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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 14TH, 1916.

"IF WE FAIL NOW WE SHALL A LETTER FROM GERMANY, BELGIUM'S SUFFERING AND A NEW TRIPLE ALLIANCE.”

GO DOWN TO HELL"

MR. HUGHES ON THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY.'

Mr. Boyd George, and Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed a large crowd' at Llandudno, recently.

Mr. Lyd George said: Our business now is to win the war. If we don't win the war, you will be surprised how little the feuds among us will matter. Lib oralism is a faith, not a feud, and what we are concerned about is the faith in Tiborty.

When liberty is at stake we Bink everything convictions, disputes, disagreements, dissensions everything is

in subordinated to re-establishing the #premacy of freedom throughout Europe and the world.

31r. Hughes said:--We live in great times, and I pity the man or woman who cannot rise to them accordingly Throughout this great. Empire of ours we have seen men, sundered by ten thou sand miles of vegan, rush to the stand- ards of Empire as with one impulse. "We have presented to the world a meg

nificent spectacle. Although we were und ready, as indeed, must necessarily b the position of any penesful people who desire really and honestly to pursus that path which is howed out for civilized man and woman--although this war has Found us unready, please God, we are gradually mustering those tremendous forces which lie within our grasp, and if we mustor them to the full and push them with ruthlessness of purpose, howe inge the very bowels of our enemy, we shall certainly conquer. (Cheers.)

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Remember that time not only fights with as but also with the enemy. There is an hope for the civilised world if her military machine stands unchallenged We must destroy it utterly to win this way. We must do all that lies in our power, regarding everything clec dros. Kaniomber that time is the essence of the contract, and now is the time to aciz the opportunity which is rushing past us; and if we fail now, surely ai I live and as the Lord our Saviour lives, we shall go down to hall. We shall be discredited and dishonoured. Now is the appointed time which, being let slip, For ever will pass us by. This is the very pivot around which our whole cir- cumstances turn, and it is because of this that I am delighted to find the people of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland gladly mustering to push every thing on one side which stands between then and the achievement of their great purpose, (Cheers.)

An address of welcome was presented to Mr. Hughes at Llandudno Town Hall.

In his reply Mr. Hughes, who had a. great reception, said this war really and truly meant everything in the world

to us, and there was no man or woman

who could stand aside, at any rate with safety and in honour. When the wA! was over and when we had emerged Erinmphant, as we surely would do if we did our duty, then he would say to those who had in this great struggle beld aliof there would be a hell infinitely nere poignant, infinitely more whelming than any, hell or any punish- meat that had yet come to any man uri ANY WOMAD this country (Cheers.)

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THE TREASURES OF **KULTUR."

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INCREASING SHORTAGES.”

SUGAR AT 58. PER LB.

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The following interesting munication reached "The Times" vid Warnemunde and Copenhagen. It i addressed by one neutral to another,

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MR. ASQUITH ON WORK OF RELIEF.

TRIBUTE TO AMERICA.

THE TURKISH TREATY.

The German papers recently were, full of jubilant articles about what they call the Turro German Treaty of Alhance.'' Upon the strength of speeches delivered by the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Halil Bey, and the German Ani- bassador, Count Wolff-Metternich, dur- The Lording, the visit of German Reichstag, De puties to Constantinople, it is claimed with much trumpeting that Turkey has now definitely taken the place of Italy in the Triple” Alliance,

The Prime Minister spoke at the first

and

anual meeting of the National Com- mittee for Relief in Belgium held at the accurate.

Mansion House last month. The condition of such parts of Ger many as I have visited-the Berlin and Mayor presided, and those present in- Hamburg districts-is interesting. Much eluded Cardinal Bourne, the Duke of money is in circulation and there is work Norfolk, Lord Bryce, the American and for all, but the whole population is on | Spanish Ambassadors, the Belgian Minis- short commons as regards many neces-

ter, and many members of Parliament Naries

This fact is causing an infinite

and representatives of the overrea amount of grambling among the poor, Dominions. who are heartily sick of the war. They have no voice whatever in determining the course pursued by the Government and the upper and middle classes, who are, of course, not suffering.

The Lord Mayor said that it was absolutely essential that the work of the coinmittee should be continued: Seve millions of prople in that part of Bel- The English blockade, so long ineffeegiam occupied by Germany were await- tive, is now having some result, and then deliverance, and of these at least Germans look forward with

three millions were totally or partially great

destitute. He read the following message from King Albert:---

anxiety to the next two oths before the harvest. The Government tells them that they have only to hold out until July and all will be well again. Harvest prospects vary greatly in different parts of Germany, but in general crops are suffering from lack of fertilizers.

EASTER IN BERLIN.

I was in Berlin for Easter. There is no apparent sign of distress, but when one goes below the surface of things one learns a great dent. The soup kitchens are being opened on a larger scale than at any previous time since the beginning of the war, and soup itself is of very poor quality, composed chiefly of potatoes. Diet largely one of substitutes---KAC- charine instead of sugar, imitation coffee instead of real coffee, and so on. Even the beer is now adulterated. Bavarian especially are grumbling at the hop this year. I have seen meat cards, bread shortage that will injure their brewing cards, milk cards (one of which enclose), and washing-soda cards. Bosp cards are in preparation.

I am deeply gratified to learn of the magnificent results obtained by the past year's working of the National Com mittee for Relief in Belgium, which have in large measure served to lessen the Buffering and stimulate the courage of the Belgian population. tender. ny sincerest thanks to all who in Great Britain and in the British Dominions have so generously contributed to this work of aid and fellowship.'

The Duke of Norfolk presented the re

donations to the fund had been £1,637,418.

Biar as can be judged from the Gor man reports of Halil Bey's speech a Turco-German Treaty is, indeed, about to be ratified, but there is nothing to indicate that it settles other matters than those which would naturally arise out of the abolition of the Capitulations. Halil began with a naïve account of Russian and British policy, and said that in 1914, while the Entente offered to guarantee Turkish territory, Germany offered Turkeyan alliance with equal rights," He proceeded

Germany, who, at the time that she desired to sign the treaty, had promised her support in the question of the aboli- tion of the Capitulations, has kept her promise faithfully. Long before we did so (air) she prepared promoted pro- posals for conventions which should re- gniate the relations between the two Powers. They concerned questions such as those of a consular convention, of right of residence, of nationality, of extradi- tion, and of mutual legal aid. We have draft proposals, and have

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port, which showed that the total of their theft the slightest shadow NETH. INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO,

Of this. £1,000,000 had already been ex Pended in food for the destitute Bel gians. Of the total received to April 26th,

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"UNTIRING HUMANITY."

Mr. Asquith, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the National There is plenty of gaiety in Berlin. Committee heartily on the results they Officers home from the front all the had achieved, and expressed to the Ameri theatres, and the women are well-dressed can Ambassador, and through him to the in Paris fashions. Attempts to intro|great American nation, the gratitude duce German fashions have hopelessly which the British Government and the failed.

humanity of the United States not only British people had for the untiring towards our Allies in Belgium. but wherever our own, wounded or unwound

There are a good many wonded to seen in public places. The chief anxiety of the Berlin with the United States. ers was that there should be no troubleed prisoners were, interned. The extent

As to troop movements. The Kaiser was on the Western front, at Verdun, i believe. Many more troops are coming west than going east. The Germans have

no fear whatever of the Russians.

to which the suffering inevitable in`a war in which half the civilized world was engaged had been alleviated, be Bald. through the good offices of the United States Government and its dinlomatie I learned in Hamburg, from a friend representatives, as well as by the human well able to ascertain, that there is a sentiment of the American people, could senfi-famine in Turkey and much bitter-not be exaggerated. Except for the inter- vention of the United States and Spain it would probably have been a military impossibility for the Allied Governments. to save the civil population in Belgium, amounting to over seven millions of people, a very large proportion of whom were women and children, from the star vation with which the invaders threaten cd them.

HANBURG GEESE ÉS FACH, Hamburg itself is a desert. The good people of Hamburg and Bremen con sistently oppose the proposed retention of Antwerp. They fear i will injure their parts. Food was higher in ffamburg than in Berlin. The well-known Ham burg geese are selling at £2 each.

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of the Capitulations. We have also sent delegate to Berlin, where there have been discussions for four months past. It is an honour for me to be able to inform you that: apart from certain detailed questions, a final agreement has been reached,

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Halil Bey described the conditions of the Treaty as being such as States like, for example, France and England would set in order to regulate their rela-

The German Ambassador said that the Treaty would be approved by the two peoples, as well by their Governments,

the attempts and, after a reference to to represent Turkey as war-weary or in- elined towards a separate

he peace, to insist upon. Germany's hastened honesty and unselfishness. He said that Turkey knows" that Germany has no re-penses, and that they will re- main loyal allies after the war. He even declared that Germany

"claims spheres of interest," and will not adopt.

any attitude incompatible with the dignity and independence of Turkey."

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A SPY SPECIALIST.

GERMAN ORGANIZER AT WORK IN

HOLLAND.

ceived some interesting information con- The Telegraaf of Amsterdam has re-

cerning Germno espionage, according to Service" has been completely reorganiz which the German Secret Information ed in Holland.

In addition to the shortages. I have already mentioned, there are all sorts of the United States and Spanish Am

Thanks to energetic action on the part of others, such as of string. Hang basundors and Ministers in London, being made of paper. asked the price of sugar, and was told Brussels, and Berlin, negotiations were This reorganization has been entrusted 58. alb. Coffen was also that pries. 1л.

concluded, whereby relief supplies could

to a first-rate specialist, who lately arriv be sent to these suffering people withouted in Holland after exercising the same Berlin the best cuts of beef are du a lb.

It is now difficult for rich Germans to danger of their being intercepted by the function in another neutral country. escape to Denmark and Switzerland. enemy. That in itself was a diplomatie This specialist's work has been to cen As you know, large numbers left for these achievement for which all the Allied tralize the various and scattered elementy countries in order to be more comfort Governments and the Belgian people had of the espionage service. He established able, but the passport regulations are reason to be thankful. But that was only the so-called Central Defence Depart- now much more stringent.

a beginning. The practical problem of ment in one of the most important streets But for the fact that the Entente how to feed a nation suddenly confronted in The Hague. The man who was his Allies appear to be on

in the other neutral the defensive with the prospect of starvation and hem-right-hand man everywhere, and the extreme docility of med in by a hostile army presented un country appears to be principally work- the German people. I think there might exampled difficulties. Mr. Herberting in Amsterdam, where he considered be something like a national protest Hoover undertook to form, under the the service left much to be desired.

against the war, difficult, however, as it

at the front.

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would be to organize while so great apparatif the, Amative, what was portion of the male population is away now known as the Neutral Commission espionage, and, ainet important of all.

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ordinary espionage, extraordinary Sach soldiers n I spoke to seemed abfor relief in Belglum.

the creation of favourable public opinion GERMAN HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE.solutely confident that Germany had won.

Mr. Lord Curzon had described

in Holland towards Germany. Hoover's work as a miracle of scientific STARVING PRISONERS IN

The Telegraaf asserts that the German organization. That, I believe, said MrCentral Defence Department at The WESTPHALIA.

Asquith, is not an over-statement. Mr Hague was responsible for the sensa The number of Italians returning home Asquith continued With the people intronal reports circulated against Eng from Germany owing to the difficulty of that part of Northern France occupied and immediately the Dutch Government obtaining food steadily increases, says by Germany added to those for whom had announced its new military mica-WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE The Times correspondent at Milan. Mr. Hoover and those associated with Hures. The Central Defence Depart-

Curious speeches about the admission of foreign students to German univer sitios were delivered last month in the Fer House of the Bavarian Diet, Baron von Cramer Klett, reporting the onclusions reached by a committee, said That in future they would probably rease to show "special" hospitality to foreigners and even charge them higher fres. He proceeded :-----

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spoke to three workmen who left Hagen (Westphalia) on Sunday morning after inany years residence there with con- tinual good pay. They received extreme- ly good treatment as an inducement. to But ear position in the world is too them to remain, nod they were allowed gent for us to desire, in a petty spirit 1b. of meat per week, but it was becom- revenge, to withheld from thering impossible to obtain bread and all countries the treasures of our pre-eminent farinaceous foods, which form the staple "Koltur "deep though the shock has of Italian diet.

Our been to our national feelings. enemies have probably now realized the preponderance of our "Kultur," and I to not doubt that in their hearts they appreciate this quite well. The pitiful and ridiculous attempt to tear down everything German, and the perpetual hrickings, about our barbarism, show orly too plainly how painfully most of our enemies feel to what extent we have surpassed them. When a gutter urchin abuses a better-dressed child in the street, this is not because he despises the other child's clothes, but because he envies

them. So it is with our enemies; and it' is regrettable to see how tren of intellect and civilization take part in these pitiful

Italians working in the Westphalian limestone quarries have been greatly im- pressed by the fearful conditions of the French and Russian prisoners working there. These never receive meat and are literally starving to death.

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ment's principal aim is to sow discan- tent, and distrust and fear of England in Holland in order that Germany may

Hai eventually be allowed land without any need for Holland her- self to participate in the war.

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deep been kept alive. They maintain a loyal, gratitude to Mr. Hoover and those though of necessity a passive, registar, American citizens who have so nebly and they spurn with unconquerable spirit A HINT TO THE MAYOR. given up their time and occupations the insidious and insincere reproaches When the women

of the town of without recompense, and largely without of the enemy."

To-day we can only send, as we do send, recognition, to this work of purchasing cently to do their marketing there were which alone enable the population of supplies to keep them alive, and we can Rheydt, in the Rhine province, went re food and distributing these supplies to the people of Belgium enough relief no potatoes to be bad, and minor riots,. in which the police had to interfere, Belgium to keco body and soul together, only do this through the humane offices There will occurred. On the following morning the It is one of the finest achievements in of the Neutral Committee. body of a dead cat was found hanging the history of humane and philanthropic come a day, soon I hope, but sooner or to the door of the Burgumaater, with organization. We learn from the report later that day will come, when King attached to it the following notice: that over £30,000 a week is being volun-Albert's brave Belgian troops and our If you don't take measures to provide tarily subscribed from British sources to brothers in arms in France will succeed potatoes for us you will share the fate alleviate Belgian distress. It is a large in relieving the whole of the Belgian The world is on the eve of immense of this cat.”

sura, but I am not sure that it is an people from the tyranny which at pre- revolutione, and I believe that one of the The Berliner Tageblait gives details adequate sum. I trust that in the months sent overshadows them, and in restoring TELEPHONE NO. HE most important questions is whether the obtained from a number of experts, before us it will be substantially exceed to them that prosperity which they nations that are awakening shall be pene-mostly well-known professors, of various ed.

gladly sacrificed rather than sacrifice trated by German or by English substitutes which are now in use in Ger-

their honour and their independence. Kultur. The answer to these ques many owing to the great scarcity caused

I am afraid I cannot refrain from re-(Cheers.) tions will no doubt, he found in the by the British blockade.

ferring to the attitude of the German Cardinal Bourne "seconded the resolu result of this enormous struggle. If we, In place of red copper, zice and Government towards the seven millions tion, which was carried." as we hope, win the palm of victory, our amalgam are used, and in place of yellow of the civilian population of Belgium. The Belgian Minister expressed the ap- prestige, even if we obtain litile that is copper according to the article which is The Germans after occupying Belgium preciation of the Belgian Government tangible, will grow so immensely that to be produced-Germany now uses steel, the doors will be opened wide to German zinc, etc, For telescopes, for instance, said in effect. Great Britain is blockad and people of the work of the relief "Kultur," and our main task will then steel is used. Cables and telephone-wires ing the Belgian ports. We cannot feed committee. The contributions of Groat he" to make the world one day find its are exclusively made of zine, and as the you. If you starve it will be the fault Britain and her Dominions. heling in the German mind.

specific resistance of zine is higher than of the British blockade." I have only to splendid proof, he said, of the friendship The former Bavarian Premier, Count that of copper the wires have to be made say, in reference to that, that all the sworn to Belgium in these times of Tko need i Bel Cra lsheim, also insisted that what the thicker. Because of this, too, the poles moral obligations which un to now have cruel affliction,

All was greater than ever. world needs is the spread of German on which these wires are fixed must be been recognised by every civilised Power gium Kultur." He said that the presence of stronger,

to provide for the nopulation on cccupied testimony showed that in the last two But, months the conditions had become much young foreigners at German universities In place of vulcanized indiarubber territory seem to be disregarded. was desirable for this purpose, and re artificial preparations, such as volcanic thanks to the British and American more serious. The Belaian people, endur ferred to "the oscillating policy of fibre, are now mostly used. In the weav- publics, and above all to the humane in-ed their privations with admirable stoic Rumania" as being largely due to the ing industry, instead of jute, mostly flax terposition of the Committee of Relief. ism. Sustained by hope, their oyes lifte fact that so many Rumanians study in and hemp and thread made of paper are the civil population in Pelgium have to the horizon, they anxiously awaited Paris.

the dawn of their liberation (Continued on next Column.)

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