MILIUKOFF.
THE MAN WHO MADE THE REVOLUTION POSSIBLE.
Fifteen years ago I first met Professor Miliukoff the guiding spirit of the present revolution, and now Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, said Mr. Ernest Hamilton,
Milinkoff was at the time grently in terested in various international move
THE SIEGFRIED LINE
to
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 18TH, 1917.
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FRENCH WOMEN'S COURAGE.
SCENES AT TIN COURT
ANAVAL MYSTERY.
EXTRAORDINARY RECORD OF A
COMMANDER
A naval correspondent writes to the Daily Neus and leader as follows:--
Who is Commander Gordon Campbell, and what has he been doing? When the war broke out he was in command of an old destroyer, the Bittern, but he must since have found a far more promising
WEATHER REPORT.
On May 17th at 11.50:—No returde from Japen or Indo-China. Pressure has incressed slightly over NE Chins and in the neighbour hood of Hongkong. It is nearly sismonary st other reporting stations.
from Cnits to the Bonins, and a trough of low There is probably a belt of high pressure pressure of the China Bos
10 sm, to-day, 121 inches. Total since 1st Tannery 14.89 loches, against an average, el Hongkong rainfall for 24 hanes ending si
16.87 inchine
The forecast for thə 24 hours anding at noon
a great deal of what he has written, and utterly false statement in the German ir patrols are working, and in the age he was specially promoted to his pre-o-day is as follows
sharp gusts of wind blow
jump the war. In June, 1916, he was
DISTRICT
Hongkong to Gap Rook
formosa Channel
FORECAST.
E. winds, mo darats; overset, rain.
INE winda,
frosh.
DEFECTS AND WEAKNESS. EGY PHILIP GI858.]
BY PHILIP GIASS.] British Headquarters (France), British Headquarters, (France), Mar. 30.
March 29th There is good evidence.
One scene on the roadside will remain not only was Marshal von Hindenburg at in my memory through all these soenes
prove that Roisul on March 10th directing the with- drawal of his troops, but that the Kaiser the wilderness which the Gormans have himself has been in this part of the made behind them, through which I have the Kaiser's orders, we are told, that age of old women who sat there on the country during recent weeks. It was by been passing. It is because of the cour -monts, and it was in connection with one villagesave not been abandoned with through the open country where our atid exciting job than that. Just a year of these that he then came to London.
like Roisel, Legnicourt, and way it was beyond Péronne and Since then I have often met him, read out fighting, and this may account for followed bis political career, wirelces that 1,000 British dead are lying court the guns yesterday were
of Taucourt. Ug beyond Lagni sentraleutenant-commanders, which is Without the slightest hesitation I can in the neighbourhood of Lagnicourt forward the noise of a greater, and furorape by a long way, the greatest single the heads of nearly 700 say that Professor Milinkoff is the most which we took two days ago. Though we
heavily, and wonderful man in Europe. No Briton had a few caenalties during the attacks ther boatbardment, deep and low. Quite made a member of the Distinguished Ser can possibly hope to understand there, not one of our soldiers lies dead close the village of Roisel, teken by our vice Order, and in t. recent Court Circ evolution without knowing all about told by the enemy is significant of the still smouldering and all around for he had attended at Buckinghain Place
on this ground. That such lies should Miliukoff and what he stands for. It necessity of raising the spirit of the miles was the great binek trail of war
trooph days before the sharp fighting was lar there appeared the announcement that would be like a foreigner trying to grasp German people a troops by any means with hundreds of villages and farmsteads to be decorated by the King with the sth Coast of Chins between The our politics without understanding the to cover the meaning of the retreat. The laid low by fire part Mr. Lloyd George plays.
and dynamite
the Victoria Cross 38. a middle-class man, and although his they have left the strongest positions ever and the neighbouring, separate buildings soldiers on our front. They know But in Tincourt only the outer streets sympathies have ever been democratic, made in warfare by years of labour, and had been destroyed. The main part of he has nevertheless remained middle already the fictitions strength of the the village was still standing, though the class in his outlook on life and politics famous Hindenburg line, called by the enemy had shelled it a little the das He has all the virtues nad defects of Germans themselves the "Siegfried line before. When I came into it I saw that it the middle classes. Bane, level-headed, has been exposed in its reality to the practical, and suspicious of theoretic who have to hold it. In parts it is strong, mans because it was a concentration camp was one of the few places left by the Ger- idealism, these virtues of his are parti- made by the forced labour of Russian while they were being smashed. The onlarly necessary in country like prisoners and Belgian civilians, with con-
of civilians driven in from other villages entanglements 1,200ft wide. But, euri- oussly for it is certainly strange that the enemy's preparations should have failed the Siegfried line has not been tion 1t is strongly wired throughout, completed in time for its present occupa with that prodigality of wire which I villages, but in many parts it is without have seen in all the abandoned lines and dug-outs
• before
Hongkong and Lamocks
•No ..
In the frat place, Professor Miliuko. People may be deceived, but not the (fer Germans left them in retreat Neither as regards the V.C.. nor his youth Coast of Ching between, The same as
man
men
rank of commander has there been a hint DBO., nor his extraordinary leap to the as to why the distinction was conferred. A great, silent Navy" is the British.
We And that Commender Campbell entered the Navy fifteen years ago, being 1902. After serving in the Irresistible in gazetted midshipman on February 15th, the Mediterranean and the Flora in the
Russia, where the "intelgeuzia are ereto gun emplacements and with wire people were gathered about, the road in April, 1905, His next appointment
always prone to rambling away from real life.
On the other hand, Professor Miliu koff's middle-class upbringing has always made him averse from contact with the maro estrone supporters of the Left koff based his politieboeconomic faith on purely British ideals, I suppose.
As a middle-class man Professor. Miliu-
the
For
Hanging and Halan... No. 3.
CHINA
Diarion,
Pacific, be was promoted sub-Lieuteniat Wan to the destroyer Arun, niter which 1907, he went to China in the Ang Alfred, the then fagship of the present on promotion to lieutenant in October,
Admiral of the Flect, Sir Hedworth Meux. On returning home, he served for establishment, and took command of the Nemuro some time in the Devonport training ferring to the Bitters in April, 1913. He Tokio destroyer Ranger in October, 1912, trans- Hakodate October, 1915. was promoted Lieut-Commander in
COAST
Vladivostook
about 200 of them, sitting among piles of bundles, I refugees in many old, old woman ang them in standing
black dresses and bonnets nd a group of old days of the war There were
young girls, of 16 or so and small boys and children in arms. 1 y were looking that they were waiting for British lorries down the road anxiou and I found safer country, beyond the reach of Ger and ambulances to take them away to just been liberated from hostile rule man shellfire. They were people who had The grey tide of the German army bad swept back from them, and they found France, with news of France, and of the THE PRO-GERMANS IN RUSSIA Lahijma... world on the other side of the trenches themselves once again free people of
and the wire which for two years and nine months had chut them in with the ow enemy for
The modern young man is not greatly impressed by John Stuart Mill and the who have been told fairy tales about its Worse than all for the German troops, great guns of that school, but Miliukoff magnificence, the Siegfried line runs and his group were brought up in the through low, marshy ground below the cold, clear light of the School, and the strange thing is that Lagnicourt, Nurlu, and other points
Manchester higa plateau at is these philosophic economists who already held by our troops, who leck Beaumetz Monchies made the revolution possible. down with perfect observation, seeing the For fifteen years I have known Miltu broad stretches of wire and the parapets koff, and the curions thing about him of that Siegfried line in the hallow is that he has never once swerved an Nobody can choose defensive ground inch, right or left, from his bourgeoisie better than the enemy, who after the path. He formed a club of men who Marne showed a masterly skill in his shared his views, and they assumed choice of positions, so that almost every the title of constitutional Democrats where he had the advantage of us to our familiarly known as Cadets."
fearful cost in the early days of trench warfare. But now he has planted his
HEROIC. GRANDMOTHERY,
Bo
Something sensational in the way of Hankow revelations of the work of pro-Germans
who tells an extraordinary story of
in Russia is provided by Julius West
As a matter of fact, they were both line south of the Scarpe,in low-lyingmg, but sin They were not weep now common knowledge, but it was not
constitutional and democratio so
referms. It was absurd to expect a re- northern
but hopelessly ignorant peasants.
MIDDLE CLASS MOVEMENT,
For this reason Miliusoff planned a middle class revolution. He only sought for supporters among the lesser nobility, the better priests, the professional classes educated merchants and the like. He
and
Of
Gutalaff
the perils through which channels they were exercised, and how
Toiran
Koshun
Canton
Fakho
Phulien
Guna
always had strong Press behind hit bis devastation of the countryside men to the age of 50. They spoke with but he does not appear to have been Labien thought twice before attacking him by foul and poisonous means, outaide and tornadoes. German eruelty was and the following spring the pro-Ger
caught
of
Peak
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eft, of the level of the wes in inches, tenth- 1, Baroneras, reduced to 39 dagemar lschron-
old grandmothers who were sitting homeoutonic influences and activities in Shanghai
I spoke with the old women, these brave less and houselose on their bundles in the Russia before the revolution. That these maide of a ruined countryside, within influences were immensely powerful is reach of the closely, indeed, did they adhere to the country. This is due not to ignorance, they had passed. They were thin because they affected the conduct of the war Tairan
They were not afraid, known until lately in what particular first part of their title that they were he is never forgetful, but to dire necessity and they had suffered great horrors, but instances, which seem almost incredible, Pescadores but scornful for he is wise, and not to carelessness, accused of pedantry But Milinkof It is clear that in falling back to escape For was wise enough to grasp two clear fatta
they had stinted for their grandchildren The writer referred to meations a few about Russia that reforms would not beyond the range of our guns. In doing said, for our sona sakes we endured alt For example, he cites the Russian defeat Hongkong
our offensive for a time he had to get they held their old grey beads high, and and yet they have never been denied. not come from the pastry and could no he had willy silly, to accept bad then babes who know nothing of all the German cable, and attributes to pick Cap Book against the interests of the pro-Geriuans change of scene as soon as all the weight war, and one day will be told, and the culminated in Hindenburg winning so Wachow
It was ground. His
not their consideration, the retreat which of the Protopopoff Sturmer type to of our guns gets them again, for the others of men who have fought and died, contenance anything savouring of positions are reversed, at least on this and who fight and die with supreme selfly. This, as our readers will remem How vole from the Moujiks--well meaning, part of the
of the Siegfried front.
sacrifice in the shambles of this wet, occurred shortly after war broke They are women worthy of hero sone, almost up to the gates of. Konigsberg, GERMAN POISON SPY CAUGHT,
out Rennenkampf having led his army Turane themselves hernio, They are not power to keep us back while he finishes bis run of them, they is to pornisations district, allowing Hindenburg to win's Lega the moment the enemy is relying enemy only contemptuous of him, and of again and attempted to lose it in the mainly on an increase of machine gun rule liked some of the swampy country of the Masurian Lakes
passionate against
against the for no os ensible reason turned it found Capest Jare his new defensive line. He is relying of individual brutality, but cursed the crushing victory at Tannenberg, the spot Tholoban also upon the delaying work resulting
Dagupan from the destruction in the wake of his spirit which had laid waste their villages where many centuries before the Poles Iloilo retreat, the vast mine-craters along the and taken away their young girls and all was obliged to give up his command,
and destroyed their houses and orchards had defeated Prussia. Rennenkampf Surigao and even the reactionary journals Horrible also to say, he has tried to delay have been
roads, the blowing up of Bridges, Every step that he took in and out of the the pale even of modern warfare, which is tural, inevitable, and unarguable, and the but in the summer they were as active the dispassioante eloquence of people who punished. During the winter of 1914-15 Duma, was always guided by the same
earthquakes and shipwrecks consideration to inspire confidence in lawfulness German agent has been soldiers who had done these things were as over, despite the numerous arrests of and handsåsom
very broadminded in its definitions the middle classes, who for years have
mans were no very much in evidence, social importance in Rusais horses.
in our lines with bacteriological
the slaven of the In other words, Miliukoff wanted the virulent microbes with the animals food. They burnt my house and my neigh country to accept him as a serious man
His orders were to mix these village farther back said an old lady, "I was taken to Raisel from my own and not a will fellow likely to do all tainted with these living organisms of Roisel was all in fames when we pa
or to scratch their nostrils with a wire hours houses and drove us forward. sorts of absurd things.
Thy revolution has primarily nothing ing of the wells, which I have seen with through. The fires came out of the Colonel of this name was on the staff of
disense It is on a level with the befoul- to do with the war. It is the result of my own eyes. It is a loathsome way of Then we came to Tincourt, and yesterday the Grand Duke at the front. He had
Mr. West alludes to what is called 100 "Passed years of dissatisfaction with certain war, enlisting another branch of science they shelled us. The little ones were previously held a command near the the Myasoyedov affair. A Lieutenant- houses, and the heat of them scorched us. features of Russian Government. These to make a mockery of all men's conquest afraid. Our young girls were, weeping Prussian frontier, and he was known to who know anything of the Slay and his of knowledge, which is used for such and full of tears. You will understand have frequently spent his week-ends inherent tendency to idealism and bero devilish purposes Going into villages that it is hard to see one's village destroy across the border. The Grand Duke now worship know that to the pensants (and inhabited until a few days ago by German ed, and to see one's sisters taken away, made the unpleasant discovery that im- the overwhelming majority of Russiais soldiore, wandering into their rains, and not to know what is to happen next portant information was lealing through reminded of a passage in Dostoievsky's fear because of the
the deep chambers of all these "House of Death, where a number of soldier-convicts have an angry dispute there, of the trape
evil that may lurk much. We thought of our sons, who have thing was one of the most serious handi- are too old to weep, having wept too gularity and promptness. (This sort of as to which of them was commanded remain though the men have gone. It is tied for France We showed our scam caps on the Grand Duke's Army)
deatha trouble in a portant general. The closed door. It is a foolish man who BAVARIANS BLAME THE KAISER. caught in one of them and hanged forth-
a brave man who is the first to kick trouble in Russia has not been the Tear, first opsus a ahut box, such as the big They spoke harshly of the Prussian soi
tis for the enemy by hiding our fear Traps were laid and Myanoyedov was open mor even the theory of personal ante chest left obviously in the square of diers but well of the Bavarians, who cratie rule. It is the bureaucracy that Bapaume. I and other men walk through bean with then nigst of the time. They is to blame for most of Russia's troubles these places with every sense alert for the had been kind to the children, and decent
with and the bureaucracy tas aver been in menace that is in an iron red threat into the pockets of a few handred som a rubble of bricks, in shell cases obtrud to women, and hated the war Many of Bussified Baltic and other German ing from a turmoil of earth in the them had blamed the Kaiser for all that adventurers. These Germans had no time rag heaps and litter of German billete, for ideals. Russis to them was a huge colony to be exploited, frst for them- selves and their families, and afterwards to be carefully worked for the Father land.sve dok on
boon growing in political, economic, and culture for spreading disease among ourAn ordained their German subjects who did not matter.
The real, powerful culprits were lef
alone
THE GRAND DUKE HANDICAPPED.
Are peasants) a Tsar is necessary. dug-outs, one has a sense of for us old women it was not so bad. We to the enemy with extraordinary re
It was these Germans who obtained high administrative posts to the detri ment of the country. During the list two years Miliuko has been virtually,
A
Full liberty of Poland.
may
Constitutional rule on British lines, Great expansion of Imperial ideas, Freedom for all races and religions. Trade expansion on modern lines with
had
happened. He promised us the war would end in
in two months. He deceived us. After the war to
war there will be to say
something
2. Takpurizean, in the shade, in degren Ahrenbelt
8 Hymzorry, in paremtage of maturation, the humidity of air mizrated with moisture telug
DISBOTION Or Wins, to two point
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5. FOROR OF WIND, according to Beaufort Scale 6. STATE OF WHarnes, b blua, sky, a detobeyi
i rain, snow, thunder, v visibility, w dow (wt).
7. Bar in inobes, tenths and Hundreds
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, May 17th.
Provum Un Date On Date
Day
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CHILDREN OF TAR CATHAY
There was an interesting sequel. General Sukhomlinov suddenly and mysteriously accumulated wealth. He and the traitor Mynnoyedov had married sisters, and Sukhomlinov waxed wesliby what time the Russian War Office, of which he was the head, deliberately organised disor ganization and a shortage of shells and Esin tities were sopt to Siberia, thousands of cartridges. Mr. West asserts that "quan, miles away from the nearest front 1st open ate Tempestare au Jeth 17 Lowest open-air Tempera on 1701 69
military honours, and a pastor said he An English aviator fell in Roisel a few weeks ago, and his body was buried with
backwards Strange thing has the had died like a hero for his country.
With the War Office in the hands of They had not behaved like davages, pro-Germans, it was no wonder that the Those of us who know. Miliukoff and officers looted the big houses of everything censorship kept them quict Anyhow,
these
Bavarians, said the old woman from his strength have no doubt that he will of value and then set fire to them. They
steamroller so often ran had
Jaid waste to the countryside. The Archangel, too, though at the time
warehouses were crowded with
a view to turning Rusia into a semi-incourt until the last weeks, when they industrial country.
the
If not nominally, the spokesman for the nation in the Duma Whereas other apeakers represented constituencies and try to steer a sans course and will keep had made many rules, these offiore munitions, which never reached t spoeial interests, he has always adopted all extremists at arm's length This Even small boys had to salute them as Russian forces. There was, too, the case a very high national tone number Lots not mean that the extreme anti-
When the pro- German 1 Aturmer was actually discussing peace aries may not gain the apper hand, The soldiers for using this salute, mander, who was forced to stop his monarobical and anarchist revolution they passed, and enemy men and boys of Brussiloff, that really grew m with the Germans, it was Miliuko honor would it be safe to assume that the lived a lot on mangel wartel pour, and Prime Minister was responsible for
were arrested for got up in the Duma and denounced the hareaucracy has been defeated for good had no meat, Att Tincourt the people this Then came the exposures, and M. Premier in a speech of wonderous clo- and all. Russia is a great sprawling had been fed by the American Committee Milinkoff, the soul of the revolution? was going bad. They offensive, by order. Sturrer, the then the best of Cicero, Demosthenes, or on have followed-the revolutionary flag does changed it for bad bread quence, a speech entitled to rank with Empire, and the fact that the few cities and the German took the
had much to do with them
the more revolutionary plane, Robespierre
AIMS OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES.
of
not mean that the Cosinck of the Don,They know they are beaten,
flour
or the Mongolian peasant or the Arctic old ladres: They aak always for pence aborigine are going into raptures about They are afraid of the punishment which it. We must wait until much fuller news.
God holds in store for them for all this
and ripped the thread-this talk of the old women of Tincourt, eo passionless,
What are the aims of the revolution-is to hand before any real analysis cand one of the old hard, so fair, so certain, But I mar- Ban
aries? I have for long been in close be made touch with Russian political movemente, and think the following a fair outlins of their programme
Abrodate annihilation of German in
nsace in Russia
Prosecution of the war in complete harmony with the Allies.
(Contras
at foot of neat column.)
be punished What velled at their courage, sitting there on puffer. All thair bandies, after tramping away from
But of one thing I am certain no we have suffered they will Briton will have cause to regrat trusting towards the ruined and behind her British lorries to take them away from this she thrust up skinny hand their blazing homesteads, waiting for Bussia When the real Russian can find «
his feet and prove himself he will be must be paid for William place which, even then, was registered
found at one with us and our ideals
And Professor Miliukoft is eminently well fitted as a leader of a sate recon struction armsment?
another
with his head her old woman, who will pay," said anothe
the three old women who held the thread It was like the talk of the Greek Fatar (Continued at pf nf next eulums.)
by German guns, with the young wirls,
women of France, and went away into tile rule I saluted the gallant and the babies who were born under hos
the ruins beyond.
~HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 18th to 9th May,
LOW WATER.
Hrong
Mean
Height
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