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A GERMAN PEACE.” PAN-GERMAN PAMPHLET FOR

THE TRENCHES.

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THE

FIVE EXEMPTED SONS.

AGAINST HAT MAKING.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1917.

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CAMP LIFE.

SUGGESTED REFORMS. LOTH TO KILL INSECTS. The exempted sons of Mr. G. A. Dum, [uy. A CORRESPONDENT TO THE [QUARDIAN_") | head of the well-known City firm of.. [DY GEORGE RENWICK.]

hatters, it was stated at St. Paneras Tri-

Fifteen months, I was present at an

ago Many people must have noticed The Pan-Germanns, not content with carbunal, object to their fifther's business be

Obviously, a strike of helmets, which were scon afterwards rying on a vigorous agitation, throughout as it involves the killing of rabbits, remarkable facs about the recent engi. offcial trial in London of the new steel

"The only mistake the military repre- neers strike.

war-time is a very issued in hundreds of thousands to the Germany in favour of widespread Antative made at the tribunal," said Mr wunition workers nexation and huge indemnities, have, with Dann to a Daily Mail representative or grave proceeding, and to a nation which troops. At the time the idea was very the permission of the military authori-Saturday, was in mentioning four sons is thinking five and last of the trenches generally laughed at but Mr Lloyd vics, carried their campaign into the I have five, and they are all exempted as such a strike must, under any circum George (then at the Ministry of Muni- trenches A pamphlet, “Toutseblands Zukunft bei einem guten und bei einer conscientious objectors, the last exemption stances, seems core or less of a urine tions), having bent a strong poker by being given a few months ago, when my Yet the engineers' strike has been received showering blows upon the shining head schlechten Frieden (Germany's Future

of revolver after a good and after a bad Peace), his youngest son reached the age of 15. The with more readiness to make allowances piece without making any impression and

eldest is

about 32. They are all single than any strike that I remember in times aving noted the small effect heen written and published by Herr J They are all at work on the land-smerly everybody, strikers as well as the protective scheme through in face of a bullets fired point blank, carried the new P. Ichman, the well-known Munich pub holdings, chiofly for fruit growing, which lisher, and it has been seized upon by the I have established at Redbourn, near St. rest of the world, has some friend or good deal of opposition, and it was not firebrands as one of their chief propa Albans. The object is to get more out of relation at the front. That is a fact which ag before every man at the front was gands weapons among the soldiers at the front.

At the same time various experiments sympathetic to any course that impedes The author and publisher has the land. The holdings are 14 or 14 acres makes everybody, strikers included, unwearing one and cherishing it.

the production of ninaitions. But it is were being made in certain kinds of (3). It is dearly to lice and all small vermin, and is an excellent larvaside. In eradicating. given 24,000 copies for distribution among soldiers and civilians; large quantities

Mscus have a conscientious objec also true that nearly everybody, the rest body armour." I was given to under- lies, mosquitoes, etc., it will be found everywhere of gross valus, parricularly in tropical have been bought by the Imperial Head

friend or relation who is serving in been highly thisiactory and that in (4). Simple and instantaneous in action, its use dominds the possession of no special quarters for the armies: Ludendorff as tion to the taking of life, even that of of the world as well as strikers, has some stand that some of these experiments had climates.

They have military camp and has had I experience of a few weeks 07, it most, a notch or knowledge, and it can be readily applied by anybody. himself taken some 8,000 copies and War insects on their fruit trees.

two light armour would be served out (5). It has the extremely useful quality of cleansing and brightening paintwork, enamd, Minister von Stein has gracefully acknow not joined my har-making business because military administration. Now, so far us

to the troops. The particular kind of tiles, etc., with little labour and without injury. This feature should specially appeal to ledged receipt of 7,000 copies for various that involves the slaughter of rabbits and the ordinary channels of discussion ale liospitals The Pan-German Press has other animals to provide the fur for concerned, the public bears and knows mil then, in favour with the War Office persons who are responsible for the care of urinals, lavatory pans and basins, tiled shop.

bowler hats and soft bailed the pamphlet with all the exag mast 1 persuaded two of them to join of the individuals who make up the nation, curving wall round under the armpits and

ronsisted of a light padded breastplate, untrances, marble-toppel tables, etc., and interiors generally. Honestparatively little of those methods. Bat gerated enthusiast necessary in these daysburgs"

a vast number know something about them covering most of the back The suit was when referring to anything, German in me in the hat-making industry, but after

Fatherland. It is interest- a while they wont at again. That was from the expericne of their friends or completed by a covering of steel for the unhappy ing, therefore, to find out what the Ger-before the war.

It is some eight or ten years since the stories related by their friends, and highs and knees, hinged: so as to allow Invaluable in the Kitchen, Farm, Stable, etc., for Sterilizing drinking

the result is a body of bitter distrust of the wearer to kneel, man soldier is being told, under such not; able auspices, he is fighting for. they took to the land. They had about the military authorities, so widespread us Bay time passed, and nothing more was water, cleaning linens, brightening and disinfecting walls and floors, etc.

When, during the war, Brietly, he is fighting for a German 2 aeres enche

supports authority to the kind of man this particular brand of armour has been Scheidemann they applied for exemption as consentito turn the kind of man who instinctively seard of it, and I m now informed that opposed to A Peace peace, and a crude and undigested massals objectors, that was granted to them who thinks instinctively thas if people are scrapped, though it had been mast fay in revolt there is some good reason for it ourably reported on by practical experi- of figures is given to show the difference on condition they took up ordinaky farmi

Since then, many other idens between the two. I cannot here take the work. They have gone to various farms One man wils you how his boy was treated enters, reader all through the complicated arith in the neighbourhond and they live on by the military representative at the for armour have been brought forward by inblical maze which Herr Lehmann has their wages from those farms."

those their atti-tribunal another how his boy was treated inventors who have spent much time and "And do

None of them by his sergeant when he reported sick; a money on their schemes constructed, but the general details of

you Ma German peace stand out clearly, | tude? "A do."

Our enab How, then, is one to reconcil, the kill-third low his boy was treated when he has apparently been received with any and these give Bya-Scheidemann

Advance hits + grievance gains the doctor, the front are still allowed to. peace is meant practically the stating of rabbits involved in your business inted on the parade ground. One father favour by the War Ofic

I was in the trade before my objee-another against the N.CO., another through showers of bullets unprotected.

Grievances

OFFICERS' FRELING, tions, became 'ns strong as they are now.

agsins the company "officer.

Yet I found in the course of inquiries: The business grew around me My ene

greeterywhere, and they grow and Coloured drawings fell ng what the toners have a good deal of confidence in multiply, because there is no confidence in I made on Saturday, that ming officers populations and areas would be after theme, and I have to satisfy their requires the prospect of redress, and no apparent at the front do not disdain certain forms For eighteen years I have been opportunity of bringing anybody to of armour. They all recognise the protre- kinds of praes, and what the Pan-German menis, appetite is can be noticed. I pick out trying to find a substitude for animal fur, account. This atmosphere is reflected in tive qualities of the particular kind of

and I have not yet found it. Wool will the tone about the shops.

body-shield now in use, and it would be serve for

adopted much more generally were it not for the fact that the majority of our offi Vaning over their men, who world be

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~~~WHAT A PAN-OBIMAN PEACE WILL" MEAN.",

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TO RECURE THE NATION'S FELL CO-OPERATION. If the Government want to secure the

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Pence, Have you any objection to stating ation's full co-operation in the prosencers refuse to take a non-sporting ad- Populu

Papala

Sons religious beliefs!" They tion Areat tion

your have not adopted any particular form of tion of the war, if they want to restore 29.8 102

religion, and they are not attached to any the spirit in which the whole peuple en denomination; to join one might tupled on this struggle, they will do more sume criticism of another. Therefor, an investigate the causes of industrial They will recognise that there their religion is expressert in private-dev,

is a great deal of unrest which is not tions."

A mischievous and dangerous silence has

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glad enough to wear the armor if they WOODEN BREAD PLATTERS could afford the few pounds it costs. our men cau's get it," they say, “then we won't wear it. It wouldn't be play ing the game.

The cost of the armour is mere

lives sacrificed daily in adventures, where

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mean so much to the men. It would carry the successfully over many a tight place. A recent photograph, published in The haily Mail has shown the German soldier "armoured." Why should the British soldier have nothing but his bones to break the shock of an enemy's bullet ?

INVENTORS AND WALL OFFICE. The head of one the largest military and naval outfitting firms in London told he that a steel company in the north of invented a cuirass, light, flexible, and England in which he holds an interest has cunningly padded, which has found

Individual orders, favour

Among

of pounds,

have amounting to come in for these enirasses" in fnet,". added my informant, the firm cannot turn them out fast enough."

great

British Empire.. 424 France, with Colonies

64.6 11

-75 German Empʻre: -80.2 2.5 139

*Inmillions. tin million square kilometres

The calm sweet peace of Retourne, purely industrial in atmosphere or origin: thing in comparison with the cost of The German Empire, therefore, will be ahuist doubled in population and its area where Mr. Dann has his country estate been imposed on the discussion of labour multiplied by four if the Pan-Germans with its trailing roses, intensive fruit problems, and similarly, a mischievous

culture, tame earwigs, and grateful cat

discussion

the Where is Germany going to get this pillars, has sp ensnared the Dann family and dangerous silence has been enormous increase in Imperial domains that not one would harm a harvesting posed

Yet these A coloured wap answers the question Randolph Ellis Dunn, age 33 (single, fit), problems of camp life.

are important, and they She is going to take the Baltic pro and Clifford Arthur Dunn, age 25 (ditto); Problems mass of the nation

affect the. vinces, Belgin and the French coast (as having appealed successfully against non- timately. We have taken the great body far as can be judged from a small combatant classification, are working without names) aleng to Cherbourg, alla paund a week for Mr. Ayres, at Shep- of men and boys between the ages of 18 and 41, and have maile ourselves respon Howard Astral and the greater part of South herd's Farm, Rickmansworth:

of territory from Oswald, 27 (ditto), and George Stanley sible not merely for their training but for their daily lite They are collected in the Sahara to the Zambesi and stretching is (ditto), are driving tractors for Lied- from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean tenant Roberts, at Pound Farm, Ickleford, vast, prison-like camps, often far away and scores of coaling-stations, while ayer near Hitchin; and the fifth, Lloyd Stai: from a town and under conditions that Moroces and Thais she will establish pro- ford, 30 (ditto), is a driver at the village at the best tend to depress and weary

man's spirit. Over the life of these tectorates. The Allier Central Powers

of Flamstead, three miles from the family.

evamps, over their tone and atmosphere, (Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria)

over the health and spirit of the men, é take all the Balkans, Asia Mino“,

CONSCIENCE AND MANURE,

screen is drawa Yot surely it is obvious Palestine, Mesopotamin and Arabia, spreading as well into Egypt and the They have had to buckle to strenuously that publicity, so far from being danger Sudan to link up with German Centino of the admit that they nearly colus in the public interest, is a safeguard It would be a great advantage, from the Afrien, somewhere about the Equator. lapsed at the end of their first week. There is also to be, according to Herr They refused to eat any kind of flesh, and point of view alike of public confidence Lehmann, an "Extraded European Alli- the sudden change from Redbourn's bed of and of the elliciency of the camps, if ance which will include a land-locked roses to manure-carting upset their fragile these camps were regularly inspected and There was another point: reports like those of the factory inspće Poland, Italy and her possessions, Spain stomachs.

conscience lors were presented to Parliament. What and Portugal, the northern part of the Dunn père complicated

than the truth, and a few sensational experiences give the impression that every camp is full of scanonis. As a matter of fact, some of the camps are admirably con dieted. But when we consider the cir cumstances under which these men and boys come to be in these camps it is profound discredit to us that there should be any camps in which the lessons of the three years of war have not yet been learnt The nation has a right to know why and where they have not been learnt. and what measures are being taken to bring the worse camps up to higher

.

Has this invention been placed before

No" was the reply. fan War Office?" I asked.

"Why?"

coast of West Africa, Holland and her objects to the use of animal manure, people learn by gossip is generally worn engaged on Government work, has turned

colonies, Norway, Sweden and Finland, Goyang at 'nied Centil Powers Alliance which, together with Great is to form a great bulwark against the "Anglo-Saxon Union."

The Anglo-Saxon Enion" is made up of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Cape Colony and the United States, with a few odd little pos Венкіо. Herr Lehmann liberates. India from our tyranny. But, that is not all, by any means!

SHIPS AND INDEMNITIES.

The new Gefwang will want ships, and. what is more, she is going to take them, I do not pretend to know how Herr Leh. mann arrives at his figures dealing with tonnage, but as his Pan-German admirers have hailed them both as war and nagni ficent, they must represent to.some extent what is wanted. Here they are

Before the war

"

The Central Powers had 6,800,000 tons,

aid

The Entente Powers (excluding

U.S.A.) had 28,400,000 tons.

After a Scheidemann Peace"

The Central Powers would have

4,700,000 tons, and

Tho Entente Powers 24,000,000. But after" Gerican Peace

The Central Powers would have

17,800,000 tons, and

Could the Dunn boys honestly do manure carting

Mr. Dunn was finally consulted For four months the C.Os.

(ive it a sporting chance," said be, spent most of their waking hours in manute carts, and so busy were they that they actually had to have their meals in the carts. They were nong the worse for it.

WHEN-FATHER RAYS" TURN."

The five manage to get home for must

"But," said Mr. week-ends.

Dunn proudly they are so keen to hurry back Monday morning and set off on motor-standard. cycle and pash-bike to their labours. Their work has not changed their views.

THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE ARNY.

Because such a course would be a sheer waste of time and energy!"

Recently a famous firm of engineers, out a body-shield the inventor of which claims it to be absolutely impervious to the impact and penetration of the most powerful modern rille. It not only

but also absorbs the dangerous plasti

tumises the nicked bullet at any range. of the missile. The joint inventor of this shield states that, although the Ex-

iner at the Ministry of Munitions ad- mits it accomplished all that is claimed for it, nothing has heax done in the nigt ter by the War Office Any device," he adds, dealing with life-destruction szems to get official preference over that which lifesaving, and it is, therefore, treated with the usual official prejudice, as was the case when steel helmets were first, intro- duced;"

is

KAISER'S INDEMNITY, TWENTY THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS FROM THE ALLIES.

*

It would be natural to suppose that on life as promulgated by me when, this problem would grow less as time went For, fifteen years ago, as we were all sitting on, but the reverse is the truth. down to a fine dinner of roast beef and owing to the change in the medical trimmings, I electrified the family by sny standard, a large number of weakly and -ing,

My dears, I have been working out delicate men are now passed into the the whys and the wherefores of the my-army, aud when the same rigorous de- Now I visualise it mans are made on their physique in e- stery we call Life clearly. From this moment I renounce spect of marching and bodily strain as

Under the heading Lehmann's War roast beef, boiled mutton (a favourite the demands made on their stronger fo Dunn dish), and all forms of flesh, cooked lows many of them inevitably break down. Aims." the Weser Gutele (Zeitung) pub Ur otherwise. Pass the greens and Then, again, the spirit of the regular lishes a summary of a notorious annexa potatoes, please! And I laid down my army, which is apt to assume that a man timist pamphlet called Germany After is a malingerer until and unless he can a Good Peace and a Bad," published by Father, said my sons in a gratify clear himself of that suspicion, held in Lebann, of Munich. Eight thou- ing chorus, we do the same! And they check in the early days of volunteer en sand copies were accepted by the German

listing, bas reasserted itself now the ser-General Staff for distribution to laid down their knives."'

geant major finds himself dealing with Army.

knife.

Was not that a form of compulsion The Entente Powers 10,000,000-tons. I asked. Then comes the question of an in- No, by dear sir," replied Mr. Dunn demnity. Before the war the German simply sympathetic connivance and har Empire's National Delit Was merely many. When father says Turn they all £250,000,000, and Herr Lehmaan wants turn!"

the

conscripts. In this respect the atmosphere The most interesting detand is that Ger. of the army has certainly suffered with many shall annex Courland, Libaanit, The strain, too, ou the re- Livonia, Esthonia, Cainis, Boulogne conscription, sources of the nation is felt in the supply Mororco, French West Africa. British of really competent doctors as in every East Africa Somaliland," Gibraltar, her to end the struggle without really Do your boys find it difficult to make other department of life. and it is a danger Malta, Cyprus, Aden, Perim, a Portu ous thing to give military power to a gal's African Colonies, and Bricy and owing any more, That is to say, Ger both ends meet" I asked. many's enemies will have to pay-at: pie Sometimes it is a tribe hard," was doctor who is not really first-class at his Longwy.

To meet contingencies. I work. It is not surprising that the capa eut-day figures, which are naturally the reply... constantly increasing i sum

of send each of my boys a cheque for £6 108 city of the military authorities should £10,000,000,000 to Germany.

every quarter and once a year a cheque have failed to expand as their task har grown, but the very character and extent Two-thirds of that amount is to be paid for £25. They are not extravagant." in

In the billiards-room as we passed of the problem make it imperative that money, and the rest in raw material, food-stuffs, and so on.

Having driven through it Mr. Dunn's eagle eye spotted a every precaution should be taken to guar, from the Mediterranean, the spider dangling from a thread suspended antee our soldiers against neglect and Suez Canal dues, increased, will yield from the chandelier. Tenderly he removed abuse.

"Two reforms strike the mind as obvious something; the conquered lands, it is it and deposited it softly among the rosely necessary. The first is that the offers brazenly declared, will be exploited; outside,

A spark of divinity," said the em- be seized on a vast scale; all menys of

Therefore why. traffic will be utilised to produce the in- tional hatter. beaming. demnity; tines and lands will be worked extinguish it???

England

for that end. In short, half the world is

to be seized and exploited, a gigantic burglary is to be carried out, a filibuster

The now for employing men who are unsuit

Beyond Poland. Germany must have Vilna, Grodno, Minsk, and other places.

The Entent is to pay all. Germany's war costs, including the cost of Ger- many's armanents for the next 40 years. Famounting to about twenty thousand mil- lion pounds, part to be paid in raw materials and by the surrender of half the Entente's merchant feets and the seizure of all private and public property in the annexed territory.

But the cream of the joke is really in the headine, for, as every German soldier who served before the war knows, Len- man is, or was, the ordinary barrack- zoo name for the Kaiser-Daily Mail.

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who are to command the camps or hold administrative positions in the camps. should he specially trained for the pur pose. At present they are chosen in many cases simply because they belong to the regular and have served at the front. In ing raid of unheard of dimensions will northern part of the Pas de Calais, with pick and choose, but there is no excuse The second reform is that detailed peri- FLOWER

If possible at all, we must have the early days it was not possible always to take place ali to provide Germany with Duenkirchen, Kales and Boonen. the territories and indernities she wants.

Herr Lehman frankly admits that possession of that territory is necessary to able when the Army Council has almost diral reports should be presented to Parliament on each camp, giving be without annexation and indemnity Ger prevent a Channel Tunnel being built." the whole nation at its disposal. many is absolutely and irretrievably Note that the names are already Ger offer appointed to such duties ought to amber and causes of death, the statistica Boonen, by the way, is be trained in domestic economy, in mili-about sickness, the number of courts ruined, and some of the remarks he makes manised

tary hygiene as carefully as he is trained wartial and the offences tried, and a gen en passant are illuminating as regards the Boulogne !)

eral account of the state of the camp, Such is the scheme which has roused the in gunnery or the management of horses. Pan-Gerizon mind. Here is one :-

with a statement as to the experience and cheers of

Pan-Germans — Daily i the (Continued at foot of next column.)

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