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GERMAN OUTRAGES IN TORTURED BELGIUM,

MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH,

To meet the delegates of the Belgian Government Comite de Commerce Anglo- Belge, Sir Alfred Mood invited a ber of representative men to dinner. recently, at the Carlton Hotel, on behalf

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LORD BEAVERBOOK ON THE LICHNOWSKY MEMORANDUM IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESS Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of In-

of his Majesty's Government. Me. Band Allied and neutral countries in ear four presided.

Tying out effective propaganda...

M. J. Condurier de Chassaigno (presi dent of the association) presided and pro. posed "Our Guest."

RETROSPECT, *

few years time they will again have t A REMARKABLE FORECAST.

take up arms and again seo their pro- vinces overrun and their towns and Formation), at, a luncheon given in his dum of Prince Lichnowsky, German Am- proved to be right who dedured that the The full text of the fainous memoran villages destroyed? Have not they honour by the Foreign Press Association bassador in London up to the outbreak spirit of Treitschke and Bernhardi in London at the Criterion Restaurant of war, with a preface by Professor governed the German people, that spirit emphasized the importance of an intimate) formation and the Press of Great Britain as a pamphlet by Cassell & Co, at a coat leathe it as an evil, that with us the relationship between the Ministry of InGilbert Murray, has now been published which glorified war as such, and did not,

of Bd., under the title of My Mission feudal knight and Junker, the warrior. to London, 1912-1914, The greater párt conte, still rule and form ideals and Giving the toast of the evening, “Our

of the damaging revelations of the the love of the duel which animates values, not the civilian gentleman; that Guests," Mr. Balfour said-The reason

Kaiser's Envoy has already appeared in ne are assembled here seems, on first

our aendemic youth still persists in those the Press, but the final section will be who control the destinies of the people? sight, a familiar and almost a common- Lord Beaverbrook, in reply, said that new to our readers. It is as follows liamentary discussions about it clearly Did not the Zubern incident and the Far place one-namely, the furthering of the he had urged on the Government, the

demonstrate to foreign countries the valu commerce and manufacturing interests of necessity for giving to the Press an ade.'

Looking back after two years, I come the citizen if these collide with questions we place on the rights and libertios of two great countries. Such meetings, have quato supply of news print that was, to the conclusion that I realised too late of military power The prin often taken place before, and will doubt the paper on which the newspaper was that there was no room for me in acipal war aim of our enemies, the demo less become more and more frequent supply of news print rumours would and traditions alone, and that only

If there were an inadequate system that for years had lived on routine cratisation of Germany, will be realised i international relations grow closer and spread everywhere, stories would be cir- tolerated representatives who reported fict for itself. As a statesman he avoided Bismarck like Napoleon, loved con- as the world's history goes on. But to-culated of battles on land and at sou what their superiors wished to read. fresh wars. He always treated the night, by this meeting, it is intended to which were never fought, and those rum Absence of prejudice and an independent English with forbearance: no knew that celebrate the work of this Commission, ours would disturb grently the social con judgment are resented. Lack of ability this was wiser. He always paid marked which bag characteristic which I ven-ditions in which the war was waged. and want of character are praised and respect to the old Queen Victoria, despite lure to say in the history of the world Addressing the Allied Pressmen, Lord esteemed, while successes meet with dis his hatred of her daughter and of, poli- have never been met with before, and I Benverbrook said that there was only one favour and excite alarm. I had given uptical Anglomaniu; the learned Benenns think will never be met with again. We front now, Our interests were pooled. opposition to the insane Triple Allianes Bed and the worldly wise Salisbury ho have to deal with something which is 16 was a war in which the effort of the policy, as 1 realised that it was useless, courted and even flint strange Glads more profound and far-reaching that Press was quite as important as the effort and that my warnings were attributed to store, whom he did not like, really had the mere commercial and manufacturing of the armies. That was a very bold" Austrophobie," to my idee fac. In nothing to complain about. The ultima interest of two countrics; friendly statement, but he believed that it could politic, which are neither acrobatics nor neighbours, who have their respceo justified. Unless they could convinco

a game, but the main business of the firm

tum 10 Serbia was the culminating point of the policy of the Berlin Congress, the the war

the confict must come to an end. the interest of the community. A policy don; but thezo was yet ting to turn back. democracies should be convinced, other however, that is based only on Austrians, We were completely successful in achiey- For this reason it was necessary that the wise it was impossible to expect or to Magyars, and Turks must come into con exact the fortitude and endurance which flict with Russia, and finally lead to a should have been avoided the breach ing that which, above all other things, were necessary. Newspapers played catastrophe.

with Russia and England.

printed

tive interests and respective powers s nation and the Allied natons to wage there is no "phil" or "phobe, but only Bosnian crisis, the Conference of Con-

to consider. We have to

deal,

among other things, with righting a great international wrong (Cheers.) There is not a man, woman, or child in Great Britain, the Overseas Dominions, or America, who does not know about the wrongs which the Belgians suffered in the carly days of the war, who does not know of the infamous treatment to which she was subjected by Germany of the gross breach of international faith which will be an indelible blot on German his

compelling part, for propaganda was nothing but the dissemination of the knowledge of the few to the many, and for this dissemination they relied almost entirely on the co-operation and support of the Prem

Mr. Robert Donald, Editor of the Daily tory sa long as anyone thinks it worth Chronicle, who also responded to the toast, while to write German history (Laughnid our enemy was not afraid of our guns and our shells, but he feared the ter,} [at

truth, and the business of the Ministry of Information was to disseminate the truth

still have been put right in July, 1914. In spite of former mistakes, all might

OUR FUTURE. An agreement with England had been

After two years fighting it is obvious arrived at We ought to have sent & tional victory over the Russians, English, that we dare not hope for an uncondi representative to Petrograd who was at least of average political capacity, and

Freach, Italians, Roumanians, and to have convinced Russia, that we wished Americans, or reckon on being able to neither to control the straits nor to obtain a peace by compromise only by wear our enemics down. But we can strangle Serbia. nous lacherons les Franenis (Droptation of which would in any event be a "Lachez Autriche et evacuating the occupied territory, the re Austria and we will drop the French ") burden and cause of weakness to us, and UNFORGETTABLE AND HORRIBLE.

M. Sazanow said to us. And M. Cambor would involve the menace of further The invasion of the German army, the outrages which that army committed,

told Herr von Jagow, "Vous n'avez pas those things are unforgettable and

besoin de suivre l'Autricho partout "

wars. Therofore everything should be horrible, and I am not sure that the slow

avoided which would make it more dil6- ("You need not follow Austria every system of torture to which Belgium has largely concerned with making the neces-where"). We wanted either wars nor

cult for those enemy groups who might. been elaborately subjected elaborately sury arrangements for carrying out that alliances; we wanted only treaties that possibly still be won over to the idea of and deliberately subjected since the Ger op ration as quickly, is completely, and would safeguard us and others, and viz., the Britian Radicals and the Rus- a peace by compromise to come to terms, man occupation is not evim more horrible with as little friction as may be, when secure our economic development, which when you come to think of it, though that happy day comes and peace is de was without its like in history. If Russia sian reactionaries From this point of it may be less dramatic in its horror, clared, and Belgium is finally relieved had been freed in the West, she could view alone the Polish scheme is to bo than those first outragta which made the frun the operations of its foreign foe, aga turn to the East, and the Anglo condemned, as is also any infringement blood of the civilised world run cold. What makes me feel that this will be Russian rivalry would have been re-estab of Belgian rights, or the execution of For what is it tint the Germans baroccomplished sicerssfully is that in the lished automatically and without our issue. U-boat plan.

British citizens to say nothing of the set themselves to do? They have not Belgian people themselves we have the intervention, and not less certainly alio themselves in the first place to ruin the best Allies that eno te

Our futuro lies on the water." Quite. conceived. the Russo-Japanese. We could also have trade and manufacture of a friendly (Cheers.) It is the spirit of the Belgian considered the question of the reduction right; therefore it is not in Poland and neighbour whom they were bound by people, even more than any assistance of armaments, and iced no longer have a return to the days of the Holy Roman Belgium, in France and Serbia. This is treaty to protect. They have deliberate that we are capable of giving them, which troubled ourselves about Austrian com Empire and the mistakes of the Hohen- ly--and this comes out from their own will ensure the rebirth of Belgium's pro.plications. Then Austria would have be. to think that if peace were diclared foficent than the firm endurance of the without any alliance and especially Drake and Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes statement they have deliberately rejoice spurity thing can be more magni conie the vassal of the German Empire staufens and the Habsburgs. It is the policy of the Plantagenets, not that of morrow it would be many months to put people, whether they be Flemish or without our seeking her good gracce, & The policy of the Triple Alliance is a it at the lowest-before Belgian intel Walloon After all, it is a German in-proceeding ultimately leading to war for return to the past, a turning aside from ligence Belgian capital, Belgian indusvention that these two stetions of the the liberation of Poland and the destrue the future, from imperialism, and a try, and Belgian enterprise could again Belgian people are antagonistic. Thetion of Serbia, although Gorman interest interfere with German rivals. That is endurance of the Belgian people, what demanded the exact contrary. I had to longs to the Middle Ages, Berlin-Baghdad world policy. Midalo Europe" be- the first thing they have done. The other ever be the language they speak or the support in London a policy the heresy of is a blind alley, and not the way into thing they have done and this also near.

race from which they may have sprung, which I recognised. That brought down the open country, to unlimited possibili ly concerns the work of this Interna is the real guarantee of the success of vengeance on me, because it was a su ties, to the world-mission of the German tional Commission--the other thing is your efforts. with cold-blooded deliberation to strip

against the Holy Ghost;:

nation. I am no enemy of Austria, or Belgium of everything in the way of plant, raw material, and machinery of ing it because they have experienced it, that I was to be made the scapegoat for Alliance policy, which was bound to As soon as I arrived in Berlin I saw Hungary, or Italy, or Serbia, or any other state, but only of the Triple production on which industry depends.

bat I ask my British fellow-cruntrymen the catastrophe for which our Govern The passage of Huns or other savages to just conceive their country having beenment had made itself responsible against divert na from our aims and bring us over an agricultural country is disas under the complete control of an uning advice and warnings The report on to the inclined plane of a Continental trous and cruel. But, after all, you scrupulous, brutal, and ruthless enemy for was deliberately circulated in official Policy. It was not the German polles, cannot destroy the land of a country three or four years, un enemy not content quarters that I had allowed myself to be b of the Austrian Imperial It is a very difficult thing to destroy the with committing every sort of cruelty deceived by Sir E. Gres, because, if he house, land of a country, and a very brief and outrage, but deliberately destroying had not wanted war, Russia would no of this war of nations? The United And what Laust we expect as the result period, sometinies an amazingly brief instrument of production required have mobilised. Count Pourtalès, whose. period, will enable a country thus ravage for carrying on the work of their country reports could be relied on, was to be States of Africa will be British, like these rd to recover its former agriculturi-conscive the strain on the courage and protected, not least on account of his re-the Latin States of Europe, as I predict

of America, Australia, and Oceania. And, prosperity. But when you are dealing patriotis ja such circumstances Alationship. He had conducted himself ed years ago, will enter into the same with the elaborate plant of an industry courage has been shown of the highest magnificently, he was praised enthus-relations with the United Kingdom that in a country with its mines and its manu. conceivable degree by the Belgian people, instically, and I was blained the more their Latin sisters in America maintain factures, and then strip the whole and their heroism will stand out in all severely. What does Serbia matter to of the fixed capital on which it depends history as the most remarkable and the Russia?" this statesman said to me after will dominate the France, exhausted with the United States. The Anglo-Saxon to carry then on, the metal and the raw most inspiring episode, in a period big eight years in office at Petrograd. Tho material, and all the things which are wth great episodes, and full of events whole thing was a British trick that by the war, will only attach herself stili necessary in order that the country may which dwarf all preceding history. carry on its manufactures and industries,

had not noticed. At the Foreign Office more closely to fireat Britain. Nor will For this reason, gentelmen, I think we they told me that war would in any case pain continue to resist for long. And that indeed is to commit an injury far my drink the health of our guests, not have como in 1916 Then Russia world Asia. the Russians and the Jupancse deeper, far more difficult to heal, than simply with the feeling of kindly good-have been ready therefore it was better will spread and will carry their custome any which is committed by the mere will which hosts feel towards their guests, now,

with their frontiers, and the South will passage of an invading army. That in- but with something much more with a THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY, A

remain to the British. The world will jury the Germans have deliberately com.cn and profound admiration for all mitted upon the manufacturing indus that those guests have done for their tions and this is not refuted by our main alone with Austria and Hungary As is evident from all official publica.belong to the Anglo-Saxons, Russians, tries of this nation, which is not among country, and, through their country for White Book, which, owing to the poverty His rule will be that of thought and of the largest nations of Europe, but cer

civilisation. (Cheers.) It is in that of its contents and to its omissions, it enumerce, ont that of the hureaucrat and tainly was among the leading uations of

gravely self-accusing document: Europe in mining and other industries

the soldier. He made his appearance too 1. We encouraged Count Berchtold to late, and his last chance of making good and manufactures.

attack Serbia, although German interests the past, that of founding a colonial er were not involved and the danger a world, was sie have been one of u Whether we were aware of the wording lehwe. Then will be realised the plan of pire, was annihilated by the world-war For we shall not supplant the sons of of the Ultimatum is completely inmate. The great Rhodes, who saw the salvation.

ORDERED ROBBERY,

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BELGIANS GREAT COURAGE. Belgians have no difficulty in imagin-

spirit that I ask my fellow-countrymen to drink now to our guests from Belgium, not forgetting the great, heroic figure whose health we have already drunk, the King of the Belgians, whose faith has wavered for one instant in the fate of the country of which he is Sovereign. (Loud chetra)

D MY RETURN.

and Japanese, and the German will re-

Imperialism.--Daily

"STAND FOUR-SQUARE.”

Nothing can exceed the Bicism with which this operation has been carried oat. I am told that a German Deder was actually found, an order to rub ordinate oficials, in which it was recom

Baron Moncheur (Belgian Minister), in During the time between July 23rd of humanity in the expansion.of Briton- mended that they were to acquire all the the course of his response said: The and 30th, 1014, when M. Sazonow empha dom-in British raw materials of this, country, if pos. Doble words we have just heard must in tically declared that he would not tolerate Telegraph. sible by confiscation, because confiscation red fill all Belgian hearts with pride and any attack on Serbia, we rejected the is the cheapest method of getting things. hop, and with full confidence in the British proposals of mediation, although (Laughter.) If by any unlucky chance the day when Belgium declared her insure, had accepted almost the whole of great and generous British nation. Sin, Serbia, under Russian and British pres- the confiscation happened to be impossible, then the more costly method by buying dependene, she has always been bound to the Ultimatum, and although an agree what was taken had to be submitted to England by ties of sincerest friendship. meat about the two points at issue could the National Union of Railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., secretary of But confiscation was what was openly and one of deep gratitude Belgium can Berchtold was even prepared to content in the Baths, Swindon, recently, on the To this sentiment is now added a new easily have been reached, and Count addressed a mass meeting of railwaymen deliberately recommended in an Order, a copy of which has been shown to me never forget that on the very day on which himself with the Serbian reply. I really do not believe that cynicism her territory was violated in defiance

occasion of a presentation made to him 3.-On July 30th, when Count Berch by his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Thomas has ever gone farther. We have heard of all international law, the British Gov told wanted to come to terms, we sent said

great deal, chiefly from Germans, that ernment, in the name of the sacred faith an ultimatum to Petrograd merely be might is right and that eyen all morality of treaties, drew the sword against the eanse of the Russian mobilisation, al-differed from the policy of the Govern There are many who, like myself, have is insignificant compared with the will aggressor, who by his treacherous attack though Austria had not been attacked; ment; who have felt that we have not to command and the will to dominate. the pence of the world. Since that day Russia, although the Tear pledged his eforts by diplomatic means; and who on our country had become a menace to and on July 31st we declared war o suficiently supplemented our military As long as these are fine phrases in the magnificent soldiers of the British word that he would not order a man to will continue to press our policy, realiz philosophical work you smile and You Army have never ceas to fight side by march as long as negotiations were pre-ing, as we do, that the only real peace tolerate it, but when it takes the form have just described, I don't think disgust side with ours. Bet nations have shed ceeding thus deliberately destroying the can go farther than that which is aroused together their blood on Belgian soil, and possibility of a peaceful settlement. by oporations like these. That is the are linked benceforth by the indestrne In view of the above undeniable facts condition which we have to face, and tible bonds of friendship, (Cheers.) if is no wonder that the whole of the when I say "se" I mean to associate Belgium is still fighting full of confidence civilised world outside Germany places deliberately the other Allics. It is the as to the issue. She knows that the dawn the entire responsibility for the world business of the Allies to do their best to of a new life will follow these dark hours,

war upon our shoulders, remedy this gross wrong which the Germans have deliberately inflicted upon the nation that it was pledged to defend, and I take it that your meeting

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end that in the fulness of her independ THE ENEMY POINT OF VIEW. ence, both political and economic, she will fread the path of progress strengthened by the help of the generous people who have helped her to take her rightful place in the comity of nation (Cheers.)

Is it not intelligible that our enemies should declare that they will not rest before a system is destroyed which is constant menaceto. our neighbours Must they not otherwise fear that in a

will be one in which the common people are consulted But in this hour of crisis we must not let personal differences divide ns. The issue is furto great, this stakes are altogether too high. Our margin of safety is not sufficient to gamble with. We must therefore stand four-square, recognizing that, dark on the position is, there is a silver lining, and remembering the heritage which is com mitted to our charge and which we must be prepared to hand down unsullied to our children.