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OUR EMPIRE'S FUTURE,

THE MIRACLE THAT HAS BEEN WORKED DURING THE WAR,

SPEECHES BY LORD MILNER AND

BIR E MOICHIS,

A note of buoyant confidence, coupled with an earnest appeal for preparedness, characterized the upcoches delivered by Visconat Milner (member of the War Cabinet) and Sir Edward Morris (Prime Minister of Newfoundland) at the Savoy Hotel recently. The occasion was & Kuncheon given by the British Empira Producers Organisation, at which Lord Milner presided, and the Premier of New

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1917.

SUPPLIES FOR NEUTRAL

SHIPS

FOOD LEAKAGE STOPPED

MAIN TO DANUBE.

CENTRAL EUROPE'S"

WATERWAY.

THE BAVARIAN SCHEME

[BY THE FORMER BERLIN CORRESPONDENT

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the

the

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A already briefly reported, Bavarian Diet has presed Danube Main Canal Bill. The canaliza tion of the Main as far as Aschaffenburg is about to be completed, the Bavarian Bill is to prepare for the construction of a great new waterway from Aschaffenburg to the Austro-German frontier.

PRUSSIA'S FOOD,

CRITICAL SITUATION.

DICTATOR'S ADMISSIONS.

In the Prussian Diet recently Hert Michaois, Prassian State Commissione for the Feeding of the Peoplo, made what the Binische Zeitung describes as a serious speech. Horr Michaelia said:

Houndland was the guest of the occasion. nany. It would be entirely anomalous if The Bill, which was introduced by the such supply thus producing distress of

SIGNIFICANCE OF EMPIRE COUNCIL,

under

Branaries,

Courac to be attained

Year

The

A measure of supervision has now been introduced respecting the supplies of foodstuffs and stores taken on board neutral vessels calling at British ports. Public attention was directed some months ago to the fact that there were then no restrictions of any sort as regards he shipment of foodstuffs, provided they

me had its origin in the very grent The office which has been entrusted ta were described as being for ships use

anxiety in which we live regarding onr Cases have undoubtedly occurred in which

food questions. This anxiety as especially anduly large supplies were shipped by

grave, not only owing to the fact that the neutral vessels, especially by those pro

weather conditions have dislocated our ceeding to countries contiguous to Ger

a kind that a savore state of things, Testals were to be allowed to ship freely; Bavarian Government at the begining of especially in the large industrial centres, Viscount Milner, in proposing the 45 stores, commodities the exportation of April, merely provides for the allocation the day he imagined, but owing to

hardly health of the guest, dwelt on the fact which is prohibited. Balkan of £50,250 as first instalment of the cast to the whole of the year that lies before The new system of control is of a very of completing the plans for the news. We have to reckon with the fact that appréhensions extend that the movement represented by the clastic, general character, and there water way. It is calen'ated that the plans British Empire Producers Organization flies outside our old and burren ceone should be no occasion whatever for any can be completed in about three years and the Inventory made on January 15th will mic controversias. It belongs, he said, to neutral owners to misconstrue it. It has will cost about £250,000. Although no October estimates proving too small and not result, as many hopedi would, in the the fresh order of idens, to the era of certainly been conceived in no hostile definite arrangements have been made, a consequent surplus being left in our Aconstruction, of building up ou now and spirit to them but is due ratlar to a Bavaria expects that three-fifths of the

fruitful lines to follow the frightful publie demand that a leakage of amp-cost of the plans will be borne by the Em case, we shall be faced with an extremely as 1 reckon, such in the welter of waste and destruction through did in some instances amount to an abuse two-fifths will be provided by Bavaria cal measures in order to attain the

plies, however small it might be, which Pire and which we are passing. Its guiding prin of the freedom, should be effectively the present Bill, as already explained, namely, that of holding out. This view of

interested towns, industrial difficult pro

and persons. The other

problem, and must adopt vers irin is to regard the Empire 95 closed. In future the lints of quantities

which has of economic whole, to promote the thorough and systematic study of all its productive of foodstuffs and stores required by the covering the first instalment the situation has not been equally well Acapacities, to make it, as it can be made, master of a neutral vessel will be sub the Main from Aschaffenburg to Bamberg,

The route will be, practically, that of disseminated everywhere. As regards independent and self-supporting in remitted to the Board of Trade Surveyor and that of the Danube from Stepphers prevalent opinion that because ve pect of all basic and vital industries, at the port, and, if he approve the quan to Passau. Considerable new works will pretty well for two years we shall, there grain for bread, for instance, there is a After referring to the significance of the Customs officials. It is not intended feature of the scheme is the proposed new remedying of other scarosty which arises,

tities, the shipment will be facilitated by the fact that representatives of the that any hard-and fast line should be canal from the Main at

be required on both rivers, but the grent tore, again do well the third Dominions and India were taking part drawn All the circumstances will be Cabinet. Lord Milner proceeded:

is already shifted on to bread grain,

in treated old Ludwig Canal," which was built ever, the inventory connection between the Main and the as an available substitute. When, how- 1836 and 1840. But whereas the old, and there is cause for grave anxiety also by King Ludwig I of Ba now almost useless, canal takes a more regard to grain for bread.

produces no better of Bavaria batween

een result than the previous estimates then direct course from the Main at Bamberg

with to the Danube just west of Ratisbon, the discovered that among all parts of the We have in the third year of the war new canal will go southwards from a peop'e the general feeling evinced ie not point, near Nuremberg to Steppberg, join one of that endurance (Standhaftigkeit) ing the Danube there. The reason is that for which we had hoped. This is human the necessary water can be obtained only nature, but it is to a high degree deplor from the Danube or its southern tribuable and may bave the most tarice,

Berious W results. We have not perceived at the kilometres (about 480 miles) in length, absolutely necessary in the distribution of whole waterway will be 734 towns that stern supervision which is and it is estimated that the cost of con foodstuffs. Among large numbers of atruction will be £32,500,000 and that the bakers covert resistance to the Govern whole expenditure can be covered by remont's measures can be observed. More venue if there is an annual traffic of food stuffs have been consumed, and

and the 10,000,000 tons. It is also assumed that consumption has been more irregular than inland waterways generally will profit for the general interests admit. There has many years after the war by scarcity of been widespread abuse of bread tickets, an tonnage and high freights for sea traffic.

abuse which entails the

the most serious conSS- KING OF DATABIA'S TRIUMPH.

quence as regards our stocks. In one The adoption of the scheme at the pre cessation of work and other more dis- Western town there have been great sent time is a great personal triumph for mal things. Those difficulties must be difficulties in supplying food, resulting the King of Bavaria, and the most impor attributed to the fact that brend tickets tant expression of the policy at which he hus laboured for years policy which have been forged and illegally used ori pictures big ships passing freely from locking a scale that the entire reserves Rotterdam to the Black Ses. As already failed and bread was to be given as a explained, the

up, and when the potatoes assistance

of Bavaria looks for ba there un denotes to the Empire, but wills, particularly the smaller mills, the substitute no bread was available. In the evidence that he has existing regulations have been disobeyed, yet asked for it stille

roubled himself about the Prussian and the consumption of four, which is the tude towards his patriotic plans. Not out, has reduced our supplies in the merely does the enthusastià Bavarian sup most shocking manner. Moreover, there port of the new scheme contrast with the has been a widespread use of grain as

the fadder

un series of special meetings of the War taken into account, such as the amount anube at Steppberg, Ambery to the such as the lack of potatoes, 18 then

The

have been used:

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A time may come. I hope and believe the vessel has on board at the time, the time must come, when the supreme plies of the kind most needed can be ob length of the voyage, and whether sup direction of Imperial affairs will be intained at the next port of call. It is Abe hands of a Government representative well known that a large number of neutral

and responsible to the people of all the States of which the Empire is com: vessels are employed in British trade, and mosed. (Cheers) But we cannot realize there is no reason why such ships should that ideal to-day, though we may take-a- not have the same call on British Setep or two in the right direction. The supplies as British ships. The tendency ircumstances of the time are not favour-would be to give every possible as able to a great act of constitutional re

sistance to neutral vessels finding em construction. We must work with the

ployment in British trade. There is, machinery we have got. The struggle in

indeed, now a good deal of good-natured which we are engaged absorbs, and growling among British owners that the rightly absorbs, all our thoughts and conditions of trading are being made efforts. But we must carry on that last too attractive for freight vessela, truggle not only in the interests of the especially as the increased rates of freight whole, but with all the resources of the lately specified under the French and yhole, and not only all the material, but Italian limitation schemes allow profits all the mental and moral resources, all to neutrale many times larger than any the enthusiasm and devotion, all the

that British owners can possibly earn wisdom and counsel that the Empire and provide (Cheers) In the hands of the the productivity of not only these Is Government of the United Kingdom reste lands, hut of the whole British Empire of necessity, as far as the British Empire (Cheers.) Our aim should be to raise is concerned, the suprerae direction of and manufacture within the Empire all the war. It is the only body which is in

that is required by the Empire-in other to position to exercise, in conjunction words, all raw material in the Empire with the Governments of the Allied on land and sen should be developed, and mations, a continuous control over mili so raw material should leave the Empire tarf and naval uperations. In the disuntil increased in value by the process of charge of that duty we are constitution manufacture. Nothing should be im ally responsible only to the people of the ported into the Empire that can be raised United Kingdom. But we are morally re- or manufactured in the Empire. When sponsible to the whole Empire (Hear this is made clear to the authorities that hour:) Under his Majesty the King, who as good an article and as cheap can lis the Sovereign of every part of it, we be manufactured or raised, when this is are the trustees of the interests of all demonstrated, then foreign products te peoples. And so we are anxious, as should be absolutely excluded and procenat rebels In 1989 of the Kaiserwa

defeat by the Prussian agrarian far as humanly possible to assure our hibited. But I hear someone say How Midland Canal scheme, but Prussia What has to be done now is to get to Belves that we are acting not only in will the answer be protected from the has always pursued an anti-Bavarian work while there is yet time, and to act accordance with our own judgment, but avarice of the producer, or how will the also with that of the men who enjoy the man who has to buy for his family be the Prussian Diet recently Dr. Lippmano, Herr Hoffmann (Socialist):

waterways policy. During a debate in with all possible vigour and severity. confidence of our fellow-subjects across protected from having to pay a high the seas That is the meaning and the price when foreign competition ceases 7a Radical deputy, observed peerved All departments agree that something

dared.

ocialist): Yes, if you purpose of the invitation we have ad Simply by the State controlling the attitudey do not understand the dressed to them. And we are grateful, price, by fixing the maximum price over of Bavaria, with the zeal of a boy, has without seriously ons can be taken

of our Minister when the King Sir Edward Morris, for the response which the products shall not be sold, and thrown himself into the Danube Main ng interests. Some milla will have to be encroaching upon exist Which that invitation his elicited. No in that way successfully competing with Canal scheme so that negotiations are closed, body can fail to realize the difficulties the foreign article too often sent in merely nearly completed. If the achemo is car municipalities will he deprived of t

and in certain circumstances autonomous powers Effective measures authorities in the concentrating the person of the State Commissioner (Herr have not been placed strictly under the Michaeli humself) Foodstuffs which rationing regulations or sized, such as Cg6, milk, butter, fruit, and vegetables, must be made available for the improve

atti

WHILE THERE IS YET TIME, T

hich beset the assembling of statesmen, for damping purposes, to catch a market, ried out the Danube will be linked UP be achieved by

his own country, at a single centre in a time of crisis like the result will more than compensate for all the personal wacrifices which have been made. (Cheers.)

WONDER OF THE WORLD.

of prison and sweated labour. It is to accomplish this that the British Empire Producers Organization has been formed, and whom work is the most hopeful sign

linked up with the Danube, The Danube

East will Oder Canal is an urgent demand of East Germany and German inland shipping. If we had had the Midland Cana! it could

POLITICAL AND MILITARY IMPORTANCE.

Herr Hofer (Somalist)

that

Michaelis According to the Rheinisch estfaelische Zeitung report said The junkora are to blame if there is hunger in the land. An attempt is being made to shift the blame on to the British. The selfishness of the blame for the highe

ngrarians 18 to highest prices, The Minister of agriculture vigorously He said that was a consolation to him defended himself against his opponents. to remember that the Reichstag was Prussian Ministers He referred to the luckily unable eto appoint or depose

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of the dawn of a new trade era for our have done very much useful work during Sir Edward Morris, who met with Empire (Hear, hear) The principles the war Why has our Government not most cerdini reception, began by observ of this association, namely, the making overcome the opposition? Nothing has ing that all the seven wonders of the the Empire self-supporting and to remove been done in Prussia since 1903 ment of the food supplies of the people. world naled into insignificance compared from our industry and commerce all The Railways Minister Herr von Brei- We are confronted with the thought of with the wonder the British people had German influence and control, must comtenbach, thus pressed, said that the Prus what would happen if that does not worked within the last three years, Did mend themselves to every Briton. (Hearian Government had not yet officially succeed, and the people of the British Isles really hear.) The principles of this association, quite recently had he been officially closing months of the economie

starvation the grim considered the Danube Main Canal. Only there would be if suddenly, appreciate what they had accomplished namely, the making the Empire self-sup-informed of the matter by the Imperial find that there is not enough, and that during the Britain, with population only a little porting and to remove from our industry Government. Hers von Breitenbach add we cannot hold out. The misery that year, we ad to mems at a time when she had prae control. must commend themselves to paths" but there was no indication that Left and Centre, but some commotion was more than that of France, was summon and commerce all German influence and ed that, he "follows the scheme with sym. The speech was loudly applauded by the

would ensue would be indescribabla tically no soldiers and no arms, and every Briton (Hear, hear) There can the Prussian agrarions do likewise, or Left inade of forty months she was better be no political independence in a nation that they have ceased to oppose all mea caused by a derisive remark made by

nipped than Germany, which had been unless it is economically independent sure which might cheapen the importa Herr Hoffmann at the exprpse o preparing for war for forty years. When If one-fiftieth part of the money and tion and transport of food. They still Conservatives, followed Horn of the ine considered our Army of 5,000,000 energy now being expended in the great it scris disagree with Gorth who in men, our wealth of shells and war had been expended in the developing 1827 said that he would like to live to rice munitions, our conquest of the air, and the great catates of the Empire, as well the opening of a Panama Canal, and also the manner in which millions of money as the Homeland, we should have had communication between the Danube and ad rained into the coffers of the war such wealth in the Empire our people the Rhine, although he doubted the pos chest, the whole story read more like a would have earned such high wages as tosibility of the latter in view of the romance than a stern and invincible enable them to pay taxes for the proper tent of German resources. reality. We were feeding the armies of upkoop and defence of the Empire, which Te Papagaj France, supplying the armies of Bussia, in turn would mean that there would have and maintaining the armies of Belgium been no war. (Cheers.) and Sarvia Moreover, we Ład lent to THE CASE OF SUGAL, Lave been car faithful Allies £600,000,000-three. As an times the debt of the United States of bamboozled by Germany, Sir Edward 1,000-ton ships. Some of the remarks critical situation prented by the Amerien, For an Empire that was Morris mentioned the case of sugar. Prior totally unprepared we had wrought to the war the United Kingdom imported miracle, and the greatest miracle of all 2,000,000 tons of sugar per annum, and was the welding together of the British would have doubled that amount if her Empire. The German Emperor had done sugar-using industrice had been develop for the British Empire what a hundreded to half the requirements of the Empire. years of Acts of Parliament never could this quantity Germany and Austria have accomplished. (Cheers.) No Im supplied us with 1,300,000 tons; yet the perial Parliament and no confederation British Empire was quite capable of sup- of the Empire, no new constitution could plying all the sugar required from within date, of a connection between the Main weld more closely together and create the Empire. The British West Indies and the Danube for big chips. An of Waerways which supplement and relieve closer ties in the Empire than had been were not producing one-tenth of what cient Rhine-Danube waterway, in addition the railways are therefore of the greatest accomplished by this war. (Hear, hear.) the labour there could produce if it had to the existing railway communications advantage. In particular, the existence All the civilized nations of the world reasonable protection and a market has proved necessary for economic and of an efficient big ship connection of the those who were not under the thumb of Why should these things be withheld from alc easons for traffic between the Rhine with the Danube, for the purpose Carany or honeycombed by German in them, and why should they not be placed German Empire and Austria-Hungary of co-operation in the service of the trans. fluence were with us in this gigantic in position to buy with their earned and the Balkan States. It will strengthen port trafic, which has been ver struggle, and felt, as we did, that we were gold the British goods which they re-permanently the Central Europcar groun especially during the war would have nghting her.TAINED EMPIRE rried out without any appreciable in and it will promote closer economic ment of such a waterway, constructed for Wednesday, 9th May

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quired! The whole thing could be and its econome and military defences heap of high importance.

By the employ crease in the price of sugar To take two nion of the States belonging to this traine of 10,000,000 tons, we should ther illustrations the United States group have relieved railway engines and Rods controlled five-sixths of the Empire's to follow on the

The explanatory statement insists axons for 800,000 wagon-loul (a year). agro-selling trade, and one millionaire living at Long Island, New York, with a scheme the extent to which, from the point of military importance of There is no necessity to explain further 60.000 branches all over the world, did grown extren dinarily in the present onnic streneth would have been in

The demands upon traffic routes have view of success in War. Germany's nineteen-twentiethe of the sale and manu-war. Only with difficulty, in view of thesed. To this must be arded the high facture of sewing Machines. These were great extension of the theatre of war, are militare importance of the waterway, Kamples to thay British rapire pro- the railway administrations also to satisfy which lies in the fact that it would w fucers of what had to be achieved in the the traffic requirements of the Army conejbly increase our power to make way of organization. (Cheers.)

(Continued at foot of next column.) use of the advantages of inner linea

We were not prepared for war, mid Sir Edward Morris Are we prepared for peace Whatever excuse there was for our unpreparedness for war, there can be no excuse if we are not prepared when prace comes. We shall have to meet normously increased debt and taxation How is this to be met? There is only one way to meet it, and that is by increasing Continued at foot al nez: column.)

the canalimtion of the Main to Aschaffen According to the preliminary plans the new canal is intended for 1,200-ton ships; burg, now being completed, provides for the explanatory statement appended to the new Bavarian Bill are worth quoting tion. As regards the small broad ration, It begins by saying

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