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WAR MEMORIALS.

HOW SHALL WE EXPRESS OURSELVES?

TWO FAMOUS DEGREES.

REGARDING NATIONAL SERVICE IN FRANCE.

THE HISTORY OF A. PRINCIPLE.

THE HONG LUNG DAILY: PRESS. TUESDAY MARCH 218T -1916.

HOW SWEDES TALK OF ENGLAND.

WE CANNOT “MUDDLE

THROUGH THIS GREAT WAR

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PORTUGAL AND GERMANY.

PORTUGAL'S ARMY AND NAVY..

While the exact number of atomy ships. which took refuge in Tortugues ports at the beginning of the war cannot be easily cortained (ays the NC. Daily News), fuirly clear from the telegrams recent. received that the tobal is quito larg

The Navy of Portugal is not large,

It is most important that we should not

A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind fail in our way nemocialt, which are surə to be many and diverse; and we shall chr-¦ and to fhis must be attributed in largo It is difficult to find any prominent man tainly fail in the unless we learn to measure, the new growth of warm senti in Sweden who will pornit his opinions qui preag our real feelings through them. A ment in France, as expressed in public and the way to be published with his maly memorial is something meant to keep alive private, over the British acceptance of says Mr. Harold Begbie, special corTE the memory of a great event, os of Bone compulsory military service, It is worth spondent of the Daily Chronicle at Stock-enough to have an appreciable offect, upon person, loved, or adwired. In it one gou-tons of argument as a demonstration of our hot) I have had the pleasure of discuss the tonnage question, if they are acized and cration spaks to future generations, and earnestness in the fight, says The Thering this gicht matter with a number of it cannot wish that its Innguage show do special correspondent in Paris.

very able Sweden, men of distinction and used as has been the praction of the other ugly or absurd or meaningless, But we, The principle of conscription has been meo in positions of high responsibility, but Powers. shown fose power of expressing ourselves were moments when it was more or less in Persuade this to less write in the thongh of late years a progranime was so and all the peoples of modern Europe, have long accepted in France, though there only in two instances have I boun uule to thus to future generations than any age in abeyance, those moments coinciding with a

Whatever the reason of this reticence, I an foot for the building of thres Dread the past. We have only to think of our depression in the fortunes of the nation.gather that Sweden. to speak generally is Boughts, three cruisers, twelve large de- Jubilee memorials to know that this While it is true that, at the outset, rolun on the side of France and England. Entstroyers and six subinaries, This, howeveri and we do not wish to repeny that failure. But how are we to avoid it? Astinis tell if it rallied all the nicossary recruits, the was more definitely on the side of has not yet paced out of the programe as that we are to consult artists. Thero the Revolutionary flag, it became necessary France and England at the beginning of stage, at on the difficulty arises that there are carly in the life of the Convention to em-the war than she is now. Except for a few The Army of Portugal-is's militin raised. artists and artists, and most public bodies, phase the duty of every striped the negligible people, she is not on the side of as well as many private persons, de not know the country. This was outlined in the Germany-it is nonsenso to eat that she is The best they famous dceros which said, "The service of but no longer is she so wholeheartedly which artists are artists, can do, in their ignorance, is to employ the country is a civic and general duty on the side of Franes and England.

What has brought about this modifica someone commonly supposed to be an artist Later this same ruthless driving power of

Then tion of feeling 1 who will provide than with samething the war ordered national Jevios, which, I will tell thein, is art and which they will submit to as being art, though they mag u like it. That is the manner in which Jubilee memorials were provided. and we want something better now.

A FUNDAMENTAL CRITERION.

ATRY,

by conscription and is divided into three sections the active aring, the reserve and the territorial army. All adult males are liable to be called ou for service front, the age of 17, though in fact they are not called upon until 20 years of age. Ten came the Decree of August 23rd 1703, They tell me that our blockade has had years are passed the active army, 10 in which declared the until the enemies were a marked effect on certain commercial reserve and a further five in the territorial expelled from the territories of the Reclasses, but that no thinking man has be

The peace establishment of the publio, a Frenchmen were permanentlycans a pro-German consequence of active aroy has of late years been fixed at st the disposal of the authorities, The the blockade, Such a supposition 30.000 men consisting of 25 regimenta of young men wil go to battle, said the second scouted The change has been brought three battalions, 11 eivalry regiments. article, the married men will forge weapons about. it would soon, by genuine admira.eight field artillery regiments, comprising It is not thus that a community or in and transport stores the women will wake, tion for the German nation-admirationes batteries, two hore, batteries, aing wow individual can express them.ves. They tents and clothes and serve in the hospitals, for its discipline, its preparedness, its tail batteries and engineers with Esch enust provide what they like themselves. the children will prepare bandages, and the adaptability, and its courago in the face of battery has four guns. The reserve arty if they are to say anything to futuro ags; old men will be carried to the public considerable odds. and therefore they must discover what squares to inflang the courage of the war- they like themselves. Now one thing riors, to excite their hatred against the certain: we do no like the statues, the Kings and to promote the unity of the drinking-fauntales, the cocks, which wa Republic. This was a brave programme, commonly provide as memorials. They and it showed that the principle of the saay be monuments of our piety; they are nation in arins had become a reality. not monuments of our taste in any mente. of the word. If we could show them to

It was not necessary, however, to take some man of the future, we should agres all the young men available, and the num with his in disliking them. What wo disher of the annual contingent was fixed ac Like is waste of money; and, more than cording in the necessition. The method that, it is a failure in expression--not only a failure of the artist, but a failuto adopted was the drawing of lots and volun- tary engagements. By a later law money payment was al owed for substitution, and this was the system under which Napoleon formed his armies. When his sucessos were at their height he had no difficulty in finding the necessary number of men. by the two methods of enlistment and con- script on; but when the country was becom

of us all.

THE NAPOLEONIC SYSTEM..

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1th March Bangkokoth daca Rico Bittorfield & Swize CHILDAR Norwegian str. 1,302. Nj

Hjorth, March 1th Saigon, March 10th. Rice-Thoresen de Cas CHINGONOW British str., 1195,- Jas Doyle, 14th March - Karatsu | spl CaryUEN, Chinese str., 1177, W & Ray.

March Coal-Order.pd 17th March-Shanghai 14th March, CHOYLANG, British B 1,424, Holmwood.

18th March--Swatow 17th March, Gen etal Jardine, Matheson & Lo, F CHUNGKONG, British str., 1,228, £. Monk- man, 13th March Hongay 11th March, Coal.--Butterfolg & Swife. #MAOFIN, Norwegina str., 697,- Thorsen, Alarch 5th-Saigon February 25th, Rico. -Thoresen & Co, DAINICHIMARU, Japanese sir., 1.952, Tukui, St March-Saigon 3rd March, R.es - Mitsuj: Bussan Kaisha, DAIYA Manu, Japanese str., 1,058, K.

WEATHER REPORT,

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11th March Swatow 10th March. General-Chinese,

Toorur, Chinese str. 850, B. Miyanka, CHINA

10th March-Bangkok 1st March, Gen eral. Order. GLENSTRAE, British str., 3495. Roger, 18th March-Nagasaki 14th March, Gen- eral-Showan, Tomes & Co.

HAIHONG, British str., 1,2:0, J. W. Evans, 19th March-Foochow 10th March, General.Doughs Lapraik & Co. HANOL, French, 759. Murvan, 18th

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You will never gnash Germany," I was comprises as regiments of infantry, eight quadrons of cavalry and 24 feld told;"you can no more smash so mighty, batteries. In addition to these there 80 coherent, so patriotic a nation than the are the Republican and Fiscal Guards re- German can ask you. The sooner you cruited from the Army, who can be used in recognise that the batter."

military 1 Interrupted to say that no responsible police of about 5.000 strong and the latter Englishman sought the smashing of the proventive service numbering about 5,000. German people, that our objective was rather the Prussian War Machine.

The total war strength is abou7 150,000. The answer came:** You cannot swash The weapon used by the Portuguese "Artoy that war machine. Why? Because there is the Mauer-verguiero, a magazine rfie. The field artillery is is not a German who now does not realisere 0.5 m that his way winchine is essential for the being rearmed with Schne der-Caner guns In addition to the above protection of his home.

of 7.6 calibro, there is also a Colonial Army of about 10.000 partly Euopen and partly nalivo. that we at the Portuguese pesessions on KMSANG, British str., 2,077, F. Wheeler, the West Cost of Afror, in Mozambique 17th Alsat-Kabe 12th Geral-ha and India,

General-Jardines Matheson & Co. Kankiang saws KWANGTAH. British air.. 1,336, C. Stewart, Changsha N 19th March-Shanghai 15th March,|| KURIANA, British str., 1.228, E. B. James, harg

Baigon 9th March, Rico-Butterfield & Swire LAISANO. British str., 2,224, Mooney, 17th-

March-Calcutta 29: February, Goa- eral-Order

But I am convinced that the Governing of Sweden, representing the authentic spirit of the cation, is genuinely neutral, and intends to maintain its neutrality, with no subserviance to either side.

THE "STOCKHOLM."

This neutrality, get us remember, has been ing exhausted by a long series of campaigns of far greater advantage to England than the pressure of the recruiting sergean boto izmany. "Why are your newspapers, esine a greater factor in the enlistment.

The next effort for an equitable adjust

that ship. It was a great experment for us. And you take it into Liverpool; you koop it thare; you force the passengers to suffer enormous inconvenience in getting back to Sweden; and then you cry out as

THE GEILMAN POSITION.

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siders itself from now on to be in a state of war with the Portugness Governinent. Thus ends the note which hos boon handed to-day in Lisbon by the Gorman Minister in the Portuguese Government and in Ber lin the Portuguese Minister:

The German tots emphasizes that this tp has become nicessary through the re cent illege seizure of German ships in Portuguese ports, which constitutes the gravest breach of neutrality and of thru special treaties. Gouany has thoroby boen forced to give up its former patient atti- tude which it still observed on account of the awkward position of Portugal. The note enumerate the long series of breaches of neutrality of the Portuguese Goverh It is a very curione experience to passent such as the permit of free transit of from England, where the atmosphere sings the English troops through the colony of with moral indignation, into these bright, Mozambique, the permit granted to British happy and beautiful cities of Scandinavia, men-of-war to use the Portuguese ports for where everybody appears to be detached a longer period than allowed to centrals; and philosophical. Speak of the Lusitania, the permission given to the British floot and they say that she carried ammunition. use the isle of Madeira sa a point Contradict this, and they say, "Come, be d'appui, the actual fighting of Fortuguese honest; what is the difference between troops with German troops at the frontier sinking a ship and starving women and of German South-west Africa and Angola, children, whose menfolk yon cannot, over- as well as the frequent, insults of the Ger throw to open fight.?" Speak of atro-man people by members of the Portuguese cities, and they smile You have only Parliament which have never been repri heard one side, they tell you. Speak of manded. Pelgium, and they ask you what we are The note further points out that the soi-TONGLES, Chinese str., 899, M. Honda, 17th doing in Greece. Speak of Bornherdi-zure of German ships in the Portugue

BERNHARDI 18 NOT ALL GERMAN...

Therefore the first necessity is that our memoria's should take the form of some thing that we ourselves like, not of some thing which we suppose we should like if We were artists. The artist's business is to make what we like as well as he man. not to provide us with something we do mot like, but which he professor to like because he has made it. This submission of ours

the artist has produced a raco

and even your politicians, so stupid," I Then cause a reaction in 1814. Wearied was asked, as to imperil Swedish neu- of tradesmen who make objects which no human being possibly could like, but with much fighting, the country set its face trality, which is very valuable to you, by which are endured because they are sup against further military adventure, and the using your blockade in a pettifogging posed to be art objects such a meno-principle of antional service no longer held. way? Look at the case of the Stockholm. ria tablots, with hideous lettoring and The result was that the army dwindled to Your newspapers neke great play of the machine-made mosaic ornament, or stained-nothing, for enlistment ro longer sufficed to fact that 140 tons of meat were found on glas windows of which the bad drawing fill the regiments. Thus compulsion came board the ship. But for the sake of that is supposed to be ecclesiastical, or those back again in the early years of the Remeat, supposing it had no right to be clocks and drinking fountains and statuestoration, under the Gouvion St. Cyr Law. thoro, is it wise to irritate our nerves and already mentioned From all these we But this legislation had to be strengthened Wound oar pride? We were very proud of must quenpe, and we can only do so by be a new enactment, due to Marshal Soult. discovering what we like and setting our Conscription then became the normal mode artists to make it,

and engagements the supplementory one. FOUNTAINS, CROSSES, CLOCKS, AND CLOISTERS.

The system lasted 20 years, until there was an urgent call for form owing to the Tako, for instance, the case of a four-candalous abuse of substitution Avencies you had done something splendid. Look Lain. We shoud like a fountain in a had been created to foster it and do circum-140 tons of meat!? Isn't that rather Ball town if it were well placed, if it ran the law in subterranean ways stupid? Was it really worth whilo?” ⠀⠀⠀⠀ were not deformed by hideous archtec tural ornaments, if it were in fact engi a fountain and designed as a fountain, not of military service enviang:d the for- as a memorial with some water trickling through it somewhere. So also in the case of a clock. We should like it if it word

■ good clock, designed simply as a clock, and placed whore it would be most useful. In both these cases the memorial purpose could be served by an inscription of good plain lettering, placed where it could be plainly read and speaking in simple and moving language of those whom it is foundertako it. signed commemorate. Often is inscrip- 1ons there is no more effort at expression Neverthe ass this state of affairs con than in the monuments upon which they tinued until 1868, when Marshal Niel pro nosed universal service to the Imperial are placed-

In little villages the memorial might be Legislature, The project, was particularly ascat made well and plainly by some appropriate because of Prussia's victories.

Bu pray bear in mind that all this is workman of the neighbourhood and placed over Southern Germany But Parliament, aid without offence, and with the greatest against

wall. so that the inscription fearing for its popularity at the elections, possible kindnoge Indeed, many people, might be let into the wall. Or where there then close at hand, temporised. Finally, it hers who want England to win have alipit ig more woney to be spent there might be rejected the bill and effected certain altern pored me to abandon every argument village cross well worked in stone and tions in the existing law. Thereafter was of this kind, to abandon all criticism of Free from Gothic ornament, on the base formed the National Guard of men exempt the Germans, and to go to the root causes of which it might be said that certain of from sarvion, but there was no time to or- of our prosent perilous position.

"You are a great people," one man said the villagers had died, not only for their ganise it before war with Germany broke

ountry, but also for that faith which their out. Though deprived of training and pos. to me, but you carry more weight in country hail upheld in the war. In larger sessing little discipline, the body was yet this race than any of the others. places no better memorial could be devised able to render some service, and it was in Get this war, over as soon as you can, thau a cloister with a garden and foun this force that Lord Kitchener served as a and set to work once to alter these tain

a place of rest in which mea could

things. You must have a real educational remember those who had died so that the young volunteer.

After the war and its tragic lessons system. You must have a real physical might have freedom and poise, This would be scorial pleasant to all in cessive French Governments tried to build outro And you must have more willing may, otowded towns, but it would be up national army on the old Republican aess to learn from other nations. England spoilt if it were defaced with Gethic or lines that every citizen owed service to the must stand for something that all men can admire, if she is to endure. Abuse of the ather architôctural ornament. On the State Beginning with five years, the tarm

Take walls, too, there might be private nemo of service was lowered to three, then to Germang will do you no good,

soldier of run out of which re-engaged oldiers were paid bonuses The Fand was made up of contributions from the who wished to escape service. But the remedy was wore than the disease, for it lowered the profession of arms in the eyes of those who followed it and of the general public. Only thos were soldiers who could not escape the obligation, or were paid to

THE NATIONAL GUARD,

He is not the German nation.

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liams, 19th March --Shanghai 16th March, General Butterfield & Swire son, 15th March-Kobo 9th Marely Surigao SUBANG. British str., 1776, J. H. Simplona

Genera-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Fries, 18th March Shanghai 15th SULTAN VAN LANGKAT, Dutch str., 3,000. March. Ballast, Asiatic Petroleum Co.

Taxsaxe, British str., 077, E. Knight, 1881

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Prym, 15th March Saigon 11th March, Rice and Meal.-Order.

March-Bangkok 8th March, Rico.---- Order.

FOURRING. British str., 1423, Jns. M. Hay. 14th Mirob—Moji 9th March, Goners),

Jardino, Matheson & Co, FUNGUS, Norwegian str. 1,039, Cornelin

aun, 19th March-Bangkok 8th March, Rice Thoresen & Co.

UNKAI MARU Japanese str., 2,285,

13th March Miike 7th March, Coals Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.

ports on February 23rd is against all laws and against the treaties exising between Germany and Portugal. According to these treaties the soizure ought to have been made on the basis of an agreement, regarding the price to be paid to the ownere. Further more capture only would have been por missible in case of an absolute public neces sity for Portugal, while in this instang. the tonnage of the captured ships is far greater than was necessary to balance the deficiency of tonnage at the disposal of Portugal. The Portuguese Government. HOW THIN PEOPLE CAN GET however, did not even try to communicate with the owners of the ships in Germany or with the German Government. The note then continues:

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rials designed so that they should noj maj (two, and then restored to three a year by look at yourselves in the looking-glass of above all other conficting ones. The Porbe able to fat up a few pounds and starWind Directact as the quiet of the whole. And this misce fore the present hostilities, and in eircum- your friends, and well, make a low tuguese Government has seized the sups that way," declares every excessively thin

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man or woman. Such a result is not Weather stances which are familiar to all. Declining

THE NOT. UNFRIENDLY SWEDE.

international provocation of Gormany.

impossible, despite past failures. Thin Balm ajure- ta bs bound by the disastrous precedent

One of the ablest of Swedes, a devoted The German flag has hoort hauled down They usually fail, like public. because of 1868, M. Barthon, the Premier, had the

condition which prevents the faltv there is no clear purpose in them. What courage to carry through the Three Years Friend of England, said to me:You from the ships and the Portuguere flag has cople are victims of mal-nutrition, is needed in a private memorial is first Bill in the teeth of opposition. It not only they think you can muddle through But been hoisted under the salute of the guselements of food from being taken up b of all, a good simple inscription in well lengthened the period of training for the cant be soug wedding through of the flagship of the Portuguese the blood as they are when the powers off

when you are opposed by a most efficient Admiral.”

uutrition are normal. Instead of getting designed, well cut lettering. It should be active army, but established absoluto and a highly scientific people. You must

into the blood, all the fat and flush pro free from egotism and the bad art which quality for all citizens. Previous legislabe terribly in earnest, you must be immense

ducing elements stay in the intestinos egotism produces. It should be an expression had tampered with the principle and ly arious, if you are to beat the German,

To correct this condition and to pro. xion of love, not of bad taste; and if it is had created a large class of privileged pering and must put her whole soul into this

until they pass from the body as waste. simple expression of Love it will not be cons, who

varions pretexts, escaped war if she is to win. You cannot be beat. -ons of bad taste. So those who set up pri- | with 12 mouth' service with the colours. ea. Everybody soce that. But you have be free to use her bubogrs. British troops duce a healthy, normal, amount of fat

vate memorials simuld take care that their But the objections to this course were so not convinced as yet that you can win," memarials de not injure the place in which apparent, not on'y from a democratic but Here in a few words is a true expression they are set up. They should remember from a military point of view that the of Swedish opinion. If on occasion the how much sur churches have been injured Third Republic was forced in its own do. - Swades shock an Eng ishman by a certain by mply brasses and mosaic tablets and fence to insist on the adequate training of detachmen; from the moral questions of the tained glass windows; and whet a wrong all citizens. Thanks to the on ration of this wur very often they make him wonder it does to the memory of those who are com- measure, the great retreat from the Bolgian whether, perhaps, we had not done better memorated thus to make their memorial o

frontier in August 1914. was carried out, by keeping our moral indignation to our cause of offence. Whatever the memorial: may be it should not be an advertisement; for the Commander-in-Chist had an admir- atves. I was told before I left England

able instrument in his hands

that I shou'd suffer great, incouverisnes in but something said simply and quietly,

Sweden, and that possib might be like a whisper of grief and love,

There remains the qucation of sculpture which has a purpose and moaning of is insulted in public. Let me say that I have xperienced hing but the greatret kind- for ambitious monuments; and on this own and is hot merely memorial So noint we would remind the public that shall escape, perhaps, from the utterly ess and that I believe the great majority they do not care for statues but only erect realistic in sculpture, which is nearly al of the Swedish people not only wish us them from a sense of duty. That is the ways du and ugly and we shall give well-and wish us well from their hearts-- reason why statues are usually so I'lour sculptom some chance of expressing but, honestly dislike Germany, they express no public feeling whatever, our common feeling and not merely our but only a public sense of duty. If there sense of duty. That we must do, if nos Je to be sculpture, let us avoid both terity is not to be amasoft at our failure effigies of heroes and allegorical groups, to say anything about this great crisis in and let our soulpture be anulied to build Four fate and shout all the who have ings or cloisters or some other manument died for us and for posterity.

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