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JAPANS POSITION IN THE WOULD.

NEED OF A NATIONAL „AWAKENING,

FRUITS OF A RITTER EXPERIENCE.

ence

LUDENDORFFs BOOK.

LAST PHASE OF THE WAR.

If his account of the war, General Ludendorff saya bel

1919.

י:

the.

not

THE ESTABISHED CHURCH BULSHEVISM AND PEACE.

AND AUN-CONFORMITY. ALLEGED OVERTURES,

THE QUESTION OF "CO-OPERATION. GOVERNMENT REPUDIATION.

In the course of a debate in the Upper Mr. Shortt, Home Secretary, replying House of Convocation on the Bishop of The defeat sustained on August 8th for the Government in the House of Com

Winchester's proposal on the subject of shevis offers of peace ta the Allies, operation with Nonconformists, The Tokyo Jauhi publishes a thought. Anally destroyed the hope of a militaryns debate recently, on alleged. Boi-

Bishop ut Hereford said that be did not offery 13 of German manufacture, and added Lenin to-

agree with the Bishop of Oxford's con ful article on the lessons which Japan Victory Conferences between Bertling, described

tention that what was proposed would day is no more willing to negotiate on

be welcomed by Nonconformists. If these should learn frou the Peace Confer the imperial Chancellor, Secretary of

State von Hintze, Hindenburg, and any kind of reasonable basis, and no

Framed in sincerity, offered in goodwill, The Opposition is attacking the flov-myself took place on August 14th and more it to negotiate with, than be ever proposals were, as he believed they were, Mr. Short said: I think that not only lowship and sympathy, he believed that

and put into practice is a temper of erament for what they allege to be a August 13th. On August 16th a Crown

extremely useful, they would be welcomed by the non- diplomatic failure because the Japaness Council was held, when I clearly stator has the debate

I think the subject is one on which

Anglicans. Noncontormity itself pre- proposal for the abolition of racial dis- that the war could no longer be won in the crimination fell to the ground. On the the military sense. At the beginning of titled to express its views. (Cheers) Ansented a new issue to the Church of Eng- reformers and all their ecclesiastical other hand the Government party claim ptember the Supreme Aray Command observation has been made which might land it was a new issue because thear

have implied that there were in this

who were, ay statesmen never contemplated the legiti the solution of the Shantung problem as again invited the Imperial Chancellor House hoo, members

macy or Dissent within AL national But all this is a Secretary of Stats von Hintze a pachisers with Bolshevisms and the regime Church. He naked for the spirit of nd- a diplomatic success.

Of recogni- looking at the Pease Conference from too Spa. The Chancellor excused himself and Lunin. If the debate has done nothing Chu

In the else but call forth an indignans repudiaventure in this great question narrow a point of view and ignoring the the ground of advanced age.

tion ut the suggestion that the Houston, for they should not be deterred from course of the discussions the situation in

contains a single Bolshevik sympathiser, there was no definite precedent.

making a forward stop merely because background of those delegates who repre- Sent Japan at the Peace Conference the West was again depicted as very

it will have done good. (Cheers.) grave. I was..opposed to Baron Buriana.

are in this What Messrs. Wilson, Lloyd George and

ry Bolshevik wuntry are sometimes difficult to trace and Clemenceau see at the back of the

times difficult to catch in anything which te delegates in not the Hara Ministry, proposal, on account of its anclear form.

brings them within the meshes of the law. but Japan and the Japanese, people at but was in favour of immediate steps to

They are being carefully watched, and it large in other words, the policy of wards peace being taken in another form

will strengthen our bands if these Bol Japan in respect of her development The Supreme Army Command entertain abroad as well as her internal politicalnd the idea of mediation by Holland

sheviks know there is no quarter in the On September ath discussions again nad economic policy in the past, present and future. Whether the policy of the took place between Von Hintze, Hinden- Hona where there is any sympathy with Government with reference to whether us a renort to the Kaiser.

to the Peace burg, and myself, and they were followed them..

Mr. J. Jones: And no Tsar's friends Von Hintze

either. conterence bar wen sound,

first explained the change in the situation.

Mr. Shortt: I do not think there are attitude of the delegates has been the quite as it should be, are matters which on internal grounds. I then spoke as

But follows:1 is now for us to act enery friends in favour of restoring the old autocratio régime, It has been sug- are certainly open to question. policy of the Government and the atri-

in matters with the Russian Government tuan of the delegates cannot nullify thegetically on the question of an armistice gested that we have refused to dicuss

the-background. And pace. The entire situation ton.cn lie i

of the Europe "may undergo a further change There is no desire to refuse to discuss Before disput.ng over the question

to aur disadvantage, and the Western things with the Russian Government; but success or injure of Japanese diplomacy

Rus- there.UIC, It is essential that the nation front may at any time have to be further there is a distinct belief, and indeed a't notice" of sime of them within the last

The withdrawn.

Wors our military certainty, that there is to-day no wpar that background should exattie

sian Government worthy of the name. When is and how 16 18 rezected in the yes of situation, however, the harder may we

it comes to a mere gang of blood the British and American people, In expect the arinistice conditions to be."

thirsty ruffians--(cheers) who ste ter- Lonterence is place Peace

On the arrival of Wilson's Note, I came

Russia-with sense, the

Turising the population heit Japan has to make up & general to Berlin and submitted the following these mer. we of the House of Commons

internal

and external

raad questions to the Imperial Chancellor will have no truck. (Cheers.) That as account of ner policies and pay what is due, carrying

Firstly, In the German people willing to forward in the future what is to fight on? Secondly. What is the German solution I am quite sure that no one understand is the meaning of the re- carred forward. It is time Japan

gents who

should cicle up her old, cuts, and start Government's estimate of the Bolshevik would deny to Russia the absolute rizat

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Thirdly. Is the Ukraine arcessary for our

DWD

form of government. (Cheers)

danger, which I take very seriously brovisioning!" The second Note to Eve not claim any right to stop them.

if they went back to Tsardom we

The Bishop Gloucester, who opposed the relation, expressed the opinion that, 1 passed, it would

must, he said, Anglican Chure seriously divide the **have unity among ourselves before we I do not attempt a step such as this. think we ought to move until we can all- more together."

The Bishop

of Chelmsford suggested that the whole question be referred to a Joint committee.

The Archbishop said that it was some des forgotten that on the matter of re- union any practical proposal was likely to involve some sacrifice on the part of Nonconformists as well as on the part of There had been a remark- Churchzen.

to the able instance brought privately

week of the depth of that feeling, and what the sacrifice would involve on the part of some of the most pious Noncun- formists and yet of their willingness to make the sacrifica.

The bishop of Chelmsford's suggestion was adopted.

"

DIVIDENDS

ki

AND

PROFITEERING.

DEAN AND LABOUR UNREST.

bonk-kething or the kit.qunted style now.

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Wilson was also sent in agreement Tab RACIAL CALITY PROBLEM." **The sature of the proposal for racial with the Supreme Ariny Command. The But we are entitled to say, Il vou equality 18 en regretted by ie whole answer to it clearly showed that Wilson choose to set up a form of government no longer had the power to oppose the that is a danger not only to yourselves. nation. Lona.dering colicctively, the re-

to do with We will ports receives from time to time of demands of the Butente. For the pur-bat to the rest of the world, we will

you. ourselves from you.' (Cheers.)" proctenings of our delegates the mistrer pose of drawing up the reply to the Note. have nothing to

protect to her the Chancellor again invited me

A DANGER TO CIVILISATION, rom the beginning, we find that their

Assuming, for the sake of argument, actions are highly unsatisfactory in many

that Lenin to-day represents the Govern respects. It may be difficult to have suche mi son Wad -

question satisectorily solved in the Status exigung, and tas ircum- ment of Russia, we know he has emis

aries in this country; we know he has course or a single international comic sauce, is confusion with the declaFK- ence; but after it was once brought of

war auster, others in other countries .. then me by the ward, it ought to have

are entitled to on the start the justiti ne tuula Siku u ucusurable period chance to come bese, wating their agreed there was Bolshevism. It was not such zeal,

We do not care whether you are founded,

Supreme Army would give 2.4 reasons on which it is make its opponents ashamed of them 1,000 men, mane be station appear the Government of Russia or not. You selves.

As it was, our delegates busied such that we ute not need to surrender are a danger to civilisation, and against your emissaries we will protect our-

Cheers.) in studying the bumour of unconditionally to Wilson.

own belief is themselves

My shifting their their opponents

1 empuasised the necessity of replying Fes

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tife

Command say,

kelves. that

In the Lower mouse of Convocation Canon Garbutt initiated a discussion un He said there was a industrial unrest. tendency to camouflage the real position by saying it was due to reaction or Bul- bevak agitation, and the wages of work- men had not been increased out of pro- portion to the increase of prices. Нн

among the working-class" only but the iddle-class.

"The Arendeaton of Nottingham protest- eď against the Frainier's statement trat the due to theỷ:fact, thAT unrest

WES

from time to time, fill in the io.in a dignibed tone and wits at the Bolshevik emissaries in this- Labour party, was in the hands" of the

apite of

Core having very litt

support. you get industrial onr

anrest, uue playment, and any of these things that make men nervy and

ground.

here for Bolshevism. not believe that a fertile

day.

Bolshevis. That statement was terribly untrue, but if that sort of thing was said the result might be that it would come The workers were among the pick

evil mistru

exists

this respect, the delegates certainly are von beheer spoke in the sade sense, and sarica have a fertile Wit I do ❘ of the country, and had a spirit of fellow-

Of

the war Cabinet continued to hold this uw for some days. Bolt, however, re the quested Lount wold-letternich and some

nation. 1t us crear irum wuson s third

the rich.

and let ground fail through in conciliatory elurts. In fact, the methods due regaye to the interests of the Em- pire. ine anandonment of the -bout far more leading to the tailure wer

wartare could not be considered. Admiral regrettable than the failure itself. fa not biameless. Un the other hand, how

Every and comradeship not round amongst ever, it must be admitted that the pro

I sign a certain number of orders

The Dean of Lincoln said that the pre- (Cheers.) blem of racial equality is pro other gentlemen to do their best to allay | getting rid of some of them

Bett was the most serious moment in our problem of emigration; and the

emigration resolves itself into the pro- public feeling. succes terl to Half, The Cure must be taken not to take sumpe per story. If they went to a place liza

6 labour competition

ion between-boat war censed, and the path to fectly innocent alien who happens not

to be a Britisher and treat him with in- brighton and saw some of the hotels on and the United States and between capitulation was trodden Hindenburg justice. When you are satisfied that an the sea front they would see what prosto Japan and Britain Such being the case, iramediately protested ngGust Japan

alien is a dangerous alien, then you mustering was going on. Dividends earned it was attempting too much to try to

(beers.) without heart or conscience had stirred. solve & question of so many years' stand. course, acu proposed to appeal to the use the powers you have

So far as know the.e 1s no reason up the worker. Miners and railwaymen ing sa emigration at a single stroke on

answer that our opponents wanted to to dount that two American gentlemen had died by thousands during the war, equality, especially as the rowers

W be labour. Yet these were the men at the in the question of unemployment and no doubt that we must fizh We could that they have returned to Paris.

ther they have brought Argm JeDir any labour, The remark still continue the war for some months.

very heart of the movement, but there was special fof the bongan me that the best way of ] The utmost exertion of strength might Cennité proposals or not I am not in ear of wages buing: reduted and, of

protection of

position to say. 1 am in a position to through her proposal would be perhaps have had a sobering effect on ta say that so far as the latest message unermployment. Recently he was called to carrying to improve and enhance her enemy peoples and have brought us for

can get from Faris is concerned no such the two rooms in which a man, wife, and industrial and social conditions was of tolerable peace. course meant to defend the policy of the

Ills have been before the British six children lived. Water was pouring delegates. whether they have been be into the room from the roof. The houso British Government; but when the matter

ore the American, French, or Italian was owned by a member of the local is considered from

ex

delegates 1am not in a position to say.health committee, but that committee an outsider's view- point that remark of our English contem.

have no reason to suppose that the could not close the house as there was be regarded as mere inter- Porary cannot ested pleading

willing to fight, and that it would accept house the other day has beeen departed be country" and social conditions

this ped to the level that obtains in even the hardest conditions. On October from. developed to Europe and America, it will no longer 26th I wrote my resignation, but at Hin- be necessary for us to export cheap and donburg's request, did not submit it. unskilled labour, which is not certainly Immediately afterwards I learned that to our credit, nor will it then be difficult, the Supreme, Army Command had been

of to solve the

emigration on the violently attacked in the Reichstag on the problem

to plea of racial equality. Considered in account of its order relating

the third Wileon Note. This order whe

First let the matter be injunction:

the plead to are now absorbed destroy us, and Roburg and i had have been to Rassia, and I understand and they belonged to the aristocracy of

a

On October 25th Hindenburg and submitted this idea to the Kaiser, and later to the Vice-Chancellor, Von Payer. We gained the impression that the I

Should the industrial perial Government was now no longer declaration made by the Leader of the nowhere to which the people could go.

of

JJ

Mr. W. T. Wilson ? Does the right'hon. gentleman suggest that representations RAILWAYS AND THE WAR. were put before delegates of other coun- tries and not before our, delegates?

Mr. Shortt: 1 did not suggest anything Sir Herbert Walker and members of of the kind, 1 do not believe for a the, Railway Executive Committee were moment that there have been any sug entertained to dinner on April 2nd by gestions or negotiations brought" the Eccentric Club. Mr. H. Montague

Bates was in the chair. story of German invention, manufactured Sir Herbert Walker, chairman of the

this 11g, LDG Ley even to the Wad

been rejected by me. with the Pars at alt believe the who

the

question is not emigration exclusively by Britain and the States. The best thing we can do in circumstances will be to enhance

Mr.

to

the

instigators at the bottom. It is undeni- confidence, and tendered my resignation, have couse from Russia after interview-dination under Government

1

LENIN UNYIT TO NEGOTIATE.

the come clear." Only as the result of care for the purpose of making the peoples Railway Executive Committee, in res standard of labour, improve the condi- lesaness did the order reach Hindenburg, of other countries believe that the dol-ponding to the toast of the evening, said peaceable, civilised, that they beard a great deal about the tion of living of labourers and increase and then it was issued without my know shevik 13 really a

Our secret service nationalisation of the railways. There the demand for labour here at home, by ledge." I should not have let it go, out, Feasonable person."

are spreading were two interpretations to be put upon promoting

the development of cound as it was not in necord with my view know that the Germans

Bolshevism wherever they can. They the

Word

nationalisation industries.

of loyalty.

One would mean that the Government were going to THE SHANTUNG PROBLEM.

It was not possible to enter into ex-Dow it is their only hope.

Edwards! The right hon.

Lake

over the railway, a

and that the whole "The solution of the Shantung pro-nlanations with the Chancellor, as be was

employés would become Government blem has given rise to an anti-Japanese 13 Meanwhile Hindenburg and I were sam- gentleman says! he believes that these of

MLOTIES are

German manufacture, servanta Personally be, Sir Herbert, did movement in China;, and we shall not be i moned to the Kaiser. 1 gained the imos be mean to imply that the statement

He not think that was going to happicion if there are found to be some pression that I no longer possessed his regarding the two American citizens who might be wrong, but that surprised

was his and better, solution was some able that because Japan has suddenly All other rumours are false, particularly ang Lenin-and certain delegates in Paris

guar- which sh turned from a debtor country!

the statement of the Norddeutsche Allge are stories of German manufacture? antee by which the railways would be was before the war into creditor coun-

meine Zeitung that I had tendered my

fun on commercial lines for the benefit try as a result of the war, and her com mercial power has been extended in some resignation on account of a change in Mr. Bhortti & do not suggest anything of the State and the trade of the coun

supreme military authority-Reuter's of the kind. I was not dealing with the try. The first thing was to eliminate degree, some suspicion has been aroused

Visit of the Americans. I said I had no petition when it was wasteful. Therefore in those who over-estimate the influence Special Service.

reason to doubt that they had been there, he thought that some form of unification of this country or are jealous of it. Those

and had returned. What I did say wa was essential. Also, in the interest of the who are not pleased with the rise of this

that the stories sent out, and which had railways generally, they must be made country are apt to look on Japan as the

Traders, he believed Germany of the East, given over to mili- clamour will have no effect, because the reached the Preas of America and the self-supporting:

clamour in China is Prem of this country that in her home government and anti-Japanese

ing their goods at enhanced aggression

in ber diplomacy, some of intended for Europe and America, and ready to negotiate ad rasa Lenin was cold afford to pay more. They were well bewere really of German manufacture, they were being carried at pre-war rates. ed rates, but them going the length of proposing that should there be nobody likely to the Allies which have overthrown the arily cease und the ideal of Sino-Japan ble basis, and no more fit to negotiate fication would give a better service than influenced by that clamor it must neces and that Lonin to-day is no more will-So far as the public generally were con- to negotiate on any kind of reason- cerned, he believed that a system of uni- of Europe should proceed to The Germany of Asia alkotta

senmity will then be realised. In this

they had ever had before. (Cheers.) have no time here to refute essays against light, the trouble really is not between with, than he

*>D I am sure the House will appreciate Japan such as the one recently written Japan and China, hot between Japan that it would be very dangerous for. me Japanese journalists in Shanghai Soon the other hand. In order to solve the to repent something said over the tale to the Prime Minister the undoubted fact

Mr. Chang Ki and distributed among the one hand and Europe and America

As such attacks on Japan are merely

perely difficulty, therefore, it is necessary that phone between Paris and London which

should give up territorial ambi- might not be quite accurate, and which that the unanimous opinion of Honse views

anti-Japanese Chinese, they do not deserve much notice, but unfar-fions which are based on harrow-minded might give a wring impression. (Hear, is in favour of this resolutions onse am not suggest tunately, they are apt to be listened to selfishness, a loan policy such as is pur. bear.) I am sue the House would not cheers.) In doing that by the British and Americans. It is per nedsby pawnbrokers who lend money press me to give the result of a telephone ing that the Prime Minister is weaken

with unavoidable that antidspanese. her than the repayment of pawng message which might be inaccurately apcr sending-out an 8.0:8. Bo far a

view to the forfeiture of haps

money,

know it is But preciated. views should be voiced in China, but, 20.

an entirely spontaneous, can say this. that the A long as the British and Americans have or uninir attempts at extending the message I have to give is that no such motion of a body of members without may implicit faith in Japan's sincerity and mods. All this should be a sign of the posals from Lenin, are before the der Minister what the feeling of the House market by means of course and inferior proposals as are suggested, or any pro consultation. The House has responded and I shall report to the Prime Fin regard to her policy, the anti-Japanese national awakening caused by the bitter gates. "I can at least promise to convey has been as I appreciate it

entertain neither suspicion ndr jealousy

(Continued at foot of next columM. )

The motion was, by leave, withdrawn.

Long M

the

the

ever was,

t ́experience undergone, by this country at (Continued at foot of nézt columni.)

the Peace Conference.

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