1917-12-14 — Page 7

PROPER USE OF MAN-POWER

{BY HALL CAINS}

Without personal disrespect it may, perhaps, be enid that whether Lord Milner or Sir Auckland Geddes is to con- duct the new campaign for the co-ordins

PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 14TH, 1917.

THE HONGKONG DAILY

WHAT NEUTRAIS DO

UNDERSTAND.

NOT

VON TIRPITZ ON THE

U-BOAT. GERMANY MUST HOLD OUT. The Berlin Port quotes an interview

Tirpitz od with Admiral von Tirpitz on submarine

So long as the sinkings

WHY WE FIGHT.

[BY ALEXANDER M. THOMPSON, STOCKHOLM] It would be immodest to ignore the fact

tele

GERMAN SPIES

HOW TO MEET THE PROBLEM: The man in London to whom is entrusted the enforcement of the British espionage laws is Basil Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of Police. In all

tion of Man Power is not a. that war. Admiral you exceed the pos that my name continues to be a stereo-ahe Allied countries no other official has great national importance, and therefore sible increase of tonnage and all experts

It is not a subjest worth quarrels are agreed that this will actually be the typed headline in the pro-German papers to den! with so many German suspecte. cht case in the future also final victory over One journal gratefully records that I am In the following interview, which was Except so far as namce indicate about.

be expected with absolute Tendencies, and a

a man's past thats a light England may on his future (a condition of rare occurs

rence

in these days), it 18 scarcely by The Bea nec only staying a few weeks, and hopes that obtained by an attaché of the British

ter of pational importance whatever.

victory imme this welcome news may be regarded Official Press Bureau, Mr. Thomas SLVE forward resolutely go

one kiust not expect What is of importance to the nation bt diately, but we may

any

power of tho kingdom some recognisable effect of the ROULE

the correspondence suggesting that I this moment is that to the task of estimat to this next war winter. We may have 15 & promise. The same paper prints some interesting things about German

war asserts itself be pushed out of the country by the

Excellen Is it not

Government

a punishment to him asked the reporter,nccording te principles should at least be brought

the sub Hitherto wo have made grievous misjudgment to fix a time to day with or and a warning to others.”* takes, and it is emall comfort to reflect tainty, when the full effect of that our enemies have also made them.marine war will manifest itself! Most of these mistakes have been due to Admiral von Tirpitz declined to bind haste and the lack of reflection, but many himself to any definito period, and

of histo ulter

have come of almost couple did

quete

brushing

or even of fifty, were no longer-likely to fetch four-fit vorman victory, Fare fighting in this war for right against easy ay would have been to walk over

they are fought and but

wonally at home. Not seeing this in attain the opposite of that which wece against an fine rule wrote aaying letters, dropped them, and

balance of our man-power, and have never of choose their own mode of life, and ruler foreign language on a tran. She usually.

Our

age of munitions in 1915, and the general contra of gravity So

With Bashing eyes and thumption tribunal in place of the savage are this information a day late. A

cighteen months of the war," he said, we were vamped with information from all kinds of people. Most of it was In reply to this ratlier rude but not inaccurate. Then there were the various

Kich was beard. altogether unpleasing suggestion 1 have crises. Take the wireless, for instance. written a letter, which appears in the Every old typewriter success cannot be an evening, papers, dealing with various tapping at night was supposed to be a The moment of success

lights. They died hard, Persons fancied to the plain laws of nature and appalling ed to a month, but if we hold fast victory charges of inexactitude, and conclud- wireless apparatus, Also there were the of the knowledge

is absolutely certain. Economically endange

that neighbours were signalling to a house want of the

the window In of the war, we as regards raw materiale we and Italy "But all this-what is it all? The opposite by lights in the When, at the outbreak of the war,

up our man opinion, stronger than France and Italy. to count and began

not selecti did

and perhaps The capacity for holding out of the world is in hell. The business of serious, cone cases the flashes were due to branches

he estimated power we

in were due to n could not foresee, that the whole theory lish cannot and practice of modern warfare would decisive factor, while people is not to quibble about words or of trees swaying before a lighted window found to have so changed that the first we cover four-fifths of our economic neeth sock smart polemical advantages, but to her hair before an electric light. None needs of the wars of a hundred years ago, from our own production England must put out the eruption of hell's fames on seemed to consider that if the supposed from overseas earth. We English have it deep enemy wished to communicate with the Tirpitz reiterated rooted in the hard grain of us that we person on the other side of the street an apply. In earlier days battles were

his ded

confidence in R

wrong, for the thing which is true, against or drop a letter in the box. fought and won

of battle solely of mainis, on Ore Finally feld

white for peace, we the thing which is a lie, for people's We had the tricks of schoolboys, who ore Naturally,

we at the base, and almost more

Against waited to see what would happen, than advane we swept every Volunteer to the should attain. The confidence of our own force, for democratic from, with the result that we lost the people would be crippled, while the will feudal militarism, for the rights of all Followed the woman who had heard a

enemies to conquer ou CHES

would be stim people, however small and weak. Lo

Prussian

officer. Generally wo ing to a been able to

of our policy ship, for the establishment of an arbitra was certain that a woman had been talk- recover it. Hence the short lated.

Of

Lite of war

have heard of the famous course, you want of co-ordination between the Army lies in the Belgian question. and the sources of its supply,

table with his fist, Admiral von Tirpis We were brutally dragged into this German recognized in the street by his

with emotion

fight, but, being in, by God we will fight, English fance, who always exclaimed. be it one year or fifty, till we win or die. Ch, Frits whereupon the man jumped

disappeared not a I recently the pharmonic Hall, What is for an Englishman which was an almost certain development, neither more nor lose than this hit Fourteenth and the world-conquering suddenly and reproachfully would make an entirely new demand on Germany fall or not? If only craze of Napoleon, just so surely endil Frits by a charming strane

that, We hegar by tinging a vast quantity of the many cannot assert herself us a world shall we shatter the criminal aggression professor up to the lafe Governor-General finest human capital of the world into the Power against England unless she base of the haisee

This is not an opinion in England; Now and again we received word of firing line our clearest brains, the most her position is is England on night." perfect examp

of our race, the young

it is a religion. This faith to me is as the goveness who was known to have, U have been expected lo

deep as life, and I think I can speak for box full of bombs, Mixed up with ne auen who carry on our species to a higher develop entled upon. In the light of the human aur people. I feel deeply. I write of these yarns came the prende informa- ment. Hence the waste (but for the high

enll of wife and children this seemed to strongly. Therefore I am in no mood to tion that a dying German, grateful to his This English nurse, had, before breathing his motive prompting the sacrifice) of the be, and was a very proper and reasonsplit words with smart critics. best types of manhood, which is the conable limitation of the call of the State, thing is not a lawyer's argument. It is inst,

nevertheless a cause of shocking a life and death struggle for humanity's after but it was sequence of all warfare, bas never been

man-power, and even progress. more grievous, and perhaps more waste of valuable

bomb stories hardship If the horrible and

Right is right and wrong is wrong, Was the

inhuman beginning of the war, too, and ing for the protection of the nation the

It was noi England who burned and side of the river. The charwoman had the assistant mistress, who told it down to this day, in counting the man-

until, steadfastly fixed on

kept bygget best to the national welfare, the tests and damn the details. Anyhow, don't to the mistress, and so forth, of the nation, we kept our eyes best to the national Welfare, the terrible butchered: Belgium. Stick fast to facts told the housekeeper and the housekeeper embellished, it reached Scotland Yard necessities that we gave little or no fact in clear that the marriage, test is

However, I can say that in many instances thought to its moral duties. War almost valueless. requires physical strength, and as

the public highest physical strength belongs to the period of youth, we decided, not for the

WASTE OF THE BEST TYPES,

of destiny

At the beginning of the war, too, ANGLATnd in the said At Just as surely and relentlessly as we into a taxi and

consequent warfare of mechanical farca

of Belgium.

East.

Tom Beware of the tubes

From one person to another that one of the governess ebar had emanated from a char

than during the present of bittiness of war is that of sect it was not England who started this war. Women me board school on the south

our young men suming that it is

fight

HIN MAGNANIMITY...

EACH TO HIS PLACE. talk here about the useful information has been received from

Levi

side it has hardly a word to say national as for man-power this to the causes of the war may be one

too, looked like a reason24}} but, senoy, organisation, and unconquerable enemy knows that every available man

it

our

18

our error from those first days in which I ventured to remonstrate to the effec qui perennial question as to what

19

The common Again as the true character of modern

invincible night of Germany, as time in the history of the world, that warfore became apparent to the nation, expresses intense admiration for the It must be taken into consideration les we went on to say that it was the duty dented by the maintenance of her com that in the early stages of the war men should our battles w

The man fit for work and not already pect this decision (as In its physical sped out justly) is en sndustry that was essential quests, combined with wonder at the espionage in England might have been troops, how many, their quality, the probably beyond question, bat on its his active of the nation to suborm of menet, prog readiness to grant extremely valuable, it stegesstul.

Bay his activities in an organised form of peace, Even a pro-Entente Socialist said chemy wants to know the movements of an organised for he to ms to day: Whatever one's views as tons of guns, and so forth. But when for self. The Wars of the world usually greasing

must admiro Germany's wondrous eff the war has been on for three years the comes out of the evils of the

past. They

Therefore, he prob at the

firing line the fruits of error want are

wants to obtain the information of forethought, gross injustice, wicked first formulated, we ought to have seen strongih.

from behind the front. Of course, avurice and cruel tyranny on the part of

generations

who are now exercising we were told that to win the victory that that admiration was scarcely the sort of the rights of government, or the gener was neccesary to our safety, the barrister feeling which should be inspired by

exercised them.was tions who have

must be prepared to work side by side thoroughness in the preparation for the Navy is doing. But military espion-

importance. In strict justice

People

who make s But that is with the navy. The

The most sincere de crime. I suggested disgust or horror age in England has greatly dwindled in

the reasonably rebelled more suited to the requirements of mischief should mend it.

mocracy might have not the way of nations when they go to again at that egregions dictum. And it case. My friend smiled that superior, America is at the stage when this

did. Bilently, without stir

the nation cynical, irritating smile which neutrale military espionage is extremely valuable. war. Thus the young men, by reason of

a country newly their strength, must pay for the old men's killed the scheme for national service on reserve for oarnest expressions of belief There is the vexed question of censorship.

and

one, in Germany's undivided responsibility for Postal censorship for a the only moral justification we have

No wonder, Hardly anything

to natural law is the Englishman's view important step against espionage. In the palpably in

beginning of the war information was standing by while they do so is to he found in the thought that they are of the could have op We have only I hotly rotorted that it was the view

of letters by passengers as the carrying same time rectifying the blunders of to think but the long processes of selection of the man who had not in the chaos of ys sent by post or telegraph as soon ter and (daptation, wherchy each and all of the was fost consciousness of the differ was prohibited. It is possible to circum us through the years of peace, generationeues between right and wrong. My friend vent ciphore Because, though you can stop after generation, are fitted to the various smiled again indulgently and, placidly all the cipher which does not make sense, niches we fill, so that, notwithstanding all ignoring the challenge proceeded there are always the trade and business

Anyhow, it is evident you cannot beataetters that can be used to any-g the accidents and errors that come of

Ger- of education, mie Germany. Why not make

epies. inequality

sardine tin and a battle cruiser doing the work we are best suited

Uxts and send an order for groceries, and, a thousand in centrated on one task different activities, we should not have and nerve-and then reflect on the will

unless the police can show that the person

unemployed an

immense mass of man- and crude design of violently changing

receiving the order is a piano tuner, or all this in a month, a week, a day, et

something equally remote from the gro Asked about the fascinating German also have been should

errors, or at least their misfortunes, such lines by leaving it alone. more the war, and lightly answered, Ah, that entering the war 16, perhaps, the most

for

past and securing for themselves a belter future, fa

THE ENTIRE NATION AT WAR.

If it had been recognized earlier that war is not now merely a struggle

a great

been

of soldiers on the battlefield, but then and misfortune, we are, many is evidently willing anni universal effort of the entire nation, con a--by muscle and hand and voice

to

It is inconceivably maddening that a man professing sympathy with our cande, admitting the cunning with which the attack was prepared, and recognising the which an inoffensive, helpless little

-extent

You have only to call a techn

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Bring

THE LESSON TO BE LEARNT

but on

that

sort

which

concerning military

the nauseous spectacle of vast numbers power, to see why National Service failed neutral country was butchered for a blonds, spying for her country, always

of life vigor their blatant-voice on the platform, in and richy deserved to fail. To have made military Necesity" should yet be able to imitate a French manner of speake

it compulsory as its first basis would have the Press and in Parliament, for the sole been create chaos, and perhaps even pra-bviously persuaded that we share the tip English, and so forth, Mr. Thomas

preload-guiltiness for declining the enemy' said, bluntly purpose of reviling with every note of voke revolution.

politic readiness to talk" nence now that Women spies on the enemy side have slander the young men who have not

his monstrous plot has failed. We are rushed forward to protect then, T

France the German women contrived to shall never ask another man to do what If, at the beginning, we had conscript long last ready and the tide of victory been utterly unsuccessful in this war. In I cannot do mycelf," said Lord Roseberyes the entire manhood and womanhood bas tarned. But the neutral mind is built give themselves away and in England they by their ignorance the early days of the war. Many who of the nation for the nation's need, and just that way, even are no longer young have felt like that then proceeded to call upon it, not on inclines to our aide, and it is evident were handicap matters and technical And

the

past three years of war have the arbitrary and artificial ground of everywhere that the astute untiring

on German propagandiste unceasingly man names. They didn't know the difference between a battleship, a destroyer, and a furnished no facts more disgusting to birth and marriage celicet ex per pulate that eccentric link through their some of us (amidst scenes of spontaneous the natural ground of

division, and a battalion a division sacrifice on the part of the young manence and adaptability, we should have faithful Press.✨ hood of the Empire, which as we are not avoided one-half the hardships, the in A shining example of this is an article ashamed to say, have again and again equalities and the injustices of the past in the Swedish Daily Paper (Svenska brought the tears to our eyes) than three years, and all the same employed, Dagbladet) which blandly informs its his effort to make use of the lower-class selfial waste of man power among young in their proper channels of sctivity; readers that Germany only declines to Belgians. They are, of course printed men who, perfectly at for national servast number of persons who have been surrender Belgium because it holds it as with a story of their escape; they have

their a pawn in the game, even as England nothing for the State while vice, have done nothing but carry

immense sums of money, kept down ence between right and wrong has again in our the cost of the campaiga, made profiteer missed this neutrals botice, or perhaps is theory of manpower, our mistakes in ing practically impossible, and prevented not considered useful practice have been many and serious We the development of the present scandalon The real meaning and purpose of his began b

by saying in, effect that is man condition of people growing boundlessly case peep out in another sentence which Out of the numerous untionalities

ages that lie between was of any of t

shamelessly And

concedes with the characteristics of cagaged in espionage. I should say that

eat well, sleep

their private busis mouths.

soft,

and ight

As a consequence of these e

cruiser. They would call & platoon a

The German has been persistent

done more than their share, holds the German colonies the differ and a thousand thing the vera is

Sou of the wa

disturbing

and

braved the electric wires around Belgium, generally over-coloured, and iter a little questionuig Chey break down. When a story is lurid and melodramatic it's time toclock it up

18 and 41 if only proper place was my Not inexorable laws of neutral detachment that Belgium n the sitplent and eamest to detect is the

to

field. In the hight of

powor

this was blunderly

aharacters

1

tion of the

ance

and e

next the Belgian . The rable, German

any German has his story pat and a long The as he's allowed to keep to the lines he

but m fans as smoothly as a tram car you get him on to the side track and ask him about his school life, the name of has schoolmaster, a description of his ch home in America, he breaks down, and once having broken down, he owns up and tells the truth.namon injured and chat a

This is fake example of

is a fair of wha

Work

independence after the war is ing them and work. nature, but by observing is the man is not unwilling to meet this

but, afrily continues the editor. them ing in obedience to the national interest in the man power of a nation to be turned to the obtains guarantees. power walled and in the man best account at a time of national

eria we know what for union is how before young man may be better employed in whomsoever it may fail to at this the forge, or the factory, or even tho to gather up and co-ordinate, our remain. office, than in the trenches. All depends

resistance of our enemies on the young man, his capacity and the ing man-power for our bual fort to over national necessities. To make she text. The task in a great and timente one

come

It conveys the false impression

сарк

does not tell

any gererons stipulation for meaty The Bethmann of age (a reasonable test in general) the is also task of immense necessitron hold fag Bnal and absolute arbiter was a crude character of the peace depends upon it wasteful, inhumab, and stapld error In All the world wants peace for all the and

it has never been

world is bleeding to death from

inds.

But

there is this different went on to Fa

between the peace our enemies Want modification of the crudity

the peace we want and test, that if a mad within the nges were unmarried, he ofght to the front before the married man was

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