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THE

WAR.

TƉE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 1918.

AUSTRIANS TO TRY THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR.

MR. CHURCHILL ON THE GERMAN INDEMNITY.

GERMAN COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO ·

ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

ALLIED TROOPS COMPLETE ADVANCE INTO GERMANY.

[THROUGH, AJUTER'A AGENCY.] THE REAPING.

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR TO BE TRIED.

COPENHAGEN, November 28th.

An official telegram from Vienna states

that the Government intends to bring to ..trial all persons responsible for the war, including the ex-Foreign Minister Count Berchtold Count Czernin, many ambas- sadors and ministers, War Office function aries, also the ex-Emperor, Grand-Duke Friedrich, Eugen, and Peter Ferdinand, several gencrada including Generals Arz, Hostzendorff and Borovic.

ILL-TREATMENT OF WAR

PRISONERS.

APPOINTMENT OF GERMAN

COMMISSION.

COPENHAGEN, November 29th.

The Berlin Council of the Peoples' Com missaries has appointed a Commission to investigate the charges of ill-treatment of "war prisoners in Germany,

BRITISH

MAJESTIES IN

PARIS.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.

LONDON, November 98th,

H.. the King, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert received a very enthu siatic reception in Paris this afternoon. Long before two o'clock, the time of His Majesty's arrival, huge crowds gathered all along the Royal route, which was lined by steel belmeted poilus and 2,000 cap- tured

British and French flags guns. were flying everywhere. The last sand- bag. protecting the public monuments against air-raids and bombardments, was

pulled down and the Arc de Triomphe had regained all its pence-time elegance.

When the King and the Princes, accom- panied by President Poincare and the

GERMANY, MUST PAY.

INTERESTING STATEMENT BY

MR. CHURCHILL

LONDON, November 29th. Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundre, said that Germany would be con- pelled to pay to the utmost limit of her capacity for the war damage, which will certainly not be less than two thousand millions sterling. However, if Germany collapsed into Bolshevism, nothing could be get out of her.

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.

FRENCH TROOPS IN GERMAN TERRITORY.

LONDON, November 29th. Belgium is now clear of German troops. The French Armies are over the Ger- man frontier in the country cast of Mons, which is mostly not devastated, and be tween Mons and Charleroi, where the mines and factories are now working.

BRITISH ADVANCE COMPLETED.

LONDON, November 29th.

Sir Douglas Haig states:-Our troops advanced and reached the whole German frontier from just north of the Duchy of Laxemburg to the neighbourhood of Eapen.

AMERICAN THANKSGIVING

DAY.

CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON.

LONDON, November 28th. American Thanksgiving Day was cele brated in London. The Stars and

Courts and other public buildings.

A large congregation, mainly composed presidents of the Chamber and the of the United States military, naval and air force contingents, attended a special service at St. Martin's."

Mr. Balfour and Lord Curzon were present

"The Bishop of Rhode Island preached a stirring sermon.

Senate, together with the ministers who had greeted them

on the ar- rival of the train, appeared out- aide the beautifully decorated Bois-de- Boulogne station, the crowds raised a... cheer such as Paris bad not heard for

years.

French cries of Viye l'Angleterre and Vive le Roi, mingled with the burrahs of many Britons and the "Rah" yells of the American troopers who had taken possession of all vantage points, such as the tope of bug guns, and the highest branches of trees.

The singing included the Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Star Spangled Banner" and "God save the King."

WAR HISTORY.

GERMAN SUBMARINE CRIMES. LONDON, November 29th.

GERMANY'S DISINTEGRATION

BAVARIA SHOWS HER

INDEPENDENCE.. ·

AMSTERDAM, November 29th.

A LAY SERMON, TALKING DEMOCRACY

DESPOTICALLY.""

[CONTRIBUTED.]

BRAINS AND BRAVERY.

Our Press is always loud in deserved praise of the bravery of our soldiers, but seldom says anything of the skill, saga- city or military learning of our generals, so that one would think that these

qualities are little valued by our public

THE

GANG" AND THE

SPOILS. SOME POST-WAR PERILS IN BRITISH POLITICAL LIFE.

A telegram from Munich states that the' Bavarian Formign Office has broken off virtue, whether individual or national One of the inherent" danger of any relations with the Berlin Foreign Office (or, perhaps one should say, communis- on the ground that the continuance of the tic) is that the quality itself is in some old methods would be again deceiving mysterious way always liable to be the German people by withholding the eclipsed by the manter of manifesting its seventy-four miles away, and then a few the battle front, under the shells, dream

truth

ARMY WILL SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, November 28th The Times Correspondent at The Faguc states that a general meeting of the Boldiers' Councils of Germany, in which every Division will be represented, has been summoced for December 1st.

There is confirmatory evidence from Berlin that the Army will support all Government Bolshevism.

to suppress

menau.rea

and this constitutes a vital danger if. da is as often as not the case, the mani- festation is opposite in intrinsic quality to the thing itself. That is what Samuel Unthinking people are apt to ignore the Laing used to call "the law of polarity.” core because of the kernel in the degree that they judge by outward appearances instead of intrinsic principles. It is very easy to find "llustrations of this fact in every walk of life," and in co department is this more noticeable, and more often adversely criticised, than in matters of religion. The classic example of this type known far less in the very

THE FATE OF LUXEMBURG circles it could be of greatest help to,

WILL SHE JOIN BELGIUM.

AMSTERDAM, November 28th. A telegram from Luxemburg states that the abdication of the Grand Duchess, is expected shortly, The Chamber must decide between the creation of a Luxem- burg Republic or joining Belgium. )

The majority of the people" of Luxem- burg favour the latter which the Germans and pro-Germans are opposing.

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AIR FORCE CASUALTIES. LAST EIGHT MONTHS' FIGURES.

fdence in the transformation of the [ T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.} Workingmen bold their big conlar ences; they display a well justified con

the reign of ponce; our hardier boys at world after the war, with the gospely.. universally accepted of equal opportu nity, fairer distribution of wealth, and

waking and at night of the happier coup- delicious visions. But meantime, the workers of all the earth are full of thes try they are facing death to create the

Reactionary, seated in his old citadels, mocked at the efforts and the pains of looks down as complacently as though he belonged to the Olympian Gods that

and untaught, thinks itself on top; sad For the Gang, unteachable never was more insolent, more self-con- fident, more assured of its future than it is to-day.

In March, however, we were amared to cannon capable of delivering a shell bear that the Germana had invented a

bricks began to recognise that even brains may be of as much value in war sir G. Greenhill, FR.S., wrote that as bravery is. In Nature of March 28th, the German guaner has wiped the commented in strong terms on the slack eye' of our artillery, science ; and the

new of our politicians and officials, edumankind. newspapers, especially the Morning Post

cited as most of them are merely on pabulum of dead languages. This sen- sure is deserved, for every one remarks on the fact that the Germans have led the way in this war, not so much in old ones-Zeppelins, submarines, aero- making new inventions, as in utilising places, poison gas-while the allies have score, and therefore seem to be always on have only tanks and belmeta to their the defensive against the diabolical new inventions of the enemy.

What is Mr. Lloyd George asked to tang, He must adopt Protection and pay in return for the support of the drop Free Trade: he must abandon the would think that this was a sufficiently cause of Home Rule for Ireland. Ond large diet of reversing to put before a great Liberal leader. Finally, to this desertions there is added, by way long menu of proposed betrayals and abandonment of the claim of his own bonne bouche in this sugarless world, the people for religious equality. It is casy to guess what Mr. Lloyd George feels about such a demand; I agree with those who say that a more audacious insult was never offered to a public-man.

of

footsteps of this Gang Triumphant, A Look where you will; you trace the

once the Gang Triumphant comes for General Election is mentioned; and st ward with the insolent demand that if such an appeal to the people be made, it is they who must dictate the policy; is Henrik Ibsen's "Brand." But it is

Yet the British, French and Americans which even a Liberal Prime Ministar it is their principles by the adoption of not necessary to go into the realms of than the plantigrade Germans.

are all much more radically inventive must purchase their support. Look at this type as the hymn says, you can literature or history to find examples of then, are they now so behind haud in in the days of reaction before the people Why the organs of the Gang; did one, even and them at your door," and it is the the authorities to adopt or even to con

warlike inventions! Probably because had any voice or vote, find demands so their inventors cannot so easily persuade arrogant, so preposterous, so out of all fact-ab all-too-obtrusive fact--that many

sider their ideas,

rhythm with the spirit of the times? well-meaning

And why not? Be "reformers." damn their scientific study of war, fully recognise cause the Germans have long made a own prospects of success, and that of the disconcerting effect of new inventions mannerisms fatally inappropriate. Une sible to exploit them. The British, on the cause they espouse, by both talk and

on the enemy, and do everything pos- of the happiest and aptest little phrases the contrary, though they themselves are ever coined was applied by the late

the most faddy and irrational people in Edward Thomas (who was killed on the the world, look upon inventors with as Western Front) to William Cobbett in much contempt as they bestow upon describing his manner of delivery tacticians, strategists, and all the rest aid he talked democracy despotically,"

poets, artists, composers, men of science, as great a contradiction as that of the

of the preacher who talks love hatefully or

intellectuals" down even to philosophers. The gentlemen who grow The Air Force casualties since Aprilia often po question at all as to the sin- speaks of mysteries dogmatically. There

fas and stupid in shops, banks, offices, ist 1918, ara:

cerity of the advocate of democracy or

and parliament naturally despise the lean and keen acolytes of the Goddess of of the genuineness of his message. It is

Ideas are too highly uneducated in simply that he has got hold of the wrong Latin grammar to understand their ex

PROTECTIONIST FALLACIES. cad of the stick. That, of course, looks planations, or even too dull after lunch the activity and the arrogance of the "If anybody thinks that this picture of very simple and innocent and harmless. and so it is to begin with. But it is a higher ideals in the comedians of the

to bear them: while the masses possess Gang Triumphant be exaggerated, look. young cub which, although harmless in musicball or the hustings, or in Bound performances. I am very sorry for Mr. at their papers, look at their platform ita early days, becomes a menace and ing Bill of the Prairies. a danger as time goes on, for the man Lichnowsky, recently the German Atractive, and I have no doubt, a per- Ag Prince Hughes. He is a brilliant and an at- who thinks authoritatively and speaks bassador in London, has said admiringly fectly honest man, but could anything authoritatively ia bound, in course of of us," An hospitable house with friend time, to act authoritatively. If we look y guests is worth more [in England] a

be more deplorable than speeches at history we find that it has always than the profoundest scientific know

great Labour leader which been-so." A reformation is wanted-good ledge, and a learned man of insignificant bring back our working class to the threaten, if realised in policy to and well The trumpe, voice of reform appearance and too small means. would, horrors of the hungry forties? There rings through the land with the tones in spite of all his learning, acquire no isn't a single hoary fallacy of the of liberty. But bye and bye it is found influence. The Briton hates a bore and Protectionist which Mr. Hughes brings other bondage has been set up. That was learned men of insignificant appearance, versies between Free Trade and Protec that in escaping from one bondage an- a pedant." Unfortunately the Briton forward that has not been annihilated now has to pay for his hatred, because thousands of times in the old contro the way at Geneva, when the Genevan discipline, took the place of Ropan dis

even bores and pedants, sometimes cipline. It was the case with the An old woman once laughed at Nelson" prove, astonishingly useful in war-time. Pilgrim Fathers, who, (for a time" at because she thought he had an insign

with the

No, the fault lies people as much as with

LONDON, November 29th

Killed 1,551 officers, and 1.199 men. Wounded: 2,357 officers and 631. men. and 225 men.

Prisoners and missing: 1,619 officers

Interned: 48 officers and 39 men: THE NAVAL SURRENDER. BRITISH SQUADRON EN ROUTE TO KIEL.

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COPENHAGEN, November 29th. A British squadron of six cruisers and 20 destroyers and minesweepers have

arrived.

AUSTRIAN

GERMAN AND

CURRENCY, VALUE FALLS IN NEUTRAL EXCHANGES.

REMOVAL OF DOVER BARRAGE

!

and

least) set up such a rigorous puritan ficant i

their politicians and officials.

alism or

the

ab

tion.

war

.

rianum with cocksure democracy grasp. the proceedings of P enough to read which the tariff had created. And now"

ALLIED SHIPPING DEAL.

Look at this new gospel of Protection -AMERICAN OFFER ACCEPTED.

pence. from the point of view of the future of discipline in New England that a mother

It starts building around this NEW YORK, November 28th.

wa, nct allowed to kiss her child on a

country and, of course, around every Stripes was flown alongside the Union Mercantile Marine has accepted the Ame- The great fact we must keep before us can probably give some points to the best thing in the world which is moce pro- It is reported that the International and, later, of the French Revolution. Faraday Darwin, the British intellect of tariffs not realise that if there be any

Sunday It was the way of Cromwell;

country in the world, a tariff wall: Does At fts best, as in Shakespeare, Newton. anybody who has ever studied the history Jack on the Houses of Parliament, Lawrican Government's offer to take over the history is to resist the aathoritarian, the attempt the average does not seem high which war ultimately springs, it is at the present juncture of political found elsewhere: but by every test we ductive than another of the friction from cantile Marine, including the Olympic and opinions of such men in the past to be is the encrnous prevalence of subration perpetuation of war. And how are we to vessels owned by the International Mer-It only takes a glance at the ex-cathedra dwell on details-what strikes one most tariffs it is not the end of war, but the

autocrat who is "always" in the right." and the lowest is other very important ships on the same convinced of the folly of laying down among the public. Few seem to recognise maintenance of these good relations be low indeed Not to tariffa. If we enclose our country by

terms as had been offered by a British syn- or Cobbett, given with sledge hammer proof, and nearly every person one meets the first necessity of really winning the

even absolute irrationaliam the law. The opinions, say, of Johnson the difference between probability and tween England and Americs, which is reconcile this system of tarils with the dicate.

certainty, only arouse either a smile or appears to keep the skeleton of some speer now-a-days. But the modern type, surd superstition hidden away in a secret warned by the Kaiser's example, will cupboard of his mind though he may be not fall into the same mistakes, but will reasonable enough in other matters. At]

AMERICA'S TRANSFORMATION. Of all the things that struck me fa sedulously avoid all seeming friction every dinner party one is sure to find America during my recent tour, nothing with the will of the people." There a spiritualist, telepathist, theosophist, produced so profound an effect on my. will be no apparent "talking demo ghost hunter, antivivisectionist, antivac mind as the revolutionary transformation. erncy despotically," at least on the cinationit. Antibellumist, leader's wide, in the meantime, when rights-monger, immoralist, or some other Wilson came to ascendancy. Time after,

universal- of the country in the years since Mr. LONDON, November 28th. addressing their followers. What mast long-eared exponent of unreason; and time I had returned from America after The value of German and Austrian be feared; rather, by the general, public we have often thought that the war was previous visits with the horrible feeling

is this, that democracy, taken ng an currency has heavily fallen in neutral ex- entity, a whole, may assert itself in a

due to the fact that the German waiters that there were materials there for ons who overheard dinner-table conversations of the most violent revolutions that the changes this week.

most despotic manner, and so defeat its in England became so impressed with the world ever saw There was more antago For example, the own enda. Such possibilities cause one idiocy of the modern Briton that they nism and class hatred, according to my value of the mark in Switzerland is now

"fariously to think and so by the way urged their imperial master to commence observation, in that country than in any below old instead of is. as before the war, Christianity's words become clear e mentality! But seriously, the same irracame from the bloated fortunes, and the the inner meaning of the Founder of reform had time to improve the nation's in the world; and the class antagonism.

the attack at once before The Press Bureau states: A White Paper and the rose is below 3d instead of sist not evil: but rather overcome evil tionalism permentes all public life and insolent, ubiquitous, irresistible and

educational His Majesty was ovated all the way to the discloses the fact that the Foreign Office, 10. as befors the war. "Quai d'Orsay as he drove along in a carri on November 11th, forwarded to the Bri-

with good." That is sound political has long paralysed age with President Poincare. The Princes, tish representatives in all allied and

economy. Besist autocracy or authorita of the country.

It executive efficiency ruthless power of the Big Businesses who were in the accdbd carriage, were neutral countries, affidavite proving that

to be con ings word in one hand, and you but vinced that that assembly, though it from class hatred, but so much free from I see an America. not free, it is true, substitute one evil for another, and doubtless contains many able men, is un- it that it seemed to me that I was look Bloo heartily welcomed, and M. Clemen. the hospital ships Rewa, Glenart Casile,

assuredly a worse evil; for who would dermined by its numerous fools. We may ing on one of these great, silent revolu ceau was cheered to the ccba.

Guildford Castle,

not, rather accept the rule of an educated surmise that most of our great political tions which proceed under the very eyes and Llandotery

STATEMENT,

aristocracy than half-fedged, unedu-questions are really impostures, created of the world, and yet so smoothly as The day's programme includes a visit Castle were torpedoed without warning.

cated democracy 1 LONDON, November 18th.

like Barborygmarel Pills to benefit the almost to be unnoticed. And if you want the Princes to the Army and Navy

Mr. Balfour recalls the protest

What pledge have we for the future that they always deal with every one's you will find it in the gradual reduction makers but not the consumers. We find the chief reason of this transformation, The Admiralty contradicts the widely Club, a reception to the King by the Pre-made through Spain and Holland against published statement, cabled yesterday, provided that, women do not foolishly will receive any real benefit from it, ex auchi gigantic wealth on the one side and

One thing, we hope angurs well, the granting of the vote to women, always ever way the solution may lie, no one high tariff system which had produced dues but nobody's duties, and that which sident at the Elysee, and a banquet in these inhuman," illegal and faithless that the Dover barrage has been removed.

are the political methods of the past, cept perhaps at the expense of others, such sullen poverty on the other. the evening, at which the President and deeds, and requests the British repre-

and select loud voiced leaders whose and, of course, excepting the politician the King will exchange toasta.

mim is more the realisation of personal who create the said questions and live ambition than the country good. by them. What are we to think of the language which cannot be misunderstood,

Mr. Wilson has already indicated, in ⠀

attention of the Government trade that Women, we trust, will help to thrust the intelligence of a nation which is so his view with regard to all these trade domestic affairs of the nation before the easily deceived by such frauds? are accredited, pointing out that the

On the other hand, offer to this nation is now insistently demanding. In that. combinations which the Gang in England German Government neither made a

cssential even than prosperous trade that some priceless benefit scientific rejoinder, nor ventured openly to repeat

the nation should be hygienically and covery, a new invention, a great work of in bi Liberalim; who has thought out dia great man we have a Liberal who believes LONDON, November 28th.

eugenically prosperous for the supreme politicians, officials, editors, publishers, hair's breadth from the straight path of

art and it will the false accusations regarding Great

yawn in your face; his Liberalism; who cannot be lured one wealth of a nation is a happy and healthy The Labour Party election manifesto Britain's misuse of hospital ships.

manhood and womanhood. Does it not

societies, condemns any form of economic waz,

and Liberalism by any temptation of Parlia ENTERTAINMENT AT THE BRITISH physically fit, athletic young men on the

sire to a thrill of joy to see one because it is too much trouble to think feather-headed Protectionists, ther

will yawn in your face. Why DID HOLLAND HELP GERMANY:

mentary maneuvring; and when our demand the immediate withdrawal of

LEGATION.

one hand, and a corresponding sense of The fact is that for some generations

about anything. LONDON, November 28th.

their programme of tariff, walls, the Allied forses from Bussia, the.com Reuter learns that the Associated Gov

PRKING, December 1st fogically blotched on the others politicians, pedagogues, priests and pro-

depresion to see a group of the psyche we have been expressly taught by our will find in the present occupant of the plete abolition of conscription, and the ernments have made inquiries in Holland Peking authorities, M. F., and other suredly it is. Do not let us deceive eur; to

The British Minister entertained the thia rot nature's warning to the race, I phets (1 to intellect and character”.

White House a pretty formidable lion in

release of all political prisoners. It sup. regarding the circumstances of the paas politicians at the Legation on the 30th i selves. The whole strength of the nation, be wise. The good and let who will country should be roused to this peril

their own advantage) to prefer the path agat the instinct of self-preservation 1 Asto

It is time that the Liberals of the

expressly taught at their ates. They do not know it of the Empire, must now be put forward four yet to dean, ridicule art, few people realise it; but while Mini«“. PRESIDENT AND EX-PREMIER AT is that which balances mind and new business of games and a game of busi- power. Eaving in the cloistered security

to that end. The nation which survives

all intellectual effort to make tries change the Gang always remains in evenly. Let British democracy strive tones Under this teaching the nation has of the public official, with automatic It is reported that the President and the pitfalls that have waylaid so many is now paying the penalty. Man may still to controls many of our public des attain that end steadfastly, and avoid political or sentimental pottage, and it hidden hands, these gentlemen are able bartered sway its brains, for a mess of promotion and automatic pension and the ex-Premier, Tuan Chi-jui, have dir of democracy's abortive attempts in the forgive, but Nature never Science partment agreed over petos proposal.

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But in the meantime eternel Brigilance in the price ola

by

BRITISH LABOUR. THE PARTY'S ELECTION MANIFESTO.

sentatives to draw the earnest attention

"ADMIRALTY. CONTRADICTS

(Continued on Page 6.)

of the various Governments to which they FAR EASTERN CABLE

poris free trade and a special tax on age of German troops through Limburg, capital

Mr. John Hodge will not join the new Coalition Government in accordance with the decision of his Union yesterday.

The Asociated: Governments consider Holland's replies to these inquiries un- satisfactory; therefore it is probable that farther representations will be made.

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