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MR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH, 1918.
IN THE painful than the use to which President Wilson's principles have been put by the Central Powers? Can anything more justify the feeling of distrust of all statesmanship in Germany and Austria than the use German and Austrian states mon have made of President Wilson's public declarations of policy? There are which have been quoted with approval
WAR SPEECHES BY BLOQUENT
BALFOUR AND MR. PAGE. Conndence in the ultimate triumph of the Allied cause was, the key-note of all the messages and speeches
your
The illusions which have brought her to be an American now living in Great the unhappy position in which she now Britain. I will mention only two of finds herself have never been entertained innumerable acts of thoughtfulness, which by our friends on the other side of tho are typical of many more. Lord Lecon- Atlantic. They have always known, that, held gave his spacious and beautiful cherishing the
ideals in which they residence for use as an American Officers believe, they would have in the last resort Club, and no officer who has enjoyed it
will ever fail of the most hearty apprecia They have always to fight for them. understood that in this great battle tion Again, when the Tuscant was tor between darkness and light, beter right pedood, your nevel patrol not only risked and wrong, sacrifices were inevitable own and the lives of
our nen, but the kind the distinguished company which attend Minister of Austria, and which tell us fices they were ready to make to the fullestole of high station and the humblest ed a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor peace is essential justice; that nations their own id a happy comspiring dwellers on those rough coasts showed an
that what is required for permanent extent to
to
ends. It is an at the Mansion House on April 8th to are not to be treated as chattels to be ex-spectacle to see a great nation whose work unselfish kindness that we can never for hitherto been peaceful the work of get. (Cheers.) These acts are like your good territorial rearrangements are to be made
mrned to
WAT thoughts were never turned
whose feeling entry into the war. A picturesque incid-in the interests of the populations con-
This has been a fuemurable year in our ent occurred at the close of the speech corned; and that national aspirations are worst enemies never anggested that it was
to be considered in any rearrangements Power with military ambitions it is an history. I hold in my hand a brief official made by the American Ambassador in of territory, made at the conclusion of inspiring sight to see it put all its record of the work we have done to help energies, all its power of sacrifice, all its in this great enterprise to free the world wealth in men, in ability, and in resources from this mortal danger. We have response to the toast. Drawing from peace.
The very statemen who, in language into the service of a cause in which it made mistakes, we have suffered delaye, beneath the tablo a silk United States
hypocritical, not uncharitable to call believer. (Cheers.)
have praised those prin- AMERICA'S SACRIFICE ciples publicy before their own country- country asked the Lord Mayor to accept men have, at the very moment in which Surely no greater proof was ever give tory, and this is the main thing
they proclaimed adhesion to them, violated them in every particular, cynically, openly, dagrantly, and with out shame, and in their own countries apparently without reproach.
colebrate the anniversary of America's changed betwen various Powers that larming vast and wealthy areas-whose hospitality to day, tokens of genuine
Bag, Mr. Page, speaking on behalf of the American officers now stationed in this
it for the City of London in token of their appreciation of this distinguished reception and of the common comrade ship. Amid cheers, the Lord Mayor caused the flag to be hung over the back of his chair, and in a few appropriate words assured Mr. Page that it would
Take one of the consequences that has followed from this misuse of the principle of nationality. At this moment--because largely through the influence of President Wilson, that principle has been received with favour, nominally at least, in all world you find some g in this fashion,
to belong to
this or that country
bo
we have met misfortune of weather and of plans.
But these are details:
We have laid the broad foundations of vic- of its devotion to a common cause than have built a vast military structure on was given recently by President Wilson the broad basis of the lives of our best and the American Government. Gather youth of the treasure of our industry, ing with clear perspicacity the magnitude of the undivided patriotism of our whole of them they vonged to
nation. We have found and taken our engaged
have agreed to allow Ameri-lace in the array of free nations, whose can troops collected on the other side to courage is put to the supreme test be brought over, not to fight in the first all our smaller efforts of this kind wo instance in an American army, but to be have never yet turned aside nor turned brigaded with British or French troops back till success was won, and we will aside nor turn back now. but sure that everybody in this room may not turn not sure that everybody in this room men (Cheers.) sures the full magnitude of the sacrifice Our Navy came instantly to the rescue if that be the word-which that policy of our mutual traffic by sea, and has
hear.) If they want to
measure
it, let
In
forces
France, Great Britain, and Italy have tri Armenians, Greeks, and others patriotism realised by the whole that the American people will consider
ever be one of the cherished treasures of the capitals of
of our enemies arguing the City.
you are to determine whether this involves. (hem put themselves in the worked with so perfect co-ordination with The toasts of The King and The or that piece of territory 18haracter position of the President and Government yours that the British and American con-
by the Chiefs of the Allied States were given the population inhabiting it, is it not of the United States, and let them ask tingents and personnel are indistinguish- by the Lord Mayor, who said that the very simple plan either by massacre of whether British Government would, able. We have now so lent our land
three separate tervention of the United States would otherwise to change the character of that without hesitation or condition, in obedi:forces you and to the French that the
population
consent to enemy will and not effect materially the destinies of the credible in its brutality. It has been negado primediato necessity cops ander opposed to him, but one solid great army.
brigade
General said to ality. Our whole human race for generations to
done. It is being done, and it is pro another flag I believe we should do it, as if its woman ding one nation- posed to done at the very moment at 1 hope we should not fall below our bro the Commander-in-Chief of all the Allied como. (Cheers.) * Americans know what which I am speaking under the regis of thers across the Atlantic in the higher Forces in France. I come to tell you
those civilized nations, Germany and
But it should be understood and done in the war," he added. They will not go through the list-are
public in this country. I do not believe it a great honour that our troops have part in the present battle. butchered in some cases, coerced in othor it will seriously delay what we all desire ten
and I tell you in my own name (Cheer.) know that, at immense sacrifice, we have
cases, in order that the population of to see, which is a long carried the torch. We know that this or that area may be so manipulated fighting as an erican army theirs that, if it is a question of fighting
army sideby they are coming in their thousands, to come within the purview of Preside with the British Army, the French our infantry, artillery, and aviators, and
sident Wilson's principles. Horror can
will come still hundreds of thousands, and, if need be, no further go than at the cynicism of such army, the Italian army, and all the other all that we have are at your service, to
forces of the Allies. Meanwhile it does use as you wish, and there involve don't let us disguise it from our more, as many as may be necessary. I their millions, to make victory certain policy. (Cheers.) ⠀⠀⠀⠀
have come expressly to tell you that the solves-American troops being brigaded
American people. will be proud to tako with British troops under the British Bag,
French troops under the French part in the
HR. BALFOUR'S SPRECH.
Mr. Balfour was received with cheers on rising to propose the toast of "The Day We Celebrate." He said This is no urinary occasion. Often as great evenis Louching the intervals of this great country have been dealt with in this room, I do not believe there has ever been
COERCION OF ROUMANIA.
I do not say that Austrians or Ger
or
Dians themselves do this I say it is done tag. It does involve a temporary Born history test and grandest battle
the
Con
an occasion so important in the history president Wilson their approval and, realising must be swept out of the nation as large as the Republic. (Hear
(Cheers.) That is our response to instant demand of by their Allies and under their protecfce of a great and natural ambition
critical time. think that no
no provis But the crimes which can be (Cheers) tion. directly charged against the Austrian
That sacrifice is being performed for a combination of different nations has ever and Germans, though in some respects great international end, because their buman history shown a spirit of un- less horrible, are not less eynical viola President, and the community whom he selish earnestness to match this union tions of these sumie principles. I am not represents, have thoroughly realised how of British, French, and of our going through all the list, but when 1 much depends upon the fighting in the ordination. Such unanimity of our vast democracy as President Wilson has is a next few months on the Western Front new fact in our history, and so far as remind you that the actual individual
who expressed
that, have left that
I know a new fact in the history of any of
principles about smaller territorial arrangements, and treating way, in order that the great and final end
| bear... populations as chattels to be exchanged shall be achieved. Do any of us doubt between different, Powers-when I tell you that the end will be achieved? (Cheers.) (and I do not know whether the public understand from what I have seen in has Central Powers told Roumania that it sho
not of this country alene, nor chiefly of this country, but, in the history of mun- kind and of civilisation, as the occasion we are now celebgating (Choers.) We are not merely expressing our personal
that the war 15.
AREFASHIONED WORLD.
In this hour of supreme test we re
already won for Germany
Inst millions as are needed some, along with man to suggest underrating the formid you and our French companions-in-arms, tary so to redden the fields of France that able character of the German military rulers or nations who hereafter meditate organisation, or the bravery of German troops. It would be felly to do so. But conquest will see there the price that froe when I am asked, as the Germans ask the men paid for freedom, and will hesitate and desist our heroic example makes world at large, neutrals and boll gerents, to look at the war map and see whether our part of the task easier. It will be an immortal experience nation that share your to they have not won. I look at the war MAP and I draw
elding endurance.. quite a definite conclusion.
to stay this plague will ever out
gratification at the adhesion to the set beca informed of this) that the orman newspapers that some of them go hurrying and we will come with as many Allied ranks of one of the greatest did not conclude peace she would the length of sayang potential Powers- the greatest actual divided up between. Bulgaria on the one Power in the world. Our thoughts side and Bungury on the other, and wrtin avel far beyond narrow issues like those guished from among the class of indepen and we are right, for this day is the dent nations, you will be able to appre nnniversary of on event which may be into the character of the statesmen with taken as inarking the exact moment at whom we have to deal (Crice of which the New World threw in its lot Same") That they have not accom with the civilised elements in the Old plished, but other things they have accom. plished. If anybody will take the trouble World, and at which the greatest Stato among them showed its clear conscious ness of the fact that all the forces of civilisation must now be united together
neighbours of Germany, but extending, like Germany's own ambitions, over the whole universe, were to be checked, and if independent development and all the blessings which we associate with inter nacional freedom were to have full in the future. (Cheers, e fust play
Russian
if the peril, not confined to the mere Russian community--I really don't know matter you will find that in the main thanks of succeeding specialAnd
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to go over the map of Central Europe. They have made, undoubtedly important at the points of junction between the gains of territory, but if you consider the live the glory of its achievement nor the
The the Russian State Empire,
for your those gains of territory have been made we have to thank you. to call it and the great Centeneither against the unprepared or the un- the seas and the threatened attacks on
sure shield against
the subjugation Empires, if they will look at the terri- resisting The gains of territory they
lands beyond them. For this I speak our tories which have been ravished from have made against efficient armies, prela Russia without
and this understanding will never pass Bention that excuse, rason or justi. pared as they are prepared in the bold, appreciation with a new understanding, have not been great, am not a military from our grateful recollection. (Cheers. territorios have been treated, by will then critic, and I am not going to say anythingly countrymen here and at home would be able to form in estimate of the sin about the military aspects of not forgive me if I failed agait to assure cerity which animates, the statesmanship immediate future. But I would remind the distinguished statesman-qur good boxes and crates of quality merchandise in ports the world over. For of the Central Powers.
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In the name of the American officers moment I do not believe that fighting for your efforts, am ought to be you cannot energy with which Germany has pursued stationed here I have the honour to ask the "Allied cause is any community to be secure peace by fins phrases. Cheers) her military object it the energy with you to accept for the City of London this found which more clearly understands Russian
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the lesson will another and make mischief between them.preciation of your kind remembrance of day, and of our appreciation also of firmly determined to see those issues try who have been in power in the She has completely failed, and I think to this distinguished gathering in our bon-
day we should celebrate not only the anniversary on which we have met, but our. (Prolonged cheers). also the unity of that great corporation of free nations which is carrying on the struggle (Cheers.)
brought to a successful conclusion, than the great Republic of America. (Cheers.) Last few nonthe, I believe, sincerely All of us have come to the conclusion thought that by making aloquent appeal that while there is room on this earth for to the populations, or sections of the free development of all communities populations, of other countries, they could there is not room for the ideal cherished contrive to put an end to war and bring by the German military party and the about an eternal peace. They little knew AMERICAN
The American Ambassador, Mr. W. H of falsely judged, the, Power with which ideals cherished by the great free demo they had to deal, and at this moment they Page, replying to the toast, said: It is eracies of the world. (Cheers.) One or 1 helpless under the heel of the con- with much emotion that, as spokesmen other must prevail They cannot flourish
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One of
AMBASSADOR GETS
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR.
The Italian Ambassador (the Marquis Iraperiali di Francavilla), who also responded, said never perhaps more than now had Great Britain been lighted by the glowing heroism of her ens
and
the magnificent ideals of which she had made naturally maturing the sub
sublime ideals of herself the champion. Thus events were
God-fearing with
Was
those who have an undying faithfully remembering this momentous anni President Wilson. A les All
for
brought out by recent events. Thuse he slow, and pains into a position in countrymen. Almost a year ago
youation independent, we
welcomed us into the privilege of sharing which have gone the circle of the earth, again be united, and shall be what she has this then, in little ways of all the peoples. (Cheers.) Whatever
busiriens with yourselves, and
and
big
is a pathetic, or perhaps I ought to say the Russian people, and I look forward versary in our history, and your kindness formed of.
grim a tragic, side to these statements of ideals to their emerging by stages, which may is in keeping with the kindness of all your peace loving nations, who
were fighting ideals have been crystallised in words which Russia shall ngain be
of the
right an principles of and justice and the independence and have found an answering ceno in never been before, not only independent ever since every man who knows what freedom and united, but free (Cheers) Every ways, you have shown your appreciation efforts and sacrifices were necessary, they means, in the formule given to us by assistance that we can give her in this of our companionship Those of us who
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