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WE MUST HAVE MEN"

SIR W. ROBERTSON ON THE NATION'S NEEDS,

SIR J. VELLICOE ON THE SUBMARINE MENACE,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30cm. 1917.

fore is retreating. Both these, arguments freedom Germany must be taught to are wrong

realise that might is not right. Until, either for individuals, or familics, or that is done there can be no true freedom, societies, or for the Empire.

We are a law-abiding race, and, de far as I know my countrymen, all they need in a situation like this is to be told the truth and what it is they are required to do. 1 hays told all that it is possible

of men we require, and although a great

THE GREAT HINDENBURG

SHAM

SCIENCE OF WAR TURNED TOPSY TUBYY

It will soon be necessary for General richdrich von Bernhardi to write & new

Sir John Jellicoe and Sir William Bobprison addressed gathering of trade. unionisés in London last month on the

strain has already been put upon us, I order that a bewildered German prole. subject of man-power. The conference

must also tell you that we must be pre-tariat may be made to understand that was called in reference to the trade any more divisions in the field then parad. for a stiil greater strain before the essence of victory is defent, and that |

we finish the war. I know you are ready to face that strain, and if we all face it, while even anvages can Advance, the real resolutely set our teeth, and are true to genius of militarism is only exemplified secure that freedom for which we have ourselves, we shall, with God's help, by Retreat been compelled to fight.

scheme, and was composed of represen tatives of bralles unionists concerned in the production of essential-murritions of war who were not parties to the scheme. The position of the Government with

SIR J. JELLICUE,

The German official newspapers in in- timate touch with the Government are

Germany, is retiring because she dare not stand up to further punishment in the position she occupied. No one retires in war voluntarily. But she not yet heaten. She is going back in the hope of becoming stronger, and numerically she is stronger now than at any time during the war to tell you with regard to the number sixpenny treatise on the Art of War in She has been preparing for war and no. thing else for years past, and has recently made extraordinary efforts. She now bas last year, and has increased the number of her soldiers by about a million. She has been able to do this by her domincer total disregard of the most elementary ing, autocratic Government, acting in principles of humanity and international pelled thousands of men to emigrate to low. After overrunning Poland she com

regard to the matter wes conveyed to the Germany and to work in German mines Admiral Jellicoo said: So far as the mall fragments of the truth as are pub meeting, and the new schedule of pro-large numbers of Germans for military and munition factories, thus releasing tected oconpations for indispensable men service. Her next method of obtaining employed on Admiralty and munitions Auxiliary Service Law last November, men was to pass what is called the work we explained in detail,

by which all persons, both male and Mr. Arthur Denderson presided, and female, in Germany between the ages of the Minister of Munitions and President 17 and 60 were placed at the disposal of the Government. This measure alone of the Local Government Board were has probably sot free, for military service

· present, in addition to the First Lord considerably over one million men. She open its communications and its up is a sham, a frand, a delusion, a charla

has adopted the system of Blaveraiding in Belgium and Northern France, where by thousands of Belgian and French civilians have been forcibly removed from their homes and compelled to work as slaves for their enemies in Germany, thus releasing still more Germans for military service.

and the Chief of the Imperial General Star

"EIR W. ROBERTSON:

AS WE "MUST HAVE-MEN.”

We must meet this desperate effort, the enemy has matle, and to meet it wo must have men.

hard put to it to explain away even such

ask for inen, but I should like to support lished in the German official despatches. Navy is concerned, I am not here to the remarks made by Sir William Rob Their efforts in this direction, indeed, men for the Army, because nobody knows grow daily more pathetic, and it seems ertson on the subject of the need for better than those in the Navy that the increasingly difficult to conceal the secras Navy cannot win a war by themselves The Navy's business, so far as the Army conviction that the once-idolised Hinden- is concerned, is to hold the ring to get burg (who never had bat one victory to the Army to its destination to keep his credit, and that an accidental one) plies; and to see that its operations are p not interferred with.

cannot win the war the war has to be in truth, a more wooden Hindenburg

Bat the Navy tan, a mere make-believo of a strategist won on shore. We cannot get at the Germans Their ships stop inside their then that monstrosity in which it was ports, and if they come out to fight they once the joy of the people to drive naila will not go back again, I hope. (Hear, at a shilling a drive, hear,) To win the war we must have, as Sir William Robertson aya, men for the Army

A TRIUMPH OF GENIUS

The Cologne Gazette makes a curiously melancholy effort to extract comfort for the people out of the German disasters

in the west;

Sir William Robertson said:--I am Bure you are just sa keen to win the war as anyone else, and therefore what I am about to my is not meant for you in partionlar, but for everyone in the coun-

The other directions in which the Navy exerts its power during the war are try. I am a great believer in truth and

You ask how many men do we want. See Fleet whenever it appears; secondly, T

First, its business is to defeat the High 'publicity, for no war can be lought to a My answer is the sante as I mstle to the to sink enemy submarines whenever they obedience to the highest commands, aban- successful conclum unless it receives Government a few days after taking up ate, found (as difficult a task, I suppose, don certain positions in the west that do The circumstance that our troops, in -popular mpport, and this it cannot do my present post. It is that we ought was ever put before any Navy); not lend themselves to sufficiently strong unless the people are plainly told the not to expect to win a war such as this thirdly, to keep open the communications counter attacks or to any really great need of support. Labour questione are no unless and until every man and woman to this country for dur food supplies military enterprise is cunningly turned concern of mine, bist I know that I have in the country does a full day's work of and munitions, and, fourthly, to stop by the reports from Paris and London always recognised them as such, and, an essential nature. Many times during supplies getting into the enemy's coun- into a German defeat. want you to believe that I am in great the last sixteen months the question of try, and to see that any enemy ship In a general way, the whole idea is to sympathy with the cause of Labour Just man-power has been considered, and which gets afloat has a very short life represent the German retreat as an effect as non-commissionell officers are the back have never varied my statement to the These are the tasks which the Navy has of the superior pressure of the Allied bone of the Army, so the working men, Government, I have always said that set itself to do. as they are called, are the backbone of it is impossible to put a limit to the

forces, but neutral observers know bet this country, I ask you to accept me as number of men needed for the Army, be When the war started the submarine ter. They are well aware that our troops bottom of the ladder, served several years have all men who can be spared from the early days the principal menace was to men are thoroughly convinced that if they a working man myself. I began at the cause the task is so huge that we must menace was comparatively small. In the are only too glad to be released from the the tanks, and I claim to know how Navy, the various industries, agriculture, or as the war progressed the retreat they do not do so as a result of imprisonmnet of the trenches. Thus our.

prosecution of the war. It is not for me marines in utter disregard of every of their highest command

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the working man looks at these matters and other employment essential to the Germans commenced to use their sub the enemy's action, but simply by orders WELLS FARGO & Co.. 8, Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, China, or B Oftes has a duty to perform. It has to where they are to come, but Burely it humanity, and the departure from inter- that it is only troops of the very finest China. Mail requests to above should be accompanied by 25 cents gold for doing wrong things, but the War to say how many men can be got, or from Principle of international law and of We in Germany RTC very well aware ONTEITH WEBB & Co., Agents for WELLS FARGO & Co., Hongkong, wing this war, and to do that it must should be possible, seeing the great re-ational law has led to a new and military qualities who are able bay men War Office takes the ruen which the Gav

But it is not a leach. The serve of men still in the country, and dificult situation. At one period the out a series of brilliant retreats to order to partly pay mailing expense, erndent gira it, and can take no more The War Office has never attempted to lay town how many men it can have, Or where they are to come from. It has told the Government what it ought to have, but it has always left the Govern ment is derise the incans of providing them, to specify the number

with a proper adjustment of all to give the Army the men needed, and our immediate needs are half a million of men between now and July next

The failure to get these men will un- doubtedly involve a prolongation of the war and consequent prolongation of hardship and misery

chant ships on the surface. In order to German submarines attacked our met- meet that morace we armed our ships defensively. O

WHAT THE

enough, African bushmen and North To advance merely is sometimes easy to carry

American Indians enough on the foe, only to be annihiliat advance readily ed. It takes seasoned warriors and

well positions scientifically trained armies to retire in such magnificent order to more favour

It is the crouch before the spring. This is the real position on the western front. today, sp

AEMY THAT GREY IS A NIGHT

buited by Herr Stielow its forther Len- Some other military refications, roatri- don correspondent, to the Berlin Zatalanaeger, many cause even less satis faction to the juzzled population of the Fatherland

"It's a long, long way to Tipperary,

It's a long way to go

The

water, and though that has limited The enemy is now forced to attack under wary much the activity of the submarine, We have done much Our troops at the counter to that attack is much more It has also been said that the War the front are the wonder of the world, discuit than to surface attack In Office dies not make the best use of the No one has ever approached the colossal ander to give security we want not mou, ven its tels. The War Office makes mais ask that we have so successfully accom-but large numbers of small craft. Whilst kes. Who does not 1 No doubt there plished. Individuals throughout the supporting everything that the Chief of have been cases of injustice to individuals Empire have behaved magnificently in the General Staff anys with regard to men and many ? anomalies, and men have been the way of absolute selflessness, and have for the Army, I should like to say, and taken why should not have been taken, given up everything-their money, their especially such as this, that what the square men have been put into round time, their position, their prospects, their Navy wants is for every man who takes holes, and so on. I admit all this, but friends, their lives to the State. But part in the building of ships to do the look at the situation with which we were the question is. Have we done all that we utmost that lies in his power to carry faced at the beginning of the war. We can do for Germany is not yet heaten out his work, because a feet of smal! were unprepared for this war, as were Do not think I am despondent. I am craft pravents losses, and the building all other nations in Europe except Ger perfectly confident of success provided of merchant ships replaces those lost, the most frivolous of dead marches, to the many and France. We had no organiss, we remain determined to win but The gravity of the submarine menace tune of which it seems an eternity since strangely melancholy notes of this.. tion such as Continental nations have for although fully persuaded of the right should not be minimised by anybody in the flower of English manhood streami calling up the population and sorting out ousness of our cause, and therefore fully this country. You know week by week, ed forth from its green island, never to man anording to their qualifications for confident of victory, the way to victory because they are published, the figures of return will be for ever connected in my military service, for industries, for muni may be long and certainly will be hard our losses in merchant ships. There is no episode in the world's history-the trans- tions, agriculture, and so forth. We had We have been saved by our Navy from one sovereign remedy for the submarine formation of a rivil into a military Eng- at system of universal service, but had to the horrors of war being brought into The methods for dealing with them are land, and the almost spontaneous blossom

memory with that most astounding, call on colunteers we had to improvise our own homes, with the result that many combination of devices, and freshing forth of the English Army, as we went alone, and we have been living people in this land are still got schemes are daily introduced. Enemy from head to mouth throughout the war of the urgency of our position. for submarines losses are not published, h Perhaps the most surprising feature, of The consequence of improvising is confumy part feel that an enormous resp cause of the difficulty of being quite all was the birth of a practical officers' aion, wage of effort, friction, and injus sibility rests upon me as I am asked certain when a submarine has gone down corps. It would be unreasonable to com- tice. With the best will in the world to win the war, and it is impossible to The propres of & submarine diving and apare German with English officers. The these things could not be avoided. do that unless sufficient men are forth submarine sinking are much the same in incomparable brain and backbone of the appearance, and therefore you are never world is a structure of centuries, whereas

greatest and most marvellous army in certain whether she dived voluntarily or the English Army is still in baby shoes. are picked up. But the number of cases very excellent work. Also it must be ad has been involuntary when some survivors nevertheless it has accomplished some of that sort are not great, because when mitted that the English officers are a submarine is attacked she gets all hands gentlenion, and in a general way it inside as soon as possible ready to dive may be paid that no enemy officers corps At the same time, whilst it is a fact approaches more closely to the German that the submarines are by no means get than does the English.

SPILT MILK.

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SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-DENIAL

the

spilt milk, or in laying blame on in- In order to obtain the men needed involuntarily You know that the dive It were foolish, however to deny that

But there is no use in crying over AS ividuals, Ministers, or the Government seems to me that, for the duration of the It is not their fault. It is the fault of war, we must one and all bo willing to dhe system, er rather want of it, and that subordinate our personal liberty and will is due to want of foresight and preparato that of the State. It is only in this 11on before the war on the part of the way that the State oficinis-the Govers station as a whole. Another point I wish ment can have the free band nangsstry to

fer to is the criticism of our military enable them to organise the resource ting of scot fres, there is undoubtedly The most amazing change of all, how- parations which has sometimes been the Empire to the best advantage. We serious time before the country, and over, ha, heen in the character of an army Monde. Here, Egain, mistakes have occur must practise self-denist and self-sacri- economy in food consumption should be that he shot up like a fungus in the red, but marvellously few considering we ce, and, after all, what is demanded of the order of the day. It is due to these night, and in the place of the former And to improvise new armies. The critics us at home in comparison with what is who are fighting so gallantly in the Army parade-ground officers and impossible are chiefly disgruntled and otherwise demanded of our men at the front, many in France to see that no negligence on Tommies, has been conjured into a cap undesirable members of the community, of whom are every day making the our part ashore shall nullify their efforts, able self-confident officers corps and a who, having failed in their own pro supreme sacrifice? fessions, think they know all about the privations as compared with those of the the Mercantile Marine, whose ships are

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comedy in Russia has only had the effect have been practically non-existent, and these things mean; but we may realise

of stimulating the sixth German war this I regard as a great tribute to the them one day if we do not, before it is

Ioan. Those aleek London gentlemen, id loyalty and discipline of the nation top late, take every means in our power GIRL STEEL CHEMISTS.

fact, have woefully miscalculated the which has produood the men of whom to crush that overbearing spizit which our new armies are composed.

has degraded a great nation, has brought Fifty girls have been trained at Shof. Though Wilson brandish the tomahawk, Our progress with the war is bound to defied every law of God and man. We months as steel chemists to replace it after the Italian and Portuguese ex- Tueday, Jisi July

all this misery upon the world, and has field. University during the past three though the Chinese rattle the sabre, and, be slow, because of the colossal numbers must, in fact, win. The point is, what a young men. Profesor 1 0 Arnold, who hole of Busia, ascend in flames, our ngaged, and because Germany derived a mean by winning? I doubt if this is students have been vinced in laboratories brave Germans will find their way to tho ample, steal German ships, though the great advantage at the start. It is a properly understood.

has been giving the course, mid - the dificult and long business to make un I take it there is no desire on the country. Another 25 are finishing He knows that nature, which abhors for a bad start. As to the retreat from

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y in Sheffield but all over the subscription booths for the now WHE the Somme, the pessimists say that Ger-

part of any one of us to crash the training, many is making foole of us and is laying German nation, and the sooner the Some of the girls," he said, "ware all discord, will not could not allow the for it. We are not it sny way distat el Our sim 10, as I understand it, to deal training they have shown themselves shle criminals de temoroit, the improvident at Aug

German people know that the better. overcome by the fumes at first, but after greatest discord of all the triumph of the times pessimists may be classed as cow- German despotism such a blow as will

the ignorant, & Hoogh ards, while in war time they may be for generations prevent a recurrence of Bradford, South Wales, and other centres Kaltured, and the progressive elassed as criminals. Whatever happens, the horrors of the last two and a half they are having selected girls trained let, us keeps cheerful face. Optimists years. In short, we are fighting m the under Professor Arnold for posts at their mre co-operating with Sheffield, where way that Germany is defeated, and there cause of freedom, and before we can get own works

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