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GERMANY THE AGGRESSOR

A REMINDER TO NEUTRALS.

FOREIGN MINISTER'S PLAIN WORDS.

At a luncheon given in his honour by the Foreign Press Association in London, un October 23rd, Viscount Grey said:- Let me say to you all that, in a tits of war such as this, we all value the pre- sence amongst us of a body of men bc-

longing to other countries, both Allied and neutral, who will faithfully repry sent what they find to be our feeling; who will send out to the world a faithful picture of this country in the great struggle through which it is passing, who will speak the truth and who, if they en succeed not only in speaking the truth, which is comparatively easy, but in getting the truth believed through the world at large, will have rendered the greatest possible service we can ask of them. (Chocre,)

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1918

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statement in the Press the otter dus that a German albeer had recognized that. Germany had failed this time, int that in 10 years she was going to succeed failure? It was to be short successful was the plang what was the

war. There was a time-table-so long to get to Paris; so long to defeat France; So long afterwards to defeat Russia and as to England, the plan was that England should be kept out of the war, but if England did enter the war it was not thought that the Expeditionary Force we had available would be enough apset the enemy's plans. People who are militarists, whose ideas and thoughts run solely on military considerations, wholly material, forget to estimate and cannot estimate the spirit and the soul which exists in nations when they are attacked and are fighting for their lives. The plan was that France and Russia were to be defeated, England was to be isolated-and disgraced,

work in neutral countries to which was Lehould all look with favour and with hope. Only bear this in mind, if the nations in the world after the war are to do something more effective than they have been able to do before, to hind them--

undertake more than they are prepared selves together for the common object of peace, they must be prepared, not to

time of crisis comes that it is upheld to uphold by force, and to see when the by force. (Cheers.) In other words, wo my to neutrals who are occupying them- selves with this question that we are in

favour of it. But we shall have to nak when the time comes for them to make any demand on us for such a thing." Will you play up when the time comes? manual of Sovereigns or Presidents that It is not merely a Rign

worth while; it must also have behind, it is required to make a thing like that Parliaments and national sentiment

The object of this league is to insist upon treaties being kept and some other settlement being tried before resort to war. In July, 1014, there was no such league in existence. Supposing a genera- tion hence such a condition of things na in July, 1914, recura and there is such a league in existence, it may and it ought to keep the peace. Everything will de pend upon whether the national senti- inent behind it is so penetrated by the lessons of this war as to feel that in the future each nation although not immedi- atcly concerned in this dispute, is yet interested, and vitally interested, in doing something, even if it be by force,

We must never forget, as we go through this war, that an offer was made to us to keep out of the war. We were asked by the German Government to engage to romain neutral on certain conditions, We were asked to condone the violation of the neutrality of Belgium-because that was what the offer came to--though they were pledged by treaty to uphold it. And we were asked to give Germany free hand to take whatever she liked of the French Colonies. That is why I say the plan was not only to isolate us, but to discredit us. I would ask any neutralto keep the peace. to put it to himself, What would be the future of this country if the British Government had for a moment accepted such an offer? We might have had the contempt of the whole world. Tactics so gross as that did not succeed, and I need not recall what the raply of the British Government was, nor what the spirit of the nation was at the opening of the war. (Cheers.)

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This afternoon for a few moments. I would like to talk, not about the con ditions of peace, which can only be stated and formulated by the Allies all together and not by any one of them separately, but about the general object which the Alls must secure in this war. To do that I would ask you to recall that we must never forget how the war came about. If we are to approach the subject in proper spirit it can only be by re- calling, and never for one moment, for getting, want was the real cause of the war. (Cheers.). Some people say you need not go back on the old ground now; everybody knows it! You cannot go back on it too often. It affects the conditions of peace. Germany talks of Her statesmen talk of peace to-day, but what sort of peace do ther talk 1 Oh, they say, Germany must have guarantees against being attacked again. If this war had been forced upon Germany that would be a logical state ment. It is precisely because it was not forced upon Germany, but forced by Germany upon Europe that it is the Allies who must have guarantees for fubuck to the expectations of her Govern- ture peace. In July, 1914, no one thought of attacking Germany. It is said that Bussis was the first to mobilize. That I understand is what is represented in Germany as a justification for the state ment that the war was not an aggressive war on Germany's part, but was forced upon ber. Russin never made the mobili- zation of which Germany complained until after Germany had refused the con- ference, and she never made it until after a report had appeared in Germany that Germany had ordered mobilization and that report had been telegraphed to What is the spirit in which the war is Petrograd. As a matter of fact, it was being carried on by the Allies and our the story of 1870 over again prepare-selves to-day? I take it from the words would have believed possible if the tion for war, not only the preparation of the Prime Minister the other daydermans had not begun it, which anbody thrown to the winds. This is a matter "We shall fight until we have estab-thought of using till the Germans began in which the whole human rape ia lished supremacy or right over fore,

it In the Gallipoli Peninsula neither interested. free development under equal conditions, and each in accordance with its own Benius, of all States, great and small, which build up the family of civilized mankind." (Cheers:)

of material, but the preparatory stages all advanced in Berlin to a point beyond that of any other country, and then when the chosen monent came manœuvre was made to provoke some other country to take a defensive step, and when the defensive step was taken, then to receive it with an ultimatum which made war inevitable.

GERMANY'S WILL TO WAR,

But there must be more than that. You must have some agreement after this war is over as to the methods under which the war is to be conducted. (Cheers) Germany complains of our methods in this war. She complaing of nur blockade, From the very beginning Germany did her utmost to prevent food roaching this country. In the early stages of the was she sank two neutral ships with food for this country. It does not lie with her to complain of our blockade. But what about other methods which had been introduced-the sowing of mines indiscriminately upon the high seas, a danger equally to neutrals and to belligerents; the pouring of shells into defenceless coast towns--because you

according to the German official com- muniqué, to convert an Allied town on the coast, into a fortress is not the posi tion of guns in it or the presence of troops, but merely the fact that she was fired upon by a German cruiser. (Laughter.) Then there is the use of poisonous gas in war, which nobody

We should not think merely of what Germany says to-day it is worth looking ment and people when the war started. Then we saw something of their real mind; there was a certain Professor Ostwald in Germany, who unburdened himself, I think to an American, in August, 1914. He called himself a paci it, and this is what he described a their aims. Germany was to dictatest remember that what is required, peace to the rest of Europe, and the principle of the absolute sovereignty of individual nations must be given up.

Don't let us forget that that was the spirit in which this war was begun.

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it anywhere. That has been brought into Bay by day it is brought home to us the war. Then there is the sinking of that here and in the countries of the merchant vessels, with the destruction of | Allies there are hundreds of thousand the passengers and crews; the acty.com of homes to which, indeed, victory may Into this struggle we have put, rightly torritory in the occupation of Germany, but to which it can never bring just the nitted in Belgium and other Allied bring a sense of pride and satisfaction, The same thing with the invasion of ms in Germany, and the whole plan of our wealth; all our material; and all investigation and which have been the in these homes before the war.

some of which have been the subject of same gladness and joy in life that was Belgium. Strategic railways had been and necessarily, all our resources; all

One our labour. Now, when we have had subject of investigation and report, young life after another goes to the campaign of the German staff was to

time to equip and train a large Army, we reach of all the laws and conventions of front, mounts in spirit the heights of attack through Belgium, and now it is

are putting into it all the best life's war and all the most elementary dictates nobleness and courage to which in ordi- represented that they had to attack blood of the nation to shed it on the through Belgium because other people Continent, side by side with our Allics,

of humanity.

nary times · Even a long life gives no had planned to attack through Belgium. in emulation of them, stimulated by the And one thing more, of which we hear heights many of them pass away, leaving opportunity of attaining. And on those I would like nothing better than to see

courage and self-sacrifice which they little, very little, and do not know the often some record of the spirit with

We strongly recommend every men and those statements that the Russian

woman reader of this paper, who is thin, mobilization was an aggressive and not themselves are showing in defence of

full story. Since the outbreak of war, which they have met their death, which pale, weak or run down, or who has lest defensive measure, and that any other their own country. We are doing it

since Turkey entered the war, she has makes us doubly proud of them, although his or her buoyant, youthful energy, or Power than Germany had trafficked in because we know that their cause and been the vassal of Germany, Enough has it adds to the poignancy of grief and who suffers from loss of appetite, or from the neutrality of Belgium or planned to future we tall or stand together; that there has gone on and is going on, in succeeded by others, and yet by others, new, scientifically compounded prepara ours is one; that to the end and for the leaked through to make it clear that sense of sorrow and loss. They are debility, either servous or Physical, to try attack through Belgium-I would like the separation of one from the other is Turkey on a scale unprecedented, and and will be as long as the effort is re- to see those statements investigated be the destruction of the one separated, with horrors unequalled before, an at- quired-a long procession from all our

tion called Sargol. fore any independent and impartial and its safety, and that for all of us tempt to exterminate the Christian po countries of men who die but who do don't get enough to eat, but that they do The trouble with most people who appear like " a bag of bones" is not that they tribugal.

unity is essential, ast merely to victory, pulation; horrore which Germany could not fail, because their life and the assimilate what they do eat. They but to our futuro life and success. Ger- have prevented, and which could only manner of their death is & glorious

have gone on with her toleration. Perhaps success.

simply go through the natural mations of German organization is very succesful many has been trying throughout the war

to superate one from the other-now one, some day some neutral nation who knows

eating, but the flesh-giving part of what in some things, but in nothing more now another. Not a week passes that the full story will make it known to the its life, but it is giving it that the older assimilated, and consequently does not do This generation in ita prime is giving they eat just pastes away without being successful than in preventing the truth does not confirm our resolve to go world. All these things have been hap generation now among us may live out them any good. from reaching their own people, and through with our Allies to the end, and pening during this war, and what a succeeding ip presenting to them a point theirs to go through with each other. I prospect it opens for the future! Are its years after this war in peace, freedom, Bargol helps digest your food and side of view which is not that of the truth trust that the memory of the suffering all the resources of science to continue and honour, and that the generation in its nasimilation. There is no need for the statement that the war was forced we have undergone together, the memory to be devoted after this war to invent which is now children, and the genera you to be a "skinny" and go around with upon Germany.

When England Prof the joint courage, which is carrying means of destroying the human race,

tions who are yet to come, may enjoy that pinched, hungry, hall-fed lock any posed the conference Russia, France, and Italy accepted the conference; when four side by side, will be a perpetual boad

us through all that we have been through with no restriction upon their use? It life and develop the national life, free longer. Sargol will make you plump, sleek Powers offer a conference and one Power of alliance and sympathy between oar

is a prospect which threatens civilization from the stifling oppression or the and fit a fiddle."

domination of Prussian militarism. For refuses it, is it the Powers who are Government and peoples.

and existence of the race itself.

years before this war we were living un~ offering the conference which are forcing

Germany, in letting loose these things, der the deepening abadow of Prussian war, or the Power which refuses it? The

has been the great snarchist who has ici militarism extending itself over the whole Emperor of Russia offered The Hague

Locking to the future after the war, One Sovereign offers That is it that neutrals can do! Tribunal.

loose on the world a greater and more Continent. There must be no end to thia The terrible anarchy than any individualar, no peace except a peace which is Hague Tribunal and another ignores it. other day a correspondent sounded me anarchist ever dreamed of. (Cheers.) In going to ensure that the uations of Is it the Sovereign who offers reference upon the subject of what neutrals can to The Hague who is forcing warf On do I wrote in reply: I believe the of restraining it, will by the develop freedom. (Cheera) For that we are con- clean as it should be in the morning. If

future war, unless there is some means Europe live in the future free from that shadow in the open air in the light of the very eve of war Franco gave her

ment of science be made even more tor- pledge to respect the neutrality of Belbest work that neutrals can do for the

rible and horrible than this war has been, tending. We know that if mankind has not let gium if Germany would not violate it moment is to work up an opinion for

because Germany has thrown down all any birthright, as we believe it has We asked for such a pledge. Was it the such an agreement between nations as

will prevent a war like this from the barriors which civilization previously birthright to peace and to liberty, then the Power which gave the pledge which united in such an agreement, and prompt Power which naked for the pledge and happening again. If nations had been built up so as to keep the horrors of war our cause is that and right, because it is

within bounds. were responsible for the violation of the and resolute to insist in July, 1914, that

Neutral ions have for that we are fighting. an interest in seeing that something is neutrality of Belgium, or the Power the dispute must be referred to a condone to ensure that there shall be rules struggle to be continued?" we can but help you. They dispel Constipation, cor-

When they ask us, "How long is the which refused to give the pledge? Belgiumn knowe, as well as every French-ference or to The Hague, and that the which shall be kept in future wars-reply that it must be continued till these rect torpid liver, bad breath, foul tongue, man and Englishman, that never at any would have been no war." I would ask supported that it will be clear that any that the present generation in its prime

Belgian Treaty must be observed, there rules which shall be so laid down and things are secured, and if it be hard bilious headaches. As gentle as nature.

Of all chemists, or #3 onto the phial, time was there a suggestion that French neutrals to observe this-that belligerent nation which departs from them will be should be called on to sacrifice all, it post tree from Dr. Williams Medicino or English soldiers should enter Belgium countries, engaged in war, fighting as regarded by the whole world as the is for the sake of the future of the nation, 96, Szechuan Road, Shanghai. unless it were to defend Belgium from we are today in a struggle for life and enemy of the human race, and have the and the generations that come after. It the violation of her neutrality, which had death, fighting, it is true, for victory, whole world against them.

is our determination, which the progress first bean undertaken by Germany.

SHAKE OFF THE CLUTCH with increasing prospects of seeing that Why was it that all the efforts to avoid victory approaching nearer, but still sires to destroy great cities, to destroy our Allies, to continue the war catil we of rheumatism, the greatest enemy to the

The indiscriminate use of high explo of the war but deepens, in common with: the war in July, 1914, failed? Well, knowing that if we step short of victory combatants and non-combatants alike, all have made it certain that the Allies in peace of man. because you cannot have peace without good will, and because in Berlin there we stop short of everything nations those things which have been done in this common shall have achieved the success

engaged in such a struggle cannot be ex- was the will to war and not the willpected to have much time to spend upon the introduction perhaps of diseaseft they have secured the future peace of the sider any one of the thousands of cures

war, the introduction of poisonous gas, which must and ought to be theirs, until to. peton. (Cheers) Now just lately

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think to an American, the Crown Prince after victory is secured. But neutrals belligerente but of neutrals, after this have made it clear that all the sacrifices Many of those caned were told by their has deplored the loss of life caused by can do it, and it is interesting to observe war is over, to see that the barriers we have made shall not have been in physicians that there was no hope. They this war. Yet it was because we knew the attitude, not only of President what the suffering of war must be, be Wilsco, but Mr. Hughes

necessary to secure that the inventions of rain (Cheers.)

had resigned themselves to live of rack- cause we knew how terrible a thing war,

scienco are used in the future in the The French Ambassador (M. Pauling torture-painfilled hours of woe and In the United States a league has let loose in Europe, would be that we

air, on the land, in the water and under Cambon) said the enemy now went so misery. They had not thought relief tried to avoid it in 1914. Then was the already sprung up, supported by various the water, not for the destruction of far as to say that Lord Grey in London possible. Then they heard of LITTLE'S time to have been penetrated with a sense distinguished people, with the object, not menkind, but for its welfare to ree that prepared for aggression upon Germany. ORIENTAL, BALM With every of all that, war would mean, After we of interfering with belligerents in this all nations shall recognize some respon- Lord Grey had dealt with this paradox, application their pain grow less their have had this terrible experience, our war, but of getting ready for some inter-sibility to prevent outbreaks of war, and and those who knew him had cause to swellings went down, their jointa Allies and ourselves are determined that national association, after this war is that if there be war, it shall be conduct smile when he was accused of preparing straightened out they were free-free as the war shall not end till we can be sure, over, which shall do its part in making ed by rules at least na humane those aggression of any kind. Neither in pri- you can be. at any rate, that the generations which peace secure in future. I would like to which our anocators observed and which jezab nor public life had Lord Grey ever

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