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ITALIAN PREMIER ON ENEMY PEACE TRICKS.
Britain.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12r 1918,
IN A
SHELL HOLE FOR SEVEN WEEKS.
ORDEAL OF A MAN WITH A BROKEN THIGH.
After some
THE FIEST NEWS.
LORD JELLICOE ON THE
NAVY
THE KING AND SERBIA. WE NEVER SHALL FORGET
TRIBUTE TO OUR DESTROYERS. THE VERSAILLES COUNCIL -
The King received at Buckingham Palace recently the members of the
A ringing welcome was given to Lord In the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Serbian Economic and Industrial
One of the most astounding stories of Jellicoe, who was the guest of the recently Signor Orlando, the Premier, Mission, who have been touring
Aldwych Club at the Connaught Roonis made an important speech in the course various centres of commercial activity the war is told in a recent supplement on February 20th. Bir Hedley le Bas, of which he said that the present Cabinet with the object of promoting a better to the London Garette. It tells of the who presided, described Lord Jellicoe had already had occasion to explain to understanding between England and terrible adventure of Private J. Taylor, Parliament its fundamental conception of Serbia and establishing loser commercial of the London Regiment, who lived in having for the first two had a half years position in the British Empire. He was and unanimous adhesion of all the parties cordial speech, delivered in French, His more than seven weeks with nothing to the one man who dared not make a mis- the war, and had obtained the considered relations, after the war. In a brief bata shell-hole which was under fire for of the war held the most responsible
eat but bully beef which he collected take (Cheers.) which were not opposed to the war from Majesty said:~-
from the dead, and nothing to drink but Lord Jellicoe said no country was pre- prejudiced motives ontlemen, I wish to express to you water which he obtained in a waterproof pared to meet under-sen variare
While, indeed (the Premier went on), the great pleasure it gives me to receive cape curried on, and when the Germans dis the question of peace was apparently being raised for the first time at Brestere to-day the members of the Serbian Private Taylor, whose home is at Hol-covered its possibilities they had the Litovst by means of concrete and direct adustrial Mission. We have not forgot. loway, receives the Distinguished Con great advantage of scientific appliances negotiations, the statesmen of the Eatenteen, and we shall never forget the, heroic duct Medal for conspicuous gallantry in which they were unrivalled, and their have already declared separately their resistance of the Serbian nation, and we and devotion to duty under exceptional shipbuilding yards not being required ideas and intentions on the subject of appreciate to the full the action of your trying and terrible circumstances to build merchant ships, could be devoted war Aims and the means of ending the gallant troops, who are now fighting side The official record of his adventure is solely to submarine construction. Eur war in this was dotie despite the differ by side with our own upon the Macas follows:ther, they were able to build subraries ences which; while not affecting in the donian front. But that is not the only Having been cat off with his com at the beginning of the war faster than reason for which we welcome you here pany he received a bullet in the thigh we could build destroyers in which wo Before the war causing a compound fracture. To avoid bad then slightest the intimate unity of views, arose to day? The national life of our topture he crawled into a shellhole, the British age, n
thought in Dread. from a variety of different circumstances nations is based upon the same principle where he remained for a period of over noughts. When war began, and to a which were of a specific and complex of liberty and justice, and it is this which character, but which in cach case were makes us certain that after the war he seven wecks, during the whole of which great extent now, the destroyer was the examined in these appeches. But this ver can count upon the slopent commercial to the surrounding district was at great antidote to the submarine,
jected to a severe bombardment by our In November lost the First, Lord of divergence of views, in which the states- we of the various nations, and in very relations between Serbia and Great artillery. He subsisted on ting of bully the Admiralty gave the number of Ger beef collected at night from dead bodies, man submarines operating in the North different situations, had examincil the problem of war aims and the beneficent These relations will certainly be to and water which he obtained in a water. Sea, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans which effect of all honest possibilities of a just our common advantage. On our side they proof cape weeks three of the enemy had been sunk by us 40 to 50 per cent. pence, were offered to the enemy's con will be entch have inspired the commu. Visited his shell hole, but by feigning figure probably now may be put at 60 "I think," said Lord Jellicoe, that sideration. We have beard moderate pro-motives which have inspired the commer posals expressed in such measured terms cial relations of the Central Empires with death he avoided capture, and eventual per cent, but I have no official know that one of them was even able to route their wenker neighbours. We are consly succeeded in crawling back to our ledge. Later his Lordship, spoke of the in Italy a feeling of anxiety regarding fident that before long Serbia will be lines a distance of some nine hundred splendid work which had been done br yards He displayed extraordinary the destroyers in convoy service in anfe- aur just expectations and to engender re-established, and you will then be faced pluck and endurance by his determina doubts which, I am able to state most with the task of making good, the devasion not to fall into the enemy's hands. Kanding communications with France, formally and definitely, were cordially tation caused by the enemy, and, however formidable that task may be, you may and entirely dissipated,
count upon the cordial co-operation of all Private Taylor received the urst in LESSONS OF BREST-LITOVSKk..
classts of my people. The industry of timation that be had been awarded the If then the desire for peace which has your people, your agricultural resources, D.C.M. from a representative of the been displayed several times by the enemy the natural riches of your country, make Daily Express who saw him in a private Governments had been really determined the same claim our admiration and our convalescent hospital near London, by sincere and loyal intentions, it would confidence as your national aspirations where he is now recuperating. He am have found the mest ample and roost have made to our political sympathy.plified modestly and with a great deal favourable field for its expression. On
almost incredible experience. most obstinate, the most irreconcilable, after the war, Angio-Serbian trade will
It was during one of the attacks on he said, "if part of the determination to carry out the plan pre- develop greatly, and that every effort will
on June quently, destronally, or even fre dterm fot med et Imperialistic domina- he made to facilitate to the utmost degree 18th last year he said, "We had pass the patrol, and inflict damage, s tion. The singular lesson taught by the possible the exchange of goods and pro- gone over the top two companies together did recently. If they come often negotiations at Brest-latovsk ought a duce between our two countrica, ther, following up a successful attack neigh they will get caught, as they did think. A party arise which makes peace seen the activities of our principal indus vipue day. This time we were met by met the added the speaker,must not rendy to have sufficed to show this. Just During your visit berg you have made in the same direction on the pre last year when the Swift and the Broke "(Cheers.) The people of this a terrific enemy fire, and our fellows country, its essential programine, and in the name tries, and I hope that the warm welcome of peace scizes power and sacrifices to this that you have received in my country has were dropping like ninepins, I was a grow and get rattled if they are pot the first, second or oven the third Prosary means of continuing the war. In alive to the needs of Berbia. I trust that when I was knotured my thigh submarines and so little about our own. programme everything, and before all, proved to you that my people are fully patch up one of our men who was down,
the One heard too
about the enemy's spite of this, this party encounters in the the personal relations into which you bullet which fractured purposes of the Central Empires such have entered with my subjects will not After that I remembered nothing for But the reason was fairly obvious. enormous claims that it cannot accept fail to continue and become still closer some hours. It may bave been a day There were daily at sen round about our thers and can do nothing but simply sur-after the war and that the results of or it may have been two when I recover our coasts an average of over 1,000 Bri- render. It is a serious and grievous your visit will be to the permanent ad-ed coasciousness, with a parching thirst tish, Allied, neutral and mercsunt vos lesson which might nevertheless resultan
and & great sense of weariness and pain, sols targets for the enemy a submarines, good if it succeeded in teaching those who
"I discovered afterwards that we The duties of our submarines had to he are genuinely deluded in all countries
must have passed beyond our objective, confined to attacking the enemy's guri and we were therefore behind the enemy's face craft and submarines. His surface that in a war like the present to proclaim.
trench and support trench at this point. vessels came outside the minefield por- peace at any price only leads to a praco
His front trench had been taken on the hats once a year In nearly every case so dishonourable ne to be intolerable
previous day and those he now occupied they had known (by receiving a torpedo Moreover, at the latest inter-Allied con-
had in of recent declarations of the
were not backed up by open country boning them. I did bor marines we their chips) that our sub know at the time, however, that I was imagine what a constant watch on the behind the enemy's line at all. I man- part of submarines, with a shot once a aged to crawl into a large shell hole year, meant they would understand it near at hand, and lay there another day was rather a boring entertainment. (Haar, hear.) Our submarines wern and night.
alwave there and always ready and well the German Davy knew it. People wrote to him and asked why our submarines did not sink those of the chemy Let then think of two periscopes Toolong or one another in the million square miles
on the Dover patrol and at Har wich.There have, he declared, amid cheering, boen no finer examples of seamanship, endurance, and disregard of danger than those of the officers and men of the destroyer service during this war." The destroyers of the Dover patrol, back- ed by the light forces at Harwich, were
constant thorn in the side of the enemy They were continually open to attack
of his both by surface craft and submarines
the contrary, nothing was afirmed but the I have the fullest confidence that of difdence, the official story and mines. You must not wonder
ferents the roller cold the Austro Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs were attentively examined. There is cer tainly a difference in colour and tone between them, but, when looked at together, apart from the form, which is sometimes hard and decided and some times equivocal and evasive, they in substance maintain in their integrity all their claims and utterly reject all the just
vantage of our two countries.”
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of the get
stretcher bearer and I was tryingLENA S
SECOND SURVIVOR
Then a comrade, a man named Peters, joined me. He also had been wounded, but could more rather more in another hole near
demands of the other side; in other words, itself, and prepare to sustain entirely the freely. He had found shelter of crean, and realise that the distance
Boile rll the ohion for o
acto situation, which will have no con nection with right or any legal basis until the eventual formation of the new States and the determination of their frontiers and the conditions of their actual independence are recognised and sane tioned by international agreement. In fact, complete account had already been taken at Versailles of the events which have occurred. It was considered to be right and prudent to take into account the worst hypothesis, namely, that henco fort the Western front must rely only upon they demand everything and consent to whole effort of the war. The military
situation was therefore submitted on this We could tell the position of oat which one ship was likely to see the nothing
Above all, the enemy Governments do ground to detailed and complete analysis, own trenches fairly accurately by wall other was perhaps 400 yards. Then they not leave to the Entente Powers any con with the assistanco of distinguished ing the fire of the trench mortars, which would realise there were some difficulties crete possibility except to submit to the experts, and even of some of the chiefs of scened about 1,000 yards away. I was in that kind of warfare. But the dim- peace which they will be pleased to im the armits in the field. You will readily in too much pain and too weak to move oulties, as the Germans knew, were not pose. And then it has also appeared that understand that it is not a question about We lay together all day in the hole insurmountable. He paid warm tribut It is uscices and even impossible to which one can give detailed information, expecting every minute almost to be hit to the work of the auxiliary service, and decide to discuss purely abstract pos But with all the sense of responsibility and at night Peters crept out and forag of the mercantile marine. sibilities while the attitude of the enemy which I know how to adopt in speaking ed among the dead for scraps of bully only way of before Parliament on such grave subjects, and son rations, and water from arriving at a real peace is to continue I afirm that the result of these investiga.
fully it
bersanta rain, and by spread- the war with all our energies. Moreover, tions regarding the military situation of ing our capes and a theer we collected as regards Italy, those reasons of legiti. the Entente was such as to afford the drops of muddy water, which just kent
gay water, which just mate and absolute necessity which are fullest confidence which human foresight us alivert of existence létes for the card of invitation Plenipotentiary
can allow, while on the other hand, we
affirmed in our war aims still exist just as they were at the moment when oli berately and of our own, fice will we undertook our gigantic task. Now, as then, Italy wishes for no more war, but that does not mean that she desires any less the accomplishment of her national unity and the security of her land and sea frontier. These two aints are well justified and are the complements of each other: Only the full realisation of one
DEFENCE OF BOLSHEVISM. M. Maxim Litvinoff who was styled on can and ought to consider that the present about five weeks, Then one night Peters for Great Britain of the Russian Repub situation, as already known, must con- went out, and did not return. I have lic, addressed a numerously attended tinually and greatly improve, if only learned since that he was taken prisoner. mecting at Central Hall, Westminster. through the increase, henceforth dailyIt was the following night that the recently, on "The Russian Situation. and constant, of the admirable assistance Germans, evidently rendered suspicious Mr. W. C. Anderson, M.P presided of the military forces of the great Ameri- by the capture of Peters, came out M. Litvinof said that attempts to can Republic. When we reflect that this three of them to the hole where I was confidence can be retained after the com- lying. I lay perfectly still. One of plote elimination of the great military them lifted my leg, luckily not the one weight that Russia lent to the Allies, we that was broken, or I should probably
have cried out.
They Be
seemed satisfied has been the dissipation of our efforts during the time when the Entente had such a decided numerical preponderance over the Central Empires. Certainly several causes contributed to this, but above all, the lack of sufficient co-ordinal tion in the use of these great forces.
and the ether will assure to Italy her cannot consider without regret how great and went away, behout hen fr Bolshevists were not Anarchists, but had
existence us a really free and independent State, aut
Car war aim is a holy one if any ever was. It is a question of whether Italy is to exist or not. Nothing could cause us greater grief than the suspicion unjust to us, and harmful both to us and others, that our war tims are determined
I resolved try to own unes.
night
dictate to the Russian people the kind of Government they should adopt in order: that it might be recognised by other countries was a fagrant interference with the affairs of the Russian people. The
I was now left
in fighting been constantly rugaged ting food or drink, During the next Anarchist theories. Rolsbetil" wes fortnight 1. cked out the small remains merely a nickname for the left wing of of bully beef then for two days I had the Russian Social Democratic party. nothing It was then, feeling that The present Russian Government which nothing worse could happen to me, that the workers of the factory and the surfeld and the workers in uniform solidly Our bitter experience has not been in It was an inky black whalene behind it, represented the majority of the not merely by the inevitable reason of our vain. The agreements reached at Verted. I had gone some distance when people more actually then the Government
sailles emphasised in the happiest manner unexpectedly camon the necessity of a close cohesion of all the trench. I could have put out my hand drawn from the war as far as the original
the German of any other country. Russia had with forces of which we dispose on the Western and touched the uen. The trench, a war aims revealed by the secret treaties front, henceforth really united, together deep, narrow one was lightly held, and were concerned. But that did not mean with the freedom and weaponsibility of the at would have been impossible for me the termination of Russia's struggle with command un edel front. The movement with my broken leg to have climbed out the German Government and the dazk for autonomy was itself. suggested by a of it again, even and I not been seen forces it sheltered, or of the struggle principle of general utility and not by and seized. I managed to crawl a little against annexationist aims. Whether the question of national amour propre distance along to a quiet point, and German Array advanced into Northern or which would be not only mischievous but then, summoning up all the strength into Southern Russia, it was sure to carry blameworthy if they weakened the effcould, flung myself across. The Boches the struggle against the Revolutionary chciousness of our cardmon efforts at this neither saw nor heard,
Government to Russia, in the hope of decisive moment for the destinies of the
IN THE GELMAN WIRE
overthrowing it and putting in its place world, CA Uke sentiment of cordial soli darity guided the allies in their examine wire, and how I scrambled through which, like the Rada of Ukraine, would The next thing I knew. I was in their some middle class reactionary party tion of questions regarding the economic situation of the world which has been so do not know. I was a mass of cute and sign any peace enabling it to break the disturbed by the gigantic phenomenon blood and rage when it was over back of the revolutionary labour move- of a war without precedent, causing more crawled on across No Man's Land and ment arduous difficulties for all and imposing not occur to me at the time that it was presently was against more wire. It did
very existence, but also by ideas of Imperialistic supremacy and the pures sion of other races. On the contrary, 1 proclaim here before the Italian Parlia ment that no one in the world can regard with more sympathy than we the aspira tions of different nationalities still groan ing under the oppression of dominating races. And it is our commen, and, per haps, decisive, interest to dissipate the inexplicable and deplorable ambiguity ~which has arisen regarding our war aims
We have once more, for ourselves and all the world affirmed them clearly and loyally here declaring that our aims are exclusively to ensure the national integrity against the menace which has existed for so long, leaving to the enemy Governments before history and before their own peoples the responsibility for the continuation of the war, as well as for having loosed it on the world.
THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL.
on all greater sacrifices. The Italian British wire, and I was dead bout. JustThey told me it wae a Bank Holiday people is declaring once more at a moment then a Very light shot up beside me. I should remember, and from that which is at once the most trying and the and in its dash I saw an unmistakable learnt that it was August. I had lost most decisive of the war, its faith in the British face the other side of the wire all count of the days. great cause, even more than when its I shouted." Don't shoot;
August
about
armies were fighting beyond the confines Tomm A sergeant called out to know at Taylor it a single man,
twenty-five, and before the war worked
The Superior: Inter-Allied Council consequently had only the supreme duty of devoting all its care to the continue tion and intensification of the war, and of Italy. Italians abroad are also show this duty it believes it has accomplished: ing their desire to contribute more largely It was necessary before all again to eat to this Lean than to any preceding one mate with care the military situation as In this exhausting war our people has determined by the complete and absolute shown that nothing discourages it, and effacement of Russia, Indeed, the that at is ready for anything, provided Enteste cannot now consider the events that the supreme reasons for which it which are taking place in the north is fighting by the side of the free peoples eastern part of Europe, except as a deste recognised and indisputably sane
(Contioned at font of nest Column.),
tioned.”
who I was then three of them lifted me in a factory in London. He was seven- over the wired Apk sastimes rejected for the Army ofing to the *****I must have been a sight; no clothes, fact that he is blind in the right eve,
been a sight; no starved almost to the bone, bearded, but as he was otherwise fit be succeeded filthy; but the men were amazed to see at last in evading the sight text by a me at all. They were an advanced feat of memory and has developed almost machine gun post, and had been watch into a marleman firing from the left ing me crawling toward theau, ready to shoulder. Although he is still obliged to use crutches, he expects to recover the pitk me off at the right momente
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