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THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY.

RESURRECTION OF KUT. --

A BETTER AND CLEANER TOWN.

[FROM EDMUND CANDLER.]

STATE FORESTS,

A SCHEME TO PROVIDE HOME GROWN TIMBER

MARCH 14, 1918

EMPIRE RESOURCES PROPOSED STATE-CONTROLLED ENTERPRISES FOR STATE MSVCPROFIT.”

LESSONS OF THE WAR. GERMAN MILITARIST VIEWS. If, as the old. maxim says, it is right

Kut, when the troops who had ta SETTLEMENTS FOR 25,000 FAMILIES Man to learn from the enemy, it is not

in are per-Sannaiyat passed by it-not through it to imagine any instruction tinent and useful for us than the perusal the day after we forced the passage of the of Baron von Freytag's book, which has Tigris, was a ruin. We left no post just been published by Messrs. Constable. there; it was not a pisos to camp in The full title is Deductions from the World-War," and its author, beat. Gen- oral Baron von

The gaping houses were stacked with filth. The flone that swarmed in the

The final report of the Forestry Sub Committee of the Reconstruction Commit tee (Cd: 8881) recommends a comprehen sive scheme for national afforestation, and fully considering how for aid in the

effect

may be given to the proposals FD Aciond, MP. presided over the Sub-Committee, which was appointed

what

NATIONAL POWER SUPPLY COLOSSAL SCHEMES TO SAVE

MILLIONS YEARLY

Freytag-Loringhoven: débrle thrown out into the street leaped by the Prime Minister in July, 1916, with tion of pa cooperation with used in the United Kingdom annually for

who holds the position of Deputy Chief of the General Staff in succession to Moltke, is one of the most distinguished and most thoughtful of the military writ ers of Prussia. If Von Freytag speaks with authority on qucations which he has obviously studied for many years, and if he is in a true sense a representative of the best military opinion in Germany, his book is obviously one which can be recommended to all and sundry who are anxious to discover the fundamental ideas of the militarist spirit. The pacifist, the peace dreamer, the believer in the demo-

up and bit one's leg as one paased. The dogs had desired the place The cats that boldly raided the kitchens during

& half the siege, and took away many starved man's dinner from under the very aras" of the cook, had fallen on one another. A head or a tail or a backbone was found in nearly every house. The place was half Golgotha, half midden and one doubted it one could ever de anything with it.

But Kut is too important a centre to be neglected; so, in the middle of April, after it had been descried nearly two

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The recommendations of the interim Mr. H. Wilson Fox, M.P., addressing report on Electric Power Supply are a Бу the the Royal Colonial Institute at the Cax striking confirmation of the proposals ton Hall on January 9th, on The Pay put forward more than a year ago meat of Wor Debt by Development & Empire Resources Development Commit

that the Empire Resources detailed some of the tes for the prevention of waste in one of Resources Development demonstrated, says the report, mopring, ohich leading moenborg omit den otsteste greatest amet, to that con too had proposed should be undertaken most coonomical means of applying power by the State, including fish supply from to industry is the electric motor By Newfoundland and Canada, the importa national scheme of electrification 55 mil-

from the tropical lion of the 80 million tons

・the eval the following terms of reference regions of

To consider and report upon the best the Dominion and State Governments in the production of power could be enved. means of conserving and developing the Caatuda in the development of corn lands representing a cash economy woodland and forestry resources of the and the consolidation of the electric $27,000,000. By-products, and the reduc United Kingdom having regard to the power supply of the United Kingdom. tion in cost of transport and distribution experience gained during the war. He pointed out that the post-war revenue would bring this up to £100,000,000

To the examples of saving given in the The Committee recommend a scheme of which the Government would have to State planting which in an emergency raise to meet its obligations could not be report inay be added that recently cited would keep the United Kingdom indepinxpected to bo less than £000,000,000 per by Mr. H. Wison-Fox, MP Honorary on. 5. present day war basis of consump the money must certainly be found velopment Committee, where, by the cen Taxation of importe not likely to tralisation of the power supply in a dent of importest timber for three years annum. Some new method of obtaining Soretary of the Empiro Resources De tion. The total cost for the first ten years

the burden of the income-taxestment of £7,000,000 there has been s our needs; cost of afforestation would be about 23,500,000, allowing not yield any sum which would go far to meet limited area Overson, on an Piginal in only for the direct but for all incidental charges. Against could not be increased indefinitely, while total return to all concerned of upwards

the conscription of wealth already in of £4,000,000 per annum this expenditure must be considered no existence would be found to be a danger. The development of electricity in the the financial return on the capital, which, ous and impracticable expedient.

ro United Kingdom has been seriously though certain, would be distant, but the new be based upon the sum that it has cost us during this war new method mast both under conditions hindered by the excessive number and would assure to the State itself the smallness of the undertakings. There are of imported timber. During 1915 and

DAIRY FARM NEWS. the German nation to throw off the in the town with a grant of funds and 1916 alone we paid £37,000,000 more than the profits earned. That, at any rate, oporating The average generating capa

Development. Hohenzollern tyranny, may alike and set about the work of purging and recon- its pre-war value for the timber we was the belief and gospel of the Empire city is only 5.000 h.p., white is about

Committee. thirtieth the capacity of a power-station would cover Their proposals defined by

economical size. The report SAUSAGES! Committees.

member of of valuable materials for thought in the struction. The first thing he built was an

straction imposing colonnade bazaar along the Ed! Such a sum," say the Recon Resources:

the laying down throughout. "Deductions from the World-War. For river front. He began with a coffee shop several times over any possible loss which

the the resources of the Empire by the Em- up stream in Mahailas to make life en afforestation scheme.

6-bad & special im-16 great power centres; the 16 authorition pire for the Empire what are the assumptions of the author, and some retail shops which he brought could be incurred on a well-conducted the Committee as the development of of main trunk lines; fed by More important from a war point of portance from a political standpoint, be controlling same to be themselves con- and what is his fixed creed? Ho assuns durable for the builders, who for co-view than cost was the amount of tonnage causa in their own sphere they represent trolled by a National Board of Electricity | port states at 7,000,000 net tons of ship- policy which were held so firmly and so be handed over on equitable terms to the

equivalent Approximately wisely by our ancestora during the ages new authorities

The principal difference between the 14,000,000 tons deadweight.

from 2 gestation of the Empire..

recommendations of the report and the proposals of the Empire Resources De- cent in 1899 to 10 per cent, in 1913.

HOW THE SCHEME WOULD BE FINANCED. the Sunni and practical utility of afforestation at

With regard to finance, it was proposed velopment Committee is in regard to the and ica home is proved by the fact that 90 per

nature of the control whether it should

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cratic ideal, the advocate of appeals to months, a young political officer arrived through the enormously enhanced prices et receipt of a substantial share of at present some 800 separate bodien

that Germany will win so much, of time were the sole population.

course, we can expect and discount-and

that even if her victory is not so com-

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buildings by the Turks ping

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eighteen built

and Tomb

old streets and

baths

be made the nucleus for future improve new ones, and repa kishitting the cent of our imports are the soft woods that the precedent of the existing Debe by the State, by associated municipali- |

ment and development.

her military organisation will survive to

years ago. Ho old bazaars, widened

Shish mosques, the factory,

ry, and the flour mill, old engines from which the the important parts. removed

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statement of alternative organisations, cannot conceive it possible that an age engines were restored for the bringing in in this countryside Kingdom, might be followed, except that

The Sub-Committee o irrigation of the gardens. The Reconstruction Committee estimate the Board for the Development of the bination of these. would arise which could banish the art of water and shoals in the middle of tho that there are, not less than three and Resources of the Empire which it wasnd concludes ma

Development Commission did not have initiative and resource, and are of the declares has its basis in human nature, Tigris were the special need for BB as human anture remains un dens, each with its osier like screen of land atilized for rough grating but can full executive authority in the matter of opinion that the freedom of range and altered, was will continue to exist as liquorice scrub to keep off the driving able of growing first-class timber of the expenditure within its own sphere. It prinose which are distinctive of private

existed already for thousands of The women are now winnowing same character as that imported. Of this was further suggested that, in

sand

acres could be put under The often-quoted saying

∙In a arca decreasing the home pro instance, provision for its operationsarterprise will be found in a high degree that wars are inhuman, but peacefully in Lynch's old Serai.

courtyard a few doors off the Arab and timber

It was not OSS!!

O REGULAR The Empire Resources Committee, on and it would ultimately, give employment per annum for ten year Exchequer peace is a dream, and not svou Kurdism police are being drilled by induction of meat by more than 0.7 per cent might be made on the basis of £10,000.00 conducive to the fullest measure of suc-

templated that the Treasury

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to at least ten times the number of men should be the only source from which the other hand, contends that so vital and capital might be drawn. If the Statutory gigantic a business as the national power for demoerney has not even begun to

Kut, though still partly in ruins, is now employed by grazing dawn on the intelligence of this cultivated

Authorities it was proposed to create to supply should be raised above the hazards VANCOUVER & SEATTLE. Most of the

conduct He repeats, as though better and clearer town. German officer.

the various enterprises in which of private enterprise; has set forth sale

For freight and further parti- The scheme which the Committee re the State would participate were organis guards which would ensure all the initin- they wore truisms, the most trude and people are back again. Nearly 5,000 have absurd delusions for instance, that the returned out of a population of 6,000, comment proposes to afforest 1,770,000 ed upon a share and debenture basis in five and resource, the freedom of range

admittedly so essential Taking 80 years. as the average the ordinary way it would be possible and

of culars please apply to portion Frane tireurs and they prosper-for there is abundant Belgian people became and, therefore, women and priests, and labour for them in Kut and its neigh rotation, two thirds of the whole should

saving effected, after adequate

JARDINE, MATHESON & of All concerned, sho boarhood.

should But some of the Kutawis will be planted in the first 40 years. From advantageous to offer such debentures,] or the children had to be murdered, at that never come back. Eight, including the

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Sheikh and his sons, the Turks hanged the 15th

pit wood from the quick to principal and interest either wholly or remuneration prisoners with the utmost barbarity.

The lecturer post-war liabilities. This, the Commitles classes of the community The Listen too with all that they imply. Germany others were taken prisoners, and it is er-growing species on the better kinds of in part, for subscription by the poorer accrue to the State towards defaying its

for all time to come, maintain her believed that some of these were after-mountain lund.

in the first 10 years followed there need be no fear that the either additional taxation or the "coni- "That in useful wards done to death,

alone would contain enough timber to capital required for the effective prosecu scription of wealth." It had disap keep our pits supplied in emergency for tion of enterprises such as those suggested It is prated. I found a rabbit-warten of thig two years nt, the cost for the first 40 years They would rest on a wide and firm basis at the present rate of consump would be impeded by any want of capital, Not so much as a half-wall was tion.

concern had ever enjoyed

acres.

and and

so the following sentences, by way of reprisad, some forty were shot. begin to was the scheme would i seranteed if necessary by the State

theeas that at least a 1

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freedom I looked for the Berkas plantations made the 40th year the convinced that if this policy were points out, is a preferable alternative to

claim to aca power" for freedomn

commentary on the of the seas. Now, as the sword that decides in

on the battlefield that

sin" That may be pro dives the deci- left standing. Townshend's house had may be £15,000,000. After that time the or finance, such as no existing joint-stock

tory

war; it is vic outs.

considered been repaired, but the roof and balcony scheme should be self-supporting. The by those who appear to think that the are still pitted with shrapnel. Seven whole sum involved is therefore less than that shell holes were plastered over. The half the direct loss incurred during the German military spirit is waning. it can be tamed by some democratic ex plosion. So far as von Freylag can sex, memory of the General survices in the years 1915 and 1916 through dependenes

Town-ahend-road, Delamain- Germany means the German nation in Thaboans at the corners of the streets on imported timber,

Mellise road, and the names of

FIRS

FAL OP NATIONS?

Road,ments are recorded in Dorset ernment should wish to employ the the auspices of Mr. Arthur Henderson it

brave

It is true that the author notes the road. Norfolk street, Mahratta-row, and he appears to regret that the Fatherland street. Every association in the nomen importance of the economic factor, for the like, until one comes to plain Hai

in

serves that that is one of the things which must be improved when the country wants

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long experience ofry we have the orb of being a member of the war

Bir Hamar Greenwood, M.P., who pre sided, referring to the lecturer's proposal to embrace the Empire's tropical posses sions in the operation of his scheme, said The report points out that if the Goy that in a Manifesto recently issued under

of by those who followed him that we might maximum services during the forforged was suggested as a policy to be adopted demobilization, the rate of planting make large areas of our Colonial might be greatly speeded up: The Com- sions more especially in Africa, into a from the the

sort of Inter Colonial Zone,” to be gov was not so well equipped and organised clature of Kut is glorious to the memorymittee propose that at ledet 180,000 BCSB kan international

initial 250,000 should be planted erned by an

State notion and that for the why international be (thet in its economie arrangements us it was of its defenders get ma

ob its purely military affairs, and he

But the thing in which folk at homeer, (left to Topal nghies and prinot know we matter of historical will be most interested is the cemetery. The long drawn agony of the garrison vate landownere) there should be Stats fact that the greatest glory of the British

do who fought endured here so We to go to war again. But, conomics mari 15 us and on starvation makes the waistance, and control that Biote afio Empire was its just administration of army, he cannot restrain his enthusinan most tragic story in our military history station means expensive and ineficient Henderson, who had enjoyed the unione At the opening of the war our armies 1,746 British and Indians died of action. On the

wounds And disease between December 4th

all the countries in

at a time when the Colonies of the highest level of eficiency; were

at

In its physical aspect which afforestry has reached a high pitch the Empire had rallied to its assistance Forvice regulations were entirely up to and April 28th

the promising with the utmost enthusiasm, could take date and adapted to the most recent ex their resting-place is an uninspiring of development, and

attitude was past understanding. periences of war in the ex scene, a bare mud held enclosed by a mud methods of management in certain of the that attitude

administration of the Russo-Japanese War." wall, with a few starved palms in it, and Crown woods of recent years, to prove the

Colonies was not only better than that General von

von Freytag sees, too, the point the hueless desolation all round-that

opposite. The Turks dug fire

of other nations-it was the standard that the present conflict differs from Mesopotainia carlier campaigns, because it involves trenches all along the walls, but

trol and management is to create which other nations strove to emulate Volunteer parties of blue, special authority & Forestry Commission (Hear, hear.) The only rival we had in tary forces in a cosmic struggle. He quite aware that this transtorms the jackets from passing gunboats have land represented by a Parliamentary Commis that respect was the United States, who, sioner in the House of Commons. The in their administration of Cubs, Hone

lulu, and the Philippines, were

carrying character of warfare, and makes it in-ed and trimmed these mounds of earth Commission would consist of six members,

destructive which are as clean cut and defined now critably more barbarous

We both came But he as in a home churchyard. The sombre three of them whole-time salaried officials, on the traditions of the race from which To talk therefore, of be con the others unpaid. There would The aspect of the Kuf cemetery will disap-itative committees for England, Wales bringing our Colonies within the govern the

ment of an international zone" of all civilian

defence of their land, and the scrub palms are fertilised

scheme, forest the and increase in stature and shade. For carrying out the seb

cers, foresters and foremen would be re country,

Three miles below Kut is the algort officers would be inspectors en and would have to be trained, strength and inspiration of moral ideas. And here the advantage is rather with enemy relics in the neighbourhood-an Brance and England and Italy than with obelisk put up by the Turks in comme-gaged on

on surve and

ey, planting plans, supervi Germany, which moves indeed as a mass moration of the fall of Kus. It is a kind sion of

planting, advisory

and ex but a masa disciplined and regimented of Cleopatra's needle on a square plinth, perimental work. It is estimated that the service would require 60 officers by conviction. acting freely from internal

an old converted British cow gun stands the That, at least, is how we regard the mat ter. We cannot expect our author, who as a trophy on each side-Daily Tele reliable men with a good knowledge of question of introducing polygamy after British conditions would be available at the war, with special reference to the the cutset.

to La statements of British Ministers in believes in all the rigour of a cast-iron graph.

men would university trained, and the tendard Parliament on the problem. The Tage- necessary is that represented

odblatt, while denying the reports that much a movement has the official support of polygamy exists all over Germany.

whole nations and not merely their mili-respected the graves, which are The Committee's scheme of State con

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discipline, to accept to the full our view

of the superiority of the moral factor

trench fighting and a change in methods: ture of our well-conducted German sol Commission should undertake the gold There is for instance, un Eden"

Some interesting passages may be war acquired a character of brutality honours degree i quoted. Here is one in reference to which is otherwise very alien to the na- It is recommended that the Forestry the German authorities, admite that

control

education, and of

This world war, Incredible as it may diers appear, has witnessed

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retrograde development with

ou certain extent Perhaps, this, too, may be intended as maintain tration wocie z for colony, catablished for the sole purpose

The opposed forces, although equipped long-dis tance rifles, were brought so close to on By raids into the enemy country car another that they had recoune to the ried out by squadrons of aircraft we were naked steel, and the hand grenades of past age were once again revived, though in an improved form,"

es practical work

of breeding noble specimens of the human The increase of population on the land race (Edelmiensch) To mention a few The under the Committee's scheme would be others whose avowed objects Are the

It is estimated that it considerable.

practice and dissemination of the able to inflict damage on fortifications, would result ultimately in the settlement Rotring of free love there is the German sources of military supplies, and other on the soil of not less than military establishments. In the course

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We have to speak plainly, run risks people" in Belgium, with the support and ap opens up its own paths, he is shown, for

has long taken care to protect her. proval of the authorities, the war acquir rample, by the submarine war against which every other considerable

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