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THE WAR.

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General

EARLIER CABLES.

STRANGERS HOME FOR ASIATICS

LORD INCHCAPE'S TRIBUTE TO NATIVE SEAMEN.

GERMANO-DUTCH NEGOTIA-

TIONS

LEST WE FORGET.

PAGES FROM BELGIUM.

NETHERLANDS' FOREIGN BY "AM" THE WELL-KNOWN CONTRIBUTOR.

TO PUNCH."1:

MINISTER'S STATEMENT.

Three years ago a cartoon was published German soldier proudly showing his great in a New York paper. It represented a War Picture Book to America America cap, a stupid little boy who would keep was dressed us a little boy in a dunce's stopping at one page in the book, off

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THE HAGUE, May 5th Dutch Foreign Minister said the measures which Germany desirod were. originally only, partly acceptable. Those measures were the resumption of the transport, which had ceased since 1917, the German's impatience to turn on to the other more thrilling pictures. But between Germany and Belgium, by Dutch the boy, rather wistfully, kept his finger

ge. I know I'm silly," be seemed to say," in the book B is for Belgium all that And that was the second page covered with blood."

waterways, of sand, gravel, and broken this one page but I can't get over

LONDON, May 6th.

stone without the Dutch insisting on an Lord Inchcape, presiding at the

expert enquiry regarding the employ Strangers Home for Asiatics, paid a ment of the previously transported very high tribute to the splendid services materiais. The Dutch objected to encon- and gallantry of native seamen during tro led transport in unlimited quan the war The Home had provided comtities no infringing the obligations of fortable quarters for torpedoed native neutrality. seamen. Not many of our fellow sub- Jets would sail on German ships for a long time after the war, He said the Lascar's sobriety, his calm demeanour in an emergency, and his philosophic endurance of catastrophe were beyond all praise: During last year 1,236 Asiaties were admitted to the Home only from torpedoed vessels, 170 of whom wero

entirely destitule.

LABOUR MAY DAY DEMON

STRATION.

DISCHARGED SOLDIERS STORM PLATFORM

LONDON, May 6th. During in Labour May Day demus.

stration“at Leicester on

Ramsay

We shall do well, all of us still to keep Belgium is no less a tragedy because it is. our fingers on that page: The tragedy of more than three years old. It goes on. And for what is done now there is no exouse, for it is done, not in the heat of battle but in cold blood; the enslavement of Belgium

the

The Germans then stated that they desired permission respecting: 1,600,000 tons annually Helland agreed, this figure was below the maximum quantity which it expressed to two interested Governments as! necessary for the ordinary upkeep of Belgian roads Therefore, Holland was justified in withdrawing the stipulation regarding expert investiga tion Germany simultaneously declared her willingness not to use the materialOctober 12th, 1915, and for military purposes.

Germany further denunded the un hindered right to export 20,000 tons of gravel monthly From Holland to Belgium. During the somewhat long-standing

kang Dutch prohibition of transport the exportation, usually free of sand and gravel had been seriously kindered, and Holland had no longer a strong reason

All further nows is as sad as over. This is from the letter of a Belgian There were 400 men called up from the town of Ebcloo they were ordered to be at Reeloo station at 10 o'clock ready to start for the Somme. Each man had

following notice sent to his home:--- You are expressly commanded by the German military authorities to ap- ear to the Eeclos station at 10 am. by the tower clock. The Military Com mandant informs you that falling to com ply with this order you will be punished according to the Military Decree of

and possibly

deported into Germany for hus these mon,

The writer goes on too, started off to swell the number of the forced to work behind the German Front, thousand deported Belgians, who are They can count on no leave to visit their homes. They are obliged to sign a con- traote Their system is as follows: He who refuses to sign the contract is put under arrest for eight days-his full more. Should he at the end of this time daily ratione 4oz of bread, nothing continue his refusal, he is starved. There have been men who have held out for five

after the first meal after this they were then

sent to the front, but succumbed

tuken back to hospital--some wore given injections, and after a day or two rest, bring up the cannon from their shattered sent back to the front, and obliged to..

deplacements.

Macdonald Sunday Mr for withholding acquiescenes in a wishy days and at last given in They were

platform was'

stormed by a body of men, mostly dis charged soldiers, and only the prompt action of the police prevented their wrecking the platform.

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald started bis speech by admitting that, after the German offensive, it was far more difficult to talk of peace. He proceeded to com plain that the Government took no action upon the Austrian Emperor's peace offer 3 year ago, when a crowd, carrying the Union Jack, rushed the platform

NORWEGIAN VICTIMS OF

U-BOATS

London, May 6th. To April 30th, 155 Norwegian vessels, with a tonnage over one million, had been lost owing to the war, and 906 Norwegian sailors were drowned. Fifty-three ships. with crews of over 700, are missing, two- thirds of which are believed to be war Josses.

THE CAUCASUS FIGHTING.

The

TURKISH REPORT:

LONDON, May 5th

communiqué states ; - Germans occupying Schastopol

Turkish

found a greater part of the Bussian Black

Sea Fleet and merchantron in the

harbour.

Several Turkish warships, including the Goshen, have arrived at Sebastopol

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

NOTE TO ALLIED CONSULS- GENERAL

LONDON, May 5th. The Times Correspondent at Tokio,

coneryning a Dutch product whose export was not prohibited.

But though the Germans can enslave tho bodies of their Belgian victima they can- not enslave their souls.

Germany desired the resumption of the transport of merchandise by the Belgo Germany Railway pid Roervand, which Germany itself stopped at the beginning of the war. The terms of the Dutch- German Convention of October 12th, 1874, writer,

Some deported Belgians, adds the ** were working on the German side of the Yser front. Across the line. debarred the Dutch from objecting

they heard the Belgian soldiers singing Germany also desired the free trans-The Lion of Flanders Their blood port of all merchandise this railway rose, they struck work, and they too began to sing the same. The German guard except aeroplanes, arms, and ammuni- swore, stormed and struck, but all to no tions. The question of the transport of purpose the singing continued what a troops did act arise, but Holland was

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unable to permit the transport of Army fous remember that scene the slaves,

supplies by virtue of the principle of International Law expressly set forth in Article 2 of its proclamation of Neutrality,

THE SITUATION IN SIBERIA

JAPANESE ARRESTED AT

IRKUTSK

Torio, May oth The Russian authorities a) Irkutsk have arrested the Japanese Vice-Consul and President of the Japanese Associa tion.

GERMANY'S "PEACE

OFFENSIVE"

ENGLAND MISSED THE

PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT!

Amsterdam, May 6th. Baron von Dem Bueche, the German Under-Foreign Secretary, replying to Lord Robert Cecil's interview as regards the "peace offensive." predicts further German victories in the West, and says that England had frequently missed the psychological moment for peace.

GERMAN CASUALTIES AT ZEEBRUGGE.

AMSTERDAM, May 6th. The Telegraaf states that 70 Germans were killed and 250 wounded in the

to work for the enemy, hearing. across the waters of the Toor the song of their country.

Whether new history is made from day to day, let us always keep out wrongs; and let it be the first page to finger in the page of Belgium's

which wo turn when the final nocount is made up

GERMAN PROPAGANDA.

ITS SUPERIORITY OVER THAT OF THE ALLIES IN RUSSIA.

Roumania, referring to the collapse of The Times correspondent at Jussy, the Russian Army, wrote recently

been extraordinary, far superior to the The work of the German ngents bas propagands of the Allies. The latter, desiring to enlighten the Russian soldiers, have sent to the front well-educated, clever officers to urge the necessity of fighting until the enemies of liberty are crushed. They arrived among the Russian troops in uniform, wearing generally and spoke to three or four decorations, the simple minded Russian peasant about freedom, the struggle for liberty, humani tarianism, the crushing of Prussian mili tarism, and many

other any soldier of Western Europe. These would certainly have impressed greatly things which

speeches, mode generally in translated into Russian by on interpreter, were soldiers who cheer any speech provided frequently cheered by the listening

that it lasts at least 15 minutes, and that. the speaker gesticulates. The names of Socialists like M. Vandervelde and M. Albert Thomas, of Ministers of big Republican countries, of members of Parliament, and so on, have been used, in the endeavours to persuade tre soldiers of the dangers of their passive attitude and of their power to end the war in a. short time. The men listened to all these pecches and cheered hard, but as soon as

telegraphing on April 29th, stated that British attack, at Zeebrugge, The Ger visitors left the front the German

agents, who very often, were in the cheer the Asas Correspondent at Moscow says mans compelled 1,000 Belgians to repairing crowd, got up and started their much the Foreign Commissary has handed to the damage.

more efficient the Consuls General of Japan, Great

NEUTRAL FLAGS.

Britain, France and the United States GERMANY RETALIATES UPON 2 Note, accusing the Consuls of partici- pating in a plot against the Soviet Government, and alleging that the repry sentatives of these Powers at Vladivostock and Peking were negotiating a counter- revo’utionary" reorganization.

The Bolshevists recently have been ex-

amining and subjecting to indignities the Japanese subjects in Siberian towns,

EX-GREEK COMMANDER

MURDERED.

ATHENS, May 6th

A German report recently announced the death from apoplexy, at Goerlitz, of Colonel Hazzopoulous, who surrendered Berts and Kavalla to the Bulgarians "It is now macertained that Colonel Hazzopoulos was murdered by a Greek Bergeant as a result of a conspiracy by

the Greek officers interned af Goerlitz.

rather different Ppaganda

of our way from hot in a agents.

They

said Why fight. Do you not see that all these speeches are nothing else but the tricks of your former mastors, who toge- ther with other people at home try to AUSTERDAH, May 6th. A new German regulation withdraws the land of the tyrants by keeping you provent you from having your share of Protection of a neutral flag as regards in the trenches with the hope that you any ships (which henceforth will be will be killed? Go home and take the treabert as enemy ships) belonging to any land due to you while there is still time." country which has concluded an agree. Such speeches by the Germans, dressed ment with the enemy respecting a ccssion of tonnage, or if a greater part of the merchantren of the country concerned is sailing for the enamy,

in Russian uniforms, Were Benerally accompanied by the distribution of a cer tain number of roubles maite in Ger many and of large glasses of vodka. Naturally all this

KING'S INTEREST IN A SURGICAL the rather

MARVEL

to the mind of the appealed much more soldier then dry speeches of the emissaries of the Allies, who asked them to run the risk of being killed or wound- A wonder of modern surgery was seen ed. By this kind of propaganda the Ger by the King and Queen in the course of man agents succeeded in convincing the their visit of inspection to the Reading Russian peasant that it was useless to War Hospital No. 1 Private Beesley fight. This pernicious work was largely who was a pianist before he became

supported by the Soviets, whose regula soldier, had the thumb of his right hand tions annihilated the very strict and shot away in action. The surgeons, for severe discipline without which, as has seeing that this would be a grave handi been proved, an Army like the Russian cap to him again in civil life, undertook cannot exist. German propaganda and to transplant the third finger of his left the decisions of the Soviets have trans- hand on the place where his thumb hail formed the brave Russian soldiers into been The operation was quite success bands of brigands, who murder women ful, and Private Beesley told the King and old men in order to get a f

few that he expects to be able to play again or a pair of boots. sa well as OTOSA

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