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The destruction of everything that could be destroyed over the very borrow zone of the recent enemy retirement, con- pled with the recent deliberate and ad FROM BEATTLE AND JAPAN PORTS.mitted sinking of a hospital ship surgest a political point which has not, I think, been thoroughly dealt with in our Prew It has not been thoroughly dealt with even in tant of the Continent, where there is, unhappily, a much greater actuaint ice with military damage in the past. The point is this The prolongation of the war has increase the necessity of an

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On June 19th at 113-No returns from Japanes thation Fraser Lae decre pausiderably over the lower Vangtre Valley, which is now covered by a moderately deep depression.

Presente has decrared moderately intrista The depression deepened ligbely.

in military services directed against their tory to arrest the Duke of Enghien, struck own countries. This was clear military the Europs of that one with greater advantage and again quite new in the moral horror than anything else the re-story of European warfare, Volutionary wars had produced, rest) The next step was the theft, by It is to be remembered at the outset military order and as an action of govern of this enquiry over to be lost sight of ment, of private property. This must be proceeds--that if one loses a point carefully distinguished from loot, the in the chivalry of war, the old limits action of individuais, which has occurred are never to be recovered. No mutual in all wars in various degrees. I am re-slightly in other mechanical pressure or a more balance of ferring only to the set and admitted military advantage restores it These policy of taking the private property of limits must therefore be protected by a non-belligerents and transferring to maintenance of the moral standard That is, by a state of mind. We cannot trust their maintenance to the mers ne Cussary give and take of the belligerent

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to permanent control and possession of the occupying Power, without immediate military necessity of my kind. The altimate military advantage was of course, the economic strengthening of the state st war. It is again to be carefully noted that this novel policy in it turn was progressive. It began only in the shape of fines, which by their magnitude of the army, but confikatory. It grad ally proceeded to what we have men in the last three week, the systematic rifling of all books SouthCourt of Chins þeirsen (The tame ay

Aga etirement, without receipt.

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Further, the successive violation of these conventions has been directly due to the will and action of Prussia. It is Prussia It familiarises the mind (by an illu alone among Europein States which has lem. I have met plenty of men who art began to put into practice, the thought the trenches in front of Noyon, doctrine that the military advantage of having been filled with opposing forces a particular State permitted the violation for two and a half years, would be to hill of European standards, and it is in pro

Man Hoogkong and Käimbeks. ed in the end a portion as Prussia has become more and property during a

It gives time for old bad habits in more completely the master of the great

(i) The next step was the compulsion South Cost of China jetween / The same

No. 1. Hongkong and Hainan... government and oil organisation, snomy combination against uà thèse vio- which End bowed to the blast in 1814 and tations have increased in number and of non-belligerent populations to drvile labour for the advantage of the energy e 1915, to raise their heads again

kind. The advance in outrage military and economic power. SALOHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL under the direction of Prussia has been (E) The next step was the destruction made step by step and is still continuing of all shipping, neutral or belligerent, In former wars Prussia had already without waring, wherever such shipping violated two main conventions which might be conveying goode or even nedical other European States continued to bid to or from belligerents, respect

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It adds strength to reiterated assertions of thos germanophils who foster even among as a mood of stalemate," and of

bering. It exinusts mater

It exiausts materially and It does all these things. Bufar more

(1) The last step. has been taken during important it increases the desire of the enemy to destroy a civilisation which he (1) She had, ever since Frederick the the recent retirement in Picardy and cannot attain, and increases his practice Great, taken the military advantage of consists, in the complete destruction of in the means of destruction. Therefore, initiating military action without decla all the countryside over which a perman ent destruction of all the countryside it compels that civilisation with everyration of war

over which a permanent retirement is increasing month to determine more and more upon the absolute elimination of that is, non-belligerents, not responsible taking placy, including the poisoning of such a menaceeaker

for military action, but in some way water supplies, the killing of fruit trees, Those who said in 1914 that the war was prominent or respected in the localities and the destruction of every sort of a niktter of life and death were actuser affected. She had held them as hostages building. Most of this action has o direct by many of rhetorical exaggeration Togainst any thing done in their neigh military advantage. It prevents the pur. Goods not cleared by the 18th inst. will be day and for this country capecially bourhood which might disturb her mili suing troops from getting billets. It

ber Inst war of 1870-71 hostages of this may be thought to give them pause before Osm All broken, shared and datared at under the menace by sea, the formuin itary plans. She had put to death during hampers them in their supplica, and it

psokages are patently true

The enemy has during the progress of kind in order to strike terror and to they compel the evacuation of another to be left in the Godowas where they will be ersmined on the 16th inst. at 10 AM

the war, gradually proceeded step by step prevent interference with her communi-strip of occupied territory. It is at the Claims against the Steamer must be present to brock, one after the other series of cations, etc. same time perfectly novel breach of the ed in writing within 10 days after arrin of conventions explicit and implicit, which Both these acts she proceeded to repeat customs hitherto maintained in European We Stepner, otherwise they will not be recognised had hitherto limited the action of the a matter of course in the origins of warfare. The argument that territories Brow

No Five Insurance will be affected by the belligerents by sea and by land. He has the present campaign for Europe had have been wisted before now in modern undersigned in any case whatever

Bill of Lading will to conflersigned by of reached the limit of this process. very foolishly allowed her to establish the European war does not apply keonge Either these novel outrages (or at any precedent. But the gradually added, there is here a vast difference in degree JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN

rate some of them) will be allowed to point by point during the campaign, and complete difference in intention, Agents.

form precedents or they will not. Whe- quite new breaches of convention. They which takes the thing wholly novel. Hongkong 11th une, 1917,

[744

ther they will form precedents or not may be thus summarised in their order. Third This succesive breaking down

(a) She violuted neutral territory, at of military conventions, is still in pro-Amoy depends not upon written conventions or

It has not reached its limit and the verbal promises from governments, first admitting it was now breach of gress.

may contille indefinitely. At the begin- but upon a state of mind in Europe. law. That state of mind will be chiefly pro- (1) She next organised considerable ning of the present submarine campaign duced by the character and completeness insaneres of civilians in order to terrois not a few of our newspapers thought the of the victory which in its turn will the civil population, and she accompanied enemy had already reached the limits of Pescadores already alluded to, that military conven- Hongkong. FROM SAN FRANCISCO HONOLULU, V largely depend upon domestic there insetores by the destruction of civi all possible action while the error C

opian within the entente countries durian property. ing these few ligt months which are at (6) She dropped explosives upon the tion, was, as it were automatic and im Gap Rock

ivilian population of open towns, als posed itself, played a further part in this Macao hand,

That is the capital truth which we must in order to obtain the military adveo misjudgment. As a matter of fact, things. HE above-mentioned vessel baving arrived bear in mind, especially here at burgstogt of throwing confusion into civilian can go mich further. We may have the poisoning of water supplies at home by from the above ports, Consignees

All these first three things she did quite agents within the belligerent countries, Cargo tre hereby informed that their Let us examinn, these various propozaffairs, Cargo is being landed at their risk into the sitions singly, Hazardous and/or extra Bizardous Godowns First The enemy has under the at the opening of the war and did them the spreading of diseases among animals of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and direction of in--broken what were for the first time in modern European and men by other methods. private an and stored at before 1914 very sacred implic or ex warfare. She did them long before any sassinatics, the sacre of prisoners,

etc. etc. Godown Co, LI

conventions of European civilised similar actions had been formed upon

Fourth The only agent for recover Consignees ris

opponents by her exampla of Cargo are here Consignees of are hereby notified that war

(d) She next prigonded, about sixing civilindractice is a complete vict they must produce an Import Pes mit signed by It is sometimes suggested that these the Superintendent of Juports and Esports, conventions as they existed up to the months later, to sink enemy non-be tory: We must include in this the policy follo Hongkong, befors Bills of Lading can be summer of 1914, universally respected by ligerent ships of merchandise without formed by opinion towards the war as a Surigao countersigned,

It ought to be perfectly clear that so All broken, chafed and damaged goods, ére to Europeans, were blind mechanical pro safeguarding the lives of their non whole during its last stages. A

1oducts of armed conflicta belligerent crews.

It is to be carefully sited that there long as nations are independent and The reason you did not such and such things, though they might be of was a progression even in this She sovereign nothing can possibly deck the Seife mintary advantage to you, hegan by taking trouble în must cases to violation of international - convention was that in the long run they produced avoid the murder of these crews. S during war save universal opinion For in altimate military disadvantage--for went on to less and less frouble and at there is no instrument to correct or im example, yn did not bombard open last, save in very few cases, she took no pede such violation while war is in pro- towns, even though they were road centres, trouble at all.

gress. Ware Caz only take plae because because a mutual policy of destroying (e) She next began to use weapons nations are independent, All schemes to them would put you ultimately in danger, hitherto regarded with abhorrence and render var impossible between nations, of receiving mare damage of the same set aside in modern warfare, notably or to create a physical force which would kind in the long ran than the immediate poisonous gases and burning oil. This compel the observince of internationa) particular novelty has given rise to conventions, are equivalent to the merg- military advantage was worth

This theory, stated as a universal truth, great deal of controversy, because a whole ing of national independence in a is thile erroneous. A great many things school has maintained that the use of general federation of imposed Empire which would distinctly be to the ultimate such novel weapons was merely part of that is, to the creation of a new great military advantage of a belligerent were the general develpment of war and that State in which what were formerly m not done by Europeans in recent war be thore was nothing worse in poisonous dependent nations cease to be such, and cause it was lolt that the doing of there gusen, say, than in the gases of an explo become mere provinces, subject to one lowered the whole standard of civilisa sive. But this contention, though it has central Executive Such an arrangement, tion or, to put it more truthfully, because appeared even among her opponents flet whether the result of voluntary federa tion or of conquest, has the advantage of the were repugnant to the European alone among neutrals), will not beår

examination. The possibility of using making war between its varimus, parta conscience.

For instance, it is common sense that poisonous gases was quite open to modern impossible, and therefore discusion pon the poisoning of water supplies behing science long before this war. Their use its power to mitigate the horrors of war retirement would gravely weaken the was not due to the discovery of a new is besidi the mark. It has the disadvan military power of the pursuit if the re weapon. It was merely the application tgae of destroying full national sovereign- tirement was absolute, and so recovery of of one hitherto refused as degrading warty. If the arrangement is not strong the territory, abandoned was contemplat. Sa abhorrent was this practice to the cough, if it has not an Executive Power Nevertheless, men of European civilised mind. that there was a long sufficient to compel observance, it does civilisation did not poison water supplies, hesitation and debate amung her oppon not exist. As between independent primarily because such an action was ents whether reprisals in kind should be nations lie only safeguard agamit abnor (1). She next proceeded to destroy the mal and unnatural outrage in war is passenger ships of belligerents. The link Now the conclusion imposed by this between this and her first breach of con- analysis is that opinion must be directed ventions at sea was the fact that these to complete victory against Prussia and highest open-air Temperature on 11th se passenger ships were also carriers of mer to the rendering impotent of the power tot open-air Temperature on 12th. 79 chándis to her onemy: But the distine which acts in this fashion power tive mark of this last step was that Every attitude towards this war which she now began to murder belligerents continues to regard it as what past ware pecaliar position and power. It in per- and neutrals indiscriminately and have been-normal struggles between tigglar the breakdown of all conventions belligerents and neutrals in nova States which, will, after the struggle, re maritime warfare he admitted And concerned with the carriage of the sume, normal relations is built upon the confiscation of private property as merchandise in question. The sinking of false foundation. It is built upon the wall; it, the precedent is allowed to stand, the Lusitania was the first of these out falec foundation we und in a hundredthen the foundation of this country and rages, and came after the use of gas, and other laser cases, the illusion that mast Empire which is mercantile and mari- long after the first arbitrary sinking conditions have survived me tre time, is withdrawn. Not only the present mendous cataclysm We can only prevent enemy merchandise,"

(g) The next step was the beginning of the degradition of war as at present a outrages against prisoners of war, This complished by Prussia from becoming was the first of the Prussian actions not permanent, by destroying the centre directly connected with military advan which boasts its power and desire to con- It was ine, as many more came te tinue and increase these novelties, and be, with the progress of this spirit of which is in actual process of continuing mere hostile sentiment, and it was under and expanding then taken under the fixed conviction that the The longer the war lasts the clearer this opponents of Prussia would never hold a truthines. Those who may the thing number of prisoners comparable to the can be done are welcome to their There is no escaping this conclusion any number of prisoners which Prussis held opus But they must at the same time- She was wrong in this calenlation, as she accept the logical consequence of that more than there is escape from a mathe matical proof. The issue is quite clear. has been in every calculation she has opinion. Those logical conquences are The business must be carried to its very made. She was particularly wrong in the the establishment in Europe of fully end with the Full consciousness of that calculation that the British would never belligerent conditions as permanency; thed and the determination to reach it, hold a number of German prisoners inability of Europe to re-establish pear in the alternative. All the way in greater than the British prisoners held in as the normal and war as the abnormal which we have lived, all that by which Germany. But the reason she singled out state. For this country in particular we have lived and in particular the British prisoners whe undoubtedly hur such a conclusion the making of a pear shelled conditions which permit certain calculation that she would always have which leaves it in being as an independ

academic securtricities like pacifism superiority here:

ent State--would mean the end of its to fourish will be gone for good and,

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be sit in the Godowns, where they will be examined on MONDAY, Shirst., at 10 am. --- All Clains must be presented within a month of the Steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized as

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining madelivered after 19th inst, will be rubject to No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.

PACIFIC MAIL B.S CO., R. U. MORTON, DES General Agent.

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

From 12th to 19th June

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LOW WATER

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Timme

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32 340. 9142 42 122708

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thought unchivalrous and therefore unused or no si military, but also perhaps because th sentiment was connected with a subcon scious feeling that making var horrible beyond a certain point would weaken the whole texture of our civiliantion,

Or, again, it is obviously of immediate military advantage to violate neutral territory when strategic superiority is gained thereby. Nevertheless, neutral territory was never violated, and so pre foxuid was the feeling upon his subject that Napoleon's single action of the sort,

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my, but any potential enemy in the future bas, upon these procedents, the power to strike mortal blows against a highly populated industrial island State, controlling distant dependencies and sled with distant dominions. It can act against such a State in.. fashion quite separate from the corresponding power which can be exercised against a Con tirental State