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EXCUSING DEFEAT. GERMAN EXPLANATIONS."

TAF HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, 1918,

THE NATION AND THE SOLDIER. AFTER THE WAR.

Mr G. H. Roberts, M.P., Minister for Labour, speaking at Bromley, Kent, ro cently, on the question of reconstruction after the war, said the happenings of

belief that peace was much nearer that it the last six weeks justified them in the

was during the earlier part of the year. But would make for permanent peace-and they wanted an Allied peace, a peare that

prepared to work. The task of recon- that was the peace for which he was

whilst the Somme battle and the pret

that we shall not succumb to hunger. sure of the Russian masses continued, One thing, however, is essential to this Roumania joined our enemies Those end, namely, a firm and infexible deter were critical situations of a far more mination not to alacken in this fight for Lectoring before the German Society critical cature than the present sitna our existence, not to abandon the achieve tion, which is only felt the more owing ments of four years of was fraught with "On a correct catimation of the war

to the vexatious circumstances accom sacrifices, and thereby the entire Gorman events," the Deputy Chief of the General panying it, for that is all it is. Is it fature. This determination must re- Staf, General von Freytag Loringhoven, suggested that we have suffered defeat main alive in the army in the fold and said, according to a Berlin telegram: regarding the position as a whole, at home, and all that might dividend there is no defeat 1. Suvaroff's saying must be postponed till the end of the War is an uncertain business. The that a lost battle is only one that one War. Let us daily and hourly bear in scope of no measure can be judged with believes lost applies here. Today, too, mind what we are fighting for and what moral factory alone are decisive in war, completo curtainty because everywhere in more than four years of war our brave everyone will perceive there is only one awaits us in case of delent, and then the enemy a independda; will working soldiers have day after day proved this watchword for us victorious defence against it, and because incalculable acel superior in numbers but, above all in at home. all our thoughts are concen- to the enemy, who is not only far to a finish. Only when, in the fie'd and

wir. That must always be borne 10

our brave people that the thing is not gigantic test of strength in the West. to give way to momentary feelings. Let but if that be so we certainly shall we Wish 10 be spared dus keep up its spirit, which is something

of men in the Army would be even greater appointments. We must never expect different to feeling The enemy still but if we cannot bid our nervus be calm

To be sure, our position is not casy, than that of recruiting those men into 200 much, as was the cause at the intro-bases on the failure of spirit his hope of victory which ba cannot expect to

we are unworthy of our dear dead. Their the Army, We shall not tolerate," duction of unrestricted U-boat warfare, attain by arms.

Our Supreme Army greatest imaginable firmness. The parts with this problem. For my own part, I memory categorically demands of us the he proceeded, any" haphazard dealings and again at the beginning of our Spring viction that the detention especially of capied by us form, now as before, the should prefer to retain these splendid Command was always guided by the con of Northern France and Belgium - enemy ground must give way before the best protection for the German home. principle of the concentration of forces.and. In our hands these territories are enemy attack was recognised, no attempt against Great Britain, and at the same As soon, therefore, as the weight of the an incomparable battle position was made to adhere to the aims hitherto time a pursued, but the Army Command order: ed a retreat from the Marne to behind the Vesle, and later also a withdrawal on the front north of the Oise.

dents nowhere pily so..great a rule is 15 technical equipment. Let us again teach trated an the war shall we stand this struction after the war, with the millions

Dund

omenalve this year. The fact that we

→ have hitherto succeeded extraordinarily well in was encourages these all too great expectations. The people at home in their entirety have been hardly ever fully

-conscious of the most rateful moments. The tremendous achievements of our armies are in a long war in danger of

· facing" somów nat from the memory of our people. ne tact that our enemies have been unable to uspose of us and had to get ever more Alics is itself the greatest imaginable acknowledgment of our strength. li, therefore, on the one hand we must not let our imagination outrun events, on the other hand pride in what has been achieved may give us a feeling of calm assurance. Much as

is not of such great significance for the

go forward so rapidly "at the front as was partly amumed.

ONLY A CHECK."

*NOTHING NEW."

As

permanent menace to Central

France and Paris. In the present case we must, it is true, put up also with the disadvantage that this defensive front is permanently exposed to menaco from two sides, from, the south and the west, as well as the further disadvantage that Such a procedure was nothing new to it is difficult to issue forth therefrom the Supreme Army Command. There is to a great and enduring cfensive, be no less justification for the withdrawal cause one always has an enemy on one of the Hindenburg line of last year than or the other Bank. We should long since for the retreat from the Vistula in the have settled with the French if our autumn of 1914, which resulted in the troops had not had to perform the union of the 9th Army between the Sisyphus labour of encountering the Warthe and the Vistula, whence it broke reinforcemeate which the Allies brought forth for the blow against the Russian to the French and their unparalleled flank from Lodz. The positions which we technical

fighting means, occupied before the enemy counter-ofen numberless tanks.

including sive began were the result of an abortive are more and more learning how to dis Our brave soldiers,

effective economising of forces.

L

tellows in the Army much longer than they themselves think Decessary rather than they should be released in an hap hazard tushion simply to swell the ranks going to releuse these men only when we of the unemployed. (Cheers.) We are aave reasonable assurance that industry they can be permanently resettled in civil is capable of absorbing them, and that life

employment should be given be prefer

Proceeding, Mr. Roberts suggested that

men, and to the volunteers as against ence to the married as against the single

soldier should be secure and idolised for conscripts. There

were some people i who seemed to think that the discharged the rest of his passage. Certainly they were not going to have the disgraceful spectacle they had witnessed after pre- begging at street corners or hawking. vioue wars of the discharged warriors matchen They knew that the public con-

the army in the held and the people at offensive, and were therefore unsuitable pose of these monsters. Nevertheless, the science would not stand that, but, on the i home long for the end of the war, it for a defence the aim of which was. the abundance of technical fighting means other hand, they must safeguard them- situation as a whole that things did not positions had not been consolidated as constitutes an essential reason why we country the assurance that every case had

The which our enemies employ against us

selves and give the Government of the trench warfare demarda Owing to the cannot adhere to the war of movement been thoroughly reviewed. They could gigantic extension of the world war, which brought de a decision in the East. not pay these men for what they had neither isolated brilliant feats of arms Yet our troops can claim the tremendous nor even operations which were victori- achievement of, on the whole, having held done by a d, and if they were going A check like that we are now experiously carried through have brought as a and occupied this territory for four to keep them in idleness that would lead ancing in the West is far from equalling final decision, but the big number of years. the crises that he behind us. 1 would successes gradually brought us nearer a

to the degradation of the men and the In the East qur victory is complete. whole. It is a very remarkable thing,"

ultimate deterioration of the nation as &

recall the Russian invasion

and October days in 1918 when

PRESIDENT WILSON

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"And when you give it, give absolutely 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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of East decisión, and they do not lose their In the West we are wrestling to preserve continued Mr. Roberts, that some of MACARONI, PASTE STARS. EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI, Frusais, the time after the Marne battle weight owing to the mere fact which is what we have won there and in the East. those who talked so much about peace | in the autumn of 1914, the September unavoidable in at economic war that our field army will not let this be by negotiation seem to be anxious for in-. Our along with them numerous other factors snatched out of its hands. The most internal strife after the war. I want to Western army, weakened by the despatch exercise their influence. It is precisely portant thing is that the people at home see penec, "not only internationally, but

against the enemies' world trade (the shall hold out morally. We soldiers cer- also within our own shores. simultaneous attacks in Champagne and maintenance of which has become more tainly don't under-estimate our enemies, Peace after the war, should be harmony important portion of our war activities of the French. very highly. We know, to give way to class war or industrial and more a question of tonnage) that We esteem their courage, above all that in industry. If military war is simply (Cheers.) is directed. The thing now is to push however, also that the infantry of all the strife thet not only will our recovery things so far that Great Britain and nations allied against us can do nothing from this war be retarded, bat it will be defensive war. We lack neither men, war and that our infantry is absolutely affect not merely one class of the whole America recognise our invincibility in a without their artillery and their tanks, rendered almost impossible, and it will material, nor ray materials to hold out, superi toit in band-to-band fighting, communibut particularly the class to and for a long time past we have known and is conscions of the fact.”

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