THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY MAY 3D 1916.
“THE PACT OF KONOFISHT.” THE MAN IN THE TRENCH.
A NEW THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF A PLEA FOR HIS RECOGNITION.
THE WAR.
In the Nineteenth Century" Mr. Henry ́ Wickham Steel has an article entitled "The Paot of Konopisht, which contains *amarkable explanation of the visit of the German Emperor and Grand Admiral con Tirpite to the Archduke Francis Ferdi and and the Duchess of Hohenberg as their estle of Konopisht, in Bohemin, on June 13th, 1914, less than three socks before the Sarajero assassinations.
{BY ONE WHO LIVES WITH RIM. It is time that a strong ples was made behalf of the man..in the trench.
on
We all know that we owe to him the sal vation of our country. We all know that no one else has endured as he has endured. He has sacrified the most and done the most; and he has earned the least. He has been the victims of a score of the in- justices that belong to a time of stress and
of a voluntary.. The Buggere sften earned quicker The artic ́e is based on an account from promotion, The highon pay has usually on ugnamed correspondent, whose pati gone with the lighter risk. Honous and tion and anterodents entitle his statemen's mentions have rained with indiscrimi to careful examination, of an agrement nato justies on men at the bass or in the alleged to have been made between bis Fn.treach. Even wych warrior titles ng the Military Cross imply no fighting service, peror and the Archduke at Konopish
Mr. Steel does not profess to be able no bodily risk, no daily discomfort
The recipient of almost any military to confirm his porrespondent's narrative, honour we have except the V.C., which is but says that the available circumstantial the rarest may have slopt every night be evidence tends to indicate that some fartween lines shecte, When the war over reaching agreement was made at Konopisht, all the men who have worked in France In any case the statement is worth re will receive the same loodal. There will gistering as a remarkable hypothesis be no distinction between the man who has which serves to explain much that has done a fow how work a day at bose om hitherio seemed inexplicable,”......
ployment and the man who has crouched The anonymous correspondent begins by for a fortnight at a stretch in a medium detailing the circumstances of the Arch of septic mad under all the twenty-nine dake's organatie marriage, the humilia, distiner damnations" that the enemy has
designed aud donated, The injustice
A CONTRAST.
RETURNING TO ENGLAND-FROM GERMANY.
"
Iau back in England after thirleon antha in a German concentration camp, says a correspondent !' Lately from Ruble- bon in the fanchester Guardian. In the
loaf of bread. in addition to the inel that font the waiter places befoms mea I have ordered. I can eat as much bread as I like
This little fuxury strikes the chief note of contrast in the material prosperity of the two countries. In Germany if i man wants to cat bread with his dinner he must bring it with hits from home and even there the quantity he can procure is very The amount provided sall. restaurant is, by law, infinitesimal.
the
Echoes from the life in Berlin reseled .LES.. in Rubleben Little incidents happen. in the camp between the interned and their guardians, and are more significant than any number of newspaper statistics manu- factured to excuss the undoubted scarcity. The commission of the Bundesrat sits and fixes maximum prices for butter. A fort night later there is no butter to buy, and oven in the west end of Berlin the German housewife must line up for hours outside the dairy shops, and be content to go away with but a very limited supply. -
To one returning to England there seems
tions to which he and his wife were sub flagrant and obvious; and, unlike many in. to be an added gravity of countenance
BE TRUE TO YOUR KING
AND COUNTRY:”
ADVICE TO IRISH PRISONERS OF
WAR BY THEIR NOOS
Describing his experiences at the war, Lance Corporal William Egan, of tho
the first Expeditionary Forco, and, Riber Royal Irish Lifles, aid: "I went out with
going through Mom and the other early battles, was captured at La Basses in Octo ber, 1914. Seventy of us had been left to hold back the enemy while the others 10. tired to another position. We held on for some hours • 1 was badly wounded in the urm, and when the Germinas entered our communication trenches (the others hót long since been sunshed in by shell fire) the Erst thing I received was a kick in the back from German, followed by a clont with tho built end of a rifle,
This happened while a comrade was trying to bind up my arm, the artery of which had been sovered. I was taken to
farmhouse and placed on wet straw where I remained for two hours, feeling very weak from the loss of blood. Then a German officer asked me if I could walk. I said " No?
Well you'll have to, you English swine,
Family, and the corsequent open breach justice, it is universally recognised and everywhere visible, and the streets are full he replied. His English was fluent enough
jeeted by the members of "the" Imperial:
which rose between the Archduke and the Court. He says the idea became intoler uhle the, Archduks that his children, whom he worshipped, should after his death be the subjects of his younger brother's sa and this feeling was not assuaged by the influence of his wife. The correspond, The German Emperor had for some years played upon this psychological xitua tion, Fasting that the Duchess of Hohen. berg would be his future ally he covered
ent continue
ber with attentions and courteous, marks
THE KAISER'S DREAM"
in
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deplored throughout all parts of the com. of khaki uniforme, but the pifold munity. It is not the least deplored by the activities of life go on with the same zent very men who have received honours forever. The journey from Spandau to the performance of what a geneally from London to Manchester, in a journey Dutch frontier, compared with the journey kuown a cushy jobs, Of course every through a country that seems to have been man who dong conspicuously well the work drained of its lifeblood. An eight-hour ride to which he is set deserves recognition. I and not a single train moving in the other should hate to duery any good service direction! Only at big towns, such an the course of emphasising supreme service. My point is, first, that different forms of Hanover. Osnabrück, and Munster, is there a train waiting in a forlorn-looking stasion, service demand different forms of recogni- tion; and, second, that certain forms of On the platforms there handful of service demand immediate not postponed people, but by far the great majority of the passengers are soldiers And this it recognition.
must be remembered, in the main line between Holland and the heart of the fer- man pire, content confined to uisterial
Nor is the
WOUNDED IN CATTLE TRUCK.
My khaki was taken away, and I was
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His fellow-countrymen swore st him
about the most vindictive wretch I have of infidela i fost disappearing, and in its ever met. Repeatedly he gave the arm & place has come a more critical attitude. wrench and with deliberation ho tied it-80
Wofür kämpfen wir ! " Want are we fighting for 1) sent be the unuttered tightly to the post that it swelled enor-
the gatsios difficulty, in preventing a dia left the hospital on Cobruary question is the mind of everyone except nously in the night and gave me fearful the official classes; and the Chancellor has pain, cussion of the Kracgazicle In letters and 1915, and was taken to Limburg Camp, conversations the tone of the ordinary Ger where the chief Dings I remember, the man in discussing the war is one of over-wretched living and the repeated attempts whelming wearinom. The phrase one hears that were made to induce us to join an constantly If only the end would Irish brigado and fight for Germany come! In comparison with England, Ger
kn → RENEGADE TRISHMAN.
iired country, bat it must be
remembered that the people who are most Apart from picos 3f bread and a weary are those who have least influence cup of coffee in the morning, and another and least power
** cup of coffee at tea-time, our menu every
week consisted of
Monday. Horao beans,
Tenday - Crushed carrots made into coup.
Wednesday Rice and prunes Thursday-Barley soup.
Friday Fish (ilways too bad to sat). Saturday, Yellow meal looking like chickons food.
Sunday--Choppel vegetables,
• The subjret is discussed at interval, în of esteem. He was the first of the great almost every inces in France. Especially "Sovereign," of. Europe to receive her as in the gabject dear to generals of the divi an Archduchess, and though her visit with sions or brigades which passed through the Archduke bo Potsdam in November, the terrible times of stress which reghed things The spirit that one encounters for doing it. Affe also gave us some cigar 1000, did not pass off without some minor their climax last May. There are many
in England is fundamentally different from hitches 11 prepared the ground for the suggestions se to the best form of decoration
that which animates Germany. The Bagerettes. At Cologne I was taken to the scheme which was to be ratified at Kono and the selection of the men who earn it peace articles that have appeared in their ions were performed on my arm and
ness with which Germans have read the Nasareth VI Hospital, where three opera pisht
The favourite is that all men who have Pres in the last two months is indicative boor were removed, all without chloro- endured" selive" combatant work in and
of the change in their attitude towards the form. The surgeon ordered that a post about the trenches should be at once given war The dervish-spirit which actuated should be put by my bed and my arm tied The German Emperor has always a special medal, Theid, services are them months ago, and which prompted to it so as to keep it high, dreamed of extending the German Empire supreme and life is short them to regard the present struggle as a The orderly who did this task was
The bratowal of honours, in which may holy way to be waged for the extermination to the Adriatic and of bringing the Ger
ann provinces of Austria into the German be included mention in despatches, is n Imperial Confederation. What a triumph companion question. It is ludicrous, it is for the secular efforts of the House of improper, that a man who has done even Hobenzollern if Austria could be made the best, work with a blue pencil at a very another Bavaria, and the proud Houses
safe and comfortable base should receive. Hapsburg be reduced to the position of work at the front and as a puber of exactly, the same honour or trontions for aha Wittelsbachs and the Wottins Words the army in the field." The forward and Duches of Hohenberg at Potsdam preare in different kingdoms. Let both men abrolly whispered into the ear of the backward lines of that front and that field pared the mind of the Arcluluke. They be honoured, but not honoured as if they Tormented, on the one hand, his resentment were engaged in identical occupations, towards the Austrian Imperial Family and especially us good work at a húss is very towards his eventual successor, Archduke auch less likely to be hidden under Charles Franois Joseph, and, on the other bushel than good a trench. they fluttered his paternal ambition. All Thoro ano, Solowork in Grethe Konopisht the Kaiser opened to the diary questions. For example, we should Archduke Francis Ferdinand a magnificent all like to do specisi homage and give is not that they have. Inst hear or horizon, and spread out before him i grau. special billets to the small remnants of that that they have propared their minds for diese plan which promised presently to splendid army which endured the avalanche defeat, The German sees all his cath- at Mons, which held like a rock at the place his sons Maximilian and Ernest at the head of two vast realms in Eastern and Aisne, and plurged the wide gap at Ypres paigas successful; he has seen the Central Europe,
Again, the extension of decorationo de enemies of the Fatherland pushed away from his borders and he feels sure that vised for distinction in combatant work, what his armies have done once they can The conception was grandio e, but apto include the worthy fulfilment of almost do peared nevertheless not impracticable.
again. If the Allies do not see that Ruesin was to be provoked to a war for pris one is mistake. But these they are defetted now, he must go on fight- perts of the question may be left aside for ing dhe lungs pour ht they do. This is which Germany and Austria were ready.the moment. It should be enough for the the view of the man in the street. He Frando wna to be reduced to impotence by day if a special medal wote struck for looks first at the calendar and then at the a few vigorous strokes. The shatention of bestowal on all those who have gone throuhip and is a little pained and annoyed England was considered certain. The six months of trench warfare in France that his enemies still persist in the strug object of the visit paid by Francis Ferdi. or Flanders. Nothing would give a desper mand and the Duchess of Hohenberg to satisfaction to our troops or do more to Windsor in November, 1913, had been to dissipate the feeling of iejusties against establish friendly personal relations with the present system of honours. In this the Curt of St. James's. Thanks to the way best the nation would express its neutralty-benevolent
self-acrificing tnost otherwise of gratitude to its England victory was regarded as assured Citizen-mily Mail. Its result was to be the transformation of the map of Europe, The ancient kingdom of Poland, with Lithuania and the UK raine, was to be reconstituted--the Poland of the Jagellons, stretching from the Ba’tic to the Black Sea This was to be the in- Beritance of Francis Ferdinand and, after his death, of h's eldest son; while for his
destruction of Admiral von Spee's squadron not be asked to fight against England, and younger son was resti ved, under his father's
The eff.cl of the war upon the mineral off the Falkland Islands. The very fact of told that at the finish we should ench ba direction,s realm - including "Bohèmin. produce of the United Kingdom during their being rendered more or less impotent Hungary, most of the Southern Slav lands the latter part of 1914 is revealed in a reat sea has enabled the Germans to increas Even by the German Government a froo of Austris, together with Serbia, the Slay port by the Chief Inspector of Mines, their activities on land, for in every South to America and £20. worst ""af" the Eastern Adriatic, And As empared with 1013, the value of the American port there are several Germana and Salonika Frane's Ferdinand saw great minerais raised £145,863,000 decreased Austrian ressols tied up on art aunt of the
** Irishmen were brought from many thrones prepared for his fave sons, and by €14,980,000. The total output of coal "Saian finds some mischief still for idle hands campa to be questioned. As a form of pres
and the truth of the proverb that Sophie Cholek saw herself the mother of WAS 265,604,000 fons, and the value to do" was never more truly exemplified than pure our food parcels were stopped for s Fing
£112,890,000, showing a decrease in the out in the case of the crews of these vessels fortnight, Several non-commissioned offi- put of 21,766,000 tons and in the value of Altogether there are 83 steamships and cers were influencing the privates, When £12,039,000 on the figures for 1913. The sailing vessels of the German and Austrian they marched away to an unknown destina average price of coal was 9, 11.79; per merchant marine bottled up at ports on the tion their heat words were: Be true to ton in 1914, as compared with 109 1.527. in west coast of
t of South America, between Callno 1913. The quantity of coal which left the and Punta Arenas, and scores of German seamen your King and country. About 2,000 of country for abroad and shipping in foreign rendered idle on this account have shipped ons altogether were again asked to join, an i trade was 50,994,000 tons, as compared with board neutral vessels loaded with the prod after much persuasion and many threats 35,338,000 tons in 1813. The amounts reacter of British and French companies, and agreed. The rest were resolate, ceived by various countries were:
oven on board vessels. carrying war Supplies to Europe. The grounding of the steamship Pachsten, of the Peravian line, in the harbour at Lomas, the fire onboard the French Furcp and plots to destroy several other vessels are believed by prominent shipping men in South America to be the work of these Gorman sexmen, acting under the orders of agents of the Berlin Government
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The Experor William for his part was to give back to the future Poland a part of the Duchy of Posen and to indemnify Jimself by bringing German Austria, with Trieste, under the Archduke Charles Franc's Joseph, into the German Empire The coveted outlet on the Adriatic would thus have been acquired by Germany,
"Between the enarge German Empire, the reconstituted kingdom or Empire of Poland and the new Bohemian-Hungarian Southern Slay realm & oose and perpetual military and economic alliance WIR CON- templated. This alliance would heenme the arbiter of Europe, and would command the Balkans and the rout to the East. Who would than baye dared to resist had it pleased Berlin to bring Holland and Bel- gium into the great Confederated German Empire?
WORLD'S
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REMARKABLE FIGURES.
France over 123 million tons
Italy over 81.
Germany over 51 "Sweden over 41.
Russia over 3. Derimark. over 3. Spain nearly 3. Argentina over 2-4-5. Egypt over 24 Norway neatly 2. Netherlands nearly 14.
Be lives and continues to fight in the hope that they will very soon accept the inevitable and sue for peace He hopes to lire them out of their obstinacy.
GERMAN PLOTS, AGAINST ALLIED MERCHANTMEN.
Towards the end the rations became smaller. Our guards had the same fure, and they used to beg for portions of the parcels that we received from England to fake home to their families,
A renegade Irishman, a corporal of the Royal Trish Rifles, was pressed into service
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THE DISAPPOINTED,
"On December 10th, 1815, I passed o board of seven doctors at Limburg as a suitable prisoner for exchange, At Aix-la- Chapelle we had to undergo another ex- amization, and 27 men were seat back-- 18 because it was considered that operations would gender them useful again and 9 be cause they were not deemed sufficiently bind to be sexb away, I was one of the lucky open, if there is any luck about coming home with an arm finished."
CASE OF THE " EUNOPE. " The case of the Eurore was one of the most sensational which have occurred in South. This was, in substance, the pact of The amount of coal remaining for home American waters since the days of the Buc Konopisht. Its existence and its terma consumption was 184,670,503 tons, or 3,977-caneers and the treasure-laden Spanish gal coast of South America. Investigation, how- were known to very few-but there is rea-ons per head of the population leons The vessel, which was laden with ever, has indicated that these letters, in- sen to believe the Austrian Imperia Family During the past 42. years (1873-1814) the 3,000 tons of nitrate, was discovered to be on stead of coming from Berhn, were written to have obisized knowledge of it, at any ictal value of the mineral raised amounts fire when she was more than 700 miles off in German bank, and have been published rate after the assassination of the Arch-
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and crew four times, finally managed to
dakeWithin three weeks the tragedy of accounts for £2 033.191,000 or 84.1 per cent
to £3,604,980,000, and of this sum contabantioned and manned by her captain drew attention to the solvency of the baule the sons of Sophie Chotek no longer play have been raised; and of this amount reach Callao a charred wood but with the result that the solvency of the bank
Sarajevo altered its personal features; "bus -
In that period 8.200 243,000-tons of coal
a part in it, and if the dream of a Terived 2,012,790.000 tons, or more than 24 per Jagellonian Poland has been abandoned, cent of the total production, have been the Emperor William regards more than shipped abroad. ever the question of Austria and of the Japshurg from its point of view. He elrendy discounts the future and commandi
at Finna Re daily tightens the toils hety, and if d'aquisted spirits are asking has woven round Austria, who is strugglready whether an Austro-German defeat Jag ant maly, against her enemies but be not the sole chance of saving something against her more formidable ally. What for the Harburgs and their imperilled wonder if Vienna is a prey to mortal anxi. realmii"
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the moving picture theatres in Lima re active in preaching the holiness of the cause for which Germany and her satellites are cently refused to show a portion of a French war picture which depicted German troops fighting, and a series of letters bearing a Berlin date has been published weekly in in retret, a moh wronked the theatre to some of the leading newspapers on the west show their sympathy with the Allies
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