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BRITISHWORK IN MESOPOTAMIA.

PEACEFUL PROGRESS

JUSTICE FOR THE TRIBES.

IFEOM A CORRESPONDENT IN MESOPOTAMIA TO

"THE TIMES''T.

The history of the Mespotamian cam paign has a double aspect. Side by side with the tale of conquest by arms runs the story of victorios no less renowned, the peace of Grent Britain invading in the track of her armies lands to which peace had long been a stranger. Before the amoke of conflict has lifted, within dear ing of the guns, the work of reconstruc- tion has been initiated.

From Kat-cl-Amara to the Persian Gulf, the vilayet of Baera presented in

A GERMAN TRIBUTE TO

BRITAIN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29mm, 1917.

RECOGNITION OF HER POWER

TOO LATE.

The Rheinisch-Westfalische Zeitung, a journal owned and controlled by the land ing armoment firms of Western Germany, has always been an uncompromisingly Chauvinist newspaper. We have been hitherto accustomed to look to this jour. pal for articles of a highly-coloured nature, representing the difficulties of the Entente countries, and especially of Eng land. What alarming things have we not read in its columns! Egypt in revolt, Afghan armies pouring into India, troubles in Central Indin, troubles in Bouth Africa, troubles in every part the British Dominions.

of

WHERE THE U-BOATS WORK.

[DS RICHARD THIRKELL}

** YOU ARE THE MEN!"

PRINCIPAL JACKE VISION Principal L. P. Jacks with august. There is a widespread belief that the dignity gives solemn judgment on a increased violence and success of the problem which is forcing itself more and U-boat campaign, a reflected in the tosser more on the minds of men.

of British merchantmen, are due to the

A FLOOD OF RECONSTRUCTION,

In brief the problem is How shall longer radius of action and wider sweep the public opinion of the world vindicate of the hastils submarines its belief in the moral law against those

It is frequently asserted that tho who have dried it with barbarity beyond defensive measures adopted by the the barbarian 1

Admiralty have compelled the T-boats to This is a problem already endangered abandon the North Sea, the Channel, and because some of those in the market plaers of the world have sat in judgment on it the Irish Sea as hunting grounds and to In the Hibbert Journal Dr. Jacks shows take themselves farther afield. how all the future hangs upon its right According to a high authority, this in be a victory for all mankind," and of course, maintain themselves much solution, and that its right, solution would not the case. Modern submarines can, that till it is settled peace, progtess, longer at sen than was the case with those and civilisation will stand in perpetual in commission two years ago. This is Turkish time a comprehensive picture of

Jeopardy............

doubly advantagecas to them. The boats Inwlessness. One the Tigris, it is true, And now comes this same jourgel with

employed on the original "blockade” in f015 followed as nearly as possible, the an intermittent control had been main- a series of articles dealing with the

"A flood of schemes, programmes, and following programme-Procceding to tained largely by playing upon the British Empire, and paying us compli proposals for reconstructing the world station. 4 days; operating in allotted hereditary entities of great tribal groups and the personal rivalry which existed ment after compliment. In these articles and gathering volume, ever since the war resting crew and reätting boat, 12 days. has been pouring forth from the Press, area, 20 days; returning to hase 44 days; between individuel members of the ruling the Imperial Chancellor is taken seriously began," writes Dr. Jacks A whole The boats now in service are able to re- houses. In the Euphrates valley it may

to task for his advice to look at the map. Frankly be admitted that the Turk had The map may show some things favourits general character has come

literature of reconstruction, distinct in main at least twice na long on their. been dismounted. Yet if ever the preceptable to Germany, but it shows other being. It is the chief literary product for reaching the station remains the samic, into their appointed beats, so that if the time: which connects empire with disunion things as well, which make an exceedingly of the war. To the future historian it and also that allowed for recuperation at should have held good it was in the 2,000 or so of square miles on either side of the gloomy impression. The grand Essen will provide a theme of endless medita- the end of a cruise each boat now spends river from Kurna to Nasiriych. Marsh, the beginning of the war wae so foolishly kinds. Centuries hence specialists will compared with a previous 20 days out of paper continues England, which at tion, accompanied by emotions of many 40 days out of 81 in active employment, as rico-swamp, deses themselves actual

by some to distinct tribes. The during this struggle, attained military labours of a lifetime will hardy suffes the life of the boat is thus increased from Turks pursued their classic policy of and political strength which has almost to cover the ground: attempting to improve their own portion reduced to silence host prattlers who

50 per cont. to 68 per cent by the destruction of native elements of ruled public opinion in the summer of order. The bonds of union which existed 1014. England, the falling Carthage, tho were consistently weakened, aby sheikh Innd without conscription, has shown her who showed capacity for exercising con self as a nation which still rules the trol was countered by official hostility world, and to drive back which, in order and intrigue, group was pitted against that we may live, still requires all our group, tribe against tribe, and section strength." against section, until through the chaoe which ensued neither Turkish official, nor merchant, nor traveller could secure safe passage.

Each petty chieftain built himself a mud tower from which he desed, not unsuccessfully such part of the universe as came within his ken, or astlied forth to plunder his neighbours and the passing stranger.

PRINCE BULOW' MISTAKE.

We are gratified at this testimony to cherry as the Krupp organ, and read on our abiding strength by su pronounced an with growing pleasure: In contempla tion of the terrible battles in Europe, and in the eager examination of our European war map, we have forgotten the map of the world, and it is high time that we

While England in our neighbourhood remains on the defensive she is wet strong enough in other parts of

last 40 years."

look at that,

immediate

MAN'S DISSATISFACTION. "By this time it would appear that everything in the heavens above or the earth beneath, which man believes himself able to control, is to be "reconstructed after the war.

"Viewed in the mass, it is amazing and portentous. It reveals the infinite dis satisfaction of man with the achievements of civilisation up to date--a dissatisfac

Still more important is the fact that twice (once out and once in) for 40 days' the new boats have to cross the North Sea work at sea, whereas with the older craft ingress and egress had to be made ones foreach 20-day cruise. The risk of destruction is thus appreciably lessened, since our "anti" measures are doubtless more numerous and effective in the North Sea than they are beyond it.

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gaining weight, feeling more fit than you have felt for years,

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A "BULLY" AMBASSADOR,

SIR GEORGE BUCHANAN IN

PETROGRAD.

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"Your Ambassador is tion which the war has brought to a leed,city, however, U-boats do not spread He looks like an Ambassador. He is

*bully," " American said to me one day at an official and of which, for the first time, it has themselves a great deal more than used to just everything that, an Ambassador ought In spite of their great sea going capa reception, says Mr. Hamilton Fyle. made us fully conscious, Not until wo be the case, and this for fairly obvious to be" That is perfectly true. Although view the programmes of reconstruction reasons. Every mile oiled" reduces the Sir George Buchanan's appearance is his in their enormous, totality dory this fact boat's staying power, and the farther least claim to distinction as a diploma WORK OF POLITICAL OFFICERS: "

strike us with its full and proper force afield she goes the sooner she must tarn tist, it certainly is, in the highest degree, Into this prevailing anarchy, enhancel

Then only does it come home to us, with back. In the second place, the best areas diplomatic. Tall and spare, with high- if possible by European war, the British, administration entered with the occupa

of this immense structure of hopes those in which the various principal grey yet, and onough of it to wear in an a certain salutary shock, that the whole for U-boat operations are necessarily bred, aquiline features; fair hair, not tion of Nasiriych and Suk-cs-Shuyukh in

dreams, programmes, and ideals would trade routes begin to converge. Outside attractively youthful style; a slightly and their adherents were ready to tempt sive, a simple result of the policy of the cards if the Germans were to win the activity is still contained within a he is by far the most interesting of the U-boat drooping moustache, upright carriage; war. Viewed in that light, every pro drawn from Brest to Bergen round the Ambassadors in Russia-that is to say gently decisive, unaggressive movements, gramme of reconstruction is a gamble British Isles. with destiny.

he is more prominent than any other. "Absorbed in our schemes for building bir Fdward Carson said recently that "Bir Buchanan," gsid a Russian friend new world, we are apt to forget that submarines were the prospect of their success is contingent to about 250 miles from the coast though used

operating up of wine

plays a role bero.' He on an event the issue of which rests with some have, of course, been met with a goiitakes an important part No Am 2 Russian expression meaning the men on the sea or in the trenches, deal farther out. If this standard bebassador of yours before was so much. and perhaps with the gods- an event applied from the north of Scotland to known to us, to the general public. Yes, whose nature is at present, unknown. Gibraltar it will be found that the total certainly ho plays a role.”

"The problem is the regeneration of area of ordinary U-boat activity is little, During the war Sir George has made & Europe that is, of starting with general if anything, short of three milken square hope, confidence, and energy on some now miles a fact which shows plainly enough and better path than that which has that if the menace is to be overcome at all brought us to the present state of affairs, it must be combated not by chance work How is that to be effected if we assume the illimitable high seas but in and that one half of Europe which half dos around the bases and estuaries where it not matter to the argument is the sullen originates. When you want to destroy victim of the other half, crashed wasps you do not, if you are sensible, walk humiliated, depressed, and recalcitrant about with a net half a mile away from Unless this be avoided, the position of their post-Daily Mail. affairs. after the war will be worse than it was before, let victory come to whom it may.

the bribes with bribes and promises; military needs imposed measures, such as the blockade of goods passing to the enomy, which were galling to stances, con- and, apart from circumstances ected with the war, the habit of social order is a delicate plant to rear. Yet the periodical reports of local political oficor, bear witness to the wisdom of the measures adopted and to the results which they have achieved. Influential headmen have received recognition and been made responsible for their communities Arbitration on the basis of tribal custom is encouraged; petty disputes over boun daries are adjusted, and with the heir of Sheikh and Sairid, blood feuds are adjudicated

and squabbles peacefully settled. Schools and dispensaries are being instituted and are eagerly wel -comed, and a beginning has been made

in the collection of revenue..

On the Tigris, lands which had been unexed by the Crown were still leased in large estates to the original tribal owners, though at rents immoderately wollen by the habit of putting up the The fense to auction every five years. first that, therefore, was to determine what surm could reasonably be claimed from the farmer. All arrears were remitted and in some cases the rent was seduced by hall, probably with little loss to the exchequer as the nominal obliga- tion had never been fulfilled. Old eland- ing quarrels arising from undefined boundaries have given a temporary settle scent based on the best loent opinion available, and full advantage has been taken, in the preservation of the public peace, of the responsibility of the Sheikh, a principle well understood among the powerful riverain tribee,

THE RAILWAYS.

The article then goes on to review British Imperial history, and in the severely handled" for not having recognized at the time of the Jameson raid how serious the fall of the Bee Republics would be for German colonial hopes. The writer says He neither tried at the proper time to organize combination to prevent their fall, nor did he interfere when England overthrew them by force. Prines Bulow did not recognize that this destruction of the Boer Republies would bring us bitter fruit One has only to ask oneself the question: What trend would this world war have taken had there still been independent Boer States which with about 80,000 men could have helped our German troops in South West and East Africa?""

SOUTH AFRICA FOR GERMANY, The writer then traces the determined and sustained action whereby England throughout the years has marched towards the goal of African Empire and an All- Red route across the African continents and then proceeds to point out the great importance to Germany of South-West Africa. We must not only," he says, "demand South-West Africa again, "but we must push our territory up to the once independent Boer States All the coloniz. ing strength of Germany in Alries comes from the South-West Protectorate, and all plans in Central Africa cannot compen sate us for lost South-West Africa, a loss which has now in great part been suffered."

The writer condemns the idea of a great central African colony for Germany because it would lie between two vast sections of British possessions, and the British spirit of revenge would always That the political officers in all parts work so that eventually Britain would of the occupied territories have been skil swallow up that possession. The only fal in exercising a happy combination of hope of Germang lies in having a hold in force, patience and persuasion is shown Southern Africa, for "South Africa must by the personal friendship and confidence he German or nothing Gorman will re which exists between them and many of main. It is only by freeing the Boar the Sheikhs with whom they have to deal States and by military and geographical Not least among the elements of persua connection with them that we can create sian are the constructive works which an independent source of strength in have been undertaken, mainly for miliAfrica from which might and kullar will tary purposes, along both rivers. A ro flow?! cent report from a district on the Euphrates say

credited by the manner of their removal, Until these men have been removed and all that they stand for finall die the path to a regenerated #prope is blocked.

been darkened and blighted by the

"For ages past the life of an hes sence in the world of a class of criminals who under many names and disguiset, and by various arts, have first befooled and then exploited the nations who Their removal would bring into the tolerated them.

moral life of all nations that breath of Their chief representatives to-day are exhilaration, that sense of freedom, that woll known to the whole world-hest feeling of unity, which are precisely what known perhapa among the verg people is needed to start civilisation on a new whom they have befooled and betrayed career and without which, it may be con- They are responsible for the war, and fidently said, the new start cannot be for all the faithlessness, cruelty, and made. general moral imbecility which has su darkest crimes of history, rona ded the conduct of the war with thu.

A VISION OF PUNISHMENT. "Concentrating attention on this ob- vious truth, a vision begins to form itself of an ending to the war which would nothing less than a general victory for all Europe-indeed, for all the world; victory in which the Central Empires thetaselves would be the chief sharers and could hardly fail to recognise themselves

a such.

THE PATH BLOCKED.

CONCENTRATE ON THIS.

"We might be well content to leave all other proposals in abeyance for the time being and to concentrate upon this as our essential aim in the war. Much that we are now trying to arrange, much that was mentioned in the Allies statement of their aims, would arrange itself it the chief obstacle were ont of the way. On the other hand, it is plain that many of these questions questions that touch the most intimate rights both of belligerents and neutrals can never be solved so long as the chief obstacle exists, or even pro mises to return,

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council chamber, but they gave him a beautiful old Russian drinking-bowl. A

ing Russian feeling towards us and of making our Allies better acquainted with what we have been doing for the common causo must be given to Bir George Buchanan warmly suported both by an unusually

In this matter his efforts have able and enthusiastic Embassy staff and by Lady Georgiana, Buchanan and their daughter, whose untiring work for the Russian wounded has spun weha of affectionate sympathy between the idea of England and many Russian peasant homes.

Not only do soldiery speak to their friends of the good treatment they receive ed in the British Colony Hospital, to the management of which Lady Georgiana has devoted herself daily since the war standering for a time the career she bad begun as a writer of novels. Women also began, and where Miss Buchanap nurses, tell of presanta, dresses, for themselves frocks, shirts, or shifts for their children, which have come to them from the English "barina" in Petrograd.

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punishment, but af punishment so solemi, "It is, I frankly confess, a vision of

so deliberate, so just, and so universally

THE TRUTH REMAINS. BRITAIN RESISTLESS..

approved that it would shine to juture The idea of a regenerated Europe Another article of the series deals with ages as one of the most sucred deeds in the which is to start its career with 180 The gradual progress of the railway the enormous empire which is ours round history of man.

millions of its inhabitants in a state of having wonderfully calming effect the Indian Ocean, and the writer, Let these malefactors, then, be in punishment is not only an absurd notion Perhaps more than anything else the ad-

Eight States have been affected by the vent of the line has quiated the tribes, recognizing how widely the English formed, by methods which admit of do it is an insane notion And yet the worst tornada in the history of the

language is spoken there, sees it rapidly misunderstanding, that the time has come truth remains that no regeneration can United States (says a The change from their almost openly becoming the language of the world. "In at last when their presence, and the pre- begin until the guilty have received their message dated June 12th). The tornado Washington hostile atitude last March has been re short, we must admit that England in this sence of their like, is no longer to be deserta. It is merely a question of identi. which has visited the Middle Western markable. The permits issued to Arabs to travel by rail to Basra did good she has ever done before it at the last called to account for their crimes, Probably their total number does not in the States of Illinois, Kansas, Missis war is taking greater leaps forward ban tolerated on this planet. Let them hefying the criminals. This can be done. States wrought tremendous destruction Many townsmen and tribesmen have rid hour an iron fist does not intervene. The solemnly judged, and effectually disposed much exceed that of the better men than sippi, India, Arkansas, Tennessee, den out to railhead on a visit of inspec British plan is one of such splendour of by the human race. tion, and all come back impressed pursued with such perseverance and takes that form will be a victory for all in a quiet day of trench warfare So far, the available reports place the

A victory which themselves who are killed and wounded Kentucky and Alabama. The impediments to commerce created carried out with such keenness that no mankind

They are the chief enemies of mankind number of killed at 185 and the seriously. by war, the lack of river transport, the Power in the world has ever before pro- shortage in imported wares, the blockade, duced any effort like it. Indeed, we envy

So long as they are suffered to remain injured at 1,107. The reports are very and the enhanced price of living due to England those statesmen who are capable

where they are, peace, progress and incomplete, however, as many, placts have As we contemplate the victory of the civilisation will stand in perpetual been entirely isolated. The property the exceptional demands of a large Army of handling anything so great.” Allies, the only desirable ending of the are compensated by the abundant and No Power, the writer goes on to say,

jeopardy, P.

damages are aid to be in the neighbour- war that we can contemplate, an immense well remunerated employment which can will be able to resist the British with the catalogue rises up of wrongs that will

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hood of gold 5,000,000 be obtained both in the towns and in the exception of Germany. It is our task. have to be sot right-reparations, restituconsider the alternativy and to face the Finally, I would beg the render to country districtscor

Onlus the English weight specially tione guarantees innumerable. In so The protection of the rivers and of the presses, and it is for us to see that great & multitude of wrongs we are art consequences. Let him conceive the war railway along the Tigris devolves upon unbearable land power will not be added to lose zight of the chief wrong, the coming to a conclusion, in the victory of tribal guards under civil control On to unbearable zen power. Beside Eng fountain-bead of all the rest, which in either side, or of neither side, which will the Euphrates a mad body of tribal horse land," he says, after predicting further what I have said. So long sa that is leave the darkest crime of history of firms in the United States may be kas been enrolled to perform the duties expansion, there is no place in the sun suffered to exist, the others, which are crime committed against the whole counted as the second important step so of a civil police. The river guards had or on earth. To Germans it is obviors its derivatives, are bound to recur. human race-unpunished. This would far taken towards co-operation between their prototype under the Ottoman that outside this vast African-Indian- Tegime and the tribal horse correspond Australian Empire there is no land or Leagues to Enforce Peace, or what not, as it exista to-day, 8% as it would exist Grat was the loan to Great Britain, fol The most effectual guarantees mean an only confession that civilisation, the United States and the Allies. The very closely with the Turkish godar future for our race. America is claimed, marie; service in either body has there the rest of Asia is ruled by Chinese and will be no more than beter palliatives when the war comes to a ice was power-lowed by loans to Belgium, Fra

France, lore a familiar air and is readily accent rights grand will give us no in become provins the long right and wrote the distinction age of a black let has always been shot domy of tend the Paris Ac

run as arrangements wrong; and the knowledge The ed. It is an outlet for restless spirits as we were born too late. "... and, especially in the case of the mounted Finally the article ends on the pathetic ments for astute Villains to make use it would be the starting point of the new in the USA Ite withdrawal is dae to of that kind have become, mere instru- this powerlessness, and the memory of the most unpopular of our war measures guards, it provides opportunity of hos- note that victory for England will mean of ourable employment to petty chiefs and that she will have such strength that even

era Is it portile to conceive a more di impoverished members of ruling families. Germany will not be able to deal with her,

Astrous beginning for a great reforma tion of public morale ani!

(Continued nt foot of next column.)

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