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- ULSTER'S DUTY. BIR E CARSON'S DECLARATION.

Belfast Orangemen celebrated the anni versary of the Battle of the Boyne in

The fact Banner dear to their hearts. that Sir Edward Carson had crossed from England to take part in the celebrations gave added importance to the proceedings. The Marquis of Londonderry moved the principal resolution, which declared that

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BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT.

MR. MASSEY'S TRIBUTE.

Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, and Mr. W. F. Massey, Prima Minister of New Zealand. attended at the Victoria Working Men's Club at gw recently, ansboth were presented with addresses..

Mr. Massey, in response, said the citi- of the United Kingdom were pro verbially modest, and so little was said about what they had done that people were apt to get a wrong impression and was not in proportion to its population. As a matter of fact, Britain easily led the rest of the Empire. For instance,

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1918.

JUGO-SLAV FREEDOM. SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.

been shattered by ine new state of things which this war has brought about between (Austria)and Germany."

Mir A, J. Balfour, M.P., Secretary Thas is the lamentable prospect of theso for Foreign Affairs, was the principal subjecte.races Of Poland I will any speaker at the inaugural meeting of the nothing now; but who can look on either, Serbian (Jugo-Slav) National War Aims the Cacho-Slovaks in the north of Committee held recently at the Mansion Austria or the Jugo-Slav population in the south, who can conceive of these two House.-

The Serbian Minister referred „to"the | nations, speaking the same language,

a Parliamentary union was necessary for to think that Britain's share in the war presence of the Italian Ambassador as having the same culture, the same wishes,

the preservation of the liberties of Ireland

and for the security of the Empire.

Mr. R. H. Baird seconded.

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THE BATTLE OF NATIONS.

and the same aspirations, being for ever doomed, as they will be if the Central Powers are victorious, to remain subject

to minority control, dominated, and it may be crushed. by a German or Magyar minority with the whole strength of the German military fores behind it? That is, as I see it, one of the great problems that I hope will be solved by this war.

proving that Italy supported Serbia's war aims. The first and at present the the effort of the British nation fer the sole aim of the Serbiang was, he said, to war period amounted to not less than win the war. They were determined to 7,500,000 men, and of those 60 per had been contributed by

live free or die. (Cheers.) England Sir E. Carson, spraking in support of (4,500,000), 5.3 per cent. by Scotland, 3.7

Mr. Wickham Steed, chairman of the the solution, said:The last time I per cent. by Wales, 2.3 per cent, by in Serbian, Sciety, then read a statement land, 19 per cent. by the Dominions and took part in a 19th of July celebration has Colonies, whilst the remainder repre of the now committee's aims. The first

by India was in the year 1914, just before the out-sented the contribution made break at the war. We were then as wand the Dependencies in various parts and chief of these was the union of the

of the world. This record was a splendid] Jugo-Slavs (Serbo-Croats and Slovenes) SQUEEZED INTO THE GERMAN MOCLD thought, upon the eve of grave conflicts one for the whole Empire, and it showed

This war has made it abnadantly clear, We were then pre- that nearly every part of it was doing one free, independent, and national amongst ourselves.

Many people did not State; the second, the establishment of if it ever was in doubt, that a nation pared wheat back all those who would realise the tremendous developmet that the principle of The Balkans for the which is subject to Germany-let me put

our splendid Ulster Volunteer its full duty. attempt to impose upon us the minimising bad takes place in our Air Servies dur

Some idea of Balkan peoples"; the third, the recon-it differently, a nution which is in the orbit of Germany-is quite certain to inherited, and which we had determined what was being done might be gauged struction of the devastated countries have the whole weight of the German of the rights of citizenship which we had ng the last two years.

from the fact that in the last twelve to maintain, and then the war broke out. and there was a greater attack upon free months British airmen had accounted for which were inhabited by the Southern breadcratic p military machine devot aircraft Slavs; and the fourth, the promotion of mould which suits Germany. I have been ed to squeering it into the national duni even than that we were anticipating, considerably over 1,000 enemy

attack upon freedom which has in June British airmen made seventy-four threatened to swallow up the very ele-bombing raids over Germany, and dur economical and intellectual intercourse informed, and I believe it to be true, that nents of liberty, of humanity, of Chrising the year they dropped over 800 tons and communication with the Allied count this very moment, in one of those Baltic provinces which Germany has tianity, for which the world has been of explosives on enemy forces or in enemy country. There was no question that the

severed from Russin, and in regard to truggling, and which, en helg British wow held the supremacy of the Mr. Balfour said: Serbia, until this which Germany has made wonderful pro- Hent noment arts to be in the melting

Our machines were better, faster, war tegin, was bat little known in

fessions-at this moment Germany is pet. (Cheers.) And what was ister

forcing upon the population of that pro- forget all our own domestic quarrels and the enemy, whilst our men were more

as with other Balkan States, was largely culture. We know exactly what Germany A similar de- to march out and take our part in that daring and resourceful. Kreater baltle--the battle of the nations of velopment had taken place in the Navy. limited by the ignorance, or comparative docs to other States which fall into her Hurope, of Agia, of Africa, and now of The ships and vessels of all kinds em ignorance, in which the affairs of South- America (cheers) in attempting to drive played in the naval service in September, Eastern Europe were wrapped to the Power. Those States are made to minis back the invader who wanted to put upon 1913, after the mobilisation had been com crdinary observer. But Serbin has beenter to Germany's economic greatness us his ideals of a tyranny, which he is pleted, had a tonnage of just over the pivot on which this war has turned they are sucked dry in order to feed Germany's" mubition for wealth; their pleased to call culture, spelt with a 4,000,000, now the figures were well over It was one of the most unprovoked whole natural development is thwarted

expert The of the personnel attacks ever by a

has been increased to 490,000, or nearly "We did not go about asking, "Is Eng.three times what it was at the outbreak land's difficulty our opportunity! No. of war: 567 steners are continually em

our ployed in carrying troops and stores We said, England's trouble is

our the armies in France and to the forces "trouble. England's difficulty is

formed, and I remember well the day I the Navy got an opportunity of deal difficulty," and so our seth Division was in various theatres of war in the East. said to them, Go out and win glory for ing with the Kaiser's feet before the war the Empire and honour for Lister." came to an end, he had not the faintest They have gone out," and they have won doubt of the result. Next time the feeta bercium by many nations, no deed of Awill be as Roumania now is, glory for the Empire, and they have won met the Germans would not get away an heroism stands out more brightly of play thing, "the victim of Germany's

tries.

duty when the war broke out? It was to and more powerful than the machines of Western lands, and sympathy with her, vince its language, its education, and its.

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easily as they did in the Jutland fight.

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ilustriously than Serbia's resistance to the overwhelming forces that brought against her, that in appearance have crushed her, but that have in truth left her spirit of patriotism and inde pendence burning with even, brighter Justre than before the war. (Cheers.)

a small Power the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, the most destructive, the most notions of Germans culture. And if this disastrous explosion which the history does not end-ns, please God, it will of the world has to show us. Serbia bas the Allies (cheers)-I see no alternative end (cheers) in the complete victory of played her part nobly in the struggle except that the picture of the Europe (cheers)-into which she was forced as of the future will be that which I repe protagonist; and full as the narrative

controlled and dominated by Germany' of the Inst four years is of deeds of attempted to give you, and every State were seri,

power. (Cheers.) That is the reason why Kreat honour for Vister. (Cheers.) The

A few years ago no one imagined that I re- Government gave them promises.

I feel that a great effort should be made peated those promises, which were found such an enormous expenditure could have ed upon the pledges of the Government continued for a lengthy period without

in order to prevent so dark a destiny, But

so dark a fate, falling upon the unhappy and also on an Act of Parliament, and resulting in national bankruptcy.

these werv the facts

The total

people of the Balkan Peninsula. The the promises were those-that so long as

up 10 March.'

Germans are, after all, the hereditary 1918 they were away ami the war lasted there expenditure

Of this amount

enenties of the Slay races. All through would be no question raised of Home Rule. as 7,011,000,000.

25,170,000,000 was raised by borrowing

Now that the world has had time to the centuries they have been in collision (Har, hear.) We will keep that promise

It was consider what are the outlying differences with them and have attopated to control so far as we are concerned (Cheers.) We and £1,844,000,000 by revenue," will keep it to our dead brethren, in interesting to notice that more than 23 of ideals which have separated civilised them, and that control has never matur- two bitterly opposing ed, as it might have with another race. Flanders come what will, and in the whole per cent of the money required for carry mankind into of my political, career. Which has now ing on the war has been raised by taxation camps, we have all come to realise that into a bapps fusion of both races, but

Britain had to:

to da

not only her own financ perhaps the most important aspect of his ended always and everywhere in the lasted a very long nothing hug, but also assisted in financing the them is the treatment that should be accrushing tyranny of the German and the

the filth of more d

Allies, as

well as lending a hand to those politics than that men should go back on

all States to each other. It was Austria's Their word in the who had gone out and of the Dominions which required it. The ed by great States to small and by unhappy slavery of the Slay

To ungradgingly, even gloriously, willingly. lonne to Allies and Dominions ap

March 31st, 1918. amounted 10 given their lives for the cause which is so dear to the heart of every men who loves 1,228,000,000. How much of this very large sum would ever be repaid it was impos freedom and who loves honour.

bible for him to suggest, but never in

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attack on Serbia and Germany's attack Such has been the history of the past, on Belgium which awoke the conscience but it must not be allowed in the future. of mankind throughout the world to the (Cheers.) The Germans either deliberate errors which militariam ad for the ly, or, as rather think. by natural in-

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I am socwtimes asked. What do these marssonable people in Ulster want? We the world's history had such figures been future of mankind, and has gradually capacity, are quite incapable either of want nothing on earth hut to be left dealt with, and the end was not yet. How brought in one nation after another to understanding, or believing in the ideal.

We Want during this war to be long the belligerents could go on piling resist those tendencies, which would im which is moving the Allied nations in STAMPS THE MACHINE AS THE PRODUCT OF left free from politics, free from agita- up the liabilities they are doing no one tion, free from interference we want to can say, but one thing was quite certain he treated "exactly as Englishmen and we could last longer than the other Scotsmen are treated. The one grave mis

Sir Robert Borden said our cause was take that successive Governments havi nade is that they will not treat Ireland the greatest that had been fought for dur as they treat other parts of the United 10g the period of history Out of 380,000 Kingdom. They should have let Irishmen sent overseas by Canada 225,000 were part of the United Kingdom, they will more vitally concerned in the aes of know that, so long as they are an integral working men. he bound and compelled if necessary to this war than any other class. The strug perform the same duties of defence and gle involved the problem whether the assistance in carrying on such wars as are democracy would make good or not. If necessary for the preservation of the Germany triumphed, or if the war were foundations of liberty in the whole United brought to an inconclusive peace, then Kingdom, whatever part of it you may democracy would not have made good. by in.

NATIONALIST-ABÜL RATIONS.

if the Bishops Lay you cannot defend

AUSTRIA'S BETEROGENEOUS EMPIRE,

throw us all. small States and great their action. They are always talking about States alike, partly under the thrall of their desire for peace-n German peace Austrin, but in reality under the thrall by the way-knowing" well that peace is of Austria's master, the German Empire. the great desire, the great wish, of this hardly tried world of ours, but they (Cheers.)

never understand that not merely to the Allied Powers, but to every impartial The South-east of Europe has been a neutral there is no parallel or comparison The working man "was source of anxiety and perplexity to possible between the consequence on the European statesmen for many genera open side of a German victory, and on tians. It has been the focus from which the other side of an Allied victors. No- the disease of war has spread on more thing can be more certain that this, that will spread the Allies' ideals of than one occasion: As I read the history in proportion as the Allies are successful. of that part of Europe, its natural so development, that slow evolution which national liberty, national development, has gone on in other parts of Europe in national independence. Nothing can be accordance with civilisation, on the whole more certain on the other side that if beneficent, with its culture, with its hopes the Germans are successful, and in pro- What a revelation there has been during an extent that the police are not to be and aspirations all that was shattered portion as they are successful, so will the past year as to the real aspirations of allowed to carry out the law that has in the south-east of Europe by the in the area of German domination-econo- our so-called Nationalist fellow country. been passed by the Imperial Parliament.vasion of the Turk. It was the Turk who mic, cultural, and political-spread as men! What a revelation we have had at

VAITH AND MORALS.

prevented that union of the Jugo-Slav miasma over the whole civilised world. There is no" comparison be- It met for tha the great Convention

What an eloquent commentary on all peoples which is now one of the great (Cheers.) the Home Rule Bill, purpose of Nationalists produced their that we heard for years and years of the ambitions of this society to bring, into tween these two results. In other wars and when the Acheme we found that, so far from medi- benefits we were to receive from reserva being. And what the Turk began the the nation or group of nations that won, tion. (Laughter and hear, hear." Austrian autocracy was striven to com- extended their territory, increased their fying it, nothing would do for them bu Vell, if defence of your country is a mat plete. The policy of the Austrians, prestige, and may have obtained some to bring forward propositions which were ter of faith and morals what about the Hungarians, and other inhabitants of material advantages; but never before in founded upon the ideal of absolute separa defence of your religious liberties? Is that heterogeneous empire has often been the political history of the world have tion, whether it came sooner or whether that a question of faith and morals? And marked by dexterity; it has seldom been two ideals been brought into this colli it came later. (Cheers) We can never if it is a question of faith and morals, tonch that unclean thing, and we never is it to be submitted to Parliamit, or marked by bread, human, open-quinded sion. It is not two groups of natione spirit: and the result has been that the fighting for territory that are struggling will. (Cheers.) We talk of these things with is it to be submitted to the Bishops And Austrian, Empire-brought together as for supremacy; it is two ideals, one from bated breath: you may had even assung your country, what will they say about other great empires have been brought heaver and one from hell-cheers) which ing and mollifying influences and speeches the defence of a religion against which together, in early times by the marriages are striving for the mastery, and on the of moderate men like Mr. John Dillon they have struggled and are always strug of monarchs has never been able result of whose struggle the fate of the and Mr. Joseph Devlin (laughter-and others of the same kidney; but we know gling, and which is the real basis of their perhaps has never sincerely desized to world depends. (Cheers.) That fate in desire to get Ulster under their heels succeed in welding together into anything cludes many races and many peoples now what it all

told us

I am sorry there are like a harmonious diverso ele other than the Jugo-Blave whose you can have any safeguards and re-sheer our own party to say thad who ments of which sas is composed. That is veresia we have met here today, and who "servations you like. (Laughter.) The en

are blinded enough to the realities of this in itself a matter of the atmost import have to share with those peoples, and are sharing now the dangers, perils, and first safeguard we wanted was that it was zeserved to the Imperial Parliament to question that they are supposed to be ance to the statexrsen of Europe.

weakening on the question of Home Bule

But whatever evils are inherent in that hardships of war. Please Heaven, they say what was necessary in time of war and the question of Ulster. and stress for the defence of the country say to them is this-It is not the Sist state of "things have been aggravated will share. its triumphs; and if and And then when the Government came down far too late and far too tardily, time that we have had to close the gates thousandfold, it seems to me, by the com- when the happy day comes when peace is against traitors. (Hear, hear.) And let plete domination which Germany has now declared-not a German peace nor a said,

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Voice: "We can do the evolution of Austria it had come peace of civilisation-when that happy 15 to be conscripted for the defence of without them it is new seven years about that a majority of the inhabitants day comes then I believe that the Serbian the realm in Ireland as he is in England; since 1. first opened your campaign at were controlled by a minority-a minor Minister will be able to look not merely and we are going to take advantage the first great reservation in the Here Craigavon, and I remember giving you ty of Germans in one part, of Hungan-to his own country, but to that race of

n watchword then, Rely upon your

ans in another part, of the Dual which his country is only a part," and Rale Act," what did they do? They said, selves. The Liberal party, the Radical Monarchy. Now that Anetria has become will be able to say that, they have shared You can have any reservation you like, party, the Labour party, weak-kneed mem little more than a mere fassal of Ger- in the full the advantages of the blood but we will not allow you to carry out bers that elementary reservation. What is to us.

the Tory party, they are nothing many it is impossible to see how that and treasure we have all so freely poured We rely upon ourselves; but

of things is ever to be remedied by out, and will attain their fruition-a more, we are going over to the Bench of know well that in the struggle we will shenaided sorts of the Austrings people result which will thake us all feel that Bishops-(laughter, and a Voice: Popish Brigade and we are going to not be alone. We are now being weighed

ty, be it Austrian or be it Magyar, been more in proportion to it Is it right that a man should in the balance at the various fronts where themselves. For this controlling minert however great the sacrifice the gain has Dr. Benes, socretary of the Czecho be made to defend his country!" And our troops are fighting, There,

winning in Ulster if you lose in France know that their very existence as a domin- they went to the Bench of Bishops and and Flanders. (Cheers.)

Great things ant race depends upon Germany. cup Slovak Society in Paris, who was describ asked them, "Is it lawful for an Im- have been done in Ulster, greater things porting them against their fellow couned by Mr. Wickham Steed as one of the perial Parliament to say that men should must yet be done. For my own part I trymen. And knowing that the Austrian great triumvirate who are directing the defend their country!" And the Bench cannot help observing that I believe the dominant Government, from the very vital forces of Bohemia, and the Jago of Bishops said. "This is a question of Government have made a great mistake nature of the case, must always be de- glass, Czecho-Slovaks, Foles, Roumani faith and morals" (laughter)" a ques in not consistently applying conscription pendent on their German neighbour, the ans, and the Italiane in Austris were tion involving inhumanity. It is your to Ireland just as they did to England notion that Austria can by herself and united in the resolve to throw off the right to go out and defeat it, and, if, and Scotland. (Cheers.)

from herself dovelop into a thoroughly, Austrian yoke, and were absolutely of necessary, you must resist even to such The resolation was afterwards carried homogeneous and free nation, as we con-one mind as to the absolute necessity of

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