MR FISHER ON EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS,
AS ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS. Spaking at the Conference of Teachers and locial Workers, in London, on Jan. 2nd, Mr. H. 4, L. Fisher, President of the Bard of Education, said he noticed that he main object of the Teachers Christian Union, which proscented the Conference was practical. They were concered with the pressing social prob lems of the moment and in all conscience we had a sufliciency of such problems Education, to upon our hands now. assign the primary place, housing, the rolations of Labour and Capital, public health, agricultural reform, the sphere of the State in industry and commerce, and the establishment at the right time of a permanent agency for the preservation of European peace-all these were proble, demanding consideration. In the Middle Ages the University was an inter- national institution, and although that was not so in modern times it was never the war there was a certain revival of this wholesome inter communion. Stud- enta from our Universities used to cross the Channel and sit at the feet of famous French or German Professors, while an increasing number of foreigners flocked is incieet: Universities to complete their academic training. There were, of course, dangers incidental to this habit of student vagabondage to set against its obvious delights and advantages, but he had no doubt that the proft outweighed the loss, and that Cecil Rhodes was right in fuinking that communities, widely sundered from one another by sprice and often apt to misunderstand one another
THE RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH TH 1918.
PEACE MANŒUVRES OF THE CENTRAL EMPIRES. ITALIAN PREMIER
DENUNCIATION.
Speaking in the Senate at Rome, recently, Signor Orlando the Prime Minister, said that Italy meant to con tinuo a policy of perfect and unshakable fidelity to her engagements, and to help in the formation of a single will directed towards the co-ordination of all the means of the Allies for victory.
GERMAN ASCENDANCY IN PETROGRAD,
PLANS FOR ECONOMIC CONQUEST PRISONERS OF WAR A8 AGENTS. FROM THE MORNING: POST's and CORRESPONDENT.] G
BRITISH WAR PRISONERS. SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY
Lord Newton and General Sir Henry Belfold returned to England in January on the conclusion of their mission ta Switzerland in order to negotiat, with Turkish delegates on prisoner questions, PETROGRAD, January let including exchange of prisoners and the Over two hundred members of the Dele inspection of camps, etc. Altogether the gations of Allied enemy States are now British mission was five weeks at Berne in residence in Petrograd Their Pre During their stay (Router's Agency sence, added to that of thousands of atates) advantage was taken to visit the fect freedom of movement, and of hun- conditions were entirely satisfactory, Prisoners of war who are enjoying per. British interned in Switzerland the dreds of business agents who have arrived and there is every reason to be grateful mainly from Germany on their own to the Swiss for the excellent arrange BREET LITOVSE PROPOSALE
count, given a certain tone to the former mente and the great help they are afford-
For BO Referring to the Brest Litovek negotia capital of the Russian Empire
many months past the streets have been ing to prisoners of all nationalities
The negotiations with the Turks have I think it is time to foil the manoeuvre filled by men who obviously belong to the proved to be more satisfactory than was tione, Signor Orlando said by which the Central Empires are ex proletariat, and who are somewhat anxi
ofceedings followed much the sum, lines as ploiting a means of keeping up the ous to display the pride of possession; expected. The discussions were conduct- and those at The Hague. The two main spirit of their peoples and of depressing and anyone of better appearance risked, ed in a conciliatory spirit, and the pro- day and especially of late, points,secured are the inspection of and corrupting the spirit of their adver- even in the best streets, at any time saries, by appearing as defenders of pesce violence. The proletariat and making out that the attitude of the all the means of street communication camp by the pratecting Legation Dutch Entente prevents peace. (Cheers.) The from the millionaire's most expensive and, an agreement with regard to the Lentente wants peace; it is only the mater to the bumble beamcar. Shabbiness exchange of Turkish and British pris- Entente that wants it, for it wants it in for the majority of decent Russians we oners, the majority of the latter being the only possible form, namely, a just a necessary defence, and only foreign Indiana. The Turkish delegates had no residents precise knowledge of the number of clear and loyal agreements (Cheers.) added cheerfulness to The Central Empires are employing a strange method of asking the Entente to intervene in the relations between the Central Empires and a Government not recognised by the Entente, for it is only a Government de juete until the meeting of the Constituent Assembly, and it is not recognised by large parts of Russia, The Bolshevik Commissioner felt him self justified in saying that two points, nunc (1) the integrity of States which have lost their independence owing to the war, and (2) withdrawal from invaded territory and renunciation of annexa tions, bad been accepted. We shall see
theless the fact that in the decades before honourable, lasting peace, by means of officers and the few remeral street British prisoners, but estimate it at
scene.
through ignorance, might be brought to that he is wrong. But it is certain that Rararians and Tunke ords are Ger. undor a low schedule of disability by a
an easier and more charitable com munion through a plan under which vigorous young men in the impressionable and generous period of their early man hood might be brought together under a common neademic influence. He believed that after the war such interchange of students and teachers would become more frequent and fruitful than ever before. A long time muat necessarily elapse be fore the relations with Germany were reconnected, for there was much that we could not, and indeed we thould not. forget, but between England and her Alls in this war there should be the will to academic union corresponding to the political and military alliance.
POPULAR 31STRUST OF EDUCATION... Nohody yet had ever made education average Englishman it was a sufficient disparagement that the schools were par Lially nanced from the rates. But even ii education were not so largely associated
Signor Orlando pointed out that each a return to the status quo would not be guaranteed, as Germany's acceptance of posals constituted a trap which must be revealed to the peoples in order that it might be understood He continued: by the whole world.
The Central Empires declare that they do not mean to take away political in dependence from invaded peoples. De not the words political independence
mans
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portunities for education for the children justifies every doubt as to the possible willing to share the same root with the there of war: if I am not mistaken,
10,000-probably an outside figure-while The agreement which has been drawn But now there are plenty of sahibe" we held about 50,000 Turks as prisoners,
DAIRY FARM NEWS. to be seen about the streets of Petrograd and they are stared at with respectful up in French has still to be ratifed. It The is expected that the British Government curiosity by the Russian proletariat. German accent is heard everywhere In will agree to immediate ratification, and SAUSAGES! dead, the best way to secure a quick call there is every reason to belevation, and on the telephones of Petrograd to-day is Turks will hat delay matters. There to use the German language. If it is
of one thousand British invalid prison- understood the reply is very prompt; if will be an immediate priminary exchange it is not it ensures attention for a sub sequent call in the language of what once ers for 1,500 invalid Turks. This gives was Russia. These criemy delegations are proportion of one and a half to one, 8th The After thie preliminary exchange there ostensibly hers in connection with the while the strict proportion, according to stand adjourned till
only a few will be an examination of prisoners- petce negotiations at Brest Litovsk, which the estimated totals, would be five to une.
the third point, regarding the regime of units of the total. The people in subjection to States to which from either Berlin their national conscience does not wish to is their ostensible object, but war show silegiance, was not accepted by the interests will certainly not be overlooked Austrians and Germans, who replied that Neither peace nor war, however, accounts questions such as those of our national for the presence of these Germans aspirations and of Alsace Lorraine ought Petrograd. In reality they are the ad not to be treated from the international vance guard of enemy commeres and in point of view, but from the interior point dustry of view, de regards cach country. That ENEMY FOONOMIC PRESSURE is vicious word trickery. It would have Rusia has given the Germans a walk- been more simple to reply frankly "No," over in the matter of the war. The Gor it probable that Germany wants back That means a return to the status quo, mans at now sccaring for the long the bulk of her prisoners from Russia REGULAR which would be the gravest historical future an easy walk-over in the more Her officers and non-commissioned offi crime as so vast an upheaval of humanity lasting and deadly conquests of economic sers she will get in any case, and con- than defeat in arms, and keeps home for months past. Both for Ger cannot be conceived as not having any pressure, which enslaves nations more siderable numbers of them have been at consequences. a women
madhouses, and graveyards many and Austria it is sounder policy these prisoners as the advance fuller than open warfare ever did. The to
to regard
They For freight and further parti- reception accorded the Germans by the guard of commercial conquest.
Sin
camps, but have lived with and among onlars please apply to- Bolsheviks has earned for
They have
spread popular among the masses. For the the first two points of the Bolshevik pro Press the epithet of "German toads have not been confued in internment
Quite a number of incidents are re the Russian people.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. ported concerning the installation of the over vast expanses of country and every- drbita in residence here where have easily proved to their hosts
and
all set aside for as being.
them, hotel
themselves their superionty in
Arid. fac of life. what
whether in the
Tel. 215. Sub. Ex 23. was once German within a stone's throw of with this form of levy, there was a deep..
industrial, commercial, and The agricultural, food deficient in
and rooted suspicion in the working-clas
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was tory, office, or orchestra, that is, in the
conveniences. mind that the process had been invented
know of cases of enemy prisoners in in the interest of the employer, and that
Germans complained. Two other hotels, even in the artistic phases of human life. it more education was provided it would conceal some hidden reservation 28 ro- the Hotel d'Angleterre and the Grand these walks of life who are doing well only be that more shillings might pass gards some other form of independence, wort as This necessitated the re- and better than they ever did at home, to into the pockets of the "boss." It was as, for example, economic independence, mandeered, true that the leaders of the working and why is no mention mide of the in moval among others of a number of and who are more than contented little comment at Trade Union meetinga tegrity of States? The phrase "inde French officers. Several English resi- remain as conquerors in the warfare of
protest and also because they were an-
purpose of their presence here in class movement advocated enlarged op- pendences of peoples is ambiguous and dents at one of these hotels also left as a peace in the land which they entered as
delegates.
When the Germans thousands is unofficially to organise and chemy reticence of the Central Empires. Again,
is again when they say that they do not want finally settled down they occupied the plan a campaign for this coming war
principal hotels of violent annexations of any territory they bost suites of the four gathered leave, it understood that they Lopire prin ipad del resping and vanises of fexeight and which in the war have workmen who were constantly on watch long prepartsion
enabled
to remain unconquered to annexations which are not violent? When can an annexation be described as asking whether it was intended to regard
which, when peace comes again, will be not violent? It will depend on the forms them as
the Germans enjoy
of of adhesion torn from peoples under the was removed, rf hour. The Guard against the civilised world for years, and of movement
ent with Russians found too late to have given her one
two things:
either that aggrandissement yoke of invasion, and, moreover in a
in the world which result nore general way perhaps, a violent an
also and prestige Arc nexation when it has been consecrated in The Russian an international treaty might not be cou back from Brest Litovsk, and meetings from successful warfare or else a com
which the sidered an annexation, ostensibly about prace terms are taking mending situation for the resumption of
for The formula of the Central Empires place. But every day brings news
ant date. THE ALLIES, claim of the dist struggle for world hegemony at no still further invalidates the
the distant, dandre justifies every doubt. We are far from Jow lenders of Smojny to speak on behalf
It is being qu
quits fredly said and writ accepting the programme, but it is at of Russia. Indeed, the
on: appearance, at Brest Litovsk has without Russin. But that is not the shown the enemy
them what tish Empire, challenged and attacked give
ના ના . the hypothesis that once again we have to continue
and Belgium in the industrious Germans. The world and ope. I do not believe that witnessed for 2 months the strength of
Slov
(in the combination of Teutonic, But perce but with a form of crafty offensive, west of Europe. tae British
ritish Colonies on the map.
small proportion), and Eusculmanna the real object must initia
・of the other ideas, other counsels From Trade the aim of which is to disintegrate and peace, unless it can be developed into the com
What will be the strength Union quarters como the advice that the poison, the combatant Rated thing if it oral peto Petrograd. tiny citizen should be instructed in the Peace is a great and sacred thing if it German visit to
pared mysteries of industrial history, of strikes can be reconciled with the honour and come some day, of course, and what the of that combination, already being pre- by Germany which the man-power to prepare
of and lock-outs, sliding scales and pisce safety of the world. Millions of lives Germans are doing here is
added to the agricultural wealth, rate arithmetic, so that he might be have been sacrificed for that, and we betimes for an overwhelming industrial of the hundred and fifty milions equipped
the role of a labour lendes: rebut the insinuation that the Entente and commercial invasion of helpless Rue: nexhaustible under proper management, Lot Russia, and Hussia' vast mineral On a grander sealo, it was assumed that does not want peace The Entente, how sin. It is to this point that the diploma
stores.
as yet only vaguely explored, come since it was clearly our province to turn ever, cannot want a peace which gives tie attention of the Allies should now ba
exclusively out good citizens from the educational rothing and makes believe everything turned
.once more 15 a little earoful attention to the To speak of such a peace is all the more ROLE OF PRISONERS OF WAR, under the organising hands of the Ger Russia, matter of fact resized to what Allied dialomsey ought to con repugnant because it turns so noble and of outpat. One expert advised a so lofty an aspiration of humanity to the be a fighting factor in thromulgatip of tend for is not the comparatively im material question of the prisoners of war course of lunch another
ends of trickery (Cheere.) Out of the Army Order No. 213 turned the Russian profound respect which we feel for the idea of peace we protest against an soldiery into one vast rowdy election in Russia, the best of whom, in a patriotic meeting. The only weapons effectively use, have already gone back home. If tempt to make of it a crafty means of used since that date in Russia have been diplomacy is to help and not to hinder
those of "
activity with face saving protests, play of Bags on commemoration occar. (Loud and prolonged cheers.):
eloquen com casting demagogic in this war its duty is not to follow behind not steel. If what but to look boldly forward to the difficult and to secure a strategic fighting the enemy was concerned, be now
"deadly struggle or not, the situa
will inevitably come when peace
of their followers; that far-reaching re- solutions were passed with the comment at Trade Union meetings, and that select over their beer in public-houses, had been found to listen with exceptional patience and some wonder to expositions of the clauses of the Istest Education Bill. Bat very few of the rank and file had the faintest perception children might do for of education as a thing worthy of ande for itself, spart from the material consequences which it might bring in its tori Indifference, then, was one dan ger spirits to exploit education for specifie
of
what
or,
tired closes. There was not a re
Pence
of
peace
at Bath or Cheltenhami who any rate clear that it excludes all an the invitation of the Germans, of the ten in England. We can do very well had not formed his conception of the brod hexations. All these doubts and these Traine
be supplied to the formulas which entirely exclude the just who should be citizens
of
public elementary schools of the Empire claims of the Entente and admit the comde with Petrovgrad will no peace question at all. It is whether the Bri to salute, with a sound, quick plote predominance of the enemy justify they want from Russia to enable them to to-day, will long feel secure against Rus
smart, strapping young
ledge
Navy League literature, and able to place deal not with a sincere aspiration for France their struggle against sia in the hands of
would evitably secure
con the views
the
her some cinema of the British Empire, a a third
text-book of Imperial history, a
substitution of British for
the
gymnastics, a fifth the more plentiful
sions. It was a mistake to be too specific.
We must rid ourselves of the particular
ава
ever since
has actually exigis in fact, so far as for that
end if we were to do any good in educa: able and tenacious an opponent But the emulated on paperanged. And it
the
has
same point and with the same momentume might safely predict that slipsaremacy is credited with having sure test Taw weeks the long expected
the German tree would never flourish on GERMANY AND MATERIALISM English soil, In
not the business the English view it
and
Russin comes to
Can
tion. He did not deny that it was posayatem was clearly open to one grave oba sible to put a stamp upon a generation action. It was blighting to the spirit tion really remains unchanged. be the powerful impress of an educational of English liberty, and for this reason is only facts which count in war, some day succeeds to war. Unless within machine incessantly descending Poli the
the main point by conceding to change takes. the right to make a separate peace,
We ende
endeavouring save its face by 213 and commerce, shall The Germans appeared to have done education to manufacture one of if nothing less will content her, and is is to insist that the future of Rhasis something of the kind. Their education were content to leave that branch of that the questi diplomacy, wu he be an essential tam of such intr was, indeed, not what was portrayed to trunk to the German Emperor and to the lateneng a hostila act to the war has made necessary fot
But it
ed a largo place to the study of RNA, FOTEN antiquity than was accorded in England AR15
and dominated by the criticism
theory
it was political, and governed by a for
and universal
public
to
of the return of
her senses agst the Allies
Ber
her agriculture, mineral
German
and ress rangermenta as time Allies arrangements
the whole be by lusty orators in the House of Peers Central Labour College. What we could
This is the diplomacy of the piping days and the House of Larmen It was not and should do was to the
to give to young
when saving one a
hich face is often civilised world.
there is one feeling undenominational
the wealth and of peace but irreligious, 02
Very people some impression
enough satisfaction for the moment. the reverse. Nor was it conspicu splendour of the spiritual
quite inheritance
dubitation. mazement and con- materialistic, sceptg that it
which belonged to them as members of Bat when all things necessary to one's almost universal in Buesis it is that of
that the Allies
seem not should to train them to acquire very existence are once brought to the final arbitrament of war the saving-face. weigh evidencestosterond
to think formos
to care to understand the real position stly, temperately and and
diplomacy of macy fathar tend to reveal
at Enalgnd, frst and fore should seek served by an Ar wisely, and to
trost faculties of self and develop weakness than to conceal zbere, and is become the future thero show for the pipende, philosopher, and friend of Buse
too strength which it is not convenient to was too obligation
out of which
atter of very large pra and should by want of foresight and of auch humour in service Such Bystem
the er
rman and a much larger Torarice of Hussian peychology once Command in framed in the Spartan mould our young people were made to permit As
the grosser forme
direct political portion
ion of, the AUSTIER and other more allow the Germans by war
peace what they failed to gain will only return to their Gomany may yet be beaten come day in was appahle of producing lification to succeed among us. But it propo
always well to be secure, and for this, w
Own Eghting fronte under compulsion the field by Eumis's
Germany great feats of social coherstice in unes song other reasons it might be the They are sahibe in Buskis, and 600 stands to gen almo of patriotic etrees. We must not under.
Dounted
advantage. that the fear we bolestively and individually to |--- rate its virtues because it did not convert Minister of acation in this country a savage into a saint, for it was those was deprived of spending their lives hora much more proportion of the fruits of
couraged by the misinformed virtues which made Germany so formid was unable to remove the humbless teacher ftably than by returning homa. Nor is to the temporary folly
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