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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

AMERICAN CHURCHMEN'S GENERAL RUSSKY'S STROKE.

DECLARATION.

"PEACE, PEACE WHEN THERE IN NO PEACE.

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The following is a copy of a declaration mgainst an immediate peace by eminent members of the Christian Churches in the United States. This declaration was

the Allies reply to Mr. Wilson's Note

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. NEAR

RIGA

MITAU THREATENED.

In the region of a score of miles round Mitau fighting has been going on with tranquillity for eighteen months past but few and brief periods of so-called (telegraphed the Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post, January, 2th);

ship of the Baltic province, “with a

STATE AS MASTER OR CO-OPERATOR ?.

TWO SIDES OF A VITAL PROBLEM.

[BY. THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK.}

MONDAY MARCH 5TH, 1917.

HOLY WRATH.”

GERMAN GENERAL'S CALL FOR PLENTY OF IT,

Lieutenant-General heim, ̈ Military Governor of Limburg, publishes in the There has arisen in the past few years Tägliche Rundschau an article in which among the upper and middle classes, who

he says: their opinions ready made from the news holy wrath and fury. But the genuine are ant on questions of economics to take Steel is hardened in the fire, Fire is papers that pander to them, a certain holy wrath which we want is a wrath that attitude towards the men

Limited or

published in the American Press before Mitau was before the war a little town- do the workmen and women who 18 not alarmed at itself, that is not

appeared. Although no attempt was made Population about equal to that of Chester his famous letters to working men to the an ebullition. It must be joined by John Buskin once wrote something in scruples and acted by all possible,

It has long served the enemy as forward to get many signatures, the namics base for those sections of the frout whose appended include 8x representative objective is Rigs. Very little remains

either

of the township or of the popul Bishops of the Episcopal Church, one tion. The former was destroyed mainly Methodist Bishop, distinguished authors, by serial warfare, and the latter were drafted of by the Germans as working slaves for trench-digging or ag camion fodder ou the French front

lawyers, college presidents, clitors, and men who have hold high position in the Federal Government. The declaration is

as follows:-

Nevertheless, Mitau is a very important strategic point, inasmuch as the Germans have filled it with stores, and it is the junction of half a dozen railroads and roade running to all points of the come pass, besides standing on the River Aa,

which is navigable. During the past few pet man does not enjoy, or even

When war dreaches Europe in blood it is natural that we Americans should sandder at the sight To call upon the combatants to stop the carnage 29 a impulse co strang that it even tends to displace judgment and distort values We sire apt to forget, at any rate for the time being that there are conditions under which the

mere stopping of warfare may bring a curse instead of a blessing "We need to be reminded that peace ie the triumph of righteousness and not the mers

ending of the present war without have again been promised for the third ters, who, of course, could not produce fully justified, because suppera are now

sheathing of the sword. To clamour for

insuring the vindication of truth, Justice. and honour is not to seek peace but

vast

Wrath, how- ever, is only the transient appearance of effect that labour produces the turnips and gives come to its King for looking hatred, because hatred all the entire body glorious, some to the soldier for carrying deeply and passionately until it is satie and at continues to work in the soul sword, some to the policeman for seeing fied. It must act decording to the Bible that the turnip field is not taken away, come to the lawyer for certifying that phrase. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a labour's house belongs to him, and some here is also a boly

"There to the writing folks for saying things which is completely justified in this beautifully to him. The residue of the for our existence, but this must politically turnips, such as it is, goes to labour.

Well, while labour endures this division be moulded in a hard cast, because poll- titg are a hard business. On lines of there is no doubt that the other parties to it need not complain, but they complained bourgeois morality, in a spirit of the They have pointed out that sapience of the pedant, or by whining and

pacifist tals, a successful policy cannot be the

the privilege of giving his days renewed activity is being reported in

pursued especially in the fateful times. We want the holy wrath of free speech, ruler, soldier, policeman, the wrath of the free turnips the region lying between the Aa and the lawyer, and writer, that he does not pro- front against the weaklings,

pen in order to show Dwing. The Germans attacked ne usual duce all the turnips they require, as heIt is completely wrong, as the Tage towards Riga, taking sayantage of the worked still harder, and that he persist blatt recently justly expressed it, to heavy froste having rendered the v

demands more turnips for ently marsh of the Tiral less impassable than and family, thinking of his own vulgar of scoundrels by being genteel. The believe one's self able to influence a gang customary. It appears that the Germans appetite instead of the needs of his lus Tageblatt demands the jack boot this is winter in succession comfortable winter turnips if they tried ever so hard. Their

task is to supervise, and eat their fill/ quarters and simple supplies if the weary soldiers will only make yet another

Last effort and gain the promised land of Riga "Because it is so easy to lose sight of According to the last information I had these essential principles; we, the under from this front, the enemy were unsup signed, view with nome concern the plied with winter equipment, and for the organized and deliberate effort now being most part were bootless and clothed in mado so to stampede Christian sentiment the rage of a worn-out summer kit. ss to create a public opinion blindly Either their present activity is an effort favourable to stopping hostilities, without of desperation or reinforcements bave adequate consideration of the issues which arrived Have kaj pred the war involves, AVSTRE

We are Christians and, as such, deem of days ago seemed to be merely the usual In any case, the affair which a couple that truth and righteousness are to be affair of outposts and artillery duelling maintained inviolate, even at the sacrifice is now developing into what may perhaps of physical life. We are citizens of the prove a very important move. The United States and, as such, are conscious Russians very promptly replied to the of the solemn responsibilities of our German attack and pushing steadily along Christian citizenship. We accordingly the cast bank of the Aa captured the venture to direct the attention of our triple positions of issues which are making their mute given quarter. Sixteen guns, including appeal for final decision

the whole of one heavy battery, were taken. The movement still continues, and the Russians are within a dozen miles of Mitau, which appears

to be their immediate objective. There is no official confirmation yet of a statement current here in private circles that this very important forward base of the enemy has

CAPITAL'S FALSE POSITION.

out of place. But jack boots alone are not enough, We want men who can lise the sword, men with a strong, iron will, who know how to hate from the bottom. of their heart, just as Bismarck once said,

I hated all night and to-day

Fellow Christians to a lew of the vital fighting. Bomely after have richest country in the world is even United States with 4,200 1415, projectiles

To leave Ruskin and adopt even more direct phrase, capital and capitalists have been alarmed at and vexed by labour's assertion of its claims (I had almost writ ten rights"), and have been declaring for some time past that labour thinks only AMERICAN SHELL CONTRACT. for itself and not for the State. They speak and write as though the State and REMARKABLE ADMISSION. the capitalist were one and the

game, which Providence ever

That their assertion was a rancorous lieed large advertisements explaining to the The Bethlehem Steel Company publish- has been recognized by all serious students Americao public why the British frm of of economics, moet of whom have realised Hadfields were able greatly to underbid that while improved conditions would be better for labour they would be still bet them for the Government contract for the ter for the Empire, and that a proletarist supply of Bin, naval shells. The company living round about, the penury line in the declares that its bid was based upon

graver danger to the prisoners were

country to the proletariat d

In the past two years we have been able to see with our own eyes how little the aspersions on the labouring classes were justified. It would perhaps be unfair to say that any one class has made greater sacrifices than another. No than can give more than his life, but the conditions sacrifice need in common fairness to be

"

"The ravage of Belgium and the enslavement of her people: was it right

or wrong?

*The massacre of a million Armon iaze, was it a permissible precaution or an unpardonable crime?

than

the experience they had

supplying the Despite the fact that the company strain- ed every facility to fulfil the contracts, every shell so far submitted had been company had lost already over £100,000 condemned by the Government, and the

The com without a dollar of return, pany also liable to penalties for non- delivery of over £135,000.

and been captured. Nor are we "allowed to considered RSS desired to leave no margin of chane

"The desolation of Serbia Poland: was this a regrettable necessity or a frightful injusticelu

The destruction of life through the sinking of the Lusitania and of other merchant ships: was this an ordinary incident of warfare or was it deliberate and premeditated murdering

The starvation of Jews and Syrians in the Holy Land is this an accident of economics or a violation of the laws

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know what forces are engaged in this region. It is the general opinion, how ever, that an important movement is 1a progress.

NATURAL FORTRESS.

are well equipped for a

of God, and man who fue thoroughly the the Russians

The attempt to array Moslems against Christians in a Holy War was it a laudable act of imperial states manship or was it the treachery of Christian monarch?

The intimidation of small nations and the violation of international agree ments are these things excusable under provocation or damnable under all

circumstances!

to warn our brothron against those who

In the light of this experience, the Bethlehem Company makes it clear that The leisured classes, who rallied in vast and therefore bid high so as to preclude numbers to the colours, have had at least any possibility of a proportionate lasa on military associations, large estates, great some thing to fight for. Historic names,

the new contractIncidentally, by in- wealth, comfortable homes, coeure posi- big

lerance the

the Bethlehem

This is the more probable in view of make gled sacrifices in all ages, and there on

concern for tions these are things for which men

compliment to the Britipany pays a being able will

unhesitatingly to accept the the season of the year, After the rainy class

contract at a de corps

to be considered, than the American firm was able to sub a considerably lower figure summer operations of war on any scale too. were not very feasible and in spring will

THEY FOUGHT AND DIED,

mit and apparently with complete con- be impossible in these regions. It is

On the other hand we have to recognise fidence that the product would be accept- that the majority of the working men had the Bethlehem Steel Comp suvere Company's advertice winter campaign, are on the move on the at all in the prosperity of the ment, the Nave Department bety are northern, Anak once more. Hard fighting adire for which they left their slurs now so severe that the company despairs has been in progress for three days model dwelling home to fight and die of anybody satisfying them. Daily Tele already, and the balance of success as

Even the tenure of their own poor jeb was largely on the Russian side in an opera from hand to mouth, with little or no

uncertain: they lived from week to work graph. tion which admittedly is only beginning recreation, few if any holidays, bad hous The positions captured by the Russinng, between the western extremity of Lake, poor and often insuficient food, no veritable hell upon earth for the English

hope in the Babit and the village of Kalazem, north faint and uninstructed vision of the A BICK NATIONAL CONSCIENCE.

present, and little more thad poor. west of Mitan, were stron fortised in future. But whether in the trench or in Now the poor have put us to blush, In the presence of these pending and tiers, along what appears to be the relie the factory, they have played and and showing that their love of their stepmo yet queattled issues, we feel impelled of some Titanic contest of ancient days playing their part in the terrible game ther country is no whit inferior to that This is an apparently artificial rallum of destruction so bravely, so persistently of those to whom it has been a fairy god- Cry Peace, peace, when there is no of perfectly straight lines, raised a coz and with such complete unselfishness, that mother, granting every earthly good. peace. The just God, who withheld not siderable height above the surrounding the best of those who belittled and mis- They have lived and died heroically, these is owa Son from the Cross would not flat, wooded country. The northern face understood them are astonished and heroes of what has become the ander their fear of pain and death, their dread and abnts on the Tirul marsh on the right. It is of the happiest augury that so to them now, and not in valt, has per- look with favour upon a people who put runs almost along the parallel of latitude ashamed th

**** |world. Yet the England that has called

comfort and ease, above the holy claims hundred yards of the River As on the on common ground, shared equal dangers, economic theories and the most merciless of suffering and loss, their concern for Bank approaching within a couple of many employers and employed have met mities them to be the prey of the vilest of righteousness and justice, and freedom, left, whence runs the western face at a learned to respect one another, and seen, and impersonal forms of private greed? and mercy, and truth Much as we angle of 130deg with the northern side, even though as in a glass darkly, sonie-

In times like these we are all looking mourn the bloodshed in Europe, we and roughly parallel to the river for two thing of the other's attitude towards life.

for some rusans by which the saviours of even more that supineness of miles. Another mile of the vallum runs The question that springs to the mind the country may get their due reward tamen

that indifference of spiritual from the southern end again at an angle is this: What is the change that has put without reference to clase and circumn- values, which would let more physical of 130deg.

la period to the complaints of labour, and statices. The War has availed to open safety take precedence of loyalty to truth The whole of this curious relic of past why is it that we find the greatest risics, the eyes of many who, through long years and duty. The memory of all the saints ages is about 150 yards in width through- the hardest labour freed with an enthu of prosperity, have been wilfully, or, at and martyrs cries out against such out its total length of five miles. What siasm to which all pay tribute Burely fast, woefully blind. On all sides one backsliding of mankind. Sad is our lot ever the original purpose of this curious it is no more than this that the work hears or sces evidence of a sick national

we have forgotten how to die for a phenomenon, whether a vallum of a preag man is now, like all other soldiers, conscience. The enormities of holy cause

historic encampment or possibly a dam to the servant of the State, speaking for wakened many of the comfortable classeY contain the thousands of square miles of England in no uncertain voice with the to the enormities of peace. People who

Lik seized upon it as a basis for modern forti private capitalist has fallen from off his the powers of evil se suddenly that it roprsh, the Germans naturally my in, the gate, The yoke of the regarded social change as a suggestion of dications. Their confidence in its strength STATE OR PRIVATE EMPLOY ↑ is demonstrated by:

is from the cities their greed had laid their having placed a

desolate that

of the national a great her feel that a man in the trenches works seven salvation has come The Russians stormed and took the days a week, the man in the munition fac return of peace to Europe must and shall

artillery close behind. position and secured this battery, besides torios serves nearly the same

hours,

but other guns, and reached the river above the Welsh coal miners, who do not lack Kalnzem at a point whence they offer a leisure, were threatening to strike as late direct menace to Mitauty as the end of November. The deduely nothing wrong with England save the

The Germans with their customary tion is obvious Miners are working shivalry, selected the Russian Christmas the private profit of a group of capitalists Eve for another diabolical gas attack on who have refused to show what their real that much tried region about Krewo. But profits were. Test the miners should have this is the third Christmas that the law as well as justice on their side; sol An Italian gentleman of intelligence Russians have spent in the trenches, and diers and munition men are working for

they know their German well by now the

the State; their and culture who has lived 15 years in Three waves were let loose, to the accomonly asset that Zensap, perhaps the 'A DEMAND TOL TEFORM

our commercial system Hamburg has arrived at Milan (writes paniment of a furious bombardment of has left them inthes, is being tested the pension scheme and the consequent

BUDE of all calibres. The attack being I wonder whether our tired rulers will avoidable suffering of wounded men hev

the Russians were perfectly their mid-Victoria training, will prove

We solemnly declare to you our con- viction that the question of all questions for our immediate consideration 1 th Shall the ancient Christian inheritance :01. loyalty to great and divine ideale be replaced the considerations mere

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