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OUR LONDON LETTER. PEACE TALK AT HOME AND

ABROAD,

"WHAT ABOUT BELGIUMP

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST. 1917.

THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA.

300,000 VICTIMS

MODERN BRITISH INFANTRY

WORK

MASTERS AND MEN FROM THE WHITE SQUAD POINT |-

OF VIEW

[BY ONLOOKER.)

THE MACHINE GUN CORPS.

The terrible conditions that prevail in the Holy Land as a result of the Turkish No one attempts of deny that there are, Germany alone among the nations ap domination are graphically described in

and have been, unscrupulous employers cial recently returned from Syria Limost deserve the irritating treatment top of those lessons were the great value the following article by an American As a matter of fact, employers as a class Precated and scientifically appled the leseops of the Russo-Japanese Wary and which they are so often subjected now of curved heavy artillery fire on the

days by their workere

On the other hand, there were con siderato masters, whose relations with

ON October 1st LONDON Ever since the proposed Pence Confer ence at Stockholm which failed 10 materalise. and the Pope's Note to ell the helligerents, the talk about peace has been incessant. The Germans have

ilised all sorts of agencies to keep these

The Holy Land today is land of desolation and death Starvation and disease have the depleted population in their grip Palestine and Syria, the cradle of Christianity, are little else than

but to

sit and await the

battlefield and the enormous power of the machine kun Instance after instance

occurred from Nanshan in 1804, where,

WEATHER REPORT.

November 20th at 11.15/-No returns from Jayan and Vladivostock. Proartre bad in aressed slightly to moderately at all stations reporting. An soil-arelome of moderate Intensity covetr Chins; the relativly low nepa romains over the

Chiep So

**String monroos will prevail along the

China comt and over the N. Olins Se

Hongkong rainbill for 36 hours endien a 10 13 to-day, 000 inch Total since lat January, 60.34 Inches, against an average ar

The fo monet for the 34 brace coding at soos

well to the front. Mock discus chota tomb, where the victim, have uo their employes were almost ideal and thanks to theiceMaxime, 3,000 badly led sions are enrried on in the German Press of death, which in such a breach one often wishce the good old days di Russians with 90 field guns held up 35,000 bowday is sa followen pas ?

in which the views of the Government often a welcome release.hecatomb i

is such relations could be restored,

Exactly the same conditions prevail to day, but with the positions reversed. The men are now organised and led by their officials, and there are officials and officials per

women children, is slowly

FORNOANT.

NEwinds, tresh turing fine.

Northerly ga e

(The mise se

The population, which now it only starving. Already about 80 per cent of thom have died a result of the appal ling conditions, and unless relief in some form comes to the land the remaining 30 The reasonable men among the men's per cent, will follow the same path in leaders are those who recognise that there the Lebanon district alone some 200,000 are two sides to evers question, that both have starved

Hongkong and Lamooxs No and in Damascus 120,000 master and men have duties as well as have

Farmona Channel

South Coast of China between

may be discerned, and statements front. tributed to this and to that German statesman and circulated in neutral countries, presumably with the object of testing deal of this organised talk

A great

has been regularly published in the English newspapers in the form

nasordinary items of in of extracts or telligence; indeed, the space devoted to have died from famine and disease rights, and that bargains are bargains ment to a British battalion in 1814 andrés Confit of China between † The name Ma

in it amounts to a column or more daily in the chief organs of public opinion. But the ordinary reader is absolutely

the soldiers ldicin uld say, he subject,

It is palpably a dodge of to create an the rulers fourable to the diseus habitants set a guard to prevent anyone protect it from the exploitation of the energence as a vast military Power.

atmosphere sion of peace. They want peate badly, and so they are trying by all the arts

be

loyally observed, otherwise agreement is impossible. It seems to the that such men, in the midst of modern Labour unrest, deserve the sympathy every moderate man to their efforts to steady the Labour, rank and file, and irresponsible extremist

Hongkong and Ham No BA

Jupancee and 198 guna all day to Mukden, of the annihilating effect of its fire

DiariCT Both sides largely added to their arma- ment during hostilities and at the close Hongkong to Gap Rook Japan possessed 620 machine-gung he against 80 at the beginning Germany immediately set herself to provision har infantry liberally with this effective weapon, and by 1909 every Gernian bat talion had 6 machine guns. The nilet

för long after was only two. Yet, despite Germany a great advantage in the start, the British Machine-gud Service is to-day the finest in the world. It is one more HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS phase of the great miracle of Britain's

At the beginning of the War, as has For there is n large body of the bera said, a British buttalion possessed agitator element whose activities are just two Maxime only, organised in a section. brand of employer that ever oppressed talion, but the necessities of trench war Passing from village to village the the worker. They are the men who fare forced battalions relieved from the adopt the eternally aggressive, continually front line to leave their Haxing behind deserted, where the families have been to imagine that they must dictate to the Gradually all the machine guns of a traveller sees a great number of houses hostile attitude to all authority, who seem for the benefit of the relieving troops.. completely wiped HE CHANCELLOP

but

Dead bodies lit master exactly what he may und may not brigade came to remain in the battle line clever in its way, and unburied and rotting in the streets, do in all circumstances, and that even for the whole duration of the brigade's Very

is being giving rise to a nauseating odour and when the men are perfectly satisfied, they turn in action. They developed prac propaganda

In spite of the here and there wormen and children are are not earning their pay unless they aretically into a unit under the Brigade

be seen camping in anything 10 hopelessness of achieving

It is a common sight to find the

must Syrians and searching the garbage heaps that litter street orange-pes! any o other refuse with which to allay the pangs of hunger, and to see them gonwing greedily at 6thy bones. In some districts the in- stealing the grass and weeds, which, when procurable, serve as lood But last year parts of the land stripping the from the trees and consuming

of which they are capable to get the plague of locusts settled over

peoples of countries at war to believe that

A NEW GODE

Now local and non-loca) storm will be introduced signals

the timens arrived for the beginning from the soil or objectionable as those of the worst These were an integral part of the bat Hongkong on July fr in place-0.

of peace negotiations. But of course it is a pears such as Germany desires, in which the status quo ante must be accept ed

at the outset, THE SILENCE OF THE

It is all

German. vory conducted

utter

The

thoroughly

the

the old Local Code and the China Couri

Orde

The principal change in the Local Code is that the new signals will show the direction from which the gals is expected, bereas the old signals showed the posi-

that could satisfy the needs and wishes naked and famished places, discovering some new cause for dissension Machine-gun Officer and their fire wation of the typhoon. The latter: wil

of Berlin. From first to inst there is one important omission in the proposals and arguments that ars at present canvassed

that

In D FOR FEW BRILLINGS.

districts one may buy a

child

were.

BEER BIGHTS

Such

@DAY: BIGWALA.

paration will be made for the barbarous only food to be I have stared to one of this type (and the Vickers, which was gradually re- Sional, Symbol, Zleaning.

Leeds

German

it will not do, for there are the

ads of

dogs

that is within the

to

duties

no

Morthe (MW. to N.E).

Inverted-Gelo ergicted from the

South (1)E. to B. W

Bast (NE to 8.5)**

BUTS AND DUTIES methodically co-ordinated and controlled

The introduction of Lewis guns, while indicated, se herstofure, by the non-locai for a few shillings, so desperate in the are the man who rouse the ire of providing a more useful strictly infantry siguals The new Local Ends is given

weapon, made it possible to supplant the below : in the Press throughout Europe There plight of the parents. In and around is no muation of Belgium, no hint that the town of Junich, Syria, which had a case of public irritation with most machine gun section of the battalion by

Labour upheavals.

Lewis gun detachments. The Maxim at is intended by Germany to evacuate population of about

5.000 nnburied dead 10,000, there T And no suggestion that Country

Almost the

is recently, and an analysis of his utterances placing it) ceased to be a battalion wen- 1,5-2ød coua-a. typhoon aziste which of brought one to the conclusion that the non By a bold step in organisation,

Day" possibly canssa. wrongs she has suffered at the hands the Hung,

gale at Hongkong with. and Wilson h only a fest who can afford to pay the workers, indeed, cách individual worker which placed us ahead of all rivals, a exorbitant price demanded Meat is an had the right, on a working man, to do Machine-gun Corps was formed. This

in 54 hours. The Pope and put this question is the German Govern almost unknown, luxury While they exactly as pleased him: The right to corps was divided into four sections. In-

lasted Within the last few days Mr. Asquith hos warding off cats were, the means of work, the right to strike the right to a lantry, Cavalry, Motor, and Heavy. Th—Black code. Gale exported from the ment in precise and definite terms.

for a few the

spectre living wage, and a thousand other tights Cavalry branch is armed with Vickers-

Si Within the last few days ith his famine, but, this soures of supply had rights all the times libwtice to insist guns and Moler Machine gun has 1-Black come

and precision. What of long been

| Vickers on a side-car motor-bicycle. The usual bre he said last week at a meet the valleys of Syria, is at a standstillsided and elastie. There are Tank section. The Infantry branch 4-Black drum, -Geis sxpected from the

Husbandry, where it was practicable in upon, and scarcely a word about duties

where it was practicable in Such ideas of right and liberty Heavy Branch is the world famous Belgium1 ingate this issue of Lry to fob the for there is nobody to till and sow the as well as rights on both pides: n is organised in comparies of Vickers guns

but ground and the magnificent orange If the master of former times. t of groves of Palestine, the growth of cen right best

“swent”? hiu

of modern days the Maxim with a similar action gave that reasons for knowing that the military turies, which would have been a valuable Trade Union official, no more have practically the same in appearance as B1-4 ball.--Gale, ospicion Tràm the top. Admiral von Tirpitz source of food supply, have been felled right to prevent deborately the producit is reversed). One company, divided-Double cous-Gala arposted to in

by the Turks for military purposes tion of a fair output, If a man can, by into sections with two officers to the scen blurted out the other day It must In the wake of starvation followed dis reasonable effort, produce more than an tion, is attached as a distinct unit 7-Black cross-Wind of typhoon fores

ease. Cholera typhus,

no bar other man

ought to be placed cele infantry brigade, and the Officer

expected (any the extra minanding the company remains in clee

trony: Signal No. 7 will be sccompanied To learn that, a These epidemics carry out their ravages

a worker can, without

brigade. No other Army has produced, for there are practically no sweating over it, produce the Trude such a complete specialisation and no three explosive bombs Broda unchecked, for said Mr. Hour Tale doctors in the country, many baving been Union quota of work in an hour or two other has achieved such results. It is the of 10 seconds at the ster Pollos Btäti

bours less than the working day, and infantry branch that we have here to the military authorities; faway by

rest have died, victimg of the diseases then loal the rest

away

even amuse him sider. The terrible plight of the country is of the

the time an absurd iden

The ca-canny in comparison with that. Peace talk the nation of deliberate aim at the ex-policy is an obstacle to natural progress, the principles of Lewis guth Art and the

question För a minimum a wago

and employment of the Vickers The Lawis

·will: on from now until the end of termination of all who are not of Tur-

go the war we can trust Berlin to zes to estimated at about 3 milions, compared delling, I go in favour of a minimumable for short bursts of very intense fire kish stock. The pre-war population was of a standard wage also requires remo- is a very mobile infantry weapon, suit- that-bat the fact we have to keep fixed of Jews, Byrians and Arabs, but it is wage provided that a lazy worker is It is dificult to use at night since it Blackh in our minds that the war must con- doubtful if tinue until the Germans recognise that amounts to anything like half that nur should be accompanied by minimum provided with a mounting it cannot be

the population.

into-day renalised for slackness. Miriam wage cannot be laid on a target Not being

party is atili

41

that has been

done

tetantis

at once stated quite clearly that I read with turrible panidity carrying upon him, and he is entitled touch with the General Commanning that

Cha By Me have a long

not wrong but

in Belgium

way to go

zim

Germany are forced to atone

Your aim

few days ago speaking, at Luncheon, Club,

Our

Law: a

kind of

10

justice which 18 that the out to they so nobly fought in other Erkek salt Worker's sight

Germany bus ineted Belgium shall be in fatures impossible upon this planet. Nothing else

matters

ber,

the hy outside re Many forts have been made

amount of work.

STANDARD WAGE MOT EQUITABLA

the way to pesce lies through Belgium bars way in which the regaining NAMING THE REGIMENTS A

There has been welcome new depare only way in ture in the British official reports of population can be saved is late. For the first time since the begin American and British relief funds to It means that a conscientious and clever The standard wage is not equitable ning of the war the names of Englis carry aid to the wretched people, but the workman, or one who, by nature, is fitted county regiments and other home unite who have specially distinguished them in on many available has so far to produce more than the average man selves are being mentioned.

compared with the is

Even if call it his good

you

Ever since need.

It is important to difierentiate between

used for indirect fire. The Vickers, on the the other hand, la less mobile when in

seconds to mount, load and lay the gun. premie action, requiring two men to carry the gun and tripod and demanding some 35 Comp Onds in action, however, it is scarcely more conspicuous than the Lewis guitif Lai

Green Island

on the premises of

owloon Whert Ken Kowloon the

of the Standard Oil

been dubtedly the distressing stateroward prevented from reaping his can sustain its fire almost indefinitely so Field Offe the far-off days of the Marne the author of the Holy Land constitutes an ng Las the right to benefit from Long as there is water in the jacket which here honour was duc, but or throughout the world. It is to be hoped benefit becae Lauder has the right to encloses the barrel. It can be laid on a

Harry

tandard wage and the limited QVARNA number of them can be combined tol

ties have been urged to give honor claim and a challenge to Christians

his personality OF reason which has never been satisfactorily

parti mark and kept ready for Instant action. explained this appeal was vain Great the British armies at Gaza will soon be cular brand of Humour attract the public It can be effectively traversed and con dreds have been done many times, but in such a position as greatly to facilitate more than that of another and probably trolled. It can be used for indirect or over- Bigmous cleverer man. This right danied by the head fire. It can search reverse alopes, people at home have not heard of them the work of relief. But the public are now, beginning to

a need for smaller notes for currency APIE

In Searn that it was the London regimente.

the

create a barrage which is perhaps the only same way it is the or the Suffolks, or the Durhams that purposes, and also that if such notes were right to get an adequate return for the barrage that an enemy cannot slip carried difficult post and crumpled introduced they would be a success. worker's wage. Let there be a decent through. up the Huns to the cast of Ypres or the MORE ATE RAIDS minimum wage fixed so that no me. The vital principal of the use of the

The series of on get keep him, but otherto the troops who have figuvert uoroplanes during to Leadon by hostale mey E paid thereafter spring or they machine-gun is a correct appreciation of British Headquarters in France were as herees in the brick reports sent from again brought up the question of reproduce, and there will be an incentive

the Liza

some

notice

Other

have not a word of protest to send makes men

to pay the

English

on the tower of the Railway H&M.8. Tamor, and on the

Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by

the information com

prisals on German towns. On this oces for then to work well and union, and gently it.10 in enfilade that it gives by the same agnikation as the day signale.

the nature of its Gre. Its bullets fall in bilingly, a very long and narrow cons, fonte means stagnation, Canadians and Australians, and some- sion times one or two the more picturesque

bishops are silent, and the pro. Standardisatie servants-workers far the most deadly resulta A group of loafers when machine-guns firing with combined sights, posal while the masters look on, regiments like the Black Watch The to the Teas Bince the Pas his back is turned it in immoral and ey aimed so that the target of one gun explosive bombs as above, in 189 STAR) of London Sectfish, or the Guards. The was first

for the degrading. Limitation of output is as in continuation of the target of the English, Welsh,, and Irish seximenish back made

might just well have been in

as

in slaughter of own

rights of great depth up a valley, for instance, part of the world for all the ren, ble op

public

repron has hardened on the Agitators who Was taken their prowess subje** reprisals As

previous and duties or advise men to do so are But it is in forming a band of fire *** in the hold my 2014

counsels arely pointed out the military reply to all gulite of a crime against the Common Across the front of an eveny that the prevailing is a

mention of parti aneh temands in that reprisals are being wealth, and should be sternly penalised meshine-gun exhibit, its full power tas cular regimentsi

after a

only

aly the carried out every day on points of mili 4 criminals Masters who exploit Nothing can pass that land of fire

held crimina plication of the public school on the importance behind the German lines workers should be bible, just and life. Therefore machine-guns in the

hold that it The schoolboy plays, for his house or and Flanders. But the average

his side. The soldier fights for the Englishman wants something more. He law, to have courts of equity established, trench-line are nearly always mounted in honour of his country is a matter of wants to let the German civil population composed of masters and men, to decide emplacements that are protected and blind directly towards the enemy, would grant duty but it is the claim upon him for three years in our homes by order of to then executive power such as ordinare with a loophole that looks diagonally to

experience what we have had to endure all such. questions; and I the military clique in Germany

judges have to interpret the law and cross No Man's Land. In open, warfare from what I am able to other the justice, and impose penalties. Such is tank positions are always sought for

almost The enormous value of the machine gun am convinced,

operates in defence is a commonplace sippe 1014 But in assault it is not less an all-import-

"Women, and child. nations honest, will, however, give a “beaten zone being. Iru

the honour of his regiment, his battalion." his company, that calls forth his

amalities as a fighter on thing that prevents a policy of reavstemem strike

TOKENS FOR COOLIE LABOUR.

nest

prisals on towns beyond the Rhino ut abolish the z

present is that all available machines are against the

40 part in

In connection with the suggested issue

of small note for India I heard the other

quarrel

W

Chimehel city of the plan which has been employed on bombing ammunition 2 ALA8ters, whether the capitalist for the weapon, affering.. great possibilities.

other

to tactical skill, The next article will

shopted by a group of Indian tea estates and neodromes in the theatre of wax in the nature of things cadeavour to illustrate its employment in to surmount the currency difficulty. It and there are not sufficient

icient seroplanes is stated that the realtis in every way to detach for the er business. For one Always exist on the one side, workers on a typical grand attack such as those. satisfactory, and it is certainly decid

decided raid by the enemy on London we are able the other; and, as long no we tolerate the the Somme or in Artvin

who interesting in the case of any com with an equal number of machines to professional irresponsible agitator, munity where coolie labour

It carry out three or four raids on his miliis against wil authority, to sow the seeds

day nopears

of tary works and stores and drop at least of discord, so long will the to the aortage Elver coins too in question invented a system of private That is a true military policy. It in-

token:

to

that management of the estates twice as many bombs in the same time harmonious co-operation be denged S

ide to

LABOUR AND LIBERTY.

How much liberty Leader Burning with toe.

of Labour backed

eventually enters the

Jaboins for paying wages to the flicts a maximum of; damage: upon the

The Locat bazaar

undertook enemy for a minimum of risk on our One last word about Liberty funds, he enters to accept these tokens from natives in part,

other requi

Ats the Birements axchngs for food nad

emotient it would be working element in the ranks of organised the company agreeing to redeem the pretend that we possess a great superiority zokens on demand in coin of the realm, of serolpanes and Bates, or drafts on the Presidency but every week that

approaching when

The scheme has been completely succes position. ful, so much so in fact that the tokens only to conti

have become a kind, of local currency,

tioned but to enga

while their redemption is not in general tacks with German town demanded in coin, but in the shape

Botes or a cheque on the leading marketi

Thousands

ves are emplo

the oomomy that

in the use of gold and

being cite

there

with other interests, he has a right to

as a sincere man to lea sane paths But the minute

according to the traitor to the work natherna.

CUTLER PALMER & CO:S

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A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEL OF

ABSORBING INTEREST,

By CHAS J HALCOMBE.

Formerly of the Imperial Chinta, Cuc

Service Author of The Mystio

Flowery Lead, etc.

HE VOLUME, which consists of 488

and includes a Sketch Pla cal interest showing the dispost- orces at the battle of Ewei to Bit, RostET HART

and Dr. A. RESIL

Intion of Chinees

Buperstitions, com

(Continued of fost of