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ALSACE LORRAINE. MORE THAN A QUESTION OF POLITICS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16ru, 1918

WAR TRAGEDIES AND COMEDIES.

The novelist and the dramatist on the lookout for tragi-comedy have arready found a rich mine in the great-war, says the vening News,

THE REAL PROBLEM?

Alsace Lorraine is more than a question of politics and sentirent, though it is that first of all. It is also a many-sided problem of international and competitive industry. Here I can do little more than summarise the jasuca in broad cutline

should be understood by the British to come into fashion,

SERIOUS FIRE AT MASONIC HALL.

DAMAGE BY FLAMES AND

WATER

CANTON NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOS,

BAN TO”1

CANTON, January 18th.

A serious fire broke out on January THE PARLIAMENT AT NANKING

We are informed from a reliable source

Unparalleled, in every sense, the warth in the godown on the top floor of is without precedent in the number of its the Masonic Hall, No. 30 the Bund, that Li-stun, the Tuchon of Kiang-31, cases of resurrection. Recalled to life," Shanghai. The fire is thought to have will request all the important members. anys Jeremiah Crunchor in "A Tale of been caused by a defect in the heating of the North and South to convene the Two Cities, you'd be in a blazing bad plant in the godown on the top floor former Parliament i Nanking.

This It is of the first importance that theyway, Jerry, if recalled to life was adjoining the kitchen. From the heating proposal is strongly approved by many

plant the are rapidly spread to the lath | high military and political leaders, p

people, as well as in Whitehall (writes Mr. Sydney Broca in the Daily

Chronicle),

When Moltke in 1871 insisted upon, and Bismarck against his bitter judgment assented to the annexation of Alsace- Lorraine, the main thought in their minds was that of securing & strategic frontier. Tacy secured, though they did not know it at the time, something far more valu able than that, something that has proved the base on which Germany has built up her towering fabric of prosperity and power, something without which Germany could not have begun this war, or could not have waged it for six months

the

General Lung Chai-kwong, on asim-

to the

Well, the great war has brought it very in the roof of the godown and also it is said that Li-shun will be appointed much into fashion, and a good many followed the stovepipe to the kitchen and Vice-President after the Parliament is people have been much disturbed in likewise spread to the servants" quar- convened. consequence. But apart from the almost ters. Owing to the difficulty in trans- GENERAL LUNG, unthinkable joy of reunion in most ters. Owing to the difficulty in tran

made quick progress and before it could instances and the awkward situation be controlled had broken through the ing office as Inspector Commissioner of

and the awkwar developed in others by the reappearance ceiling of the main hall, or temple the two-Kwangs in King Chow, has re- of the dead, there have been many immediately rushed to the building, and appointed every official in the place. Masons, who had learned of the fire instances in which the comic side of the with the help of a number of citizens, We learn that a number of magistr story has been uppermost throughout and carried out valuable papers, books, furni and lenders, who were recently dismis.ed the not least piquant feature the conflict between official reliance on its record and in the gedows on

tuzo etc. The greatest

age was done. Tommy's assurance of his own existence is used as a storeroom. Valuable papers, ton to report the matter.

Hoor, which by General Lung, have returned to Can- There was the soldier, for example, in manuscripts and the

L'ò quantity of furniture They secured the largest deposit of iron Carly days of 1, who would keep were stored there. All the charters

General Lung, referring at the War Office to draw his back vro in Europe, and the second largest in pay, who stubbornly refused to admit that mere saved, although many of the papers Tuchun's statement about the bombard the world. The soil of the lost provinces he was dead, though there was the

in the

and the furniture were ment of the city that Lung's supporters proof hopelessly damaged. Many of the has made Germany's fortune. She has in black

and

blue, Bo to speak, before his Bibles and books donated by members caused the disturbance, has sent a tele durived from it her metallurgical ascende

years

age, and which cannot be replaced, gram explaining that ho (Lung) is ces- official attitude quite naturally, anoy, the motive power for her industry was that of the Lord High Executione: sorry sight. The fire had broken a hole ponsible for the peave and good order

were destragod her wealth, and, as a consequence, her in The Mikado. If we say you're of some 12 by 3 ft. through the ceiling of the two proviners, and would never

The big hall was ab

dead, you're as good as dead practically and the fresco work had fallen a blazing f you are dead." But Tommy with char mass into a pool of water on the floor descend to such insignificant act is to acteristic buoyancy has usually refused to There were other holes in

c

the accept this infallible declaration caused by the brigade, who had

order his men to disturb the state Ho goapél

would only send troops to inspect In the case, however, of t has not been able to get back to "Blighty": fact it came dowa like a waterfall in

them to allow the water to however, of the soldier who it was water, water every where In various places and secure real ultimately in a German camp as Frises refreshment toom of the club premises 20,000 strong, and would be enough for ors to his comrades, except, perhaps. many portions of the building. This added that the troops he had sent the proof that he is still alive in face

the billiard root and the to Lui-chow and Yeung-kong are over

naval, military and political power

be irea covered by this deposit om brakes the Longwy and briey districts in France, now occupied by the German armies, and portions of German Lorraine, of Luxemburg, and of Belginnt, also, for the moment, an German possession. If her present military position, the whole Germany could secure a peace based on of this wealth of iron ore, estimated at some 5,000,000,000 tns, would pass cider her control

MINERAL WEALTH OF LORRAF There are reckoned to b 2,800 tons of iron ore in all Germany. Lorraine along is responsible

of the official announcement of his death were all seriously damaged by water.

man

2,000 millions, or five seventhis oftem's a case in point a case within cripts which were destroyed in the

peace.

is not so easy to find, and meanwhile The big organ, which is built in the wall protection. If the military power in there are no end of bewildering, distressin

in tho

of the main hall, was Canton is insufficient, he may send ion, or

or amusing complications

badly damaged, and it will

cost no small A sound maxim to rely on in thess from the damage done to the building strengthen it.

A BOUND BAKIM

sum to restore the instrument Apart fow regiments thither t once to eases is this: Never believe that and furniture, an irretrievable loss has MOVEMENT OF NORTHERN SQUADRON.

dead been suffered in the old books and mande

The authoritics have received reports paraphernalia was saved. It is estimated

Practically all the lodge from Amoy stating that the Northern that fully The 10,000 would be the loss, Squadron, which left Anoy a few days. all of which is covered

The Masonic Hall, which is one of the

Insurance. ago, suddenly returned last night. Tho finest buildings ou

on the Bund, was only

gunboats are ashoring in Amoy waters, remodelled in 1910. was founded in Shanghai in 1859 and RETURNING THANKS,

The organization without any suspicious movements.

pire's total supply, When any Bypothecated the Lorraine beds yielding about 500,000 tons of or In 1913 they were yielding over as much. Up to 1993 German need to import from abroad a of ore Lorraine alone enabletter amintain for over thres dende przedented industrial expansion

Since the war Germany has tended almost entirely on the Lorraine miles for

fere the personal knowledge of the writer, The f father of a young officer, who was mes engaged in the big fight on the Somnte no last year, was told that his boy had been ton killed. The story was that the young to officer had been seen standing by his un machine-gun in a wood when suddenly, as grosappeared.

ound had opened and swal towed him, he

the iron and steel which are the basis of all modern warfare. She has some from the occupied districts of France, and

archivos.

Rons hrother oficers told the after an uphill fight in which they i

occupied various buildings in the city, secured the present property..

We learn that De Wu Ting-fong, and that his son's gun was surrounded by the Bocles, and they could only conclude

many of the local gentry have decided that he was killed. Another man said he

to invite the Tuchun, Civil-Governor, seen the Belgium and. Luxemburg, and some, The family went into mourning con ALLIES AND THEIR SHIPPING Admiral Ching Pik-kwong, and other from Sweden, but from three-fifths to vinced that they had no ground for hope. he young fellow lying doud. four-fifths of her output daring the war little while after the father came to In the House of Commons on November her to-morrow. Hearty thanks will bo

Tenders to tea in the Commercial Cham has come from Lorraine Without the London to consult a friend The two 21st Mr. Houston asked the Parlimen given to the thres officials named for from France, 46 years ago Germany would hotel and the

together in a well-known tary Secretary to the Shipping Control- long since have exhausted her capacity still urging the father not to take the Board had allocated to the service of time of confusion, thus saving the people for turning out the material of war. missing story as the last word, wher Liberate those provinces from her clutch-the page came through the room calling Tran

Italy some twenty-five stealers, and to

rance como

this, British steamers CIVIL GOVERNOR ENTERTAINS THE CONSULS. shouted the carrying or intended to carry, food to

production of the provinces she:gnatched men were send at the moment was ler whether the United States Shipping firmly securing peace and order as a

with their 2,000,000 tens of iron ore aout the numbers of certain rooms and not withstandenty steamers whether from disaster,

That's

year, their 3,300,000 tons of iron smelt carrying. logs, tháir 2,000,000 tons of steel smelt-boy. ings, and the use-ul coulbotes of the Sdrre eagerly, and in an instant he had rend France and Italy, whether many large tained on the 19th inst the various said the father this country wore being diverted to The Civil-Governor, Li Yew-hon. enter- valley and a long step has been taken the message. It was from the War Office, Brit

Rice, British steamers were employed towards binding her down to peace and informed him that his son was a ing American troops to in carry.

Glanco now at the French side of the prisoner in Germany, whether, with every me to and Consuls on the Shameen and many of

this

question:” In 1913 Alsace-Lorraine equalled) the whole French output it pig-iron and reduced by itself only one-third less steel than all the French steel works combined.

greater than on the German side. Why dress, sent out the customary cards, and afferent needs of the Allies, including i to give the matter his attention.:

who

Another

case an officer who had Allies to the utmost of our abilities, ana be foreign missionarios. The Governor

ARSIB Our made a war marriage had gone out early regard would neverthelers be given to the was requested by a missionary, The wife was practically told! by the food necessities of the United Kingdom has just come from Toi-shan district, And yet the reserves of iron ore on the forties that it was useless to make anySTAT Chiozza. Money, replied that the to send more troops to put an end to.

inquiries-there could be no answer to four

the parts of doubt that French side of the frontier are actually Accepting the worst she put on widow'sistance given by Great Britain was by day and night. The Governor agreed

her husband had been killed.

question in the affirmative. The tonnage the robberies which are occurring within then, with a large, supply of raw materials

decided after careful consideration of the vas France lagging behind Germany in

Great Britain.

Our the production of pig-iron and steel,

Allies were fully The reason is that France is badly off,

aware of the tonnage sacrifics mude by while Germany and Belgiums are well pro

Great Britain in the common cause

Mr. Houston-Is it # fact that we have vided with coking coal and that a very large proportion of the French ore was prisoner in

out, was already given over two

The Canton Intelligence Bureau states million tons of maces of Germany and of Belgium, much to his wife, who was much upset, of course, only requisitioned their own ships within various fronts in order the better to be smelted into pig-iron in the blast furner in Germany, and the news of the shipping to

got through to

to him. He wrote gentleman Aare e euch is the hou, that the Generalissimo of the Military that the French have Government (Sun Yat-sen) may visit the The the last few days, and have been using

received the condolences of her friends. Six months later an old friend enmo home the supposed widow got married, on leave, and before he went back he and

The teal CELT BITUATION

husband It turned

GENERALISSIMO: T VISIT THE FIGHTING.

TRONTS.

to the advantage of the iron industries at this strange turn oted their shins for commercial purposes, and able to direct the general campaign.

in both of these countries, but of doubtful dificulty of the situation was benefit to Trance

by the fact that the first husband's estate

were to annex the greater half of the

Wife

have

heen exploiting British shipping

Sir L Chiozze MoneyIt is perfectly COUNCIL OF THE SOUTH-WEST PROVINCES.

Suppose row Germany were to win and was of considerable value, while the true we bave been good Allica in this A council representing the indepen ferruginous basin that lies ou French soil the nest bridegroom that what has been done has been done, be held. Its meeting place, for the pre- no money in her own right, nor matter Does the hon member suggest tent South-Western provinces will soon

arise Fin

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE ORDERS ISSUED BY ME, F, C. JENEIN, D.B.P. (REBERVE).

Territorially it would be a very small

The complications that acquisition, Economically its value perhaps uncios so grave" that it is grudgingly hear, would be inestimable. It would mean need for

unnecessary to emphasize the

Houston-Why does the hon. sent, will be Canton. that after the war Germany would be sion of the

exceptional care in the circula- gentlement may

it had been able to raise some 40.000.000 tons of one case a married woman was notified

official

announcements. In done grudgingly? or a year, while the French output would of her husband's death. His will was reciprocity between the Allies in this Mr. Heggo Should there n not be some be reduced to a bare 4,000,000

proved and the estate administered The matterf Allied victory is as complete as we all in Flanders and was unable to communiprocity in all these matters.

Suppose, on the other hand, that the real facts were that the man was detained Sir L Chiozza Money There is reci- intend it shall be and that Alsace cate with his wife for some months. A Lorraine is restored to France. The Another man who was officially reported situation in that case would be alineat killed had gone out with a platoon, non THE WRECK OF THE "POOCHI." precisely reversed. France would be in of whom was heard of

of again. Afterwards a position to extract about 43,000,000 tons he turned out to be a of ore a year, and Germany would have to remain satisfied with a maximum yield

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AHM Police Court, Shanghai, coldiers who have gone on January 10th, Mr. C. W. King, on the strength of official Coroner, concluded his in- INDUSTRIAL PRIMACY OF EUROPE found in every part of the Kingdom In Ing the death of Mr. Robert Knox, Even, however, when France has re some instances there have been memorial second engineer of the C. M. S. Puoch sumed her rightful ownership of the lost services for men who may yet be among between that vessel and the steamer Hsin- provinces, and in doing so has become the the victorious

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be aggravated and in a form that will had him buried" wrote the major ask for its right solution from both the the French and the British Governments, Bromwich, who artillery man of West was at the time alive and high degree of commercial diplomacy well, with others of his comrades who France before the war consumed some were killed at the same time, and aboro 62,000,000 tons of coal a year. Of these them we placed a wooden cross, she raised herself 41,000,000 tons and im And about the game time the man him ported, £1,000,000, about half of which self was writing, I am quite well. I came from Great Britain and the re am just being sent down to the base. ? mainder from Germany and Belgium B With the restitution of Alasce-Lorrains she will require at the least 40,000,000 tons s year extra Where is she to get it from Great Britain, or Gormary Wales and Northumberland or West phalia From her Ally, with whom DISPENSARY Building Refles Placentally advantageous bargain can be of the IMPERIAL MERCHANT SERVICE certainly use his supply of coal as her to do her own smelting, and that we

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