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THE

WAR.

BERLIN AND VERDUN FAILURE.

LIKE MEN IN DREAMS.”

GERMANS LOSE 200,000 MEN IN LAST OFFENSIVE.

JAPAN AND GERMANY: MUST BE CRUSHED.

TURKEY STILL SEEKING PEACE.

MARRIED MEN PROTESTING.

#HANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.

[TEROVON REUTER'S AGENOT.). EFFECT OF VERDUN AT

BERLIN.

"LIKE MEN IN DREAMS."

LONDON, Maret 14th.

The Morning Post correspondent al Budapest, states that there is considerable in consequence of the diss appointing results of the German offensive al Verdun.

uneasiness

never seen the

A Hungarian journalist resident in Berlin says that he has Berlin people in anything like their pres sent mood. They walk the streets wrapped. in thought, like men in dreams; everything being sacrificed to Verdun,

Austrian heavy guns have been removed from the Italian front to the Russian front, and weakened reinforcements are continu- ally moving westwurd.

Military circles in Budapest declare that an extra million men will be required for the whole of the Western front in con- sequence of the Vortlun effort.

GERMANY'S FINEST

BEING DESTROYED..

200,000 GERMAN LOSSES.

Į

ARMY

GENERAL.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESK, WEDNESDAY, MARUH 1511, 1918.

ĮTHROUGH REUTER'O LOSSSCY.}

MARRIED MEN PROTEST.

'CLAIM THAT ALL SINGLE MEN SHOULD BE CALLED UP.

LONDON, March 14th.

[INNOWON REUTER'S AGENOT.) TURKEY SEEKING PEACE.

HEIR APPARENT URGED TO INTERCEDE.

ATHENS. March 14th.

A letter from Constantinople states that a' numerously signed memoir begs the Her Apparent to urge the Sultan to change the Government with a view to concluding"& separato pence with the Autente. WAR COUNCIL OF THE ALLIES,

PARIS March 4th.

The great War Council of all the Allies) mot at General Joffre's bondquarters

F,M.S. WAR LOAN,

'FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR

PROPOSAL OUTLINED,

WHY THE WAR MAY BE

LONG LESSONS OF THE MAN WHO DINED WITH THE KAISER.

[DY LOVAT BRASER.)

This country has been confonted by a revation. The letters of The Daily Must correspondent who has visited the Balkans and Asiatic Turkey light up the darkness in the East like flashes of lightning. They shown great world-mavoment at work, and they ought to make us all reflect.

themselves in. Let us ponder over these things, and talk no more of the end of a why which, if history is any guide, may he only just beginning, and perhaps has far vaster, and more tragic episodes in

store,

GERMAN ADMIRAL'S SNEERS.

INTERVIEW FOR U.S. CONSUMPTION,

Message from Borlin to Howard, United Let us cease to do little sums to prove to Press, New York: Admiral von Holtzen- ourselves and to each other that the re dorf, Chief of the Admiralty Staff bas sources of the Germanic tribes are failing, declared that an ́ effectivo blockade of Ger that on such and such a date they will many is impossible. England be said, have no more men, that they must soon he could under no circumstances stop com- sus conclusions from the undoubted fact mark, and Gerniany For weeks no British | starved out. Let us cease to draw erronke | merce in the Baltic between Sweden Don- that the Barbarians have made overtures submarina has had any success in the Attila of old (though he did not come from Russian harbours. The only effect of such of peace in une direction and another. Bakio. The Russian Floet is frozen up in

the north) always tried to detach his foes a declaration by the Allies, the admiral from each other, and never fought when he stated would be upon neutrals and the could bribe or divide. Our modern Bar- barians have stoked their all upon this

women and children of Germany mighty adventure, exactly as their for bears were wont to do. We must do the same or perish,

I suggest, then, that the letters now appearing in The Daily Mail, far more than any evidence I have yet seen, prompt the reflection that when the first thot was fred in August 1014 the world, was in stantly confronted with the conditions of eighteen or twenty centuries ago. The letters give us the clearest and most con prehensive conception yet published of what the Geamans are actually doing, and whither they are moving. From thent wa may realise, more fully than we have yet done, that in August 1014 the foul of Bar- barians from the worth reappeared in a new and infinitely more formidable guise, and perhaps a new migratory epoch began. Flinders Petrie says of these migrations that they represent the most terrible tragedies of all humanity-the wreck of the whole system of civilisation, protracted starvation, wholesale massacre. The inne sacres we have already seen, the starvation is already widespread in some region, and other large areas of the Old World are in

Their importance lies not so much in their glimpses of personalities, but rather in the cudu.ative evidence they furnish of the tremendous German movement now de- veloping in the Near East, ne alsowhere. The trainloads of guns and ammunition, the swarms of officers and officials pouring into Bulgaria and Turkey, mean much more than the glittering figures upon whom public attention is concentrated. My pur- pote here is to attempt to express the keeper significance of these disclmures of A Federated Malay Slates Geg mampat the lust tow days. They tear aside the Gazette Extraordinary evatains the draft veil. They show ug at first hand the of an Enactment to authorise the raising apostles of "frightfulness spreading out of a loan of $15,000,000 by the issue, in the wards from Ostend to the Bosphorus and Federated Malay State, of debentures, the beyond. They imply they see are back sum so raised to be placed at the disposal the days of the thousand years ago, of His Britannic, Majesty's Goveruntent Let me explain further what I mean. It for the prosecution of the war. The deben is incumbent upon us to divest ourselves of tures are to be for such sums, not being our old habits of thought about war. We less than fifty dollars, as the Chief Secre entered this war just as were wont to entry tary to Government me, direct and will upon our ordinary little wars. This war bear interest at the rate of six per centumcemed much bigger, perhaps, but for many per annum. The debentures will be re- months after it began we contemplated it deemable at par on and after the first day from the traditional standpoints. We of, 1921, from and after which date at dreamed of one great fun battle, in which interest on the principal money represent.

the hosts of evil would he utterly route,

whether payment of the principa; shalt

Then there were to be the thrilling moments

when the boys come back with hands supposed. But en we save have been demanded or not.

in every steet, and the King and Queen driving to an emotional thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral, and bowing and smiling to maltitudes of their cheering subjects. Meanwhile we were implored on every music-hal stage to keep the home fires burning," regardless of the price of coal. It never seemed to dawn an anybody

Large plotest meetings of attestered thereby shall cease and détermine, as they always had been in our experience | greater danger of shortage of food than

married men, which were 'eld in Coventry, Leicester, Sheffield and Wigan yesterday passed resolutions demanding that all single men, should be called up before the married me are summoned.

It as understood that a Cabinet Com wittee is considering the matter.

It has been decided to delete large batches of industries from the starred lists, an : to eliminate the single men in other trades.

AHEAD IN SHELLS BY SPRING-

MR, LLOYD GEORGE'S PROMISE.

WE MUST HEAR THE HEN NUT CRACK.”

The Secolo publises an interview which its editor. Dr. Mario Bursa, has had with Mr. Lloyd George, who, speaking of the progress of munition work sail;

that we might in the end find some dif- culty in keeping our homes from being burned instead,

PEACE TALE

And almost before a shot was fired people began to talk out the Peace Conference,

our civilisation?

CHANGE OCR HABIT OF THOUGHT.

will; we shall only do so by first transform

I think we can, and fruly believe wo ing our whole habit of thought regarding this war. We must cease to regard it as a gigantic episode which may be over next June or next Christmas, when everybody

wonder woher and shake their cats and giving away too much at the Peace Con- whether Sir Edward Grey is lerenes. We raust think of it as the out- the collective life of mankind. We must come of a mighty and recurring factor in make up our minds that it may go on

pared for any British action. When I He hinted strongly that "Germany" is pre say that the new blockade of Germany would be a bluff do not misunderstand me. Germany looks earnestly but fearlessly and children to suffer, but because such a upon any enemy plans to canse her women blockade is impossible. I say it is a bluff. Ask any Swedish merchant ask any Swede in Berlin, ask anyone knowing the Balkan situation. They will all tell you that com merce "between the two countries is abso- lutely normal.

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For four weeks no English submarine hos had any successes in the Baltic, Wo. intend to make this more impossible be cause an English" blockade of our Baltic. ports is out of the question, An effective blockade would be bluff. England hampers.. German trade already. If a blockade were declared now it would be contrary to in-. ternational law. It will not only be a blockade of Germany but also of the neu- tral countries around her. England's par- pose is to make difficulties for our families, thinking that this will affect the men in the trenches. And it will, for when the men learn that their families are made fo suffer by the enemy opposite they will be more determined and fight the harder.

"WE PREPARED LONG AGO."- statesmen have repeatedly said, is to crip- England's purpose in this war, as her ple Germany and destroy her commerce. After eighteen months of war she is not absolutely no effect upon our military successful; her effective blockade will have

determination. We prepared long ago, for any omergency"

The admiral is a small, plump, energetic man, with thick white whiskers and a hearty handshake, During his direction of the Admiralty Staff, submarine nativi. ty has with great success been contred in the Mediterranean. In reply to my ques have on Germany's military plans the

Yes! we woke up slowly it, but I am now perfectly satished with what we are doing. We have now 2,500 factories. If you turn back to the files of indefinitely, that it may bring far more tre GERMANY MUST BE CRUSHED cuplaying 13 miltion men, and a quarter of weekly and monthly reviews you will find mendous disasiers in its train, and that tion, What effect will the stricter blockade

VIEW OF JAPANESE PEOPLE,

TOKYO, March 13th.

Count Okuma, the Premier, in an inter- view with a Reuter correspondent, declared that the feeling of Japan was overwhelm- ingly in support of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, despite German intrigues. He affirmed that the Japanese people insist that Germany must be crushed. RAIDING ENEMY SEAPLANE.

DRIVEN OFF BEFORE REACHING

ENGLAND.

PARIS, March 13th. The official review states that the German Staff is trying to persuade the German

LONDON, March 14th. people that the German losses at Verdun

The German seaplane which was sighted were slight, but evidence is daily secum. mulating in Franco showing that the off North Foreland at noon on Sunday Germans lost at least 200,000, while the did not reach land British aeroplanes chai lant attack on Fort Vaux was terriblying the scapizno sonward, costly.

The review quotes a military critic, who are destroying Germany's ‚SEYS: --" We

finest army, and they are not getting through." CLEVER FRENCH COUP DE MAIN.

PARIS, March 13th.

4.10 p..

A 'communiqué says:-There has been no infantry action north of Verdun, but the bombardment has contioned at Bethin- court, Douaumont and in Woeyro.

French batteries in the sectors of Mou- lainville and Bouraux. to the east of! Verdun, displayed great activity along the whole front.

A French detachment in Bois-le-Pretro effected a clever coup de main, clearing à Gorman trench, inflicting losses and taking some prisoners.

FRENCH AIR RAID..

PABIR, March 13th.

4.20 p.m

WAR COMMITTEES TO CONFER

LONDON, March 14th.

The Unionist und Liberal War Com--

mitrees confer for the first time to-day in. view of the debate on the Army Estimates.

CANADA'S SACRIFICE.

LONDON, March 14th, ·

A Tornanto telegram states that the total of Canadian casualties is 13,868.

By the spring we shall

a million women, have turned out an immense amount of munitions. We shall have for the first time in the war more thau the enemy. Our unquestioned, and I think the war for us superiority in men, and materials will be is beginning only now. three millions under arms; by the spring we shall have a million more

We have now

ditions are getting worse every day. Her Germany's economic and financial con Army will be the last to feel the distress in Germany, but it will feel it.

Our victory must be 6 real and a final victory.

You must not think of a dead lock. You must crack the nus before you et at the kernel. It may take a long time, but you must hear the crack to pressure of the ensay is becoming greater; they are spreading their frontier tem porarily, but they are becoming weaker in A military sense. Make no mistake about it. Great Britain is determined to fight this war to a finish. We may make is takes, but we do not give in. It was the obstinacy of Britain that wore down Napoleon after twenty years of warfare, Allies broke away one by one, but Britain kept on. Our Allies on this occasion are just as solid and determined as we are.

RUMANIA'S DEMANDS.

EX-PREMIER ASKS AUSTRIA FOR CONCESSIONS.

tions with Rumania.

thing so early as ten gut about the Peace before very long all the great nations of were all intensely enxious the have to accept a much lower standard of Conference. In those days many good people thought more about the terms of living for many generations to corse.

Next, we must cease to boast of what peace than about winning the war Even tables solemn discussions about whether the face the plain fact that on land all those to-day you may hear at many dinners are going to do next spring or next year or at some unknown date. We must wicked Lord Haldane will be able to slip in at the back door of the Peace Confer

ence,

admiral answered: "Absolutely no mit-

tary advantage. We have all the things necessary for war for years, I suggested stopping all imports Germany may be that perhaps the Allies believed that by

forced to sue for pence. The admiral

"We have all we need to clothe replied; our suldiers, we have everything necessary for our campaign, Stopping one bax or a thousand boxes from entering Germany will not interfere, ono iota with our mili tary plans"

I asked how long the wir was going to Last. Until the Allies learn that they That cannot accomplish their purpose. may be a long time." I suggested a year or two. "A long time," said the admiral. Is was pointed out that in the House of Commons a member recently spoke about the secret construction of Germany's war- ships, and spoke of the danger such an increase would be for England. The ad miral said: during the war and that of England is about the same; but Germany's Navy will never be a danger to England. It is our merchant marine which England fears, The fact that to-day this fleet is undes(ray-

"The increase of our Navy

who oppose the Barbarian tribes, and stand for freedom and oivilisation, have But this is not an ordinary war and either dug themselves in, or fled, or first cannot be judged by the standard of any fled and then dug themselves in. The or

great new factor which distinguishes this war during the last few hundred years. Discussions about the furtive activities of Barbarian unpheaval from all the prace Lord Haldane are becoming almost as ir dents of the past is the influence of sea relevant a bleatings about the Plura per. The barbaric tribes of old were not MAs a rule dependent upon sea power in Voting Bill, or speculations on their more conspicuous. Asquith's prospects of retaining office, or

migrations. the squabbles of the Labour parties: This These modern Barbarians cannot ignore ar is a new outpouring of Larburism sen power, which may prove a decisive recurrent factor older factor. Sea power rests chiefly in tho the north, than written history; but this time it is hands of Great Britain, and has beon Not a barbarism clad in skins and armed foolishly mishandled because our Govern with cubs. It comes forth mailed and imment persist in thinking that this is one picable, carrying sword and test-tabe, of the ordinary polite wars of the last spreading the old destruction in a thou-few hundred years, and have never seemed sand now and fearful forms These are the to realise that it is the outcome of a world old migratory hosts, but with Science as factor of inmemorial antiquity, recurrent their huudmaid. If the letters in The and inevitable, to be dealt with ruthlessly Daily Mail, with their pictures of streamsnt all. hazards. of men and munitions passing outward And what must our practical aim bot across Europe, and either driving forth or I suggest that our objects are no longered and ready at any moment peace is de- absorbing the weaker and mora subserviens merely spacions restitutions to France and clared to resume its peaceful trading, is races, hove not taught us at last where Belgium and Serbia and Russia. They are the one-thing which causes the English we stand. nothing will

no longer the restoration of the rights of anxiety England does not fear the Ger nationalities, and all the other phrases

man Navy. She feara Amoriga and the which came so eagerly to our lips a year growing American Navy" or even a few months ago. We have to

To my question, "There are many re- fight on without ceasing. not until Ger- ports that a big naval battle may be ex- many is destroyed, for that is impossible, pected. What can your Excellency Ray but until the unity of Germany in broken.

about that?" The admiral answered: The conception of large numbers of ex-Only that the decision does not rest with cellent people seems to be that

at the

us, Wo oro always prepared."-Wireless Peace Conference" we shall consent to

Press, new German outlets (some of which Gor- many has already seided), shall make some ridiculous bargain about the freedom of the seas, and shall then all sit down and be happy ever afterwards. This is mere mean unending war. So long as Germany

For many years, in moments of leisure. I was preoccupied with the study of the ceaseless ebb and flow of encounters be- Those great tween Europe and Asia. alternating pulsations of humanity between east and west secured to represent the suza of human history, The pre-occupation was natural, because at intervals it fell to my lot to pass to and fro upon the tracks of these armies of old. But there is ako a pulsation north and south, and it has always boca so. All through the ages there have been periodical stirrings of the tribes dwelling on the shores of the Baltic and the North Son. They pour southward madness. A peace of that kind would diers, administrators, and policemen. They

docile tribes of Teutonic Germany. The Prussians use the German language but are Germans in name only. They are sol- have contributed nothing to the milder

I learn from a highly placed Ramanian personage who has just arrived from Bucarest that the Germans have packed up almost everything and haw cleared out of the Embassy at Bucarest, leaving only a small amount of furniture, says the Daily Mail's correspondent at Vevey.

The latest German papers evince alarni at Rumania's attitude, which is causing grave apprehension in Berlin. The sue AN OVERSEAS MISSION. cessful efforts of the Allies to prevent the delivery of 50,000 wagons of corn recently LONDON, March 14th: purchased by Germany are cited as indi- Brigade General Minchin has under cating the progress of the Allies' negotiat intervals, generally because their lands taken a special mission oversens,

The Periz Parjen's Petrograd corre

are inadequate for their sustenance. They is united the world will be in peril. The glories of German civilisation which in the are invariably destructive at the outset new methods of warfare in the air and past won so much praise, Kant, their spondent, telegraphing a description of the PROMINENT INVALIDES. journey of M. Carp, ex-Premier of Rumanin,

under the ses will be an abiding temptation only philosopher, was really a Scotsman to Vienne, says: M. Carp before his de

to her to renew the conflict at her own by descent. LONDON, March 14th. parture had an interview with his King.

convenience, M. Bratiano (the Rummian Premier) was Mr. Austen Chamberlain is still continet alone aware that the King had confided to M. Carp a mission to ask from Austria to his room with an attack of influenze.

territorial concessions in the Bukovina and Lord Curzon, who was operated upon Transylvania and to let Austria under stand the necessity of giving satisfaction to for a broken arm, is improving.

THE MEXICAN REBELLION, AMERICAN EXFEDITION ENTERS MEXICO.

A communiqué states that a French air squadron dropped heavy bombs on Con-

NEW YORK, March 14th. fans, and observed five fires;

The newspapers report that a punitive HOW GERMANS COUNT THEIR expedition, under Brigadier Pershing, has

LOSSES.

entered Mexico. The War Department is silent, but it is announced that thres cavalry regiments have been ordered to the border,

DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT RESIGNS.

LONDON, March 15th. Major-Genera] S. S. Long has resigned the Directorship of Supplies and Tran

PARIS, March 14th. semi-official announcement states that the German method of counting the pri- soners.at-Verdun-is-based on the principle of a stage arwy.

Ze Matin states that the German losses at Verdun, were 200,000.

GERMAN CLAIMS

Rumania.

of their invasions, thought not always so in their later stages, as was proved by the Goths. The curious will find in the Huxley Lecture for 1800 a long series of diagrame by Professor Flinders Petrie, showing how often Europe has been overrun by the dwellers in the bleak plains of Northern Prussian and the adjacent regions. I have been studying them again during an in- terval of illness, RN

NA DIFFICULT PURPOSE.

MASTRIFE OF · PRÚBBIA, When we get back to the heart of things But is it possible ever to exert such we find that the tribe to whom is chiefly pressure that Germany will split from due this great Barbarian irruption is the within? If we are to judge from the pre- tribe of Prussia, Not for nothing did Mr. sent outlook, we are a long way from Asquith say that we have to go on fighting dividing the horde, and never farther than nntil Prussian militarism is wholly and at present. I often hear it said that the finally destroyed, I would add, as an split will come first among Germany's alternative, the word isolated.

That is vassals, either in Austria or in the Bal- our goal. It may take years, it may in- kans. It seems to be overlooked that the volve all that we possess, civilisation may Balkang are rent asunder already, so that be uprooted in the process, hat until it is not much stress can be laid upon the tradi accomplished the world will never again tional. inability of the Balkan, peoples to know peace, agree among themselves. We have heard

SUFFERINGS OF SMALLER NATIONS. The King and his Government know that public opinion is fully conversant with the If we could only get it into our hands advantages which the Quadruple Entento that we are dealing with one of the most bas assured to Rumania, In order to treinendous recurrent factors in buman maintain a policy of non-intervention it is history, rather than with the personal nooossary that they should be in a position ambitions of the Kaiser or the schemes of to make proposals not only to the Entente the German General Staff, we should cease bat also to obtain concessions from the to speculate any more about the end of a great deal of Turkish hatred of the the trenches the pretensions of the Prus- Germanic Empires, It is to obtain that the war:*? We should know that for us result that M Carp has been sent to the war can have no end until the great Vienes. He has seen Count Tisza and has tribal outpouring is checked, and unt had a warm welcome at Vienna, where be the forces it represents are broken up has a number of friends, but it is doubtful We should recognise that we are perhaps if Austria will consent to satisfy Rumanian at the beginning of another of those great public opisīss, ***

ugratory epochs during which civilisation The Sofia correspondent of the Berliner has been overthrown, This particular Tageblatt recently interviewed M. Rade outburst was long overdue. It was checked slavoff, the Bulgarian Premier, who de for centuries by the discovery of the New eared that "Rumania's attitude will be Word, which diverted men's energie in cleared up within conceivable time, and fresh directions. When the New World this will be of the greatest importance to began to fill up, the old volcano in North the Germanic Powers.

ern Europe burst forth afresh, Discussing what it terms "Rumania's Have the sufferings of Belgium and vacillating polioy, the Manich Weueste Sorbin, and the impotence of their great Nachrichten remarks that public opinion in Rumania is a little friendly as ever to hundreds of years must we go back to find tragic exodus the Germanic Powers and that they have a paralley for the

ob the least occasion for any special from Belgium and for the wholesale flight gratitude to Rumania. Only one thing is of the Serbs? The smaller and weaker certain, the journal adds, namely that nitions felt most at the first onslaught Rumania's Leutrality can only be guaran even the Russians eventually withdrew im teed by the continuous success of the Ger- mcase. distances, and the French and Eng

fish could do more of first than dig

Allies, taught us nothing AMSTERDAM, March 14th.

A Berlin &mmunigne claims that singsport, a position which ho has held since the beginning of events in the Meuse dis 1914. trict the Germans hayo captured 130 The Daily Express states that Major Officers, 26,40 men, 189 guns and 32 Genera Long resipted at the request of machine-guns

Mr. Lloyd George,

man arms

How many

Judging by the experience of our men in Germans but have seen very little praesian, are no more appreciated by Teutonic tical result from it. The Bulgarists are Germany than by the rest of the world. sulky by nature, and would be between In the general hostility to Prussia, and two fires if they rebelled. Austria-Hun- in the exercise of greater pressure by the gary lacks leadership and is resentful but British Fleet, we may perhaps perceive the two factors which will some day bring not unwilling

Nothing but a destruction of German about that destruction of German unity unity can serve our purpose. It looks which will end the latest Barbarian Migra difficult of attainment Professor Oman tion, But that day may be far off, and in wrote long ago that ** Germany, to survive, the meantime our greatest danger is a must submit herself to a single ruler." premature peace which will mean un- Becoy, in his great Life of Stein, showed ending war. Lord Rosebery on Saturday, that pressure from without had welded at Edinburgh, warned ne afresh of the Germany together and produced the congers of a premature peace. I commend dition, which, long after he wrote, "ure to his attention the sinister and unwar- now wrecking the world.

rantable statement in Saturday's Natio Yet there is something to be said for that the desire for peace is growing in this the other side of the question. The key country, to the whole problem is Prussia, and the Romo repeatedly marle peace with the universally hated Prussiang are not Ger Barbarians, only to find them at last thun.. man, at all, but Finno-Slavs, Mr. Edering at her gatos. We have all history ward Hutton has pointed out that to guide us. Let us resolve that, come Prussian are descended from the game stock at may, the word shall not be flung as the original Huns, and have gradually back once more into the Dark Ages-Daily imposed their demination upon the more-Mail: