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AFTER THE WAR.

THE DIVIDING UP OF EUROPE.

Discussion In England on Nationality Problems.

Writing from London to the

big points are agreed upon the fall working out of the settlement may well take us much time se has been cocupied by the war it- self. The men who meet at The Hague or Berne, or wherever it may be, will face a puzzle more complex than confreated those

who planned a new Europe after

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1917.

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THE CHURCH & SOCIALISM.

between Poland and Bohemia by volven Palestina. The whole most courageous pen would re-spouted columns of black and which Bohemia should obtain Jewish question will come to the coil from that task. The expari-[grey smoke. Far groups of men

unity of the Church, and is a very access to open waterways could be front soon. When Parliament enos of a mere eye-witnom makes appeared, leisurely busy, but with

Latent factor in converting the made of great are to her only met on February 7, one member such a journey, modern war being the mysterious activity of ants.

Charah to a desire for unity it through co-operation with Poland.raieed the question of the Jews in what it is, so much a matter of Nervousness went, however, when [«. Her Southern boundaries, on the Rusia. There have been recent strong personal emotion that the entered wha: lately we No What the Church is Thinking from panning out as a massage The National Mission, so far other band, would probably have anti-Semitic developments in military significance of what he Man's Land. Here was what Ger to be extended so that she would Germany. France has made sees is largely lost. For myself man school-children had been

from the Church to the nation, bas have proper access to the Dan-alaims in Syria and Russian am bound to confess the adven-taught to cherish, as the destiny

rather become a message from the abe.

sisteemen bars backed these tore was trying to the nerver, to of good Tentons, for two geners the Daily News, says.—

Cannon Adderley, writing in nation to the Oburch. While A good many people on the claima. Bat the movement my the least of it. But having tions. The German idea was

Christians are still quarrelling other hand, whatever their grows to put Palestine under some knowledge of the enemy's scattered in repulsive hammocks here in its strictly verbal meaning largely made

I am using the word Socialism with one another the nation ham New York Evening Post, Narmin empathy with the sense of ns-American control,

fira and respect for it-wban

пр about the shellholes-what re of brotherhood, co-operation, and differences.

ita principal Hapgood says:Is is estimated that we also need the sense of argumente put forth for the was so unprepared to see that mission to the will of Kaisers, sense of collectivism or want not, medicins very well, and will pro-

As to Alsace Lorraine, the came to the results of our own Isults from blind and docile sub-ast in its conventional political tionality, are strongly convinced

But the Church is taking its that it will take eighteen months federation, and that the breaking public will, of course be largely vision of a world where all was in still grasping its rifles into which By the Church I mean the whole bably in the end emerge from merely to "get the British army back from France to England up of the Austrian Empire into a those of sentiment notably of lan- fast rain, and where the many the bayonets had rusted. The old body of Christian people and not Armageddon more thoroughly. when the war is over. That little lot of violently nationalistio smali | guage and of local sympathy, German dead lay waiting for the trenches were no better, in that marely the Anglican or National cured than the nation. Christians detail may give an idea of the

units would create new ambitions The most imporisat of all the day of judgment, that I had no respest,

The enemy's troops Establishment. size of the task that follows the ad new intrigues, and would be facts, however, are the potash salts thought for my own safely. No there all this winter have been

here learnt much from the, war. end of boatilities. When the fama di-couragement to those whofin Alsɛos sad the coal and iron in wonder the German commsad forced to live in ditches that were aggeration to say that the nation. If he inadequsoy of its ministrations I think it would not be, an ex-The Church of England has learnt toward a federation of Europe. look forward to a steady advance Lorraine. With the palash salts ordered a retirement! The best dreadful with the admonition of had reached almost the limit off in the past by discovering the

that she already had, Germany.in of men would have gone mad bad fallen comrader. makes some people prefer to keep Aleece, obtained

The same line of reasoning that 1871, through the deposits in they been kept in such a place I thought," said a young bears the war. In politics we who call themselves "C. of E” anbrotherliness and disunity just gross ignorance of the soldiers the Austrian Empire alive, while monopoly of ingredients which

s complete much longer,

Os'onial officer to me, 14

we were were in a chaotic state of violent Christians of all denominatione imploring conditions in it, makes are eraentist in chemicals, and

The German Sacrifice. '. having a pretty hot time till I got partisanship. It seemed almost have found cat how much more be oppose the attempt to throw notably in explosives. The ex- too anxious about his own frail made off. Come downstairs and tion except on party lines. Home than they had ever thought pos Apparently each German was into this place. No wonder Fritz impossible to deal with any ques- easily they can work together be Tark altogether out of Europe. tent of the deposits is not yet tanure of life to be bothered about have a cup of tea."

Rale and Welsh Disestablishment sible before. The Y.M.O.A. has A few years ago England obtain known but what has already been burying his comrades. Unless ed possession of a town she need- discovered would last. the whole killed in the trench-when he was not for tes, thank you. & Germany that were dividing people tisne together in

I went into bis dug-out, though were only two questions among done mech to bring Chris- own country ought to be prepar- Akaba, merely by enabling the There salts are also essential for whe e he fell. There they were, and invitingly on a shelf. One war was imminent. In industry again shortly, as I hope to do, I on the Egyptian border named world for several centaries, just thrown cat-he was left man mese-tin stood prominently almost to bresking point. Civil labour. When I go out to France ing itself as rapidly as it may for

Tarke to save their faces. This artifical fertilisers, soap, matches, first in No Man's Land, where instinct was to pick it ap. No, there were matterings and more shall and myself for the fourth Process of face-saving is about as photography. printing, and huu- they had been sacrifosd since just leave it where it is. It's than matterings about strikes on time during the war co-operating important to the Tark as it is to dreds of other commercial par- November. last in hopeless full up with a ration I don't a gigantic sesle and revolution. the Chinaman. The solution for poses. After the present war was counter-attacks; and from there| The attempt to make the settle

quite happily with my follow ment along the lines of nation-

under way, namely, on May 20, they lay all over the broad beli

The Woman's Soffrage problem Christiana of all denominations. A ality is, of course, natural and

1915, the six great industrial and back to Le Barque some of them right, but its limits need to be

agricultural eriociations of the long on the ground, others of ground over which, uchelped by as far off a solution as ever. The religion. It is said that nearly two Beyond those trenches was the bitter heart barnings, and seemed sailors have become interested in was producing militant aotica and large number of soldiers and

clearly anderstood. The nation-

German Empire sent a secret more recent trouble. Our losses commquication trenches, ality principle is a useful one

which they said: petition to the Chancellor, in this winter have been nothing enemy's reliefs had had to para two campe, suspicions of one an- their intention of offering them- the rich and the poor were split into thousand of them have expressed when nationalities are as distinct

"Coal is the remotely resembling it For that for months. For the first time I as they are in western Europe.

moet decisive means for exerting I can vouch. And I should have saw the work of those British frivolity were matched with grind.pared to see the end of the war. other. Luxury and idleness and selves for ordination if they are If you divide Europe in three

political influence. The indust- doubted any evidence that the batteries by which I had often ing poverty and discontent. Be-All this must, I think, affect the If the Tark should be left in risi states are compelled to eub German loses had been a heavy stood in the south when they hind all this there seemed to be a social problem very considerably strips the word " nationality will have a different mesning for Europe the actual power would it to those of the belligerents except that of my own eyes. It were in action, speculating as to hopeless faos pacity to be generous in the fatore. each of the strips. The western all be taken away from him by who can provide their supply of must be remembered, too, that so what they really did. Here it or self-sacrificing or fair or hon strip contains countries which, some such device sa telling him col."

If thes, Fracce can get the coal, figure in the German casuslly re- of beavy mad; & morses where Worse than this, many eeemed require some tremendous driving whatever their origin, have become that Constantinople and the ad-

large a proportion of them would was. The chocolate coloured surable. No class seemed to care earth was heaped into steep waves what happened to the other. so thoroughly settled and accas. joining country on both sides of iron, and salta of Alsace-Dorrains, turna as missing."

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But the unity of war time will tomed to the existing ritaation the Straits would be managed by she will feel enormously strength I met an English Tommy with one could be easily engulfed, its not to care what happened to the power if it is to be kept up as a that the sense of nationality with Financial Commission which ened, and Germany will be en the grizz'ed mustache and isci amberless craters half-full of nation, provided they got their permanency them meana devotion to the exist would take ite o-dere from an Inormously weakened. From the turn face of an experienced maso, blood-red water; the last stained

for peace time. ing political unit. The central

ternational Commission. The point of view of the Swiss, sad one of a burial party, kneeling in so by explosiver. Prose figures,

Nothing but religion will provide strip, however, is made up of International Commission would indeed of other centrele, these the mud trying to make a cross in over-costs and full kit were

that. People say that to go back about two dozen separate nation. carry out treaties entered into by big facts may well be used as an of two lengths of derelict iron. He everywhere melting

to pre-war selfishness and luxury”. alities, many of which do not feel the principal Powers for the argument for neutralising Alsace stood up by the body of a German equeous muck; men who never blindly optimistic as to maintain to go on living in alams, to leave into the Now, I am not so foolish or so is unthinkable: to allow the poor at home in the larger political entire government of the region. Lorraine instead of allowing the lad which he was about to decent relieved their comrades, or eles that the war hasset us all to rights. half the nation in a condition of units of which they have been The Tark being without arme or provinces to belong to either of ly cover, shook his head at me, and fell there when returning for Still leas would I say that all we igcorance, without opportunities fortification, the Bassians would the rival claimants. Neutralies waved his pipe round the scene rest. In one place a German have learnt from the war is bound of leisure and knowledge, to ïara

the overthrow of Napoleon. Oar

ite part, official or unofficial, in working out the many-sided problem..

made part.

the acquisition of Akaba wae to have is an absolute gift, with no compensation whatever, so that the Tarkish Government could it to the British because it was Bay to the people that they gave something they didn't want,

The Turk in Europe,

if we except the Finne, the Pules, even Smyrna, through Trieste,

tion pine an agreement for free navigation on the Rhine for the boats of all nations would be an ontcome which would be hailed with pleasure by the neutral

world.

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An Old Battleground.

and the Jews there is an incress than by rail through the Balkans. THE BAPAUME INFERNO intruding German shell bursts ing national feeling all over Certainly no railway through the Rossia in the sense in which Balkans to Bagdad will be per- American national feeling bas mitted by the governing Powers grown until the separate states among the Allies without the mocat Retreat the only Course for the ber last. You thought, plangiog and sections of the country have complete safeguards sķainat its been subordinated to the anion being used for military purposer. one and inseparable.

Difficulties in Austria.

What Bismarck Said.

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National Divisions.

have notonly free passage through

with a hopelees gesture. Then battery of field

gups had stood. Unfortunately the outlines of the Straits in times of peace, but

he spoke with beat,

It had been pounded into die-

to last or bear fruit. "Wars," it deaf ear to Home Balers and thees sabordinate nationalities are the opportunity to get there first

"I'd like to take the Kaiser coloured filth and splinters. It

bar been said, " do not set suto-Suffragettes, to desert the soldiers not distinct and their composition in time of war.

and all his precious mob and pint had been literally hammered into matically to make nations better." and sailors and their widows and is not aaiform, so that if you like all other trading countries, It is obvious that Germany,

'em inside barbed wire just where the elime.

It was after the Napoleonic wars |orphans—it is all " unthinkable. ** take part of an existing empire

we are. They should not get There was, glistening in the beerme a br.word. It was after of my fellow creatures leade that the "Condition of England" Bat is it? My experience away and make a reparate state of fought to have access to the raw The war may have to last until away from it. Bat he doesn't afternoon sun, a series of broad, the Boer War that the state of me to think it is quite pos it on the principle of giving in-materials of Africa. Indis, and utama. No prophecy of too know what it means-just look at connected red pools lying beneath things described above begen to sible. Beligion alone can make dependence to the prevailing the Far East; also there is at least definite a kind is worth making. it-and he doesn's care. If the raw and deep embankment, be develop so disastrously. But unselfishness and brotherlinese a radial elements, you find your new a strong probability that, if she What is certain is that any ory-German people only knew {" tore La Barque, which I took to nevertheless I doubt whether any continuous estisfaction. At the state also with a strong and dis- were fully occupied bailding up stallisation of opinion on the big Contapled minority.

foreign trade in a way satisfactory points of Austria, Turkey, Poland, are not likely to learn this side med and deflected by ourshelling changed the whole outlook of a by the glamour of war. There Ah, if they only knew! They be stream which had been dem war has ever before so rapidly present time we are carried away In the third strip, Envi, to her, she would be less likely to Alsace-Lorraine, sad the prin of the end of the war. Bat was more dreadful, being nation as this one has. It is are no promises we are unwilling nationality has still another mean turn her energy to iacressing her ciples of trade is an unmistakable then...!

reality, with those figures lying simply a fact, which nobody can to make. They may be piecrust ing. There you have a gradually military power with aggressive and definite step both toward

by it, and some great trees, increasing sense of national feel design. This outlet for foreign bringing peace about, and to- ing among the elements making trade may well be accomplished ward making it stable after it straight across the old battle of all their bark, which had teen weeks in Anguet, 1914. Party when the press has ceased to Leaving all tracke, we went amputated of every limb, stripped came together as one mas in a few to be. When the war is over; gainsay, that the whole nation as they have before been found

up the immense, inchoate, and through free ports. It is cheaper here..

ground of the Somme past a wood flang down into it, than anything politics were hashed, and though briek: when there are no more widely scattered nation. So that, to ship to Turkey, Syria, and

of a famous battle. It was then imagined by Dante. But this quiet enough except for some

lately our first Coalition has exciting things to be done : when was once sunken road, I learned; and those figures were order to make way for something our Society ladies have retired from broken up, it Eas only been in the bill has got to be paid: when which just happened there, for those of Germans who, trying to less partisan than itself. Labour the public ere or the columns no reason at all. Beyond was the cape our barrage, had been and Capital have formed of the illustrated papers: when belt of our barrage fire of Septem- drowned in it.

alliance which, though it is by no Labour bagine to thunder its de- Loupart Wood. over its arid mounds, already

means cemented yet, and may mande and the Zeppelin raida Then I came to the new battle very probably break up when the have ceased to stimulate us; sha}} fatigued, that it was more leo-ground and found cur own men war is over, does show what a we then be as we now appear to late than an Arctic wilderness. in their new place. In spite of real desire there is now for co be? Once again reflect that if the As to the question whether the It is in Austria that the attempt change at Constantinople and the

No warae place could be conceiv of the snipers, the menacing rat operation and trae socialism. Mere war has drawn out latest brother? Mr. H. M. Tomlinson, special ed. German gans have osased tatting of the near machine-guns, individasliem and private profit lines it has also discovered some to make a settlement on lines of Dardanelles is to be made by correspondent of the Daily News nothing that in the least resembles and the constant baret of high heating hare, received a kick hideous national vileness, unclean- nationality alone offers the great-Russian occupation or by inter-writing from France on March 5, anywhere on our front. Then, explosives on the slopes about from the whole nation from whichness, avarice, and callousness bes est difficulty. 1 have heard it national, it is interesting to re- 5378 ***** said that the answer of the Allies member just how Crispi in his

There may be ideas at home worst place,

however, we bad not come to the 5, it was at least pleasant to see it is to be hoped they will never Joad our dreams. to President Wilson was written diary quotes Bismarck: “Rusis that the fighting before the Be-

white roads recover. The women by their by the French and submitted for wants to go to Constantinople. paume ridge is of a mild sort, ia bas further off now. The air as of yore over the hills, and nem during the war, have made new campaign, to fight for right- And our guns were still at it, (though impassable roads) going splendid patriotism and useful. the Church has got to enter on s When the world makes peace suggestion to the other principal Situated as she is now, it is im which our men have an easy suc was fall of the terrible sounds of trees that were yet untouched: it impossible, one hopes, to deny ecusness. It is a tough job, and I Allied Governments, and that the possible to attack het. Oo the cess. Or that the Germans re- firet draft did not contain the ex- Bosphorous she would be weaker treated for some other reason than workers. Now and again the us from the verdant ridge, where in the future. Nothing more un-self at once that she may not be munition Loapart Wood frowned down on them the right to fall citizenship hope the Church will prepare ber- pression about the Chekho and might easily be overpower-that they found the task of hold- enemy replied, but apparently be we could see the smoke bursts of generons has been said during found wanting. Blovaka, which was put in later ed."

ing their positions under oar wee blind as to whom he should bombers at work. by M. Briand: If this is true it As I here indicated before, artillery fire beyond the will and address it, and where; with the that rise was Bepsume, the prize Anti-Suffragists, in which it was Just over a war than the manifesto of the was a very tactful method of say- Poland neede less explanation to strength of mere man.

consequence that he merely gave of the Somme battle. That white maintained that the condnot of ing that Bohemia should be americans than any other of the Sach ideas are profoundly cocasional shocks to such an un-road was going straight to it. To the Suffragista during the war trested as a separate unit and be big Central issues of the settle-ong. Dar man certainly have important wayfarer as myself. the right was Ligny, Tolloy had made no diference whatever

Death of an American in Kobe. given its freedom, either through ment. The Germans scarcely their work out out, Bat sa for the One smelt that smell which will little raral place of red and white to the problem. Bat most of all, derick Siem, aged 34, representa Kobe, April 20.-Mr. Fre absolute independence or through realise that Danisig is included German retreat, no matter what be always associated with the ferme peeping at us from among I think, the voluntary work of all tive in Japan of the American increased autonomy ander Austria. in the plans of the Poles for the Germans may say, it was Somme by those who know its trees, and above it, in a hege classes in hospitals, canteens, Import Company of San Francis What would be incinded in the larger Poland, and, in my opinion, or fered by the Higher Command the sm ks of wood mingling with of thin winter woods, which the committees etc., has broken down 00, died suddenly of haemoptysis new Kingdom of Bohemis would if Dantzig is put into the Uaited because the loss of German life the sickly odour of bally beef sun was making chromatic and the suspicions both of rich and at the Tor Hospital isst night. have about twelve million in Poland, it will have to be one of was becoming too terrible to be tins emouldering in the incine spring-like, was Tilloy. And here poor. Selfish and idle people habitants. About three million the many important ports that are ignored by them. It was ordered

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Le Barque, rather battered, have discovered their souls. of those, bowever, would be Ger made free. The Germans would because our beary, unremitting,

The Czar's Fortune, There was clear proof around bat still trying to at least look mens, so you would again be make a big enough row over giv-and canningly devised gun fire that our men in supplying our pleasant and retired in the arbor

A Commissioner has been sp facing the problem of a separate ing up Posen, on account of its had become unendurable to their old front line, and in relieving it, age of a combe.

pointed to take over the domains strategic importance, bat to troops on that ground. After had not been seriously harassed.

Now, what about the Church 2 of the Csar, from which it be Among those who give most stretch Poland as far as Dantzig my experience yesterday I have by German berrage fire.

But bere one went in immediate I am not going to claim that in comes apparent that the combined peril. There was an atmosphere stitational Christianity has been private fortunes of the Oser, special study to what is to be done would be a concession still more pot the faintest doubt about that; with the Austrian Empire, there difficult for the German Govers for I went up among our gutposts conspicuously, like the back of which made she of the colour of the Empire. There have bien, che thousand eight hundred mil The Batte de Warlencourt ross of silent and tense expectancy the canse of the great arification Czszitra and Caarevitob sze about are some who think it ought to be ment to explain to the German to within a very short distance whale, above the brown andalat and the spring ann. Adventar no doubt, conspicuous examples lone sterling. Revelations which entirely broken up in which case people. The only method that is of Bapaume,

ing waste. Flers, in its line of ous outposts were bang sboat, of work inspired by Christianity have been made touching the Bohemis would of course get its suggested by which the Germans For some hoars I worked "my trees, was getting some erratio sometimes intermingling in in the war, soobs that of the scandalous expenditure of the independence. If it should obtain might be reconciled to so sweep-way over the enemy's old ground attention from the enemy; he very surprising way. The snipes YMCA, a over the war. are coloral income the Caar received independence Poles ho are decidedly anzim that the United Poland would being all the winter. Saoh, pro-Bapsome were la sight; and al moved, and ocossionally, the a of the Bociety of

some ing a concession is on the theory which car shelle had been pound-stone knows why. Ton marks of were watching for whatever and of the Society of Friends in from the biste have bad the effect to have it combined with Poland, a valuable buffer siste" against spect of altimate horror and woe ready we could h-ar the snipers whistle of a bullet showed that has been something wider then views of the public regarding the But is of profoundly modifying the but the pressure for this outcome Russia.

could never be imagined; nor, at work, and the tapping of perhaps we had been seen. It is our common religion that he ultimate establishment of apmes from s small number. The Jews and Palestine.

I think, when at last one sosually machine guns, along the now better, then, to assume, that you united us. In fact, the anity of monarch and even the moderates What would be absolutely necess One sepacially intereeling

ace it in its stark and accusative front, wherever that was. The have been, and, if you are merely the nation, irrespective of creed, are consideraga Republican may would be an arrangement pect of the inture settlement in challenge, even described. The wilderness, in unexpected places, looking on, to go

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