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[BY SIE EH. JOHNSTON.]

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY SHETEMBER 25%D, 1918.

MILITARISM DOOMED.

FORGOTTEN FACTOR IN GERMAN POLICY

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Among the statements reported to have boon made fat a meeting of the Signs to becoming apparent to Ameri Southern Rhodesia Legislativo · Council) f was one that the Home Government had can observers that Prussian militarism is practically asked the Chartered Com pany to take over Nyasaland. The engaged in a serious struggle with eivius & party of our troops seemed to have Dahl, ojo Mafarbara Hotel Shiomienk] speaker (at Blantyre, Shire Highlands) wanted to know why Nyasaland should be handed over to the Chartered. Com

We do not wish to go Into the pros and cons of the matter except to enter a protest against any by the consent of the people of Nyasa attempt to dispose of Nyasaland except land-European, Indian, and

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Jying in the Great Northern Telegrap what occurred in the fighting of four days ago about Guillemont (writes Thesishmmteng, 100, Des Voeur Rd Shanghal Tires special correspondent at British, Rushing, 71, Connaught Headquarters on August 12th). In my dispatch of August 6th I described it briefly, and on the following day reported that the situation there was very obscure, pushed beyond the general line of the 6894, 5012 2494, 1195, C077, advance, and it would be unwise to consider the farthest-point reached as 6667, 0407, 2760, 6513 Brator

0005, 574, N861,-134),- anently won. As a matter of fact, Leeg oo Vawoochoong Shanghai it was not permantly won. The German Chungblog, 121, Chawentai- wireless has referred to the incident, aro grandiose terms and has claimed the Ashic and the incident is curious, taking of an exaggerated number of pri- Tosk Boners A plain tale will set them down,

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lian opinion in Germany The mili tarists are fighting more strenuously within Germany for their future existence than along the eastern and western battle fronts and if the judgment of Americana which Great Britain entered the war is is right, the first great principle for

nearly, won.

not

The affair took place soon after 4 am on August 8th, when it was still dark. The troops on the extreme right of our movement did very well, carried the trenches opposed to them, and pushed for. ward on to the high ground das south of Guillemont gaining a very useful piece of territory at small cost. Thie ground won has since then been consoli dated with our trench system.

native, This passage appears in the (London) It cannot too strongly be emphasized African Forld, quoting from the that the British blockade is becoming Nyrsoland Times.

On this apparently increasingly effective in its crushing trifling text (which may, of course, be pressure on Prussian militarism. I have due to some misunderstanding), I am seen letters from Americans in Germany, attempting to found this plea that, smuggle. past the censor and sent to New instead of waiting for that vague event, Tork by way of Scandinavia, which tell "the conclusion of the war which may how complete a change is coming over the come next winter or next summer or in domestic situation in Germany, The ten years' time-we should proceed now food crisis is growing more intense daily

The left section of these troops on the and at duco towards the first steps lead Americans are writing, home that they right, however, got hung up in the dark- ing to complete Imperial Federation. themselves are Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Asquith have nourishment to sustain them. For those left again, however, were the troops. of retting enoughness, and failed to get farther. On their already definitely, committed themselves who can afford it, brief, trips are being which spoke in my former messages, to the shaping of an Imperial Constitu frequently made to Holland and Scand. They went cloan through the successive tion, a real Imperial Parliament, the war to which the Irish problem is or two.

afterinavia exclusively to get a square meal lines of trenches opposed to them right:

into the village of Guilemont, inflicting to be submitted,

heavy casualties on the enemy on their way. Their right, of course, would now be unsupported, owing to their neigh bours on that side being hung up, as I have with the troops on their right, in the darkness and confusion of the ruined- explained. Not getting any touch

village, they lost their direction-an ex

of battered brick spread over some irre tremely easy thing to do, for these so called villages are now mera layers gular portion of the earth, without any landmarks or guiding signs.

Seeing how utterly uncertain in the Almanac is the point of time specified as the

HITTER COMPLAINTS.

Openly the Germans are not complain end of the war" and how many ing, but information has reached Ameri- an important detail in home, Colonial, can newspaper offices to the effect that in and foreign affairs will not in every case secret the German people at home are fall in with a wait and see policy vary bitter in their denunciation of the but demand an inter-bellum solution. Government's inefficiency. many of ware becoming impatient for

The mili with its wat in England which may be to take into consideration the wants of the promulgation of an Imperial Council trials are recused of having forentien in permanent session, which will repre- the civilian population in making their sent all parts of the Empire, and hate arrangements for a world-war. The re export advocates of all Imperial quirements of the soldiers and the de

Having once got lost, instead of hold- terests, and to which must first be sub-mands of the any machine at larms were ing on to the portion of the village mitted all and every proposal for enlare carefully thought out in great detail, but nearest to them, these men seem to have ing. reorganising, redistributing, and (if an indifference was shown for the networked through the whole place till they need be) reducing the Imperial aroa.

sities of the civilians, which is now. work got down to the extreme south eastern ing to the undoing of Prussian mili-corner of the village, and there they pro tarism

THE CYPRUS QUESTION.

the rigours of the British blockade. The claims, militarists are unable to meet this situa tion by ordering attacks after attacks in massed formation. They cannot win by slaying human life; their necessity is to preserve human life. This is something new for them, and they are beginning to founder in confusion.

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ceeded to try to dig themselves in.. It Not a few persons well acquainted with

The Germans are discovering that was an audacious thing to do, for they the Levant and the Near East were per- Prussian militarism may be an excellent were a mere island in a hostile sen, with turbed and vexed at the light-hearted, machine in times of victory, but it is the whole depth and width of the village dopartmental way in which the Kingdom badly lacking in proper qualities for between them and their nearest friends of Cyprus-once before under a Planta- times when the spectre of defeat begins and the enemy all round them. Some of genet king, and administered by Great to loom ahead. It is remarked by Amerithem got back again next day and on Britain since 1878, enormously improved can observers that the Teutonic mili- the day after, across the enemy's trenches

money, annexed tarists in and our, his, the British Dominions in 1914, and in of ruthlessner, while, what Germany fire. The connant which did not get back junet to our control over Egypt and the but an Administration capable of easing German wireless builds up its generous many ways an absolutely necessary ad- wante now is not a ruthless Government is, doubtless, the nucleus on which the Binaitic peninuila-was bandied about by diplomatists as a bribe to Greece to induce her to enter the conflict on our side, thus is conseal the batching of gar Levant diplomacy and the blunders in Cabinet military strategy. Those who knew all the facts about Cyprus, and at the same time understood the precise value of the Greek Army and Govern ment, demurred very much to such a to speak in any except the most extrava German-Americans, usually reluctant cession. They pointed out that there gant terms of the Kaiser's Government, were other ways and other directions in are now beginning to show dissatisfaction which Greek co-operation could be suit at the manner in whcih the Berlin antho- ably repaid in proportion to its achieve rities are handling the economic situs- rents.

tion. Comments are being passed to the Fortunately for the Empire, as a Me-effect that the General Staff ought to have diterranean Pover, the King and Queen worked pat the food problem, and the of Greece refused the offer. After the clothing problem, and the raw materials losses in time, men, ships, and money problem, in advance of declarations of that the subsequent action and inaction war. of the Hellenic monarchy have entailed, the proposal is hardly likely to be re suscitated.

criticisms such as these have arisen be There can be no question that cause of letters to the German-Americans from home picturing in despondent colours the general economic situation.

THE GULF BETWEEN.

At the same time as these things were taking place we also made some small gain to the north of Guillemont, due cast from Waterlot Farm, capturing a machine gun position (and the guns) near the station. The immediate crest of the ridge (such as it is) here, however, is ander present circumstances, and meal practically untenable by either party while we rest in a trench just on this side

of it

FOURTEEN DAYS IN A DUG-OUT,

As showing the extraordinary charac ter of the fighting here, an incident more curious than that of the men in Guile mont is reported from Delville Wood, A German has just come down from there who had spent 14 days in a dug-out as one of a party of nearly a score who behind our lines. He described himself originally took shelter in the dug-out, but all the others had died one by one, some But we are made, uneasy in this direc- tion and in that about other territorial

killed by the German shells and the rest arrangements hatched in Government

perishing of sheer privation. The last ofices but as to which the nation and

man, faint and weak with hunger, finally Empiro are never consulted. The Liter At no other time since the beginning crawled out and attracted the attention pool merchants are ungry as to the dis- differentiation among Germans concern took him and nursed him and fattened of the war has there been any general of some of our machine-gun men. They proportionately large amount of Caneing militarists and civilians, as far as him up until ho was fit to be sent back to roons territory banded over to French American knowledge of the situation the rear, where he arrived yesterday. administration and French protective goes. Nay, however, so much evidence is. tariffs and this without wavering for

From another part of the field 1 hear one moment as convinced advocates of an begun to realize the wide gulf of separar shires, who carried an advanced strong accumulating that the Germans have of gallant work done by some of the Berk overlasting alliance with heroic France, tion between the two. The whole thing is due to the wretched

post of the eneiny, fortified it, and held ignorance of geography and of the recent News has reached America that the other crops could carry out a similar on against repeated counter-attacks until story of the world which prevails militarists are beginning to make exeuses operation and link up with them. “Hương British Ministers and Govern- to the civilians, and to beg that judg ment Departments. Otherwise it would ments be withheld until later-

Among curiosities in the way of guns have been easy enough to have convinced first time in the history of modern Prus:into our possession are a couple of pieces For the and they are many which have fallen. France that by sentiment, and commerce sian militarism the militarists are com- in one of the woods which bear the dates Great Britain is peculiarly linked up pelled to listen to arguments from the 1870 and 1880 respectively. They are with the small Daala territory. The area civilians, and to submit themselves to believed to have formed part of the de in question is so small that France would cross-examination by people who have no feness of Liége. certainly have shown gracious acknow expert knowledge of the art of war? ledgment of our past dies with the Duala people and have drawn the temporary flict, this fuct is of the highest import- As Americans see the European con

GALLANT STRETCHER BEARERS frontier a few miles south of the Dualance. It is interpreted as meaning that gallantry of our stretcher bearers. The More than once I have spoken of the the British Navy is winning its fight. It other day an eye-witness told me of a is held to prove that Prussian militarism thing which had occurred the day before There are similar auxieties now as to is but a step or two removed from surat a certain road every day, concerning is finding itself on the dofensive, which The Germans throw a number of shells the destinies of Central Africa, East render. That surrender is inevitable which I said in a recent dispatch, Africa, the Gambia, the Ruanda country is now (keep your eyes on Ruanda), and so forth. well-informed American interpreters of likely to have it to yourself. A big shell the general belief among you go along the road in a car you are Now if there were a preliminary Im the European struggle. The greater part dropped right in the road at the moment perial Council constituted in London, an egg from which the future Imperial Par fring-line, but is at home, feeling the along carrying a wounded man. The of Germany's population is not on the when a party of stretcher-bearers came lainent might be hatched; and if it were approach of a condition that is akin to shell just missed them, and they were laid down that not one square ruile of the malnutrition, if not actual starvation. Imperial territory aireatly annexed or

swallowed up in the eload of dust and temporarily occupied should have

débris. Onlookers took it for certain that they were gone, but slowly the dust cleared away and out of the haze emerged

estuary."

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PUTILE POLICY.

status altered, first, without the sanction. It is not only the masses of the people the stretcher bearers, not varying their of the Imperial Council, we could afford who are showing themselves dissastisfied pace, and apparently unaware that any to le pass without uneasiness rumours. aimilar to that, which beads this article with the militarists. If this were so thing had happened, intent only on hot

they managed to keep on, as you see them I myself asked a strecher-bearer how do, plodding methodically on regardless of shells around them and seemingly cop

He said at once; “ Why, when

It is inadvisable to make any territorial rioting, berdering on revolution, might jolting the wounded man whom they car changes in the existing Empire during be the only means of driving the Pensried. My informant said that their deli the distractions of war-time; but, if they sian militarists from power. The judg- berateness, as they came out of the swirl em unavoidable they must be con-ment of Americans is that financiers of dust and smoke, was one of the inost Aidered al sanctioned by elected or leading merchants, and some of the Kai- impressive things that he had seen in nominated representatives of the Empire, ser's principal statesmen are beginning the war. and not merely by Ministers of the Bri- to see the futilities of the militaristic tish Cabinet And the representation of spirit. These men are being counted on Crown Colonies, Protectorates, and the to direct the work of suppressing the mili Indian Empire must consist of genuine tarists by proving that Germany's vital representatives of these integral portions interests demand a change in governing cerned only with the care of the man they of the British Confederacy, either elected ideals. They are capable of adopting estry, by the people themselves or appointed a bold policy to save their own proper you've got a wounded man to carry back, by the Governor-in-Council, not merely ties from destruction; and this they can you can't think of anything but home officials or nominees of Govern not do unless they sove German from the believe it is true, ment Departments in London.

Such an Imperial Council, if the war

It is worth adding that the Casualty is to continue beyond this summer, would the militarists feel themselves going, and bearers mentioned above were carrying It is the belief of American judges that Clearing Station to which the stretcher- be an immense support to the British in the end will surrender passively, their man was that same night shelled out Cabinet in continuing the Imperial part abandoning all hane of dictating terms by the enemy. Whether he knew what he in the Allies struggle against the Ceu of peace on behalf of GermanȚ. tral European aggressors, and a safe the German Government will attempt to kept at it for six hours, from 11 p.m. to Then was shelling or not is not known, but he guard when peace negotiations begin mako pence for the economic benefit of 5 am, and killed some of the wounded. that no Imperial interest ill be sacri- the civilians, which will mean negotia- The next day the station was moved far ficed through lack of local knowledge, tions by business men and statesinen ther back, where it now is, beyond reach through failure to consider all the factors without (harkening to the mutterings of of anything but aeroplane bombs. of the situation. The Daily Mail.

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