LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
WAR COMMENTS.
Japanese Comment on Viscount
Gray's Views.
A Home Letter to Soldiers Oversea
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
men, of whom he has none too many. The B.A.F. is quite con- fident that it can dispore of any. thing the Boche aan pat into the
sir.
My friend was speaking the swankless truth, I am sure. The
The able and vigorous ples
London, May 22ad.-The Ger- foota epeak for themselves. On made by Viscount Grey for man High Command celebrated Saturday our bombing machines League of Nationen appeal Whit Sunday-biob, by then broad daylight bombed ata- directed to the peoples of all the way was the amended date for the tions, factories and barracks at belligerent nations without dis- entry of Hindenburg & Co. into Colague, drove down hostile tinction is not regarded with Calais-by dispatching a fleet of scouts which worried them and any enthusiasm by the Oraks Gothas to bomb London. It was a returned to their base without Asahi, Our contemporary is of special 'stans' effort, undertaken loes. On Monday, again in broad opinion that Germany must be with their newest and heaviest daylight a ton of bombe were
the barracks, gas. besten in the field before sny die machines, which approsobed dropped on cussion of a League of Nations the "Coast in relaye, and its works and railway stations of need be entered upon, overlook failure was on a large scale, Tras, Landau, a town near Karlernho; ing the foot that if the it succeeded in killing sad injar part evening Coblents suffered German people are given ing, in addition to 100 men, 92 the same fate. Now the German olear understanding of the idea women and children, and we public doesn't approve of serial aimed at by the Allies, they may know that from the German point bombardment, unless they happen be able to force the hands of their of view the bombing of women to be the ones in the air. They Government and so hasten the and children is regarded as a regard it an immoral," unless it bonclusion of hostilities. At any valuable method of sapping the ie English or French towns that are being bombed, when it is, of rate, while not overlooking this morale of the nation. view entirely our contemporary Moreover damage was done to course, barcie warfare. So they thinks a military victory must property, which, I suppose, will come first. In this connection it be described, in the German is curious to find this journal, Press, as military buildings. But pablished in a country which in that was the extent of their so Dominally a belligerent advising cess. As against this they lost the Allies" to proesoute the war certainly five, and more pro- more vigorously than hitherto! bably evan, of their newest The Asahi saya that though machines that is about one views similar to those now ex quarter of the raiders. This loss pressed by Viscount Grey were is likely to have a far more die advocated by some people even turbing influence on the morale before the war, the idea met with of the raiding airmen than any only a cool reception from the effect they produce on the morale general public, in whose eyes of London.
national sgoiam was a just and As a matter of fact our serial proper thing, and who believed defences have resched an extrs that criminal acta inexonsable in ordinarily high pitch of excell- individuals were justifiable when ence. We are never taken by when committed by a State on a surprise. I noticed a little proof much larger scale. (The Osaka of this in the Underground Rail-
makes psper
до invidious way this morning. There used distinctions between nations in to be a notice in the trains to the this regard.] Even at the pre effect that all blinde must be sent time, the Osaks journal | drawn at nightfall for fear of air proceeds, this curious contradio raida. For that notice there has tory ides is entertained by the been substituted one which ways military party and University that blinds need no longer be professors in Germany, among drawn after dark; in case of air whom the view actually prevails raids the lights will be extinguish- that the unification of the world ed. This means that the anthor- can be accomplished solely by the ities are completely satisfied that superior German nation. So long they need not have the slightest as such ideas prevail in Germany, fear of surprise. When you some the theory of international peace to remember that an aeroplane is chimerical, and there can be flies fully a mile a minute and no hope of the League of Nations that there are hundreds of miles being realised. But inasmuch of air to be watched, it is rather a
recognition of Prassien great thing to have accomplished. militariem m68DE a source of The system of warnings by sirene, oraseless anxiety to the world and marcone and whistles gives every- much wasteful expenditure in the body ample time to find shelter, undeavour to defend humanity, and the wisdom of taking shelter something must be done to was emphasised on Sunday night, > destroy it. If it cannot be crushed when many of the casualties. by outside influence, fforts must occurred in the osse of people be made to induce the German who stood outside their houses people to reconsider their attitude" to see what was going on ". towards militarism
The barrage fire was magnific.
corper
The Allies are pursuing the ently accurate and efficient; most policy of bringing "outside in of the Gobas tried in vain to fluence to beat upon Prussian pierce it, it broke op their forms- militariem in waging the present tions and led to the destruction of war, and in order to crown this more than one of the raidera. policy with success it is essential One was actually brought down that greater efforts should be on an allotment in London. It "by made to overwhelm Germany's was driven into a military force. The Ocaka the Archies, then the guns stop- journal cannot say whether this ped and one of our sirmen policy will prove successful, but ponnord down on it. The co- if the Allies are determined to operation between gunners and adhere to this policy, the Asahi airmen is really admirable, Bat think it would be more conducive most wonderful of all is the ano- to the Allied interests for Viscount cees of the whole system of or Grey to stimulate the martial ganisation. In our self-depreciat- spirit among the British people ing way we used to hold up the than to propagate his views about Bocha sa s model of organising the League of Nations. I, how ability, But I really believe that ever, this policy of outside he can't hold's candle to the pressure is found unavailing Briton when the Briton. really against Germany, the only takes off his coat to it.
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on a different ars beginning ones again to years to teach the Boche bow to pretend that it wasn't they who play the game'
| field. started bombing raide. Anyhow,
However in default of cricket there is no doubt that we have put the gust up the Germans journeyed to Primrose Hill and drank in the fresh air and the. who live in the Rhineside towns, lay on my back in the grass and
An elderly man of Cologos
weather and the green trees and the kiddies playing bide-and- Bemarked:-"If I only had
seek and catch and “touch- known
That those Englander-Wood". Primrose Hill isn't
schwein
quite so high, I believe, sa Kem- Could bomb towns or better worth getting to the top of. mel Hill, but it is ever so mach the Rhine,
Instead of Irenches and sbell-
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I'd never have purchased holes and barbed wire, there are
War Loan."
A fat profiteer of Coblents Alkaya thought that air raids
were immense
But today, I'm afraid," He looks on a raid
As an illegal means of
offence,
That the war will soon
stop
may-trees in full bloom and shady places and a view all over Lon don. And just to remind as that life wasn't all a holiday, s conple of balloona drifted lasily across the bazy sky, and then one got into trouble sad came down lower than it ought to and emptied ita
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"A-Pastor who preached at sand bsge on uso se to get back
Kerlerabe
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dreds of children whose daddies were probably far away from At his Sales Room in Duddell home, belping to keep Esgland free of the savages who spit babies on bayonets and outrage their mothers. We have much to be thankful for over here--not lesst of all for our Navy.
With the Germans on
top:..
Today he is taking the
Cecure.
"From the map" said a
spesker at Dusseldorf, "Old England most forth.
with be hastled off.
If abe won't go we'll
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(Interruption: "Take
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Es picked up his papers and
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A poet of Frankfort-on-Main Wrote "Beally our air
men are fine,
For thanks to their
doin's Half
„IOÏDE; A bomb blotted coat bis last
line.
England's in
A beer-awilling student of
Bonn Remarked when our airmen
had gone
**I'd far rather bo
In Berlin on the "spree; For Boon nowadays is no
ban"
As he crept underground at
Mannheim
An apostle' of Kaltar had
time
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I want to introduce you to a little boy, aged nearly six; five minutes to eix, be says. I should like the Hane to know about him too, for he could teach them something they don't yet know about British morale. On Sunday night we were" bivvying "in the
while the basement,
gure, socompanied occasionally by a bomb or two, were kicking up the devil's own shindy outside. Young Tom spent most of the time playing with a kitten or strafing his dog which wÊN eo restlers that it wouldn't lie down. His dog is a dachshund, one of tbose flap-eared, pot-bellied affairs with a waving periscope and a face that looks pathetic when there's any food within range Why don't you keep quiet, you nasty old German) asid Tom reprovingly. "I wasn't a bit frightened when the bomba dropped, was I Daddy?" he assured me proudly at the end of the vigil. Tem thinks that sir raids are part of the natural order of things. "Aren't you s lucky boy to be out of bed at this time of night?", I mid to him; "st your age I was never up so late. "Did you always sleep through the raids, Daddy?" he asked. He has his own thoughts and theories about the war and his games are thoroughly upto date. On his fort he has a soldier who is always scanning If you had been in London on man whom one could regard as Whit Monday you would have the bearena through a "talespots" and he covers some of his soldiers an unreasoning optimist, but he found it difficult to remember with silver paper or bite of rag Prussian militariam has brought had not the slightest doubt of our that there was a scrap going on to "cameliarge them. Yesterday or supremacy in the air. This is somewhere in Europe. It was he announced to bia mother a Germany benefits, direct indirect, in the past, and the what he said "We have got one of those ideal Bank Holidays
"Math", Germans have no cause to regret the Hune besten in the sir. Our when everything in the garden, theory he has evolved :-
be said thoughtfully, their adhesion to that principle, men are better and our machines not to mention the parks and "I always think the more Cer- THE Steamship In fact, it is dus to the series of are better. They always have hills and woods and hasthe, Wa suoceres which militarism has been. His best machines have lovely. There was just enough mana get killed, the sooner the war will be over."" I am afraid brought that some Germans have always been inferior copies of breeze to make things pleasant that when he grows up he will be conceived andacions ambitions of our designs. To-day he hasn't and there wasn't the alightest military critic, if we don't head, having arrived, from the above dominating the whole world. It got either the design or the hint of rain to spoil perfect day im cf in time.
Ports, Consignees of
hereby informed that would be no easy task to material. Every day means more in the open air. It reminded me
their Goods will be delivered hake this firm belief of the irreplaceable losses for him, of the old days when I need to
from alongside. Germans in militarism by greater output for us and an in- go to Lords to see Middlesex play peech-making and theorising. oresse in our superiority. If he Bomerest, in the hope that Bam- Nothing short of serious national tries to imitate our designs to-day, my Woods or F.G.J. Ford or disaster which she may ex before he can produce copies in Albert Trott would be in hitting perience because of her advocacy say quantity, we chell have some-mood-those name show yanatifier 32 cases of plagas (28 of the Hoarkong and Kowloon of the principle the Asats hints, thing new in the air. It doesn't what a very old Crack I am for frial) 13 of spoiled fever. (aight will bring home to German minda lake long nowsdaye for an agro- I daresay many of you were play far thres fatal cases of Limited. the evile emanating from mil plane to become a back number, ing with your dolls when Sammy diphoris, four cases of enteric itariam so strongly that they will Sunday's raid was an expensive Woods-be is a Major to-day in (one fatal) and one non-fatal hold it in generat abhorrence. business for bima luxary which the Labour Corps was in his recurrence of paratyphoid fever. Bach a disastrous blow can be be wouldn't be able to afford prime. There is no first olas The 1set Band was a British case dealt to Germany by the Allies it often. He lost five to seren cricket in these deye, though the and of the enteric cases OLD WAR they will prosecute the war more machines costing £10,000 each, cricketers of them have bees English and the other Indian; all
as well as a dozen or so triad air- trying in vain for more than tires. the real Being Chinese. vigorously than hitherto,
alternative will be to induce the I was talking to B.A.F. officer Germane to start a movement at lunoh to-day and his views on themselves against Prossian the raid were very interesting. militariam, but the prospect of He was not expressing any opin- such a policy being successful is ion for publication, nor is he s regarded by our Oaks contem porary an very remote.
To observe "It's quite
"right "To bomb babies by
nightTM
"Killing Germans by day is
crime",
a
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