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KING THE KAISER... AMINATION OF THE OASE

FOR THE ACCUSED.

[BY ARNOLD BENNETT.}

Every vocation has its drawbacks. The monarchical vocation has dazzling ad vantages, and its drawbacks are commen- surate. The life of a German monarch cannot, in the nature of things, be all rid ings on a white charger, and changings of brilliant uniforms, and mouthings of grandiose rapi. The life of imperial militaristic strutter must have also its more serious moments, and the ex-Kaiser has now arrived at the most serious mo ment of all. Just as, if Germany had won, the earth would not have held his infinite conocit, so now the earth is to small to hide him away. He carnut escape, unless he commits suicide-and he will not commit suicide.

He is caught.

Bat let us give an imprsial car to the arguments against any proceedings to punish the ox Kaiser.

Such

arguments exist, and, happily for our reputation found the publish them. The principal for moral courage, individuals are to be arguments, so far as I can discover, bre three in nuraber.

THE HỤNGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4TMu, 1919.

DEATH OF CAPT ROBINSON, A SIX-HOUR DAY FOR ALL WISEMAN, LTD. THEATRE

V.C.

VICTIM OF GERMAN PRISONS.

Captain William Leefe Robinson, V.C., the first airman to bring down a raiding Zeppelin in England, died at his home at Stanmore on December 31st. Influenza, following the privationis he endured as a prisoner-of-war in Germany, put a tragic end to the career of the young air man at the moment of his restoration to home and friends and on the eve of his marriage.

It was only on December 14th that Captain Robinson reached England from captivity He bore the traces then of the close confinement to which, with other British officers, he had been subjected by the enemy. His three or four attempts to escape were unsuccessful, and finally the Germans placed him in a small cell in solitude.

The Six-Hour Day, and Other Indus trial Questions. By Lord Loverbulme. With an Introduction by Lord Haldene, of, Glaan. Edited by Stanley Unwin. (George: Allen and Blowin.) 12s. 6d. nat.]

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than Lord Leverhulme. sible, before the war, to travel in any part of the continent of Europe without being reminded of one's own country by the familiar word Sunlight, followed Italian the Dutch, French, German,

soap-gally displayed on a boarding in the middle of a field, or covering the end of a house. But Sir W. H. Lever is not merely the head of a great trust whose operations extend certainly to China, aud possibly also to Peru. He has been a pioneer in all departments of what is now known as welfare work; and Port Sunlight is the home of a very significant scheme of co-partnership. The views of such a man on the relations of capital and authority. And in the collection of essays and addresses just published under the general title of The Six-Hour Day" these views are set our with great fullness and clearness. They deserve the attentive construction--that is to say, of all the

lectors of the country.

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The exploit which won Captain Robin- son the V.C. and sent one of the greatest thrills of the war through, all England German airships had been raiding the east coast and London itself 2nd, 1916, with apparent immunity, till, on that night, while dying alone, Lieut. Robinson, as he then was, tracked down one of the

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First: To try and to punish the ex-

Cuffley, a few miles out of London, in opinion of Germany as to the origin of

Hertfordshire. The fare of the falling the war, wbile would unite Germany

it and create a martyr for Germany and Zeppelin was seen all over the metropoli

tan area. The spontaneous cheer which deepen monarchical feeling in Germany

went up from thousands of threats found and quicken Germany'e lust for revenge.

a fresh ocho when the deed was officially Second The ex-Kaiser is no more a responsible murderer than thousande off by the King in the bestowal his ex subjects, and, therefore, it would of the V.C. be unfair to single him out for punish- Third: No satisfactory Court ment, could be constituted for the trial of the

offender.

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Lord Leverhulme is not terrified by the bogey of Labour Unrest. On the contrary be says, more than once, that we should have to feel real anxiety about our coun try were there no such unrest. That the great body of wage-earners are dissatisfied The Daily Express was presented with with a state of things in which a consider. the field in which the Zeppelin fell by she able proportion of their numbers speed owner, Mrs. Kidston, as a site for a their lives from fourteen to seventy years THE nonument to commemorate the historia of For myself, I do not see anything in

nge in a foil which leaves no time for two of them arguments. Or at any rate, event, and the fulfilment of the design to

which readers of that paper contributed which demand leisure is a sign, not of leisure or any of the human activities two of them appear to me to be extreme- Jy inadequate. About the first argument, generously only awaited the end of the disease in the body polític, but of health

war I do not think that the punishment of

consultation with Captain If the unrest, is most marked among Hobinson himself. unite Germany.

those the ox-Kaiser would

Shortly after hie triumph in England who are relatively best off, this again is But if it did I should be rather pleased. I ant all in favour of a suited Germany, Captain Robinson went to France as a natural, and as it should be, for

each for we shall errtainly get touch largor flight commander. He was chgaged in an year the workman is becoming a better united aerial fight with the German champion educated man, with better social outlook. material compensation from

Festner in May, 1817, when, owing to Trom Germany than

4. disunited Ger

Whilst his social outlook is expanding, engine trouble, he was forced to descend the workman in the twentieth century Indeed, a united Germany is ope

in field near Doaai. of the guarantees for the future safety

Festner pursued finds himself simply a seller of service, of the insurances of Ur world, one

him down, it was prevented froin land- ing by the vigorous use Captain Robin-in a most complex industrial system, and and thus he has gradually become a cipher against a general European hadness

1 want it.

If the we

so made of his machine-gun. well-being of Hence

The has his life absorbed and controlled as & Germany is a condition precedent to my descent,

was well within the mere unit in a great factory or work own well-being 1 demand the well-being.

German lines and escap

was impossible. of Germany consider that Germany A day or two later Feather was billedh shop, that leaves him no scope for the Captain Robinson was born in India high intellectual development of modern ought to suffer, but I am not anxious to suffer myself simply in order to have the twenty-three years ago. He was a brother life."

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economic position; necessary, too, if the whatever to revive monarchical sentiment

ultimate end of economic activity, in the in Germany, or to fan her instinct

wide diffusion of happiness, is to be revange. And aan perfectly sure that the opinion of Germany as to the origin device in his own defence. Moreover, a

How is it to be met Lord of the war is not fixed. On the contrary definite laws.

law implies the existence of

Levertulme is, needless to say, not a In the case of the ex- it has already I am convinced that

Bocialist. He regarda Socialism as a Parcels will be received at the Ofosun' changed, and that it will continue to Kainer these lawn are the general body dangerous slough, as well he may, since the day before salting. The content change more and more until German his of international law; and international he identifies it with a crude equalitarian. ad valon of all packages are required. torians themselves adopt the view that law, despite the labours of various ism which would bar the way to all Peply to

For further partionises, sailing daden, eks, Gormany was mainly responsible for the Hague Conferences, is a vague thing.. 4

gress. He is an individualist, a believer. war and did all she could to bring the

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“Baverintendena. solution is one that is of the first import For example, the world is fairly well ance to Socialists, confronted as they agreed that Germany's greatest crime was necessarily must always be with the same the wanton making of this war. But problem, of maximisation of production. deliberately to bring about a war is not indeed, Lord Leverhulme, in some parts HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION. Thean international offence.

Fulers have, deliberately undreds of of his argument, goes further than any war, and yet have not been`

Socialist bas done in providing looked upon

the as criminals. Nor can you easily

JELNU O LIVER & KIDNEYS poser How are you. Intajsabled for places of Altes important organs, & ruler for breaking & treaty lundreds to secure for all members of the com- Gravel, Fairs, the Bdok, Gosh, Ribenmation, de of rulers have broken treaties and have munity suficient leisure to enable them to Price 38., leading Cheming, or post free. Da. Le retained the respect of the world.

enjoy a full human life, and develop Cuzao MED., Co., HATERTOOK ROAD NW Nor can you, in my opinion, make

Depots: Paris, 12, Eun fusa freely all their higher faculties, without LONDON, ENGLAND. shout the introduction of poison gas. I reducing the total production, on which CASTIGLIONE; New York, 80, BEZEMAN STREET fail to see that poison gas is any worse the possibilities of happy existence for Sydney and BrisbADO: NEW ZEALAND Dave Co. Toronto, LYMAN, Len; Antalia, Ettaor Bros, than shrapnel. And if

had to choose any and everyone in the last resort LTD, Auckland, Christchurch. Danedin, Welling between some gas on my lungs and a bit depend choose the gas, It appears to me that of iron in my entrails, I fancy I should

tou; India, B. X. Paux & Co., Calentia. the one count upon which the ex-Kaiser might be indicted is the sinking at sight of merchant ships. This is a direct offence against international law, and it can be proved.

This being so, the instinct for revenge must weaken, and the abstract adoration of the German monarchical principle (in volving as it does the militarist prin- cipio) must wither gradually away. fact is that the mass of the German race actly revered and flattered the Kaiser exactly as long as the mass of the Russian race revered and flattered the Tsar-namely, until he ceased to be glorious. The Ger man race is realistic in this, that it has no use for fost causes. And the German race knows the true meaning of that sub lime institution, the German military machine. Is there to-day any proletarian quarter of any town in Germany, where 100 ox-Kaiser could show himself an protected without the danger of being mobbed to death doubt it,

TRE KALEER AS A BYNDOL.

And, speaking of the ex-Kaiser's per- sonal responsibility for the world-crime which somehow or other has to be ex- pisted, I do not truuble much about the precies extent of that personal respon- sibility. The Kaiser was a poor thing.

charm; but he

about

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an adult to six would, he holds, actually increase production. We must run our machinery for more hours-twelve, eigh been, or twenty-four per day, and our men and women fewer in six-hour shiftä

He had a lot of personal ficial, be on the other hand, the Allies them fatigue which means waste, and sumit

was a charlatan, he was had little fundamental brain power, he das vain, he was boastful, he was pietis- tio, he was vindictive, he was ornel, be Was selfish, and as shown by his final public act as Kiser he was a dreadful coward. He had not intelligence enough to engineer a world-war.

Positively the earth would not have bad the fellow's infinite niceit.

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But what about the constitution of the Court? ex-Kaiser should be handed over to the he holds, get in all the work of which, It has been suggested that the With a working day of six hours we can, Germans to be tried. This suggestion when that work is mentepons, human is surely not regionable! Is the prisoner instruments to be judged by his friends and relatives?

&re capable without the

cannot sit on the Bench.

progressive waste. And if everyone They are the works for six hours a day and six day you one tid zuilst not be the judges. band to try a man on a charge of violat might as well set a bereaved lus

a week ("there will be no place in the British Empire for the idle rich or the Such a travesty of justice, such a flout- ing and murdering the wife be bas tout.

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Hoching of the forms of justice, in this auguet requirements and for exchange for rew world. And yet he was, and still is more of human history and inaugurate another than a man. He was, and still is, the

and a better, would be an outrage. symbol of the German ideals which we **

The immediate adoption, in all indus Lave just smashed. If the ideals had would be worse than an outrage, it would trics, of the six-hour day; and its appli triumphed, his would have on the globe absurd. There remains, it cation to everyone, is, of course, imprac

+bunal of neutrals.

that neutrals would decide to sequit already applicable, without loss, to sill Many persons Bay tieable, But it is, anys Lord Levorhulme, And side before the trial began. They might, but those industries in which the cost of pro the German ideals have come to pordi- tion, the ax-Kaiser must be the vehicle do not think they would. It is almost duction in overhead charges is equal to certain that they would refuse to meddle the cost of wages, and applicable, with in the dangerous affair at all. I come, enormous gain therefore, to the conclusion that no satis charges are (ag is the case in most work

where the overhead. factory trial, no trial in the least worthy shops and factories). over the cost of and that any attempted trial would re- of the tremendous occasion, is possible;

Agca, even assuming that the worker sult to the discredit of the idea of justice.

produces no more in sach hour of a tino.thirty-six-hour-week than he EXECUTION ON KIIa) Is the ex-Reiner, then, to be lot off produced in each hour of a forty-eight Not at all,

By the universal decision

bour wock He works cut the bill, on of all mankind outside Gormany an an- this assumption, in most convincing paralleled erimo against morality has fashion. But, as a matter of fact, there than the hearts of those who advocate it: boon committed, and the ex-Kaiser re- decide to put him on his trial. The pur presents the criminals. The Allies, hoop that the unfatigued worker, ia a aixness at the other end of the sale.

is ample evidence in support of the view he is equally just in his consure of idle- pose of the trial will and on only being the matter on the moral ground, and hour day, would produce more per hour. the vindication of international right avoiding all semblance

The other industrial questions discuss- the justifying of the iden of justice in legal forms, might--and I hope and from. Dr. Vernon's Report on the Health of them Lord Loverhulme brings an oute sight of all mankind. The trial would believe they will-proceed direct to the of Munition Workers. He hive, first authority of vast experience. But be

and refuge in

in, Most striking ate the statistics quoted ed in his book are important; and to all be the greatest, the most awful legal pro- sentencing of the ox-Kaiser. But they progressive roduction from a

that a and thoroughly realistic mind and the regard for the forms did the true spirit men, and not like bounds after quarry viously be conducted with the very nicest moderation. her das in dignity, in to a ton and then to a not soven-sa-a-half-most original contribution, is his pls for

They must act we have hand enough of homicide.

The ek-Kaiser ought not to be executed ingresso in output both per day, and por industrial

hour day, was accompanied by an actual the six-hour day. With that his whole

given for & suspicion of prejudico or ex-Kiisor should meat the fate of a muce of Lord Leverhulme's plan that sympathetic expression in the characteris The week. It is, of course, an integral part that philosophy is bound up. To Lord Haldane give partiality, International right and the idea of Justice will not be vindicated greater man, Napoléon. In should be shorter hours for men and woman sholild the préface he contributes Napoiden sald

Bourely and

ould be put a guard boscompanied by more continuous work that every soldier had a Maishal's baton

machinery, at least a two six-hour in He should be put away, because it, and thias the universal six-hour day difference of medis, Lord Loverhulme's i knapsack with all allowance for And let us rometuber that the affair will be danger as long as he is at largo. which he vindicates should by obligatory outlook is the same as that expressed in

so incurable conspirator, he is

of the German disgrace. Other men may have been almost certainly wickeder than he, and more responsible; And they may have to be punished. But the Kaiser was responsible. He was the figure bord

And it is both convenient and right to use and treat him as the symbol which he unquestionably was.

THE LEGAL ASPECT.

Bomething, clearly, will have to happen to him. Let us suppose that the Allies

noss over instituted. As such it must ob

other way, if the alightest ground is of justion. If it be conducted in any

Bidy will be mooked

be above all a legal affair, and that the

A court of law chainot properly condemn

this miserable creature whose weakness

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legal aspect of it will dominate the moral. Having looked him up, it would become upon alt. He is justly opposed to the ea this remark. For all his sympathy with us to remember, only in contemning pity canny polley;, though he recognises at the rank and file, he writes se à captain, lenst by implication, the motives behind and a captain with a very strong dis as discreditable to the heads rather ciplinary sense-Saturday Westminster, (Continued at foot of next column.)

Qasetio

a man bocnagy he is murally guilty; the man must be proved to be legally guilty, and he will be entitled to use every legal (Continued at foot of next column.)

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