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GERMAN WAR PROFITS. WHAT NO ANNEXATIONS” MEANS,

M CHERADAME'S EXPOSURE.

THE

THE SERBIAN SOLDIER WHAT HE ENDURES AND DESERVES

[BY FLORA BANDES.[

HONGKONG · DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1918

THE ROAD TO INDIA AND BRITAIN'S PLANS HAMBURG TO BAGDAD POLICY.. The surrender of Jerusalem and the

and prestigo in the Middle East will have a chastening effect on the protagonists the remnants of the plucky Serbian of the Hamburg to Bagdad policy.

CAUSES OF PORTUGUESE

• REVOLUTION, ARMY DECIDER THE ISSUE

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M Amiré Chóradame, the ominont When I left the Front at tho. end of consequent strengthening of British power The following article gives an accom of his department's conduct of the war, Badar Albert, Hongkong

authority on Pan-Germanism, has just issued a popular pamphlet on "German War Profits and the German Formula, No Annosations, No Indemnities. We sum

analysis,

In three years, writes M. Cheradame, the domain of Prussian militarism has increased from an area of 610,000 square

November snow was already falling up in the mountains of Macedonia, where

number of adherents, men who recognised

at an early stage of the war that Ger

of the causes of the recent revolution in Portugal and an estimate of the character of the new leader, Major Sidonio Paes

LIBBON.

AMERICAN PREPARATIONS. WAR SECRETARY'S DEFENCE. M Baker, USA, the Secretary for War, replied in January to the criticism

mentioning that the United States now has an army of 1,500,000 men and equip Hat, S. C

Dow Hongkong Hot: 1 ment ready for all who can go overseas Jamieson, Grierek this year. America, he said now Mack, Georgo, size ready for active service.”

Syder, E..S. Yamour In answer to questions with respect to Warwish Montric'd

William

arite below the chief puints of his timely Army are still grimly, silently. Carrying It was a policy which attracted a vast FROM THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT AT has in France an army of “aubstantial inte

on. On those bare peaks the cold is now

The present revolution is the reply of delays in preparing for war Mr. Baker W. Cap. swept trenches the menure standing many was bound to suffer immeasurable the Army to that of May 14th. In the said The war was not on us it was intense, and in our shallow, rocky, wind koe-deep in snow, and even when they losses in her oversen trade, and by the main the two forces which measured their in Europe The department went along kilometres inhabited by 35,000,000 of come out of them for a short rest after deprivation of markets in which she could strength last week were the same as in war, and then began to make things move. people to an area of 3,000,000 square fifteen days and nights of it, they are replenish har, exhausted supplies of raw 810. The result reproduces in even more Paul Rohrbach affected to see in an startling form the victory of the military the East more than a compensation for

kilometres containing. 180,000,000 inhabit Flag Day speech of June 14 last is thus fully justified:

material. Men of the calibre of Dr.

in the old rat until America entered the

Senator New brought out early in the bearing that in May, 1910, Mr. Gerard,. the United States Ambassador to Ger-

Germany was about to renew its un restricted submarine warfare and that the United States also warfare,

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nts President Wilson's statement in his stone dag-outs, huddled together for heat extension of German influenes towards Juntas in Spain. It is the sword flung many, warned the United States that PASATHLEBEER? any losses ahe might incur overseas, but into the political scale. The Government above all they saw in it a serious blow counted on an Army whose adhesion it struck at British predominance, in those did not possess, and on a public with regions and policy which would which it had lost touch eventually tend towards the dislocation Not that of British power in Indin,

that the Government was a wesk Government Far from it; it contained elements of real worth and power 1

eventuality. The facte in regard to this warning ned given in Mr. Gerard's book, Senator Now asserted,

not much better off, for there is no wood in the country, and sleeping in their no Serbian soldier carries a blanket they have no means of warming them selves and no camp fires to sit round

Une naturally pictures, such an army, If they (the Germans) can secure peace now they will have justified consisting of men who have fought themarives before the German people through two wars before, the presont one They will have gained by force what they was even thought of, men who almost promised to gain by it an immense ex-without exception beat the scars of three pansion of German power and an im or four wounds, sometimes more, and mense enlargement of German industrial who have managed somehow ---more and commercial opportunities. Their lets to out-live the effects of the Retreat prestige will be secure and with their through Albania, as being at least warmly clothed and fed and being in receipt of prestige, their political power..

On March 28th the Russian Soviet, in everything that can possibly be given spired by German agents, launched the them to alleviate their

No Annexations and No Iademanities sufferings, in order that a few at least formula. On June 12th the German Im may be saved to go back into Siberia. perial Socialists accepted" it at Stock. But no, on the contrary, these men are and behind it are doubtless men of soine The work of these few short months in time to settle the question of rife inter

soever."

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LATZ GOVERNVENT'S ENEMIES.

Secretary for War Bakorgid any information he had in regard to the warning was of a confidential nature, and he could not discuss ite

"Did not that warning make any impression on you?" asked Senator New. That subject is confidential," was the answer.

Don't you think, and didn't you think that would have been pretty good

caused delays

time, and ten years before would have been a good time,"

Secretary Baker then asserted that be was not sure of the exactitude of Mr. Gerard's warning. We bad word of the German Government repudiating any intention to renew unrestricted submarine warfare," he said.

WRS the word of the Germani Govern. mant more credible than that of our own. Ambassador' asked Senator New,

There is an interesting article in the Kölnische Zeitung, headed, The Road not an inactive Government, When to India," in which German ambitions allows its real work to be seen and and the underlying fear that they will judged, it will be recognized that, faced by great difficulties and a relentless Op- remain unfulfilled, are blended in position, its members have done much rather discordant whole. Some passages that the Portuguese people will yet he from this article are well worth quoting proud of. The creation of that new unavoidable it is an article full of blatant nonsense's army" by a portion of which it has been but appearing in the Kölnische if overthrown has been in the main its work. clearly an effort thade with a purpose. So, too, the organization of the Navy

obtained approval for it in the Reich- than any other Army, les rations--such First of all, we are told that the Ger Works, Supplies, Agriculture, and Com. stag. On October 9th the German Chan-things as sugar, milk, butter, rem are man Empire, rising in accordance with merce, has also been great. Dr Affona Yce, that would have been a good cellor, Herr Michaelis, adopted it. His unheard of luxuries and the dynamic laws of nature, has filled Costa may to-day be a prisoner; his house successor, Count Hertling, has also given dother. There is not a single man who Britain with concern for the safety of with that of Admiral Lootte de Rego and it his benediction. In October again, has a pair of socks, and hardly any who her world-empire and the security of her Colonel Norton de Mattos, may have been the Petrograd Soviet, in which German have more than one shirt-and that, a sea lordship. This is really the secret of sacked by a hostile mob; yet in her heart influentes were more than ever predomin cotton one. I do not know, and do not England's participation in the war. She of hearts Portugal is far from ashamed ant; defined, it are in the words: Ali care, whose fault it is; the facts are there, would smash the German attack on her of the men who at whatever of sacrifice greater imperial interests, destrog Gerhave proved to the nation and to the belligerents must renounes war contribuend it is for us to remedy them. tions or indemnities in any form what These men in the trenches would give many's anval power, and rob her of her world that the Portuguese Army and Navy are real forces, and the nation This version as once received me anything they had. Our most prized colonies,

worthy of a wider future than three ghort the formal approval of the Freudenblatt, ration-our one and only luxury is the official

the Austro-

years ago its people dreamed of organ' of

a small mug of much-watered wine twice a week! More than once having drunk We are next informed that Germany's Hungarian Foreign Office.

Later in the examination Senator Now The application of these formulas, M. mine at midday, I have been handed Oriental policy rests on historical

another mugful at supper by my orderly, necessity." We are informed that the The pace has been over forced. The wrathfully interjected: Mr. Gerard Chéredame explains, would (1) allow Germany to keep her grip on her essen- and all objections waived aside with political ambition which has Baghdad as strain, imposed by the protraction of the was in Berlin for the purpose of knowing tial territorial acquisitions; (2) would never mind where it came from; just its object is as old as Pepin and Charwar has been too great. This it is which what was going on. He sent his warn lemagno. One can see that it rests, more has brought the Government down at the ing, based on talks with the German leave to the Allies the crushing burden drink it-you need it more than I do."

over on the geographical line of the very time when the downfall was least Emperor and with German admirals, and of their own unprecedented war expendi- It was his own ration ture; and (3) would permit Germany to To resete me when I was wounded and existing group of power-whatever this deserved. With all its faults and its his warning should have influenced the retain her war profits, which, though unable to move some of my men risked may mean. At various periods during shortcomings, and they were neither few War Department.**** Tittle understood hitherto, are in reality their lives, and more than their lives (for the past 1,000 years attempts have been nor small, the late Government had not Concoding delays and errors of judg gigante and infinitely greater than the no one knows better than they do what made to link up the Orient with Ger been false to the Republic, the nation, or ment in to vast an undertaking, Secre fosses which Germany has suffered. These it means for a Serbian soldier to fall into many, but until now the necessary power the Allies. It had, however, created fary Baker epitomised his reply to three results would consolidate the the hands of the Bulgarians alive), yet has been lacking That Germany has many enemies, and was hard pressed on criticism in a written statement of con triumphant extension of Prussian mill they refused pointblank to save them taken the opportunity of securing the many hands. An unrelenting Press war, a siderable length. No army of a similar tarism, and would imply a crushing selves unless they could carry me with assistance of Turkey in the realisation scholastic strike which served to unite size in the history of the world," he said, of her aims is only natural. pa taingainst it the young, organized, and en- has ever been raised equipped, or victory for autocracy over democracy | them

By reason of long premeditation and This is the spirit the Serbian soldier Equally, natural is it that England thusiastic forces of a portion of the Re-trained so quickly. No such provision preparation, the war has cost Germany far shows towards his Allies; what we should regard this movement as aggres public with those of militant Monarchiem has ever been made for the comfort, less than it has cost the Allies. Germany doing for him? There are societics for sive For, if successful, Germany obtains as represented by the students of the health, and general well-being of any escaped the squandering of money and the wounded and for the civilians in the an exit on the Persian Gulf, and thereby School of War--who played a leading army. By the co-operation of all the resources that is an inevitable result of villages, but, when all is said and done we are told, she makes an important step part in the revolt and, lastly, the un interests and all the people in the coun improvisation. Moreover, among her it is the man in the trenches who is forward in her equality of rights at sau popular contest with the Church, through try the nation was now organied, and with England. England would be the expulsion of certain of the leading set to its task with unanimity of spirit 3:000,00 prisoners of war and 10,000,000 kuoping the flag flying

threatened in her dominion of the Indian bishops from their licens, and from the and confidence in its powers. More had inhabitants of occupied Alled territory. Besides the soldiers fit or not-as the Deean, and this she would not tolerate country for their direct infringement of been done than anybody dared believe to the German has secured a vast amount

case may be for the trenches, there are for an instant. It is here, therefore, the Law of Separation from the State; be possible. Mr. Baker gave figures of practically As the actual crash outlay, France alone has the Checchas, or old men, who in that the vital interests of the two these led to its defent. showing the state of the army and its normal times would be sitting by their Empires clash with elemental force. To these must be added the successive equipment before America entered the spent 38 per cent more per head of her population than Germany; while the own fireside, having relegated the work Germany must gain an entrance to the alienation of special classes formerly dis war, and the remarkable progress made Allies in general have spent £6,700,000,000 ing of the little farm to their sons, but Persian Gulf if she is not to be cut off tinguished by their loyalty to the regime, since Daily Telegraph. more than the Central Powers, without are now doing the transport, drag from the trade of the world, and if she such as the postal and telegraphic en reckoning the war outlay of Serbia, ging their aching rheumaticky old legs is not to make the feeding of her popula ployer, and part, it would seem, of the for miles and miles alongside the pack tion dependent on the favour of England. police. Agriculture still stood aloof, and Roumania Greece Japan, and the males, through mad and show and rain And England cannot permit our entrance the great industrial and commercial United States. Thus Germany, while in winter, scorching sun and choking dust to the Gulf without seeing her domina classes, under throats of mobilization and spending much less than her enemies, has and Bies in summer, all day and every tion at sen diminished, the domination the probability of the introduction of war realized war profits of which the present day on the endless trail, with nowhere which scoures to her her great riches, taxes, though latterly they have been value is immense, and the future value, wore she allowed to retain them, would gives a hot drink and smoke, no one her attitude. She knows that almost all stood on guard. These combined elements, to sit down for five minutes rest and be England woes this quite well and hence apparently less directly antagonistic, yet be incalculable

to cheer then on their way, and nothing her Asiatic and Africa possessions serve together with the pinch of want, were to think of but the song they have had only as a glacis for India, the costliest enough to crush any Government. As things stand to day, the territorial to in the war and the old home in jewel in the British crown.

Serbia which they have lost hope of ever BRITAIN'S LAND ROUTE. dream of the Pan-Germans is practically

seeing again pe

Internally there has lain, there yet realized." It may be urged that the fall" Don't these men complain!" I'am It is in pursuit of this policy of hes, latent the question of the regime. in the value of the mark is a sign that often asked. No, they do not. The only securing her Eastern Dominions, that Externally there is that of Portugal's Germany has been harder hit by the war thing they ever complain of is that they Britain desires an overland road to participation in the war. On both those financially than has England or France are not allowed to go on the offensive, India. The iden is an old one, and has vital questions the policy of the late In reality, the decline of German credit attack the Bulgerings, and fight their not its origin in this war It took government was clear. It is significant is due partly to the feeling that, if the way home or be killed in the attempt shape after the occupation of Egypt that on both questions the preliminary Allies light long enough, Germany will Home sickness, the longing, at any cost, Much has been written lately about the proclamations of the Revolutionary Junta be beatca; and partly because the sus to try to find their families, alone can importance of Egypt for Britain, but maintain that policy. Major Bidonio pension of her foreign trade compele Ger- undermine the moral of the Serbian it is necessary to add, says the Ablnische Face the new Napoleon, as oc has been many to pay for most of her imports in Army. I have heard more grambling writer, that the occupation of that cour styled appears as the saviour of the gold bal

since I came back to England from try was a necessity if England set store Republic Character and capacity are 1. Chéradams proceeds to analyse people because they cannot get quite as on commanding the seaway to India after the first necessities of the country and the many. On the basis of the proportionate than I have ever heard in the whole The lind way was also a necessity, and wretched Government who have gone, seriatim the chief war profits of Cermuch butter or sugar as they would like the opening of the Suez Canal moment. That Major Paes and his coad- jutors may be able to do better than the estimated wealth before the war of the Serbian Army, even when we were going Britain, made wise by her Colonis as be somewhat ungenerously styles his countries and territorica occupied, he through Albanin and frequently had no experiences, began to secure the adhesion predecessors, is to be wished. His work enlculates the value of these territories food at all; but then, perhaps, when you of the spiritual chiefs of Islam by an will not be easy. The forces he repre at approximately £6,100,000,000 Apart are worn out by six years of fighting adroit expenditure of gold. It was sents are composed of many heterogeneous from this value, Germany has secured when all your brothers have been killed undoubtedly an adroit policy. The Arsh elements. To destroy even to destroy transportable booty in the shape of → father murdered by the Bulgarians, wife

hard as to govern, (1) Human material for labour

and sisters carried off, and the old mother population was irritated by the actions Governmente, is not so goodness alone knows where (and this is of the Turkish Nationals, and Britain and to govern well wit

agitated against the Turanians," you care to ask), and when, in addition, from, the thraldom of the Turk. And, msan, much He has the confidence of The history of almost any Serbian soldier posing as the liberator of the Arab tribes advantage of a favourable cof So far Major Pacs enjoys the immense

your life-long enemy is in possession of besides, they would make of the desert many unquestionably good people. The your country, and you have lost every of Arabia & fourishing garden like unto danger is that he should adopt the coun- and foodstuffs thing you ever had in the world, well Egypt. The British, moreover, played on sel of the leading Monarchist organ, the then I suppose you get past grumbling the string of an Arabic Khalifat Diario Nacional, when it says Major (4) Raw : materials, such as coal, over anything; but if you have the mineral oils, iron, copper wool, cotton. unbreakable spirit of a Serbian you will Then, we are told, came the necessity Sidonio Paes, to confirm his work, and In the industrial towns of North-Eastern still be a steadfast ally, an undaunted of military occupation of Mesopotamia, even in his own defence and that of his France alone the Germans. seized foes and, what is more, you'll be a man, and finally the necessity of controlling companions, must politically exterminate £22,000,000 worth of wool my son and a man werth doing some and securing those portions of Perata democratism Deliberately to preach the

(5) The materials of industry-motors, thing for..

through which the future road to India extermination of an entire party, and macame tools, dynamos, models, Jooms, I am working while home on leave would lead.

one that until yesterday was the governing and all kinds of industrial plant.

helping The Hon.

party in the country, is perilous (6) lovable objects, such as furniture Fund (Registered Mr Hverfield's NO ALEANCEMENT POSSIBLE PRO for La preach it and for and implements of all kinds, of which the forts for Serbien Soldiers and Prison- The writer proceeds to examine how far the country- occupied territories have been denuded. ets," 22, Old Burlington-street, where this British policy has been successful, --- (1) Works of art-stolen from churches money and conforts can be sent. We the first tangible result was the defection museums, and private individuals in have already despatched a good deal of of the Sherif Hussein and hia appoint., Belgium, France, Poland, and now in warm clothing, but nothing to what is ment as an Arabian King dependent on Orient question militarily, even though Italy

required, and we hope to raise suficient the grace of England, besopotamia has (8) War contributions levied in the funds to start and maintain free canteene been occupied as far as it is necessary we beat England to her knees, the last form of fines forced loans, and taxes. along the roads for the "Cheechas and for the fulfilment of British plans, and would be the yielding up of Arabia and concession which Britain would make The amounts thus secured run into the soldiers tramping from hospital to Southern Persin has been firmly incor Moxopotamia. It is thus that the British hundreds of millions sterling

join their regiments Morning Postporated.

DREAMS NEARLY HEALIZED.

(2) Immense quantities of war mate rial rolling stock, and means of trans port The Belgian railways alone are worth £120,000,000.

(3) Horaes, cattle, generally

(9) Minted money, jewels, and scouri ties. Everywhere the Germans have emptied by order, the strong-boxes of

banks and private individuala In Sept population to give her who has mobilized and Oct. last they took at one stroke the 20 per cent of her own and of her allies deposits belonging to Allied subjects in populations a total armed force of some Belgian banks to the amount of 30,000,000 men, with an annual military

21,000,000 o The application of the military scheme would mean that even if Germany were to evacuate Russia, Poland, Serbia, and France, she would still control sufficient (Vontinued as foot of reet Volume.)

contingent of nearly 1,400,000 men. Thus, this domain of Prussian militariarn, of which the destruction by the Allies is the chief and indispensable war aim would beuny, has been immensely extended. Times

THE NEW NAPOLEON.”

If therefore we do not solve the

think about the road to India The The conclusion of the writer is peculiarly interesting: One day we future will show whether the Germans must come to an arrangement with Eng are mature enough to purane & policy which will get us back Mesopotamia. lah about Helgium and other purely Victory will ge to that nation whose European questions But we shall never which encroaches on the integrity of arge part of the British working cinge arrive at an agreement on any question broadest sections of people recognise the necessity of the national demands, A British Colonial possessions, still 1888 on know what the British colonies mean for any question which touches the connecthem May the day soon, como when the tion between Britain and India the vertebral column of British world-power. broadest masses of our people will assess understanding for German foreign (Continued at foot of nest Column.

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