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THE REAL KEREŃSKY.

BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM.

him, like a first love, The Russian heart will not forget. The scene is in Petrograd on a piere- ingly cold day in March some three weeks

after the Revolution.

My sleigh draws up before the Minis

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1917.

THE BRITISH OFFICER.

A GERMAN TRIBUTE.

ABY THE DAILY TELEGRAPK'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. 1

They are generally strong, determin ed, independent, courageous young fel- lows, full of fṛió, confidence.".

This 8 the tribute of the German correspondent

BISMARCK WAS RIGHT.

NO AFRICAN COLONIES FOR THE

GERMANS:

BY AN ENGLISHMANJ

try of Justice, and in a minuto In Katsch, representing the Kaluische Valk returned, we are told, and shall come

MILITARY DISCIPLINE. DEMOCRACY ANATHEMA TO OFFICER CASTE.

passed up the official starrase, where so zeitung on the Western front, to the Bri- Germany, Great Beneath the sway ofI have found the thing described, not now i

short a time before reigned ill-the rigid eremonial of the ensïeut régime, into an ante-chamber" filled with, a crowd of soldiers, sailors, legal functionaries, Budents, schoolgirls, workmen, peasants, all waiting patiently like one

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tish officers' corps."

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The despatch in which the phrase occurs, whilst containing ya' certain bunt of criticism, is of a remarkably fair character, and bears witress in

tion of the British people as a whole, The following are quotations:

Some thirteen, years ago 1, in common with many other people, had a fearful, In the many projects devised by Gerglimpse of what Prussian militarism man politicians and professors, which means for the private soldier when I read

I shall bring glory and wealth to their Lieut. Bilse's "Aus einer kleinen play a conspicuous part. They shall be empire after the war, the Colonies always:

A Little Garrison This week, reading Gaston. Journal d'an Simple Soldat, back, one and all.

and her Allies by one who condemn it and holds it up on the

the other hand, are resolute that the to ridicule, but by one who delends it. Colonies which have been wrested from and seeks to give its renson and justifica Germany

in Africa and in the Pacific shall tion. For M. Rlou quotes the mover again be surrendered to the harsh froin a conversation he had. before the following rule of the tyrant. **The

& Young

German Liber said President Individual initiative! We regard it one races by another oppression of war, with Lowell, of Harvard, the other day. Eas n disense

must, as far as possible, be removed.

return to Germany of her former Colonies. that their people may be exploited a they have been in the past."

Every

of

is directed a such-and-such al

of the bread queues in the Liteinaya identally to the flinching: determina For that reason' we 'onauot consider the somnambulista,

the Nevsky. 1 push my way through the throng to a tired and much-harnesed

secretary,

You wish to see M. Kerensky Quite imposible to-day. You must come to morrow. I explain that I am invited to lunchenu. M. Kerensky has gone to the Buma to the Workmen's Council, have no idea when he will he back. In these days, you know

I

MANLINESS AND MILITARY REARING.”

ith being to

effort of

four training it. We only want

gesture response to such-and-suck a word of mand, not reflecting, not reacting pamply acting, nothing mo

by instinct. The cheers which greeted these honest.

No th The younger officers are entirely want words are proof enough that our Ameri-

all no thought we

e attribu ing in what we are accustomed to call can Allies are of the same mind with importance to the rigorous ex

military bearing,'

g." but the manliness ourselves. The Germans have shown 10 cvements if we push the ta of the type which England has trained themselves bad neighbours wherever they fore evolutions of the parade grout is quite suitable to replace much of this have gone. They have given the whites to a mania, movements which y strong, determined, independent cour militarism. They are on the whole man evil nae all the world over because they break the bit of thinking, regard as sealer and ridiculous, it i and have imperilled the just rule of th

other root it ou ageous young fellows, full of confidence, races. They possess none of the qualities | You

it to sleep, He shrugged his shoulders. Then al-Stomachs and spectacles are not to which are necessary for the colonist. annihilate redu. most before I had time to allow the dissen anjong them. The feeling that they the African desert.

They carry their boots and spars into automalos Am appointment to show itself on my fáce am always saperier

training has p Like srowd behind me suddenly surged them great are, were

They cannot to other nations gives themselves, to new condition, # forward. "Stand back! Two rather fare, not filled with any real hate agains nervous and very

ery young adjutants in the Germans. The war is by them quite drilled and disciplined after the fashion uniform. Half

quick, energetic coolly regarded as a sort of necessary strides, and M. Kerensky is beside me. clearing up between England and Ger the native inhabitants groaned beneath

of Berlin, and it is not suprising that this sort of thing His face has an

an almost deathly patior, many for predominance. They are con

the envy, yoke, his eyes are tired with an expression of vinced that Germany wished to conquer inanite suffering, but the mouth is frm the world, and that England could not a rock. and the hair, cropped close and allow tint. They are strengthened in Qora en brosse, gives sone outward idea their pride by the attitude of their people

that wonderful energy which is the at home. Stacks of exptured letters con peculiar gift of the

of the Russelar firm this Ener. And his energy is indred of the miraculous. I am told to wait while, the crowd et petitioners is one by one. received, counselled, refused, rewarded, and sent on its way with n speed that entres only to the man who has to see as many people in a day as there are

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A LUNCHEON PARTY.

VIEWS OF THE WAR,

CAL

CRUELTY TO NATIVE RACES.

of thinking--th. In battle autommm. courage

of one's Jender

pru

At luncheon, the most simple of meals, besides about thirty. Russians of all sorts as they write help the men at the front an's runny to take up the white majority of our officers, at least of those. and conditions, there are also present thy Three French Socialists. Monte, Lafont, and Cachan. In spite of the Govern ment prohibition there is wine on the table, but the host himself is on striet diet and touches nothing stronger than milk. His talk is of the most brilliant description. All the enthusiasm of youth is there. And indeed he hardly looks his thirty-six

right hand there is a great, brawny-armed sailor from the Sailors Committee of the Baltie Fleet, and every time M. Kerensky refers to his favourite theme of

seara.

On

by force of of the power good soldier. "vement and terror sthe

of

her un known in our own army Or is mili tarism inseparable from the military i No doubt a civilian hating way with Bismarck showed & profound knowledge place in the army only from the highest every fibre of his being and taking his of his own people when he discouraged sense of national duty and in answer to an active Colonial policy. There was nya supreme call of conscience will remain reason why Germany should bave i fere from this taint. But can the It is just this plains, simple, middle-tempted at task for which she was fitted fessional soldier, whether commissioned class people who are suffering under the

neither by character nor-temperament or in the ranks, help thinking in Rome war and want pence, but

these very

She knew but two methods of denting such way! The question seems cruel at minedly to hold ont, to hear all suffer desert and called it peace, or she exploit calls himself A Regular Offer

Eithin the niade & people ward their men at the front deter will subject races

such a time

as this. Yet a writer who ed for her own advantage the poor in the

writes in eve the worst, if

they force victory

number of the 'untempor- cicting whom she pretended to govern. The have how

WAP!! Brent bitten themselves into the war idea, and The history of German expansion is a

Prussianism, apart from its cruelties, are obstinately determined to carry the history of cruelty and

Leppression. It was is the instinctive creed of the vast affair through. In any case, such words not for

She preferred to iny of the acien to hold out. Let this be noted by our upon the backs of others such weights as they are, they will pronound political eien réme Brave gentlemen own people, who talk so much about their were ton grievous to

o be borne.

and military courses of action to you sufferings, and write letters of complaint.

Wherever you look. you will find the which sound like a cutting from Count to those in the field.

same story told. German East Africa. Reventlow's Tageszeitung. Í How happily being liberated from Ger anathema to them.

Democracy is man rufe has

suffered bitterly from, the upon it. The name of Karl Peters will at such length is compelled to say when

civilisation

Gentlemeit they are which has been thrust.

and even the Ger- น

man Liberal from whom Riou quotes be for ever execrated by the tribes who claiming for the German officer that he he oppressed. Knowing of the natives is one of the two most beautiful types treated them with the utmost brutality the English gentleman. And so, except whom it was his business to manage, he of modern humanity that the other is. He believed that the esniest way lo un

In very rare cases, cruelty is not found hold his authority was to murder wonen,

in our army, and it is pleasant in hear though Peters himself was deprived

men talk of their officers But any re Fernit will hear witness that the fires ibing of his in little else than in bloodshed.

commission his polic

country progressed heris told by the drill sergeant when he said that in the war which broke out in army. If it were not that your genuine It is joins up is that he must not think in the 1005 no fewer than 120,000 men, women, militarist never does learn anything by and children perished and tin will experience it would be wonderful that never efface the bitter gemory of this this desolating nonsense should be past.

rd to generations of What Peters and his followers achieved or non-commissioned officers, to use their

recruits, of our men, and especially, of surpassed in South West Africa. in the East the infamous won Trotha outr

The brains in a sudden emergency been noted war with the Hereros is black even is thousand times, and a thousand times the annals of Germany. It

011 the top. sprang from

that." in all our military one thing the usual causes-abuses

history? Did

not the

sent to suppress the revolt, lacked in De the troops from our Overseas Demin- tribal lands, What von Trothin, who was seizure of

in good when fought ns, with no experience stend they military skill be made up for by a sense ons make worse soldiers for lack of this

of the parade ground or less brutality. His proclamation is the character-breaking discipline! At least of regular drill?

likely to

forgotten. - Within

the German frontierthus it ran every they need neither automatism nor terror

with

of their officers to supply the place of without cattle, will be shot.

I in the supreme moment of attack. penting young lieutenant got one This his men rather

few days after he found that the man

As regards the war situation, the rics of English affeurs differ very much. Some of them till trust to English vic tory this year. as generally, also, the mon are not so The majority, however, firmle

of this

this opinion. They heliers we and they are but equal to one another. and that neither will be able to conquer

and he But not one of them regards it as think

non sense of the in the com-

people

Points to the sailor as if lustrate hinble that England should accept a Gertained. For seams the county was main

argument. He turns to me with a amile: man pence. That is the pride of n hitherto How would Lloyd George like it if a unconquered nation, and this pride is Russian were to come to him to tell him opposed to the pride on our side of the how to manage the English people? people's aroy, which has been uncon

que, we may not know much, batquered for a hundred years. Believe we do know our own people." His enthusiasm is infections, his pride in the English offers have a very contemptu Revolution unbounded, We are only ous opinion of the / bout war. They doing what you have done centuries agu, say there is no question that the sub only we are trying to do it better-with-marine war will not bring them into the out the Napoleon and the Cromwell.!

slightest difficulty, and they have un- limited confidence as to the To-day the young lawyer has changed of all affairs at sea. There is ment the working man's jacket. he affected. during those early days for the uniform His idrus, too, have changed with the force of circumstances. His faith in the common sense of the Russian people has been severely shaken, and the man who Abolished capital punishment has been forced to restore it. But his ideals re

We

not

take to heart and learn from white traders and the committed by itiative stand the Fer of individual.

ofish.

the English counting is tennis or the aping I don't mean the use of of English customs, but the unbending pride which places before everything else their Fatherland and their own nation.

The value of these impressions is en- on the writer's mind by men who had fallen into German hands, and thus show ed their pride and strength of character. worst hells of the action. probably after just passing through the

main the same. They have been modified./ Phasised by the fact that they were inade Herero with or without & it will not beard a story the other day warth

not abandoned.

the

demand great. Great privileges also:

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the commands of the hated old régimes always ake only a little French, the people and urged chieftain to attack human nature t

People call me a mad idealist, but thank God for the idealist in this world." For, in spite of all his energy, Alexander Feodorovitch is essentially an idealist. From the day when he left the University

even by the Germans, and von Trotha was innocent. Not content with telling of Petrograd to enter upon his legal

shared the fate of the infamous Peters, in so, he told the assembled company career he has never once put his material is true, feels that it is Russia herself who

But the harm was done. Many thousands that he had made a mistake, and that, Prospects before his political beliefs. He is talking to them. One man whispers to and the delicate task of ruling native he was glad to tell them that the private men and women had been slaughtered, though he could min undo the punishment, might have made a large fortune as anotherHe has only one kidney, lawyer. Indeed, he preferred to spend and admiration awells for this man who more difficult by this policy of wicked regret. Every single one of his brother races had been rendered for others far was innocent, and publicly to express his his time in defending the oppressed and is faced with the Herculean task of ruthlessness. It is not always possible

bis afficers,

rs, from the C.0, to the junior sub- unjustly

in the famous carrying through a accused prisoners

revolution and a to distinguish, and it is inevitable that political trials which stained the recoris world-war at the same time, and who in something of the disgrace, which belongs was bad for discipline, since an

altern, condeinned his action.

ion; and said the Russian tribunals under the old country where energy is conspicuously to Germany alone, should attach itself must ever

officer. régime His gospel is

admit that he has made a suffering, and in all his short and net vrhaching can, in spite of a shattered to all the white peoples

mistake.

man who told me stid: life

health, work nineteen he has never spared himself. No twenty-four.

hours in the In the islands of the Pacific there is is not a fool. He knows officers make "That's nonsense, sir, common soldier thing is worth living for which is not

the same tale to tell. Harshness and An ardent patriot, M. Kerensky has lack of sympathy have made an amiable finds one who has the courage and decency mistakes like other men. And when he worth dying for

Great deaths beget no sympathy with Germany or with Ger- system of government impossible. Where to own it why, if you'll forgive an old great children."

And then the man methods of government. The Ger-Ge have made friends of the natives, the army expression, he'll follow that man passionate rebuke:And you, comrades, implacable foe by trying to frighten the They have made roads, which are not other." But what must be the blighting

mans have soon recognised in him an

have been content to oppress who bave suffered for ten years

at one in

of hel and out at the silence, who have carried out all the leon. English and French ideals he has

Russian public with the spectre of Napo used. They have built harbours with effects of military discipline

their minds set not

if any man, who have shot down your own people travelled

but, as he has not war. They have stirred but upon let alone the oficers of a whole battalion

up strife among have forgotten such an obvious truth ef when the Government demanded, now, his and

chieftain. when you have won your liberty-now, rained circumstances of great ning and chicane are at an end, and

And it has availed them reconstruction be Above all, no mili

Let our watchword in We have 100 designs for you to choose from, and would emphasize you cannot hold out a little longer!1s, however,

from reading. He has, nothing. Their manifold schemes of eun tarism-Manchester Guardian. then, the free State of Russia nothing difficulty, been a staunch supporter of the thousands are happily released from op

that the prices have but a band of revolted slaves "

Entente, and has done more than any pression.

NEVER BEEN ASYMBOL OF RUSSIA'S AGONY.

living man to instil into the minds of

BRITISH GENIUS. FOR RULE. the Russian people the necessity of con

Truly the responsibility which they as These are some of the fragments taken

tinuing the war.

sume who undertake the governance of at random from his great speeches before numerous and he is in danger of assas-Germans have failed, and they have suc-only by wisdom and His enemies are

The English have surtzeiled where the other races is not light.. the Russian offensive. It is his own sination both from the extremists of the ceeded because they have understood the history of the last three hundred years It is justified gospel, and, combined with his wonder Right and the extremists of the Left. supremis duty laid upon those who would proves that we possess these qualities. intelligence. The ful powers of oratory, it is the chief But not even his fiercest denunciator can colonise. They have governed the native We are not wholly conscious of them secret of his success. For when he speaks deny his personal courage. In the thou- races of Africa and of the Pacific, not When we send our governors across the

that raucous voice of his, worn hoarse sand and one problems which he has to by incessant shouting to recalcitrant settle daily for in spite, I

to make proft for

themselves, but to tea, we are content that these governors soldiers and suspicious workmen, the Kerensky himself, the Revolution and those races

think, of M. secure the happiness and prosperity of should epplay in a new solere, their in- than the silvery

The Gerinans orator, the war second

sym-hape we succeed in our practically

" the great tions in Russia to datical considera-pathetic. Wherever we have gone we have are unconscious of the because to

day he has shown a carried with us a sense of honour and we bring to its performance. But wh

plain virtues. klakoff, the day but not even firmness of

which makes me douby justice. The natives trast us, because least it may be said that we are not has cany man more capable they know that their interests will

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the most

of these two countries is

been

effect professionales of fear of counter-revolution come arst and ruthless the English have been herited kindness and good sense...

I have

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con sway his audience as M. Kerensky of carrying her through the grim crisis. dominates hia. The effect is

selfish in our policy, and that we are be overlooked. We have done our best not, and shall never be, ruthless like the magical even but on a foreigner, hove of eritis it it all e Russian in this dealing with the greatest Arisis in his the prejudices of those whom we govern. And thus we arrive at the very sound

At the present moment M. Kerensky is to understand the beliefs and to humour Germans. all compelling

That career, on the issue of which will depend And we have sent of our best to the att white colour of to a large extent his future place in most party of face, the long pauses to history. In his conflict with Korniloff faculty of ruling has not been tinted, hand over to the oppressors those who

the earth

The British ason why no Colonies shall ever be gather fresh strength for the sharp, he has been blamed by many for not and if you would mark the difference have learned in the meantime the mean- given back to the Germans We cannot incisive phrases that sting almost like accepting more quickly the lash, the swaying body that twists and posals for the restoration of discipline.

general

which exists between the German method ring of freedom. We cannot permit the 3. pro gasps for breath and and exhausted to the greally falls limy It is a most unfortunate situation, Karl Peters (let us say) with Sir William cruelty practised by such men äs Peters ground. Is it not fraught with the gravest consequénder MgGregor de blunders and, we have fight. to-day not only for the liberation symbolical of that supreme agony through At the present moment one can only say,

and von Trothe to be repeated.

Here which Russia herself is passing↑

then, is another incentive to victory. We have come to make my supreme appeal patriots whose anxiety to save their under the British flag, and they have been tion of the unhappy races which Azve

with The Times, that both men are atoned for them Scoundrels have sailed of Europe... because I am at the end of my strength.

We fight And the enormous crowd in the Operary has their first thought. They punished. But if we make a large survey been ground beneath the heel of Germany also for the hibern- House in Moscow in June knows that it means. And in this lies the tragedy of ficial. If it were not, then the sooner merely to bring profit to Hamburg and only in the question of ways and we shall find that our rule has been bene and have been most cruelly entreated (Continued at foot of next column.)

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