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*** THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS."

A POLICY OF CORRIDORS.

BY AN ENGLISHMAN "

In no passage of his unfortunate speech, now bandied up and down the world, did President Wilson display darker ignorance of Britain's hopes and aims than in that wherein be discussed

the freedom of the sons,"

Had he looked back with half an eye apón ur history, he might have dis- covered that all the sacrifices which wo have ever made in war wer Lorne cheer fully for the sake of one anibition-that Britain, should rule the waven. The wisdom of making these sacrifices and cherishing this ambition must he appa rent to all who will be at the pains to look at a map Britain, like Japan, is ar island kingdow..

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2018, 1913.

ST. HELENA FOR THE KAISER.

VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN RIGHTS LEAGUE,

Kaiser Wilhelm should be sent to St. Helena, and the United States should unite with Great Britain, France, and their Allies to send him there, in the opinion of George Haven Putnam, President of the American tights League, who spoke en England! part in the new interna- tionalism before the congregation of the Mount Morris Baptist Church. The re- commendation that the exile of Napoleon he repeated in the case of the German Emperor was applauded.

Mr. Putnam began his lecture by saying that the peace of 1917, or, perhaps, o 1918, should see the rights of all untions guaranteed, especially the rights of the smaller nations, and of peoples, such as the Armenians, who have not formed them selves into nations.

THE GERMANS IN INDIA.

NA POD

[BY MAUD DIVER, THE WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.]

A WOMAN'S LETTERS.

THREATS BY ORDER OF THE

KAISER.

A remarkable case was heard at Nor The faith of India is the consumwich recently, when Frances Trenerry, a mation of a belief, atrast, a hope en widow, of Queen's Road, was committed for gendered by long years of contact with trial for demandlig money by menacing, the British nation. It is the result of n letters. In one case, it was stated, accused. deep study of the history of other demanded £s from a Mrs. Mack.

The letter, written on black-edged notepaper, nations, the acceptance of a destiny to read :- which of their own free will and reasoned argument the people of India deliberately res gn themselves."

Madam,-Your son-in-law and his wife: are in the hands of German spies. You. can save them by obeying our orders. Within fifteen minutes you are to leave These words-simple, conclusive, and your house with all the cash you have and straight-spoken-strike the keynote of jewellery to the value of £25 done up in, The Verdict of India a pamphlet a panced. Drop it over the railings at the Sir Mancherjee corner of Girton-road. Do this, and your Intely written by deserves to be widely read, marked, and starts at once and lasts for a week, when Bhownagree, K.C.I.E.; a pamphlet that dear ones are saved; fail, and their torturo digested, more especially in view of the they will be put to a fearful lead. Only Government stately and magnificent fifteen minutes. We don't value life. If life is in danger, for some of your neigh- hours are in the pay of the German Secrct Service, and are all the time on the watch.i So beware.

Like our gallant Allics of the East govern them. I hold that the Turkicaign to set. India boside the Dominions i you do not keep silent about this your

we owe our life and our livelihood to free access to the sea, in war or in peace. We are a small country which depends for its sustenance upon the open water ways. In times of peace we are willing to share our freedom and immanity with all the world. We have made the ocean sa safe as the high roads which traverse the Continent. We have suppressed piracy and we welcome to our ports al those who come thither for the friendly offices of comingrce. But in time of war our command of the sea must be exclu sive and unchallenged. If we lot our enemies wail whither they will or trade with whom they choose, then we hold our throat to the knife, and may as well commit suicide at once.

"The powers which have shown them selves anft to govern other peoples he continued, should not be allowed to Government is such a power."

Discussing the responsibility for the war, Mr. Patnam said:

Mrs. Mack telephoned to the police, but before their arrival a large stone crashed through the dining-room window. She afterwards, received a second letter, say-

in the forthcoming Imperial Conference.

In these fifty pages we have a brief yet succinct account of the zeal and the un- The President spoke heedlessly-and scrupulous cunning with which Germany when any man in a position of respon has endeavoured to undermico India's sibility speaks heedlessly he also speaks loyalty and blacken British character wickedly-when he said that we had no ever since the outbreak of war, not to way of knowing the cause of the war-mention the more insidious pre-war being a proper gam There never was a war of which the cause tivities that formed part of her vast Do not rush into neighbour's before. was so clear. We have all of the docu- scheme for peacefully penetrating the

reading this, or shots may result. ments to show the cause, except the letters whole civilised world. that passed between Berlin and Vienna.

Madam, you know what it means to refuse to obey our orders. What will you say to, which brought on the war while England and France were trying to prevent it I

rifle shot through your windows, or those letters had been honest, if they had

a bomb We have our orders to stop at plicld the German claim, they would

nothing. Your money or your family's have been made public."

lives. Sensible people are paying others like you who refuse will soon be wiped of the earth.

Yet we want

For more than two years, Sir Muncher. je asserts; the Germans have left no stone unturned to inflame the minds of down-trodden Indians and touse the in- dignation of neutral countric against Discussing the Germans, Mr Putnam England's gross misgovernment and med said that the Emperor and his counselors treatment of millions of long-suffering We regret the President's speech the believed that their nation was divinely Asiatics With this end in view they mory because to country lies under appointed to lead the peoples of the world, have poured out a regular flood of official deeper debt of gratitude to the British that the Emperor spoke the word of the literature (save the mark!); hönd- Fleet than the United States. The Monroe Lord, that no smaller State could be bills, and pamphlets The titles of these doctrine, dear to the heart of every good permitted to stand in the way of the de precious productions speak for them American, is maintained by the warships velopment of the empire.

Such a nation, Mr. Putnam said, English Over-Lordship in India," and

nam said, helves India under the British Fist, of Great Britain. It we disarmed our

"stands in the way of ary international ships and threw our big guns into the

If a people feels that it is so forth sea, then that New World, which Monroe settlement. and Canning called into being to re- called to dominate the world, it cannot dress the balance of the Old, would be attenuta a federation of nations on equal prey to any bold pirate who had the terres with other nations. ships and the courage to attack it And Germany in any federation of States; we want the good old Germany of ideals. while we have acted as the guardians of And we may get this Germany; if the the ocean for many a century, so we have German people themselves, and the rest sought from our strength and skill of the world, get rid of the Prussian ther reward, even in time of war save power that feels that it must rule the the privileges of protecting our shores world. There was once a man who want. against invasion and of preventing curd to rule the world, with whom civilized foes from using the sea as a means of Europe could not co-operate, and civilize carrying on their commerce and fooding Europe sent him to St. Helena And their people.

that is the proper place for William of LANGUAGE WITHOUT MEANING.

Mr. Putnam then cont

contrasted, from:

rom his Such has been our policy always. Such point of view, the British and German must be our policy unto the end, unless Empires, and said that the British Em we are prepared to face the swift, ine. pire was the must beneficent" the world vocable destruction of our Empire For had ever seen, that it had done more for this policy, as I have said, we have dependent peoples; than any other and fought again and again. Had wo suche instanced. Indio, Egypt, and South

rendered to Napoleon what he called tho freedom of the sea, peace would always Bave been ours for the asking. From the many conversations, held at Tilsit be tween Napoleon and the Czar of Russia one thing emerged: If only England

Berlin."

They have matte repeated efforts to suborn the frontier tribes, flattering them with rate of England's wensonss and their own skil. They have waxed assidu- ous in their attentions to the Amir of Afghanistan," whom perhaps (adds Sir Mancherjee) the Kaiser in his con temptuous estimate of Oriental character and intelligence, thought to be green and gullible. He has had the Amir's reply long since, and let us hope he now known better

They have sedulously stirred up the dregs of sedition and discontent to be found in every community, not excepting their own; nor was it for lack of decret encouragement, funds, and skilful or ganisation that they failed signally in then attempt to engineer a serione rising against the British in India Gir Machael O'Dwyer's full accouse of that Returning to the main subject, the hidden drama has revealed that the con- speaker said that two theories of govern spirators were hampered chief by the ment were clashing in the war and would vigilance of the Indian police and the clash, after the war the theory of the large, passive loyalty of India's own divine State," in which the leaders felt people; those very people whom Germany called upon by Providence, to rule the in the firming language of exagger

and the theory of the human tion--depicts as downtrodden, starved, State,

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ALL CIVILIANS TO BE ATTACKED.

A similar letter, said the prosecuting solicitor, was also sent to a Mrs. Benton, through whose window a large stone was also thrown,

In the third case, of demanding £25 from Miss Callis, headmistress of, a prís vato girls' school, the letter ran

Madam, the Kaiser has issued the order that all civilians are to be attacked if they fail to meet his demands for money: You as the keeper of so many lives will be the cause of the lives of your pupila price. This is £20, and the inner of all being sacrificed unless you pay his payment is this. Within 15 minutes of the receipt of this note you are to leave, your house with cash (mostly eash and £1 or 10s. notes, no other paper money). and jewellery to amount of £28 tigd in a parcel and hang so as to fail inside the railings at the corner garden of the house turning from Earlham, into Mill Hill road. If you leave the house for any other purpose, or if any other person, they risk being shot at, and every window in your house will be shattered. No more school- ing for you. All your lives at stabe. So rugs the order of the All Highest.

Here again a large stone was thrown brough the window. The police kept observation upon the accused and caught her throwing a stone into the girls school, - Mrs. Trenerry, who pleaded guilty, said she was asked whether for a certain sum he would do certain things to test the

would consent to waive the rights which world which human leaders attempted and exploited by the great robber police. Dhe, wa, asked to try how long

her superiority no sea gave her, there would be an instant sheathing of swords, an instant return of peace and its bless ings to a war-worn world.

and

"human state,"

MALICIOUS -ADUSE.;

laughable, beneath contempt, but for the possibility that countries out of touch with India and ignorant of the truth may be led to regard these glazing libels For, apart from certain flagrant lies, 15. over-coloured, bertem fagrant les

could go on undetected. She was asked to race certain letters to be sent out and she traced dozens. It was a com- pact that if one was caught the name of the other should not be divulged. She stood alone and would not assist the police as she had given her word of honour.

fame. But over against mistakes in policy, individual indiscretions, aspira tions unfulfilled, he sets England's un- swerving sense of justice, her noble pur pose and high ideala, “that have re latively standardised the measure of these deficiencies, and the liberty of thought and speech that made their exposure pos bible,

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to govern in accordance with divine State which it in her sacred mission principles." He said that England and to destroy. France were

that Germany typified the And Great Britain gave her answer But he said the word divine in this For proof of India's awful plight, she the King's speech to the Houses of Par connection had a reference to the Deity, bas pressed into her service every scourge liament in 1808. With a proper defiance If the Lord is working through Wil and plague that periodically devastates sas picked up Napoleon's challenge. She liam of Prussia," he said, it is not the the country. "Gorman pamphlets are recognised that henceforth his object Ged you and I worship, but the old full of the most hideous descriptions, of would be her entire subingation, and she Scandinavian god, Thor, returned to the sufferings of the people by famines, problem, the Indian Empire: of jars, not did not wince, though all the Powers of power."

duly illustrated with pictures of mainfrequent, between ruler and ruled; of the Continent were on his side. She In this clash of States," Mr. Putnam cisted men and women and groups of the inevitable sprinkling of malcontents wou'd accept Russia's offer of mediation said, " on which side does America stand? corpees; insinuating and even asserting tager to fad any spark of sedition to a only when she knew that Russia was in a Where ought we to take a position? We that these portrayed the results of Brition position to mediate impartially, and must belong with those nations who are rule in India! when the principles of the basis on which fighting for the human State, for repre France was ready to negotiate were made sentative government. England and This sort of thing would be purely known to his Majesty. Meanwhile she Franes are fighting our war and we guarded, as jealously as ever, the over-should be with them. Germany is against eignty of the son and not for eleven years us as much as them. The British feet did peace shine upon her...

bas maintained the Monroe Policy-Doc trine is an absurd word here-and if any What our fathers won by the sword and thing should happen to the British Beet, kept by the sword we shall not surrender Germany would ignore the Monroe the German propaganda of wholesale dis In effect, the writer has set before the And when President Wilson placidly tell Policy, to describe which she has a word waragement has been in its way, a world's Court of Appeal England and na that ́1 it is a problem closely connect that, translated correctly means.

means triumph of malicious perversion und India and India's people for judge and Germany, accused and accuser, with ed with the limitation of naval arma- damned impertinence. ments." he speaks a language which can Mr. Putram said that England, in ad- abusos e

jury between them. The case is their have no meaning for us. We alone of the dition to highting for freedom for the Every known critic of British rul case first and foremost. Germany bus great nations, as I have said, exist upon world, had also given the world the ideal in indis for a century past," says Sir spared no pains to undermine their She strength of our Fleet, and the no- of free trade. In conclusion, the speaker Mancherice had been adroitly mis loyalty. They have been called in sup- mont, we place ourselves, in, a state of in- saidcm conclusion, the

quoted, and every evil, however trifling port of her libels by the Kaiser himself, We ong feriority upon the set our life and free-

onght to be helping England and laid at its door has been intelligently and in this breve, straightforward pam

They are don are at on end. Mr. Wilson does France and Belgiam now. not suggest that any other nation should fighting for civilization. It is our Bight" ampliod) and the main object of this phlet he has their answer,

Lown little pamphlet is not merely to tell

“To India, the Kaiser has appealed,” the truth about English rule in India make an equal Bacrifice. His policy Times. would inflict no injury upon Germany,

but to emphasise publicly the fact that says their spokesman "unto India shall which, the heart of a great continent,

these skilled purveyors of falsehood Bo

have simply scandalised the people of whose agents have massacred in cold. India and heartlessly trified with their blood the tribe of Herreros; whose feelings by exploiting their sufferings for rapacity in its African colonies has the nefarious purpose of venting their already bad its reward and own malignancy against the English." whose harrowing acts of cruelty in the present war will, for ages to come, make As if in fuller confirmation of India's its name & byword at which bumanity of armies. With our supremacy at sen doing free highways and open town verdict comes the statement of Sir will quail it ill becomes a nation with PRIMO

po, this question would have nothing more of free highways and open corri Charles Cleveland, Director of Criminal such autecedents to talk of the oppres+ more than an academic interest for us. dors, let it be a universal freedom, by An army which we could not send across land as well as by sex, that is discussed Intelligence, with its further revealingssion and failure of British rule in India the sea would be worse than useless, and And since that will never be discussed be of the persistence and futility of German The people of India have seen if our enemice were free to transport fore the millennium, we may take com machinations in the East. His last through and through the motive of this words, in particular are worth quoting diabolical propaganda, and they scout un ariny along one of President Wilson's fort in the thought that we shall not afresh 1 should like to be able to say the foul charges, the proof or disproof of eorridors to the coasts of England, the accept a doctrine which disables us alone Sooner we made up our minds to be the and allows all the other nation, of the that the frustration of the plots has been which must depend on their own verdict. world the full enjoyment of their strength branch of that service under me, but I their country have been directed the

due to the Indian police, and to the That verdict that the destinies of halots of Europe the better.

and their position:

gladly admit that it has been chiefly due paths of progress and prosperity by the Nor can it he said that in peace time to the sanity of the great Indiao public Government which British genius and We shall never be the helots of Europe we have over used our supremacy to the which has withheld its support. The statesmanship have established in India: because the policy of corridors aking detriment of others. We have performed German plows seem to have been clumsy, bat, they are proud of being British which the ships of all nations shall pass our duties as policemen of the sea with belated, too theoretical, and based on a citizens; and that it is only by the right at their case, even in war time, will never scrupulous justice and unfailing cour- misunderstanding of Indian character, and title of that citizenship that they be accepted by us. And if there are to be tesy. And during the war we huse obey. At the same time, the British Empire hope to take their proper plans corriders on the sea, why shall there noted all those laws which are based upon owes a great debt to the Indian police in the comity of nations, side by side with be corridors on the Continent also! If the comity of nations. We have out for its answerving loyalty and zoal

the other children of the British Em2 the freedom of the sea is to be complete raged no code; we have committed no

pired there must be added to it the freedom of murder upon the ocean. The freedom of the land. Why, for instance in this pre- the seas claimed by Germany-the free- sent conflict should we be debarred from dom to drown men and, women by sub- easy access, by land to Russia, if this new marine is not the freedom which wo principle of freedom be accepted? The claim to possess. And as we shall always Russians are our Allies we wish to ex- refuse to countenance, peace without vic change with them opinions and commodi tory, so we shall never forget that the ties."

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4. Nor can it give us any satisfaction ritory to their advantage, and she is in to hear that the limitation of naval arma the right of it. And we are in the right xnents opens the wider and perhaps of it, too, when we forbid the Germans more dificult question of the limitation to use the highway of the sea to our un

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