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FACE TO FACE WITH

KAISERISM."

AFTER THE WAR.

{DY J. W. GERARD, FORMENLY AMERICAN, AMBASSADOR IN DERLIN.]

In the final chapter of "Face to Face with Kaiserism," his new book on Ger- changes which he thinks will take place after the war throughout the world, par ticularly in Germany.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 14TH, 1918.

Capital will be wasted because each na tion will store up quantities of theso materials necessary to war which it is compelled to import from other countries, For instance, Germany will always carry great stocks of grain and of fats, of cop per and cotton and wool, all of the materials for the lack of which she suffer

ed during the present war.

hich she suffer.

on the

CLOSED

BRIGADIER WHO

A GAP THE STORY OF THE SCRATCH FORCE.

I

The following narrativo refers to the feats of General Sandeman-Carey's force, which were mentioned in our teleg from Franco:

AFTER THE WAR PREMIER'S ASPIRATIONS.

A private deputation from the Trades Union Congress Parliamentary Com mitter waited upon the Primo Minister at 10, Downing-street, and presented for passed at the Blacktios] Trade Congress. his consideration a number of resolutions

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In my first book I touched change in the industrial system that will and selling introduced first by Germany, and which must be copied by the other nations if they desire to compete on equal In Germany for

Now that the British Correspondents

No one but a fortune teller or profes- terms with that country war at least, with the Armies in France have been

tional seer dares to predict the condition of the world after this war. Only mere suggestions can be thrown out, shadows of prophecy as to what may come. Will the tide of emigration turn from Europe and the United States to other countries, or will people of German birth and descent leave America to return to the Fatherland after the war?

and perhaps as a permanent regulation,

several years after the purchase of all luxuries outside of Germany will be forbidden because of the desire to keep German gold and credits at home.

THE CHEAPEST: MARKET. Germans have oven stated to me that they do not fear in a trade war any prejudice created against them in other countries by their actions during this war. They say that a man always will I made it my business after I had buy where he can buy the cheapest, and that however much a merchant may hate learned German to talk to many of the the Germans after the war, if he can buy plain people in Berlin and elsewhere to the goods he wants for his use from Ger- get their views. 1 found that the company at a cheaper rate than anywhere mon soldiers, especially those represent interest of his pocket book

else, he will forget his prejudices in the ing the class of skilled workingmen in This is a question, which cach reader the industrial centres, were almost any, 1 believe that in England, in France, will have to solve for himself. Personal aninious in saying that after the war and and in Arderies, too, if the war should at the first opportunity they intended to last a long time, the prejudice against leave Gerinany, to turn from a country will become so great that many a mer

German trickery and brutality in war capable of perpetrating this calamity on chant will prefer to lose a little money the world, a country where they have rather than deal with German sellers However, the appeal of the pocket-book. brew subject not along to military service is always so earnest and so insistent that the Germans may be right in the the view down the balance as

tem of dicipline. I believe that German

the prejudice

permitted to tell that in the last days of March the French troops came to the relief of our front to the south of the Somme,

PENSIONS FOR MOTRERA.

problems of child welfare skuld not be I am entirely in agreement that these

looked at from the point of view of the advantages conferred upon individuals,

and S.SKAWI

ara hereby notified that their Cargoes,

having arrived per S.S. DJEMBER,"

THE above-mentioned vessel having arrived signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Cargo will be landed at their risk into tho Hazardous and/or oxira Hasardone. Godowns

the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Likl., Kowloor, and stored at Con- signeer risk

Consignees of Cargo are hereby notifed ikat they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports,

bus from the point of view of the benentwill be lunded at their rink into the hazardoar Hongkong, bafore the Bill of Lading can be there can be no harm into the State that the State should be and/or extra hasardous Godawns of the Hong countersigned, T. KARY giving some account of the gallant way regarded as the guardian of the child and kong and Kowloon Whart and Gosows Co

in which that front was held by its thin that the well-being of the State depends it, whènes andfer from the wharean deliver be left in the Godowns, wzore they will be

khaki line of defenders

Among all the episodes of that difficult and dangerous period which followed the overwhelming assault upon us, none is more picturesque than this, none illus trates more vividly the character of open warfare, and few reflect finer credit on British pluck and doggedness in the face. of heavy odds.

The story begina on the sixth day of the battle, Tuesday, March 26th, After north of the Somme and Roye on the the Germans had entered Albert on the south, and were advancing rapidly along the river itself, there was a perilously weak sector in our front. This sector and extended south-westerly down to began at the river near Sailly-Laurette

entirely upon the well-being of the child. The well-being of the State in future generations depends upon the well-being of the child in the pres and I do not think we have in the past present generation; considered the great problem of child welfare altogether from that standpoint But we are living in times when the burden of the State is of a colossal charar. ter, and we must deal with this ques- tion of pensions to mothers and other

that they resolve themselves into great people, and the amendment of the Old

cash demands upon an impoverished. Age Pensions Act, from the point of view State.

but to a cruel and oppressive enste »y that financial considerations will weigh about the Httle stream called the Luce. pensions, I have already stated my view, will enact laws against emigration and engendered in thist in Ger strengthened, but I believe there way

that there will be zones of espionage on all German frontiers designed to watch and keep back such Guruuns as may seek to escape to other countries.

In Austria even more stringent laws will be necessary to keep the unmarried males from leaving.

may be obtained.

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June, or they will not be recognised,

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All broken, ohsfed and damaged goods are to

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goode andelivered after the 19th June, 1916, will ba have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining

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TOO DUB AT SIXTY. As to the suggested increase of old age And if there It was urgent that it should be But I could not give you any encourage- comes change of

ment in respect to this very comprehen- many control, or if in a liberalized Germany available for the purpose.

the Hohenzollerns no longer difficulty in finding troops immediately ive and very expensive, proposal, which would give a pension to men at sixty the Ministers are responsibile to There was no time to lose. If we had ought to retire from their labours, as

on the assumption that at that

8.8. BENRINNES.“ they popular Parliament, then the commercin not been so strong in the air that weone which this or any other Government

NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform prejudice certainly will not last long kept the German aeroplanes from scnut could take into practical consideration risk into the hazardous and/or extra bakardons The boycott of Germany for 50 years suging over our lines and discovering our Besides, as I am approaching that age Godowns of the Hongkong and Kewloon Whist ed that all Goods are being landed at their gested by the American Chamber of Com weak spot the enemy might have been limit myself I shrink from the idea that and Gotowg Co, Lid, whence and/or from the

And why, if wars are to continue after would certainly push förward patrols to Pension of 108 per week wly fit for a wharves delivery may be obtained.

pouring, through already. Next day be I shall be an old dødderer

-1 Am sixty No Claims will be admitted after the Goods The idea in this resolution have left the Godewas, and sil Goods remaining test our strength, would find a chance to years old! Harman preparations for another get through, and would at once taket upon the shelf on stacking the undelivered after the 15th last will be subject

advantage of it

that, period my life, and for that reason alone I sixty in the least inclined to be a poses of the old-age pension.

sixty-years-of-age tan for the nur le nur

meres is a most powerful weapon. ⠀

I know that experts of the United this one, should we contribute to Ger man trade profits, and consequently to The nations of the Allies must reckon, too, with the bitter, bitter hate felt for them by the whole German people--and only one who has been in Germany since the war can realize its intensity.

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States Government believe at least three millions of Slovaks, Greeks, etc., will leave America after the war, taking with them the money they have earned for anvestment in new opportunities in the Old Country. With this view I cannot agres The soil of the Europan-con tinent is too poor, wages too amall, hours tong, and distaste for the military One great factor in forcing a change and caste systems too great to tempt of Government will be the desire of the those who have tasted the the freedom of America Why to-day that the loveman after the war to say Government of his country exisi- cat ordinary conlminar in Pennsylvania ing then is fot the Government that rón carn $3,000 (£1,000) year--a sum ordered the shooting of Edith Cavell, the greater than the pay of a Prussian reavement of the women and girls of Austrian yöúrral! Why should this Northern France," the deportation of the breath reinained in their bodies societies to consider a great nationalisn- aniner go back to insult and slavery Belgian working-men, the horrors of the prison camps the burning of Louvain, THE GLEMAN WORKMAN, and all the other countles Barbarities and German employers will never be nbin eruelties ordered by the German military

gend down their workinen as before commanders, the wat. The inen who have fought in Imagine after this war in some distant found in an artillery general, and the the State would enable you to pay low CHINA MUTUAL STEAM-

to

Hongkon, 101 June, ivis.

ing a composite force and employing it to strengthen the line running through Hamel to the wood of Hangard until the French relief appeared. This could NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS. not be expected for at least three days, probably more, and the troops to be sent nationalisation of railways and canals. When you get on to the subject of the would of necessity be a scratch let. But here I must say I am in very complete they were Englishmen and they would be sympathy with the speeches and the gen told how much depended upon themeral character of the proposals put for. There was no doubt in anybody's mind ward. The last thing i did at the Board that they would hold on grimly so long

of Trade was to summon a meeting of the railway V managers and railway First it was necessary to appoint

tion scheme which

could commander

be worked eneres, initiative, rapid decition; also panies and the men; and I remember well He must be men of through with the consent of the com- one who would give the men confidence that I looked forward with considerable Up in his leadership. These qualities were satisfaction to the fact that the credit of island, perhaps a Frenchman, an Eng emergency unit was named after him.").

Interest for borrowed capital, pay better disishman, an American, a Portuguese, an

wages to the workers on the railways, and ODD HEN'S RESPONSE. tahan nil seated at the dining table of in little hotel. A German comes, in and My seeks to join them.

provide 10 Co and the trading public. Under the old Before daylight the rounding up of system you have an exess of trains serv Will he be treated men for the new fores had begun. The ing one district on account of competi

the trenches will return with a new feel ing of independence, a new spirit revolt against the caste prejudices, in inclination to do the same work in same hours and for the same wage.

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tailor in Berlin, told me that several of on an equality! Will he be taken into fabour battalions in the neighbourhoodtion, but if you go to another district are hereby notified that the Cargo will his men who had returned after being their society 1 Or will he be treated as were called upony and in every case 70- you are entirely in the hands of one be discharged into Holt's Wharfe Kow discharged from the Army because of Rome physical disability or wounds took a leper and a pariah?

post-antry training school at hand. This ties, because that particular railway han

sponded with alacrity. There was an in. railway, and there is a shortage of facili was furnished a respectable contingent both put the whole of its strength into the of officers and men, electricians and attempt to capture the trade of it rivals thin that you cannot go back to the old system after our experience.

him- Do not think that I have come against all these cruelties. I was the signallers, Royal Engineer field com in another district, I am perfectly eer

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GERMAN MONEY MARKET.

MESSAGE FROM THE KAISER.

A Berlin telegram says that the Kaiser has addressed the following manifesto to the Imperial Chancellor

o

The Reichsbank report for 1017 shows the splendid state of our money market and the strength of the resistance of our economic life, which fills me with proud joj and if which I should like to express my recognition to all concerned. This above all to the victories which the Divine unparalleled success we certainly ove Grace has bestowed on our leaders and the fighters of our army and fleet. They are the foundation of the strong con- idence in the invincible strength and the future of the Fatherland which, as the eighth war loan has proved, fills all classes of the population.

an entirely different attitude, and that The German will wish to be in a one of dieu, for example, had said to tion to say Why gentlemen, hack to work as before. I have the Iron the sinking of the Luettanta, and Cross, I have helped to save Ger- murder of its women and children. I mány

am hero, and 1 tons against the starving of Foland and anies, and a party of United States not propose again to be your in the slaughter of the Armenians nad hengineers. Men engaged in all the dustrial lave. That is the new spirit crucifixion of prisoners, and we Gervarious jobs which have to be done behind which after the war will animate the mans, base thrown out the Government the lines were quickly made up int? com- deceived, hitherto downtrodden lower that was je passible for these horrors, partes and battalions classes of Germany.

Stronger than any other consideration By noon they were ready to march and In our own country, the balance will be the desire of the German to reat two o'clock in the afternoon they had political power may be held by the sol. pudinte these rats which have made the already started digging scratch positions diers who are enlisted in the war and Germany of today a Cain among the for themselves, minchine gun emplace

nations--an cutenst branded with the meats, and so forth who, like the G.AR after our Civil.

mark of dame War, may doubtless organize not only for protection bist for political purposes

I should have mentioned that some fifty And this great restless body of returned

troopers from a cavalry regiment were troops, veterans of wars beyond the Just as to-day it is not isolated armies, allotted to the Force, which hencefor

eas, may change our whole foreign policy but whole peoples in arms, that ne opward is spelt with a capital F, and that in a way of which we do not dream. We posed, so in the war of commerce after it was given some guns, but these guns shall be a more warlike ration, less the war not single producers and exparit had to yield up again immediately. patient to bear insult, more ready for ters, corporations, or individuals, but There was even greater need of them eke war, unless this war ende all wars of the world. Germany has favoured

whole nations, will meet in the markets wlarre The war after the war, in trade and trusts controlling prices and

I was not until it had been in the field commerce, may be long and bitter. The competition--and we shall encounter in for some little time that the Force was rivers of Germany are lined with ships huying and in selling the whole German able to get artillery. As soon as they of seven or eight thousand tons, mary of nation ranked behind their Central Bay-had it they certainly used it to good them built or completed since the war, ing Company in buying and their Kurtels advantage To that I can bear witness and Germany designs ne her first play inn selling Isolated firms and indivifrom seeing the batters at work, but this commercial war to seize the carrying duals cannot on our side cope with such in the beginning it was the men who held trade of the world. The German exparan offensive but we are hampered in the enemy back with their bodies and ter has lost his trade for years Alliances effectiveness by the so-called Sherian law with the fine British spirit of them, and Apart from that, however, it is the have already been made in great in a law from which England is free under their active commander secured cable contact of our Reichsbank which, preparation for a sudden and

Great changes are coming in the social the situation so far as this particular zugether with the efficiency and patriotic attack upon that new industry in Ante structure of the world. We are on the peril was concernce. But for them the spirit of all concerned, has furnished the rica. Prices will be cut to far below threshold of a great readjustment. What they might have pushed through into strong backbone which has enabled us to the cast of production in order that the ever else our entrance into the war may Amiens.

raise the necessary war costs. I am glad new industry of America fighting sing made of us a nation with the throb of MNENT BUT NOT BROKEN, B

accomplish, let us hope that it will have handed against the single head German

to be able to express this, coming fresh trust may be driven from the field: The of an energetic efficiency that shall not were frequent and rigorous, but the crented by cur rresistible advance...

The attacks upon this part of the front from the battlefield and under the impres German Government will hand in this contest, and only the com-merely seek in honest rivalry to compete serata batalions fought stubbornly, and economically, and we have before us, are conquering militarily asid bination of American manufacturers and with other nations, but in un enlightened though they had to yield some ground though not an easy, a strong future." the erection of a tariff wall of defenen and helpful way chall strive truly to heal they made the enemy pay dearly for it. Reuters ean present the Americans, if each fights wounded civilization in the God-given Nor was anything gained by the Germans single handed and for his own end, from

days of prace-Times, .

in the way of territory in spite of their falling before the united, efficient, and

<forts. Once our men were in a hard -bitter assault of German trade rivals

place. The large forces pressed them riding round looking for himself to see WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

back so that their line bent southwest how things were going and encouraging ward of Villers-Bretonneux (8 miles his men. All his improvized staff east of Amiens) No; being reasoned

arrangements were working admirably troops most of them, inderd, not baving A very capable young man whom I ha had any experience of this kind before known before in the more ornamental they could not have been severely blamed capacity of AD.C got the chance of his if they had broken under the fierce preslife and seemed to be making good use

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dustries, such as the dyestuff industried

take a

practical

a single patriotism and the steady pulse

TWO GREAT CONSPIRACIES

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Church Association at Caxton Halle cently, Canon G.Osborne Troop said that two conspiracies were imperilling the

We

The war has brought new power and new sponsibility to women. Armed with the franchise they will demand not only equal rights but equal pay. In Great Britain alone, before the war, there were no fewer than five hundred thousand people of Great Britain. One was Ger sure. They did nothing of the sort of it... women workers where now over five mil-many, and lion carry the burden, even of the war Hierarchy: They had seen the effect of all the time, and luckily at this critical Not long after that ielu came and with the other the Roman They did begin to fall back, but fightingThe Force was then looking for relief. industries of the country

the litter in Quebec, Australia, and now moment other British troops cavalry it the necessity of keeping the Force Unless the war ends with a victory so in Ireland. Those two great conspiracies and infantry were sent to help them together passed It kad done its work. decisive for the Allies that an era of were striving together from different Thus the line was restored,

universal peace shall dawn for the wrold,

-each-tution will constitute riself an ame ed camp, fearing always that the German, with his lust for war and conquest, will again terrorize the world by a sudden assault And a necessary sequence of this preparation for war will be the desit of each nation to be self-sufficient produce within itself those materials in dispensable for the waging of war"

points of view for the one suprema pur

• POSE DI TObbing the world of its 4GERAN and Call who were in league with were real enemies of freedom, whether in England or in Germany. It was in conceivable that either Germany; or the Papacy could win through They were building on a rotten foundation, which sooner or later would bring them to their skom.

I changed upon the Force after it had ben "sticking it for four days. The men were in good heart the batteries were pounding the Boche most effectively on the sky line; stretcher bearers could be seen at their devoted work somewhere about the battlefield. Their general was

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

The line had been hold The battalions

ik warapat up and thrown together had proved that the confidence placed in them was justified. They broke up again and dissolved into their former elements, But the record of their pluck and resolu tion must not be lost lest it should be I have tried to give soyar sketelie outline of it here. Some day I hope I shall he able to fell it in füller detail

risk The Carge will be ready for de loon, where it will lie at Consignee A livery from Godown on and after 14th June,

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