SULTAN OF EGYPT
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PECKSNIFF OR WAR.
BY AN ENGLISHMAN,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PARBS. BATURDAY, MARCH 23 – 1910.
ENEMY NOTE TO RUMANIA:
BRITISH WHEAT PURCHASE,
'"DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT!
One truth is beginning to emerge from ang interview granted to its Catro core the tangle of dark mysteries and proverion. spondent by Sultan Hussein Kamel. The correspondent says that the Sulton greetedtions in which the war has involved us,
The Austro-German Nete protesting. him with out-stretched hand, in true Ame, and that truth is: Germany desires pouce,
against the candidature for election,, af rican fashion and talked in a very free and
Her desire is easily intelligible, Having Carneal and Gajatz respectively, of Deta Cordial manner.
I have experienced various fortunes, devoted many years to the stealthy pre-sian Goga, the well-known Transylvanian maid the Sultan, “but, whatever my lot parations for war, she finds herself at last part, and his compatriot, the priest Incae, I have supported it with diguity, honour far out in lier reckoning. A sharp and prominent onders of the Irredentist move- froer and happier. I had not all these swift campaign was what she hoped ferment, as well as against the recent purchase and resignation. As Prive, Hossein I was cares and responsibilities, and a burden of and in her bitter disappointinent, she will of Rumaman whizat by the British Govern work, which never ceases,
But when Turkey enters the war, be satisfied with something less than the ment, has so far been kept secret, and no could I refuse. Could 1, a Prince of the dominion of the world. Does she not show allusion to it appears in the Press, House of Mohamed Ali, stand by and re- fuse to do my part in preventing the demo benevolenge? If only comfortable struction of the work for the regeneration terms are given her, she will pack up her of the Egyptians that had hewn Moria boasted Kultur" with her and go quiet- ly begun by my immortal grandfather ( Until Mohammed Ali came the Turkishy home. lomination was a curse to Egypt. 1t has been a blight, to every and subjugated and hold for long by the Osmanlis. Look at countries like Roumania, Greece, and Bus garia, and contrast them with Turkey.!!
The German papers say, "áromrked the interviewer," that the Egyptians are so get to get rid of the English, especially sineo, the tectarnte was establixbed, that the country is geething with sndition, and very Moren will welcome the armies of the Khalit"
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CHURCH SERVICES.
The two Transylvanian leaders were put forward by the Unionist Federation the Irredentist organization under M. Take Jukeseu and M, Filipeit, who both por sonally took part in the canvassing. As the On all sides the rumours of peace are ice-saty majority was nor obtained at heard, There is no neutral whom the either place, à- fresh election would have Kaiser is not asking, in M. Ravmarkers become necessary, but the committee of the
ST. JON'S CATHEDRAL, Hergkong. 3rd phrase, to give his deves an afrang. With Federation has withdrawn both candidates Sapisy in Lent, 26th March, 1916, Holy Com Teutonic clumsiness he approaches his ad on the ground of intimidation on the part Ferial Venite, Reinsglas Fealms, Beker, musion (15am.) Masins (11 m.) Resportes, veruric, one after another. Now it is to (of the Government. Whether this will miti.
Armes and Grine ; 16 Deum,. Crouch 15th Russia thaj bo points out the blessings of gate the wrath of the Chitra] Powers re- peace, now it is to Japan. With at the unins to be seen, M. Joutseu and M. Fili
marging): Jubilare, Godson; Hymne, 89 and 265, God Save te King Eventong, 5.45 hypocrisy of Pecksniff he pleads with Bel pet at their followers threaten to abar-Ribponses, Feral; Pablar, of the 36th evening gium to accept, with a restore King and don Parliamentary Ife,
(11.); Magnificas, Fiat (ind evening); country, large indemnity. And no one The Austro-German protest against the Nate Dimitte, Monk, Anthem, che e So much the beting for us, if the Cer-listens to him, no one will ever listen fole of 80,000 wag us of when to the Brighidren, Sullivan; Hymns 261 and 94 N.B. mans delude themselves and the Turks within His spoken words are carried away tish Government must be taken more seri 188 and 175 G. P. in unison.
-Palm. 119 verses 145, 148, 101, 156, 159 184, any such wild sintion. For it wil bring out of enr-shot like woke in a gale. His ously. After the recent sale of 20,000 them on and help to listen their downfall plighted troth is net worth the ink in which wungua of when to Germany, no reasounilo March, 3rd Sunday in Lent. Morning Praver ST. ANDERW'S CHURCH. KOWLOOD. 26th Wo Egyptians took upon the English as seeks to express it. Neither he nor his objection can be made to a similar arrange-11. Hymn 6; Responses, Ferial: Venite, friends and defenders, We know that we Change or will ever be trusted again, and ment with Great Briluin, The question Heraby Psalms, As Set; Te Deum, should have been lost last year had not perhaps even Herr Bethnan Hollweg him may be asked why Germany refrained from Bendictus, arrect; Hymne, 173, 156 and 147:
Blissett the English como to our help. The Fugl regrets that he once talked contemptu buying the rear of the harvest while the National Anthem, Evening Prayer 6. dish have boon in the past what they cer-usly about "scraps of paper."
Ilyan, 6, Kesposas, Ferial; Psalms, As Set; tainly are now-dolewing to Egypt,
Magnificat, W. A. Chart N. 393 Nano Dimitt, WA Chant, No, 3.6; Hymus, 13. 349 aud $87 Kyrkenndar National Autham Holy Communion at 8 am and 6
p.m. day, 26th Maruhom, Holy Commusion 11 am. Morning Prayer and Sermon. Preacher, Rav, the atop of Victoria Colectiin on behalf of British sad Foreign Bile Society.
*** I am extremely gratified with the mea sures that have been taken for the defence of my country and my people, Mers than that, I am confident in the efficnzy of those
measures,
market was open.
By this we are well accustomed to that insolence of Germany which springs from .
BERMAN PRESSURE, lack of hunrur. She chose in August, 1914. Greas irritation is manifested in the Ger- to go to war and the assumes that she has manophil Press in Bukarest, and it would the right also choose the moment for serm that Genny regards the Anglo- You may rest assured hamaking pence, Unhappily for her, the Rumanian bargain as a diplomalle defeat Great Britain, for the salty of hey. Coloniaj
Allies have learned many a bitter lesson and as a mode of depriving her of supplies Empire, will make a supremo effort to pro
in the eighteen months, and the privilere upon which she had counted with certainty. tect the Suez Canal and defend Egypt.
teleing the decisive step now rests with She will not stop at any merifice of tuon
Germany, now donds the same rights or money. For this is vital. I have not them. We have Herr Harden's werd for for the purchase of cereals as those accord
it that it is Germany's war, and Herr Hard to Great Britan, and the proves the slightest approhousion, I tell you den was not always wont to veil his eyes lo purchase up the same price as that frankly, either of foreign invasion of in- ternal unrest.
and cloud his brain with the cobwebs of charged to the British the remaining stock immerial sophistry. Not against our of when available for exportation and will" said he in November, 1914. "and es also 100.000 wagons of muniz The German
**You need only look at, the British troops in Egypt and think of where they came from to realise how magnificently this war
a nation taken be surprise did we hurkopand for equality of privileges was press
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eded by the Rumanian Government. What itho- demands may follow t is difficult to ny but the rumour prevails that Rumania will be required to give guarantees of per manens neutrality and to disband the things and by concentrated in the Carpa
is proving the solidarity of the Latin Louples to this gigantin venture. Weed with great insistence, and it was con- Empire. After the wars having demon-willed it; we had to will strate that she could hold by Blend; and. countless sacrifices, in which the Colonies
That is true enough the Germans themselves co-operated, this great Empire,
willed it," and upon them rests, such u it is unlikely that the Suez Canal and Egypt will be les cesary to and lose weight of blood-guiltiness as never before app reinred by England than befere. I was put upon the back of an arrogant should not have nccepted the Sultanate people, and to-day, in Herr Harden's de- ander British protection had I not been spite, they stand before the judgment seat loyal to and sympathetic with thas great Europe, whose jurisdiction they shall be diberal nation, with whom I am glad to compelled to acknowledge. Nor will Europe work for the progress of thy people, cena sentence unt the enemy of the human ante as well as moral.
preco stand bound and broke in the dock.
I have been Sultan now for more than yar, and I have found the heads of the British Government, and their delegates hore, with, whom I am in intimate daily
touch, loyal to me and to Egypt. I shall continue to work with theur as long as they balievo in my loyalty and sincerity Ware this not so I should resign immediately. At the age of 64, after a life-long know ledge of the English, I consented to work with them for the regeneration of my coun Ley, for the fulfilment of the wonderful dreains for Egypt and her people that have come to me from my august ancestor, the founder of my house,
And now Herr Harden sings another tune, He lays aside his pride in the might which shall make a new law and joins the general ninour for pance With
the grassest effrontery be, who once refused
thians and on the Bulgarian frontier,
MASŒUVRE AGAINST M, BRATTANA
Laquestionably the object of Germany is to bring about the fall of the present Ministry and to substitute for it a Goveru ment under M. Marghiloman but that politician will be unable to maintain him- if in power without the aid of M. Bra- tinno, and a general election would hardly
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FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE"
result in the victory of the Germanophil Sure
pary here owing to the general antipothy
The transport of cereals to Germany w'If be greatly facilitated and the cost lessened. owing to the circumstance that the Danube is no, frozen this winter. This due to an
to excuse Germany's action, now would put the whole burden of responsibility of couto Cerusan influence, tinuing the war upon England. But it is you who willed it, Herr Harden, and have you a speedily lost the courage the can- dour, and the good sense which won you whatever fame is yours? If the Alles usual height of stream and the rapidity fight for five years more, for ten years of the current, as well as to the remarkable more should it indeed take them so long mildness of the winter. As the days to gain the essential victory--Kerr Har lengthen the probability of the water frees And jus ons word in conclusion. 1
den's Kaiser and countrymen wil still being decreases. As a rule the river freezos want all the world to know that the EgyPsolely and wholly guilty of the bloodshed in at lease three winters out of four. country. Thero is kesu joy in working tiens are a race of possibilities, their by them. For my peuple are intelligent and industrious, and well deserve ail the sacrifice that one ena wake for their
benefit
CALL FOR SELF-DISCIPLINE IN EXPENDITURE.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK'S EXAMPLE.
The Archbishop of York, in a speech on the way at a mass meeting of men at Stock- ton-on-Tees, said there wore methods of warfare which he prayed with all his hot they might never borrow from the erenly, Let them never contenipinto an order being given to British troops, ur British sailors to sink ships containing innocent women and children, or an order to British airmen
overcogiendok
withheld, if the world insists upon de have been informed that German agents.
But, says he, *** if recognition of us is
The journals state that the authorities. spising the Germans, then the word.
Europe will lose all sense and meaning. ignoring the authority of the Central Com He need not be an hour in doubt. At last minion for Exports have purebased by all the world recognises Germany for what et contract 400.000 tons of whent for the she is--an overbearing dril sergeant, de-
purpose of preventing the realization of the veid alike of humour and humanity, a dijillo to the British Government, and that sergeant who sups full of horrors and macks his lips ever the blood of murdered children, Hene forth she shall be "ro- cognised" and "despised in the uitar most parts of the earth, and Europe resu lute in contempt, shall assume a better sense and wiser meaning than ever she beasted before...
That Germany, then, may not be de spised, Herr Harden, with words of a mon strous Pharisais, demands that the Alles shall make an attempt to see "whether a peace not unworthy of their honour can be concluded." He may rest assured that the peace we conclude will be in no way un worthy of our honour and of our sacrifice and that he may have it for the asking. But it will be a peace of bitter retribution, and it will withhold no jot of the "recogni tion" for which he pleads Such, however,
the Government is determined to forbid thi port of the whent thus sed As a certin mount of when other than cereala muist
retained for internal consumption the Government can, if necessary requisition the amount thus required by the Germans.
The Rumanian Government has made the considerable concession. to the Central Powers of consenting to send its own wagons laden with cereals to the various noints on the frontiers whore the Hungar an authorities have established devota. Hitherto no wagons on either side have been allowed to cross the frontier owing to the precarious situation.
The impression now prevails that the ten- on with Germany is diminished to some extent and that the worst is over-Times,
is not the peneo which will satisfy Herr the right moment to make terms, If they Harden. If the Allies decline to make are slow to begin, they are not and have terms then, says he, “with all their phy- never been in a hurry to leave off, Napo- steal courage, riches education, and Phari. leon denounced them for many a weary seal culture-trappings, they will ack by year, and the tired Germans denounce thou courage to be great-minded in a great crisis to-day, as the stubborn abstacles to univer- and horror-stricken or calm, look a colossal sal pesce, Had we not stond out alone after truth in the face. So might a burglar Tilst, Europe wou'd have been bound in who lies broken into our house and staten the chains of a tyrant and Prussia herself our treasures whine that we were lacking would never have risen from the dust in magnanimity because we insisted upon banding him over to the policeman,
to drop bombs es innocent women and children. These were not the methods they needed to borrow, but one, which was, peritape, more difficult to borrow, and which was the main strength of the enemy the national self-discipline which lay be hind its armies a whole people whose hablis were steded and organised by discipline That was just where we found all our old traditions of freedom were so difficult to They had no right to applaud the men in the trenches and the sailors on the scos unless day by day they practised that sdf discipline in exponditure without which all the sacrifices these men were making might be made in vain. Don't let them begin in the old English fashion of ta ling their neighboure what to do. Personally hu And at last Herr Harden falls to threats, hod set an example, by shutting up half of If we won't have peace he promises us his house, reducing half of his establishment war without mercy or quarter." We are charges and putting every penny that he ready for it. We shall give what we take could into the War Loan. They must learn and more piso. There will not be any from the duties and calls of these limes two menns whatever-et the world think as it great lessons:
Firstly, wealth in every pleases which the German people will not joyfully turn against ita foes. Jeyfuly we accept the challenge, I Herr Harden,
form, whether it be a large income or a sufficiens wage, was not thur own to deal with as they pleased, but a trust they oned released at last. from truth, and facts to the community, and behind the clieves that he will make our flesh creep by uity to God; and, secondly, that those who menaces as crude as these, surely the war waro in their factories and industries
has turned his head. What the Germans giving national service should be able to live a decent and worthy human life while can achieve that can the English achieve ronembering that they owed consideration also, and it in in our favour that while the not only to their cass, but to the whole country. There was not only a moral de mand involved in this war, but a great spiritual demand. „God was judging the sius of a cirilisation that was forgetting him, and the sold of the people must recover God,
Germans are hearing the seat energy, the English are still climbing up the lower s'opes of endeavour
But enough of Herr Harden There is one lesson which the Engleh have learned in the hard school of experience. They know how vastly important it is to chose
The same obstinacy which re-created Prussia shall destroy her, and the call of freedom is more loudly insistent to-day over the chime of Napoleon may have been than it was a hundred years ago What
the Kaiser has remorselessly outdone then. Harden we should condemn ourselves for Were we to take the baleful advicy of Herr ever to accept as truths the perverse lies which have been told for a year and a half
the first law of war was the murder of inno- throughout the length and breadth of Ger many, we should be forced to admit that gents, that truth and chivalry and freedom bad perished from the earth that in Herr Harden's phrase, "Europe" had lost al
wuse and meaning Ne But we do not propose to do any of these things and we shall take comfort in the thought that; es Germany made war at e moment, which seemed suitable to herself. so, heedless of Hery Harden's threats we shall make peace at our own chosen time. which will be not a day before Germany's fint overthrow
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