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KING'S MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE.

EMPIRE'S WAR SERVICE.

"A BETTER BRITAIN."

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28TH,

years, been the spirit and soul, as they wore the successive commanders, of the fighting fleet of the Empire.

1919.

KAISER'S PREDICAMENT. HIS ADVICE TO THE TSAR.

LEAGUE OF NATIOND

MR. CHURCHILL'S FLAN.

One

armistice and on the prospect of a victo-dered essential war service in many Anarchists have done a dark and fouif doing what their statistics did not show.

AS

There was no more sure ninnure of creat

war.

Let us remember also those who belong

Very opportunely the German papers Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at a to the most recent military arm, the Loca-eyed and swift-winged knights of reprint, extracts from yet another Willy-luncheon given at the Carlion Hotel to Nicky letter, which has apparently been the air, who have given to the world a

The letter; which is made an into@esting announcement upon special purposes. In the Royal Gallery of the Palace of new type of daring and resourceful saved up by the Bolshevika for present the editors el American trade journals, Westminster, on Nov. 10th, the King,

beroism,

So must

wo further acknowledge the very long and in English, was addressed the future objects, from his point of view,

by the Kaisor to the Tsar al a metient in reply to loyal addresses of congratu dauntless spirit of the men of the mer. when the latter was in a position very of the proposed langue of Nations. lation from both Houses of Parliament

the cension of the conclusion of the enntile marine and the fishermen who similar to that in which the writer finds of the great causes of unrest before this armistice and the prospect of a victorious patrolled our coasta, braving all the himself to-day, for Russia was off the pence, delivered a stirring message to his dangers of mine and torpedo in the diseve of her first revolution as the result war, he said, was a suspicior, created by

of her disastrous war against Japan. people in every part of Britain's world-charge of duty.

ignorance of what the Germans were Let our thanks also be given to those wide Empire. His Majesty said :---

The letter is addressed to Den rest

We were I thank you for your loyal addresses of who have toiled incessantly at homo, Nicky, and starts by a reference to the doing with their military arus.

now convinced that the Germans were congratulation on the signature of an women no less than men, in producing assassination of the Grand Duke Sergei

munitions of war, and to those who have the Kaiser says: Треве Scoundrels of

rious peace.

At this moment, without parallel in our other ways. There are whole fields of deed. I cannot believe that these history and in the history of the world, service wherein workers, old and young, devils have come from the ranks of your ing arrest anong the nations than to 1 am glad to meet you and the repre- have toiled, unknown and unrequited, save subjects. Undoubtedly they are foreigners prepare weretly to organise for

from The then sentatives of India and the Dominions by the consciousness that they wereble, for the Tsar's benchit the European This atmosphere of distrust and suspicion beyond the seas; that we may render swering to the call of duty.

had created the necessity of naval and thanks to Almighty God for the promise too, has been the contribution made to the opinion," which he says has been un-

formed as ahimously

conditions in Rus of a peace now ticar at hand, and that common welfare, by those who volun-

The succeeding counsels are dis-military preparations on both sides, and Lccred I may express to you, and through you eer as surgeons, physicians, chaplains i

of this European he was prepared before the war to sug- them-guised in the

so that the Taar receives the to the peoples whom you represent, the and aureos, fearlessly exposing

opinion,"

igest that a definite understalling should thoughts that rise in my mind at a time selves to danger in their tanks of inercy viewe of his princely adviser

Bo disclosed s to such parations, While all these have laboured with the they represented the standpoint of the so solemn.

I do this with a heart full of grateful same glowing spirit of unselfish service,Continent. Among other things, the let They, in Great Britain, had Sothing to

may we not be proud also of the attitude ter says:

conceal, and we should have been the recognition of Lu: spontaneous and en

gainers if all the facts on either side had thusiastic expressions of loyalty and maintained by the whole people at home.

"Tho résumé of all these on-dits is as boon disclosed. If the idon of the League Upwonted privations have been cheer affection which I have been privileged to fully borne, and the hearts of those who follows: The régime of Mirsky has allof Nations would descend from the bril receive both personally here in the metro-

who too suddenly given the Press much great liant clouds of idealist a bright hope

er freedom than it had before, and has all pulis, and by messages from all parts of cheerod by the steadfast confidence with too quickly relaxed the views which night. spring forth for the future.

He suggested that every country, which these islands, as

well as from every

Plove held ao lightly.'

might in the future belong to the Louque quarter of the Empire. During the past four years of national stress and anxiety;

Consequently, respect for the absolute of Nations should register a publip vow

that the Government has been diminished, as ap

whole military and naval pre my support has been faith in God and confidence in my people in the days to

pears from a number of letters addressed parations should be fully disclosed, and While we find in these things cause to the Tear. The conviction has been that any officer of any nation so affected come, days of uncertainty and of trial, strengthened by the same help, I shall for joy and pride, our hearts go out io etablished that the people can go to the should have the right of access 1: test at Latrive to the utmost of my power to dis-sorrowful sympathy to the parents, the Tsar's Palace and tell him their wishes, any time and to ascertain all the facts preparations He behoved that charge the responsibilities laid upon me, wives, and the children who have lost

would be of advantage if the Tsar were of any other nation. it

would be a practical prevention of a re to uphold the honour of the Bapire, and those who were the light and stag of their Therefore, the opinion is expressed that of the naval and military

live to promote the well being of the peoples must precious to them. They have borne

They gave freely of what was to roosive some of them, who would form

a square surrounded by troops before the currence of the horrors they had passed over whom I am called to reign.

Alter

a struggle longer and far more their griefs with unrepining fortitude, Palace, and make a speech to them from through. The march of science held forth the balcony. He would have to be sur- in the future untold sufferings for the terrible than anyone could have foretold, kuowing that the sacrifice was made forded by the clergy in their full vesi- civilian populations in the case of war the soil of Britain remains inviolato.

our dear country and for a righteous cause May they find consolation in the mente and with crosses, and by his suite, in the future. thought that the sacrifice has not been and speak to the pople like a father for Right and for Humanity.

vain. These brave men died This would have to take place before armed force was appealed to. It would Both have

be very possible in this way to avoid the boen vindicated.

In all these ways and through all these shodding of blood, or at least to reduce

its dimensions." years, there has been made manifest the unconquered and unconquerable spirit of

were facing the stress of battle have been

which those whom they had left at home waited the issue, and assured them of their unfaltering devotion to the prosecu tion of the war.

Our Navy has everywhere held the seas, and, whenever the enemy could be brought usin to battle, it has renewed the glories of Drake and Nelson. The incessant work

it has accomplished, in overcoming the hidden menace of the enemy submarines and guarding the ships that have brought food and munitions to our shores, has been less conspicuous, but equally essen tial

Without that work, Britain might have starved, and those valiant soldiers of America, who have so contributed to our victory, could not have found their way hither across the four

to success.

of perilous seah.

sonal influence n Lord Kitchener, and

far more than doubled.

Theke now soldiers, drawn from the

our

race, nourished on the glorious traditions of many centuries of freedom. bore the trials and disappointments of This spirit, conscious of its strength, those years with a fortitude that was ever shaken and a confidence that never failed. It knew its motives to be purs, and it held fast to the faith that Divine Providence would not suffer injustice and ppression to prevail.

one

It was far from thei thought or from any thought of Presi dent Wilson, that any special acossion of strength should result from the part- nership or comradeship that had come about between the two nations. They had sought anthing for themselves, but they were ready to extend in loyalty and in The Kaiser expresses the opinion that friendly feeling the hand grasp of friend. if such a speech from the balcony would ship to all nations. At the same time, resound to the remotest districts of the they stood together and walked hand in what follows the Kaiser, very cautious. of peace throughout the untions of the Empire, and would mean "an undoubted hand in future combination they would defeat of the demagogues and agitators. be able immensely to improve the spirit ly in form but very plainly in substance, foun explains to the Tear that the Japanes war is unpopular, and, as the respon. sibility for the defeats in ascribed to the ruler, contributes to the unpopularity of bimself and his dynasty.

BRITISH SHIPPING.

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issued

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washer of

Kingdom has message from the Shipping Controlle

To End metre Shipping of the United Kingdom and of the Liverpool Steamship Owners Associa

tion:--

As a shipowner I express to you, say

The Fleet has enabled us to win the war. In fact, without the Flect the struggle could aut have been maintained,

In this great struggle, which we hope

"In Europe all, as if by tacit consent. for upon the ouamand of the seas the will determine for good the future of are agreed on the point that the Tsar is The very existence and maintenance of our the world, it is a matter of ceaseless personally responsible for the war. land furcos have from the Grat depended."

pended pride to us that we have been associated beginning of the war, the unexpectedness Mr. H. M. Clentinson, general manager That we should have to wage this war with Allies whose spirit has been iden-of the sudden attack, the obviously in of the Chamber of Shipping of the United on land had scarcely entered our thoughtstical with our own, and who, amid suf- adequate preparation-all that is, so it until the storm actually broke upon us.ferings that have in so many cases greatly is said, his fault. It is said that thou But Belgium and France wetu, suddenly exceeded ours, have devoted their unitedts of Zamilice who have-lose their invaded, and the nation rose to the omer-strength to the vindication of righteous through the war make the Tsar responsible genny. Within a year, an arfay, more

before his throne." ten times the strength of that which was hes and freedom; France, whose final for their blood, and lay this grievance

was deliverance, achieved by of the great-

The Kaiser then expounds to the Tear ready for action in August, 1914, was est of cummanders, Marshal Foch, has raised by voluntary enlistment, largely be the reward of a sacrifice Bad andur that a popular war is easy for a ruler fellow-shipowners, my thanks for the help

to bear But the owing to the organising gening and porance almost beyond compare; Belgium, anpopular affairsponsibility for an you have given me during the last two is something very years. As Shipping Controller I hav far aigh different.

And this way is unpopular had to concentrate the carrying power of the number of that army was afterwards devastated and held in restored to her among all classes of Russia, even among our ships on the shorter ocean routes upon

upon five years, but now liberty and her King; Italy, whose lofty the officers, mainly in consequence of ill. which, in the course of a year, they could

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In doing this I have been upon whose horizon, till lately so dark, the public is beginning to hint, that the of cargoes, equal to that of their ancestors, who have fullment; and our remaining Allies, carried the flag of Britain to victory in the light of emancipation already dawns. Tsar himself should take the chief com- fully conscious that I have had to forou so many lands in bygone times.

During the last one and a half years mand and place himself at the head of many of you to abandon trades and busi- part of the rectly his troops... Both the European public ness connections in every and rivalled the prowess of the sunl, but we are also proud to have been directly and the Russian nation look instinctively world which hud, taken you, at great cost,

sociated with the great sister-Common- ever-famous, force which, in the early wealth across the can, the United to the Tear, and expect that he will come years of hard work to build up. weeks of the war, from Mons to the

States of America, whosh resources and forward and solemanly accomplish bis beyond this, I have had to call upon Marne, fought its magnificent retreat valour have exercised so powerful an in- great work. He is expected to show all many of you to run your ship's in trades that he, the autocrat of his people, is for which they were never built, and in lere prompt was the response, not lessenes, in the attainment of those high ready to share their anxieties and suffer which, in consequence, they have been sub- against vastly superior numbers.

ideals which were her single aim.

Thia jected to extraordinary strains and ex- admirable the devotion to the common Now that the clouds of war ers being ings so far as lies in his power.

general expectation someone has very traordinary depreciation. I have had to cause of those splendid troops which

limit your opportunities to replace by eugerly hastened to us from the Domin-swept from the sky new tasks arise before aptly expressed in the following words!

We see more clearly some dutics that The Taar must do a great deed 18.

re-rebuilding your losses, and I have had jons overseas, men who showed themselves more than ever to be bone of our bone, have been neglected, some weaknesses that establish his power and save his threaten to ask you to postpone the renewals and retard our paward march. Liberal ed dynasty; ho must pay with his per everhauls necessary to maintain the value You have met each and of your ships. inheriting all the courage and tenacity provision must be made for those whose so that have made Britain great. A hun exertions by land and sea have saved us. Having told the Tsar what he must do, all the demands I have made on you to But, beyoud all this, you dred battlefields in all parts of the world We have to create a better Britain, to the Kaiser proceeds to explain how he the utmost.

must be have done what no department of Beato have witnessed their heroism, have been

bestow tnore care on the health and well-must do it. The "great deed soaked with their blood, and are for ever

being of the people, and to ameliorate done in the Moscow Kremlin, where the could ever have done-you have continued Taar must gather his nobles and notables to run your ships, mul on your own ac- hallowed by their graves,

further the conditions of labour.

them.

count and for your own profit, but for round him and make a spooch to

One might begin with a rebuke for the the State.

the documenta published letters, for addressed to

Tsar.

civil population, have displayed a valour spirit has at length found its national success result of these considerations therefore bring in the greatest number

Short

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I shall ever remember how the Princes

May not the losses of war be repaired of India rallied to the cause, and with

The State had power to take over what ardour her soldiers sustained, in by a better organisation of industry and by avoiding the waste which industrial

Bay that was your ships at reasonht rates of hire, many theatres of war, and under con

involve?

rebut from the day upon which I assumed Cannot ditions the most diverse and exacting, the disputes involve and ordination of a bad practice, which should not be re- but trois o hipping Controller, I re-

all classes May martial traditions of their race. Neither effort be diffused a standard of adu-l people must be announced--no promises your skill and energy, the State

himself considers advantageous for his alised that without your help, without Colonies and Protectorates of Great cation, turn to

cation, turn to fuller account the natural of general legislative assemblies, a Con powerless to run the ships to the best Britain, also fighting amid novel and aptitudes of our people and open wider stituante, no kind of National Conven- advantage of the nation and its Allies. perilous scenes, exhibited constancy the sources of intellectual enjoyment? tion, but simply a Habeas Corpus Act, 1 appealed to your help, and you gave it. We have also, in conjunction with our and the extension of the competencies of You placed freely at the disposal of the To all these, and to their commanders, Allies and other peace-loving States, to the Council of State. No sort of freedom nation your own services and the ver who, in fields so scattered and againat deviso machinery by which the risk of of meeting or Press, and the strictest vices of the great organisations you have enemics so different, in Europe, Asia, und international strife shall be averted and orders to all sensors to avoid all irrita- built up at home and abroad. The First tions (dnfeindungen). The Tsar must Lord has well expressed the gratitude of Africa, have, for four years, confronted the crushing burdens of naval and mili then proclaim to his subjects his will with the nation for the manner in which the the hazards, overcome the perils, and tary armaments be reduced. The doo

I would wish to ex- decided the issues of war, our tring that Force shall rule the world has gard to the army, in case ho should con. protection of the convoys was organised gratitude is moet justly due. They have bring that ved and destroyed. Let us takes is posible and necessary himself to press to you the gratitude of the nations

sider it the Admiralty. combined the highest military skill with enthrone the rule of Justice and Interwards, the Tsar, surrounded by his clergy, for the manner in which you, na ship

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"May I make one last appen to you *If all? There is still more to be done. unique in military history, has won back of the ouse into a comradeship which for Christendom the spoil for which con fired our seal and nerved our efforts. This For centuries, past Britain has led the the nation is to reap the full benefits of turies had fought and bled in vain; and the of General Bir Stanley Maude and his is on a sense of brotherhood and mutual Leadership may still be here among the of need, work together for sono little we must try to pronorya. It world along the path of ordered freedom, victory we, as shipowners, must, in ease spirit Buco usor, who gained, in a acero af foss romance, the Brst resounding victory, goodwill, on a common devotion to the peoples who are seeking to follow that time longer for the State, and during this God grant to their efforts such period continue to itse aar ships, not to, individual Ponimon interests of the nation on and perseverance ag’shall ensure primarily with a view Whole, that its future prosperity and

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Allies, You indo, the sufferings endured, the memory

have in the past responded to my of the heroes, who have died that Britain strangtion our influence for concord appoul to the utmost of your power. the war, befora Fortune had begun to move ought surely to enrolour abroad. May the morning star of pes, know that I can count on your continued of the leaders who, in the early days of milo, upheld the bost traditions of thoughts"" aid attune our hisarts" to ja which is now rising over a war-worn | help until the position is such as will peaking race, dwelling upon the shore of a better day, in which the slozin of fettered control the elips you placed ab all the oceans, may yet accomplish for strife shall have died down, and the rays its disposal, the possession of which has mankind,

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of the war for the Allied enuse,

While I mention those who have served

their country will the end of the struggle

Let us ant forget the incumparable services

Marshal Lord French of Ypres, whose title resalls the scene of his undying re nows, and of Admirals Lord Jellies and Bir David Beatty, who have, for fone

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