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THE NEW BUSSIA. MESSAGES FROM LONDON

MEETINGS.

In celebration of the Russian Revolu tion, a public meeting was hold at the Queen's Hall. Lord Bryce presided over crowded gathering, and was supported by Mr. Fisher, President of the Board of Education, Bir A Mond, First Com- missioner of Werke, Mr. W. H. Dickin- chairman of the London 200, M.P., Liberal Federation, and Mr. McKinnon Wood, M.F.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2325, 1917.

GERMAN BARBARISM GERMAN SOCIALISTS' SHAM

FRENCH SENATE;S. INDICTMENT.

“FULL REPARATION.!?

REVOLT

REFORMS POSTPONED BY CHANCELLOR:

Both Socialist parties in the Leichstag have voted against the third rating of the Emergency Budget, but the rejolt is a sham The whole debate was artificial and pre-arranged, and evidently, like the most important section of the Chrgeller's speech, intended to influence the Bussian Peace Bocialists,

It is noteworthy that, while boh Chin- cellor and Socialists set out to ecourge the Russian Socialists in their stalen peace efforts, the manifesto by the rustin Socialists to German workmen ga ap.. pressed by the German Censorsh

Berlin, March 2th-The Germa Chim-

cellor, Herr von Bethmann Hollyg, ina speech in the Reichstag, refering Germany's attitude towards rece eteis in Russia, recalled the time-ou friendship which had existed betsen Bib countries, but stated that this finds p ended with the death of Tear Axunder II. The Emperor Nicholas hadrid more and more into the Enten ware and into Pan-Slavistic currents,nd Hid finally become a partisan of wer party which was omnipotent for the Russian autocratic régime. Thin te fateful days of July, 1914 Tar declined to listen to the annenhade the German Emperor. Oneof the legendary reports dismind with especial preference by our enemy is that it was the German Gornm which assisted the autocratic action poly in Russia against all the monents of liberty.

declared here in the Reichsthat this Even as distant as one ago I asseveration was directly rary to facts:

When Russia, in 1905, had reduced to dire stress by the Japanese and the ensuing revolution, then it the Ger man Emperor who, on accour personal friendly relations, urgently ised the Tsar to oppose no longer justified wishes of his nation for refe

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SECTION I

The Maps

There are 181 Provinces in Chinn Pro-

per, and 4 Outor Territories. This territory comprises about 4,250,000 square miles. To map this immense aren has been colossal undertaking it would have been had the work been done in one language, but all the maps in the Atlas are in two languages-English and Chinese the oftious romatisation having been followed throughouts

The maps, moreover, are uniform. They tell

tell everything known geographi- cally about China and the Outer Territories. They are the most eomlete

The Senate then voted the following meddling with the interprobleme maps and the most accurate mape there

other countries. It is

The meeting of the French Senate on March 31st was devoted to bearing s report from a Honky Chéron, who, with nine other Senators, was dispatched by the Commission on War Ravages on a tour of inspection to the recently liberat ed regions. In giving the results of their investigations M. Chéron, with burning indignation, denounced the crimes com- Lord Bryce said we were in face of an mitted by the Germans, as follows extraordinary event which might prove Germany was a signatory to the Hague one of the greatest in European history. Convention which laid upon a military The struggles of five centuries for connuthority occupying enemy territory re stitutional freedom had been crowned inspect for certain obligatione guarantee five, days achieved at one stroke after ing persons and property against every long secret thought and plans. That abuse. The principle of these obligi would not surprise those who knew the tiong was that war must be waged solely Lussian people, who were a kindly people between armies. The Germans have and free from vindictiveness and for treated the Hague Convention as a mere and it was earnestly, to be hoped that scrap of paper: We should have to the absence of bitterness which charac terized the Revolution would romain, and 80 back to the remotest ages in history. that good order and good feeling would to and acts of savagery and devastation reculling, in even a small degres, those be preserved

we have met with in the region abandon. Equal rights and equal liberties were a better policy than force. Two States, ed by our enemy Everywhere in the Germany and Austria, had not learnt the towns and half a hundred villages which tesson; but Russia saw and appreciated we visited is a scene of systematic pil that great truth and proclaimed the fact lage and destruction. Acts of veritable by unmistakable action. (Cheers.) In barbarism have been done without the amite of what the German Chancellor said, slightest excuse of military necessity. the victory of Germon and Austrian We desire to denounce and brand before autocracy would be fatal to Russian the world the accursed race which has democracy. The ruling classes of Ger- attempted to force its Kultur on us. many and Austria knew that very well.

After a recital of the terrible crimes Already the brumpet-note, sounded for freedom in Russia, had begun to rever of the Germanis, the speaker concluded, berate in Germany. (Cheers. The amid enthusiastic applause,

⠀⠀⠀ despotism of the military caste in Ger- No one could dream of making peace many was already trembling and it with such criminals. Any parleying already saw its own fate in the writing would be treason. The whole world is on the wall in Russia, but they would rising to-day against barbarism. Know fight as hard as they could to keep the ing what our brothers in the invaded control of the people in their hands. He regions have suffered, we have no longer w the Russians fighting side by side the right to complain of the petty dif with the Allies, and the Allies, he hoped feulties at home resulting from the State fighting side by side with the armies and of war. Hatred against Germany is now Mleet of America.

We the most saored of duties, We shall Mr. Fisher, who moved a resolution rejoicing in the liberation of the fight to the very end-that is to say, until Russian people and greating with we have been able to found on the ruins ympathy the creation of a Government of German Imperialism, and militarism 1by the people for the people," said they the imprescriptible rights of human free agent to the Russian Government a message dom and conscience.

of good will and God speed. They could M. Viviani spoke in the name of the surmise the magnitude of the difficulties Government-aa M. Ribot had been which confronted the new Government of tained in the Chamber and expressed Russia. What had happened was a shiin entire concurrence with M. Chéron's in- Tsar Nicholas preferred ing augury for the future of the world dietment. He said: These acts of murder If Russia's attention had a concen it had brought an heroic people into the and rapine and pillage are not merely trated upon reconstruction or interna) sunlight of political: Jiberty.. In this an outrage on international law and policy there would not haben room Revelation the seed had been sown for athonour. They constitute crimes dealtfor the restless policy of extion which policy which would achieve the welfare with in the penal code of all civilized finally led to this war andich led to and civil liberty of a great, an heroic, and countries. In order to prepare the versuch hatred of the old red that it is an enduring people

dict of history these crimes must be now found hard to do evertice to the Bir Alfred Mond, M.P., in seconding placed on record adequately and accur natural feeling of huray for the the resolution, said they had witnessestely. shall fight until victory is

downfallen House of Rule the disappearance of a miasma which had

Nobody can tell what colthings will for long covered over the soul of Russia gained, for it is on it alone that echas- He himself belonged to a place who had trement depends. We shall obtain take, but our attitude tls Russian ullered much at the hands, not of the paration by the military force of France events is clearly outlined shall coa-

tinue to follow the He and her Allies." Russians, but of their Government. thanked the present Russian Government for giving to the people fall citizenship resolution: The Senate denounces to of the country in which the people lived the civilized world the criminal acts The German people were victims under committed by the Germans in the regions the darkness of autocracy, and the of France occupied by the crime Russians, whom the Germans had always against private property and public looked down upon, had outstripped them buildings, honour, liberty, life; crimes the path of progress. The Russian perpetrated without the slightest excuse people were now fighting, not for the of military necessity and in systematie autocracy of Petrograd, but for the contempt for the international Conven As to the manner in the Russian freedom of the whole Blar race. (Cheers tion of October, 1907, ratified by repre nation wishes to recon its internal

The enthusiasm, and was telegraphed to the holds up to universal execration themeddle with it. The doing we bope carried with sentatives of the German Empire 1 affairs, that is purelysiness of the ke shall not. Russians themselves, authors of these misdeeds, for which is that conditions willlop in Russia Russian Prime Minister. SPRINCE KROPOTKIN'S MESSAGE justice demands punishment; it salutes such as will make herong and firm At a similar meeting at Kingaway Hall, reverently the victims, le whom the bulwark of peace, per Wire Arranged by several Russian social and nation gives a solemn pledge and promise less Press. peace

that they shall obtain full reparation The Chancellor's ace to Russie presided political organizations was over by Mr. Zundervitch, a revolutionary, from the enemys it affirms, even more (Reuter states) conclus follows: who has lived in this country for the past solemnly than before, the determination

If the new arrang contributes to fun of France, supported by her splendid facilitate the rappent of both Prince Kropotkin, absent owing to ill soldiers, and hand in hand with her peoples who depend oil neighbour- ress, sent a message, in which he said that Allies, to pursue the struggle forced upon liness we great it (Cheers,) de would have liked to be with the old her to the final crushing of German Im-We have suffered on from the ins Bassian comrades who had worked to perialien and militariam, which have to of Old Russia, protected the bring about the present glorious daya in answer for all the misery, ruin, and murderous attack oa on Austria their country and meet those British mourning heaped upon the world. friends who had received them-Russian refugees and had supported the Riesing liberating movement with their, steady and heartfelt sympathies From the out ses of the war it was evident that it was the duty of Russians to oppose with all their force the Austro-German invaders of Belgium, France, Serbia, and Russia (Cheers.) In that they were at one with the Russian nation, who understood that

From the middle of March it looked Germans and the Austrians came only to like the house-moving of humble people impose economic slavery upon the con quered populations and to use them for mattresses and chairs, and perhaps a further conquests. The whole nation wing machine, or a hen coop, ⠀ "And then Joined in the defence of the country, and there was a fine quantity of doors and from the outset they knew that that would windows, and everything else which seem bring the nation into an open, dicisive ed worth carrying away from the houses Londiet with autocracy

which a few hours later were to dis- Many English friends, the message appear in flames. And they earted away continued, are astounded by the trunks of trees good, solid, liealthy unanimity with which the Revolution was wood.roca accomplished. The reason of it was that What a desert! A melancholy desert the last two and a half years the Army stretching for miles. They sawed and felt that it had its best, brue friends in hacked, the trues collapsed, and the the nation at large, which supported the bushes fell, and so it went on for daye, Army in thousands of ways in the rear until everything bad been razed to the while the Government proved at every ground. No cover was to be left, any step its incapacity and, still worse, its where. The enemy is to go thirsty, and treacherous pro-Germanism. In such con- ditions people and Army stood together to look in vain for wells Nowhere will You are astonished at the rapid success he find four walls within which he might of the Revolution because son have not establish himself. Everything is thrown been told by your Press of the touching down and burnt out, the villages are Sympathies which the Armies found from heaps of rubbish, and the church towers even the poorest peasants; nor of the and the churches with them, lie across the material support they found in the roads, Heat, smoke, and smell! The immense creativo work of the intellectual explosions are still doing their last work elements of the municipalities, the local Herr Querl enlarges upon the achieve *self-government, and the great unknown ments of the German sappers as if they

as of educated Russians

had just won a battle, and gloats Over "You ask how it is that the Cossacks, the expected reaction in France who were so brutally treating the popular Let them see it. Let them see it over movements in 1905, now joined the people there This naked terrible war should stormy scenera any one of you had stood in the dusk be reflected in all the shop windows of when Social winter day, on the platform the Boulevarde. We have put distance establishmen Failway station, with the brigades betweon tv ad the nerve it is deed that the

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reported that Germany desirous of abolishing the hardly-wedom of the Russian nation, and the German Emperor would like to boots. All of Twardom over enslabjects. these reports are merelyand slander, as I here emphatically

are to-day of this great field called China, They are all from special copper engray- ings that have taken years to prepare,

and on the whole form one of the most

progressive secomplishments of modern

times in the Republic.

The scale is between 20 and 30 miles to the inch. They are lithographed. harmonious colouring, with all the special features worked up in a way that will make it possible to follow as s fascinating study the whole geographie and economie fold of China.

The German correspondents at theas the first of oues which 3 The maps are accurate, and accuracy,

front are now writing what they call farewells to the Somme, which they combine with shameless descriptions of the German work of devastation and plunder. This Herr Georg Quer! reports to the ferliner Tageblatt:

of Awaiting a train with wound sert full of wretchedness,

the wounded to the

to stretchers: if you had

Hungary, which io 1014, mobilized against us, and whi December 1916, ingly refused our offer. The Russian people, wtainly did not will this war, arithout anxiety regarding any intese from We desire nothing elsepe-dily to live with it again in (Freat cheura), in peace on a basurable for all parties..

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Turning to intelitics, the Chan cellor said:

At the beginner we were all, without ex of the opinion that it were beste those questions of internal polifli must be the sequel of our wriences to time of peace. With plongation of the war some partised their views. As regards onr regarding some Polish policz w not adhere to the principle of leafrything till peade time, but as the franchise I declared in the Lower Chamber that the internle connected with it would not to the necessity of the hour concentrate all our strength in the enemy,

The price fo this war is waged is much too to allow us to te I must sub carried away ordinate ever the aim of bring ing the wary conclusion. It is no sign of ion if I cannot be convinced, an moment I feel that it would not e interests of our country to is reform at once. Therefore I back until I have reached that

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31st. There werd foreshadowed the Reichstag yesterday, public and demand shotild have larges foreign policy powers in

Herr Minority Socialist)

opment in Germany.

hospitals on their

en how those same women whom the The main point for Russia-iat as it said Republic as a com- Cossacks charged in the streets in 1905, is for England, France, and Belgium is ing inevit and who now gave their sisterly care to to drive the German invaders frota the Uproar.) now marching with The German poule those same Cosuncks, when they were territories they have occupied. We save-dible patients (Cries wounded, you would have understood how mean to retain our conquests, and surely shows ind

"His The President our educated youth won the Army. You the neonle of Russia will consolidate them would have understood why the Army by further devaloving the aristructive warned th to avoid such expres hated the German woman and her creature work it has been doing for the signs.) must have a right husband, and found also that it was high last two years thus preparing the way to a widing alliances, poses tinas to get rid of these secular supporters for the socialization of the country's Chancell dismissed when the

rations of WWAYACETY treaties, of Germen imperialism.

natural riches, its production, and its exchange. (Cheers.)

Reichstag

(Continued at foot of nezi çolumn.)

it Reuter

the very life of a map. Each province ans a separate chart allotted to it, which also shows the surrounding territory. Rivers, trade routes, roads, insignificant villages and hamlets, ar as easily traceable as the more important characteristics Bestes, there is a great deal of detail which shows all the cities. telegraph stations, elevations, creeks, lighthouses, boundaries everything one would expect to find in modern maps.

There is a complete record of the new place-names, recently changed by Pre sidential Mandate. How many of those who read this know, for example, that the correct oficial name for Nanking today is not Nanking at all? In strictly oficial documents Nanking is called "Kianguinghsion, Soochow is "Wabsien," Ningpo is "Kinghsien," and so on.

These maps are Standard Maps. They represent the first serious attempt to compile maps in English and Chinese, and as a complete set of modern maps of this country they are uniquel

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SECTION II

The Map-Index

The writer of this announcement, hay- ing seen all the work in progress, feels atterly unable begive a correct impression of the wideness of its scope of the book, He was looking over the compiled records the other day and was amazed. The tediousness, the painstak ing research, the wide knowledge of China and the fanguage, and the infinite amount of detail made him feel respect for the profession of cartographer,

To make an index of anything is a tedious undertaking. To make « como- plete Index of 22 geographical maps, all two languages with no ordered or syatematic official information at hand. to help, and with what little unofficial information there was so diversified in character, and flimsy and unrellable that, has been a gigantic undertaking for The Far Eastern Geographical Establishment.

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Over 18,000 places are mapped and indexed. This meant at least five checkings for each name on each occasion through each different process that the drawings, engravings and lithographed sheets had to pass before they could be called maps. First, the name is in Eng- lish; then the Chinese, characters; then Province in the English and Chinese And then, the accurate latitude and longitude. The usefulness of this index for hundreds of purposes will occur immediatel

to the teacher, or student.

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About the romanization-The correct official spelling for Machang is WUCH-ANG. There are many other

ways to spell it, according to individual ideas of phonetics. There are "WOD- chang U-tsang, "Wu-tschang," "Wa- chtsang and several more. And this applies to every place in Chins. The value of this first organized attempt at getting at uniformity in place-names is greater than appears on the surface.

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