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THE AGONY OF BELGIUM.

IL-LEGAL" ROBBERY. BLACKMAIL OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES.

City

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23BD, 1917.

A GALLANT BELGIAN LADY

A STORY OF MME, CABTON DE WIART.

AT THE SPECIALIST'S.

A MIND PROBLEM.

"Suppose," said the young man, lean- ing back in the leather chair which had held so many troubled patients, “suppose,- doctor, that one's memory should be in- tensified a hundredfold.

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AN ANGLICAN BISHOP AT BUHERBEN.

OUR MEN'S FIGHT FOR BODY AND BOUL.

TELL FOLKS AT HOME WE'LL

STICK: IT”

[ur FunDERIO WILLIAM WILM, KATE BERLIN ODERESPONDENT OF "TER DAILY MAIL"]

Life at Rubleben as lived by him among British civilians imprisoned there was graphically described to me yesterday by the Right Rev. Dr. Herbert Bury, Angli- can Bishop for North and Central Europe. Dr. Bury reached London lust month from Switzerland after a ten days' visit to Germany. He lived in Rubleben for a week and passed a day at the camp for British ooors at Blankenberg.

HOME REMEDY WHICH CUTLER PAIMER & COʻR.

WORKS WONDERS IN MARING SCRAWNY. UNDEVELOPED MEN AND WOMEN PLUMP AND ATTRACTIVE.

Thin persons, particularly those from ten to thirty pounds under weight, will be interested to learn of a marvellou discovery which puts on flesh at the rate of a pound a day in many instances rounds out the figure and makes thin folks fat up even if they have been

away for years.

Don't shut your eyes and say "Impos sible!" Put this new treatment to the test. The test will tell. It is no sign that you must remain skinny and under The bishop penetrated into the heartweight the rest of your life, even if you

ever heard of.

not obeying an order of the Governor-had sent the letter, she answered, 'Yes,happening now. Some years ago, travel-of the enemy's country with the assent have vainly tried every" fattener" you General indicates to what extrenies the and I am ready to pain intervened.] conversation with another man in the fof the British Government and the per

of German authorities. He

In the address on "The Cruciazion of Belgium," which he gave recently in Higorous mongures are in barn to New York, Major Livingston Seaman, prevent personal communications from

0.8.V., tells the stirring

story

of the invaded parts of Belgium from

Madame De Wiart reaching England. In the following

"One Sunday evening, we dired with

"Suppose that, without any wish to article a neutral commercial agent, Madame Henri Carton De Wiert, wife member them, one's memory became so who has recently

returned from of the Belgian Minister of Justice, in teen, by some mischance, that past evente Brussels, where he has lived for many an ancient castle near Havre, given to overlaid the present-ao that the vision years, reveals the present condition of her by the French. It was in strange supplied by the mind was brighter and the country,

contrast to the prison for criminals in more real than the positivo everyday The rich es well as the poor are being Berlin, where for three months she was imago upon the retina of the eye?" persecuted, robbed, and systematically incarcerated in a cell, but little larger That," said the doctor, interested tortured by the authority in occups than her dining table, for mailing a copy and musing, "might be vory perturb The of the pastoral letter of Cardiund Moring. tion"> of Belgian territory. announcement that the Aldermen and cier, who is now himself a victim of Ger It is very perturbing," replied the

and man tyranny. When asked by the tri-young man. Councillors of Brussels

That is my own case Antwerp bave been arrested and fined for bund which convicted her, whether the doctor. I will tell you precisely what is

the penalty.

Our ling to the north of England, I got into oppressors will go in their campaign of Embassy, and that

will go in bitrary proceeding on her behalf, but when our Ambassador same compartment, and we became excolision home with an appealing story terrorism, has 1 double bient list of poored only in the presence of a German off et friends. Naturally, I should not of use, struggle which 3,000. Britons are

object; ostensibly the called to see her, the interview was allow tion of military age with a view to cor. When asked regarding her food, she entirely forget that journey. But at this making to erg body alive, mind sound, deportation, but the oxtortion of money told, 1nd not known these dishes be railway carriage with sing in that and spirit unbroken. They are doing so from richer citizens of any age is also foro, but I know them now. The follow that man speaking the bishop declares, only by dint of from the Germans are determined ing day the German officer visited her to me; the noise of the train filla my superhuman exhibition of tenacity in the aimed at the lifeblood of the country to again, and said, Madam, you will be care and I am conscious of the landscape face of deteriorating and embittering

allowed the privilege of purchasing your whizzing past. This impression does not conditions. Dr. Bury is charged with the very last drop.

own food. She answered. For cancel whatever may be actually going message to kin and friends at home that Since the Burgomaster of Brussels, M.privilege one must say thank you. I or before my eyes, but it is equally vivid, they will stick it," one and all, so the Adolphe Max, was carried off to prison cannot say thank you to a German. You and the result is that I have to make hitter end. at Celle-Schloss, in Hanover, the duties say I may pay for my food. That money very strong offort al Arst magistrate have been discharged would go to a German. I would rather imaginary from the true, the past from

-“ PARCELS VITAL by M. Maurice Lemonnier, the senior starve than have my money go to a Gor the present."

"The bitter end," the bisher said. whose wife a short time ago man. She endured her imprisonment to

would speedily come, I fear, for many Bord notification that she had been the end, thus typifying again the spirit

of our follows except for parcels from fined £40. No particulars of the offence of Belgium, which neither shell nor sorat a loss, especially when his visitor went solutely, vitally necessary to the existente The doctor frankly confessed himmelf home. I wish to say that parcels are ab. charged against her were given. In these ture can conquer."

on to say that even events of his child of the men at Ruhleben. circumstances sho refused to pay, where

They would hood were often forced forward by some starve or freeze to death without them. upon furniture and ornaments to the value of £48 were taken from house and

trick of his brain and displayed extra For both food and clothing they are de publicly sold. It was not until after this

vagantly on the screen of the present pendent upon us. They cannot eat the FRENCH NURSE MURDERED. sale that Mme. Lemonnier was informed

He's a kind of buman kinematorations provided by the German authori- that she had been condemned, for being

graph," said the doctor, comparing ties The rations may be digestible by Confirmation has just been received in in possession of a forbidden publication. Some spy--and the city is swarming with Faris of the murder of & Frenchwoman, notes with a professional friend in the Germans, but Britons who are not used

evoning.

"Though, for that matter, we to then simply cannot stomach them. them had supplied the evidence, and she Mme, Moressés, by the Germans in Brus all are; people won't realise that the Thanks to an organisation for which, as was runt allowed any opportunity of sols. The crime was perpetrated in sini mere reproduction of the moving picture for so many things, we are indebted to lar circumstances to that of Edith Cavell, of the streets within a human eye, the our American official friends in Berlin, tion haring taken place on February 29th size of a large marble, is far more won every prisoner at Rubleben is now assur

dat about the same epoch, her execu

derful than any show at a

ed of a parcel. But any cessation of the This victim of German barbarity was palace. But this man is compelled to supply any interference by the German authorities, for example would certain-

mere, unemployed, who are so numerous cording to a letter received from Holcan stand the strain of that for long men. Fe mast keep up the parcels at all. military age are required rather than the the wife of a Brussels journalist, and. I watch two films' at once, and no brainly be fraught with grave peril to our

land her Paris, her ardent patriotism she was a brought us--strange wounds, new trast nurse, like Edith Cavell, in a military ments, exploded ideas those mental cuses hospital had earned for her the cruel are the most interesting." spite of the invaders.

refuting the accusation,

local ofheials for failing to furnish lists The punishment of burgomasters and of unemployed workmen is another sam- ple of Gorman "justice."

poor rates

Men of

10

do

ANOTHER CAVELL ATROCITY,

last.

keep count of them. The Belgians have always been such industrious and pro vident people that there was little poverty before the war; there are

Charges were trumped up against her in the country, and work to give von Bissing the long-sought pre- houses on the English system do not exist. text to bring her to judgment and exeo: In the large towns are "Maisons

tion. Mme. Moressée met her end Travail," where old men and women are heroically. She leaves a daughter, who supported, provided they perform work still in Brussels. suitable to their age and strength; and in winter time householders send to these Tho establishments for chopped wood. infirm and afflicted can also obtain shelter and maintenance at various "hospices, which

generally supported by Catholic societies and are not under the control of the burgomasters. It was not until stages of extreme distress were reached that a Belgian would allow his name to be put upon the list of the

assistance publique,"

are

THE BELGIANS' "PAPIKES." The information at the disposal of the burgomasters which the Germans are so anxious to obtain is of a more confidential and valuable character than a more liat of idle men. This will be understood it

government in Belgium.

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to separate the

picture

And often the most distressing,” re- plied the other. "Does he sleep well1" Any suggestions?

"Yes; that's why he has not collapsed,

stop one of the pictures. My idea is So far as I can see, the thing is to M. Deguitre, father of Mme. Moressée, that as he goes about the ceaseless excite says the news overwhelms, but does retent of his irritated brain by ordinary sights and sounds-which leave little im His daughter was of surprise, him,

· and

pression on a normal man-keeps it in. frank, outspoken character, imagines that, revolted by some act of state of unnatural activity, culminating' German brutality, she spoke her mind too in this extraordinary projection of past freely.

affairs which it has started up. You know, occasionally we are surprising to find ourselves suddenly thinking of a person or place we haven't seen or thought of for years; some pigeon-hole of memory flips open-why, we don't know, but the record has been there all the time. It's quite conceivable that in your patient this process is carried to I suggest that you shut off the exces whether casing the strain thus will cause film' of pictures we can control and try

plunder and insult has been carried on over since. The town of Tournai has just been called upon to pay £10,000 for refus ing to furnish a list of unemployed.

MONSTROUS VINES,

There is hardly a commune within the occupied territory that has not had its exchequer depleted by iniquitous fines Brassels, Antwerp, and Ghent have been drained dry; only a few weeks ago the

and the commissaire of the arrondisse-

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costs.

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HOME ROLE ÄT RUHLEBEN, The commandant of Ruhleben, Count Schwerin, is a kindly septuagenarian. He permita Captain Joseph Powell and the numerous vice-captains of the camp, with their own police force and admini- strative organisation, the fullest possible measure of home rule. Rubleben is tọ-

day perhaps the most socialistic and autonomona little community in the world, though its existence is maintained under primitive conditiona

"At best it was easy to observe that two years of strain and restraint are begin- ning to tell on the strongest of the pri sonere I could on that from the susc with which tears would often rush to their eyes when I was in personal contact with them.

The younger fellows, na turally, bear up best, but sooner or later. they, too, yield to the nerve-pressure which has already broken middle-aged and older men. Except for these nerve cases there is practically no sickness of Weiler's sanatorium in West End I sa consequence at Rubleben. At Dr. sixty or seventy nerve cases, all due to the soul-wrecking regime of the camp. now well treated.

stante, no detention from business. It is This new discovery calls for 'no diet go about to usual, ept what you like. It is harmless to the most delicate system, and contains no oils, emulsions, nor alcohol. Just a concentrated_tabloid which can be taken privately. Your nearest friends need not know what you are doing until you astonish them with a visible and pleasing increase of weight.

Excessive thinaces is very mortifying, Thin men never look like real money. They are pushed aside in the race for saccess. Bony women are seldom veIZ popular. Drees will not hide skin and bones. All men admire fine figures. Take dans. Bargel and get out of the featherweight

A, S. WATSON & Co., Lao., Victoria DISPENSARY, Tom PragmaOT,

Qomen's DiarENDARY, THE EDWARD Dispessary.

37.8

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO-DAY-

Chinese New Year. General Holiday.

Monday, 29th Jan.---

11.30a.m.-The Weat Paint Buildings O..

Lid., Heeting of Shareholders at the Office of Mesars. Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd. 11.45 -The Hongkong Central Estato, TAL, Meeting of Shareholders at the Offlo of Mosers, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Lib. Noor-The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders # the Offices of Messrs, Jardine, Matheorma & Co., Ltil.

12.16 p.m.--The Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd, Meeting of Shareholders at the One of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. LIL

8 p.m.-Auction of Crown Land at Public

Works Dept. Baturday, 3rd Feb.:----

11.80m-Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. Meeting of Shareholders at the Offess of Mesara, Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Tuesday, 13th Feb

Noon Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam- bout Co., Ltd., Mooting of Shareholders.

PINKETTES

DEFEND YOURSELF against the illa of Constipation by the Our mon confess that their toughest ocasional use of fight is against collapse of mind and spirit. I am proud, as an Englishman, to report that thus for they are waging a successful fight, Twenty-four months are enough to accustom almost any mai oven to existence in overcrowded horse boxes and barracks indifferently ventilnt the dainty little gentle-as-natura laxatives and bady illuminated. But condi-which assure daily regularity, cure tions are vastly better than they used to biliousness, torpid liver, sick headaches, be, Reforms have had to be wrested one foul-smelling breath. Of all chemista, or after the other, and things have become from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 95, Bsechuen Boad, Shanghai, 60 cents the **UNIVERSITY "OF BUBLEBETO,

phial, post free.

#1.33

removing £40. Anyone heard in The Lion of solitary confinement until in the wisdom something more than liveable,

VISIT TO WAR OFFICE.

I briefly explain one section of local town of Courtrai was fined £1,200 because he other, which we cannot control, to fade I gathered that Dr. Weiler's patients are a telegraph wire was broken by a storm or to exhaust itself. In three words Each incorporated district has itament in which the mishap occurred was temporarily blind bin."

Might it not act the reverse way, maison communale, attached to which is looked up for ton days. Tradesmen and a bureau de la population, where a double private individuals are now being picked since he would then see only these record of the inhabitants is kept, one out for extortion. At Gembloux a rich memory-phenomena?"

"It might. But you have to experi- arranged "treet by street, and the other merchant was fined £8,000 for some with names in alphabetical order. New fence in connection with the sale of ment with such a baffing case, and it pomers have to register their names and sugar. Several Antwerp firma have been may be worth while, especially if you addresses within eight days of arrival, fined £1,000 each, and $100 Snes are explain the theory of the treatment to and all removals must be notified, with a becoming quite common for most trivial him and thus enlist his subconscious request that the necessary "papiers offences. A market woman who refused help." 蛤 should be sent to the bureau of the dis to sell vegetables to a German was fined trict in which the person

or whistling Condemned to blindness and almost to intends to reside. A Belgian's por "La Brabançonne" or sonal papers" (which is

the nearest Flanders is arrested, and if the culprit of his trusted physicians he might once translation of papiers are of great cannot pay a fine, he is put inte prison. again see the real world, the young man

The men are nos wasting their tim importance; they are the chronicles of his The German police in Brussels have life, giving the date of his birth and been greatly increased since November suffered torments of mind compared with

moping. Their theatre, concerts, foot- |----- particulars of his parentage; all the 3rd, and on the day of King Albert's which former agonies of the body weed ball, debating society, 7.M.C.A. hut,

With his eyes bandaged addresses at which he has lived; iféle patronele a raid was made on houses naught, married, his marriage certificate; his in which it was suspected patriotic scientifically, on parole not to leave his and, most of all, their well-organised

schools for instruction in all sorts of "One day I was summoned to the War trade or profession; and if he has been celebrations were taking place. Anyone darkened rooms, no rays of outer light things-the University of Rubleben

Office, where I was courteously received convicted of any offence it is specified found in possession of the Belgian reached him; but on the vast screen of christened it-are keeping them busy and by General Friedrich, in charge of pri- thousand lurid interested. These are their greatest ally soner affairs. I was able to impress upon A summary of these details is entered in colours, or exhibiting a portrait of the blackness played a small book which a Belgina, especially or Queen, was fined according to figures of memory. Trouping forth from in the fight to keep up their spirit The him that German prisoners in this coun of the working class, is careful to carry his means. Money is being dragged out mysterious hiding places, they acted their enemy's hope of crushing that sprit has try are well treated that they receive with always upon his person, because he may of the people on the slightest pretence, parts untiringly. Childhood, youth, his been defented. Our men are still game.

the same rations as British soldiers, be called upon by the police to produce There is hardly a family some member deeds, worthy and unworthy, his trivial "Every facility was given me to ob- the additional advantage of having them it at dny moment: without it he cannet of which has not been caught in a trap mishaps, rebuffs, triumphs-they took the serve for myself. A young Berlin judge,

by German cooks! General vote at Parliamentary or municipal and forced to pay.

centre of the stage, "stars" of a silent Dr. Schachian, with captain's Friedrich declared categorically that he elections; it is accepted as a proof of Attempts are made to inveigle people identification, enables him to obtain who send parcels to prisoners of war, and gloomy theatre, with himself for rank was sent to fetch me at ther was quite prepared to accept my assur audience, haunting him till bo was Swiss Frontier and escorted me direct-ance that nothing savouring of maltreat- registered letters at the post office, and it is considered that a better use ten utterly weary and then the dreadfully to Ruhleben. There I was assigned a ment or under treatment was the lot of

man with his "papers in order" je be fouzid for their money; and permission tickering film of his mind would begin room in the administrative quarters with enemy prisoner in England. considered to be respectable and has not to send these parcels, which have to go again at some stupid, unimportant point an orderly, ho slept in an adjoining While at the War Office and at difficulty in obtaining credit.

through the Minister of War in Berlin,

a eut finger, a fall, school lesson-and room, to do my bidding. I was invited Bubleben I was left in little doubt that When a murderer is condemned to themselves friendly to the German cause.

is now only given to those who avow keep madly whirring until he crept stout to mingle with the men at will, without the Germans look upon as as their most death by Belgian law his papers are taken

I hear that it is no longer permitted and touched the furniture to recall the sort of interference from Gorman dangerous and most determined enemy.

officers or guards. from him, and he is thus deprived of all to send sick and delicate children into existence that seemed slipping away.

Yet in the same breath in which such as "I breakfasted, had tes, and took up. sarances were uttered I received expres- civil rights. There is no capital punish Holland for the benefit of their health. But n the third week of his imprison per with different parties from day to sons of admiration for the manner i ment in Belgiam, but the condemned men Formerly largo, partics of these children ment & now and poignant sensation came day--sometimes with the squad of sight which Britain has girded herself for the is pat into prison and considered legally were conducted to the frontier, where It was the desperate longing to see-to Elonians who are there; next day, with struggle particularly the way in which dead. His wife may marry again, and they were met by nuns or benevolent 800 something real; tangible; and with the Hamburgers, next day with the the manhood of the nation has offered his property is divided among his heirs Indice, who took the children to their this desire his brain began to be legiti- Frankfortera eto, Each day I had itself. I got a further impression--that While I am describing the Belgian homes. After a time restrictions were mately busy imagining the things in the great meetings in the assembly hall. The Germans are already thinking of after system of National Registration, which imposed, as it was imaginod that the room, the streets, the faces of his friends. men were keen for home news and hailed the war and gre anxious even at this much more complete than that lately children carried messages from their When he mentioned this to the dector with unrestrained enthusiasm my assur distant date to promote an atmosphere introduced in England. I may as well relatives in Belgium, and it was ordered that good friend smiled with a great ance that we in Britain are confident which may not be too prejudicial to their explain how the coat of keeping such

future interests." that they should be housed in institutions hope, but said nothing. In a few more and determined. complete records is defrayed. Anyone approved of by the Germans, where they days the longing grew passionate he wanting the address of a person who has vere under observation. Going and com- implored the doctor to give him back hie

(Continued at foot of weat Column.) gone away" can go to the Bureau de ing back the children were searched at sight, if only for a moment, that the Ia Population and obtain the desired Taschen and often had to submit to harsh darkness might be relieved.

Dr. Bury, who had the experience o information

oroming the German frontier on his Eng. on payment of a franc interrogations,

Suppose. These francs total up to x sam sufficient The good people of Holland can bear when his eyes were unbound, they had

lish passport (bearing only German visé to the effect that he was “ to go to to pay the salaries of clerks employed witness to the physical improvement of no power to see i ∙mpon this special work. The Gerners the children who made these visits; they

"Natura rebelling against the suppres

Buhleben and return"), was astonished have insisted upon the municipal author all arrived with pale and sunken da, sion of a sense she knows is there," said

while at the War Office to be told by Gen- oral Friendrich that he was at liberty ties maintaining their usual administra but soon became plump and rosy after a the doctor to his colleague." He said tion because it facilitates a scheme of course of good food and careful treat darkness that shows his memory-filin

to visit any and all camps in Germany. Anvlight robbery. Not only can they fis ment. Now these trips have been stop is slowing down.""

The bishop's home engagements prevented hit from availing himself of this op hugomasters and their subordinates for ped and the rate of mortality among Boon the young man described his con failure to perform impossible tasks, but children in Belgium is likely to increase dition sa intolerable; he declared that

The doctor smiled again. You met portunity.

As I entered my car to leave Ruhle they can ascertain the financial status of rapidly. Tuberculosis T rampant in he could not keep his, word of honour old direct light for several days yet " ben," concluded the bishop, "the entire individuals upon whom levies can be many parts, and nearly all the babies much longer but would be compelled to he said. "Until your eyes can become camp assembled in thas open air and sang made on the slightest provocation or born this year are sickly and ricketry tear off the bandage and see. And the used to the light you must stay in this me off with the most moving rendering In the districts where German soldiers doctor promised that on the next mora darkened room. But how about that old of God Save the King' it has ever been the early days of the war millions or have been quartered in any numing the blindness should be at an end.

trouble those too active memory-pie my privilege to hear. Their hardships of francs were demanded from each town

disease is very prevalent among the The day dawned late and developed

I don't know tures fi

and privations may not be at an end, I that was entered. and a campaign of

women and young girls. These afflictions a thick fog; a brown, & miserable light say, look-there's a taxi creeping through that our men's fortitude will never I saliloquised, but I am morally | cortain are adding to the horrors of the situa (Continued at font of next Golume)

tion-Times.

fentinued at foot of next Column.) the fog How splendid!

wither.

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pretence.

J.

bor,"

hardly penetrated the atmosphere. Cau- tiously the doctor removed the bandage, and led his patient to the window. The young man peered down into the dreary, How glorious-how beautiful!" he exclaimed, in the sheer joy of vision restored,

street.

GOD SAVE THE KING."

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JOHNSTONE'S

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