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REIGN OF TERROR.

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TRIEST'S DRAMATIC STORY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PEESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH, 1917.

THE REPORTED MENACE TO DENMARK'S EXPORTS TO

PETROGRAD.

DIPLOMATIST'S REASSURING

STATEMENT

GERMANY.

HOW THE GREAT AGREEMENT HAS BEEN BROKEN.

the Morning Post showing to what an enormous extent, by the toleration of our Figures have recently been published in

Foreign Office, Denmark has been supply- ging the needs of Germany Ample con firmation of the worst that has been

concentration and move towards Petro- With regard to the threatened German grad, Reutor's Agency has received the following from a Bussian diplomatic Source

advance towards Petrograd nced act be The latest German menace of un feared as much as if the revolution had not taken place and if discontent and dis- organisation had been allowed to con tinue.

FROM PHILIP-GIESS, British Headquarters (France), Mar. 25. To-day I have gone again through a number of the ruined villages which were liberated just a work ego from German rule. Across our front-line trenches. through the barbed wire, and near the narrow strip of ground which was once No Man's Land until last Monday, one comes at once into the country where French civilians have lived since the beginning of the war, as far removed from the life of their own nation an

Buch a move, on the contrary, though dwelling in another planet, cut section which might prove a hindrance would have a sobering effect on the only off from all news of the progress of victo the Government from a strategical fery, passing through all the stages of point of view it must be remembered that hunger to starvation, and enslaved by Russia has a series of very Rrongly the enemy of their people. They are fortified positions capable of withstand now free, and, today being the firsting German onslaughts. Sunday of their liberation, they had brought out French flags, and the Tri- colour waved above the ruins of many villages, on the beams of roofless houses and burat-out barns, I passed through a triumphal rich built at the entrance of the little town of Nesle, and in other places where the Germans had blown up minds at the cross roads and bridges saw how groups of French soldiers gathered

As regards any feat of remaining Ger- in mind that Germany leant on the man influence, it must always be borne Russian autocracy and not on the Rus alan people or Army The former has now gone and the latter-with the one exception of a very small group of work rowed from Germany are firmly deter men imbued with Anarchist ideas bor mined to defend their country and their

alleged is to be found in the Danish news. paper Folkets Aw, which has been Danish authorities efforts to exclude them exposing the facts in defiance of the from public attention This action of the

of the Danish people, who are the first interests of England bus in the intereste Folkets Avis is undertaken not in the sufferers by the irregularities complained of. For the export of bacon to Germany has been to lavish that not enough tas

cen left for the trymen! exporters' fellow-coun

been guilty of the same offences in regard slaughter houses, which it names, have all, The Polkets Avis alleges that three large

to ever export to Germany; and it asks: Why should the small fry always suffer while the big fish cecape

The Danish Government admite, it is (sic) have recently been made in thu pointed out, that certain mistakes" export of bacon, and has appointed a the supply of it to the home market have been carried out the Folket.

to inquire how the present

Un this proposal remarks

round old men and women dressed in liberties. German influence had only one coments for the export of bacon and

Sunday clothes saved up from the days before the war, listening to the tale of their sufferings which had made these women so thin and white and these old men so weak, except in courage,

In the village of Voyennes, not far from Ham, and one of the few hamlets not utterly destroyed because the people of the district were horded here while their own houses were being burnt, I vent into the ruins of the church. It was easy to see how the flames had licked about its old stones, scorching them red, and how the high oak roof had come blazing down before the walls and pillars had given way. Everything had been licked down by the dames, except one figure on an encalcined fragment of wall; only one hand of the Christ there had been burned, and the body hanging on the cross was unscathed, like so many of those Calvaries which I have acen in sball-fred places. But this place had not been touched by shell-fire, for it had been far beyond the range of French or British guns; it had been destroyed wil fully in rage. The village around had bean spared, because of the large num her of people driven into it from the Beighbouring country-aide, and when I called upon the priest, who lives op- posite the rain of the church, where he served God and the people of his little parish, I heard the story of its burning, It was a queer thing to me to ait to day in a room of that French presbyterian talking to the old cuté, Just a week before, on Sanday,at the very hour of my visit, which was at midday, that old church outside the window had be coma a blazing torch, and this priest, who loved it, had wept tears as hot as its fames, and in his heart was the fire of a great agony. He sat before me, a tall old man of the aristocratic type, with a finely chiselled face, but thin and guunt and as sallow as though he had been raised from the dead, If I could put down his words as he spoke them to me with passion in his clear, vivid French, with gestures of those trans parent hands which gave a deeper mean ing to his words, it would be a grand story, revealing the agony of the French people behind the German lines, for the story of this village of Voyennes is just that of ull the villages on the enemy's side of the barbed wire. Here in a few little streets about an old church was the bodily suffering, the spiritual tor ture, the patient courage, the fight against despair, the brooding but hidden fears, which has been the life over a great tract of France since August

1914

INDOMITABLE SPIRIT.

channel, namely, the reactionary party This has disappeared and German influence has gone for ever. From material point of view Russia is now stronger than ever for the purpose of waging war Two months ago it was said that what Russia wants is honest man and that guns and munitions will follow. Now there will be no question of great military movements being rendered abortive because corrupt officials hang up railway trucks As for the food ques tion, it is a most significant thing that the other day more food reached Kieff in twenty-four hours then had been re ceived during the whole mouth of February.

ing from the revolution has passed: This The period of crisis and danger result period was the first three days after the revolution, when the workmen might have got the upper hand of the young soldiery of Petrograd. This has not happened, and there is every reason to believe that as life returns to its normal channels all parties in Russia will unite in a resolve to win the war because they realise that any compromise with Germany would be the cause for which she is fighting,

disaster not only for Russin but for

us. We were surrounded by the fires of hell. As you see, we are on the outer edge of the great Somme battle-line, and very close to it. For hity hours at a time the roar of gum swept round us week after week and month after month, and the sky blazed around us. We were afraid of the temper of the German officer, after the defeat on the Marne and after the battles of the Somme Ger many was like a wounded tiger Bergz desperate, cruol. Becretly, though of people kept brave faces, they feared whir would happen if the Germans were force to retreat. At last that happened, after all we had endured the days terror were hard to hour. From all t villages around, one by one, people we driven out. Young women and men old as 80 were taken away to work fo Germany, and an orderly destruction ly gan, which ended with the cutting dow of our little orchards and ruin ever where

and too

∙Avis

to

Bix weeks

With respect to the supply of the home market there is really no need for any Commission, because, as we have pointed out again and again, and our statements have been confirmed by those engaged in the trade. Copenhagen has beon literally starved out. Every house wife can support our account of how impossible it has heen to obtain bacon, and how whole districts of the town have been left to divide a single pig between them. That is the fact. No Commission part of the whole business. The guilty is necessary. The thing is quite plain.

And now comes the most astonishing try to shelter themselves behind the excuse the large consignments that arrived, and that it was necessary, therefore, to send that the home market could not absorb

not 14 per cent. but 30 per cent. Germany, and thus to make an increased profit of six millions. This excusa cer- tainly is not easy to swallow. We have not only had a sufficiency, we have actually, 36,000 pig-capconditional d

conditional distribution we have bound ourselves to carry out, so conditional distribution is not observed auto obtain foodstuffe, and when sich

the export restrictions Neither then it must be reckoned as a breach of CAR there be any doubt as to the responsibility. That rests upon the three men who constitute the Export Com slaughter-houses

HOW THE MISTAKE AN EX

and who issue orders to all the

of how the

EXPOSED

described, was discovered. The discovery A very interesting explanation is given mistake, as it is officially

grams were despatched on the 10th was due to the mercat accident. Two tele

pondent to his newspaper and one by the February-one Export Committee to a slaughter-house

by

a newspaper corres-

relating to the details of distribution, The telegrams were delivered each to the other's address, and the newspaper pub lished the figures in the Export Con mittee's telegram as an interesting ifem of news. A member of the Legislature saw the figures and called attention to the irregularity which they disclosed that England had been cheated over the bacon supply

Government to keep silence about the The Folker Avis further alleges that a year ago its Editor was requested by the

arrangements. The request was complied Thabuses in connection with the bacon

be put an end to Instead, however, of with in the belief that the abuses would investigating the matter then, they (the Government) trusted to the exporters sense of honour, and now we have this scandal" is the outspoken Danish jour aal's comment

CAPITAL

AND LABOUR IN CO-OPERATION.

A GERMAN OFFICER'S ADMISSIÓN. good man and a gentleman, afraid

The commandant before that was God and his conscience. He said, do not approve of these things. world will have a right to call us be bariána. "'- because he had to obey orders, and I gav He asked for forgiveness it him. An order came to take away of the bells of the churchos and all the For a year (anid M. le Curé Caron) metal work I had already put my my people here have had not a moreel church beils in a loft, and I showed then of meat and not a drop of wine, and to him and said, “There they are only had water in which the Germans He was very sorry. This man was the put their filth. They gave us bread only good German officer I have met, and which was disgusting, and bad haricots it was because he had been fifteen years and potatoes and not enough over, so in America and had married an Ameri that the children became wen and the can wife, and escaped from the spell of women weak. The American people sent us some foodstuffs, but the Germans took the best of them, and in any case we were always hungry. But those things do not matter, thuse physical things; it was the suffering, the spirit that mattered, and, monsieur, wo suffered mentally so much that it almost destroyed our intelligence; It almost made us silly, so that even now we can hardly think or reason, for you will understand what it meant to us French people. We were slaves after the Germans came in and settled down upon 219, and said, “We are at home; all here is ours. They ordered our men to work, and punished them with prison English soldiers, and our people rushed the utmost output for the smallest wage, for any slight fault. They were the out to them. Soon afterwards came and on the other hand the workman masters of our women; they put our Home Chasseurs d'Afrique, and the wanted the biggest possible wage for the young girls among their soldiers. They colonel gave me the news of the outer smallest possible set themselves out deliberately at first world to which we now belong after our ing employers he advocated an attitude to crush our spirit, to beat us by terror, years of isolation and misery. Our of sweet reasonableness. He never be to subdue us to their will by an iron agony had ended. The Germans knew

lieved in strikes and he did not believe rals. They failed, and they were as they were beaten, monsieurs.com Capital must have it dividend. It

in them to day. A strike meant a loss. toualed. We cannot understand you mandant of Ham said,We are lost." people," they said, "you are so proud

sent believed the workmen had got to make

make up the loss of a strike, and

must Year women are so proud" And that groaned and wept when they were sent it up. He believed, further, that if was true, sir. Some women not worthy to the front. God they cried workers entered non a policy of no of the name of French women were. "the horror of the French and English strikes whenever they asked for an ad- weak. It was inevitable, alas. But for gunfire Oh! Christ, save us!?! the most part they raised their heads and During the battle of the Somme the read the employers would be far more said:"We are French. We will never wounded poured back, a thousand or more strated that the iron and steal trade

to grant it. The war had demon- give in to you not after one year, or a day, and Ham was one great hospital a basic industry, and $18,000,000 of new two years, or three years, or four years" of bleeding fesh. The German soldiers capital had been placed in the industry

have bad food and not enough of it, and Before the war this country was open their people are starving, as wo starved

the importation The German officers behaved to their men while Germany was closed to English

OF steel with their usual brutality I have seen imports, but he was not willing that a them best the soldiers about the head single furance should be idle so that Ger people went about with their heads up dating to say a word, but as soon as the far as demobilisation was concerned, h

while those men stood at attention, not man, steel might enter this country. So scornful, refusing to complain agalrat any severity or any hardship. Secretly officers are out of the way the men say truly. No section of the community among ourselves it was different We the war. We have been deceived, and Capital and Labour in co-operation, and was laying his plans, he hoped, well and "We will cut those fellows' throats after could get to news for months, except after the war we will make their pay

could handle that pr Tie We knew nothing of what was So the cure talked to me, and I bave employers to take back the men who problem better than happening. Starvation crept closer upon only given a few of his words, but what had been fighting for them would be he helieved that every promise made by (Continued at foot of neat columa.) I have given is enough Daily Telegraph, honourably fulfilled.

THE LABOUR MINISTER'S HOPE his country's philosophy. Then he went Mr. John Hodge, M.P., Minister of away last Sunday week at this very Labour, speaking as the guest of the hour. When the people were all in their Rotary Club of London, said that when houses, under strict orders, and already pesco was declared the war would have the country was on fire with burning to be paid for, and the only way of pay- villages, a group of soldiers came outside ing for it was by the co-operation of there with cans of petroleum which they Capital and Labour. Both Capital and put into the church. Then they set fire Labour must change their methods. Old to it, and watched my church burn in a and obsolete methods must be scrapped; great bonfire. At this very hour a week old restrictions, so far as Labour was cons ago I watched it burn. That night the corned, must go by the board. He believ Germans went away, through Voyennes, ed that with a spirit of mtual trust and early in the morning, up in my we could make more ships than the Ger attic, looking through a pair of glasses, man super-submarines could

possibly

I say four horsemen ride in. They were sink In the pant the employer wanted

The Germans naked

constantly,

When do you think the war will end We answered, Perhaps in five years. but in the end we will amash you," and this made them very angry so our

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