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A GERMAN'S LEAGUE OF

NATIONS.

DERNBURG'S PROPOSAL TO GET RAW MATERIALS.

THE EDUCATION BILL. WHAT THE CONTINUATION CLAUSE MEANS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16гя, 1918.

The Guardian of June 6th contains one interesting notes on the resistance of employers of labour to the proposals of the new Education Bill to carry on the education of children to the age of 16 or 15-which would be excellent for the children and greatly to the distaste of manufacturers.

COUNT ARNIM'S PROPHECY

THROWS LIGHT ON GERMAN METHODS.

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·{BY SYDNEY WALTON. Į

Grattan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant of A day or two ago I met in Londen Mr.

the County of Durham. Mr. Doyle had just returned from France, he had had many meetings with men on the Western Front.

Although Count von Hertling, Imperial Chanerilor of the German Empire, way off, or mile sceptically," as he recently has been reported to have done in Reich stag speeches, and newspaper interviews, at the idea of a league of nations to. Lancashire's fight against the Con-

tinuation School proposals muntain peace after the war, Dr. Bern-

of the hard Dernburg, former Colonial Minister Education Bill, the Guardian says, has

Mr. Grattan Doyle is the man who had and a leading spokesman of the big Gernot yet been fully fought out; but two nan trading interests, insists upon the whittle down those proposals have now

the most remarkable pre-war interview of of the many, amendments designed to practicability and advantages of such been negatived in Committee. There was

which modern history has any record. 6rst an amendment that Continuation

He was staying at Bad Nauheim for the In a lengthy article printed in the Education should be given only to select-cure" at the same time and at the same Neue Freie Presse of Vienna and briefly ed children. This was supported on the hotel as Count ven Arnim, and, meeting mentioned in a Geneva cablegram on June

not yet fully understood, and that it to the effectiveness of the blockade en- forced by the Allies, recalls the utterances would be wiser, in the first instance, to of American and Allied statesmen regard give this instruction only to those who. ing the application of this principle after up to the age of fourteen have shown the war. And, as quoted by the London the greatest aptitude. Times, goes on:-

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thought at the same time we might as irell take the rich province of Alsace.

Then we settled down for methodical preparation for the Great War, and you will see the outcome about the year 1915.

ing of the Kiel Canal will be complete. We expect war in 1914: when the deepen-

and the strategic railways to the Belgian frontier finished. Then we propose to devote a year to the final preparation of; the details, so that there will be no doubt of the result when we strike.» Oh: the glory of it!"

The Count paused as though he felt the thrill and ecstasy of the Day,"

When he resumed, he stated that the

neutrality of Belgium would not be re

8th. Dr. Dernburg, after paying tribute Fround that the proposals of the Bill are frequently, they were quickly un terms spected; predicted that England would]

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So vital alteration would strike at the whole basis

of intimacy.

Shortly before the time came for their departure, Mr. Doyle and his wife were invited to Connt von Arnim's apart

not come into the war, and declared with easy confidence that it would be a short and decisive affair - march through Belgium, Paris occupied, the French de- feated, the Channel Parts annexed, and

Peace-loving Britain, the Count

Central Powers are fighting for their waste involved in our present ineficiens ments, and this was the occasion.of his then the recoil on Russia, against which

Our reply can only be this:-The of the measure, which is to prevent the integrity and for capacity to develop; System. We are spending thirty millions declaration of Germany's glorious aim the whole might of German force would inthes are industrial peoples, una car on Elementary Education, hat and ambition-his ecstatic prophery of he concentrated in a decisive stroke. hindered supply at all times-or every-west of it is wasted because this edu thing that we generally comprehend in the cation comes to an end before it has the Great War. He declared the plan of

Children are term freedom of the seas-is indispen-had time to fructify. sable to this end. A peace that does not turned out into the world in thousand campaign and described it in the mentcbserved confidently, will not be in it." unke effective provision for this freedom essentially ignorant and barely able ever is no pence that the Central Powers can to spelt correctly. Moreover, a secondary conde, por will such a peace be chif it is secondary-object of the Con- cluded by them, unless the Entrate should ticuation Schools will be to improve the be able to administer to us the kneek-out physique of young people, which the war blow.

has shown to be seriously defective. FEARS CONTEST OF ENDURANCE.

Physical exercises will form an import ant part of the curriculum, and it would be absurd to withdraw these advantages from a large proportion of the children.

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import. Reasonable caution is the best aid to governalent, and reasonable caus tion has hitherto been the finest asset of the English people.

minute detail:-Belgium violated, France devastated, Russia taker on the recoil and then--England!

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"I cannot understand why you have told me all this," Mr. Deyfe observed at You must the close of his statement.

know that whatever influence I have will be used in endeavouring to rouse our people to a realization of the impend-

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Count von Arnim laughed-cynically.

I have no doubt you will," he said: bat nothing you say will be believed. You will be laughed at. They will think you are mad.***

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The Count was right. But recently, at the suggestion of a highly placed officer, he related the narrative at one of the meetings he addressed on the Western Front. The effect was electric

Mr. Doyle has just repeated the narra malign and menacing eye that sought tive to me, and through, it glowers the

to dominate the world,

MR. DOYLE'S STORY.

"When Mr. Grattan Doyle asked him' why he was so certain that Britain would pet gnter the war, he was amazed at Von Arnim's easy, intimacy with British affairs-showing the amount of accurate information which had been gathered and garnered by German spies.

His knowledge of the precise condi tions in England was uncanny," Mr. Doyle commented. He described to me, Best of all, the individual members of the Government-thes personnel, their means, their abilities, their influence the condition of industrial unrest, the amongst the people, and then cataloguedi growing strikes, the ferment in Ireland,

the unrest in India, the activities of the women suffragists; and, finally, summed up by saying:-

"Such a Government will never make war, whatever the provocation. You have a pacifist Government and a pacifist people, who are, engrossed in their own affairs and too busy in trying to stave vention in the Great War. And, when off internal disaster to think of inter- all our other measures of conquest have bren carried out, we shall have England defenceless, without a friend in the

Mr. Doyle's account of the interview.world, and we shall settle down, to putting the coping stone upon the great work to which we have directed all the years of preparation, the destruction of the British Empire.

It was in August of 1907 that my wife and I were staying at the Hotel Kaiser buff, where Count, von Arnim was in re sidence. Er was then about 70 years old--perhaps advancing beyond the aga

was gentlemanly, and quite unlike the typical German. For some years he had een German Ambassador in Paris, and he was Parisian and courtly in his man

ner.

He spoke English perfectly. We met frequently and became quite friend ly. One evening he invited me to his

ENGLAND IN ECLIPSE. The rhapsody ended. Mr. Grattan had told him all this knowing, as he must do, that he would war his country.

man.

The Count laughed lightly..

Lord Lansdowne, who, if we judge him by his whole earlier attitude, is the English among our adversaries, recently expressed a doubt whether, if the Next an attempt was made to place war ended in a peace not of understand attendance at Continuation Schools on ing but of

subjection, it would after all a voluntary basis. We agree that ising blow. be the Entente that would be in a position would be better to have a voluntary to act in accordance with Lloyd George's arrangement of this kind than not to Jalous precept. It therefore, the have it at all, if we could be sure that Entente abides by its threat, and if it supply of raw materials as a condition at we do not believe that it would; and proves impossible to carry through the any real advantage would be taken of it. of peace, then the war will merely co-long as elementary education is com- tinue, and it becomes a question of whe palsory there is no logical reason why thethe Central Powers are economically continuation education should not be enough to continue to endure being compulsory also. The one point that we cut off from the sources of raw material. must steadily keep before us is that, now For the fact that the Entente Powers are that the country will be, under the new met our equals in the military" sense is electoral law, upon a completely demo now more.certain than ever,

eratic basis, it is vital that the democracy Thure can be no doubt but that in should be educated. We dare not trust this direction our prospects have extra the future of the Empire to an ignorant ordinarily improved. A vast territory electorate, inexperienced in affairs, and lies open before as in the east; time and enger for change and novelty for their patience will be needed in order to

own sake. Nothing steadies like know. organize our supplies from that quarter. but as alone held in our own hands nations as for individuals; the one safe ledge. It is the one real saleguard for the highways of supply we can exclude

sure for that irresponsible sentimental-give in his own words: any competition by others and strike our Auction roots deep into the interiorm which throws nations back as surely Equally little doubtful is the betinate clinging to an old order bf Asia. fact that our enemy's provisioning pros. which has become impossible. There is pects are continually becoming darker, already, far too much anxiety to alter to accept tremendous ince in the enemy countries. the scarcity everything and E foodstuffs is gradually assuming the changes without realizing all that they of discretion. In appearance the Count Doyle asked Count von Aruim why he i same cute forms as in Central Europe: and so we shall be able to any that since, in general, as regards transport, food. tuffs take priority over "raw materials, the supply of the latter, too, must be

short, in the case,, i unning

at any rate. of some among our enemies."

Nevertheless, D. Dernburg seerns. quite fear in his twiief that the threatened boycott would weigh heavily in the peace cales, gven when balanced against the erritorial gains of the Central Powers

I went to his apartments and we talked Not the return of all the German colonies,

with a good lice of Africa thrown in," Dr. Dernburg reaches his main theme, form of world dominion; and in a burst for two hours. He was obsessed by the ould enable the Central Powers to satisfy an economic League of Nations, by the beir own requirements in raw material, following stages-The Central Powers of confidence, or indiscretion, he told me Neutraal sources of supply are scarce and have not dropped the idea of a League of that he was one of five men who sat round nadequate, he admits, and, as nearly all. Nations and of international arbitration, a table in Bismarck's house in the sum he world has ranged itself on the side The reply to the Papal Note still binds mer of 1562 It was the historic meeting of Germany's enemies, there is nothing our Governments to-day The necessity at which William I., Von Roon, Von

prevent all these countries from main- for such arrangements exists and if the Moltke, and Bismarck were present aining their was legislation after the freedom of the seas is laid down in Arnim attended at Bismarck's private conclusion.of peace. He then says:- tranties of peace, which must embrace mcretary. It was at that meeting that gland and her dominions have some thirty sovereign States, this jirin-the policy of Blood and Iron was first already made a beginning by recently ciple must also be guaranteed

launched with the deliberate aim of dopting the Nonferrous Metals Act, Herr Dernburg rejects the German World Conquest. It was then that Bis- which provides that for five years after the assumption thatthe whole of this world marck Brst mentioned what afterwards onclusion of peace all nonferrous metals is pleased at the prospect of being able became an official formula with the Ger: the British Empire that is to say, to resume business intercourse with the man General Staff: That in the occupied ust the very metals that we need-may Central Powers," and adds:- be sold only in accordance with the pre- "Freedom of the sens and the supply territories through which the German criptions of the Board of Trad. Not

of raw materials, therefore, must not only armies marched, the inhabitants should withstanding the tremendously flourishing be demanded, but it must be possible. it be left only their eyes to weep with" growth of ur substitute, industry, the need be, to extort them by force. This The policy of world-domination having bence in the east will not be able to afford applies all round. So, too, with our been formulated, two years were occupied as fully equivalent compensatior for the exports to the raw material countries, in completing details, and then, in 1864, rade with three-quarters of the world

since only this trade can create the coun- it was decided to make war on Denmark, and the failure of these sources of raw ter-values, without which imports of materials.

As there are still are we are on lensin...

Historians differ, observed Count umber of persons who look at things

von Arnim, and none of them has given WORLD RATIONING SUGGESTED; nly from the point of view the situa the the conclusion of peace, the world the real, reason for the war with Den- ion presented by the war map in wilerists are on and that a considerable ahead to the Crent War (which the Count realize that the stocks of raw mark. The real reason was that looking Europe, this reminder is not inappro. materials

part of them is in State hands. The predicted would take place in 1915), the whole world, therefore, will have to ration Kiel Canal became a necessary part of itself. Dr. Denburg says, a plan German preparation. So Denmark was which he outlines as follows:

attacked, and the province of Schleswig Halstein annexed. Soon afterwards the foundations of the Kiel Canal were laid.

briate.

The coming peace. therefore. muss nclude as one of its most important oints the re-opening and perinanent seeping open of the market and raw material creas for the Central Powers, who also for many years past have shown an oversea bias--in a word, the freedom of the sens must be secured."

HOPES FOR BARGAIN WITH ALLIES.

that in ships and cargoes alone the Cen tral Powers last year destroyed the equivalent of over $6,000,000,000. In his opinion, the universal scarcity of ship. ping will not be made good even by the re-entry of the British and German mer- cantile marines.

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All countries shall formally agree that raw materials are to be distributed, ship- ped, and paid for in accordance with previously determined principles, under

rooms,

Give me an hour, and I will tell you something worth knowing," he said.

on

"In 1863 Austria became "an easy, the auspices of an international distribu. pray. Much of the succeeding four years tion "committee invested with arbitral was taken up in carrying out the settled powers. Buch an arrangement cannot be policy of goading France into war; but forced through, sword in hand, and with France being reluctant to fight, it was at the weapons of war. The establishment of last proposed to Bismarck to bring mat the ration standard will be difficult, but ters to the crisis by forging the Ems tele problems even more dificult have been ram, and so precipitating the war with solved.

France in 1870.” (...

ced The Germans, moreover, will and eventually it will come to this that

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Nobody outside Germany," proceeded Van Arnim, and few apart from the principal actors, understood the real rea

Oh, you. British people: "he exclaim el. How trusting and unsuspecting. you have been for the last generation, You Are "un incredulous people. You have translations of Nietzsche and Treitschke, and Bernhardi-the chief ex books, and you shrug your shoulders, and ponents of our policy. You read these say The men are mad. It makes our task much easier.

Britain in the past has been the greatest colonizing and civilizing in. Buence in the world. But your people have become fat, lazy, effete, ton cowardly to fight for what you have and too mean to pay for the sceptre that has fallen from the nerveless grasp of your people, and to take her place in the world. The German people are united, virile nat riotic, and believe in the destiny of the German Empire. Dawn."

I tell you of the

He reached over for a volume of Trait- cake and quoted:-

"England is at her height, and must inevitably soon decline: Who will krize her realm and her magnificence? Has not Germany a right to a place in the SUD 1

Is this England zo vast that growing old she has the right to be queath her grandness to ber kin across. the seas? She cowers behind a "flect

arms, a timorous, eraven people who hating war and fearful of taking up

will surrender to the first onslaught (në the German legions. Her Colonies stand aloof from her, governing them- selves, not subject to her ordering. India watches, but for the moment to strike her down. The English soldier t of poor courage and the Army - beneath contempt."

"England is for over, begging us to isarm, because her strength is failing. England is in the autumn of her Em- pire, and her stolen fruit is for the gathering. Panic tear through her Press at every word of Germany's pre- paration for the Day of Reckoning-as itan aforetime through the streets of decaving Rome when word enmo that the German was at her gates."

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These are my views, as well as those,

Dr. Dernburg goes on to argue that the Central Powers likewise have something Lo barter, not the least being the German hemical products, of which, in his opin on, American agriculture in particular a coming more and more to stand in

part of the world's shipping will into Russian and Further East come sai under uniform centrol: that the cut- pensation for the loss of many products. pat of a large number of raw materials

trumpa, therefore, are not all in one borders for the common benefit will be Bismarck and his colleagues saw that of Treitschke," said Von Arnim, "Repeat

by the separate States within their son-which was this: Looking ahead, hand.

An understanding, he thinks, should be promated, if necessary, by forre; and that there was not sufficient iron in the Ger-them to your unsuspecting British people. hif the ensier. "With Moltke," he does common basis of adjustment of goods man Empire to carry out the plot in its They will reply that we, and you, ara hot believe in the probability of a war and of money will be created. In other entirety when the Great War came mad." of annihilation on the part of either the words. the distribution of raw materials Therefore, we decided to attack France And in this Count von Arnim was right. Central or the Entente Fowers, but rather and of part of the gouds for general con for the purpose of obtaining possession But he was wrong in one big thing. that a general exhaustion will supervene.

sumption will have to remain for a cer- of the provinces of Lorraine, which con- just back from the front," said This exhaustion," he says, "will set in,

tain period, limited as far as possible but taine all the iron ore necessary for Ger Mr. Doyle, where I've had my heart if the reasonableness and readiness for an

nat brief, in the hands of the States."

Dr. Dernburg deplores this

many's purpose

lifted up by one of Von Arnim's for- anderstanding which have for years been

prospect, present in the Central Powers do not also but he argues that the trend of reconstruc

gotten actors-the valiant spirit of British infeet nur anemice.'

tion ever where is in the direction of

men: Against that rock the tide of The whole world is in the same state, State control, and that the situation at Of course, France had no chance in treachery and cruel mastery will back in

arts, including the United States, "demands international distribution the beginning, because Prussia was pre

vain. Tommy Atkins is astride the with its transport and shipbuilding diff. secured by international agros. pared, and France was not. Well, we thoroughfare, and he has the world's high. culties. As regards consumption, every

ments which bind the States and do not got the iron ore, and made the war a

wayman by the throat. And we are de- nation is, so to speak, " living on its own

leave a free hand to the individual-that paying business. It" only... cost usterinined to make that highway a path of fat." On the basis of the German Ad- Nations for the universal world supply of £200,000,000 from France, annexed the the Dawn of world dominion which Von to say, there must be a League of £72,000,000, and we levied an indemnity peace a thoroughfare to the Dawn: not miralty returas, Dr. Dernburg catimates of a humanity destitute of raw province of Lorraine and, whilst we had Arnim waited and watched for, but the |:(Continued at foot of next Column.) materials."-New Xork Times.

France lying defenceless at our feet, we Dawn of a World Peace."

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