SLAVE RAIDS IN BELGIUM.
NEW GERMAN BARBARITIES:
AN APPEAL TO NEUTRALS.
The following information, which is of an absolutely trustworthy character, has reached us (says The Times) from various sources in regard to a system of slave raiding which has been put into force during the last six weeks by the authorities in
Belgian
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11mm, 1916.
LIFE WITH THE ENEMY.
MR. CURTIN ON HIS EXPERIENCES.
ANECDOTE AND COMMENT
Mr. D. Thomas Curtin, whose articles in The Times ou Germany and Austria from within are throwing a clear light on the true conditions and feelings of the enemy, gave his firat lecture to a crowded audience at His Majesty's Theatre on
November 6th
at
GEN, BRUSILOFF'S OPTIMISM.
**THE WAR IS WON
RUSSIA'S VAST NEW RESOURCES.
ERUM STANLEY MLASHBURN, LUE TIMES
SPECIAL, CORRESPONDENT WITH THE RUBBLIN FORCES. ]
November 8th General Brusiloff · aathorises me to
quote him as follows ou the situation : ----
The war is wen to-day, though it is nerely speculation to estimate how much
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POLAND A KINGDOM.
ENEMY MANIFESTO ISSUED.
THE POLISH ARMY, Vel
Germany and Austria have agreed upon what is virtually afroeh partition of Poland (sag's The Times). They announce the creation of an “independent kingdom with an hereditary monarchy and constitution,'' It is to be formed from tho Polish districts of Russia not under Austro German múlitary occupation. Neither Prussian Poland nor Galiem is to be included in its
General von Beseler, the Governor of
Warsaw, issued a proclamation on Nov. the nanouncing that the Gerinna Emperor independent State of Poland, with a of Austria had agred to establish a hereditary Monarchy,and a Constitution. The following in the text of the pro- clamations
*** To the inhabitants of the Governoent
Since the beginning of October the two
longer will be required before the encry Mr. E. W Wil, late Berlin corres Provinces of Belgian Flanders have been
of which they drenched Europe with the seeno of tragic outrages upon the Dondent of the Daily Mail, was in the are convinced that the cause for the sake pivil population. These provinces are chair le utroduced Mr.Curtia as a blood is irretrievably lost, Personally, in the Ariny zone, and are those subject man who deserved a journalistic Victoria never since the beginning have I believed to the military authority, whereas the Cros As an American ho was under rest of Belgium under Garaian occupation hardly less suspicion in Germany than if that the enemy haul a chance of winning successful offensives it was difficult for is subject to the civil administration, of he had travelled with a British passport, but while they were able to continue Ho pursued his investigations dogged at themselves to realize that they were not which Baron von Bissing is the head. in the towns and villages of the region said that once he used to admire many
On October 3rd, a leeres vas placarded Cartan, who was warmly received, Preaching n successful peace,
Mr. reproducing a docision of German Head military authorities the power to compel Germany under the surface and had by force if necessary all non-invalids learned how different were her civilian dependent for their livelihood upon tion, ideas, and ideals from those of the others to undertake work away from their homes. The doctee was directed against the unemployed of all claes, and
The German regarded the State, not as especially against the saen thrown out of the collectivity of its individuals, but as work by the closing of factories after the something mysteriously apart, something Germian seizures of all raw materials all-powerful, something to which heads initiative, he has utterly failed to do so. Eroni Russian power, have agreed to form These men, deprived of means of sub sistence, becaine dependent for their food upon the local municipal authorities.
The publication of the decrop was
quarters which conferred upon the things in Germany, but he had now seed period dates frora, the time when the Waraw-Ris Majesty the German
West
OFFICIALISM AND OPINION.
must bow in Supreme, unquestioning reverence. The first thing a German child was taught was obedience to his superiors in rank of office and unquestioning
quickly followed by a notice warning alloyalty to his country. That had many tude of our horele troopa):
persons concerned to present themselves,
Emperor and his Majesty the Austrian Emperor and Apostolic King of Hungary sustainer by Kocie firm confidence In the final victufey of their urins, and guided by the wish to lead to a happy future the Polish districts which by their brave armies were snatched with heavy sacrifices
with a hereditary Munarchy and a Con- from these districts an independent State stitution. The more precise regulation of the frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland remains reserved.
on a given day and hour. at places excellent points, but it also had its the West were beginning their summer Powers the new Kingdom wilt and thei
murd, and to come furnished with abuses, ant they were grave in Germany. articles of kit that were minutely speci
The people there found that the best way fied. Fallare to comply with the notice
to slide along easily through life was to rendered absentees liable to heavy fines do what any sort of official commanded and imprisonment. Simultaneously, the The officials became officious and usurped Municipal administrations, which alone more power, and the result--it was easily
seen in the conduct of the anteroffiz pussessed lists of the men who had been
was a state of things which would be thrown unit of work, were summoned to hand over the lists to the military intolerable to people brought up to free institutions. A few days before he left authorities. They refused, as they were entitled to do, and were at once dis- Verlin he saw an old woman hobble up possessed and replaced by German milito the sliding wind of the chief post office on Unter d inden, put down a tury representatives. In some cases the mark, and ask for two 10-pfennig stumps. municipal officials whe had charge of the The official behind the window snarled list wore brutally arrested and throwa
Give me smaller money," and, when the ints prison,
ofd, lady said the mark was all she had,
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summer's operations mark definite period in their defeat, and that Allies, co-ordinating their programmes, scized from the enemy his capacity to continue offensives and to dictate his strategy to us. From the beginning of the operations this summer on the Russian south-western front the enemy has lost control of the situation, and, in spite of his most superhuman efforts to regain the
front the enemy's design to block our Again and again on the south-western plaus and throw us back on the defensive as been ruined by the valour and for
“Simultaneously our brave Allies on
In union with both the Allied NETH. campaign, which by now must have demonstrated to the German High Com guarantees which it desires for the free and that, with all their material, they development of its strength. In its own can construet no defences which they the glorious traditions of the British and French cannot surely, if Polish Army of former times and the slowly, destroy and force then back memory of our brave Polish fellow-com- Italy has had successes with the Western batants in the great war of the present Allies and Russia, and surely no intelli-time will contrive to lave its organiza gent German con expect victory, istion, training and command will be re- simply a question of how long they are galuted by mutual agreement. The willing to continue a war of which the Allied Monarchy confidently hope that end is absolutely foreshadowed to-day. their wishes for the State and national war has changed the situation, for it has will now be fulfilled with the necessary The entrance of Roumanin into the development of the Kingdom of Poland made the enemy at a time when he was regard to the general political conditions hardest pressed for troops to extend his of Europe and to the welfare and line by hundreds of additional miles, in our little Ally by extending our anks, it is likewise true that we can afford men, while the enemy could hardly afford his losses een before Boumania entered the war.
RUSSIAN MAX POWER."
Even this year
peoples,
The great western neighbours of the Kingdom of Poland will see with pleasure arise again and flourish at their eastorn frontier a free and luppy States rejoining in its rational life.
By order of his Majesty the German Emperor,-
AUTONOMY FOR GALIOJA, Abcording to a gran from Vienna, thethe omcial liner her ung published the following autograph letter from Austro- peror Francis Joseph to the Hungarian Premier
an
Not coulant with these arbitrary mea-
the slide was shut in her face. I put my Though it is true that we are also assist security of their owa countries and sures, the Gorinan authorities ordered the shoulder through the window, said Mr. soldiery to round up workmen found in
Curtin, and, putting down a mark, asked for two 15-pfennig stamps, and I refused the streets and to drive them to a given aput. Here the captives were pent up to get out of the window until he gave like cattle. The most able-bodied among me the stamps and the 70 pfennigs change, them were told off, shut up in barracks, the Germans would do that sort of and sent on the morrow, under military thing with the officials, misguided neutrals would not have to say,We are esport to a part of Belginni where a
If there remain any Germans still sorry for the poor Germans, is not
"YOU BESELER, Governor-General.'" military position was being prepared,
similar proclamation was published Seeing that military work was required their fault it is their Government hopeful for their cause, let them realize of them, these Flemish captives declined They like everybody else, have the that today, when the Central Powers A
have already lost the initiative and are by the Austro-Hungarian Governor- to do it. Thereupon they were imprison Government they deserve.
finding a difficulty in refilling their General at Lublin Wenter, ed, and were kept without food of any When in the early days of the war the ranks, Rassin has not yet reached the kird until, in two or three days, hunger Kaiser told a crowd in Berlin that he zenith of her power, which will only be compelled them to submit. In one place, knew partics how," he spoke the approached next year, when we shall have young men storilarly colected were taken truth, Germany was waited then. One the largest and best army since to camps near an acrodrome in course of of the greatest drains of it, subsequent beginning of the wave have been obliged construction, and compelled to perform uniting of Germany and suilitary labour. In another place more slpy disintegration--the struggle between to conduct our offensive with than 2,000 men, pranded up plazard, the small minority which was having its inferiority in material and hony gunz including many small tradessen, were eyes opened and the majority which was Next year we shall have material on segregated and ordered to sign a German still in power When the war began the equality, with the enemy and a superinity form of agreement in work in Germany, German Government had control of all in human resources which should steadily The method was not identical in all the agencies for the manufacture of increase as long as the war endures. The sincrs. In some towns this invalids, in public opinion-the Press, the mass of the mural of the Russian people has been others married" men were exempted professors, a great many pastors, the slowly rising for two years, and it is my while the rest were told that they would school teachers, the moving pletive absolute personal conviction that if it only be employed on civil work and that managers, and the rest. Germany were possible to take a vote of the entire they would be paid 3d. a day. But the believed in Government ownership, and" trains made up of trucks open to wind here existed, to-day, although it was population 9 out of 10 Russians to-day and weather in which these poor crea-breaking now, a Government ownership of would demand the continuation of the war to a definite and final" victory, tures wore herded together, start for public opinion. Professors lectured on regardless of the price Germany and the North of France. Each the duty duty was a favourite word in of these raids captured some 4.000 men. Germany-of hating everything English It was literally slave raiding
and their hearers smacked their lips Along the railway line scraps of paper The paster preached about "holding out thrown out by the prisoners have been though food was scarce; and when food picked up. They bear the words :--. thieves burgled the pastor's house they The young men of X and the surfound a large number of hams and much rounding villages have been captured bacon. The Press received instructions "The unmarried.comrades of Y from regularly from the bitreau in the the village of 2, from 18 to 30 years of Willlustrasse, and the papers unani age, are here together. We will never ously published the same headlines to work, for the Germans, and never siga devere the hasty, feuder. their paper. Long live King-Allørt, **--
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Leaf Dr. von Koerber. In accordance
German Emperor, an with the understanding reached between me and the independent State with an hereditary Monarchy and a Castitution will be formed of the Polish districts which our brave armies have snatched from Russian rule. On this version I recall with deep emotion the many proofs of devotior and loyalty which during my reign I have received from Galicia and the great and beary sacrifices which this pro Our new levies which come in each vince, exposed in the present war to a year equal our Test troops, and, as I force enemy assault,, had to bear in th believe, they are fay superior to anything interest of the victorious defence of the which the enemy can still find to send eastern frontiers of the Empire, sacrifices against us for next year's campaign. which secure for a lasting claim un
of The recent temporary reverses
It is therefore my will at the moment Romania must not be considered as hay my warmest fatherly regard ing the slightest significanes, and the when the new State comes into existence enemy a trifling advance in the Dobradja, though a regrettable incident, will have and concident with this development to no bearing on the greater issues of the grant, Galicia, also, the right to manage. war. It would have been serious had the independently its own internal ohairs in Germans beca able to pierce the us full a measure as this can be done if Carpathians and eater Roumania, but I accordance with its membership of the believe that this last attempt by the Stufe as a whole and with the latter's to regain somewhere their initiative is prosperity, and thereby give the popu doomed to perish, as all others attempted lation of Galicia guarantee for its during this summer's campaign have encil and economic development. In do
informing you of this my intention I charge you to prepare suitable proposals for its legal realization, and to submit these to me
Vienna, Nev. 4th, 1916. FRANCIS Jes; (courter-signed) KozEDER."
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Van T. and De R. from X were sent on October 19th to Germany, and Describing as he taught a newly arrived on October 20th. If this note is arrived American business man what the found, please send it home to X. British blockade meant in food-ticket During the passage of these long slave restriericas, by persuading hipa ti do a rains their unfortunate but undated.day's shopping for a middle-class Berlin groupants were heard singing the family. Mr. Curtin said that after wait
RUSSIA BEHIND ROUMANIA, Brabangonne " and "The non ofing hours outside shops they had break Flanders.”
fast of coffee (in name, not in matter), **Roumania is now feeling fur the first :
irtle sugar.
and hot rolls witout butter, time the pressure of the war and the The exact number of men thus raided is More waiting in garues resulted in a bitterness of defeat, but Romania must not known. The Inost trustworthy Inch of surrtines, vegetables, and eggs realize that her defeats are but incidents estasies put it at 15,000 at least. The It happened to be the weekly meat-day in the greater campaign, for behind her
THE NEW FRIEND OF SMALL NATIONS. raiding has gone on throughout the whole for that family, and their 4 of meat, stands Great Russia, who will see to it military zone,
at obtained after more and particularly
Commenting on the proclamation of was Tried that her have inttle Ally who has coine Bruges, Ghent, Courtrai, Alost (in sardine oil for dinner, The German into the war for just cause, diceg bot the independence of roland the semi Gazette, after Flanders), arid at Tournini. The whole wounn spent the greater part of every ultimately suffer for her daring inicial North-German uble-bodied male population, rich and day trying to get food. Could one espousing the cause for which we ate allunying that it is not the projectors of poor employed or not, has been affectus wonder that muy people in Berlin powering
the small nations who now lend back this The action of the Germans is a direct longing for ponce: Many Germans I can speak with authority when I entity to its national development, but iolation of engagements entered into and believed that France was starving, and state that, from the Tsar down to the two Powers against which in the of the Laws of War. There is reason to asked whether there were bread tickets common soldier, the united sentiment of him of the small Powers the hatred of fear that it may be extended to the whole yet in New York. Germany, in fact, waa Russia is that Boumania should be pre cutire world has falsely been called of Belgian territory under German being run on the principle that "if you tected, helped, and supported in every forth, continues:
The Vice Chancellor, Herr are down with cholera, it is very pleasant possible way. The Boumanians must feel Occupation.
"The liberation of Poland is closely Lon Halferich recently declared in the to know that your neighbour has small faith in the great beart of Russia and the Reichstag that the inhabitants of occupied por A few days after this incident-he Russian people, and must know also that connected with the victory of Germany regions would be subject to compulsory found bis friend going to iny $20 worth in the effort we make to save them this and her Allies, who alone are interested Ihbour, and the terms of the German of these perpetual sardines to be ready sentiment is a dominant factor, and that in the existence of a free Poland, and Headquarters decree are intentionally for the siege? Perpetual was not the it is not merely a question of our own for whose sake Poland must not go back vague. It is certain that Germany is word he used.
self-interest to protect our left flank.. to Russia. Germany's security demands short of
men, and is determined to lay her
"I am not speaking for effect, but from that for all future times the Russian Speaking of the growing disunion in hands upon all whom she can find. But Germany, Mr. Curtin and hy deepest convictions, when I state my armies shall not be able to use a mili will the neutral world watch impassively winter he repeatedly heard the exprcs operations on all fronts. I believe that gate of Silesia at West Prod Russ
own absolute optimism as to the fature tarily consolidated Poland as an invasion' this revival of slavery, and remain silent sion those cursed landowners" or "those while citizens of occupied countries are cursed usurers The German advance the whole Alliance can enter the winter To Poland liberated from Russian the fature of the kingdom of Poland a million treated like beasts of burden?
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Pelish troops, half a million looking back on the decisive summer of rule we offer the possibility of seeking would, of course, only begin its full of whom are now in Poland and the When Douaument was taken the flags the war, while our unfortunate enemies support in the Central Powers and in national existence after the conclusion of were hung out and the bells rang, and the must ses before them the deepening cloud firm alliance with them to leading a free peace and in close connection, political, dissatisfaction of the people gave way to
of utter ruin, and it is difficult to see life in its own State, politically and as well as military, with the Central elatión.
But gradually the hospitals how even their clever publicists can economically. Especially for the pear POOL!! filled, depression set in again; and people much longer conceal this from themselves future, the Poles will have a strong claim talked more of peace
or from their deluded people." After paying a tribute to the unbreak |————
The German Governor, General von Kissing, has constantly declared in public that no service contrary to The Hague Convention would be required of Bel gians. What has
now been done is in flagrant contradiction with the spirit and the letter of those Conventions. Can it be that all the efforts of civilized peoples in Europe and in America to formulate international law should end by allowing the male population of an unhappy coun- try to be compelled to work in German Gerard, the United
on our assistance!
factories, or behind the German front. Ambassador, Mr. Cartin said that, thanks Bocner or later, added Mr. Curtin. GerWarsaw, composed of professors of the was known and even published three."
for the destruction of their own children
GERMANY SEEKING POLISH RECRUITS. The German and Austrian proclama- able spirit of the British prisoners in
IN CLOSE CONNECTION WITH THE CENTRAL
tions have made little impression in, Germany (they ask ouls for parcels of We cannot win The British are not POWERS.
Polish circles in Switzerland, which are substantial food with fat) and to the what they were. They now have guns,
According to the Politische Korre making why such a pronouncement was splendid efforts made on their behalf by too many guns, and the General in charge spondens, on October 30th Baron dewithheld so long when its general tenor
States seems
to understand his business. Burian received a deputation from
months ago. to Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Douglas Haig, many is going to be decisively delested. Warsaw University, the president of the Polish leaders here attribute the delay and Sir William Robertson, he had heard, The one thing to do is not to get over. Warsaw Municipal Council, former mem to the efforts of Germany to conclude a ↑ Licut Col, H. O. Parr, who appears in for the first time, on the day before he confident and not to be discouraged by hers of the Dums Prince Franz Radzi separate peace with Russia, but the pro- the Mesopotamia honours list as promoted left Berlin, the admission by a German small things. Remember that this is a will, and others. The rector of the clamation renders any future negotiations to brevet rank, is brother to Mr. C. officer that Germany could not win the war between peoples and pot armies. The University made a speech submitting the to this end impossible, W C. Parr, formerly Giovernor of North war. A colonel, talking to a major in Gormans are using all their strength, and
By ssuing the proclamation at the Boraen," and was Chief of Staff to au hotel-both had come from the Somme Great Britain should real her If wishes of the Polish nation. Baron de
Buriau, in reply, said, inter alia, that present moment the Central Powers sie General Townshend at Kut up to the time | said :—“We should have no illusions. That is done, you will ran the "roits of of the surrender,
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evidently hoping to add to their forces this tragic and wonderful time, t
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other half million prisoners of war in
Germany Apart from all other issues the proposed scheme of autonomy fails to meet the aspirations of the Poles and can excite no enthusiasm amongst them either at home or abroad.
“THE NEW FRENCH RÉMNED THERAPION N-1 THERAPION N 2 THERAMON NI 3.
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