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GERMAN SPIES IN AUSTRALIA WHAT HAS COME TO LIGHT, ACTIVITIES IN WAR TIME,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13г. 1917.

INDIAN ASPIRATIONS.

MAHARAJA OF BIKANIE ON AUTONOMY:

A COUNCIL OF PRINCES.

COLONEL

TO COMMANDER THE GERMANS AND THE DEAD IN TWO YEARS GENERAL NIVELLE'S RAPID RISE::

When Gen. Robert Georges Nivelle, until recently the commander-in-chief, of the French armies in the field, was a cadet in the Polytechnique many years age, he was slow in picking up the theoretical side of war. He knew mathe

A FRISONER'S STORY

Among the stories told by men who hays come from the front is the following which affords unexpected confirmation of the account of the Corpss Utilization Company's enterprise. The soldier who tell the story is Sergeant B of the Ken's Describing the prisoners taken in the recent fighting, he said

The extent to which attempts were

The Indian delegates to the Imperial made before the war to inorenas Germin

Apps Wat Cabinet were the guests of the Em influence in Australia, and to obtain pire Parliamentary Association at knowledge of Australian conditions which luncheon in the Harcourt Room, House

of Commons, ecently. The Lord Chan

Chan-matics and he knew how to right artilOne of them who spoke English told might at a future dato be used to advancellor (Lord Finlay) presided lary, but theories puzled him where Mage to promote German settlement, can Mr. Chamberlain, in proposing the fore his comrades, in the exuberance of

the name of the Maharaja of Bikanir him............... ME has come into the possession of the was coupled with it. Nowhere was paå- |· Ah, Nivelle ssus!” one would axe "Australian authorities (states the Mel-simate loyalty to the King-Emperor more chaim.

me mind, I don't know that it's trans but he told m-that even when they're dead their WOCK

isn't done,

e. They are

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bourne correspondent, of the Sydney trong than among the ruling princes of To this day Nivelle bas fought shy of besides ry, and God knows what articles for the Home, Farm, Office and Shop. It is a guide to good

Morning Herali) throw light upon methods adopted to place the German

India.

13.Margarine Corpse fa

down in factorie as a business, to Ent for munition making and to feed. pige and

über folk eat the pigs living at low prices. Everything to eat, wear and use. The Maharaja

in of Bikanir, acknowledg

theory and the book soldier is one of his

and poultry, so you may say it's canni Government in possession of the most ing the toast, said the fact that India for pet abominations. All he knows about balian, isn't it? This fellow told me ALL AT WHOLESALE PRICES DIRECT TO YOU-

*-military science, according to the general

calls his minute particulars about the adaptability the first time had been invited to and himself. is how to fight

to the Imperial War

beause they suspect that's what it comes Conference had caused widespread grati. When the correspondents came flocking from

nes Times prints

prints the facsimile of the the Berlin Lokaunzeiger of April 10th mentioning the

The English trane- lation of this parage is as follows:

of Western Australia for German settle representative

Four Million Families all over the world supply their needs

ment, and the information further indi-Anon of her unflinching loyalty explain his theory to them, it was Nivelle text of Herr Karl Rosner's message to from us.

cates that even since the war broke out the Germans have not relaxed their pro and devotion to her Emperor of her posi- who cried SALAMELY paganda efforts. On the contrary, every tion within the Empire, and of the ser. Theory 1 I've got no theory the closest touch with German residents in Australis, and even with those intern ed in segregation camps, but, wily se

opportunity has been seized to get into vines which it had been her ride and But you must also remember that it lization Fxistence of the Corps

her privilege to render to her Sovereign and his had had to lice in the greatest crisis they were the methods employed by the Ger-

Speaking both of British India and of man authorities to place themselves in the Indian States, his Highness expressed communication with their interned com- the profound veneration in which India patriots, the vigilance of the Australian hold the Emperor, and her constant con- authorities has been such that their cern for the welfare of the Empire, Sub- schemes were one after he other un-ject always to these two essential consid mnaked.

Commenting with what happened just

is to ste our country, under the

was Nivelle who said at Verdin

They shall not passa a And that word went up and down the ral rank of men waist deep in hell-General Nivelle had said, "They shall not and they did not, though it cost French pass," live by the thousands, and dried in his Nivelle was never cut and dried in his ideas, Almost a year ago, when he was

before the war. A detailed report: fromance and with the help of Great Bri-fold the end of trench warfare,

of

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is a sickly smell in the air, as if the great Corpse Utilization Establish glup were being boiled. We are passing course.

this Army Group. The fat that is won

No matter where you live, you can save money by dealing with us. (Kadavererwertungsinstult) - ment herb is turned into lubricating oils, and tion has not diminished, prices are not inflated, and means of shipping America is the only big market in normal condition where produc- everything else's ground down in bone mill into a powder which is used with pig's food and as

can be

the

unimpaired._______

MANA Lerations, he continued, our next aspira commander-in-chief at Verdun, he fore the Depot for merchandise purchased from us is only $2.25 per hundred pounds

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self at the society's dispost. Then came There was no diversity among the States have become commonplaces. At the altrogenous powder which serves, so it very American Alissionary, and on file at every American Consulate.

EPUAS

one of the German missionaries on the stitutional lines in regard to matters" Prolonged as in trench warfare, which questioning the translation of the Ger north-west coast of Western Australia to political and economic, and ultimately to wo are pursuing for two years on the a society alled The Society for the attain, under the standard of our King- same ground," he wrote to a friend, if man word Kadarer, and suggesting that Protection of Germans Abroad was in Emperor, that freedom and autonomy is however, only one of the numerous this the best authorities are agreed that tercepted. The report onsists of in which you in this country secured long forms of war which cannot last always, it is used, though it is also used of awere to interrogatories, and is headed ago for yourselves, and which our mors it cannot lend to a decision

the bodies of animals. We have received strictly confidential. The first ques fortunate sister Dominions have aleo-en- tions related to the country misionary Proceeding, the Maharaja said that the of war, those of the Napoleonic wars, nests have stated before, that it has long Be sure that the essential principles other letters stating, as many other wit for some time past vinces, sive procise information ruling princes, so far from being alarmed time is approaching when a most decisive the Germans do in inct dispose of their

etc, upon which the

have lost nothing of their value. The been known in Belgium and Holland that Joseph Bischofs, a missionary of the Pal at the political progres per coat of the blow will be delivered by the strongest dead in the horrible manner indicated in lotinér congregation, Limburg, Frussia, joiced at it. At least 10 per cent the and most resolute. Its form cannot and He

Her Karl Roaner's message. resident in the north web of Australia more important States already had re at Broome, replied that he had been nine presentative self-government, and every equipment we wandel pressure business aspect of the industry is

will find not only in st Broome, replied the ked if he was preveur constitutional government was being equipment, but also an ecody ly we deal with in the Lancet, which says for

extended. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Though were autocrats, will find The missionary stated that as far as be The Indian States were proud of their General Nivelle's rise has been phenother to a chemical treatment which for pared to saver inquiries confidential the princes were marching with the times. soldiers, it in the hearts of our admirable belleving that the Germans are utilizing could he would be pleased to place him unique position within the Empire.menal, even in a war where phenomena, one thing, yields fat, and, for another, minute replies to questions about stock on matters of Imperial concern. They brack of the war he was fruit, cultivation, and wiges generally asked only to be allowed further oppor artillery. He had seen fighting in varie another, the miteral phosphate of the upon personal application to T. B. TOLMAN, 911, Urbiztondo, Manila, and also about pour-fishing. One ques tunities of serving their King Emperor ous parts of the world had been a cape bon to be used as a fertilizer in the PL. WELLS FARGO & Co., Bojas Bldg., Calle David, Manila, P.I.. a colonel of is stated, to envist pig-feed, and yet, for It is sent free upon request to our Home Office, or may be obtained

tion was, if the missionary could send and for the continuance of the good will tain when the allied forces marched into any kind of photographs and to this of the British nation towards their efforts Peking in 1900 bad fought the desert the reply was, 'erhaps, later. There to work out their own salvation

tribesmen in Algeria, which is the same

recovery of fat by what may WELLS FARGO & Co., 8, Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, China, or B. German club, the missiona y The Maharaja added As rulers Koy sort of training ground for the French of

to be a gruesome policy means,

a source. of material for the MONTELTE WOBE & Co., Agents for WELLS FARGO & Co., Hongkong, astated at Fremantle, and there was erning such a vast area in India, we,

tive The total amount of fat in the Are thoro correct maps of your town, prevailing, and likely to prevail in Bri- rarest to the Marne in August and Sop may be said to range from 4.5 to 8 your country provinces, etc.? Thetish India, and if we are fully to secure tomber of 1014. It was a baffling and cent of the body weight period of

The missionary's coply to this question was mad to retain our proper place in that the best charts of the coast could be constitution of the Empire, we must have incomprehensible thing to tho rank and it is easy to see that in a obtained from the Harbour and Lights regularly:ssigned and more pipire. And the rank and file expressed its las mistrial umount of glycerine, Thus, a

Ale this unending retreat, for the seabet definite of Joffres battle plan

casualties this method for the closely Kuarded

the dead will yield a very Department at Fremantle, whilst maps of the institution at an early date of a lost by hond afoot, stolidly of a 3 per cent basin of fat per body and catcalls for the thousand bodies at an average weight of Council or Assembly of Frinces, formed immediate on proper lines, w

lines, where important que day Nivelle

All one. September 10st (140 lbs.) would yield, on an average tios concerning ourselves, our States, and ignoring the hoots and caballs, acting weight, about two tons of fat capable of our people of the one hand, and the Bri- though he did not hear them. When being turned into a tenth of its weight tish Government on the other, can be dis- the order came to take up the offensive of glycerine e dewt. As the published cussed and settled just as a egislative the regiment rong with enthusiastic body exists in regard to mattons concern of giant rong with enthusiastic cries number of killed far exceed this, the ing British India. I should perhaps little attention to that creased proportionately, not to mention

paid

just output of glycerine may have been in make it clear that we have no disire what His regime ever to encroach on the affairs of British Marne,

good work at the the, sua

soap incidentally produced. The it did good work a few weeks dividends of the enterprising company India any more than we desire any out later at the Battle of the Aisne. In Octo-known as the Kadaververwartungsanstalt side interference with mur own internal bar, 1914, he was made general of i (Corpse Utilization Establishment) may, neat, long before the way according to maturing for some years, were definitely involuntary habit of officers and men to

to this calculation, be quite information in possession of sentative in and representative number Ruling dick when bullets whistad near Nivelle Department, a German representative of

face criticism Australia remarked to an Australian Princes at a meeting convened by Lord esined impassive always officer that Australia was making very Chelmsford at Delhi in October last, and little use of the north-test coast of the Viceroy's speech and the attitude Western Australia, and that it would suit the Government of India leads is to hope

that the question receiving admirably as a German settlement. The

several German hotels in Perth and however, feel that, if we are to keep my that India, is for the British in making of glycerine and its nitro-derive China. Mail requests to above should be accompanied by 25 cents gold. Fremantle, the tariff being indicated, abreast of the times and of the conditione normal to was in the great human body varies immensely, but

the country generally were obtainable from the Department of Lands and Surveys in Perth. In all 50 question word answered, all treating in the most wate manier with the physical and inmercial attributes of the districts in which the missionary reades. To each nd every question full replies were This report was deted July 10th,

given **2914

SCHEMERS AT WORK.

in the constitution of

place in

the

AN

Nivelle's

was

It appears that, in an incautious ino affairs. These ideas, which have been brigade. A fellow officer tells how at the to the directors and

holders enabling them to fa

report, of which extracts are now pub-consideration (Cheers.) him at close range say he is of was much horrified T

lished clearly indicates the steps that Mr. Chamberlain announced that it was were taken, subsequent to this conver- hoped that before long it might be pos- sation, by the German Government to sible to organize a Parliamentary visit supplement the information already in to India. its possession about the north-west

const Other information in the posses of the Australian withorities indi- estes that the doings of Australian business nes were followed in the closest detail. It is also known tothe Australian authorities that the local offices of great companies, such as the interested in metals, polish, etc., were agencies for

with complacenor what is the use of Arving to dodge The horror with which the peoples of bullets? he would sny.

the East regard any abuse of the lead VELOSMITHE ORIENTAL'S FATALISM.

may be gathered from the following state- The French writers who have studied ment made yesterday by the Chinese

Minister in London:

soald melancholy nature. He has lived in the Oring long enough to have acquired scarcely believe such a thing possible. something of the Orient's fatalism, a be In China we have a very special respect lief that when his time comes, he will go, and reverence for the dead. There any andbol before. And officers of his staff and equently, the deseration of graves, any disturbance of

the bodies of those who have gone state with bin frequently for his last rest, is a very grave crime

necessary to re-

to their auregard for his own likes and thair, reWo venerate our anceators and re- monstrances are of small effect verave their

Under the old Apart from all these devices, letters, Like many men, who have lived much monarchical regine, if a

Fegine, if a mus performed and newspapers, which appear to contain in the Algerian deserts General Nivelle Some great serve to the State, it was nothing but what is visible, are used for is a man of few words. He was never not unusual for the Emperor to cúnoble writing in an invisible medium, the secret light in Parisian society; social func-

his ancestore for three

generations. It which is known to the receiver Froh-tious hored him and he preferred the encicly of a few friends and a quiet gunse

stuffed with paper cuttings. All the others were then cracked, and in all of them were newspaper cuttings,

as judged that an excellent man came From oxcellent for

collecting and sending to Germany in ably the cens know as much of these piquenhy of honour, who were

formation of Australian resources great steamship company in ligence purposes, nothing else than branch of the German Admiralty Sora of the German school in ustralia were it has been ascertained by the Common wealth authorities, used in connection service in the German army. In various ventres an official representative of the German Conant-General. in Sydney was appointed.

of

Those capabilities

with the granting of. cxemption from leaving church He met with little trst two moths of 1916 he was busy Winter and the spring visit is to see

In one ease the representative was a puator, a member of a branch of the Prossian National Church, who with other pastors of his Church, received part of his stipend from Germany. This an, an Australian by birth although of German pareatage, was interned after the outbreak of war, and in his possession were found many treasonable documents The Germany Press organisation has been found to be most accurată in sending to Germans and persons of German descent Australia news favourable to the enemy cause From Holland, Switzerland, and America, leaflets and publications con

devices as the prisoners. In one district

German gent, after the break of General of Division War, makes quick to visit the graves of their relations twice In February, 1015, Nivelle was undo a ***It is customery for a Chinese family war, endeavoured to organies the German population a readiness for militar promotions. It wears old men out a year, in the ring and in the autum. operations. He interviewed the Germans hardly be a suspected. By the end of inspected to see if they are in a state to

vents, new men

had At the latter visit the graves are carefully in their own houses, and in some cases 105 Kobert Georges Nivells was in com endite the severities of the approaching interviewed congregations as they were mand of the Third Army Corps. For the success, but a few received him favour gaining ground the Germans had lately ably The Defence Department was well taken on the Some In March they the dead, we cannot but regard the Ger informed of what was gothg, and he rushed him to Verdun, where the monuma desecration with a very special and those who were ready to help him mental attack of the Corman Crown are all safe behind the wires. Yet an Frince was under way And other striking example of Huo duplicity days he won eleven Rights and retook all

in fifteen

any damage has been done, and, w to repair it r

With such felings for the

horror."--2′imes,

of

supported heroically the hardest

is furnished in a cirentur issued by Herr the ground that had been lost in his ser has suppo van Putt Karer, German Minister of the tor. In the beginning of May they made trials. He has shown in this command, Interior, to secret service agents, hia Commander-in-Chief of all, January 19, of which the following of French

and for even with the most brilliant qualities of operations at

a translation: Our agents, we used months he fought doggedly, untiringly leadership, an energy and force of charac posts must not content themselves with and effectively against the German drive. toy which have powerfully influenced the holding salaried positions; they might The giant nut cracker failed to ack lose such positions at any moment. Each Verdun, And your must find at least

progress over the entire

one must be obliged to keep some kind of part of the explanation of Trench auad become a moral stake of the war,

la what Nivelle referred to s of our admirable soldiers,

the

For

After having checked the advance of the enemy towards the objective, which

General - Nivelle" resumed the offensive,

office, whatever the nature of the estab lishment, whether it is a disputed claims quality of generalship, if you will teka foot by foot, and by his attacks succeeded office or land and property agency, Nivelle's word for it, that thing which grocery establishment or cafe, restaurant, makes a manca gegius in the field, ee in dominating the adversary on the

the latter for a deci that it is the ground, chosen cases the business must be soundly es- fection of the mind and tablished and possess a substantial good.

General Nivele's

been ancestry in the ranks with a fury,

Hi, melder was an Englishwoman whose much heralded since his rise to fa

St. Clement Dane's Church in the Strand father fought under Wellington, and

tinue to arrive, usually in English; in hotel, insurance office, or the lite In all mains a mystery, heart of the sive effort to

an ardour a

will It must, in fact, be over horno in readiness to berish for the lake of yio mind that it is necessary for our agents tory, GCRA

which, under cover of neutrality, pro. German views are expressed. Enemy agents abroad are making constant efforts to send news and messages surreptitiously to prisoners-of-war interned in Australia to inspire confidence in circles where they In September of last year he was made A packet of cigarettes addressed to a have their centre of action, and to create sa grand officer of the Legion of Honour, prisoner was opened by hance and was that confidence by the outward signs of and the official citation which took notice found to contain nine cigarettes of an ordinary middle-class existence In his achievemente spoke of lim in, words tobacco and one of rolled newspaper cut deed, by a well-placed munificence, and seldom accorded to the living by officials tings. A large packet from the Philip by taking part in all kinds of societies, down. The citation ran pines - contained boxe of excellent associations, and communities they must THE THANKS OF PRANCH, Manila cigars, but in on box the cigars, azquire, such a strong social position Robert Georges Nivell were all of paper. A box of walauta that, as far as their locality is concerned, came from Java. When the censor opened each may be well received everywhere and it one fell out, and broke, disclosing highly thought of in all quarters, and that the inside had been taken out and may be thus always in a position to give

Consissed at for jaunt eriumu:1 useful information on all points,

fame

is a window in her memory which English people make pilgrimagen to see today, sants her son has become one of the great figures of the world. Nivelle, big, calm, deliberate, with blue gray eyes, anggeata the Englishman rather than the French-

When

Nivelle, General of first he care to Verdun, the story Division, commanding an army, has for four monthe commanded the army that go, an offcor who did not know him resisted victoriously the attacks of the asked of one who did. What kind of enemy renewed without cessation, and a man is het e

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