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PEACE THE LESSER END OF WAR

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ērm, 1918,

** A SHIPPING CLERK NAMED BROWN."

A JUST MIGHT TO THE FINISH. HOW HE CAPTURED 159 GERMANS.

Asame with all that the last four years have meant to "the world, Dr. Norman Maclean makes a prophetic utterance in the Scotsman: The master word is not Feace but Righteousness.'

BOUMANIA'S "PEACE" INSATIABLE GERMAN GREED. The following "Observations by the Practically the whole of the Kaisar's Allied Ministers at Jassy with regard to famed 10th guard division crossed the the conditions of peace imposed upon Marne in the July offensive and in Roumania by the Central Powers," dated Altrated through the woods held by U.S. troops south of Mary. Faw of them May 16th, 1918, have been presented to got back. their casualties totalling ap-both Houses of Parliament, and publish proximately 20,000,

ed in the form of a White Paper:

Outnumbering the defenders. the Germans at first swept through the woods rapidly They went beyond numerous U.S. machine-gun nests, sheltering ten, Ave or two Americans. These men stuck to their posta and that was one renson the German losses were so heavy.

Tales of individual exploits were numerous, men fought till they died in preference to surrender; many cut their way to their own lines. Sergeant J. F. Brown's story is best known in the U.S. him, for a year ago, before he enlisted The clerk named Brown, they call Be was a Shipping clerk. His exploit was extraordinary, bus army, records give adequate confirmation.

There are sometimes heard voices sum- moning the nation to repent of the fact that we Aze'at war. These are, however, the voices of false prophets who do not see deep enough to realize that peace requires more frequently to be repented of than even war. Twenty years ago the Armenians were foully massacred, but we kept the peace. That peace calla for a repentance deeper far than any war. In days of ease and prosperity the nation made an idol of peace: There were Peace Societies carrying on a cease- les propaganda, and Peace Sundays and Peace Congresses; but while our enemies spoke continuously of peace in public, in secret they were smilingly sharpening their swords. The prophets of peace forget that the master word in the ethical vocabulary of humanity is not

Brown, who is peace, but righteousness. Peace is only machine gun detachment of eleven men the by-product of righteousness and the After preparatory bombardment the peace that has not its roots in righteous Germans advanced past their dugout news is only the scum on the surface of Before they could get their gub inte the foul and stagnant pool. To keep the action a party of 100 of the enemy came peace when the innocent are being mas toward them, and Brown ordered his sacred by brute force, when the weak men to sentter. He took to the woods are overwhelmed by greed and lust, that and watched the Germans hash bis is damnation. In the centuries to come.

machine-gun, Then he started toward when men will compute the greatest the Marne and away from his own lines, Christian dedds ever enacted by nations and met his Captain, also alone. Is was in their corporate capacity, they will night. The Captain had a pistol, Brown doubtless place two in the foremost-the his automatic rife; they decided to kill were freeing of the world's slaves and the Germans until they themselves taking of the foremost place in the battla killed. They heard two machine-guns font of this war, by Britain in the de-near by. They charged one and the fence of the right.

The pacifists forget that there are wild bensts yet loose in the world. The shep- Eerd leads the flocks to the green pas tures, a man peace; but when the wolves come he must seize his weapons and fight. Let Heaven be praised that in these last years we have proved our selves shepherds and hot hirelings. To day the wolves snarl as does the pack. despoiled of its preș, turn to its lair.

THE LAST OF MANTY,

If anything be certain it is this, that the world devastating war sprang from the last of world-dominion. There is no thought more encouraging to-day than the thought how the dream of world- conquest has always ended in misery. The Kaiser is only the last of many.

commanded

Captain was killed. Brown killed the lone German gunner. A U.S. corporal also alone in the woods, joined him then and the two went after the second machine-gun, which was firing steadily from behind a clump of bushes. Brown had killed three of, the gun's crew when big cleven men came up. He resumed command and posted his twelve about the German trench in twelve

directions.

There

To complete the information we have already furnished, we communicate & statement of the conditions imposed on Roumania, which demonstrate in the best possible manner the insatiable greed and hypocrisy of German Imperialism.

NEW INDUSTRIAL SPIRIT. ALATOR"ASTOR ON RECONSTRUC- TION.

Major the Hon. Waldorf Astor M.P. of Food), addressing the Rotary Club at (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry the Holborn Restaurant on Industrial Reconstruction, referred to an interest- ing experiment which had been made in his own constituency. During the winter

in be said, be had met conference local trade union leaders, and had discussed with them what had been wrong in the past, with a view to meing what could De done The result of these conferences had been to improve matters in the future. the creation of a new spirit and a new atmosphere, because they did not previ ously know sufficient about each other's point of view (Hear, hear.) One

be

By request of the Germans, one of the reports states that the treaty admits of cause of the late Viscount Rhont neither annexation nor indemnity; but the territories taken from Roumania in success was that he applied the system of the Dobrudja and in the mountain dis decentralisation and gave the people them- entire population, or more than 800,000 wer tricts contain about one-tenth of theselves, through their local bodies, the ad- ministration and control of food. There were still d

three great

where spheres inhabitants, and extend to more than ultimately responsibility had yet to 26,000 square kilometres, Strategie res defined. We had not yet deined the final sons have been invoked to justify the responsibility, first, of the relations be tectification of frontiers The pretext is tween the nations of the world: secondly, absurd; if the Central Empires were to of the relations between the Dominions emerge victorious, Roumania would re and other countries of the British Empire main in the position of a German colony and the Dominions to each other; and, and could not in any way constitute a finally, we had not yet settled where the menace to them; on the other hand, the final responsibility rested in industry. We victory of the Entente would reestab had, however, taken a great step forward lish the Kingdom in its integrity, a. fact in the Whitley proposals We wanted as little interference by Government as pos- which cannot but be recognised by cur enomics. In reality, the most fertile sible, and there would be the least amount Of Government interference where busi- forests of the mountain districts are in- cluded in the territories joined to Hun: (Cheers.)

nesses were run in the national interest.

He believed thas sometimes gary, and the principal object of these trade unionists thought too much of high- rectifications has been by this means to

er wages and not enough of the condi- round off the sporting estates of the tions under which peoplesworked. “If," Hungarian nobics and to ensuro the be prosperity of the forest exploitation companies, in which so many persons of importance in the two Empires are in terested, and which will thus be in a position to create a monopoly in build ing timber.

A VIRTUAL WAR INDENEVITY. the territories taken from Roumania were The Central Empires have stated that uninhabited. That is not the case. The district annexed to Hungary contains 176

130,000 inhabitants. This population is exclusively of the purest Roumanian stock, and has preserved its nationality through successive invasions in the moun- tain valleys, where it found an invio lable refuge during the domination of the Turk

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proceeded, "we can have a new con- ception of industry, if we can look upon industry as a form of national service, and if all connected with industry can feel that they do not expect to acquire the same financial interest as in the past, but that their reward should be the feel- The that they were serving the State, as the great majority of men and women were

new spirit in the country. doing to day, then we shall be able to get Then we shall be able to make this country worth living for, that so many of our brave soldiers have died fighting for. We must operating, of realising a new conception of patriotism, a patriotism which is sink- ing personal and class differences for the (Cheers.) He went good of the State." on to say he had been in districts, parts- cularly in the early part of the war where capital and labour were only waiting its conclusion, to get at each other's throats. That was not the way to win the war, of the world after the war was ever. this war because

At a signal they-opened fre; Brown'! vilinges with a total population of overite the opportunity now that we are co had crawled to a position from which hored the trench, and he fired until his gun was too hot to hold. He rested it on a stump and continued. were 100 Germans in the trench They were surprised the rapidity of fire and its varied direction must have convinced them that the attackers were in strong Three hundred years before the Chris force. They surrendered, and Brown tinn era Alexander the Great swept nesaed the column back toward, the US as well as, in the export of corcals, sav neither was it the way to make the best through the ancient world like a torna Lines Luck took them to a place where do, but at the age of 39 be died at Bagdad, and his opalescent dream of world-dominion burst like a bubble. Rome built up a world empire so great that, Cicero could write; «' Wherever yon are, remember you are equally within the power of the Emperor, but the men who wielded that sceptre came almost all to a violent end, and the Empire fell tottering to the earth.

"I SHALL SUCCEED,"

Napoleon dominated the world with the dynamic force of his personality, making Emperors and Kings the ser- vants of his will. "We are going to make an end of Europe," he declared when he set forth on the Russian cam paign. In three years we shall be masters of the universe." But the would-be master of the universe left his armies frozen on the Russian plains, and St. Helena was waiting for him even as he spoke. ***

The Kaiser is the last victim of the. intoxicating gas whence that dream springs The American Arbassador, Mr. Gerard, has recorded how, the last of the Hohenzollaras said, "Alexander, Cæsar. Theodoric, Frederick, and Napoleon aimed at world-dominion: they failed. I shall succeed." But the same unseen powers that brought his predeces sors to ruin will doom him also.

HOW JUDGMENT IS WROUGHT.

It is not by cataclysmic acts that judgment is wrought, but by the regular working of the normal lawe that govern life. The ambition of world-conquest is doomed because no human personality is equal to the strain of such & burden. Only colossal egotism can dream such a dream, and when success seems within the grasp the egotism develops into mania.

the German, advance line was broken, many, in reality represent a war indem-Wesare nothing machine," Majori

Small and isolated parties of Germans ered so that the number of prisoners saw the advancing column, and surrend totalled 158. An enemy barrage was laid down just as they headed across No Man's Land. It killed four of the pris oners.The clerk named Brown brought in-185 prisoners. Spe

Reporting at regimental headquarters he was met with some scepticism until a military policeman came in with a huge pile of maps and papers Brown had taken from enemy officers and which he had furned over on his way back.

Give me my receipt, said the M.P. and Brown gave it to him. Despite the barrage he had demanded that scribbled record when the military policeman' re- lieved him of the bundle. None of Brown's men were wounded, neither was Ee.

Finally, the monopoly in the exploita tion of the forests and the sale of timber, up by the treaty to the profit of Ger- nity, the payment of which will waigh we have a good

which Germany will realise as a result of service, and devotion to the country. heavily on Roumania for a long time to Astor concluded, we are going to win this come. From this year onwards the proft war because of the spirit of patriotism, of the difference between the real value which has animated our soldiers." of the cereals and the prices imposed will be considerable.

THE TWO BEST-HATED

GERMANS.

INVENTORS OF GAS AND FLAME

THROWERS.

Furthermore, the Austro-Germans have enforced the concession to themselves of the right to fix the amount" of cereals to be exported, and the valuation of this amount is to be made in relation to their needs and not in relation to the abundance of the harvests. By virtue of this arrangement Roumania, even after

Henry Weilback, a Dutch cheming re- the signature of peace, will be forced to submit to a measure of rationing which ident in New York, who during the first may well amount to famine: Finally, it years of the war worked in Leipzig. is the Roumanian Government who must laboratories, says the two most-hated advance the price of the produce par men in Germany to-day are Professor chased by the Central Empires, opening Krauss, the inventor of poison-gas, and for them a current account, which need Major Reddeman, who invented flammen- not be settled till

later date and at the werfer and the method of hurling boil- Latter's convenience.

The treaty has laid down a time-limiting oil. When gas and liquid fame were first burled against their enemies the

the Germans proclaimed

inventors within which the Roumanian Parliament are to approve its terms; no limit is heroes. They were fêted, decorated, and tions; any unwillingness on the part of when the two frightful weapons were

for the exchange of ratifica provided

recognised as master geniuses. Later, one of the interested Governments will thus be sufficient to ensure the indefinite turned against the German soldiers, with prolongation to their profit of the enor-more deadly consequences than they had mous advantages which the Austro-Ger ever achieved, and when trainloads of mans are still gaining from the state of Germans gassed by their own deadly war, which, in theory, still exista The vapours. began to arrive from the front, rage peace of 1913 has not yet been ratified by Krauss became the object of

In the same manner the the Bulgarian Chambers, and this is a and hatred.

were surprised and precedent which can be followed; besides, German people

when Reddenin developed but the ratification of the treaty by the Fou- delighted

when, the manian Parliament, which will certainly the famethrower.

better fame-thrower the place can scarcely be considered as Allies made strictly legal. The two great historical Roumanian parties abstained from parti: they cried "Atrocity," and began throw- cipating in the election of this Parlining things at their former idol. The ment, which thus took place under the Germans are terribly sorry now, accord- pressure of the German occupation, before ing to Weilback, that they ever develop the Roumanian soldiers had been able to ed: gas and flame as weapons of attack, The Kaiser demanded a place in the return to their homes in order to take but only because the weapons reacted sun. The nations must see that he gets, part in it, and in pursuance of an eles powerfully against them. This is parti by cularly trac in Flanders, where the winds that have made men, ashamed of their the Parliament dissolved by the humanity shall have a place in the sun, illumined by the rays of noonday.

the world has been saved. To this end the memory must be kept fresh of the crimes and barbarities wherewith the Germans have horrified humanity Doubtless some will say: forget them, the church is not the place to recall them But the church is the place to remember them, for the duty of the Church is to convince the world of iniquity..

This is the measure of all iniquity the poison gas that damned for ever the chivalry of war; the House of God churned into the tortured earth; the martyred nations in which no child is left alive; the million Armenians mas sacred; the women and children perish ing on the high seas; the war waged not on to day alone but on the centuries of piety and faith.

HIB PLACE IN THE SUN.

vinced that no mere man could win such it-that every crime and every murder toral "law" which had been abroga0from the Channel have mostly favoured

man Ministry this former Parliament the Allies Bota Krauss and Reddemaa was alone qualified to set up the new re undergoing severe strafing" by electoral system on the basis of universal German public sentimens, although they

Bedde suffrage, which had already been voted still retain their decorations. in principle. The names of the candi dates in this pretence of an election were man, who used to be known as the "Lord submitted for the approval of the Gerof the Flammenwerfer, has now been re- man authorities, who, in any case, were christened the "Prince of Hell."Dady already in possession of all necessary Telegraph. guarantees, owing to the previous appoint ment of M Marghiloman and to the abstention of the pro-Entente party.

These would-be conquerors of the world all go the same way. Alexander, co- victories, proclaims himself a god, and kills his friends for doubting his divini ty. Napoleon walks at last among men

is not by paper treaties that the if he were a god. "You say man proposer and God disposes. I propose world is to be saved from another over and I dispose, declared the Corsican. flow of the same diabolic lava. That The Kaiser has gone the same road. deliverance can only come by the wrath On me the spirit of God descended, that worketh judgment and by the change he declared; I am His weapon, His of heart, that judgment brings. It is sword, His viccregent. Woe to the dis only by remembering the pit of hell they Death to cowards and un- have escaped that the nations will steel abedient. believers. On the altar of this mad their souls to be the ministers of judg

an orders requiring the entire male vanity judgment and wisdom are sacri-ment. We have escaped a fate that is

population of the occupied territories, Seed. To achieve the end humanity is appalling to contemplate. That we have slain in hecatombs.

escaped it we owe to the heroic hearts of

Far from giving Boumanis partial that is to say, of two-thirds of Roumanie, In eleven years Napoleon alev four our sailors and soldiers. Through the freedom, the present peace will complete between the ages of 14 and 60, to carry out such work as may be assigned to millions of the youth and manhood of watch and ward of our seamen no snemy her subjugation and her ruin; Germany territories,

The penalties for disobedience Europe that he might gratify his megale boatload have landed on these shores save will continue to occupy her

and imprisonment, include deportation even after the ratification, which, as we mania in four years the Kaiser has as prisoners."

she can put off as long and, in some cases, which are not express slain some twenty millions. But the Four years ago the eighty thousand have see fruit of that is isolation at last in the from Mons to the Maxps gathered to may wish; the navigation of los as the ly defined, even that of death.

To sum up, Germany, by the treaty she has imposed Bournania,

OB midst of a horrified world. Napoleon their breast the Prussian spears, and the posts and telegraphs, and the railways

cynically declarations. This found himself in the end without dying saved the world. Europe, Asia, remain under German control; by request. friend; and the Kaiser has set the world and Africa have drunk deep of the blood of the Roumanian Government, as ignored her own

man delegate has been appointed to each treaty, provides for the spoliation of the ablaze against him. The end is inevit of the sons of freedom. They are not Ministry War material and munitions public lands for the scarcely concealed and, annexation of the whole able. The mesmerized awake, and then dead Froin their sacrifice will come the are to be stored in the occupied territories after the pence, for its bar untryota- and for the draining of its resources

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"BARBAROUS EXPLOITATION."

has

cometh judgment: The sword of the salvation of the world. The men of the and under the care of the German, mution of the conquerors; it turns

tary authorities; finally, Roumania may only keep in being the forces necessary

Vapi masinto a veritable convict settle

Divine judgment is to-day suspended British breed Americans, Canadians, over Potsdam. The executioners of that Australians, Scots, English, whatever

A German company. for made the writhing tools and suffering ing pot their lives dear to them. They

exploitation has been founded with demned to hard labour for the benefit of victim to his colossal and mad ambition. died not in vain,

The horizon is aglow with the signs of capital of 80,000,000fes. It seeks to create the conquerors. It is a fair example of TO CONVINCE THE WORLD OF INIQUITY victory. The men of Mons and Galli- a monopoly of Roumanian agricultural a German peace. We should consider it In the after years there will doubtless poli head the van of the conquering produce under the form of long leases, all the more closely, inasmuch as the German delegates informed the Bouman- hanksgiving Day in which the hosts, unseen. Tomorrow the free-born concluded under cover of the occupation, an delegates, who were appalled at being

ecall their deliverance from sons of the Empire will solemnly vow to recognised by the treaties, and amount Irt to enslave them. The keep faith with their fallen sons and ing, in reality, to expropriation in dis required to accept such conditions, that the awful fate from which will be the fall and ruin of the last of peace, the German command promulgated imposed on the Western Powers after the thankfulness will be the comrades unto the end. And that end gaise. On the signature of the treaty of they would appreciate their moderation when they knew those which would be (Continued at feat of next Column.) victory of the Central Empires." id at foot of next column.)

judgment will be the people whom he their name--have died joyously, count for policing her territory.riculturalment, where the entire population is con-

the Cesars.

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all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self-adulation, you are not giving at all, you are giving "to your own vanity; but if you give until it hurts, then your heart-blood goes into it.

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Imuch of the War Boud Drawing roogipts to War Charities T has been said that St. Andrew's Society is allocating too

Just think for a minute of the War and not of the Drawing; think of the tragedy beyond words which is being enacted on the battle front; think of the vast relief organisation and the money that is needed to uphold it and think of your own duty in the matter. No, we are not giving too much; we are not giving enough.

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