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WILL SHE FIGHT?

THE

HONG KONG

ATTITUDE OF HOLLAND.Germany the use of the ports of Holland, tho Fatherland might be tempted to make the exchange. But the situ ton is that Germany is only likely to get the ports of lelland by fighting for them, and thera is every reason to believe that the Dutch would pat op an strong a riistarico as the Belgians.

Influences for and Agalast,-

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915,

purposes that is, to maintain an war which is not for defensive independence which is in danger is aaoonditionally condemned, is thought contrary to the precepts of religion, morality and hum anity,"

have against Russia and Japan, justifiable. The great nations there is a prejudico among some have each such a high opinion of Catholios against renegade" their own peculiar culture and of France, and that, while the Dutch their excellence compared with have been marvellously kind to others that they consider them- the Belgian refugees, there is at selves chosen and, many think, least a part of the Belgian popula chosen of God, to work for the tion of which some Dutch people extension of that culture." On have no better opinion than some the other hand, in the smaller Holland Wants Nothing! English people bave of the popu- countries of Northern Europe, (2) Although riolland has been lation of the backward distriots" deeply moved by the unmerited of Ireland. It should be added, rings of "our Belgian brotb-however, in order to avoid miscon- gra, and the destruction wrought ception, that for Dutchman fail in Belgium, alio has not, as we to appreciate the fun points of have seen, regarded what has hap the Belgians. King Albert's oned so far as a casus belli. She abjects may have their backward has thought, perhaps, that the distrois and their bitter party champions of Belgium were strong animosities, but the Belgians That the ideals of social and enough without her. Nraasbe and show, before their entry polition! freedom, the dislike of bo drawn into bostilities by oon- was war wanted, a rural, in lust militarism and the dread of Grideration of territorial advantage. rial and municipal development mn aggre in which the Datob There is nowhere any Holland which was not to be excelled any share with ourselves, prompt & Irredents. There is nowhere anywhere in Europe; and the light large majty of the most in territory that the Dutch claim or laential people in Holland to covet hy reason of the overflow of sympathise with Great Britain in the population of Holland into this War is certain.

neighbouring countries.

[The following article may be regarded as a trustworthy s'ato ment of Datch feeling. It is by Mr. Robertson Scott, the author of what is regarded in Holland ns one of the best books on that country. A new work of his, "War Time Bad Ponca in Hol land," is in the press.]

nose of heart with which they have faced the national cats trophe has given them a lasting place in the hearts of all who were witnesses of their courage. The Other-Worldly in Politics,

(5) What fe English people understand is that there is in the Dutch a curious mixture of the intensely business-like and the. other-worldly. It is not merely a roincidence that two well-known

What is not realisad, bere; how- (3) Now that we are at war it ever, is that to sympathise with is easy for us to forget the Great Britain does not necessarily advantages of being at peace. mean boing in sympathy with all Our business is to realise the lier prosealings or going to war necessity of fighting, and fighting along with her. You may syni hard. Holland ie not at war, and pathise with a man and yet not be she realises the material and prepared, in his interests, to put moral advantages of being at your fortune to the touch to gain posee. The war in which other or lose it all. Yua bare to think nations are ongagol has cost at is characteristic of the rtolland- not only of his interests, but of people who are six millions in all I remember a Dutch- £18,000 a stay since the first week man ouco telling me how his in August, and thousada daily father, a clergyman, confessed for the relief of three quarters of that he did not share the common, a million tofugees. There is also appreciation of the virtue of the the drain on the resources of the widow who cast her last mite into country caused by the feeding of the treasury. The reason was that several thousand

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be wisdom is a matter on which there are differences of opinion in Holland.

Reasons for War and Peace.

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To conclade, it is my opinion that Holland will join in the war in order to maintain an inde pondeuce which is in danger' when she believes that it is in danger.

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To those who harbour the thought that a material view of her interests will keep Holland from fighting, all that need he said is that they do not know the Datch.

BRITAIN'S STRESS IN TWO WARS."

Before that year was half over England and France werd at war again. It was this resumption of hostilities which served to steel every British heart against N- poleon, and which may be paid to have caused a orgstallisation of sentiment in favour of war to the bitter end. And, by the way. lest anybody be disposed to orit- inise too harshly the poetry turned out

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to illustrate the hardships of the of his accomplices were arranted: UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. period than the rise in the poor and on the following 21st of rates from one shilling a quarter February, 1803, Despard and six in 1773 to five shillings in 1800, others were banged or beheaded the country that summer, and in England to suffer this latter in Serious.riots onourred all over They were the last orimioals in September the resentment of the dignity, but at the time the sen- poorer cleases reached Ladon. A tence was thought not undaly number of bakers and butohers" severe, particularly as the judge. shopa were sacked, aut the Lord had very kindly consented to re- out the volunteers. An immedi- quired the taking out and bura Mayor found it necessary to call mit the full sentence, which re- ato resalt of the rioting was a falling of their bowele and the quar- in the price of wheat of from 10 to toring of their bodies. 15 shillings a quarter. The The Doggerel of the Day. aathorities, too, were prompted to take note of the praction of certain merchants to forestall, as it was oiled-that is, board up produce against a tighter market-and a persons was obtained. number of convictions of wach Bread waa sotually 1 shilling 10 pence the quartern-loaf, and, consider- ing the difference in the value of money to day, we must add 50 per omnt. to this to gauge the real within the last month value set upon this food staple. by the Poet Laureate, and other In other words, bread was 63 cents literary lights of Britain, it should (gold) the quartern-loif}

be said that, bad sa were some of Yet, notwithstanding the hard-she recent patriotic verses, they ships that prevailed everywhere, were far and away superior to the Parliament was induced to tara balderdash that rocked the Unite its attention to ordering the frat Kingdom with emotion in 1803: densus over attempted in the of the project estimated that the United Kingdom. The bookers"

total population of the three kingdoms and Wales would be between 8,000,000 and 11,000,- 000. turns showed that the population As a matter of fact, the re- was just short of 16,000,000,

Feeding French Prisoners. whest that in 1801 the Govarn-

So short was the supply a great couflicts, deparate by them at forble the sale of fins four

hard times in Britain, an star Again, gult of a contary. Tuos were

vation was an ever-present me ass. Then, us now, the country had staked its all on the result of a utanic coulliot. Then, as now,

the country catered war treah and it por cent. profit,

My Lucy said, no longer stay, Thy country calls thee, heng,

away,

Adieu Imay angele round thee

hover,

Bat no slave shall be my lover.. That is a fair specimen.

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Hongkong, Jan. 8th, 1915.

Oplum Smugglers at Manila, 'Three Chinese were arrested at Manila on Jury 4, oboeged Philippines. The men were on with smuggling opiam into the

were caught in the act of carrying board the 1,8. Ataka Mern and

away the drag in buckets con- cealed under a casting of rice,

Durch statesmen are clergymen. A Century Ago the Fate of the or that a writer in an Amsterdam

Empire Was at Stake. jurnal abuald urge that Grant Britain ought to wage war "ain To find a parallel to the con- great struggle for a grout go;dition of Europe to-day, it is trying to bring down Germany necessary to go back to the

Nor are the fulminations again. by cutting off her supplies and Napoleonic wars, and it is inter

st the present ruler of Germany. destroying her trade may be one esting to notice the starting

and the nicknames applied to interned of the inevitable mats of similarity which links the two

the Weed," ato.—one whit more him "Kiser Billy,' "William when, as a boy, he was taken to Belgiau, German and British warfare, but it is plainly

disrespectful or venomous than see the famous ploture of the troops. Further, it has meant for second-class method!! widow, he noticed that she had, Holland thousands of men and several Dutchmen have expressed

Axar, which contains the bran, certain section of the British press or tering that only the aorelined the assaults upon "Boney" by a two children tugging at her gown, women' thrown out of work, to me the conviction that, though

should be used. Lu Parliament, Her first duty; he realised, was to commerce

and

industry in the only chance of Holland being

the Earl of Warwick declarat great-grandfather, Englishmen a century and more ago. His fead her children, aos to give a terrupted as they have never successful in a struggle with Ger-

that the farmers subscription. The Dutch feel that beun interrupted before, and many would be when the Allies

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were mak were told in all gravity, had been their first duty is to hand dawa to lose by mines of valuable were approaching the Rhine, it

a keeper of a wins-shop, was their posterity the heritage of a shipping and not a few lives, was not agreeable to declaro war from the turmoil of a deep social farmers were the most prosperous at an car. His great-grandmother WAS true that the sentenced to the galleys, and died free country and a home of liberty But even all this waste and against her when she was being unrest. Then, as now, Ireland alase in England. The badger had died in the house of correction which their ancestors gained. suffering would be small compar baaton" and everybody was go was conspicuonely to the fore." that year provided for an increase at Genos, His grandfather was Trafalgar, Nelson's death, and The fall of the year 1805 saw Such a heritaga can only be pre-ed with the loss and suffering ing to get something! served by a small nation when its entailed by taking part in the in accordance with Fuch a bent of the country went on in much sun, it was estimated that $850,- journeyman tanner's daughter. invasion of England. One won- It is But in the midst of it all, the life of but $8,750,000 (gol1). Of this a butcher, and his grandmother a the end of the bogey of's French oot is govered by the utin ist war. There would be, indeed, of mind that German talk of re- the usual routine-exsotly us it ta000 would be produced by a tax on this father had been a corrupt dere if the simultaneous Victory circumspection. To adventure in the risk of complete destruction apeating the integrity of Holland doing now-and men and women pleasure boraes of 10 shillings per lawyer, who had acted an spy and death of any modern British eaatiously or prematurely int) overtaking the country.

should be believed by many declined to permit themselves to horse; $85,000 would come from for the French when they came admiral would create the furore this war would not be wisdom. A Lack of Fear of Germany, Datölimen.

be perturbed by the threatening an increase of the Penny Post to to Corsica. The statements made that was caused by Nelson's pass Whether to adventure at all would (4) Wuile very many Daich (0) In view of the division of spectre of the Ubraica'a armios

people firmly believe, as I firmly opinion which exists among the enesmped just across the Casnael two-pence, while a tax of 20 penos regarding Napoleon's mother and believe, that Germany in posses beat informed people in Holland at Boulogne-Boulogas, which 18

per haatred weight on aagar sisters could not be printed in any $75,000, a considerable sum, for stato funeral cost ing. Hie sion of Belgium is a danger first it will be plata that up end of now one of the base of that England's troubles were furtherEven his paternity was denied est ever accorded a subject in

was to return $830,000,

reputable publication to-day. to the ceonomic independence harm has been done and is being british army battling side by side increased about this time by an him by the same journale which England. Parliament also voted inose days, and it was the grand- There is a possibility of it and then to the political indepen-done to the cause of good rela- with the French against a common announcement by the French delighted to beshower with mud find declaring war. We my bedeuca of Holland, English people rions between ourselves and the enemy.

$1,500,000 to be distributed certain "that she would declare should try to understand, how Dutch by the hortatory, commin. The opening of the year 1800 longer to be responsible for the

Goverament that it refused any the man he called bis father. war if she believed her indepen ever difficult they may find it to atory and always loity tone was gloomy, indeed. So utter feeding of French prisoners in day, and, although there was no finds that the British of a hundred

Recruiting was the order of the among the sailors of his fleet.

So the year dragged on. Ons dence to be in danger. Bit do eu, that there are uther Dutch which so many London jourual-was the want that it had been Eugih hania unique arr Lord Kitchener as the War Office because the independence of a people who (a) are not convinced, ists have assamed. country is threatened is not to that Germany has hostile intea duty of the Press. of routral quarters. The civil list was more been entered into by the two time were field-commanders, and starved, confronted outbreaks of

"It is the communicated to the highestangement to this effeos having then-England's generals of that ours ago wrangled with esch".

other, berated their rulers, all bat say that it is in danger, Holland tions towards Holland; (b) are countries," says the Handels- toun a year in arrears, and the countries, in consequence of Na-p.liticians ran the administrative industrial violence which were would probably declaro. was it not convinced that Germany is ablad of Amsterdam, "to show King's servante Germany came down the Seholdt greater danger to Dutch neutral- itself neutral towards belligerent praat him a petition begging titude that otherwise his soldiers possibly a tenth of the resources twentieth century. The political were obliged to poleon's having adopted the at-ead and the country possessed identical to the sabotage of the With submarines. if Germany ty than Great Britain. Even countries, and to refrain from that some portion of their wages would starve, an attitude, too, it now at its disposal, within eleven warfare between the several par lost her hea and presented an

when it is admitted that some everything that is in the nature be paid them. It was several may be seen, he abandoned the weeks of the issuing of the de-ies was intensely bitter. Great ultimatum at The Hague insisting danger may exit for Holland from of கா insult to them. on the opening of the Schold: to German desire that she should that duty carries with it an ob- with his expenditures. In that reverte policy would be more an

But years before the King caught up moment it became evident that a claration of war nearly 400,000 reputations were made by military war vessels or on the withdrawal jane Zillverein, it is contended gation on the part of the Press year, too, the Irish Act of Union uoying to his enemies. There army, and the fleet was equipped the same time grest names were men had been enrolled in the and naval undertakings, and at of the prohibition of the export that if the Dutch can manage to of those belligerent countries. was passed, in consequence of the were nearly 20,000 of the French and at sen. of food-stuff, Holland would also, remain out of the war, their It should be absolutely forbidden ever-present monace of revolt re- prisoners in England, and their fund, much like the Prince of troops and fleets in battle was

There was a patriotic it is to be supposed declare war. economical position, as a result to insult neutral countries. But vived by the '08 uprising and the feeding was no slight undertaking. Wales' Fand we rend as much established, but, on

Lapotted. The efficiency of the But, for five reasons, tha at keeping the peace, will stand

meduling of the French. Publico: chances of Holland declaring war them in excellent stend against

sentiment was exceedingly uneasy what in the fall of 1801, with the not lacking of individual gener- navy's records caused by that Conditions were bettered some-shont to day, and instances were bend, consider the blight on thi the other are Lot so great as is supposed.

Germany. If, it is argued, they

concerning the war. People did signing of the phantasmal treaty

dreadful mutiny at the Nore or (1) The Germans are not fools. can consolidate their economical

not at firat display the same calm of peace which was to last until

the dismal failure of the Wai They must be fully conscious of position and strengthen their Some mistakes which have confidence which strikes observers Napoleon was ready to resume

oberen expedition. Consider, tu, the value to them of having

moral status, there will be a bul- been made in the writing on our in England to-day, although later, the struggle again. Naturally, large stretch of their frontier pro-wark against foreign influence. side of the North Sea have no sa tuey became used to it, the an immediate result of the peace

that in those battles on land and tected by a neutral Holland. (Tate Holland's business, it is argued, doubt been due to the difficulty national life returned to its accas-

Then no Now the Spy Mania,

Heaven at Waterloo, Vimiera, is not; however, as I showed not to declare war, except in which even those who have de- tomed channels.

was to relieve the shortage of fortnight age, an argument for the dires necessity, and not to aired to do the fullest justice scarce that it had risen to £4 58. trenchment in armaments also ed in the Tince of August 29, bind the guns were largely prese There was also a spy mania in Fuentes d'Onoro, at Copenhagen, Gold was so food and send prices down. Be 1803. This story, which appear. Aboukir, Trafalgar the men be- acoppting the view, which has sympathise with one belligerent to the Dutch have experienced an ounce, a price which tempted served to lessen for a brief in- might almost have been clipped od men or gaolbirds or wastrels, been expressed in ono quarter, or the other, but to improve, by appreciating their point many persons to melt gaineas and torval the tax burdens of the pop from a Times of the same date, sent to the ranks as punishment that it would be an advaut ge to every possible meane, her of view. It is not easy, but hard, dispose of them as bullion. un if Holland came into the war renoura

ulation. An idea of the tam- † 1914, perfectly to understand the views Law Against Forestalling, as an ally of Germany. It may

quaint for crime. Sash startling diver altuous nature of industrial con- phraseology of another people. For one thing,

There was a scarcity of food, ditione may be gained from the

sities as these serve only to make bo a disadvantage to as that Ger- Dutch and Belgians. as Mr. de Beaufort, so long too, and riots were frequent. Tas riots in Wiltshire in August, a short time ago, went on a party positeness of the life of Britain "A respectable person in town more pointed the amazing ap many fade Holland's procent As I have explained, I am not Minister for Foreign Affaira in sots against merchants who pur- 1802, caused by the introduction of pleasure to the Tale of Wight, then and now. Remember, too, position advantageous to her. But representing a general view in Holland, has pointed out, there chased stocks of food to lay up in of machinery into the making of and, being anxious to see all the that pressed men and geolbirds 11 would be more disadvantageous Holland. It is a view which is may exist in small countries order to command higher prices cloth. The mill-hands thought beauties of the place, he rose fought like heroes. to us were Germany in possession hotly contested. It is none the convictions about war which are were pat in force. The value of this step forecasted a cutting down early one day to indulge himsel! of the ports of Hofland end of all lees the view of a number of not prevalent in large ones. her agricultural and commeric. Durch people who are not without Small countries like Holland and 52 28. in 1773 to 7 in 1800. they wrought damage of $500,000 way he took great pleasure in see if the parallela continue to It will be interesting in thin a load of bay had increased from of employees, and in furious mobe with a long morning's walk. In day of a far more complex life to resources.) It Germany could weight. To them may be added the countries of Scandinavia have Mest had risen from fourpensé a' exchange the present state ulthe Datok people accessible to nothing in their publio life like ponad to minepeace. Butter was mill owners.

to the looms and property of the viewing the vessels at sea with obtain, if the Britiskars of to-day things, in which a large, stretch the influence of German relatives, Pan-Germaniem, Pan-Saviem, or of German fostier is protected friends and acquaintances, or to Imperialism. "It isu tenet of the it had been sixpence. Sagar had year of peace, too, that one of the by an officer, who, after a fowling idiosyaorsay of history which one shilling and fourpence where It was towards the end of this observations he was interrupted keep on demonstrating that starte his glass. In the midst of his not only hold true to type, bat by a neutral Holland, for another the inflnence of German pro supporters of these movemente," climbed from eightpenos to one last plote to assassinate an Eng questions, took him into custody rules that all the events of the advantageous state of things, apaganda. It must be borne in says Mr. de Beaufort, "that ifalling and fourpenon. Candles lish ruter was uncovered, Cul. upon suspicion of being a spy, pest, no matter how small, shall state of things in which the Dutch, mind that, beyond the feeling miral means of promoting them bad almost doubled in price. Despard, a former Irish soldier After a proper investigation of repeat themselves in the future, in alliagos with Germany, gave which many people in Holland fall short, might is necessary and Bat pertiapa nothing served better and the ringleader, and a number his obernoter, he was liberated."--New York Hvening Post,

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morally. .'

economically

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this duty is, by some daily and weekly paper, more honoured in the breach than the observance."

Small Countries Feelings.

daity, asin the case of a well-known firm which voluntarily offered Government 400 horses, wagons, and 28 boats.

barring the