OUR LONDON LETTER, MINISTERIAL RESIGNATIONS IN WAR TIME.
THE SURGING LINE OF BATTLE IN THE WEST.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, April 29th. Recent Ministerial resignations and the constant re-shuffling of high appoint- ments of Stato are disquieting factors in the midst of such a war as this. It makes "the man in the street impatient be- cause he is unable to understand it, and no explanations of a convincing nature are ever given. His argument is that, apart from the politicians, men holding important appointments ought, like general in the Army, to retain office until superseded. They ought not to throw up their posts through personal pique or other private reasons." Moreover, unless national interests are made to over-ride every other consideration honest opinion is apt to be side-tracked by party politi: einns and party journalists.
There must be something wrong with a Government which has been obliged in a few weeks to throw out of employment men like Admiral Jellicoe, Sir William Robertson, Sir Hugh Trenchard, and Sir David Henderson, says the Westminster Gazette. This is a typical example of what is being written in a scetion of the Press. Of course, many people overlook the fact that the Westminster is Mr. Asquith's pet organ, and the paper can not forget or forgive Mr. Lloyd George for being the main cause of the downfall of the Asquith Administration. Even in war time you might as well hope to find the mills of human kindness in male tiger as forbearance in & party politician.'
NO SWAPPING OF HORSES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
LORD LEVERHULMES FAITH THE BREST-LITOVSK CON-
IN ENGLISH IDEALS.
BANKERS ARE AS TIMIDAS
RABBITS."
FERENCE
THE LIGHTEN SIDE.
A correspondent of the Manchester Lord Leverhulme, in conversation with Guardian, dealing with the lighter side a representative of the Daily Chronicle, l'of the Brest Litoval Conference, declared that for the Anglo-Saxon race to knuckle down to the German would be an eternal disgrace.
After discussing the possibility that the
Lord Leverhulme said:-- war might last from three to five years,
I can contemplate anything rather than the knuckling down of the Anglo- Saxon race to the German. That would be eternal disgrace. We should never survive it. It would be our ruin.
writes:-
The Brest Litovsk-Conference was shorn of much of the solemnity and awo with are usually surrounded. This was due, which the secret, conclave of diplomats of course, to the total unconventionality of the Russian Delegation, whog, members not only knew nothing but did not care to know anything about diplomatic con- of professionals with amateurs a number ventionalities. From this confrontation of amusing situations and incidents arose which enlivened the otherwise dramatic and even tragio proceedings,
My opinion is that finance will never
Bow little the Germans, with all their I don't care how big our debt affairs and character, knew the men with stop 118
cleverness and knowledge of Russian may be, we can shoulder it. But whom they were dealing was shown on am little suspicious about bankers, Of course, it's only a guess, I don't know, but I can't help thinking a banker must have been talking to Lord Lansdowne before he wrote those lettere. Bankers are as timid as rabbits.. I have noticed that all my life. No sooner does a man fall ill than they By to their ledgers, thinking he's going to die, to see how much he owes them. They are almost all like that extraordinarily timid. It's very curious, but they seldom have the courage which is essential to enterprise of soy magnitude. stop us
But finance won't
Our debt after finishing off the Napoleonic menace was eight hundred millions. It is calculated that our pa“.
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the first day of the Conference, when Baron von Kuchlmann, and his friends came to the conference room dressed in black coats, with all their decorations biang awaiting them in the same clothes pinned on their breasts-to find the Rus in which they had travelled. A Turkish of the Russians as Excellencies and delegate even attempted to address some only desisted when he noticed the broad smile on the face of one of the Russians who had been sitting nonchalantly in his chair, smoking a huge pipe, When M. Trotzky joined the party some of the Ger. mans, though they had learnt enough ly that time of the character of the Russians, could not prevail upon themselves to a dresa him simply as Herr Trotzky, but persisted in dubbing him on Trotzky
no doubt from sheer inability to con ceive that a Minister could be anything but a "von." The article even appear
tional wealth now is tenfold what i wned in the first protocols of the sitting then. I say it is a hundredfold. Think of the discoveries which have been made which were attended by Trotzky, and only since Waterloo. We mine for coal at an
when he struck it out with his own hand infinitely greater depth. Our modern was it dropped mining for all minerals is a revolution. Then think of the revolution, equally great, in chemistry, transport, agricu Then think of the present extent of the ture,
marketing in fact, everything British Empire. Tenfold I
BAY the national wealth, at the very least, is a Napoleon's day. We shall shoulder our debt.. in
THURSDAY, JUNE 19rm, 1918
EMPEROR KARL'S LETTER-
FRANCE'S JUST CLAIM,
The telegram of the Austrian Emperor to the German Kaitor denying the asser“ March, 1917, a letter in which he tion of M. Clemenceau that he wrote, in expressly admitted the just claim of France to Alsace-Lorraine, evoked a prompt and crushing retort from the French Prime Minister. This reply takes the form of the publication of the actual addressed to text of the letter in question, which was near relativo of the Emperor Charles
my
year of this war, which has brought so My Dear Sixte,-The end of the third much morning and pain into the world, Empire are united more closely than ever is approuching. All the peoples of
integrity of the Monarchy, even at the in the common will to safeguard the price of heavier sacrifices. Thanks to their union and to the generous co-opera- the Monarchy has been able to withstand tion of all nationalities in my Empire, for nearly three years the gravest assaults. No one van dispute the military advan- ages won by my troops, especially in the Balkan theatre of war, dag og
France, on her side, has shown magni- all unreservedly admire the admirable ficent power of resistance and clan. We traditional bravery of her army and the people. It is also particularly pleasant spirit of sacrifice of the whole French to me to see that, although they are for the moment opponents, no real divergence of views or aspirations separates my Empire from France, and that I am justified in being able to hope that my lively sympathies for France, joined to those which reign in the whole Monarchy, will prevent for ever a return to the state of war for which no responsibility can be assigned
SECRET MESSAGE TO M. POINCARE. manner the reality of these sentiments, To this end, and to show in a precise I beg you to convey secretly and uno cially to M. Poincaré, President of the French, Republic, that I shall support by every means, and using all my personal inluence with my Allies, the French just claims regarding Alsace-Lorraine,
But there is a feeling of irritation that hundredfold greater than it was in hand, Count Czernin, was apparently rehas sustained. As in Barbin, ebo
the whole of her African possessions with- As for Belgium, the ought to be entirely re-established in her sovereignty, keeping out prejudice to the compensation which she cny receive for the losses which she shall be re-established in ready to assure her an equitable and sovereignty, and as a token of our goodwill we are natural access to the Adriatic Sea, as well as wido economie concessions.
as anyone may see who turns his eyes everything for which England went toit were, broached the subject of the Tsar'dition that the kingdom of Serbia shal!!
ing
of
The events which have occurred in
ings of so many millions of men and so Hoping that we shall thus soon be ablo on both sides to put an end to the suffer many families which are in griel and anxiety. I beg you to believe in my very lively and fraternal affection--CHARLES.
"FOOL'S ERRANOS. Politeness was, indeed, a feature of the German delegates, and, above all, of Fortunately, public opinion is not dis-
doubt, the impression of a very clever Kuehlmann himself. turbed by loader writers or party men
He makes no in Parliament All that the public care
man with charming manners and a word about is the vigorous conduct of the war
ly knowledge of things. On the other politics or persons should distract atten
has tion from the supreme object we have
garded by the Russians as honest and amiable but weak. Has the Russian mash affected that the Geriuans used him for all sorts view. Whatever happens there will be no
It is characteristic swapping of horses in mid-stream. The the ideals with which England went to of diplomatic fool's errands, which he present position of the country is far too war? Has it modified my opinion as re- had to execute in private. One day, con grave for that; and it will remain ex-gards German character! The answer is versing with one of the leaders of the tremely grave for many weeks or months, clear.
That so-called peace emphasises Russian Delegation, he accidentally, as demand as a primordial and absolute con- Un her side Austria Hungary will across the Channel to the surging battle war, and puts into flaming italics, frate lines Since March 21st, when the great there are such things, everything in Gor Bolshevik Government was about to allow cease any relation and shall suppress any
Was it true, he asked, that the attack was first launched, the Germans man character that is a menace to the him to proceed to England! The reply society or group the political aim of baye
continued to advance a little here, happiness of mankind. Never before did was in the negative a little stiore there, now, in one place and I see so vividly how essential it is to asked. He was told that the Tsar, 11 Obrana, that it shall loyally and by all Why not! by of the Monarchy, especially the Narodna which tends towards the disaggregation now in aunther, by sheer weight. defeat Germany. And never before and slowed to leave Russia and settle abraid, means in its power prevent any kind of numbers. But however noch ge may feel no regret the loss of ground hallowed by the te bow to Germany, to accept Germany's counter-revolutionary intrigue. The Serbia and outside her frontiers, and that in my very bones that would at once become the centre of a political agitation in this sense both in heroic sacrifices of our dearest such loss will, would mean our eternal disgrace clover foot clumsily protruded at once. will not necessarily bring a decision in Fight on Of course we most fight ou Invour of Germany
Is there in Englishman who doubts it many were to give a guarantee against the guarantee of the Entente Powers.
But supposing, Czernin asked, "Gerit shall give an assurance thereof under The object of the German Higher Com
thera an Englishman, after this Rus such intrigues-would the Bolshoyik Gov mand is now clearly revealed, and Imsian peace, who would trust the Germans, ernment, permit him to settle in Ger Russia compel me to reserve my idega on even heen admitted. This
bring himself to sit at con- many i" destruction of the British Armies nature of mankind? Don't think of frou been charged with the duty of feeling the lished there
was the ference table with them arranging the com
Obviously he was executing the subject until the day when a legal commission of Kuehlmann's, who had and definite Government shall be estab preliminary to the final overthrow of tiers. Don't think of territory. Think ground by the Kaiser. French resistance. So far that aim has. ben bulked, and every military authores. Would you arrange that future never repeated afterwards, the reply were ing the matter to these two Powers
future of men, women, and
But the · feel
Having thus set forth my ideas, I will rity with whom I have conversed during with the Germans of Brest! Never mind
children.
was done so artlessly that it was ask you to inform me in your turn, after the past few weeks is confident that tabout Armenian massacres, Serbian mas will be frustrated.
came sufficiently straight and prompt to of the opinion, first of all, of France and quench all further hopes on, the subject, England, with a view to preparing the sacres, Belgion massacres, U-boat atroci THE FINAL FACTOR. ("-
ties here, there, and everywhere; don't Anethor time Count Czernin raised the ground in the Entente so that oficial think of those things, but think simply at Petrograd. The very pet of mentioned and lead to a result to the satisfaction At the samo time the fact must be ad of the Peace Treaty
subject of the future Gorman Ambassado, negotiations might on that basis be open mitted that the dispatches from the front you negotiate the future of men, women, ing it shows how little the Germans PX-
of Brest continue to record the loss of places of and children with the German scoundrelspected that eventually the negotiations historic interest and of tactical value in who trapped the deluded and disarmed thought that all the opposition shown by would break down. They, indeed, the present war, and we must be pre Itussiens to their rain! pared for still further disagreeable news. Any peace made with an unde the fussians to their proposals was more It may be that, the position of Ypres feated Germany, any peace, would under a game of make-believe, intended to having been seriously threatened, we shall mine our Anglo Saxon mentality for save their faces in the eyes of the Rus have eventually to suffer Calais and Boulogne to fall into German bands.
centuries, we should never be the same stan people It was in this belief that Still, even the loss of the Channel ports clouded over by the emasculating oppor- Russian delegate whether the presentation race again.. All our idealism would be Count Czernin ones mysteriously asked a
PRINCE BIXTE OF BOURDON. need not be regarded catastrophic and tunism of the materialist. We should be of an ultimatum would not be of assist- the end of the war.
Prince Sixte (Sixtus) of Bourbon, to At the moment of like the Germans.
We should have a ance to them. When the reply came that is a member of the Fatina branca of the whom the Emperor's letter was addressed writing, however, it is a contingency that bagman morality. We should walk the he should rather address no ultimatum to family has to be contemplated.
earth with the same sort of feeling that prised. In connection with the ambassa. He was born at Wartegg, on August 1st, his own German friends he was much eur
which Napoleon I. declared The German military critics, it is ton card-sharper must have in his
learned nothing and forgot nothing be noted, have confessed that the idea We should have failed to say the eternal dorial question he ventured upon the sug-1986, and is the sevent of the eighteen underlying the whole of the great battle No. We should have accepted dishonour gestion that perhaps Dr. Helferich would children of the late Duke Robert of in France is that of the annihilation of on what grounds On the grounds of be acceptable at Petrograd as the repre- Parma, who died in 1907, by his second the enemy reserves." Therefore, so long convenience. What an end for our race! senta
sentative of Germany. as we can read of prodigious German.
On receiving a at any rate what a poison to hand on negative reply he asked whether in that wife, Princess Maria Antonia of Bra- assaults outnumbering our men by three, to our children! Dishonour rather than case: Dr. Walter Hathenau, the well- ganz
His brother Duke Henry is the four and even more to one, we can be sacrifice! certain that the enemy is using up his would survive that 1 Isn't there a time This time the answer was that the best frincess Zita, who was born in 1892, was Do you think our children known electricity "king," would not do present head of the branch, and his sister, reserves at a faster rate than he has com
when a nation must say, and mean knecht Again Count Czernin was ob- Roman Catholic, and, despite its close Ambassador to Russia would be Lieb- Emperor of Austria. The family is married in Uctober, 1911, to the present! pelled the utilisation of ours.. This is Death rather than Dishonour? the dominating point of the war situa
dishonour more fatal than a loss of acres? viously much surprised. These candida connection with the Habsburgs or per- tion as it is understood here: Man
tures show what importance the German haps because of it-bas never been Power will be the final factor in the war on land, and not the acquisition of terri
Government attaches to the future com-friendly to German ideas of hegemony in mercial and financial relations with Rus- the Teutonic world, and it was probably tory or the capture of this or that town. THE LAST RESERVES.
for this reason that the Emperor Charles selected Prince Sixte as his go-between. On this point, as to the importance of
One of the most interesting figures the last reserves of Men-Power, it is of
among the German delegates was the Metropole, now published in London, According to the Belgian paper Za particular interest to recall the opinion
Russian like a native, and mew even the Prince Xavier, as an officer in the Belgian notorious General Hoffmann He spoke Prince Bixte served with his brother, of the greatest of all masters of war
private relationship of the Russian dele army up to February, 1918. In that There is a passage quoted in Freytag Loringhoven's book in which it is stated
gates among themselves. Contrary to month both cabarked at Marseilles on the Napoleon said to Moreau, Victory WHAT WILL IRELAND DO
what people would expect, the face of this steamer da, bound for Morocco, in falls in the last event to the biggest bat
Prussian jack-boot talions,
Moreau asked whether other
But while we are faced with the pre-one-round, plump, rosy, smiling, almost force. Both Princes are cousins of the is a most umiable order to serve in the Belgian colonial factors, such as efficiency and leadership, sent crisis what tiny happen in Ireland in its innocence. His manners, Queen of the Belgians did not weigh heavily and might com other matter. With the Irish Roman his face. But when he plays the Prus if conscription is enforced there is an lively and courteous, are on a par with pensate and prevail Napoleon replied that that might be so in a single battle, Catholic bishops joining hands with Sinn sinn general and makes a pronouncement but seldom in a whole war. Victories Hein and every other anti-English faction in the approved style of a conqueror his official capacity almost every interna used
armies no less surely than de tion of the Military Service Acts to Ir root his eyebrows swell enormously Germany had been represented in the in order to resist the proposed, applica face suddenly becomes red like a beet tional conterence or congress at which Up feats. Our aim, must be to hold the land, anything, may happen at any me there of an animal in rege. therefore, better than any man aliyo what Gerrsans while they dash themselves
and overhang against our defensive"
eyer, and the latter glow courag of the inst generation, and knew. ment. One positions, and keep
is tolerably clear our armies intaét. will then be for namely, that Ireland is at the cross-roads the Americans to come in, and, as the with the Allies in resisting Germany and specialists to act as advisers, the Germans to be. In his
It is to be noted that while the Russiane an international tresty, and, more parti of her history. Unless she joins now brought with them only a couple of onlarly, a peace treaty, was and ought biggest battalions" in the Napoleonic sense, adminster the death stroke to the striking a blow for civilisation she will came to Brest with a large retinue of taking out from on, he continued, common enemy.
have t to reckon with world-opinion, coldly various Geheimräte und Ministerial parcel of papers
side. pocket a a thick disdainful, after the war. She will also direktoren, each expert in his own
d putting down one *UNDER THE UMBRELLA. "
according to the
was to fulfil its object, ought to latest reports of Irish every step, and who not only supplied contain less than 14 sections dealing with Kuehlmann with all the learning and as many aspects of peace, And he un more depends upon the issue
is brain.
Isn't
they had been asked to do this last Feb-sia ruary before the present peril became unifest they would have probably re- fused, and indulged in a lot of tall talk about downing tools. Instead, they and Trade Unionists afterwards, they are are proving that being Englishmen first ready to fight and, if needs be, to die for their heritage as free men.
"Thing
FACE OF JACK-BOOT
his
forfeit now the of America, domain, whom they kept on consulting at pair of glasses no peace treaty,
It is said, however, and with perfect American views on the question how of wisdom which he displayed in the dialer folded his papers and proceeded to deliver cient strength to turn the scale as regards cool in Ireland than the immeticale tournamentinin Trotsky, but also to the unfortunate Russians a lecture
own account on the nature of those 14 sections which
truth, that it will take time before the United States is able to intervene in gaff men. In the meanwhile we must carry diate enrolment of the young men; for, held little side-shows on
as the Times points on; and hence the urgent call for men down a challenge to the Imperial Fowing now with one and then with another of were indispensable in a proper treaty here to fill the gaps in the Armies dur ment the Roman hierarchy have done the Ministerial direktor K., an old pro
Parlia the Russian experta One of them was of peacelo ing the next six months. Happily there is no cause for, uneasiness on this score more than repeat their old, obscure in fessor and high oficial in the Foreigned by each side in its own language, and The proceedings at Brest were conduct tervention as individuals in the Home Ministry, who had two pairs of glasses the speeches were translated sentence by younger men in industry, hitherto resumed the
They have openly as on his nose. Catching one of the Rngsinn sentence as they were delivered into Ru garded as being under the umbrella,”
polities and in so doing they have him into a corner, he one day revealed to in private conversation, however, abaken to its foundations the whole edifice him the fact that he had attended in an French was frequently employed as a of religious toleration in these islands."
(Continued at foot of next column)
noutral tongue,
as far as England is concerned Rule controversy arch to intervene delegates by the buttonhole and dragging sian or German, as the case might be.
are coming forward of their own accord and offering themselves as soldiers.
(Continued at foot of next column)
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