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SEVEN NAVIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

NEED FOR UNIFIED COMMAND.

BY ARCHIBALD. HURD]

THE HONGKONG DALEN PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1918.

A MARTYRED CITY RHEIMS FOUR YEARS OF GERMAN VIOLENCE.

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When Clovis, the chief of the Franks, drove Attila and his Euns out of Franco nearly 1,500 years ago, be built the Church of Rheims In after centuries the most beautiful cathedral in the world rote on the spot. It is now a tottering rain destroyed by the Huns of to-day.

FORGIVING OUR ENEMIES

[DYAN ENGLISHMAN.""]

Many misguided persons have told us A sentimental professor has pleaded for lately that we must forgive our enemies a kindly thought of the Germans on the ground that we do not know what good

blok out a hundredth part of their mis deeds they have done in the was. Truly

deeds, we do not, and all the benevolence that may be imagined in the fature will never

The Italian army had to suffer defect last winter, and the British and French armies had to be thrown back by the

· overwhelming forces which the enemy con centrated against them towards the end of March, before the idea of unity of

The city of Fheims is now a city of feeling of repugnance for the Germans. command 'on land was achieved.. Every-house has been shattered. Only the wallss, Mr. Barnes

We must subordinate the antura! ruids, like Ypres and Verdyn. Every one possessing any knowledge of the con: of the cathedral and the town-hall remain. Pravity might only be

Their present de duet of wat realises to-day the advan 120,000 inhabitants. Little more than saves their depravity to be no passing When the war began Rheims was a city of The long, weary history of the Runs inges which have Bowed from this tardy month ago the population had shrunk to phase, and if we subordinate our Eatural passing phase." decision. "In these days of anxiety the 5.000. Many hundreds had been killed. knowledge that one of the outstanding France.

repugnance for their crimce, of with Thousands had been taken to the south of

worth will be military leaders of the Allies is respon. mayor still stayed, with the remnant of

The old archbishop and the approval of anyone?

condemnation or sible for co-ordinating operations on all their flock hiding in cellars beneath the

parts of the Western front contributes to support public confidence and to preserve the peace of mind of the civil population of all the Allied countries, The enemy has thus been robbed of one conspicuous advantage which he enjoyed as long as the British, French, Italian, and Ame rican troops were regarded as constituting separate armies. under the control of

different General Staffs.

were all sent away, and Rheims became a ruins. Towards the end of April they deserted wilderness of scorched and blackened stones."

battered by German shells. The Hun For nearly four years Rheins has been borde swept into the city on September th, 1914 -the day that HMS. Pathfinder was submarined-but two days later the tide of invasion stopped, and by Sept. 9th the Germans had not only left the city, but were beginning the must in-written. on that date that the cathedral was first reported to have been shelled. Inimous bombardiment of the war. "It was

it

At first the people of Rheims stuck with wonderful courage. Within killed, including many children. By the a month or so about 700 civilians were end of December, 1914, the damage to property was estimated at £10,000,000.

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THE POPE AND THE WAR.

LETTER OF FROTEST.

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the Vatican, pablishes an autograph letter "The Onervatore Romano, the organ of address received by the Pontif from the from the Pope, sent in answer episcopacy of Lombardy, The Pope com- plains of the sad period through which the world is passing, and also of the attacks from enemies of religion against supreme authority of Jesus Christ whom God created Master and Defender of Justice. only by the indescribable horrors of this: Pope adds that he is greatly afflicted, not war, which is without paralle in the history of the world, and which threatens

which had been directed against the per abyss," but also by the insidious and skil- won of the Pontiff and against his work, o drag poor Europe to the bottom of an ful campaign of calumnies and hatred,

while he could consciously address to man-

have not done in is to my vinyard that kind, bathed in its blood, the words have been done of the prophet Isaiah:What could

more

nicely weighing, their words, pulpit, not

And then preachers in the love our enemies, forgetting that the does not imply devastation of the mis that all his efforts to bring about peace word "enemy in the New Testament since the beginning of the war, saying The Pope recapitulates all he has done

the bond that held him to us. There is one who has been our friend and has cut have been calumniously interpreted, his chiefs of war. It means no more than en his silence about this or that crime no reason why a broken friendship should present uncertainty of things, and amidst have been misjudged and misinterpreted.

not be repaired or the tales of slanderous the blazing of tongues be disproved.

critics refusing to

things, which an in their nature irre while all are included in the cundemcation. receive that in the

concilable. ny a famous preacher has pronounced necording to general prin- But in those to mete out condemnation for ench crime: it is impossible

self hath made, and made perpetual. too. There is an amity which God Himpaign has also been levelled against the m.st ber irreconcilable,ciples. The Pontiff regrets that the cam

lised world no reconciliation shall ever «And between the Germans and the civi

Catholic clergy, thus spreading the weeds. be possible Against them our enmity is denouncing these machinations, not only

of discord among varions classes.

The letter ends by protesting against and to the faithful, but to all honest people wherever they may be found.

The Pope reaffirms that it is his duty to defend the anctity and honour of the Church, which has been entrusted to him by Providence

perpetual.

hand.

Had they been chivalrous opponents we could, after the wir, have taken their old men and women, was shelled, and When peace is signed we shall not sprak Early in 1015 the hospital, filled with deeds, puts them for ever under the han. in the following March the cathedral was with them, nor work with them, nor trade The proven record of their evil described as in ruins. By that time the with them. They will claim forgiveness une, 1913, Rheims prudly claimed the who have invented poisonous gas, who population had shrunk to 10,000, title of the most bombarded city in

By and they will get none. The miscreants France."

have poisoned wells, who have poisoned, enemies of the human race. truth itself. are and will remain ghe

There is a tendency to forget that the ullapse of Russia, which was initially esponsible for the movement towards. unity of command on the Western front, has also affected the situation by sea, and particularly in the Mediterranen In the North Sea the authority of the British Admiralissimo, subject to Board of Admiralty, has always been the Supreme; the British Fleet for over thres ears exercised alone the duty of holding main forces of the enemy, standing Iways ready to deny to him ni sa fights, exent such as his submarines ould steal In these circumstances, hatever zession of strength the enemy ay eventually obtain by seizing Russian ben-of-war in the Baltic: can raise no rgent problem. Our strength in capital hips was sufficient to offset any increased wter which the enemy ained. Our margin of safety has been might have. onsiderably increased in the past few onths" by the noriation with the Grand leet of a number of battleships of the nited States Navy. Historians of the ar will pay their tribute to the spiritline, came a terrible shelling, and the shibited by the Navy Department at collapse of the gatehdral walls was said fashington, and particularly by Admiral nan, the Chief of Operations, in plac. g those splendid ships under the orders

Admiral Sir David Beatty,

THE FATE OF RUSSIA'S SHIPS

Whenever the Germans süffered a defeat Rheims Early in 1910 they were fring in the field they took it out of 1,000 shells a day into the tumbling city. untenable. by reason of the poison gas A year ago the city was declared to be shells fred into it by the Hans. Still, the remnant of the population clung to its shelters. Then, in May, to mark the double Gernian defeat on the Hindenburg

In Desper fast Mr. Frank Hedge Butler said he ninth visit to Rheims dur,

The conditions in the Mediterranearing the war. He said that the cathedral

Bot of the sirapiest character that then looked like Tintern Abla se of the North Sea present.

The

Yet the Huns were not satisfied. In

MISTAKEN HUMANITY.

bare with men who have starved and and captives, who with hendish delibera. What relations of friendship can we tortured and murdered poor prisoners

govern decent nations? who, in brief, have broken, all the laws, tion have dropped bombs upon hospitais. hamar and divine, which restrain and

Loril of the Admiralty has revealed April this year they red 100.000 shellsey may be punished for it, and hold it

£750,000,000 FOR PENSIONS

CAPITAL COST OF PRESENT LIABILITY.

Sir Alfred W. Watson, the Government Actuary, has presented a report to the

corresponding provisions for the Navy. additional charge involved in the propos Minister of Pensions on the effect of the

hosing his estimate on the assumption of ed new pensions warrant for the Army,

which will have becurred by about the He estimates that. from the casualties middle of the present year, the future pension charges will be something appro ximate to the following suns:-

In 1930... ..."£40,000,000 In 1910

20.000.000

In 1930

.

In 1960

0,000,000

10,000,000 Even in 1970 the charge will not have wholly disappeared,

at the nerul command in the Mediter- into Rheims in a werk. Then the uld arch- would not grant themselves, of thour thus be put at, at least, £700,000,000, to

Runs were dropping 1,000 shells a day to as, they whine and they cry. to be imminent. By June last year theout' to them what they have meted out And when, by á just reposal, we mete into the city ruins. Yet 5,000 of the same Germans who, delighted to kill the population stayed on!

The

Friday leg the Pupe on their knees to worshippers in a Paris church on Good Day. They have not even the courage interede for Cologne on Corpus Christi of their own brutality when they think Jean rests with the French, and in the shop and the mayor consented to go. riatic with the Italians, British naval |

an shame to ask a respite, which they ces in bath seas acting under the

whom they have injured. ench and Italian admirais. In addi in to farger units, we have contributed fairly well supplied with cruisers and they demand too much who ask "brave The Black Sen force of Russia is also moral cowardice such a this, and The Serce Attila himself was incapable but 500 small craft of various descrip- has a large number of destroyers and,

Some months ago, in consequence submarines. Turkey still posesses one hypocrite the heavy losses of merchant shipping of the obsolescent battleships bought from

men to forgive the armed and armoured tained in the Mediterranean-30 per Germany before the outbreak of war, and our felly and encourages their efron That we granted their request proves 2. of all losses--the question of the best the Goeben, or Sultan Selim as he is. To expect the Germans to appro ans of combating enemy submarines now called, is still afloat, after many late our forbearance is to misunderstood

referred by the Allied Navy Council adventures. It is apparent that if the their nature. Committer which met at Ronie. All Germans can obtain control of the Black enemies to justice as those who are There are none so great. navies operating in European waters Se men of war of Russia and pusacia miesto lace and they will only apted the anti.submarine proposals put sufficient trained officers and men to pro ward by the British, with peculiar vide with crews, they may organise battle wledge and experience gained in the squadrone of considerable value to issue th Sea and English Channel; and it forth from the Dardanelles at the enemy's agreed that they should we carried selected memont. by the British naval authorities.ally also possessing a Acet

But Germany has an marked an important step forward, Hungary has in comniission four battle than by the weight of material, and we Austria Waris won rather by moral qualities the credit of the First Lord of the ships of the Dreadnought typu, in addi biralty, who visited Rome in order to tion to six pre-Dreadnoughts, and half a resolute enemy if we look upon this render ourselves weak in the presence of mote closer co-ordination of action, dozen coast defence battleships and six war, different in kind and in intent from the present conditions in the Mediter annnot be regarded as ideal as number of destroyers, torpedo-bacts and ship and are prepared when the last shọt or right light cruisers, besides a large all others, as a mere interlude in friend is fired to forgive and forget. There is bo arm stronger than the arm of moral indignation. Our men will fight with the better spirit if they remember always that they are fighting to punish the enemies of our kind and to exclude them

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as the division of authority con-submarines, 2 Moreover, other navies are ented, in these waters besides the ish French, and Italian. The United

A CHANGED SITUATION.

In the light of those statements the

manity. And thus we may see that the talk of forgiveness is not merely futin it enfeebles as at the moment when we want all our strength,

ascribe to weakness our mistaken hu-

inbilities at present in sight in respect The capital sum represented by the of non-commissioned officers and men may which must be added the corresponding

This is the amount which, if invested at the total to little less than 450,000,000, charge in respect of officers, bringing ap exclusive of the cost of administration. the beginning of the war (at 4 per cent. with its interest earnings, to meet the pen. free of income tax), would have sulfeed, ministration), and would have been ex hausted concurrently with the death of sion and other charges (exclusive of ad-

the last pensioner.

perhaps to a large extent, by the further protractionof the war, and by the charge This sum will inevitably, be increased,

in respect of the men who on demobilizs

tion, or at any time afterwards, re granted pensions, gratuities, or other allowances, on the ground of disablement or impairment of health attributable to, or aggravated by, military service,

about

tions it would appear that on the basis of Allowing for new itenis and modifica the Department's estimates, the charge in the year 1018-10 will be £37,300.000, "against the £9.000.000 shown above. Apart from the further charges which the protraction of the war will bring, the total cost of pensions and gratuities in the year 1910-20 will be less than £45,000,000

worse practices and fouler weapons that First Lord has explained, "there is a if war came again to destroy the earth, rial

es has made a notable contribution in Allies must stand prepared for new and s and men. The Japanese, with a fine dramatic developments, and the proper reciation of the importaar of sen remedy is to promote complete unity of for ever from the coveted dominion of er, have also sent shins to assist their command over the naval forces of the the world. opean Allies. And now, and Rear Powers represented. The present condi- iral Clinton Brown, the Greek Navy Lions, in a long, narrow waterway, with heresy of forgiveness is helping the Germans are clamouring for

Everyone, therefore, who preaches the beyond their own central borders the sing reorganised to help in the work Austris from the Adriatic threatening Germans to win the victory and is even of nations"-not a league to ensure ghting the pirate craft. Consequent the Allies, on the one hand, and Germany making himself an accomplice, in their peace, but, a league which shall give to I "league e shall soon have no fewer than six from the Dardanelles threatening the wickedness. To forgive is to condone, and them for ever" the freedom of the sens"

represented in the Mediterranean, t from a new entrant in Brazil.

on the other, are unsatisactory. As the condonation of the Huns will ensure that, and an abundant supply of raw mate-` e conditions in the Mediteranean whole-hearted spirit of comradeship and undergoing a change, as telegrams

have appeared during the prst few navies. But something more is required used and approved. "In that which makes hatched treasonable plots in the United mutual help between the different those invented by the Germans will be throughout the British Empire and bas Herr Dernburg. who has travelled indiente: When Russia collapsed than a spirit of comradeship and mutual en-of-war in the Black Bea, instead

a man on enemy," says Dr. Donne, he States, is already trembling at the ing more or less in aid to the Allies, help. The position to-day was reflected hath the image of the Devil, infidelity thought of a commercial boycott. Nearly the protests which the Bolshevic tary of the Navy Department at Washing man, heresy towards God infectious for the prosperous' development of Ger-

in a statement which the Assistant Secre- towards God, perfidiousness. rnment has made to Germany, the ton recently made to a French paper manner towards man, and that we must many after the war are in the hands of towards all the raw materials which are necessary y is intent upon obtaining poin

considerable force of men-c war American, Italian, and Japanese Beets to love a German proclaims himself the their Colonies, which shall never be, when he declared that the British, always hate." And he who loses or hopes the Allies. Not even the return of all the Russian flag in these waters, are ships which canrot be ignored. have to a certain extent, adopted the fos of his own land." include some units of great power. principle of combining and brigading to a has lost no armoured ships in the ether the various units of their fleets.

.. RELYING ON RECONFILIATION,

would satisfy the Germans' urgent wants. Sen since the beginning of the Only to a certain extent it will be

The passing of the Non-Ferrous Metals and it may therefore be assumed the noted. It may be suggested that that is that is certain. They rely upon our those metals of which Germany stands in The Germans hope for forgiveness Act, which controls the sale of precisely which existed in 1014 when host if not enough in view of the new situation weakness and amiability for a complete reed, bas filled Herr Dernburg with n pened are still available, though in the Mediterranean which may develop reconciliation. They are sure that when natural alarm. He admits that the world, Patherine II. and Alexander II., ed after the Revolution Sovbodnaya Seven navies will soon he operating in land and sea. This they believe because course with Germany, and he demands in the course of the next few weeks, the war is over we shall forget all the outside the Central Powers, is not pleased n-Vola respectively managed a those waters, and there will be no ap this they wish. It is not that they re-

atrocities which they have committed by at the prospect of resuming business inter eeks since to escape from Sebastopol reme admiral as there is a super pent them or that they are ready to pro- i shall bind the States and not leave varssisk, but whether they are safe general on land.

frankly a distribution of raw materials; there from the Germans is a nico

secured by international agreements, Naval wariare represents highter standmise amendment. If it were to do again free hand to the individual that is to 2n. In those circumstances the ard of technique than warfare by land, they would commit the same crimes and say, there must fie a league of nations 1 ships which offer a menace to the and its movements are more rapid; there

They will plead for forgiveness only be for the unirerent world supply of a Herr Dernburg is living in a fool's

worse.

command of the Mediterranean in.fore unity of command afloat is even cause they, are thinking of their pockets/humanity, destitute of raw materials"

the following eight vessels:

Year. Tous.

more important than on land. No one They will promise repentance as loudly who reads the despatch describing the Displacement. Main Armament.Battle of Jutland can fail to be impressed as you please because they think the pro paradise. The Alles will never strip with the necessity for quick decisions and mise would benefit them. They have themselves of raw materials to Benefit rapid action. There is only one way of devout belief in the assumption of virtue an enemy who has outraged all the laws a piece of practical policy, and they of war and has added up against himself a larger sum of hate than ever before has stand in need of all the help which their been pat to the discredit of a defaulting enemies can give them.

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Ia truth, the forgiveness of Germany means its commercial rehabilitation Having exasperated the whole world (Continued at foot of nest ColumM.)

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