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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19TH 1918.

GEBMAN ANTI-WAR LEAFLET. SENSATIONS IN AEROPLANE

FIERCE INCITEMENT TO REVOLT.

WORKERS MISLED, WRONGED AND

STARVING

returned from lease.

ate enemies have blockaded ' us.

Come

CRIME OF PROVOKING THE WAR.

FLIGHT

VIVID DESCRIPTION

[BY E. P. BELL OF THE CHICAGO DAILY

NEWS

THRILLS IN THE AIR.

flanking food

** TOMMY, JACQUES, AND

BEPPO

THE MEN CONTRASTED,

[BY LORD WORTHOLIFFE ]

so few that they cannot be classified with the mighty Armies of France and Great Britain and the great Army of Italy

Own.

he

TALKS WITH GERMAN PRISONERS,

TYPES OF FIRST LINE TROOPS.

An officer serving on the Bomme front weites

GOVERNOR OF WARSAW ON CUTLER PALMER & CO'S.

FUTURE OF POLAND. GERMANY AS " A FOSTERING.

FATHER

General von Heseler, Governor-General of Warsaw, has been addressing his of the creation of Warsaw as a German officers and officials on the anniversary administrative centre

and drore 25 Dreadnoughts back to the

quence to such an extent as the marvel- entire situation stirs the General's clo English coasts. But nothing in the

lous journey of the Deutschland. from Baltimore to Bromen. That was almost the biggest blow suffered by the English

thinks that the hearers may be of good since the beginning of the war. Engli

Summing up the situation, Beseler conrage. Germany and her allica num- ber from 180 to 200 millions, and they are opposed by 700 millions. It is not, however, numbers that count, but intel- ligence. "I am firmly convinced," he meates our armies is that spirit which is concluded, "that the spirit which por- to dominate the world, hot in the sense ploiting it for our own benefit, but in of miserably subjecting it, not by ek the spirit of a free development of man- kind in all realms of human activity.”

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A Socialist anti-war leaflet, entitled "Hunger," is being circulated broadcast in Germany. It is remarkable for its Mounting on tremendous wings, with bitterness and its language of frank in an almost deafening whirr, from one of

To speak of our British Tommy-with I've had an extremely interesting citement Evidently it is being distri- the busiest aerodromes in Britain, I had whom, of course, I include his Austral-afternoon to day interrogating German buled widely among the troops, for the my flight. It took places on a warm, asian and Canadian cousins-tht French prisoners First and foremost, we had copies of if that have reached Holland misty, sun spangled day, with occasional Jacques, and the Italian Beppo as the folds of mud ankle-deep to the concen-military character, but in a very short He began by pointing out that at first to plough our way through the rain over the task imposed on him was of a purely are all from soldiers. One copy of the great shifting clouds. My companion leaflet was brought to a Dutch newspaper was Fight Commander Captain Gthree chief Allied fighting on the western tration camp where the prisoners were, time affairs were such that ameliorativo by a deserter. Another was thrown over one of the most brilliant pilota in Eng front is not to overlook that other heroic trenches, only having been taken a few though the smoke of powder still lay on They were absolutely fresh from the measures could be introduced," "even the wire entanglements along the Dutch land and a man who repeatedly, has met figure, the Belgian Jean. In numerical days ago, frontier by a German soldier recently the Germans above their lines at Ypres,

the land, and the fields still smoked with The lesfiet, which is printed on lurid

"Let us try to go through it somewhat comparison the brave little Belgians are The first one I spoke to was a Jager of blood. He takes great credit for the red paper, reads as follows:--

in detail. The 90 hp motor, tested on

the 28th Berlin Regiment. He didn't work already done, and next to provid- What was expected, has

full throttle is slowed down; mechanics

speak English. I asked him a questioning for the German army in the neigh Hunger In Leipzig, in Berlin, in haut away the chocks before the rubber

or two in my limited German. He was bourhood his first care has been the Charlottenburg, in Brunswick, Magde- tired ground wheels; the pilot, turning burs, Koblenz and Osnabruck, as well as the machine round into the wind, opens I am writing ouly of the soldiers whom allowance his wife receives from the hand of a German administration was 31 years old, and had a wife and two welfare of the people, been the children in Berlin. The separation

In time the fostering and protecting in many other places, disorders caused by up the engine, and we skin across the I have seen in action. It has not been German Government is 1 mark 50 pfen felt. What we have done has not thet the hungry masses have occurred before aerodrome like a gigantic swallow my pleasure to accompany the Russians. the shops dealing in foodstuffs. And Within a hundred yards, having leapt those responsible for this state of things to a speed of fifty miles an hour, the and the brave young men who have been at the front since the outbreak of people. We have made the attempt by In point of pure chivalry I set Tommy (sd.) for each of the children, He had are not anxious for the applause of these pigs (18. 6d.) per day and 50 pfennige the wishes of many in the land, but wo have no other remedy for the hungry aeroplane quits the earth imperceptibly swarmed from the Dominions on the top masses than a state of siege, police No sooner has she done so than one of a very high pedestal. Tomans in not war, and, was vory glad he had been means of a justa even though at times swords and military patrols.

Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg blames opponent. This opponent, exerting & own land. His mother, wife, and call of the soldier Germany Brat put in the querors, but a fostering father, and that and oneself at grips with an invisible fighting for the immediate defenor of his made a prisoner. He was quite an in-severe, government to convince the coun- England for the evils at present existing strange oppressiveness upon the brain, is dren are

telligent looking chap-evidently typical try that we are not sold hearted con- in Germany, and the advocates of the the aviator's inveterate antagonist, reTommy highting for the defence of Surrey on his own soil But sére

feld.

it is our own sim to give it back its continuation of the war to the bitter end, sistance. As the speed increases, the or Yorkshire, of Scotland, Wales, or Ire as well as the supporters of the Govern machine thrusting her nose upwards, and land, he could not fight with greater who was a Feldwebel (equivalent to our

We then passed on to another chap nationality, after 140 years of servitude."

THE TASK OP THE FUTURE." ment, repeat this pratile. Nevertheless, resolutely lying over against her long spirit, with more steadiness than he is sergeant major) in a regiment of Beneral Beseler felt rather, undecided the German Government must know that spiral climb, resistance is reinforced, doing on the Somme and in the Flanders infantry from the Rhine. He spoke and avoided prophecy. "We do not yet Speaking of the fask before him. this state of things was bound to come Then what has happened! What is trenches to-day. about. War against Russia, France, and the meaning of this comparative softness

little English, which he had learnt at know for certain what will happen. England was bound to lead to the isola of sound, this feeling of magical light pected character, even to those who lish front. He was a very fir-looking turn out, for it still rages on all fronts, Tommy has proved an altogether unex-school and had picked up on the Eng. We do not even know how the way wil 10 of rear makers lament that degener-ness, this delicions sense of reliet thought they knew him. He is not in the chap-very smart and soldierlike. but I will say that with the help of

of Germany,

But With some difficulty, in my deep, narrow least like Kipling's soldiers, who repre- wasn't glad to be a prisoner, he said, God we may regard the situation every why pursue such a course in politics as scat, I turn and look back at the hooded sented a differs from all the soldiers ently ruler of the roost among the other of the Russians, one after the other, are will inevitably lead to a blockade! and goggled captain. On his bronzed, which fast generation. One essential typically arrogant Hun, and ovid

where as hopeful. We see how the attacks definite festares is a reassuring smile of the world is his neatness and smart-prisoners, for they were very respectful shattered. We see the superhuman This criminal provocation of the All is well. We merely have gained anness. Neatness and smartness are akin to to him when he spoke to them. I thought efforts of our troops in the West and world war was followed by further altitude of 1,000 ft and are enjoying life physical well-being, that is to say, health, at the time he typified the Unter Offizier stand amazed and admiring at what blunders,

The Government has done on an even keel. I stare at the earth and with armies, as with cities, health one used to read about when disclosures they are accomplishing, and how they nothing to prevent the present starvation We rise rapidly-shoot up. Though comes first. of the masses. Why has it done nothing strapped in, I grip a solid bar in front

were made in the papers about the treat smash one attack after the other. The Because the Goverment clique, the capi- of me with one hand, and cling to the conditions, his love of singing and music, non-commissioned officers to their sub and leave frightful becatombs of dead ARROW COLLARS

Tommy's amazing cheerfulness under all ment meted out by German officers and British and French storm their positions taliste, the Junkers, speculators in food-sido of my seat with the other... stuffs, do not suffer as the masses of the i

aften indeed of curiously, sentimental ordinates. His manner, whilst extremely behind them. And what have they ac people suffer. On the contrary, they "Whew! Surely this time we are right wounded man he is notoriously one of the got me here, but there a plenty of others wretched portion of the country, and in grow richer through the hanger of the over! But we are not. Captain G most remarkably light-hearted and merry- who wat Buish you off When ques front of them rise gigantic bulwarks, melodies, has come as a surprise. As a respectful to us, clearly suid, You've complished They have occupied a people.

is merely banking her hand to show how faced hospital inmates yet known. IF from the outset of the war serious quickly she can turn upon an enemy to an infantry soldier he maintains to be said he was sure the Germans would terrible."

Astioned as to what he thought of the war, where their fate will be still more measures had been taken to prevent the right. Then I feel I literally the high credit given him by Napoleon win and that the war would be over by hunger and misery, the gravity of the situation would have been revealed to the am losing my head in the operation he and the Duke of Wellington in the wars Christmas He admitted that one of the officers and officials of the miracles per- The Governor-General then reminde his for the war would have soon cooled how swiftly she can double back to meetness and bulldog tenacity there is no one that the Wurtembergers, Saxons, and attacked the much stronger British Navy I Meanwhile the masses of the people were

to approach him, fases, and we do a straight

other Germanic peoples disliked the benumbed by Victories and Triumphs,

In the horrible days of the early part Prussians intensely. though all the time they were being climb into the west Immediately before of the war, when we were practically un- delivered into the hands of agrarian anda, as we sharply rise, is a great loose provided with shells or guns, he stood who was quite willing to talk. He had We then wandered on to another men, capitalist food exploiters.

textured, brownish cloud, Bebind it, the appalling German artillery bombard-been a waiter in the grill of the Savoy With the ory of Hold through where the suu is blazing, we catch went in the trenches round Ypres for days for four years, and so spoke very good (Durchhalten), by which the Schiedemann glimpses of a vague, golden immensity in a manner that made the Huns think English. He was a Berliner with a wife group and its supporters are rendering The cloud's whole soft periphery is on him almost superhuman. To day now tempt was made to cause the masses to jestile might have pierced its wo pierce which he is a master, he come into his the infantry. He had the Iron Cross, great service to the Government, an at- fire. I hold my breath. As a great pro- that he is provided with guns of all kinds and family, he had boon at the front and especially with bombs, in throwing since the outbreak of war, and was in lose their cool common-sense. The ruling the huge brownish mass. In the twink- classes do not wish to give up their madling of an eye the mantle is burs

2nd class, for two years' distinguished plans as to annexation of territory, and asunder, and we shoot forth into the the people are defrauded into the belief blinding rays of the sun

He is a particular man is Tommy, both old service. He was surprised when as to his appearance and this food, and taken prisoner by si na hesaid they that, if Germany can dictate peace terms her influence in future will be predomi: again are on an even keel. Our sea is

con regain my sight we the infinite variety of his dist is a credit ad on the British were opposing

to his taste as a gourmet and some small thom; they thought they were still den waveless. The uproar of engine and pro- knows it is impossible to repay our men Germans feared us far more than any tribute on the part of a nation which ing with the French. He said that the We have been told lies as to the Ger poller is hushed. Our boat is steady as

for their daily ancrifices in France, in one else. He said also that the German man U boats cutting off England's supa rock. One finds the flight growing on plies; and that England will be brought one. At first, the faculties were frozen other odd places in which they are hold and they never thought England would Mesopotamia, in Africa, and in the many people entered into war very reluctantly go against them. He was unfeignedly glad to he a prisoner, and did not hesitate to say so. Before being taken revelation of the war. Somehow or other and biscuits for soveral days they Jacques, the French poilu, is also a he had lived on cold coffee, bully beef, we had got it into our heads that Jacques couldn't get anything, hot because our was chiefly good in spirited attacks. But strafe " what a lesson this war has been in the many things which I cannot write, but

prevented i He said also "NARROWED AND LONGER.". astounding obstinacy, and toughness of which were very interesting to us. He the French Jacques!

Before the Anthropological section of At the word said there was undoubtedly a shortage the British Association a plea for a Verdan" every fever of the Allied cause of food in Berlin due to our blockade. physical census of the British people was mightiest artillery in the world has thun now, anyway, as we

forward by Processor dered at its gates, of dust. Absurd is the only word for Jacques, in his pale blue coat and his More Fleisch

saw their food when he lectured on Recent Modifica the auto, and the appraise the pas pale-blue steel helmet, has defed gun months, he said. Their sleeping accom- definite changes began to affect the pre- For six months cooking; and, by Jove 1 it was excellent. tions in the Facial Type of the English

People" then they'd had for

After the Norman Conquest, he said, sengers ag. miserable Asia Minor, in consequence of which the Envisaging & long freight train on a tion. I claim that Verdun is the greatest modation was excellent; in fact, all vailing type of the English countenance.

sandhoppers.nery that has been forty years in prepara Turkish Government cannot even feed its great railway, you burst into laughter. victory in the war and that Germany darned sight better than they treat our become opened out and rounded. Arany,

arrangements were. We treat them a The bony frame of the eye sockets had Now they would console us with the Its place is in a corner of a nursery failure to take it has had more effect chaps, there's not the slightest doubt of cheek bones, in particular, had been The Irrespect of the coming harvest; all our Aud Yet the earth is very beautiful-ntral countries than any land operi cha misery will end immediately the corn is much more beautiful than you ever had tion that has happened since August 1814.

the thing the gathered. This is also a deliberate mia- dreamed,

I think the thing that impressed us they had lost their prominence and an-

modified. In 50 per cent, of Englishmen DON'T WAIT Jacques' habits are altogether different most was the iron discipline. When we gularity. The decadence of the cheek statement, and a simple calculation will

"Embarking upon s fresh series of from those of our men, and in many ways passed any of them even at quite a dis bones was simply part of the general re- prove it so. In the course of 22 months movements, we dropped theoretical bombs his character does not resemble ours. In tance they came to attention until weduction which was affecting all the parts of war the produce of two harvest has practice shots signalled to the ground such homely, simple matters as a chanson had passed, and I was speaking to the which were concerned in the act of chew- been consumed besides great quantities by wireless at a target in the middle of or a fragment of harmonised veree the Feldwebel for quito 20 minutes and being of cattle. fodder; sugar, and other food-a lake. For bombing practice we made differences in national characteristics may stood to attention the whole time and stuffs, which had been accumulated prior dead straight drives at uniform speeds French soldier are quite different from didn't move a muscle. It just shows prising changes related to the skeleton of often be revealed. The songs of the

One of the most unexpected and sur to the outbreak of war. Besides all this and heights over a camera obscura 1,000 oars, As often as not they sing old what their own officers expect and get the nose, There was to be seen in there was also what could be requisitioned ft. beneath us. Instead of dropping French war chansons, in the occupied territory of Belgium, bombs, the pilot fires a cartridge pistol. merry enough, bivouacking and in billets, there wearing the black and white ribbon modern skulls a change in the bones of

Our men are from them. There were several men + very considerable proportion Northern France, Poland, Lithuania, the The observer in the obscura notes the but marching along the poplar-lined roads of the Iron Cross, Snd class, and one man in pre medieval skulls. Baltic Provinces, and Berbia, and also the smoke, and by what Captain G call in France, as I have so often seen them a Red Cross man, has been recom consisted in the formation of a thin the nasal aperture which was never seen foodstuffs imported from Holland and the

This change "simple calculation," but by what of late, they have the serious mien of mended for an English decoration for sharp, marginal plate of bone all round andinavian countries...

there is nothing more. The ou the observer, plotting on paper the image foreign commentators for centuries past. under sell fire after being taken pris- tion which tended to make the aperture should call some sorcery of mathematics, Englahmen which has been noted by gallantry in tending rounded English the edge of the psal apertures forme eupied countries are depleted to the of the machine as it passes over the atmost people are already dying of camert, ascertains by how much, if any, and very good marchers they are, and told. He was quite a lad, too, certainly

The French march with a quicker steponer. At least, that's what we were narrow getting starvation in Poland and Serbia, Neutral countries are also closing their the bomb would have missed the mark throw out their jokes right and left tu not more than 20

akull referred to the jaws, gums, palate, The most definite changes in the modern Frontiers, as they are themselves begin- We try our hand at aerial telegraphy every passer-by, and especially when a ning to suffer from lack of food. Our and photography. We fly past a battle pretty girl is in sight. I once drove be years of war, so they weren't poor and in every fifteenth modern man were All the men had seen practically two and teeth. In every tenth modern woman home harvest cannot supply very much aeroplane, with a grim-looking aviator hind a very fat chauffeur through the looking men, as they comprised part of to be seen deficiencies in the development on account of the fields having been in manipulating a Lewis gun in the prow. French lines, and the poor man was the first troops Germany put into the of the jaws, contractions of the palate, sufficiently tilted through deficiency of We witness formation dying, in which almost chatted off his seat by the peilus, fald. labour, of manure, and of seeds. The half a dozen machines, piloted at a stiff All this strength, energy, and jocularity wounded and all of them looked worn which were absolutely unknown in Eng Some of them were slightly irregularities and diseases of the teeth, quantity of cattle available for food is pace through d'vers evolutiona, are quali is largely produced by soup and bread out, as they've had a dence of a time land in pre-Roman times. Indeed, they small. It is now too late for a food fy ng for squadron fighting in the Big with a comparatively small modicum of from us, if you read your Times of did not become at all common until dictator to provide for equitable distri- Push.

quite bution. The foodstuff exploiters have.

SIGHTY-SIX MILES AN HOUR,

August 25th, you'll appreciate that,

recent centurica. accomplished their work. Even if con- "Turning homewards, we finally dis soup just as much as our men hate it. The French and Italian soldiers love

Recently he had carried out a minute strained they could do nothing, for there cern the sheds of the aerodrome.

comparison of the skulls of fifty people is not now sufficient food to distribute to engine shut off, we glide earthwards at leaf out of the book of our French and seven months in the year a degree of conquest, with fifty skulls of people who

The In winter time I think we might take a

who lived in England before the Norman satisfy the people.

a speed quickly rising from sixty to Italian friends and try some of their cold rarely felt in any part of the United lived in London during the eighteenth "This is the plain truth. The people is checked.

more than 300 miles an hour. Our speed excellent and strenghening soups, in Kingdom. He has been patient for years and early part of the nineteenth cen have been incited to war, in consequence aerodrome at the height of the neigh cheese play a large part, as also of tunste in the possession of one of the could be seen and estimated in this com- We are at the edge of the which rice, macaroni, and Parmesan He comes of patient stock, and he is for turies. All the changes he had spoken of of which supplies have been cut off bouring houses. Suddenly Captain course, plenty of meat, onions, and other greatest generals of the war. He means parison. The English taco had become Capitalist criminals, with the connivance opens the throttle, and we rush horizon, vegetables of the Government. have lone the rest. tally over the aerodrome at 86 miles a

to get rid of the Austrian menace once arrowed and longer. What is to be expected in the future hour. Then the seroplane's nose is up-

and for all.. We may carry on the war for half a year lifted, and her momentum shoots her

His aid to cheerfulness is often the Beppo, the typical Italian soldier, guitar. At the beginning of the war the Austrians, referred to the Italians scorn very smart grey clothes, and fully these mandolinists," By this

nant.

U-BOAT AND OTHER LIES.

44. Before

FRENCH TOUGHNESS.

to har knees and the war the ended. they are beginning to thaw At rating up the Flag and crashing the Hun These are fairy tales only fit for the ears there were no separate impressions just of little children. The submarine war an all-inclusive, tyrannous sensation of fare only makes fresh enemies for Ger-strangeness, oppression, danger. You many, and it is impossible to cut off Eng- ask yourself whatever induced you to land's supplies, even if Germany had ten leave so heavenly a place as the earth. times as many submarines as she at pre-But little by little the earth has lost its sent possesses,

omnipotent attraction. You have broken its spell, as the butterfly breaks ite chrysalis. You see, you think, in the a'r.

Further, we were told that the attack on the Balkans, would give Germany a chance of relieving the situation, as Tür- key would be able to supply abundant foodstuffs. This was a deliberate lie, because all who are well informed know quite well that Turkey cannot supply anything, there being a lack of food both in Constantinople, and on the coast of

STARVATION

or a whole year longer, but meantime the

Feed

* Men

BORCERY OF MATHEMATICS

"You catch sight of a nautomobile on a white road, behind it a shrapnel-puff

again is shut off, and highly practised

ITALIAN ENDURANCE.

41

CHANGED ENGLISH FACES

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01

His chief reason for drawing attention was to urge the need of a physical survey to these changes in our facial constitution sad of the British people. Some years ago there was said to be a dearth of men

people will slowly die of hanger, in which high into the blue. We swing round the French, very smart similar to that of the event the coming generation will be sacri aerodrome to meet the wind, the engine immensely strong. He has done most of time they know that the man with they fit to serve in the Army. Wai

and wan

women of the wage earning skill causes us to flatten out just before the heavy work in the United States and mandoline is also the man with the big were taller, stronger, and braver than now that our men were fit. They class, it is with us that the responsibility touching the ground, and so land almost many parts of Canada for the last quar lies! One way or the other Either the as gently as a rowboat ships into still ter of a century. Come of a nation that gan, the bomb, and the bayonet, any generation of their ancestor But missses of wage earners will persevere in water."

has given the world some pi» te best

Beppo is a fine fighter, a quick when the proper time came it would be their stupid stolidity, the consequence of

masons and quarrymen, we are not our digger, a master of Alpine warfare, and extremely important to know what pro- which will be a long proceGS of misery.

prised to find him a wonderful trench an expert B. He has only been in war portion of men were rejected because they dase and death for the wage earners There is no other way out. We must act the find best that neither the Englishing all sorts of tricks and devices of his here could be no doubt, however, that

builder and road maker. He is able to or After months, and he is daily leam were physically and presunds will exert themselves and refuse their various to the Government and the ruling your will prevail! Down with the war long. And he can, and does, enduro for the Austrians, angeries, and the rest were not changes which were, for our Come forth men and women Leben nor Frenchman Could endure for own He was badly prepared ass phrules changed were taking place in elpas forcing them to make peace. Long live the international solidarity of

were at the pathet. To inglas is giving English people, and some of them (Continued af foot of nest Column.) the wage earning classes!"

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