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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH, 1917- HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
APPEAL OF BELGIAN WORKMEN TO THE WORKMEN OF THE CIVILISED WORLD,
This appeal has resched MM. Carton de Wiart, Hymans and Vandervelde, members of the Belgian Government, who vouch for its authenticity.
Since it has been drawn up (before the 10th November, 1918) by a ordonnance of 20th Nov, 1916, the German Authority has increased, from 40 to 80 million france, the monthly war contribution collected, since December,
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BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
MEMORANDUM.
AUTOCRAT WITH GOOD. INTENTIONS.
Bewildered, as a stronger man might well bo, by the revolution that hus, perhaps, given Russia a new life, the Czar Nicholas Ins abdicated after troubled reign of twenty- three years.
He will live in Russian history ne the workmen in no matter what out-of-the-erst with good intentions, 10TH NOVEMBER, 1916. The workmen of the country have way spel should know it.
All-
assembled together in secret. The It is the appeal of the Belgian workman delegates have met together Catholic, Liberals, Socialists with one who, groaning under the heel of Germany to surrrender, upheld as he is by the accord, have drawn up the attached without the means to rebel, does not wish appeal
They address it to the whole world. knowledge that he has Right and Justice All ask that this amnifesto ahould on his side. -*- appear in every newspaper, that it should Maybe, the universal reprobation which be published and spread about as widely will husail Germans will stay the horrors as possible, placarded on the walls of all of slavery which these latter wish to great cities, and even in the smaller establish over a population, powers to localities of the world: in word, it defend itself, merely because it is doing is necessary that the least important its daty
the
to
DICTATOR" OF GERMANY.
LUDENDORFF THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE. ORIGINATOR OF SLAVE RALDS.
The following despatch from Geneva is by the ex-Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of America:-
Germany now has a real boss in General Ludendorf. The hand of the His father was a giant among men. The chief of Hindenburg's General Staff and Czar Nicholas is short, with sad, dreamy his trusted colleague is now not only folt eyes, that reveal the deep, mystical trend of in the strategic direction of the armies linked him with his people and largely out into Germany's whole economic and his character. This mysticism has at once of the Central Powers, but reaches realise the paychology of the Hussion pensant, All the threads not only of military worked his undoing. It has enabled him to social life,
distribution, industry, agriculture, and, and it has on occasion made him the easy control, but of civil administration, food victim of designing impestors.
He was twenty-six when he was raised to finally, even of German foreign relations, He is sympathetic, intel-military requirements, run ultimately to the high place that he feared and certainly all of which are now subordinated to lectually alert, industrious and unconquer the chatean which is the Silesian country never desired. ably shy. No mate was ever a mose devoted scat of Prince Pless, whore Ludendorff son or a better husband and father. No sits with the great Himlenburg at Im-
called, He perial Headquarters man ever was more cagef he wis has been conquered by his inheritance,
A PEACE ADVOCATE
SUPREME CONTROL.
APPEAL OF THE BELGIAN WORKMEN TO THE WORKMEN OF... international | victims obstinately refuse, in spite of all In the name of the solidarity of workmen, the working to engage in these labours which by the
Where a putoly military decision is in classes of Belgium, threatened in their rights of men are forbidden, they are
Before his father's death he openly pru-question Hindenburg's name is usually entirety with slavery, with deportation maltreated, struck, made ill wounded, and with forced work for the profit of and sometimes killed.
In Germany they thing them into fosse democratic sentiments. During his cited as the determinant authority, but enemy, address to the working classes of supreme appeal for energetic mines, quarries and chalk pits, regard years on the throne he initiated The Hague in all other great questions in the fore and efficacious assistano, Give us do less of age, profession or trade. They peace conferences, and gave his country front of German policy during recent more words of sympathy, but give us acts deport, pell-mell, young people of Constitution. He created the Duma the months such as the introduction of uni-
induced him to lay askie his crown. Perhaps You are men, you understand us.
ancient slavery in all its horrors!
men, he builded better than he know for Russia Germany you know, attacked and Already more than 50,000 workmen, if not for himself
thus
Nicholas has been accused of personal terrorised Belgium in 1914, because the idlers or otherwise, have been latter was defending the right of its deported, like convicts or slaves. Each
word, and its day, a new region is raided arciée): responsibility for the Japanese war and for neutrality, its plighted word, and this
once then, Germany has niartyrised this is the formidable warlike apparatus the lisasters that followed Rustin's unreadi.
Our situation is desperate and old folk of 60 and over, Is-not, this has now, by its refusal to bow to his ukase, versal auxiliary labour service, the con.......
So much for persons wealth
regards
WORKMEN AA
corruption that robbed, the armies in the Fast of munitions and supplies.
of
war basis, the transfer of Belgian version of German jadustry to an absolute workmen to Germany, the tightening of the food distribution regulations, und, finally, the unrestricted submarine war— prophetas on comitis decisions in "all-
accompanied by the self-explanatory remark, Ludendorff ist dafur" (Luden Belgium. She has made a prison of the soldiers, and the and process of war
informed cirels are almost invariably
country. Belgian Frontiers are armed against all these poor people disarmed
but it was certainly true that the inspirer It was Ludendorff who in the exciting against Belgians like a battlefront, and terrorised, but conscious of their "The Czar was responsible only negatively, dorff is for it).
The Hague peace talk launched the first trenches, barbed and electrified wire violated rights.
All-
German commander had determined to machine-gans and rallying points.
of the bewildering contradictions of his Never forget that the soldiers who are great war that followed the talk. This days of August, 1814, when the original our constitutional liberties are abolished There is no security. The life of citizens the gaolers and exccutioners of Belgian of the
he permitted the Petrograd massacres. He had already given orders to abandon East Pruesin and fall back behind the is under the authority of an arbitrary workmen are German workmen. And reign. He granted a Constitution, and yet retire before superior Russian forces and polica, whose power is without either in this way, 500,000, perhaps 800,000 men, has since the beginning of the way vehement Vistula, was hurried eastward from the will be deported, unless you object to it.y voiced his people's determination to fight limit or mercy
And after the men, without doubt, the on until the enemy is amashed. Yet he has Imperial Headquarters, picking up. women will come. Another 500.000 had to endure the pro-German intrigues of Hindenburg on the way, in order to save the situation, and be has merely extend- Germany has imposed on its victim an It is the whole working class of Belgium
The truth is that the bureaucracy had to the whole of Germany the system immense war contribution, which already which is threatened, with slavery, with
ruled the Czar, and not the Czar the which he introduced in the east when exceeds a milliard, and which grows ateakness, and with death.
bureaucracy. The actual government of Hindenburg was merely commander of
the castern forces. the rate of 40 millions per month. She Do you know, Brothers
working tussin has been in the hands of a. analy
Ladendorff then had full control of the per organised body of men, some of them
If a new Customs. in competent, a few of them hopelessly corrupt, entire administration in the occupied
all of them determined to protect their districts of Russia. privileges from the monarch and the people. tariff were to be introduced for Polands No one man con govera, the vast territories or regulations for the tobacco trade pro- of Russia No one man can possibly direct muigated, the decision ultimately rested
UNLIMITED MUNITIONS. and restrain the hundreds of subordinate with Ludendorff officials. Unluckily, the Czar Nicholas has not been guided by a considered and settled
blowing hot and to-morrow cold. He in the occupied districts were evolved
day
what
1s reserved for deported Belgian Rather he has acted on impulsu, to New municipal authorities for towne
kept open this wound, up to the day in few months our working bak been a Mr. Facing-Both-Ways on a from the givil administration bureau
WORKMEN ---
throne T
By refusing to England (who consented defend without faltering the right of Thousands of the most patroichens the general command of Germany's entiro
Germany, by means of pillage, confisca victims Thirty preng198 19 tion, requisitions and forced sales, more than five milliards worth of food stuffe And the food. What food! Belgien and merchandise industrial and agricul civilian prisoners who return from Ger produce. At the same time, she has many after three months detention have tural
sent Inter Germany the greater last a third of their weight. They are taken and part of the raw material in our factories, unrecognizable, anemic and sick! Many as well as the machinery and accessories can not recover their lost health, but She has, in that way, stopped our indus languish and die, If such is the fate of
general about an almost and brought try Cessation of work
amongst our working Prisoners who do nothing, what lament-
abla lot workmen, who are submitted to
attached to the Over Command in the and the representatives of East. rg, Germans have
SERVANT OF RIS PEOPLE. hoaviest of corvées Ta
Popula For nearly two years,
Nevertheless, he has always desired, to be American and Jewish socictios coming to October of 1916 when Germany, lacking
by destroyed in its strength of work the beneticent servant of his people. La en Germany to arrange for opening com workmen, was able to collect in Belgium tion, the pride of our free country, will the working forces of which she hersel? When the day of heace comes, there will deavouring to attain an accurate judgment,munications with Polish Jews and the is in such pressing need.
scarcely be any Belgiau, workers capable if must be remembered that Russia is unlike relatives in America and for sending Yes, Germans have created the Belgian of taking up the great work-of-economic any ollier country in Europe. The opposi relief funds had to confer with Luden
the
bureaucrats proved.
Russiana cessation of work, and have maintained construction of what was prosperous tion to western methods of government is by dorff before their plans were finally Eps
have feared that Holy, something, finor it to their own profit de Belgium, and whose only crime was to ho motus confined to
Russia, which to
and as to Dostoievsky WORE MEN
greater thun life itself, neutrals to life and honour.. vent these materials being taken by supreme proof of slavery might be spared if the Czar's personal nowected persons
and if authority passed to Our highest Germany venting by terrible, edicts),
Mal authorities have
actual direction of atmies--food produc Belgian communes, Belgian associations shown to the Occupant the sovereign Czas have been cinsel by his
what
he should pursue. course
of his sincere tion and distribution, manufactures, and personalities, from giving work to
inessures The Court of Appeal of travel and those without work, from looking after injustice, and the vile iniquity of these make up his mind which road he should important to military success as the
There can be no
Cry resources
in transportation, etc. His first decision was their professional education, and from Belgium tay called on him to withdraw site to use all his
on
his edicts because they were contrary to great works of public employing them
defect Gerutan what
would mean for Falkenhayn and Wild von Hohenbern, utility in all dignity and fraternity law of humanity.
They have been, and are being natural law, to positive law and to the the present war. He has evidently realised to remedy as far as possible the error of the forces inaximum consumption of munitions, to overthrow has private work, exclusively Belgian, The Episcopate of Belgium, headed by Russia. It has been his misfortune that he who had attempted in fix a figure for the and sadly under-estimated the required. which never complains either of the minent Cardinal Mercier, has duties or of its mission. The solidarity demanded from him the withdrawal of working to avert that defeat
The Car
the married Alexandra.
His determination way to produce nob of the Belgian social classes assures the the elets, as they were woulsary to The Czar Nicholas is nephew of Queen amotinta continuance of this magnificent work morality and to their plighted word. Yes,
precedent contrary to promises solemnly given int in 1881, is a daughter of the Grand Duchess the amount of guns and munitions which
to provide new prime materials) the diplomatic control indispensable to pre
by
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in the history
We have done everything so that this
Al
When Hindenburg was appointed to military strength. Ludendorff extended be destroyed not only the scope of his military, re- sponsibilities, but also took control of those factors of general life which under
wenkened Were
The ch of troubles that encerty to the present war conditions are almost aë
not been able
Czerine, whom
To these 300,000 unwilling idlers Belgium, Marshal von der Geitz, who had Both the Czar and Czarina, are therefore but the maximum amount of which Ger created by Germans and upheld by them proclaimed Young people shall never first cousins to King George Day maay's industries were capable and sub-
they have been saying during the past month, Either you will sign a work contruct for Germany, or you shall be reduced to slavery.
times as
be led away luto Germany, either to be there controlled in the Army, or to be because they believed in that word of employed there in forced work" It is honour of the direct representative of the German Emperor, that our Belgian work men returned from Holland after the siego of Antwerp, and that others stayed
Our
Belgium, a martyr to Right, wants no no further further verbal statements, platenie sympathies.
She wants acts.
Will neutrals and their directing classes allow of these? Are they then going to
ordinate everything else to this purpose. Out of this came Germany's grandios scheme for mobilising the entire labou supply in the direct service of the army. The idea of the compulsory employment of Belgian labour in German industry, it may now be stated, was algo Luden- dorf hot Bissing a or, at any rate,
diplomatic com- when Baron von Bissing urged against the scheme, the impossibility of carrying
In either case, it is exile, deportation, forced work for the pront of the enemy, in the interests of the enemy, and against one's Native-land formidable punish ments, the cruellest that tyranny, at all behind. It is on that account that allow civilisation to be set back to bar invented to punish erine and, Germans can take them now, to deport barian ages, when the victor led back in reality; what crime? The unwilling them, and reduce them to slavery, the conquered proples into slavery, out without excher military
authority which overruled his objections-- Our political representatives have people to be illenews chich the tyrant himself has galite You Allow Will they allow the working classes of a plicnticas, it wa creatril and has kept up, as PATIE
effect And because, despite the most odious demanded the withdrawal of the edicts If others at this, if the world must und ordered the scheme to be put into-
THE HEAYS HAND, pressure the Germans have been unable because for Belgians to work at this assist yet once again at such a spectacle
Krupp, Thyssen, and other great in- to obtain signatures which qualify voluntary in dare to moment for Germans is to fight against of cowardice, be you, at least, our friends.
official Belgium Does not each Belgian work and our saviours.
dustrial leaders of Germany go direct to countries they man in Germany allow of a new (German)_______ WORKMEN perdere
We do not doubt you, our cause is yours. Ludendorff for consultations and direc communiquía. to noutral soldier being sent to the front? We do forcibly seize our
It seems to us that if we did not tions regarding the production of mini- and ours: they arrest them by thousands. Our industrial chiefs have asked for the each day; they tear them from their withdrawal of the ediets because in our denounce to you the foul crime which tions and supplies. Herr Thyssen brouglit wives and children; surrounded by wat The entire economic life in
reproach us with it, saying bayonets, they drag them to cattle trucks, fatherland will become impossible and menaces us, you yourselves would one day from Ludendorft last autumn the work You had no right to say nothing, and that there would then be no ruthless submarine var," and it was again from France and that one will reduce it to the last gasp" and take them abroad, into France and The workmen, Socialiste and Catholics to suffer your martyrdom in silence; you the chateaux as: Pless, after the rejection Germany
On the Western front, they form them men and women, united in the sans are the depositories on your part of the of Germany's peace overtures had by the most brutal methods, to dig thought of solidarity, and in the same
people of civilised workers is anywhore trenches, to prepare fields of military anguish, have called for the withdrawal honour of the workers' condition. If a changed the situation, that word mon policy had received the stamp of ap. aviation, to make strategic roads, to of the edicts, because they are contra reduced to servitade, the entire working January that the ruthless submarine
nd when the to right, to promises given, to civiliscings is affected. It is a terrible pres proval fortify German lines.
tion, to patriotism, as well as to the cedent. Wees workmen of à free coun-
It is an open secret that farming dignity of the working classes.
try, would not have allowed such ALL HAS BEEN IN VAIN
fool crime to be committed. The modern classes are holding up" food sup Germany, who has an extreme working classes have come forth froin plies from the general stock for the nation's necessities Hindenburg's appes! wished slavery, they cannot go back into it." nerd of hands, has not
to the patriotism of the farmers to pro- to retard the application of Lia BROTHERS
ride extra fats for munition workers, edicts, neither for a day, nor for an hour. We seem to hear these words announe which brought toas of pork and lar For all response, slic has sent more
Ludendorff and at the time of my de soldiers, and more machine-guns. Now, ing ur salvation. You are numerous, from hidden surpluses, was inspired by the Belgion working clanes look to the you are powerful, you are energetic.
Alone in the world, you can prevent the parture from Berlin it was reported neutral Powers for and whole working class of a civilised country that the task of getting from the farm
ers the full amount of such supplies, in from falling into slavery. They ask if this time, in face of this
which Herr Batocki's Food Department. crime of treason against humanity, their revolted conscience will not inspire them,
backed by all the authority failed, will now be taken in hand by Ludendorf and at least, with a fitting energetic gesture. to allow such an abominable crime to be committed, is to share in it.
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As far as even if, for a moment, forca The working classes of Belgium, ncceeds in reducing our bodies to servi- themselves with anguish if neutrals, yet inde, our souls, will never consont to it, once more, will wash their hands like Wo add this Whatever our tortures, Pontius late, under pretext that we do not wish for peace, except with German calunnies do not agree with the the independence of our country, and the Complaints of their victims.
triumph of justice.
Continued at foot of next column.)
BELGIAN WORKMEN.
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All these decisions and determinations, of course, are covered by Hindenburg's name and authority, but Hindenburg leaves such non-military problems almost exclusively in the hands of Ludendorff, the man who is, as far as that ja pos sible, dictator of Germany.
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