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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28cm. 1917,

ELOQUENT APPEAL OF AN PRESSURE ON SWITZERLAND

AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN ABRAHAM'S EXAMPLE OF DEVO

TION TO DUTY,

The following eloquent and patriotic nddress was delivered by Mr. D. W Motiti, Assistant Treasurer of Mears Cordon & Co., at Kansas City recently:

The world to-night is one great mili

A NEY CAMPAIGN.

MY WAR SPEECH

A MAN IN THE STREET'S DREAM A strange dream came to me lust might

as I fell asleep when reading some of our leader war speccher.

A new attempt on the part of Germany to combine the bullying or enjoling of with her peace Pro | Switzerland

I was off to a public hall to wako crop pagaada is indicated by a

which recently speech; I, who had never made a specch of inspired articles appeared simultaneously in the Geru my life. But it all seemed A B C and man Press. This outbreak is proba matter of routine. My secretaries (1 had two secretaries, i in my dream) pre- upan the one side or upon ably due to the increasingly confident pared the speech for me I simply gave the other of a line, clean eut and distinct attitude towards the Entente Powers them a few leading points and a few as the Gulf that separated Dives from which, with the growing distress in Ger Phrates that I had thought out.

Lazarus in the Master's vision, the nations of the earth are assembled together in the most titanic struggle the world has ever seen. The people who are

not arrayed upon either the one or the other side of this line, or who are not

and they concocted my speech, in typed Iran through the script a fow script times and memorised it. The motor car was waiting at the door and my secre Laries were buzzing round me before 1

trave got all

started.

many, has manifested itself in Switzer and during the the past year. Germany in afraid lest Switzerland may tend to gravitate in the direction of the Entente Hence, for example, the following at-

You'll find the heads of the speech tempt to cast suspicion on America and principal, secretary tea

The Badische Lamieszeitung are on slip of paper," said France.

my second

your

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think you need anticipate them. They'll better be off, sir, it's 7.30 take it like lambs. And now had

now you ha

my - support-

now preparing to array themselves upon foarns from Switzerland [sic] that secretary, rattler

We've hocked you up a one side or the other of this line, are whereas, as a result of the new coal agree

ment whereby, as a matter of fact, this time sir, said the principal secre really negligible, and as upon one side Switzerland gets or is supposed to get. tary. Quite a rouser. Just the stuff of the Gulf that divided Dires from only 200,000 tong a month instead of the that's wanted. A dash of sardonic Lazarus Dives lay surrounded by all that 255,000 tons of the former agreement], the humour at the expense of Potsdam to put

nothing

of makes Hell hideous, so upon one side of circumstances of Swiss trade with Ger the undience in a good mood, a sudden many may be called favourable," traffic drop into gravity (one too much, and with the Latente Powers becomes daily then a fine rousime is up our side,

course, to frighten

peroration triumph this dividing line of which I speak to might stand a people moved by motives, m re difficult.

in the long run,

don't look at the war urged by desires, fired by ambitions As is well-known, America with incredible - -

the war map, territory that have dragged them down to depths of severity joined in the blockade measures does not count, enemy desperate, scek- bestiality and rapine, murder and tright against the neutrals. Reports of, imminentng end

the inevit political advantage, mere

darkness before the dawn- faluces, devil conceived and bell horn, so toplete export prohibitions have, imleed.

an black that Hell itself, with all the es always been denied. But is not the Ameri- and all that sort of thing Yes-about

hour and balf perience that Hell has gathered in the can Customs supervision calculated to shake

since centuries that have passed.

our confidence? Already for some time pas lending French Swiss papers and Belzbub was thrown headlong over the tlements of Heaven, has not

de periodicals have been publishing protests

I drove off through the streets. Here been able to supply half the

against the establishment, apparently decid-

confidence self-assurance increas people; and as upon the other side Customs eardon against Switzerland, to the cd. I stepped, smiling blandly, on to mands upon it is the monstrated tipes and in execution, of a French and chord, I was recognised and cheered. amid a salvo Lazarus reposed in the busom of Abra injury of the treaty relations existing the platform of the big ham, surrounded by all that we have

tween Switzerland and France, But wind of applause. lech taught to believe, enters into the is the good of ich protests! The spirits

which enfoxpunt nik MY SENT erg on the platform They were m joys of paradise, beneath the constella: tion of stam that have been the guiding Now me the surprising confirmation unusual phalanx, but my dream didn't light of humanity through all the con turies on their upward and onward chinh from several sources of the fact that for a seem to bother about that. There were no

leaders **public toward the light and toward civilization long time past the Cussons supervision at other politicians that I could identify ne of any sort,. If you went founded upon purity and justice and the Swiss-French froutier has been conduct,uthoriti rightelesness, so we te-night are prouded by an American mission and carried on to believe that we stand shoulder to by an American personnel At present only at into a street and took the first fifty

supporters.

There were a number of Shoulder with people clothed with these the supervision of passenger traffic is people you met they would resemble my eternal principles which we believe have the hands of the French frontier guard. As ordinary men like myself, men in busines to what a light this fact [tie) throws on the clothes with bowler hats placet under the approval of Almighty God.

independence of the French officials and the their chairs; a cluster of working mach

Take my French State anyone can form his own judga hig sprinkling of women. mont Here we are only concerned with the

on the platform" supporters

of the typical mixture

and you can visualise them.

Then I looked at my great tier upon tier of them, rising to the roof. by no means a representative publje audience. The two front rows of the Tirists, front benchers, M.P.s by the score stalle were filled with politicians, pub Controllers, heads of Government de art ments and so they stretched backwards

wasn't right up to the gallery.

M man in the street

the big ton of fationing, while it may perhaps

stalls

alls, the smaller fry in the froles somewhat postpone their disappearance, will the little fry in the galleries. I thrilled when I realised that this was the swag. This amazing example of suppressio gorest audience that a public speaker the mere general public ceri and suggestio falsi ends with rever ference to the sufferings of the hotel in

There is <me difference between this Gulf which divided Dires and Lazarus, and this line between these contending hosts of which I speak tonight. That Gulf was fixed and unchangeable. :: Lu could not be bridged; Dives could not einig to Lazarus, neither could. Lazarus go to Dives. The line of which I speak to-right is as changeable and unstable, as feeting and angeitain, as a ray of suns shine shooting its way through a cloud of age that might be stopped by an in fant's hand or vishadowed by the wings

sequences to Switzerlantarising from this state of things. As a matter of fact, these conditions are calculated to fill every

Swiss with the greatest ansiely. To the great supervision of frontiers is now added the decision its finality has not hitherto been denied of the State Department at Washington ordering the stoppage of all port to the neutral countries of Europe: Switzerland gets thereby into an ever more difficult position. Supplies are alrendy very

of & butterfly. And oven to-night, and glort, and the somewhat Helated introduo audience were all "off angiot

if not to-night, then to-morrow; and if BUG= (U-morrow, then the day after to morrow, the mighty forces may be set in motion which will make it possible for one of the mighty contending hosts upon. bone side or the other of this dividing line to obliterate this line and destroy

in the

and crush into the dust the contending dustry, which

Switzerland knows will

want

those supporting

Host on the other side, and crush them completely tha they may never rise again, e

1 apprehend that it is the purpose of this meting here tonight to determine

after the return of normal conditions, gradually again become a great source of revenue, to the country. This is pure pravo propaganda, intended to encourage the belief that Switzerland would suffer if Germany were too badly beaten for

whether or not we shall have anything Garmans, to be able to come to Swiss myself driving thing, 1 80 and 11

to say about which of these great forces shall obliterate this line

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drank a glass of water cleared my throat in the regulation mannes-and started my speech and I had to soumes started it than I forgot all about my script-I dropped my notes I extem porized-1 let

found home to a startled. hotels where, as a matter of fact, they shocked, indignant audience, while I am sure you will forgive me if I have always been unpopular on account supporters of the platform got more and inject into what I have to say to-night of their habits. Of the other lies, that more enthusiastic and interrupted me

applause, ma with shattering the personal touch, a thing which is about the American embargo is the least usually considered inexcusable on an occlumsy, but, unfortunately for the in

I cannot remember all my sprech-yon know that broken memory of dreams casion of this character. My excuse for spired writer, Switzerland is not one of doing so is that I speak, although with the neutral countries aimed at by the

but I started by reminding my audienes that this was an unusual sort of meeting out authority for myself and a million American embargo, other fathers in this great country of ours.

and that positions were reversed. Those that always spank were

were for once to who are moved by the site sentiments,

public spoken to by a spokesman of the Whis are stirred by the same feeling

they always address. Those who always and who look upon this great... war

deal out advice and appeal were for once to hear it themselves, Those who always urge devotion and self-sacrifice were te it urged upon them. Those who for ever tell the public what to do were to be told what they have left undone them selves,

platform

cheers Whether the words that have to be here his is the fourth year of the war, said are pleasant or unpleasant to the I reminded my silent audience and hearer, whether they be of praise or of

throughout the war you have eloquently rebuke, courtsy and dignity can do no told us the public-what we must do, her rudences levity, and ill-temper you have ever imposed upon s can do no good. Remember, the same restrictions, were regulations, new hurdens and sacrificce You have ever urged upan rale holds when letters are written and

Avoid all forms of corruption, as new efforts, continued unity, and rew especially the subtle, There is no more self-denials Car

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AND MANILA the friendliness of persons possessing I great interests, perhaps for many months audience) You here sked us to support

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Bir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, has been giving good advice to his officials

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1 deny that timAnsty the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, promises of youth, brilliant, as they are and inhuman and murderous and pifi-side. I repudiate comforting fudge that All broker, chafed and damaged goods are to of Lading can be platitudes.

15 on our Hongkong before Uills of

countersigned with the wondrous light of south's mornless military autocracy the world has ever ing sun might turn to ashen gray longer. Ah, busincas men of America, I say

new victory of the enemy weakens his

bo left in the Godowns, where they will be strength, depresses his mural, and isa before, he reaches their goal to him they to you that unless we return to boomerang that recoils upon him,amined on SATURDAY, 24 De are just as real and far more entrancing our home and business with our hearts know no distinction between political All Cleine must be presented within a month then they would be if the fruits of fired and affams with the same spirit that advantages and military advantages of the Blennier amiral bare, after which they victory had been laid in his lap.

led the Christ to His Cross on Calvary, We the public. What are we going to do about it? Are there to lay down oven life itself, and that tired of the for whom I speak are cannot be recognized

even for, his enemies, the purpose of this are dead rhetoric, with Phistries ROYBR the Godowns and all Grads | wo going to stand with palsied hands and with hearts shrivelled with miser's fear, meeting has failed, bat, ah I know We want no more words we

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Der will be subject to our eyes glued upon the musty pages of speak with understanding, although I speaches-we went World Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. our ledgers, terrifice for fear a red figure speak without authority, when I say that action, from you. You have might appear upon the credit side of our to great petroleum industry of this can give of these from us, full measure, in the words stand ank deep in blood on the battle-ing the question of Uncle Sam not what of one of fields of France, steadfast and unafraid,

must we do but what can we da I know so many of your words have been. fo their eyes Exed upon the mighty ledger that I speak with venta. I say facts in the face as we the pool honie-go home and think it over Look Rawe, public who of God's account with human sacrifice although without authority, when I say are neither

the and human effort, where page after page that the great petroleum industry of this is being written erinmon red with the life mid-continent held stands dedicated from you think we are dare to look them in

the face And henceforth, when you make this moment and until the end of the war speeches, said before us not to tell us

smug

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Claims will be admitted after the Goods resining

Consigases are requested to sand in their

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· balance sheet, while these sens of ours, country stands at attention to-night, ask pressed, andil unfulfilled-ns immediately, and do

blood of these sans of ours, dipped from their very, bearh with an iron pen held in the mailed ist of the most horrible (Continued at foot of next Column,)

Solidre

A PACIFIC MAIL 8" (0.,

J. ORAM SHEPPARD Hongkeraz, 24th December, 1917,

Mr Acting Agent

And thun my dream ended just as the meeting broke up in confusion, my suo porters on the platform wildly cheering their cheers re echoed by owd out www.side

to the one great purpose of winning n want to do, but to tell us what you have victory out of this mighty baptism of done.

blood.

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