an overhauling of mas bad climbed up an invisible spiral to to some white ruins which make a good mans, "that is a glorious feat of arms, 1 single jalet left to-day upon an uncharted' If you slay a single soldier that is murder

sea which would not repudiate the noisy Staff, who, by his military and political cowardly and bestial." And so they whine doctrines of the German Church, It has deliberations, showed the united forces the 11,000ft, and from this cold, high loneli-signpost for the road, home, he saw his the engine, which is a living thing to them upon him until they were at close range. nine, if you like to reckon them) sailing and spirit as those knights who rede because the killing is not all on their side, put up Satan upon what it believes the moment, the road and the goal, organized as saw a third cremy, and stole a march ninth enemy (his encounters numbered and very loveable when it is running well.

their resources, and put them in motion This psychology

throne of grace and vaunts the duty of

The German nose-dived, turning as he drop-along over a certain wood, should convince our

ped towards his own lines, but followed by

CHASE AND CHALLENGEL governors of the plain duty of reprisal, murder ng Satan's elect. For Kasphemy It was he who was the pathfinder.

the swoop of the Morane scout and by a There is but one thing which will deter and hypocrisy it never has been it never

splatter of bullets from the Lewis gun, the Our air ceptain did not like to pass him the savage from cruelty, and that is a will be, outdone.

It should be

enemy dived still more steeply and his an- by without a challenge, and gave chase. certainty of punishment

gine seemed to be breathing out black The engine was working well, and raced crystal-clear to the Germans that we mean to tako oye for eye and tooth for tooth,

theme, which left a curling trail behind down the other machine, so that the him too-desise to come from his exhaust Lewis gun was within range Only two täst raid by sir upon an undefended

and too black to be the burnt vapour of yards of air divided the two_flying_men English town shall be followed instantly

Three hundred cases of “stacen" lying engine oil. He was obviously hit and his They could look into each other's eyes, and inevitably by a raid upon an open city

planes staggered uneasily, until gradually which was good enough for a challenge to on the harbour quay at Manga have been in Germany. That is the one argument

discovered to contain, not stucco, "But which the German mind can understand,

balance was recovered and ho plunged into the death

But the German had the luck, for below 4000 rifle, and over 400,000 cartridges. gut since the debate about the Narulang

cotton-weo] mist and so escaped, ----- The Morane scout mounted agam, cikin were couse anti aireralt guns and out. It is believed that these were intended for foreshadows some new deed of barbarism,

sing up and up to 12,000 ft, and then of the puff balls. they threw up came a the tribesmen in Morocco, whom the Ger- the sooner this one argument is publicly advanced the better it will be for the safety of our exprotected towns.

The divine mission of Germany, oh, brethren, is to crucify humanity," says Pastor Philippi, of Berlin; "the duty of German soldiers therefore is to strike with out mercy. They must kill, buru, and de stroy; any half measures would be wicked; let it then be war without pity-" In the presence of such nonsense what can say, save that a nation doomed to destrue- tion is first sent mad? The madness of Germany is evident to all. May the de- struction ordinary by Providenco follow swift and complete!

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