1919-06-09 — Page 7

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND. A war anniversary dinner at the ton- naight Rooms, recently, organised by the American University Union in Europe (British branch) asserable not only many representative my among the Ame

THE HUNGKONG" DAILY PRENS, MONDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1919.

country. If you desire to fill your haver. sacks before you return to America-your surely you could have mental haversacks-s come to no better place than this. What

and in the sevensens is richer in

Turner, Reynolds.

but many transient visitors, and an eller-Watts. (tainsborough, of formation 1.

you COPH

vescent representation, mostly in khaki, Landseer, uf the 2000 American university, students who have been detached from their own colleges for a period in order to study at "British institutions. Mr. J. B. MacAfen who, presided, proposed His Majesty the King and his Excellency the reside Among the ent of the United States." good things that had been brought about by the war, he said. was that the two Branches of the English-speaking races had learned to knew and abide with one another. In this sonst were associated the names of the rulers of two great coun" tries the one a monarchy which was a

so much.

Hera

Is

i

denzourney, and the other a Republic world be if that "di

which might be a democracy--(laughter) | wo

for between, then they could hardly dif ferentiate.

and is filled with lessons in conse deselopment, in human progress, and in and justice. advance in growing liberty, What land richer in architecture, whe ther you muse over the unknown builders of Stonehenge or the great poets who raised the great cathedrals or look at the "rican colony in Great Britain-the Ambas-

it art you come to see sador. Mr. J. W. Davis, at their head-ringing towers of the House of Parlia

Romney,

Have and a host of

medical tor What me have

have contributed

knowledge Harves

Jeaner, Listes

to the ore than Lister, to

Ame if you would prize of the human body? Is it law you must come, rien law, to its source of learning, to Pape, Baem. Mansfield, and a long line Koi awa of English lawyers, to whom

It is literature? Where should not where you study English literature it filter and Shakespeare sang and Scott, the whole Dickens, and Thackery ran gamint of human experience!

list are ready science Newton, Davy, Huxler, Dae- win, and Spencer here to speak to

to you. Where are

had not fallen on Isaac Newton a

How still would be the pula oot

of started on the

blood to night if Harvey

I know of no study of the circulation more successful piece of publicity, no "The Lord Chancellor, responding, con

more settled propaganda, than the myth fessed that on the whole this was the most that the crown of wisdom and learning singular position in which he had

can be found only in the universities of conceived the would be placed to reply tormany. The theory used to be, and for the King and the President. (Laugh can remember it not so many years ago, that Made in Germany summed up tar.) Looking back over the four and a

that since war was declared, he had the last and final trademark of complete half years no hesitation in declaring that no mon

education. But if it be true, as I think univer arch was ever more hardly tried than it is, that the great business of

so monarch the

King of England.

is not to make scholars but to make sity

fasten men is not men, that it bis subjects a higher

enough to ever set

of tran- down

stuf their prender example and

Riese

and nd

craniums as full as they can

high-

11

11

||

LIBERTY UNDER MONARCHY.

to

ever

quillity and mined that," as far

was ever more

תאל

like

long time

to make them useful citizens. antibut as his influence and example could effect minded it will be it, the quarrel should be carried to a ccessful end. (Cheers.) That was why Englishmen, whose

ose history was on record to teach the lesson that nothing, not even the sanctity conceded to the traditions of kingship, had been allowed to stand between then and liberty that was why

before the again prefers the learn lag of Bona, Reidelburg, and Berlin to that of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. All these things you will get, with this other great gift that has been alluded.

THEATRE ROYAL

HONGKONG.

TONIGHT

at 9.15 p.m.

THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CORONET

PRESENT

"MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY"

The Authorised

Film Version of the Astounding Revelations of the Kaiser's Plot for World Conquest'

4

by

Ambassador James W. Gerard.

The Sinking of the Lusitania. Germany's Submarine Campaign. The Sufferings of the Prisoners of War. The Plots that Plunged the World" into Strife. Truth- fully Revealed as they Actually Occurred in the World's Greatest Film Sensation! The World's Most Important Motion Picture! In Ten Indescribable Reels. SPECIAL MUSICAL" PROGRAMME!

knowledge of English life and Eng Prices :- ish ideals, nd an intimate

they cherished at the end of the war. English people. No more sub ledge

to

the

as they had cherished throughout the war. the ennerption of a historic monarchy, deeply rooted in the heart of the people wholly reconcilable with every con reption of freedom, (Chers.) As President, he would never forget the ex traordinary contribution. which Mr. Wil son had made to the imagination, world to the eloquence, and to the idea of the in the last two years. In his judgment history would record. of this remarkable man as not the least of his contributiens to the result of the war that he brought the whole American nation into the war with one pulse to see it rough to a He (C. cers,) triumphant conclusion. knew en

enough of America to realise how extremely unsafe generalisations about He knew there were great suc trons of the population who were not and bad not been traditionally friendly to this country, and he knew that bad the attempt been made to bring America into the war prematurely the never could have made the contribution which they had, in fact made, and which, when once had disappeared. Was An indis

addition of the Allied suCCES Therefore he paid to the President the tribute that he understood the people sufficiently well to take sich steps and

con-

ever visited the brain of man, hink, than that which lay behind the purpose of Cecil Rhodes and the founda scholarship Rhodes tion

the of

I wish he might have (Cheers) An imitator by this time among the well- intentioned philanthropists of the United States, and I hope this

is gathering to-night the indication of American students that wreat army of

visit ancient seats of learning in Grent these

from

and will eveke a reciprocal response alike army of Britons visiting the United States. (Cheers) I would like

of Professorships to see an exchange

I would multiplied and re-multiplied like 10 se warses instituted in oor in- stitutions, fo: the study of each other's history, customs, and methods of govern meat.

I echo the wish of the Lord Chancellor that wherever a voice is raised against Great Britain you may be ready to speak in her defence, and that you may carry trom this country the story of her splen did services and sacrifices in this great and freedom. war for human liberty and (Cheers.) There is upon all of us from the day we enter the university, till we

Peculia eve it, and from the day we leave it till the going down of the sun,

left us anything of the old worth while it was the deathless motto

expres his appeal in such language that obligation that we cannot escape. the nation, when it addressed itself to

the quarrel, rose in its might and majesty bility" Soblesse oblige." The univer

to redress in the new world the

ful, in fact, he believed that the ideal which both the King and the President dearly cherished, of an England and an America for all time friendly, not only of diplo language conventional macy, but in the re

the real affection of the heart. which counted a thousand

in the

of the old. (Cheers.) He was very hopssity men of Great Britain and the L United States undoubtedly have in their keeping the idenis, if not the destinies, of their In these four years that have People passed our people have been lifted up to great heights of idealism and sacrifice

of

deyo- seeking.

and trod the very peaks of

though

they bloody patriotism, tion and

overcome What a tragedy would were. the human race if these great ideals should be loss or forgotten now that the triumph has been won. If no other task were permitted to you than the preserva- tion of this heritage, that task would warrant all our exertion. (Cheor.)

more. would produce results which our They have gone out of the valley

which

to

Jast longer than the lives of any of them. (Cheers.) Nothing struck him more in his journey through the States than the extraorded the

similarity of outlook

two peoples in every that was essential, although they small matters. Let ight differ in many both peoples make up their minds not to allow unessentials to influence their minds, but to go deep down to the things that really counted (Cheers.) Every cne present at that gathering could play a great part in the future of the relation ship between the two countries. they returned to their own,

When

lak

that

them, never forget that these little islands made, after all, a decisive

sive contribution to the greatest struggle in history the men who fought by their side were men who judged not only by their fight

but by other deserved that they should clasp in qualities as American hand

The proposing

rica

W3.pan

CZERNIN'S SECRETS. THE SERAJEVO TRAGEDY.

[FROM

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S CORRESPONDENT.]

NEW YORK The secret correspondence of Count Czernin, late Foreign Minister of Austria- of Mr. George Creel, former Chair Hungary, which has come into the bands f the Government Committee on Public Information, indicates that the Archduke said nothing would Franz Ferdinand

to the beir-apparent

amassinated as the ol. a

be better for the future welfare of pence throne of Austrian-Magyar conspiracy than the united co-operation and affee!

tion of our two peoples, keit together

by devotion to the same ideals of justice gets hit, and because he was consid-

The

(Cheers.)

and freedom Ambassador, who was warmly greeted on rising to reply, said:

κ τίνο the

of then German Emperor

E

William From the documents and int

ters now in the bands of the State De

Dress Circle $3.00,

6

Stalls $2.00

$1.00

The

NOW THE

WAR

HE PREPARED FOR

ISOVER

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

by placing your order for

RED PAPER LANTERNS

PRICES:

S" Diameter $7.50 per 100 or $35.00 for 500 11" Diameter $11.00 per 100 or $50,00° for 500.

Candles $2.40 per 100,

LANE CRAWFORD & CO.

Graving

Dock and

Slipways.

SHIPS

ENGINES

Engineers

and

Shipbuilders

Booking at

Moutrie's.

TAIKOO DOCK

[246

HANDLEY PAGE

it will ·be... I am sure we all echoed to the full the partment. Mr. Creel declares. eloquent tribute which the Lord Chan stown that Franz Ferdinand was plan-

cellor paid to the brave and gallant

(ChePies" the Throne of

"For was there

the

to build up a strong Austria, which eventually emancipate itself from

Thin Berlin. influence of

d

STYAL

word in his restrained and tastefuling Berlin's plan for expansion

one of the people of Great Britain East, and the Berlin Gen Lom

the

came to an understanding with the Bado-

Government to

offset

Franz

which did not rouse responsive echadinand's Plane With this object, the

in the hearts of every American present

with

(Cheers.) We accept from his lips, and

gratitude, the tribute to the Presi- Kaiser's son, Prince Eitel Friedrich, was dent of the United State you have given and ty

of the United States. As for myself, selected to study the Magyar language and make friends among the Magyar.

me as the guest of honour upon this occa

Although no positive proof is found

a con

siog I think the guests of honour to hight are certain American soldiers who from the documents in hand as to

spiracy to kill Frenz Ferdinand," says

14

have had experience of German Kul Mr. Creel, it is sufficiently evident that tur, and who are now ready to exchange there was no conspiracy in Serbia for that it for the culture of Great Britaim

On the contrary, it is dis (Cheers,)

purpose."

I fancy my pleasing function is closed that Franz Ferdinand was rather a friend of Berbia, and had incurred the

to welcome them in my official capa hatred of the Magyarsan he knew of

city,

end

to speak

words

Ma

their

representative the conspiracy between Berlin and Buds-

to this gathering a few

of gratitude for the cordial Pest

When the full correspondence is

Mr. Creel declares,

the

reception they have received in these 13 lisbee both Emperors, Germbad as well!

the

•they...

pab disclosures

as Austrian, absolutely impossible among

Tods When Willier, the Codgment here w

Conqueror and Normans found their

made very free with the land and property which did not belong to them, their own people. The documents will warn Lord Bryce and other gentlemen expose the intrigues of the Habsburgs present that the Americans will:deave against the German Imperial family these islands richer than when they came well as the intrigues of the Hainer against (Laughter.). You have come to a rich the Habshare.

4

MULTIPLE ENGINED BIPLANES

HANDLEY PAGE LID.

Cricklewood, London, N. W. 2.

Sole Agents for China:

PEKIN SYNDICATE LTD...

Pekin

Sub-Agents for Hongkong and South China:

W. R. LOXLEY & CO.,

Hongkong...

(812

Fook Lee & Co.

METAL & HARDWARE MERCHANTS HOUSE & SHIP BUILDING MATERIALS.

Branch Office: Head Office:

Fork Building, Chater Râ. 2a, 2&4, Hiller St.

Telephone 1950. Telephone 1174,"

[101

Repaira

HONGHONG.

BOILERS

MOTORS.

The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering

Co. of Hongkong, Ltd

Butterfeld &

Swire:

Agente

Telephone 213 Cable--" TAIKOODOCE."

THOS, COOK & SON, TOUEIST, STEAMSHIP ADD FORWARDING AGENTS, BANERES, ITO. OFFICIAL PASSENGER ÅBENTS TO THE PHILUPPENH GOVERNMENT.

TICKETS SUPPLIED ↳ ALL PARTE of the WORLD si Tartu Rata. LETTERS of CREDIT ud;C)BOULAR NOTES ISSUED. and CASHED, BAGGAGE collected, terwarded and insured at lowest rates..

Costs FAR EASTERN TRAVELLYB'S GAZETTE” containing Suitingu se ! Tars from the Far East to all parts of the World will he forwarded' free on application, 1

THOS: COOK BON PRO Faśngraphis addres" "COUPON. Telephone No.. 196

Hongkong Hotel Buildings, corner of Fadder Street sad Da Yartz Bord, HONGKONG,

A SHANGHAI, PEKING, YOKOHAMA, MANILA

Chief Oest-LU DEGATCIRQUE, LONDON, EC.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION.

1, MOTION HILL BOAD,

[1

WAI KEE.

FLAG & SAILMAKER, Ro. 128. Doe Your Road Central

Top Floor, HONGKONG Telephone No.

Tabaqueria Filipina

15, Wyndham Street, Hongkong, and 34, Nanking Road, Shanghai,

SOLE AGENTS FOR

La Perla del Oriente

(American Concern)

The Best Reputed

CIGAR FACTORY

IN

MANILA

All Sizes and Shapes in Stock-

PRICES ON APPLICATION.