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THE NEAR EAST.

UREECE'S POLICY.

months ago.

TAE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 8Tu 1918.

A CHANGE FOR THE OUTER OLD CARAVAN WAY IN ASIA.

PEOPLES.

MOBILIZATION OF FINANCE -

WORLD-WIDE BRITISH RESOURCES. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES."

Cecil Rhodes was the greatest man of his time. Although he lived and worked in South Africa, he stood for the British | Empire in the eyes of the world as no man had ever stond.. He was a statesraan and Prime Minister. But, first sind foremost, he was a doer of things and creator of wealth. Other men talked about doing, or wrote economic treatises. He devoted himself to the development of a nation's resources before your eyes. He re-created the diamond helds, left deep impress upon the goldmines, - an- nexed a vast territory for us, and, by way of showing the people of those countries just what could be done, became the greatest railway builder, landowner, irri- gationist, cattle-breeder, sud fruit farmer of them all.

details.

CHINESE SILK ROUTE

THE TRENTINO BATTLE.

GRAPHIC STORY OF THE ATTACK.

The Corriere della Sera published the frat independent account

le Trentino. fighting, as follows:--

Sir Aurel Stein has reached London, reports a London daily of May 27, on the conclusion of a two and a half years' Turkestan, journey through Eastern Westernmost China, the Pamirs, Russian and The Persian-Afghan Turkesian,

The Austrians have opened a breach border, a journey which involved over 11,000 miles of marching. Of his dis in the wall of defence which we had won coveries Renter's Agency furnishes some by heavy sacrifices beyond our frontier. They have beaten with a hurricane of Sir Aurel followed a line of march tore upon our Alpine line at its-most the Pamirs which took him across Dare delicate point, striving with desperate fury to penetrate into Italinn territory. and Tangir, a territory in the Hin dnkoosh, never before visited by Euro This is the hardest moment of our war peans. The visit was made possible by it is also one of the most bitter and the chance that Pakhtur Wali, an exiled chief from Chitral, who had carved out violent assaults of the whole Europeas for himself a new kingdom there, was then endeavouring to consolidate it by getting into friendly relations with the Government.

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An Austrian officer who troops. taken prisoner said:--- had assembled 14 divisions of his best

WAS

You are not far from the truth in reckoning that there are three hundred

armies are

the Bordevic, and these served by unlimited - artillery. More prise the armies of Dankl, Koevess, and

than two thousand pieces are raining on a 25-mile front projectiles of all cali-

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I have had many opportunities within The last few days, says the London corres pondent of the Pioneer of discussing the position of affairs at Salonika with Ser- hian officers who came here is the atte of the Crown Prince as well as with a member of the Greek Parliament now in London. The latter gentleman is bitter ∙ly opposed to the policy of the King and maintains that the majority of his coun trymer feel humiliated at the betrayal Personally I think the of the Berbs. King was between the devil and the deep ara. Had we been in a position to have we," I mean landed 300,000 men (by

In Chinese Turkestan, in the Taklama the French and ourselves) we should have As saved Serbia and shortened the war.

ancient orchard showing with much clear, it is. Serbia is now a mass of ruins and

kan desert, there still stood a large

thousands of her peasantry are exiles on

If Rhodes were alive to-day he would news the elaborate arrangement of fruit trees and vines carried over trellis, all Avalian and Greek soil. The Serbian Army is reduced to about 150,000 men hardly be well pleased. I can picture instead of the 430,000 which existed twelve him, in that room. of his at the Burling. I dead. The settlement had been aban- thousand men against you. These com-

ston Hotel, pacing the floor, pouring outdoned eluse on 1,700 years ago, and the These hardy warriors,

loses itself in the sand at a very great inured to compaigning, have had three his words, telling as just those home river which once carried water to it now

we ought to be told. truths which

distance. months' rest at Corfu (and are now st Salonika).

It is anticipated that they Brushing military matters aside, Rhodes will take up their position midway be would tell us that this was a war of tween the French and ourselves and when economics, a war of national resources. the Bual advance is ordered they will be Displaying a map of the world, he would Germany a compact but permitted to have the place of honour mallish patch-and then, with angry, in the attack on Monastir. They know dashing eyes, to the immense the country well, for it was the Serbian coloured aggregate of the British Empire, Army which drove the Turks out of that forms a quarter of the globe, Monastir at the commencement of the

Du consider," he would shout, war of 1918, and they inflicted a series his voice rising to that almost falsetto it of crushing defeats as the Bulgars drenched when excited, do you consider. Bregalinitza when their late„Allies · so. treacherously attacked Serbia and Greece you are getting one-half the value from the Empire which you ought to gett in June, 1913.

This is a war of commodities. Has the Empire organized its commodities? This The Isles of Grocce and the tiny haris, above all a war of money. Have you buses for Germansubmarines and English are several millions of Britons in foreign bours of the mainland have been made organized the Empire's money! There countries. Have you organized their ships and lives have been lost by the attacks of submarines which have been money? Don't blame the Empire. Don't blame the overseas If you don't tell able to keep the sea by means of petrol them the truth, how are they to know Tarnished by Greck merchants and more or less openly stored in Greak harbours, From Curfu in the west, to Thasosrin in The cast, a whole chain of these depots is known to have existed. Some have been discovered; others have still to be found.

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Perhaps his most important discovery was the tracing of the ancient route

On Sunday morning (May 14) three ous ruins along that part of it which lay shadows approached the Italian trenches. through the Lop desert and of the manier through a dried-up ancient delta. It was As they advanced they were recognized by this route that the ancient Chinese as Austrian Slay desertors. They

said: conveyed all their silk to Central Asin. The attack has been ordered to

The morrow. and, the far-off Mediterranean.

The bombardment will last numerous pieces of exquisite Chinese silks and brocades found in the ceme teries will open up a new chapter in the

Bistory of textile art.

In that part of the desert which was waterless in ancient times for a distance of some 150 miles be was able with trace the route of the crazy to other small objects accidentally dropped. In one place the direction in which a aucicat caravans by finds of coins and

convoy had moved was clearly marked by hundreds of copper coins strewing the salt encrusted ground. They had prob ably dropped from a load during a night march and had remained untouched for at least 1,000 years.

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The information was exact. A bom- bardment of incredible violence began. Aeroplanes regulated the fire of a 15in. naval gun, which sent five projectiles on the town of Asiago. After the bombard ment had ceased the first infantry attack vame. The troops attacked en masse, and at the same time attacks were made from

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the Adige to the Val Sugana onslaughts were made on Zugna Torta. Our machine guns cut down the blue masses of men; the wire entanglements were heaped with dead. The bombard- ment had destroyed all the first-line trenches. The infantry then huched itself against the advance posts of the Val Terrangnol, The Alpini, deafened by 12 hours of bombardment, defended every

The occupation of a number of the islands that only money can win this war. The do his share. Again, in this foot of the ground, fighting always in and systematic searching of the mainland money position is going to be critical, last week a letter came from Huelva, in

and we must have every Briton in the world saving from now on. You needn't be afraid about the Germans knowing They have known about it for months. go you can just eable off in plain Eng sound take the Empire to your confidence."

OUR FINANCIAL, KEREN VOIR

"

He

swarmed up from all parts.

Night fell on the first day's slaughter.

harbours have to a certain extent crip

Spain. The writer wanted pamphlets by Three terrible bayonet counter- pled the action of the German sub

further stock for those British living the assailants were innumerable, and no help could come, as the entire front was marines, and now the insolent claim is

return of post. These were sent him, and attacks lacerated the Austrian lines, but made by our enemies that these same

at the not distant Rio Tinto mines in action. The Alpini who remained, so pirates have the right to enter a neutral

From San Paulo, the second city of few-in-amber, threw themselves on the port, remain unmolested for 24 hours,

Brazil, an Englishman has written chemy again, permitting the retirement “No organized propaganda is being of the main body to the line running and fill up with petrol from neutral sources. Such a preposterous claim was When war broke out the self-governing made among the members of the British from Malga Milegna to Soglio d'Aspin. never urged before. It has been abund- colonies applied for, and received, igommunity. So far as I know, all that Even here there was one avalanche of antly proved that these same submarinesos from Great Britain The Colonial is being done is by bank managers, in a Gre. The enemy artillory had been pour- have violated every law whether merely

ring explosives on these positions for 10 hours. The enemy infantry here nt- international or the laws of humanity: troops were sent to the war on these spasmodic manner, when consulted as to

loans. But later, when Britain began suitable ways to employ money. and yet they claim to be permitted to. carry on their murderous careers un supporting the Allied nations to the goes on to suggest, in the most lucid and tacking were annihilated and the enemy thecked. Such a claim is clearly quite extent of £1,000,000 day; it was seen inderstanding way, just such an organizdend all the valleys, but fresh troops inadmissible, and unless Greece absolute that the richer colonies must finance ing as is here being sketched out.

themselves. Canada then raised an ly declines to discuse the question she will internal loan. This she followed up by find that the Allies will be compelled to fake very strong action to bring her pre- placing £10,000,000 to our credit over there. A still further loan has been Sent Government to its sensés.

successfully placed in New York, while other internal loans have been decided Australia has recently raised inter- nal loans. These were successful, as was to be expected of a community whose bank deposits average £50 a head. Her resources, strengthened by the high prices received for her wool, and her exports of food, must be still appre ciable. New Zealand is also a wealthy community, and while the war lasts may expected to finance her own share in These three, then- Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-are the self-financing Dominions; and while it is the duty of every Briton in the world, from now on, to save his money, and lend it to the

GREECE'S AINS. 1

The tour to the Allied Courts now in progress by Prince Nicholas, brother of King Constantine, has, I believe, been undertaken with a view to ascertaining from England, France, and Russia what territorial compensation will be given, dot promised, to Greece, as the price of her Alliance.

Lam told that Greece demands the immediate cession of Cyprus mul of islands now in possession of Italy, and the promise of the reversion of Smyrna and a considerable tract of ter ritory on the neighbouring chast, includ ing the harbour of Iskanderun, and as Fur inland as Aidin. I need scarcely say

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ATHENS CORRESPONDENT'S VIEWS OF THE CAUSES.

THE RIGHT RONT OF INVESTMENT. To reach the overstas Britons, to place the money question before them, and to enlist the sympathy and practical help GRECO-ITALIAN ENTIPATPY. of a very great number, is only a matter of organization and of action. The first thing is to be able to place before thera the right sort of investment for their money. It should carry 5 per cent. It should be redeemable locally, when due,

A correspondent writes from Athens. and should be due at a reasonably short

to the Niece Rotterdamsche Courant :-- It should be free from income-tax. date.

Corfu by the Allies quietly. Even if this The present Exchequer bond seems to The Greeks received the occupation of fall most of these requirements, and we may hope that the Chancellor of the Exoccupation was not so easy to defend. chequer, for the purposes of such over theoretically, it was generally recognised sens propaganda, will see it to add that practically it was easily explained. these modifications Buch bonds, duly The arrival of twenty Italian soldiers created, should he brought to the notice suddenly brought a change in their at of every Briton overseas. The reasons itide, and it is now not only the Govern- why he should invest in it should also ment papers that protest, but the whole for an ultimate victory of the Ententi have joined in the protest:

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Italy was not likely to look favourably Empire, it is the particular duty of be explained to him. Innumerable chan- Venezelist Pross. All the papers hopingƑEM NARKO on this suggestion, but I believe that Canadians, Australians, and New Zennels for reaching him exist. First of all The Prince went away confirmed in the landers to support the war loans by their there are the cables. The London corre

be The Greeks used to consider the Ita- belief that the cession of Cyprus might Governments. But we should reach spontents of the Empire's Press may be arranged under certain reservations, all the Britons ather than thees. There expected to render valuable heltz, Shillians as their brothers. There was so With the probability of our being ander

Reuter's Agency have specially promised much in the history of Italy to remind are some millions of thera spread over necessity of landing troops at Alexandretia and Messina. it would,

the world. They are, on the whole, an assistance. There are the Colonial Gov- the Greeks of their own. In the face of They ernors, Commissioners, and Postmasters such sympathy, a peaceful co-operation however, be the acme of fally to allow influential and well-to-do class.

Italo-Turkish war wrought a' complete Cyprus to pass into other hands until have contributed generously to Red Cross There are the British Ministers abroad, ought to have been possible. But the

conclusion of the war, for it is well. funds, aeroplane fands, wounded soldier the Consuls, and Consular agents. There known thai all along the coast of Asia funds, and the like; but not one man or are the many British banks abroad, the change. In that war the sympathy of ran high. The Italians acted the woman in fifty of them has been made to insurance companies, and the British the Greek nation for the sister nation Mior there are depots for submarine realise that the Old Country itself is owned railroad and steamship lines liberators of the oppressed Greck nation. supplies, which supplies fnd their way

soon going to be a dire need of every There are our great corporations down from Constantinople, at times by penny they care muster. In this category foreign countries, like the Anglo-Persian Athens enthusiastically greeted the con the railway, at others by sailing craft which steal along the coast. These craft Newfoundland, in the Crown Colonies pany in Siam, the Shell Company in the the war generously cede to the mother come the Britons in South Africa, in Oil Company, the Bombay-Burma Conquest of the Twelve Islands, No less was expected here than that Italy would after. are in many cases owned by Greek sub and Protectorates, in India, in Burma, Dutch Indies, the nitrate companies of country the islands exclusively inhabited jects and the supplies are the property in the Malay States; in Egypt and the Chile, the land companies in the Western by Greeks. This hope was bitterly dis of Greek merchants, who are reaping a large fortune out of this contraband Sudan; the two millions or more resident States and in the Argentina, and big appointed. The Italians kept Rhodos

in the United States; the considerable mines

everywhere, too

and the other islands trade. The activities of our fleet in the communities in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, mention, There is the Overseas Club, From that time the Greeks have realis Mediterranean are largely taken up with Mexico, and throughout Latin America with its 130,000 members, and the Patrioed that the interests of Greece and Italy searching out the lurking places of the those in China, Japan, Sin, Borneo, ie League of Britons Overseas. Our clash, instead of running along the same submarines, and considerable success as and other parts of the Fast; and those financial appeal ought to go out with line. It was Italy that resisted the in-so-Ton HIRE TESTING MACHINE for Chados, Wire Ropes, Rivela, oko, been gained in discovering them.

in Spain, Portugal, and Scandinavia. every bill of lading, every trade circular, corporation of Northern Epirus; it was

and every newspaper and last but not Italy that broached the question of the As least, it should be enclosed in every letter Corfu Canal. It is, therefore, not sur- which is seat abroad..

prising that the Greeks view an Italian occupation of Corfu with far different eyes than they did a French or British occupation,

RUMANIA'S POSITION AND THE

RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

A telegram from Bukharest, dated June 9th, says that the newspaper Furjefu states that the Bulgarian military author

tic in Bustchuk on the morning of June 8th notified the Rumanian Consul that

THE CALL TO BRITONS OVERSEAS.

numeraus to

The message to these Britons oversone is simply this: While the Old Country is spending £5,000,000 a day to carry on the war, her prople," at home and ASSURED LESPONSE abroad, should be saving. If they don't There is no

doubt at all but that our State save, in this war of exhaustion, they people overseas would respond.. risk defeat. Bearing this in mind, they the case frankly to them, and they will should forgo luxuries for the term of the not fail us. We can rely on them to war, marshat their hundes, and lend send their money, fortifying us, and them to Great Britain. Those living in strengthening the exchange. Buch an the United States, can render even appeal would give them an opportunity greater service,

First, they can save. of helping in our need, and would make

the port would be closed to a Secondly, they can convert their local then feel that they could do to net com and goods from Romanis until new ar rangements are made:

stocks and shares, or other property, for us. Nor would these effects be con-- The newspaper.

The appeal Thirdly, awaiting that not fined to the British-born. into cash. Rumania writing about the military posi- Pi tion, remarks that

CHURCH AND LABOUR. BISHOP OF LONDON'S PLAIN WORDS TO THE CLERGY.

The first message of the Church to date when the exchanges may turn would have a subtle influence upon those the nation is that it must not listen for in advance, at undoubtedly the Rus- seriously, sgainst us, can send

their cash to London, and so strengthen There are great rezervoirs of loyalty the Bishop of London to the London Dio- ful preparation, is of much importance the exchange. And fourthly, they can which we have not yet began to tap. The ceann Conference last month, owing to the fact that it is made along the enlist the financial sympathy of their Anglo-Indians in the Empire are not a If people thought he was going about Rumanian frontier, indicating the inten-neutral friends. If the urgency of our wealthy class. Yet they are capable of the country preaching when there was an tion of the Entente Powers to give need were thus known throughout the real sacrifice. The wealthy Parsee com- open sewer in London they were very Rumania the opportunity of realising kur Empire and to all Britons overseas, as munity ought not to be overlooked. The much good the Church was it it would mistaken. He had yet to learn id:als.

it is not known, there would be a great large Chinese communities in Hongkong, what reaponew weeks ago I received a letter Malay States are not only well off, but for children and the fact that music halle Singapore, Penang, Bangoon, and the not tackle the question of Linema shows from Sarawak, in Borneo. The writer realize just as acutely as we do the were known to be places of zsignation. had been reading a pamphlet about the advantages of political freedom and Why the Church of the

News from Turseverin states that not withstanding the silence maintained 1. the Austro-Hungarian Fress concerning the rout of the Austro-Hungarian forces mawa has spread through the whole Mon

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community there had no knowledge many black men in the depth of the tre day asked the hit the world of labour archy, causing general depression. Information A letter has been passed on there is in fact untapped wealth in the today. Is it the fault of the clerg

this, and asked for the fullest in pics for whom the Empire has a meaning. influence whatever in the Segedin and Temeshvar large crowds to me that came from Octaesmund, the hands of coloured races all over the Are we a living and bargenious brother, have gathered in front of the railitary hill station of Southern India A Empire many hidden walls, too, of quiet hood for the world to gen headquarters, waiting apprehensively to retired colonel wrote about the money loyalty. We should at least be able to

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bear the result of the fighting with the position, hungry for information, deeply devise methods of putting both of the ank you to be content with nothing

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CHLER OFFICE LUDGATE CIBOUS LONDON BO Bough.ag, 193 April, 1916. ****