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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1979. 1917.
THE KING'S HARD WORK.
A TYPICAL DAY.
NO HOLIDAY
"There is one man who is working as
hard as the hardest-worked man in this country, and be. is the Sovereign of the Reala. When Mr. Lloyd George made this statement at Glasgow, bringing the audience to their feet in a burst of enthusiasts, he spoke
A NEW LIGHT ON GERMAN
CURE OF SHELL-SHOCK.
BIR J. COLLIE'S SCHEME
Bir John Collie lectured recently at the Royal Institute of Public Health, London, on" The Management of Neurasthenia and Allied Disorders in the Army.***
PUBLIC OPINION
Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe bas been printing in the Neue Zeitung, of Zurich, Switzerland, three remarkable articles on the present state of German Ho said that most, if not all, of 'he public opinion. These articles appeared cance of neurasthenia arising in the Army in the latter part of May, and are note were, directly or indirectly, the result. worthy because of the personality of the of actual concussions ahell-shock-or the conditions prevailing in modern warfare. the oldest and most aristocratic in Ger fear of being afraid, terrifying experi many. It is Bavarian, and its membera ences, want of sleep, and the appalling have held positions of power and insights at the front. These emotional portance in the military and civil govern.ditions when extended over periods vary ment of the German States for several ing from days to weeks produced irrit centaries. When Hohenlohe sperks, ability and loss of self-control. The effect therefore, he speaks with knowledge and of seeing and hearing high explosivos, authority.
Erom Galicia, Bohemia, and Bosnia and within his knowledge what was well writer. The Hohenlohe family is one of The predisposing causes were fear, the
The King takes no holidays. He is at Herzegovina. The delegation declared work from early morning until lato at fitaelf in favour of the following pre-night. He keeps himself informed at first hand of the multifarious activities gramme:
of a great Empire at war. He receives (1)-That it desired a peace without every day summaries of the information nanexations;
which comes to the Government Depart
and if he inente,
slightenment he asks the Minister of requires further officer concerned to call and see him. His content until he is in full possession of memory is wide and exact, He is not the facts.
(2) That it hold all the Governments objectively responsible for the war, but wished to put aside the question of blame, and beld that a general peace should be confuded without any war indemuities; (3)--That regarding the particular nations! questions involved it was op posed to the annexation of Belgium, and was in favour of the independence of Servia, for which access to the sen might perhaps, be secured by its reunion with *Montenegro;
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe was an century. He succeeded Caprivi as Im important statesman of the nineteenth
perial German Chancellor, and was succeeded by Prince von Bülow in 1900, who was in turn, ancoeeded in 1909 by the present Chancellor, yon Bethmann Hollweg. Thus anly the short period of loho filled a place of importance in the German Government second only to that of Kaiser Wilhelm II. himself.
even
∙con-
without any injury, sometimes brought about a profoundly neurasthenic condition.
most common physical signs:Disorderly He had found the following to be the
action of the heart, epileptiform seizures, tremors, functional: stiffness and func tional loss of power of muscles, loss of desh, and loss of hearing and speech. Sometimes neurasthenic patients were neurasthenia and insanity were two fotally distinct diseases. The one did not merge into the other, and if a man's he subsequently became insatic an error case were diagnosed as neurasthenia and in diagnosis and been made.
Being the head of the biggest concerni in the world, his work bas to be organised on scientific lines, or it would never got done. He gets up early in the morning end goes carefully through the news-seventeen years has elapsed since a Hohen-Auspected of being mentally afflicted, yet papers. By 8.30 he is ready for his secretaries, and the morning mail. takes antil about 19.30, though work is at high. pressure. From 10.30 until luncheon here are engagements at the palace, and these are so nicely ordered that every
(4)-That as to the other Balkan States, they should come to an under standing among themselves for the settle-quarter of an hour is occupied. wment of their relations in such a way as to realize the motto The Balkans for the Balkan peoples";
(6)-That the South Star countries and the Crown Provinces of Austria-Hungary should remain an integral part of the Empire, bus the Socialists were bound to give their support to an autonomous polity for these people;
(6.)-That Finland and Russian Poland should be independent, while the Poles in Russian Galicin should obtain complete autonomy within the bound- aries of Austria and Germany; that the Ruthenians should be treated in the same way and that a permanent solution of the Polish problem for the future may be looked for in a tree understanding of the two Central Powers, with Russian Poland established as an independent Stato;
(7)--That as a reply to the assertions that the present war is a war for the libemtion of small nationalities, it is wufficient to point out that the Austrian Stats has been favourable to the preserva
tion of small nationalities;
(8)-That among the constituent ele ments of the treaty of peace, especial at- tention must be given to economic ques- tions and the development of interna
tional law, including the restablishment of freedom of by and sea, a diminution of the
protectionist systems, the establishment of the "open door for alt colonist domains, the creation of an international administration of all mari- time commercial routes and inter-oceanic
canals and the construction of new rail way routes by the co-operation and under
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The author of the articles in the Zurich Neue Zeitung is a son of the late Chancellor, and, while he has inherited In the case of the neurasthenic the whole DO IT NOW MOTTO,
the somewhat liberal tendencies of his environment must be one. of confident Between 3 and 5 pm, the King visits father and is out of favour with the assurance of complete recovery: Ho institutions such as munition factories, Kaiser because he published in 1906 the should have a continual succession of 109] aying grounds, military establishments,
Frank and critical reminiscences of his graded experiences arranged to push and 8 he is again at work, for scores of war hospitals, and the like. Between 5.30
father (who did not like the Prussian from his mind the delusive; feeling of But it must on no papers have to be considered and scores
method of "pranagating enlightenment inability to work. of documents signed.
with a big stick, he is, of course, far account be supposed from that that. To take one from being a destructive radical His neurasthenia was a fraud. It was not ó instance, every list of promotions has to be signed with the King's own hand.
comments on present political and social fraud it was not malingering; it was not wicked self-deception; and, above all, During dinner other papers have a habit conditions in Germany are highly signiit was not cowardice. It was a real dis- of coming in, and those are dealt with ficant--perhaps more significant than
the outanoken oninions of the free-lanes remarkable for their bravery, daring, and የዱር . It was ollen found among men before going to bed. The King's motto
Harden "Do it now." He Maximilian
or the radical initiative. That they were not cowards is what the Americans call a clean desk Socialistic journal Farmaerts,
was shown by the fact that many men man"; he allows no unfinished work to
Princo zu Hohenlohe begins by accus- who had recovered were found a second accumulate. Wherever he goes to the ing Chancellor von Betamana Hollweg of time in the fighting line. They did not front, to the Grand Fleet, or elsewhere dangerous insincerity. Did he not pro- want to go, but they did go, and indeed messengers follow daily with despatches mise at the outbreak of the war, in a one almost doubted the sanity of men who to be read and papers to be signed, and speech in the Reichstag, to restore the knew the horrors of war and wanted to they bring the completed documents back independence of Belgium and to indem go back. Their bravery consisted in to London, no time wasted. military and naval attaches, representat day he appeals to a mi triste neurasthenie at the front, Sir John Collie
He sees Ministers and Ambassadors, nify her for her terrible looses? And going when they did not want to go.
Passing to the methods of dealing with tive of foreign Powers, heads of missions,
with the Pan-Germanists, the militarists, said they were now classed Neurosis & both when they depart and when they
and the Junkers, who are demanding and B." retain, high administrative officers of the annexation of foreign territories and in and did accomplish much in slight cases The regimental doctor could Navy and the Army-interesting men and domnities for themselves, This the by a little timely encouragement, Severe women of all sorts. The interviews are Prince calls a bitter deception," a cases were sent down the lines on the businesslike and genial. There are many phrase, which he uses as the title of his written sanction of the A.D.M.8. being ceremonial functions, of course, for that three articles. He declares that the Chan- obtained. Neurological centres had been represents one of the important duties cellor does not answer the questions which established bath by the French and our of a king; bup the majority of callers the masses of the German people are be-selves immediately behind the fighting core on businers paine and simple. The pinning to ask in their anguish, Whore inch dare quick returns were the order Prime Minister frequently goes to the Government leading What does of the day. men were able to palace to discuss affairs. So do other it want of us now that the menace of go back to the fighting line in two or Ministers. The King keeps himself well an invasion by Russian despotism has three weeks. There was further a special informed in foreign affairs,
disappeared Is it really for the defence shock hospital for each Army area staffed of our homes and our right to existence by specially selected medical officers under that we must still hear the sufferings wo the superintendence of a neurologist of are enduring? Or does the Government the keynote of the treatment for shell repute Re-education,!** said Sir John,
BUMMONSES BY TELEPHONE.
Summonses are
are frequently arranged by telephone. They are not, as is sometimes supposed, in the nature of royal com-
guised
so-called
the administration of all the Powers mands. A bisey man himself, the King is exact these terrific sacrifices from Ug. in hock Infinito patience, common sense (9)That it protests against a polity very considerais for other busy men. He of the be satisfy the insatiablo ambitions at every turn, s real but thoroughly dis of economic warfare such as was sys will not have them disturbed in the the aristocracy and to save the already tomatized by the Paris Conference at middle of important work; he is careful compromised prestige of the ruling dy who orally, were essential in those the care of these cases 1916, and that it is of opinion that eus not to interfere with their rare week-ends nasty? If Germany is to retain what she Massage, electricity, necupation, light toms unions are defensible only when in the country.
has acquired in the war by force of arms, graduated work, fresh air, good whole- they are favourable to the development | Since the war began the King has made she will be obliged not only to maintain some food, and, above all, healthy of free trade;
over 150 inspections of troops. He has but constantly to increase her armaments environment were essential adjuncts. seen nearly every division before it went and to add without end to her debt, The psycho-therapeutic method of treat (10) That the treaty of peace ought to the front. He has visited upwards of which is already overwhelming. It is not rent was wonderfully effective in the also to contain the stipulations advocated 250 hospitals. He has been three times to only the insane Pan-Germanists, says right hands. Nothing retarded recovery By the Congress of International Unions, the fighting front and three times to the Prince zu Hohenlohe, who talk of future so much as the flying visits of unthinking. (11.) That the present war having Grand Flect, to say nothing of numerous wars. The Prussian Minister of War, lady visitors. Nothing in the nature of done away with all the guarantees of visits to naval porta, shipyards, docks, General von Stein, in a recent speech
but
kindly intentioned philanthropic Biaritime Law a return should be made and bases. He has presented with his denounced permanent peace na utopian, to the conception of the Peace of Paris own hand over 10,000 decorations. He and declared that wars will inevitably
Psycho
analysis Was neces of 198 as regards the prohibition of has inspected Canadians, Australians, be repeated as long as man exists. On
ecry, INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT. privateering and the arming of mer New Zealanders, South Africans. He has the other hand, the French Minister of Special Board, of which the lecturer is chantaen, the suppression of the right creceived fighting mea from Americh. Je War, M. Painlevé, declared in a recent President, to examine all discharged
The Director-General had formed capture, the exclusion from treatment us has discussed the war with illustrious speech that the present war must be fought soldiers suffering from neurasthenia with contraband of everything in the nature men representing all our Allies, of raw materials necessary for feeding
to a finish, so that it may be the Inat a view to awarding gratuities or recom war, and humanity may devote itself to mending pensions. The number of pen the work of progress and civilization. Isions was now 160,000 to 170,000, and the should like, adds Prince zu Hohenlohe, percentage of those suffering from fune to see, at least once, similar sentiments tional nerve disease was 15. The work of in a public speech of a German Minister this Special Board was then outlined by of War."
Bir John Collie, who showed that every effort was In concluding his articles Prince zu effor
made to give help and Hohenlohe expresses himself as follows: residuum of mers who had not yet re- But there remained a encouragement. There is no doubt that the majority covered and were wholly unfit to earn a of the German people are in favour of a livelihood. He had, therefore, at the
Pensions Minister differens States of Germany are still more undertaken to
LITTLE RECEKATION,
and clothing, the limitation of the right All this, as may be imagined, leaves him of blockade, the prohibition of the de- little time for recreation. He rides at claration of any part of the ses as a Windsor and at Aldershot, and he has theatre of operations, and the limitation dug potato plots at Frogmore, for he of the engines to be employed in naval takes a keen interest in the increased and serial warfare,
-production of food. When in London (18.)-That it is in favour of the con- the main diversion he permits himself is' His collection of tinuation of the work sketched in outline stamp-collecting. by the two. Hague Conventions for the British stamps is probably the best in the limitation of armaments until it leads world. It is constantly enlarged by new to complete disarmament, by the organ issues and surcharges." His war-map militis, and by the nationalization of Being a sailor, he has sea-charts of excep war industries so far as the latter may tional interest, and those also are cen- still be necessary. Mak
stantly marked, Naval and military (13) That it is in favour of the unreparts reach his daily. The Chief of conditional convocation of a general con- Imperial General Staff and the First Bea Lord Frequently make their reports to the King,
The royal palaces are on strict feed rations, and no alcoholio liquors are permitted within them. Except for slight relaxation when, after his accident in France, he was under medical orders, the King has imposed a pledge of abstin ence on himself, and the rule is followed
in the royal household.
ization of purely defensive national room. is brought up to date every day. monarchical form of government. The request of the maze Homes
grush.
TEN THOUSAND TON SUBMARINES.
In short, the King might at the end of any day join the Gilbertian Kings of Baratoria in singing:
With a pleasure that's emphatic Wo retire to our attie With the gratifying feeling that our
duty has been done.-Daily Mail.
BODY AS BOMB SCREEN.
or less loyal to their State sovereigns Recovery in different parts of the according to the personality of those
country for the institutional treat sovereigns. But it can no longer be ment of ex-soldiers of this class. affirmed after these three years of war One institution had been opened at Gold- that their confidence in the supreme chief
er's Green for 100 patients, and another should stop hiding our heads in the sand had been equipped by the generosity of of the Empire is wholly intact. We was about to be opened at Belfast for 30. patients. The home at Golder's Green Evading the truth can do no good. Con Cross Society and the Order of St. Johns out of fear of recognising the truth the Joint Committee of the British Red fidence in those who are directing the The Pensions Ministry had undertaken affairs of the Empire is beginning to to defray the maintenance cost of these crumble among the German people. The homes prople do not know just what position The methods adopted in these homes the Kaiser takes with regard to the were:- activities of those who pretend to call themselves patriots. The people are be ginning little by, little to ask themselves how it is that the arms "gainst them and who is reponsible for
this situation.
One of the members of the British mission to America stated that a company was formed in the United States last month, with a capital of £2,000,000, to
(1)-An attempt to gain the confidence build large cargo-carrying submarines,
of the patient and to persuade him to These boats will be twenty times the size
adopt an optimistio frame of mind. of the Deutschland, and capable of carry-
(2) Remedial electricity, etcal methods, egy massage, ing a cargo of ten thousand tons. Bub- marine experts say that vessels of the size
(3)Dutdoor work and recreation. of those proposed will easily overcome the
The men at the First Home of Recovery, "The German people as a whole have Golders Green, were all discharged and menace of the German submarines. They
no desire to annex foreign territory. The knew that they could not again be con- will be just as easy to manœuvre and just
only ones who are interested in territorial scripted during the present war. They as safe
as one of the smaller craft, while each will only
conquest are the small group of industrial were not haunted by the thought that, if ly require forty men to man it.
The King awarded the Albert capitalists and the hot-headed Pan- cured, they might be sent back to the All the Allied countries, including the Medal of the First Class in recognition Germanists, who get no sympathy from fighting line.
..." Khaki,” United States, are greatly interested in of the gallantry of Loe-Corporal Charles the masses of the people, but only from John,
concladed Sir the company's scheme, and it is expected Henry Anderson, of the 1/14th Battalion the university professors, the office-hold to appreciate that they
Le taboo. We encourage the men that orders for several of the boats will be of the London Regiment, who sacrificed ers, and the well-to-do middle classes. noo and for all French intensive have left the Army given as soon as the company has com-
Schiedemann pleted arrangements for the co-operation his life to save his comrades in France Herr
a well-known gardening has been found to be an cual of manufacturing firms and shipyards an
Socialist), was recently called to order fent means of treatment, and it is hoped the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
when he spoke the word revolution in that this branch of agriculturs would thas directorate of the company, of which Mr.afety pin of a bomb was accidentally a speech in the Reichstag And yet he be stimulated in this country.
withdrawn. In the semi-darkness Ander did nothing but repeat a word which is
1102 in November-last-
The
Simon Lake, the inventor of the Bab marine, is president, state that they can turn out one hundred submarines, averag ing from five to ten thousand tons, in the first year, and five times that number in the second year.
Twelve men were in a hut when the
son shouted a warning to the men, ruched heard daily among the masses of the way
to the door, and endeavoured to open it people. It is true that he rightly added. Otherwise the moment will surely come so as to throw the bomb into a field. We have not yet reached the point of when they will perceive with terror that Failing to do this, when he judged that revolution. But it would be childish to It is too late and that the German people the Are seconda during which the fuse deceive ourselves into thinking that we have finally lost patience was timed to bum had elapsed, he held may not reach it if the men who hold the bomb as close to his body as possible in their hands the destiny of the German with both hands in order to screen the Empira are not, big enough to assume other men in the hut
the responsibility of their mistakes and wise enough to recognize and take account of the necessities of the present time (Continued at foot of next column.)
An suthority on naval construction expressed the belief that vessels of the size mentioned can he built and navigated across the Atlantic without the slightest risk. He also said that several new Anderson and me other man were mor inventions which can be incorporated intally wounded by the explosion and five the large cargo carrying submersibles men were injured, but the remaining five have lately been patented:
escaped unhurt,
As the Journal de Genève says, these are grave words. They constitute one of many increasing indications that the German people are beginning to recognize that they are fighting, not a war of defence for their homes, but a war of conquest for an ambitious autocracy. N. Y. Outlook.
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